The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-08-07

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for some time by illness, IL improving
The season for canning corn will
open on Wednesday, August L, at
the j. F Shriyer Co.'S factories in
this city.
Thirty-seven tickets were sold to
Pen Mar yesterday from here on ac-
count OF the reunion OF Independent
Order Of Odd Fellows.
States Attorney E. 0. Weant has
purchased the latest improved six
cylinder Franklin automobile. The
car was delivered today.
a layer of seven inches of stone il
being put down on Green street. After
the work is completed it will be the
finest street in the city.
"A tablet will be placed by the
Patriotic Sons of America on Francis
Scott Keys home, at Bruceville, this
county in the near future
The Womans Christian Temper
ance Union of Carroll County will
meet in New Windsor on September
4th The speakers will be announced
later.
Cranberry Union Sunday school
will hold its annual celebration on
August Is, in the grove at the school
house. Hampstead Band will furnish
music.
The will Of the late Nicholas Ben
son, of Gambler, was read this week.
The estate amounts to between sic, 900
and $4,000. Mr.. George z. Benson
was made executor.
The following telephones have been
installed by the G.. & P. Telephone
Company this week Charles IT, Koontz,
New Windsor, 1914; William HI.
Fleagle, Westminster, AT.
The annual festival Of Ascension
Episcopal Church, Court street, will
be held on Friday and Saturday
nights, August IA and 10, on the
lawn in front of the parish house.
Mr.. Patrick Hayes, Washington
avenue, has accepted a position as
compositor in the printing depart
ment OF the Baltimore Roofing and
Asbestos Manufacturing Co., Asbestos,
Md.
Governor Goldsborough yesterday
paroled James w. Dorsey, of this
county, who was convicted in Novem-
Der, 1912, of robbery by the Circuit
Court and sentenced to three years in
the Penitentiary.
Mr.. Wilbur Fl. Zepp, of Washington,
ID. o., at a meeting of the board of
directors of the United States Savings
Bank this week was promoted from
the position of cashier to second
vice president. Mr.. Zepp l. native
Of Finksburg, Md.
There was a great outpouring of
Odd Fellows yesterday at the fifth
annual reunion OF the members Of
the order In Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, West Virginia and the Dis
trict Of Columbia at Pen-Mar Park.
The crowd was estimated at from
10000 to $4,000 and was one Of the
largest gatherings of Odd Fellows
ever seen i'm this section. The grand
masters of all five jurisdictions were
present.
AT meeting of the South Mountain
Fruit Growers, Association at Smiths
burg Wednesday night it was decid-
ed to request the Western Maryland
Railway Company to run another
freight between Smithburg and Balti-
more in order to secure prompter de-
liveries of peaches in Baltimore in
time for the morning markets. About
five carloads Of peaches are being
daily from Smithsburg, but
the bulk of the crop has not yet
ripened.
State officers of the Patriotic Order
Sons of America were elected Tues
day at Odd Fellows Temple, Balti-
more, where the State camp was in
convention. They are: President, w.
l.. Seabrook, this city; vice-president,
Joseph 8. Robinson; master OF forms,
Hubert Temple; secretary, William J.
Heaps; treasurer, William ]. Carter;
conductor, Edward nj. Adams; in
spector, Nj. II. Crabtree; guard, r. IT.
Shockley. Next years meeting will
be held in Centerville.
The feature OF the Opera bill for
tonight will be a two reel The Mask
of Affection Universal Ike, Jr.,
Barley Won Her." and Forgotten"
On Saturday night some classy vaude-
vile will be shown in Alvin & LUIS
sier, the famous comedy artists, in
the title of the Working Dolr' and
Miss Stella Cope In a singing and
musical feature. The pictures will be
"A Law Into HIMSELF" in two reels,
THE Fatal STEP" and "Pretzle Cap
lures the Smugglers."
Scout Master C. E. Forlines and
seventeen members of Troop No. /, of
Westminster Boy Scouts of America,
left on Thursday morning for Falling
Waters, West Virginia, where they
will camp for ten days or two weeks.
Assistant Scout Master Latimer Ell
derdice and Augustus Shriver will
join them in a few days. The boys
will be under instruction while in
camp and expect to have not only a
very enjoyable trip, but also will
gain much useful and valuable infor-
nation pertaining to scout craft.
The Just Government League Of
Carroll county met at the residence of
Mrs 0. ID. Gilbert, East Main street,
to arrange for attending and taking
part in the Suffrage Day Celebration
which will be held on Saturday,
August 18th, in OILERS Grove, fancy
town. The league will have a booth
during the entire week of the Grange
Fair, August IL to ID, inclusive, which
will be in charge of Miss IT, O. Trax,
Secretary Of the State League, assist
ed by members of the County League,
where all suffragists and their friends
will find a welcome On Saturday,
the 18th, Suffrage Day" it is hoped
that every member of the league in
Carroll county will try to be present
"a number expect to 20 from West
rninctnr and nnu ana rr-irhirn - IL,