The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-06-05


All aboard for Home Coming Week!
\ Carroll county is Paradise Of
beauty In the summer time.
Health and a good chance fol
wealth abound in the hills OF Car.
roll
The world OF school teachers ant
school children il all aboard for va.
cation
DIR. H. NJ. Fitzhugh and family arc
occupying their country home, neal
this city.
A marriage license was issued in
Baltimore Monday to Samuel G.. STAINS
bury, Parkton, Md, and Ida z. Else
road, Arcadia, Md.
June 20 has been set apart as Sign
Board Day. which means n general
elimination OF these unsightly things
along the public highways.
Mr.. Milton Chew, of Reese is now
convalescent He was sitting on q
chair at his home on Monday noon,
when he suddenly dropped to the floor
unconscious
Arlington Station on the Western
Maryland Railway caught fire on
Tuesday morning and was partly
burned before the fire was extinguish-
ed.
Mr. XII ~. Barnitz and daughters,
Mrs. p. Robinson Worthington and
Miss Grace Barnitz, OF Baltimore. are
occupying their home in Westmin-
ster for the summer.
On Monday, June 8, the trial OF
Julian Edmond, accused of the MUIR
der Of his sister-in-law, Eleanora E.
Cole, in Baltimore. on august II, will
take place in our Court.
Miss Eleanor @. M. Thomas Court
Place, and Miss Anne WI. Donnelly, OF
Detroit, Mich, spent several DAYS
this week In st. Mary's county with
the formers uncle, Mr.. Truman +.
Thomas, at Brandy.
The Deer Park Orchestra Of Small
wood, will hold its festival on the
18th of June, instead of the goth, as
previously advertised, in the grove
adjoining the Deer Park Methodist
Protestant Church, Smallwood.
a mountain fire that started below
Pen-Mar On Tuesday afternoon would
have destroyed this well known re-
sort III II had not been for the prompt
aid OF the railroad company and citi-
zens living near, who worked hard
and extinguished the blaze.
Charles Mitchell, colored, Is spend
ing 80 days in Jail for enjoying a ride
on the Western Maryland Railway
without having good passport. JUS
tice Brown gave him permission on
May 20 to board at the county's ex-
pense FOR The above length Of time
&c congregational meeting Of
Grace Lutheran Church held Whit
Monday night, June list, the following
officers were elected: Mr.. Charles T.
Lippy, Elder; Mr.. L. Gladhill. Deacon
and DR.. Charles r. FoutZ, Trustee
Mr.. John ]. Reese, Secretary, and Mr.
Walter L. Zepp, treasurer.
DR.. o. E. Tiffany, entertained the
historical section Of the graduating
class Of Western Maryland College
on Monday evening at his residence
on College Hill. The evening was q
delightfully."- informal one and before
leaving the students presented their
professor with handsome engraving
We hope that our Mayor and Coun-
Gil will see to it that Ordinance No
IL Tic use OIL SA-
plosives within the city limits is en-
forced for the Fourth of July. We
understand that they have already
decided to do this, so everyone should
contribute to the town display of fire
works.
The following pupils of st Johns
parochial school passed their final *
animation in stenography, and receiv-
ed Certificates Of Merit. at the r.. @
Smith & Bros, Typewriting Office
Baltimore, last week: Messrs. Guy
Fowler, James Boylan and Lloyd
Myers; Misses GoIdie Myers, Berna-
dette Ham, Helen Hunter, Margaret
Mallon and Agnes Boylan.
Governor Goldsborough has ap.
pointed the members of the commits.
sion which will conduct the educa-
tiOnal survey of the State as follows
B- Howell Griswold, Jr., OF Baltimore;
Judge James "a. Pearce, OF Chester.
town, and DR.. J. Mcpherson Scott, Of
Hagerstown. The commission viii
probably have either the Rockefeller
Foundation or the Carnegie Founda.
ton to undertake the actual work Of
investigating the States educational
system.
| MIR. Walter @. Wickert, native OF
this city, and son OF the late Eek
Sheriff y Carr Wickert, has beer
elected editor and manager or the
Hurlock Advance, a weekly news
paper published at Hurlock, Dorches-
ter county. The Advance, which is
now in it's 18th year, was recently
taken over by an incorporated com.
pany under the title of the HurlocE
Publishing Company The stockhold.
ers are stated to be forty of the most
prominent business men Of Hurlocl
and vicinity.
Officials Of the Bureau or Weights
and Measures are determined to make
All milk dealers OF Philadelphia com.
ply with the order that milk shall be
served in bottles Of regulation size
Monday another raid was made anC
many dealers were surprised to see
quantities of understood bottles car.
ried from their establishments. 1t is
said that the milk dealers of thai
city own about 100000 bottles
many Of which are from three-eights
TO One-half an ounce short OF the
correct measure. We hope this il
not tn case with our milk dealers.
"a fire which threatened To reach
large properties owing to its prox,
unity to other buildings, broke out Al
2 O'Clock Monday afternoon in the
blacksmith shop of Charles Kelley, a
Glyndon. The flames were checked
by members of the Glyndon Volun.