The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-27
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March 1T will come on Sunday. we
hope it will be little milder than
February.
The thermometer stood above zero
National Bank.
| The Pennsylvania Railroad carried
Ill 100000 passengers last year and
not one was killed.
Mr. jeremiah Kump, OF this county
has bought brick residence in Han
place.
Edward wv. Case real estate agent
is building six residences on the old
Ward property in the rear OF Penn
sylvania avenue.
Speaking OF new dances, after the
pavement dip it's pretty likely to be a
case OF lame duck That Is unless the
walks are cleaned promptly.
The B. +. Shriver Company gave its
annual dinner last week to its farm
overseers, some twenty-five or more,
in number at the Dinst Hotel, in this
city.
Messrs- David Evans and Paul Dit
man, Of this city, have completed
their new house on the Sullivan road,
near the ore bank, and will move there
on Monday.
Mr.. J. Francis Reese has accepted
position with Messrs. Sultzberger
Sons & Co., 212 South Eutaw street,
Baltimore, Md, and entered upon hi
duties last week.
Miss Geneva Evans, OF this city. is
filling an engagement of four weeks
in New York with a large vaudeville
company, and will later play in Balti-
more at the Victoria Theatre.
Mr. Frank Magee, Of Reese, who
was operated on at st. Joseph's Hos
pital, Baltimore, has improved 50
rapidly from the operation that he
was brought home on Tuesday.
Master William Ecker, Of Crowl
avenue, was taken to a hospital i'm
Baltimore on Tuesday evening suffer
ing from appendicitis. An operation
was performed the same evening.
MIR. Nv. >. Babylon, brother of
George w. Babylon, of this city, is
nominated as commissioner on the
municipal ticket at WilIiamsport, Md
The election will be held On Monday.
Mr. S. c. Stoner was elected a
delegate, and MIR. N. Ill. Albert an
alternate by the Modern Woodmen
Lodge. of this city, to the Triennial
State camp which conVenes at Hag-
erstown, Md. on May 9Th.
The curfew law was put into effect
at York, Pa, last week. All girls
and boys under IA years of age are
compelled to be off the street by p.
m, every night. 1t would be an ex-
celIent law to put into practice in
this city.
The Independent Order Of Mechanics
held a banquet at its lodge room in
Davis Building, John street, on Tues
day evening. The menu consisted of
oysters, celery, &C., which was en-
joyed. The banquet was held for the
lodge members only.
Rev. Segourney W. Fay, of the
Catholic University, Washington, I'D.
c., and Prof Locke, principal Of the
Newman School, Hackensack, N. u,
spent Sunday with Rev. J. c. Mallon,
Rev. Fay preaching at the three ser
vices at st. Johns Church on Sunday.
The Ladies Aid Society OF Mt.
Union United Brethren Church will
give a play entitled "Parson POOLS
Donation Party" and other dialogues
in the /. 0. M, Hall at Snydersburg,
on Thursday evening, March 5, for
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for the church.
The Central Hotel building, recent
ly purchased by the Church of God,
has been rented to Zadock Talbot, Of
Frederick county, formerly residing
on the Rinehart farm, near this city.
Mr. Talbot will open boarding
house. He will also conduct livery
and sale and exchange stable.
Another warning has been issued in
the cities to take precautions against
smallpox. Every person. the warn
ing states, should be vaccinated at
least once in lifetime and preferably
once every seven years. To neglect
vaccination il to invite the outbreak
of the most loathsome pestilence
known i'm this climate.
Lent, the most solemn season or the
year in some Of our churches, began
on Wednesday when many Chris
tians throughout the world commem-
crate the 40-day fast of the Redeemer
and will try to emulate His example
by denying themselves to the gay cites
of the world, by fasting and by the
performance Of penances.
Believing him dead after an abb
sence from home Of 13 years, Miss
Ellen MI. Shriyer, OF Emmitsburs, APP
piled in the Orphans Court Thurs
day for letters OF administration on
the estate of her brother, Rowe K.
Shriyer. Under the law person
missing for seven years is presumed
to be dead and his estate may be dis
posed OF.
Miss Mary Whitmore appeared in
Smith Hall Auditorium last Friday,
with an essay entitled Horace Ode
to the Bandesian Spring." Her sub
ject was an unusually interesting one
and she developed fully the power
which beauty In any form exerts.
Spring, its beauty and fascination, is
the subject OF Horace's famous ode. .
review of the translations of the ode
was made and the conclusion which
Miss Whitmore's essay forced upon
her audience was the undying power
OF beauty, wherever and however
found
Quarreling over a trivial matter,
Francis Luchinsky. % years old, un-
married, was stabbed, probably fatal