The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-07-24

Jesse T. Lambert, of New Windsor
in renewing his subscription to thu
Advocate says: Wish you another
successful and prosperous year."
The seventeenth annual Maryland
State Grange Fair will be held al
Taneytown, on August IL, IL, Is, IL
and 15, in OILERS grove.
Mr. Daniel Krebs, Baltimore, sends
on $1.00 for a renewal. In his letter
he says: II am 50 lonely without
your paper. | have been a reader Of
it for 30 years"
7 The reel team Of the Westminster
Fire Company rs practicing each ev-
ening to participate in the reel and
hook and ladder contests at Cham
bersburg next week.
| Mr.. William Bowers is having
pneumatic tires put under the back OF
his bus in place OF the solid tires that
were on it. The bus was taken to
Baltimore on Monday.
Horace d. Warehime has opened an
upholstering and old furniture shop
on Green street, i'm the Westminster
Fertilizer Office building, adjoining
the Lumber, Coal & Supply Company.
Pleasant Grove Sunday school will
hold a parcel post lawn fete, in the
grove mt the church, Sandyville, on
Wednesday night, August 18th. II
weather is inclement that night, it
will be held the next night.
| The sale OF the BaItbolow farm,
near Eastview, which was advertised
to be sold by w. Frank Thomas and
Joseph n. Hunter, mortgages and
assignees of mortgages. on Tuesday
last, was settled and the sale stopped.
4 On Sunday afternoon a railroad
wreck occurred IN the w Nj. II. III
Detour and delayed the fast mail
airut two houra. lne accident hap
pened on the nigh bridge East Of the
station. One car dol REQ into Big
Pipe Creek.
On Tuesday morning horse hitch
ed to a spring wagon ran away on
Main street. The team was owned by
Mr.. Wilbur Haines, residing near this
city. The horse ran home before ii
was caught. The damage was to the
/ harness, which was torn.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Myerly, OF
Reese, entertained the following
guests Sunday afternoon, July 10Th:
Mr. Howard Lockard, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Lockard, Miss Lille Lockard
and MesSr3. Lewis Gorsuch, Freddie
: Devilbiss and Holmes IIockard.
| The Lawndale Athletic Club defeat
ed the fast Patapsco Athletic Club II
to 10. Spencer did the hurting and
pitched good ball. The Lawndale
! Athletic Club would like to arrange
games for Saturdays and Sundays
with any strong uniformed team.
Charles o. Clemson, attorney and
agent named in said mortgage, sold
on Saturday at the Court House door,
80 acres and II square perches OF
land, situated on Sans Creek, New
Windsor district, to Edward w. Case,
for $4,000. The farm was the William
B. Deutscher property.
In the second of a series of games
the Spring Grove Hospital team jour
neyed to Sykesville and defeated the
Springfield Hospital team to the tune
of 18 to 8 Saturday. Obrien's spec
tacular work in right was one of the
features of the game. DR.. Runkel's
batting and Reich's catching were OF
first-class.
So many assaults upon girls and
women picking huckelberries in the
woods have been tried in the Halle
ton, (Pa) region that these pickers,
when they go into the brush, take
along male clothes and some of them
don the garments At a distance they
look like men, and this protects the
women from molestation.
In letter from Mr.. Elias N. Davis
this city, who with his wife, is visiting
relatives and friends in Illinois and
Ohio writes that he and his wife are
having a good time and enjoying
excellent health, and that they are
seeing some of the country. At pres
ent they are at Chicago. They expect
to arrive home on August 1st.
Fabian Posey, who for the past
seven years conducted the Examiner
weekly Republican newspaper OF
Frederick, has leased the paper and
equipment to William T. Dantz, OF
| West Grove, Pa, who assumed charge
this week. Mr.. DANTE was for 1C
years postmaster at West Grove, and
recently sold a paper which he pub
lished there. He will continue the
paper as a Republican weekly.
7 Following a conference in which
the participants were o. E. Weller
chairman of the State Roads Com
mission; Col. Lansing H. Beach, u
S. A., engineer, and President Gray
OF the Western Maryland Railroad
Mr.. Gray consented to donate SOC
feet of the land owned by the COM
pany as part OF the city approach
to the new Hanover street span al
Spring Gardens, at Baltimore. This
land will be cut off to straighten the
channel to the new structure.
y Cardinal Gibbons spent the
eightieth anniversary of his birth yes
terday at the home of Mr. II. Herbert
Shriver, Union Mills. The prelate
went to Mr.. Shriver's home Tuesday
evening and will not return to Balti-
more until the latter part of this
week or probably early next week
7 The Cardinal has been in the habit OF
visiting the Shriver home every year
about this time. He makes the visit
7 the occasion for complete rest and
usually returns much refreshed.
Y B-z-Z-z-z-z went the telephones il
4 the residences of Chief of Police John
\ "A. Stem and officer Helm late Wed
nesday night. On answering what was
wanted, the reply came back from DR.
Baer, that burglars were saving theil
way into Mr.. George NJ. Hyder's resi-
dence and to come at once and cap
ture them" Officers Stem and Helm
hurried to the scene of the trouble
and found Mrs. Hyder in the kitchen