The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-13

purchased three 1914 Ford automo-
! biles.
Mr.. George p Buckley, Jr.. of Union
/ Bridge, has purchased six-cylInder
} Premier automobile.
Union Foreign Mission services will
- b. held i'm TaneytoWn churches, begin
ming February Is, and ending Feb
ruary p.
Tomorrow II ID. Valentines Day.
} Now is the time for the Young people
to enjoy themselves and for some
) mature people to show how they feel
about it, too.
Mr. Jesse Sheets, East Main street,
has succeeded MIR. Charles Everhart,
resigned, as yardmaster in the West
, ern Maryland Railroad yards in this
7 city.
To our correspondents-Ple do
| not send US the calls or visits of one
neighbor to another. we are glad to
have all the real news of INTEREST
from every community, but not such
everyday matters a. neighbOrly calls.
Mount Saint Mary's base ball club
Of Emitsburg, i'm making up its list
OF teams for contesting games has
included Western Maryland College.
Two games are scheduled, one at EN-
mitsburg on April p, and the other
here on May %.
Mr. Ralph Cover, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry +. Cover, West Main
) street, was admitted to the Baltimore
Bar on Friday. Mr.. Cover is a grad
} uate OF the Western Maryland Col
lege and of the Harvard Law School,
Cambridge, Mass
1t II believed that Senator Blair
Lee will soon file with the Attorney
M General an Endorsement of MIR. Guy
w. Steele, Of this city, for the District
: Attorneyship. Senator John Walter
Smith il urging the appointment of
Mr.. Samuel X. Dennis, Of Baltimore.
The directors of the State Sana-
, torium at Sabillasville, have invited the
J members Of the General Assembly to
visit the institution tomorrow. The
( party will leave i'm a special train
from Union Station at $50 O'CLOCK in
the morning and return to Baltimore
at o'clock.
} Rev. C. A. Dudley, pastor Of Spring
} field Presbyterian Church, at Sykes
Y vile, has notified his congregation
I that, as he is now rs years of age, he
T will ask the Presbytery to dissolve
z his connection with the church, to 20
!. into effect next October. Rev. Mr..
] Dudley celebrated his seventy-fifth
M birthday last Monday.
Do not forget the Colonial Tea
which will be served in the Social
Hall OF Centenary Methodist Episco-
5 pal Church on the evenings of Feb
z ruary 20 and Fl Miss Ruth Gist, the
. descendent OF General Mordecai Gist,
q as Martha Washington, will receive
!, you and instruct the lassies and lad
IN dies i'm colonial costume to serve you
: with all the delicacies Of the season.
. No charge for admission.
I Our parcel post has proved such a
success that Canada has followed
suit and inaugurated similar system
4 on February 10. An 11-pound pack
: age will be carried 200 miles for %
!, cents; with other rates in proportion
Next in order will be an international
s arrangement by which the border
!, line will be obliterated and parcel
!, post territory will extend from the
:, Arctic Circle to the Rio Grande.
The unusually mild winter has
caused the peach buds to develop
dDAOI LlCm
. liable to freeze early in the spring,
= but the leading fruit growers think
that the buds are, so far, safe, but
that they will not stand much more
mild weather The cold wave that
1 set in Sunday, they stated, would re-
A tard any further development of the
4 buds for several weeks, and they look
: for bumper crop of all kinds of fruit
A next summer,
. Because Of failure to comply with
i the rules of the college authorities
4 prohibiting the dancing of the tango,
Y six students Of Gettysburg College
s have been suspended for two weeks.
At dance held January IA the COM
! mittee OF one member from each OF
n the six fraternities having dances in
!. charge, failed to adhere strictly to
!. two-steps and waltzes, and one Oh
two of the newer dances were permit
ted. The young men composing the
2 committee were suspended.
( Henry Walters, art collector and
4 commissioner of New York, has in his
4 possession the envelope on the back
s of which is written the original YER
" sion Of the Star-Spangled Banner, by
Y Francis Scott Key. This information
= was received last week Dy the NatlOn-
4 al Star-Spangled Banner Centennial
v Commission. In his letter Mr.. Wal
= tiers says 1T was bought from a mem
4 Der Of the family Of Francis Scott Key,
Y its composer, because I did not wish
: to see it leave Baltimore"
- Frank T.. Thomas, the insurance
agent who has figured in many cases
4 is again in Jail, having been arrested
4 on charge by Edward Raines, of
v near Evansville. 1t Is alleged that
+ Thomas represented himself as an
i agent for an insurance company when
he had no such authority. The ar
n rest was made by Deputy Sheriff
4 Smith and he was committed to Jail
4 by Justice Miller, OF Woodsboro, for
e the action of the grand jury, being
q unable to furnish 500 bail. Thomas
y just secured his freedom several days
n ago.
I'M In Tariff Bulletin No p, just issued
: by the Public Service Commission Of
Maryland, it is noticed that number
A Of new rates are given the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad from Union Bridge up
on cement and commodities. While
IN these rates are given the Pennsylvania
9 road, yet it II thought. that they are
i for freight moving over the Central
I'M Railroad Of Maryland, the spur from
d Key Mar to Union Bridge, which ID