The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-06-04
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE \, 1915
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

The RGu CT Lie
was opened last week by Mr. Chester
Bale.
The next fruit from this county to
appear i'm the markets will be the de-
lici0us cherry
Typhoid fever has broken out among
the patients at the sanatorium at
Sabillasville.
Cranberry Union Sunday school will
hold its festival Saturday evening,
June 49, Everybody welcome.
Miss Harriet Miller, Center street,
has entered the Woman's Hospital,
Baltimore, where she will study for
a nurse.
Memorial services i'm memory OF the
late Mr. Rufus Woods will be held at
St. Paul's Reformed Church, Sunday
morning, in connection with the regu-
lar services
Marylanders most prominently no
ted among those who are active in
social functions at the Panama Expo
sitiOn are MIR. and Mrs. Carroll II. Al
baugh, this city.
Arlington Station on the Western
Maryland Railway, which has rec
ord for being robbed, was again en-
tered on Saturday evening but no
valuables taken. The thieves enter
ed by forcing window.
Albert 8. K. Barnett, candidate in
Freedom district for County Central
Committee on the side OF the Demo-
cratic party, was in this city Tuesday
He says Il am in the fight to the fin
ISL and hustIing to be elected"
The Ladies' Aid, OF Thomas Chapel
Methodist Episcopal church, Tannery,
will hold its annual lawn fete on the
lawn " Marion J. Abbott, Thursday
evening, June 10. III the weather il
Indictment it will be held the first fair
evening.
NJ. Henry :. Benner, of near
Uniontown, was taken to the Mary
land University Hospital on Sunday
BY Drs. NJ H. Bott and q. r.. Foutz
ana was operated on the same day.
The operation was successful and he
will return in week or ten days.
Rufus Woods, who died May rs last,
in Baltimore, left no will Letters On
his estate were granted Tuesday
To Charles r. Woods and Albert
w. Fuss, the bond being for
$4,000 MIR. Woods never married.
He is survived by number OF
nephews and nieces in this city and
county.
Charles Elliott, general baggage
agent of the Western Maryland Rail
way Company, has resigned his posi-
ton after several years of service
with that road. Me- Elliott came, to
the western Maryland in 1913 as city
passenger agent, but was afterward
appointed general baggage agent,
with headquarters at Hillen Station.
william "A. Dorsey was appointed
Tuesday trainmaster of the West
ern Division of the Western
Maryland Railway, succeeding the
late David o. Hershiser. y. "A. Abbott,
who had been night chief, succeeds
Mr.. Dorsey as chief dispatcher, and
II. f. Smith, formerly dispatcher on
the Georges Creek Division, becomes
night chief.
A special meeting OF Adamstown
Lodge, No. 154, I. D. o. r., was held
Monday night i'm their hall at that
place, when degrees Of the order were
conferred upon class OF five cand1-
dates. The work was performed by
the degree team of Prosperity Lodge,
OF MI. Airy. The lodge orchestra &C
c0mpanied the team and furnished
music during the evening.
Now that the fishing season has
opened the state game warden IL
anxious that anglers be informed a.
to the laws that govern the catching
OF fish iii the waters OF Maryland.
The laws are very strict and the
game wardens have full power to
enforce them. Besides the general
laws that cover all fish i'm the waters
of Maryland, each county has special
laws
Any bed ticking and spools OF cot
ton, Nos. 30 to SO, for mattresses to
b. donated to the typhus fever suffer
ers OF Serbia, in response TO the ap-
peal vi Miss Nina IL. Duryea, i'm last
weeks paper, will be received by
Miss Reese, at the residence OF Mrs.
d. M. Fairfax Willis street, on or be-
fore June Sth, and forwarded to New
York, in one shipment, if each dona-
ton IS accompanied by five cents with
which to cover expense OF Shipment
Mir. Charles O. Clemson, Esq, of the
Westminster Bar, made the Memorial
address Saturday at Winfield, on the
occasion OF the 23rd Annual Memo
rial Day Exercises under the auspices
Of Pickett Post, G. a. r., and WASH
ington Camp No. ID, Patriotic Sons Of
America, choosing as his theme the
Farewell Address Of George Washing
ton, the first president, apropos OF
the present relation of the United
States toward the old countries OF
Europe. A good crowd OF people as
sembled on Round Top notwithstand-
ing the rainy forenoon On Saturday.
Miss Mary Maud Billman, OF Dayton.
Ohio, Secretary on the >. >. OF ~ Of
the Brethren Church, and Miss Ethel
M. Myers, Of Williamsburg, Iowa, her
assistant, who have been travelling
quite exclusively amongst the church
les of the above denomination, giving
illustrated lectures depicting the need
OF. the schooling and spiritual training
O. the people in the waste places of
the Tennessee and Cumberland noun
tain districts on Kentucky, and Tenn
.essee, are visiting relatives and
friends in this city and county. Miss
Myers IL "a niece OF MeSsrs. >. ". and
j. T. Stoner, of this city
Caught under an automobile driven
by his father, Omar 2. Brenaman,
years old, son, or MIR. and Mrs Will