The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-08-20

iJ- A. Stems store room, August rs.
Ten-cent base ball was inaugurated
at Ter-apin Park, Baltimore Oh Fri
day. Saturday 10000 fans attended
the games. That's the kind the
teams been playing all summer.
All members OF Company Fl OF the
Welfare Association are requested To
be present at the monthly meeting i'm
their room on Monday evening,
August %. q full attendance Is de-
sired.
We experienced more Oh the rainy
season last week and those who fol-
low the weather closely say that the
old time tradition about st. Swithin
and 40 days OF rain il being verified
this year.
Taneytown Grange Fair closed ON
Saturday. On account of the inclem-
ent weather, the attendance was con
siderably larger than last year.
Fridays crowd was the largest of any
Of the days.
On Thursday, August 26, Samuel
q. Stoner and John II. Stoner execu-
tors of the late David Stoner, will
sell at the Westminster Deposit &
| Trust Company large block of
stocks and bonds of the deceased.
St Johns, Testers annual Sunday
school picnic will be held in the
grove at the church on August 20,
beginning at 10 o'clock a. I'd. Promi-
nent speakers will be in attendance.
( Carrollton Band will furnish the
music.
Y An effort to abolish the toll roads
\ in York and Lancaster counties, Pa,
was given impetus at a mass-meeting
\ last evening in Columbus The meet
\ ing was attended by residents of
\ Wrightsville, Columbia, Lancaster
and other nearby towns.
/ This year the chautauqua brings
! something new. There will be pa
rade Friday afternoon, August 2T, at
Ia p- m All persons having auto
mobiles or carriages and horse back
riders are invited to join the parade.
See the advertisement in another part
of this paper
Turning his automobile at Windsor
and Garrison avenues, Baltimore,
Saturday afternoon, Charles Melville,
of Sykesville, collided with Garrison
avenue car when the automobile skid
ded. William Parker, passenger in
the automobile, was hurt on the right
hand, and Melville was shaken up.
\ The damage to the automobile was
estimated at $50. The trolley car
was not injured.
n On account of repairs being made
N to the pike between Westminster and
Baltimore the Taneytown bus line
will discontinue service from Balti-
more to Westminster, but will run
between this city and Taneytown. The
schedule Will be as follows: Leave
this city for TaneytoWn at 1880 "a. m,
and $50 d. M, and Taneytown for
this city 100 a. M, and 800 p. m.
This schedule goes into effect August
30.
The frame residence of Joel WI.
Bollinger, near Taneytown, was
burned with most Of its contents on
Sunday evening about $50 o'clock.
MIR. and Mrs. Bollinger were visiting
neighbor when they saw the fire.
BY the time they reached home a
number of neighbors had arrived and
were busily engaged in taking out
the furniture in the lower rooms.
The fire started In the attic, but from
what cause Ii unknown The fOSs
will amount to about $4,000, partly
! insured in the Mutual Insurance
company OF Carroll county.
An automobile party from York,
Pa, came to grief at Meadow Branch
on Thursday afternoon Of last week
when trying to pass another machine
they ran down an embankment. The
accident happened at the bridge op-
| posite Mr.. John Roop's residence.
The driver iii trying to pass another
automobile noticed the bridge and to
save the machine from being wreck
ed and probably the occupants life,
He chose the bank which he went
down. Little damage was done to the
car Mr. Ray Fogle hooked two
back to the pike.
Ralph Meckley, 22 years old, near
| Porters, was killed Saturday by the
accidental discharge Of shotgun in
his own hands. The young farmer
was coming from the fields for dinner
when he saw a grounding, and hur-
ried to the house for his gun in order
To get a good shot he crawled into a
tree, pushing his gun barrel down
wards into the branches ahead OF
him. The trigger evidently caught
Oh branches and discharged the gun,
the load severing the iugular vein
and killing him instantly. Meckley's
wife, children and other relatives wit
messed the tragedy.
\ Albert Glenn, aged about Al years,
conductor on the Western Maryland
Railway, was drowned in the Poto-
mac river lust above Cumberland Sat
urday night Glenn had been in from
his run but short time. He went
bathing with Charles Cunningham, a
former brakeman. Glenn could not
swim. He stepped off the wharf AT
the old lime kiln into 20 feet OF water.
Cunningham went to his rescue, but
had to fight to free himself from the
grasp of the drowning man, who was
taking him down. Cunningham
Y arms show deep imprints from the
death clutch of Glenn, whose body
was recovered in about half hour.
Thieves stripped the automobile Of
Mr.. Herbert T.. Richardson, we'll
known business man of Sykesville,
which was standing i'm front Of the
residence of DR.. Luke Shipley, on the
Frederick Pike, near West Friend
ship, Oh the tires and rims, speed
ometer, horn, magnetic and several
other parts. Last week while Mr..
Richardson was driving his car along
the Frederick Pike, broke the rear
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