The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-05-21
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY q, 1915
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

has a lou 10 look lHLO.
After a good soaking rain on Sun
day the weather became very cool.
NJ. Harry +. Cover, West Main
street. has resigned az director of
the Union National Bank.
Mrs. Mary G. Schaeffer, Doyle
avenue. has improved her home by the
addition of q large spacious porch.
The Western Maryland Railroad
will run a special excursion To Pen
Mar on Decoration Day, Monday, May
81.
The postmaster at Gettysburg re-
.ceived the same orders as Postmaster
Coonan, to discontinue three rural
mail routes.
Rev. IL Schwartzkopf has rendered
lis resignation az pastor of the MI. p.
Church at Union Bridge, and has ac-
cepted a charge at Davis, Mich.
VA good frost was our lot on Tues
day morning. On Wednesday the
weather was clear and very cool,
something unusual for this time of
the year.
chased the 511 acres Of land, located
on Gorsuch road, owned by the Lee
heirs. Mr.. Edward w. Case, real en-
tate agent, made the sale.
The Ladies' Aid Society OF Provi-
dence Methodist Protestant Church
will meet Thursday afternoon, May AZ,
1t the home or Mrs. Clinton Shipley.
A full attendance is requested.
The changes in the rural mail car
riers were made ON Monday. Mr..
Frederick Hook, who was transferred
from Carrier to Carrier s, resigned,
and MIR. Calvin Fitze was temporarily
appointed il his stead.
w loaded box car on extra freight,
10 jumped the track at Carrollton
Sunday night about IL o'clock, block
ing the track for three hours. ~
wrecking crew from Baltimore clear
ed the track by dumping the car down
an embankment
The fate Of the East Berlin Railway
was irrevocably sealed Tuesday when
the Adams county (Pa-) court ap-
pointed William d. Hines, OF New
Oxford, Receiver, with instructions to
have the track removed within the
next ninety days.
The Maryland Lunch Room Co.,
have leased the property Of Fl. G. ~
baugh, next to the Westminster Candy
Kitchen, where they will open an inn
proved up-to-date restaurant. MIR. Il.
y. SANTOS, Of this city, is the general
manager OF the new company.
Reed Shelly, colored, Union street,
tried the Dutch act" Saturday after
noon by taking a quantity of carbolic
acid. His wife seeing him in the act
OF committing suicide called doctor,
who pumped the deadly poison from
his stomach and had him sent to jail.
The twenty-fourth annual conven-
ton OF the Woman's Home and For
eign Missionary Society, Middle Con-
ference, Maryland Synod, was held
Tuesday in the Lutheran Church,
Taneytown. Miss Elizabeth +. Birely,
vice-president, presided and addresses
were delivered by Mrs. G. w. Baugh-
man and the Rev. 8. j. Mcdowell.
Edgar J. Hammond, native OF
Libertytown, has been appointed
cashier of the Southern Maryland Ma
tional Bank of La Plata. Mr.. Ham
mond has been engaged in banking
business for the past five or six years
and has for the last three years oc-
AGupIGu Lie pOoLLlOA ~ GaOhiOi - SAAS
First National Bank Of fredericksburg,
Caroline county.
a test train, to ascertain whether
the distractions on each side Of the
railroad tracks are or sufficient dis
lance to allow the running OF the big
mogul engines which the Western
Maryland Railway are putting into
service without scraping, passed
through here Saturday. We under
stand, that the device used to locate
the distance from the track, scraped
the concrete wall at the station here.
The new system of state care for
the insane was inaugurated Tuesday
when about $50 former charges of
various hospitals for the insane were
taken to the new Eastern Shore State
Hospital for the Insane, near Cam
bridge. This brought about automati-
cally the transfer of insane patients
from Bayview Asylum, the insane in
mates OF that institution to be trans
ferred to the Springfield State Hos
pital in Sykesyille, the Spring Grove
Hospital at Gainesville and the State
Hospital at Brownsville. Among the
patients to be transported to the new
hospital were some from the Cecil
County Almshouse, 175 from Spring
field Hospital and 80 from Spring
Grove
In renewing his subscription Mr..
Henry Brown, of Leonard, Texas,
says: AS you know we are two miles
north or Dallas, the largest city OF
the State Of Texas. Our wheat and
oats are loking fine at present. Corn
is up and the greatest part Of It plow-
ed first time. Our cotton acreage has
been reduced some this year. We
think our little town, Leonard, is the
best country town In this section, OF
about 1900 Inhabitants. Our soil IL q
black waxy soil. We have some Of
the prettiest gardens and are nov
eating new Irish potatoes We have
four cotton gins, oil mill, ice and
light plants and -four mill. This sea-
son we have had too much rain for
our crops.
BY order of Judge Heuisler, of Bal
timore, Company 1, of the Fifth Ragi-
ment, was not mustered out Tuesday
night il accordance with the order OF
Governor Goldsborough. Tuesday
morning former Attorney General
Isaac Lobe Strads, in behalf OF the
officers and enlisted men of the COM
pany, fled a bill for an Injunction to
prevent the execution of the Cover
nor'S order. The Injunction was ig-
sued uD0n the filing Of $500 bond. the