The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-09-17
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

on to be the warmest day OF the
summer.
billiard and pool parlor has been
onaned in the store room next to M.
n Campbell's meat market.
The singing class will not meet at
Meadow Branch church on account
Of scarlet fever in the family of
Prof. Eouck.
Frank Wise, of Buena Vista, was
wavlaid BY two footpads Sunday
night near Highfeld, and robbed Of
s69 in cash and So check.
marriage license was issued at
Towson Saturday to George Nelson
palmer. Mount Washington, and
Estey Pearl Hale, Hampstead.
a. TIL new moon flung her golden
crescent i'll the western sky Sunday
evening the gates Of Pen-Mar were
flung saut for the season of 1915.
Mr.. a. Harland Greene, has resign
W his position a. vice principal or
Manchester High School, to take a
course at Dickinson College, Carlisle,
Pa.
The camp meetings and the county
fair being now over country people
onfv have left an occasional tourna-
mant in the way of outdoor amuse-
ment. And then frost Will bite 'em-
The Reisterstown Athletic Club de-
feated the Hampstead Athletic Club,
5 to 0, at the annual carnival, at
Hamna-ead, Saturday Brown was
invinci5le and effective in the pinches-
The Mechanicsville Union w. c. T.
cnninl pn1prfa1n-
ment in the hall Of the Junior Order,
Saturday. September 20. Admission
viii be free. Cake and ice cream will
be on sale. Everybody welcome
MIS-. Claude Leppo and daughter,
Emily, and son, Oliver, spent last
week with her sister, Mrs. Freymons,
of Dennings. On Sunday they also
entertained MIR. Claude Leppo, MT.
and Mrs. Chester Stimax, Mr. Theo-
dore Brown and Mr.. Kemp Norwood.
The board of lady managers OF the
Methodist Protestant Church Home
Of tAe Aged, East Main street, invite
YOU to come to the Home, Wednes-
DAY. September 22nd, Visitors Day.
Every one is welcome, and lunch
will b. served for twenty-five cents.
a bouncing boy i the latest ad-
dition to the family Of DR.. A. N.
Ward. vice president of the Western
Maryland College. The announce
ment We officially given out from
the Maryland General Hospital last
Wednesday night. Mrs. Wards con-
ditiou il favorable.
That N.Y. will follow his $1,OOO,0OO
peace offer with one OF $9,OOO,OUO
more if necessary, and that the Ford
Motor Company of Canada will manu-
factura his farm tractor with neces-
sary additional working force OF az
least 10000 men, were announce
ments made today by Henry Ford.
Two sacks Of coal, one Of L.ykens
Valley Chestnut and the other Lykens
Valley pea, from the mines Of the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal &
Iron Company were shipped by
Smith & Reifsnider, coal and lumber
dealers, West Main street, to 4. J.
Thomas, Curtis Bay, Baltimore, who
will forward it to South America as
samples.
Theodore Horner, a student az the
high school, Gettysburg, Pa, was
taken before Squire Hill Thursday
as the result of action brought Ply
Prof W. A BurgoOn against him TOT
smoking cigarettes. The boy refused
to disclose the name of the persons
who had furnished him with the
cigarettes and was sentenced to pay
fine and costs amounting to $500.
AS a reward for his long service
Edward F. Lee, soliciting freight
agent of the Western Maryland Rail-
way Company, it il understood, II to
become commercial agent Of the
company at Baltimore. He succeeds
n. r.. Oakley, who has gone to g.
Louis t5 Till similar position in
that city. Mr.. Lee will enter upon
his new duties in few days and will
make his headquarters in Baltimore.
The Rev MI A Femme, for many
years pastor OF St. Mary's Catholic
Church, Govans, has resigned his
charge. He will be succeeded as
acting pastor by the Rev Bert A-
HartEell, assistant pastor Of 81.
AIMS. Father Femme will remain in
st. Mary's, but all responsibilities
of the parish will devolve upon Faith
er HartWell. Father Femme will
continue as pastor emeritus. Rev.
Femme was a former pastor of St.
Johns Catholic Church, this city.
Capt Richard B Creecy Of the Wa
rlne Corps, who was sent to Haiti by
the United States Government with
large attachment of troops on the
cruiser Tennessee, to quell disturb
ances In that little republic. has been
called home on account of the seri-
Gus illness of his wife. A week or so
40 Mrs. Creecy was stricken with
appendicitis. Captain Creecy was no
tned and he returned on the Tenn
essee. DR.. ]. NJ. T. Finney perform
co the operation on Mrs. Creecy at
tne Union Protestant Infirmary, Bal
umore, Immediately after the arrival
OF Captain Creepy
The following donations to the
Methodist Protestant Church Home
nave been received during the summer
months, for which the board Of man
ayers wish to thank the donors:
Sel1y. tomatoes and blackberries,
rom Patapsco; seven dollars and
1rty cents, collected by Miss Murray
LOT a hose; basket of white cherries,
80. George Benson; head of cab
Pee, farmer; barrel OR potatoes,
Mr. Curtis, Virginia; 2 barrels OF
potatoes and sixty cents, Miss Emma
blades, Pocomoke, City; seventy
nve cents, Miss Amanda Stewart;
9ucket or plums, Mrs i'll. IL. Elder
aice; basket OF peaches. Mrs. G. Al
Mvaugn; basket OF peaches, Mrs. J. P.