The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-02-12
sunday IN I'll. Valentines DAY.

Sunday is t. Valentines Day.
!! (, It must make a man look pretty
/ small to be- told he looks aa though
Ne had been drawn through a knot
hole.
Ex-sheriff Elias ". Davis, thiH city.
has been appointed field marshal FOR
this city, by United States Marshal
Etockham.
/ Mr.. T. H. Miller, of Lineboro, is
erecting "a large three-story store
room 50x70 feet In that town, where
he will carry a-rGansral line, a. mer-
The mems ~ W. Salem Lodge No
go, n. O. %. XXI. are requested to be
present On Monday evening at I.30
O'Clock to welcome the Grand Lodge
Officers. Refreshments.
y Mr.. Thomas Buckingham, sexton
mt the Methodist Protestant Church.
desires To thank THE members or the
church for the handsome donation of
provisions and the purse OF money
Y they 30 kindly presented him.
/ Deputy Sheriff Beard Arnold ar
rested three chicken thieves Tuesday.
Two colored men at EIdersburg and
la white man at Markers Mill, We'd
nesday. They were brought here
and lodged in jail on the charge Of
stealing chickens.
The Country Store" which was Civ
4 en- at the Opera House Wednesday
night was great success, and viii b.
repeated every Wednesday evening
Th Opera was packed and the show
was much appreciated by the audi
ence.
\ On Sunday, February ia, at T-30 ID.
m, the c. z. Society or Providence
Methodist Protestant church, Gambler,
Will hold special service. Our pastor,
Rev Maddox, will be with US. A cor
dial invitation il extended to every
one.
/ A shooting match will be held on
N the Gun Club grounds, John street,
next Wednesday. Mr.. Morrell Haw-
kins, a professional shot of the
Winchester Repeating Arms Co, will
! be on hand and give an exhibition in
shooting.
Arrangements have been com
pleted for block convention of the
Baltimore County Volunteer Fire
mems Association to be held Monday
night, February 22, at Glyndon, a.
the guests OF the Glyndon, Reisters-
town, Pikesville, Boring, Lutherville,
Cockeysville, Towson and Arcadia
companies, comprising block No. 1.
n O. /. Nj. Houck, of the Hanover
Steam Bakery, Hanover, Pa, has
j placed in service White" steamer
truck, which will b. used to de1iver
bread to agencies in nearby towns,
instead of shipment by rail, as here
tofore. The truck has capacity of
$500 loaves Of bread. The Houck
bakery is represented by Mr.. William
Starner. Pennsylvania avenue
Mrs. ]. E. Stoner, of near this city,
wife of the proprietor OF the West
minister Nurseries, was operated on
Tuesday ! st at the Maryland Univer-
sity Hospital, Baltimore, for gall
stones, four having been removed as
large as hickory nuts. The operation
was a very delicate one, and at this
writing Mrs. Stoner is getting along
as well a. could be expected, though
yet very i'll woman.
A report made by the Pennsyl-
vania game commission to the legis-
lature sets forth that 1,102 deer were
killed during the last hunting sea-
son, together with 100000 ruffled
grouse, 100000 rabbits, 37,150 quail,
234,2SS squirrels, 1903 Woodcock,
81, 900 water fowl, $3.50 racoons and
37S bear. The value Of the game
w killed MAS estimated at $9A6,6I4, eH-
elusive of shore birds.
N Charles Wilson, Charles Harris
and Wesley f. Harris, who said they
were from Poughkeepsie, n. Y, were
arrested Wednesday morning by De
tective r. Z. Bond, of the Western
Maryland Railway, after alightine
from q train near NIT. Hope Station
They were taken to the Arlington
Police Station, where they were
charged with stealing a ride on one
of the trains and sentenced to a
month in the House of Correction.
I State Veterinarian Hickman an
nounced Wednesday that the state
authorities will not permit a single
consignment of live stock to be re-
ceived i'm Baltimore until the consfgn-
ment shall have been thoroughly ex-
amined and passed upon by MIN
self or his assistants. This drastic
step was the outcome OF the receipt
of a consignment of infected hogs
closing down of the local stockyards
state inspectors discovered within
the yard area a bull infected
The Western Maryland Railway
filed it, request for permit to Duild
the big grain elevator at Winan' s
Cove, which is to form a part of the
Port Covington development OF the
railway. New ideas in grain eleva-
tors are to b. worked into this build
ing, which, although only one eleva-
tor, is to be built in the form of two
buildings, ID that ships can dock be
tween them and load from either one
or both Ii will cost S55O,000 One
OF these buildings will occupy d
ground space of 81 by ~ feet, the
other space of 50 by 12S feet. Both
will be seven stories high.
The alumni and friends of West
ern Maryland College will hold their
mid-winter banquet in the palm
room of the Emerson Hotel On Friday
evening, the nineteenth OF February
at Ills o'clock The special feature
or this occasion will b. recognition
OF the thirty years OF service OF DR.
William r. Mcdaniel, in connection
with the college. Special efforts are
being made to make this occasion
one of the most enjoyable ever given
by the Alumni Association. All old
students, with their wives and hus-
bands and all friends OF the college