The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-06-18

AT the Bethel Church of God, war.
| fieldsburg, Sunday school at 1.30 D
ia. Preaching at 230 ID. m., by Rev
Harry r. Brown.
Mr.. Harry Shipley, proprietor OF
The Sykesville bus line, Id out $40 by
James Russell forging his name To .
check for that amount. Russell was
Mr- Shipley's chauffeur.
Two morning passenger trains were
delayed Monday by an engine on a
freight train jumping the track near
Patapsco. The track was damaged
for considerable distance.
The Buick Six II Oh exhibition Al
j. w. Lockard & Son, Liberty street
This auto is another wonder. 1t il
equipped up-to-date and sells at a
figure in the reach Of the middle man
Establishment Of no new rural
mail delivery routes To serve 1890
families and the extension of exist
ing service 80 a. to reach 5460 addi-
tional families, was announced by
Postmaster General Burleson.
Miss Clara May McAbee, of Fred
erick, chosen as the most beautiful
girl in Maryland, was a close second
in the final award made by board OF
judges In the nationwide beauty com
petition at Los Angeles, Cal, last
week.
Twenty-four jars Of fruit were
stolen from the cellar of Mr.. Charles
Magin, East Main street, Friday ev-
ening. Mr.. Magins would thank the
party who got away with the fruit,
If he would return the jars, a. the
fruit season is coming on and he
needs them.
House, Monday evening, June %, at
p. M, by the Women's Civic League
of Westminster, and the Carroll
County Medical Society. Several
physicians from Baltimore will be
present and discuss thu subject Of
cancer. Admission free.
Jacob r. Good, the wide-awake hor-
ticulturist and Western Maryland
Railway agent at Midvale, Pa, says
that the peach crop in that section
bids fair to exceed by many thou
sands Of bushels all former records
and that it will take 500 cars to move
the shipments from Midvale alone
The following receipt for killing
ants is from the Maryland Agricul-
tural College: Make holes with q
crowbar or the end of broom handle
from to inches deep and 2 feet
apart. Pour in j teaspOonful OF
carbon disulphide, close up the holes
and the gas from the disulphide will
kill the eggs and the ants.
John F. Higgins, Of Cumberland,
Md, engineer on work train On the
Western Maryland railroad, was ia
tally injured by falling from his en-
CINE and being run over at Startz-
mans crossing, near Hagerstown, Sat
urday night. Higgins right leg was
crushed and his left leg was severed
below the knee. He died at Wash
ington County Hospital, Sunday.
Fourteen of the 80 United States
gaugers will have no work after July
1, and until such time as all Of the
various rectifying places, will again
be III operation. The laying off OF
these men, all of whom are in the
classified service, il due to the act
Of congress recently passed requiring
rectifiers to do their own guaging
The pay Of these men is from $3 to
s. per day.
We have often heard of fishermen
catching a whooper and would make
a Biz fuss about what he accomplish
ed. This is not so with Mr.. Maurice
Martin Of Mount Pleasant, but H. did
land what We call big one. 1t was
German carp; weighed IL pounds
and was taken from the Susquehanna
River at McCall's Ferry, Monday. MT.
Martin said, Il believe it was as old
a. Mathusalem-"
The annual reunion Of the Odd Eel
lows of Maryland, Pennsylvania, the
Virginias and the District OF Column
bia will be held at Pen-Mar Park
August 6. The reunion committee is
composed Of o. AZ Geesaman, Way
nesboro; DR.. Z. ID. Thompson, Wash
ington: Saul Praeger, Cumberland;
C. w. Miller, Brunswick; William q.
Jones, Grand Secretary OF Maryland
jurisdiction, Baltimore; z. T. Lich-
liter, Shepherdstown, and Howard II.
Hartman, HagerstowE.
Chief of Police Hoffman, of Freder-
lex, received a telegram Wednesday
stating that Miss Mary Stevens, 20
years old, of that city, was stranded
there. The message said she had
been deserted by a man named Burt
Boone. At the home of Miss Stevens
Id was stated that she left Tuesday
ostensibly to visit friends In West
minister. Before leaving she was
seen in company with stranger and
It is supposed they eloped. The fam
lily will have the girl brought home.
A passenger train On the Western
Maryland Railway from Edgemont to
Shippensburg was ditched Saturday
near Lurgan by broken switch, the
engine leaving the rails and turning
over on its side, dragging the first
coach with it and leaving the second
coach hanging at an angle OF about
45 degrees. Three of the train crew,
H. C. CARRIER, engineer; NM. C- Holz-
apple, fireman, and John Elser, ex-
press messenger, were slightly in
jured. There we're NO passengers On
the train.
Charles Black, an aged man, was
knocked down, robbed OF $5 and
thrown from a fast-moving Western
Maryland freight train Tuesday
night while going to Hagerstown
from Chambersburg. Black was ac-
companied by two younger men.
When The train was near Hagerstown
they struck him on the head with a
whisky bottle, knocked him insensl-
ble. robbed him and rolled him from
the train. When he rega1ned con-