The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-11-26

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her fate. Sometimes she goes oat
looking for him
The Girls Club OF Grace Lutheran
church gave q progressive dinner
Thanksgiving evening.
When a girl boasts that she has q
pull with fellow he should be care
ful not to be roped in.
Mt. Clinton Mailman and family
have moved from Glen Morris to
2S29 Riggs avenue, Baltimore
In spite of the fact that sleep is
supposed to be a great beautifier
most of us prefer to be wide awake.
Mr. William ID. Bush, of Statewood
has improved his residence with q
new shingle roof and lightning rods.
MIR. Howell Taylor, contractor.
Mrs. DR.. a. ". PohIman, on Phila-
7 delphia, will speak at st. Johns
\ UeistersD church at 10 a. m, and at
St Benjamin's (Kriders) church at
2 p. m, on Sunday Both of these
services will be Thank offering SER
vices.
The Boring Volunteer Fire Com
pany will dedicate It's new FIRE engine
house and hall next Saturday after
noon with exercises, which will begin
at O'Clock. Ionic Lodge OF Masons,
OF Reisterstown, will place the cor
nerstone.
The County Executive OF the w. e.
r.. n. Of Carroll county will meet
December 3, at 10 o'clock In the head
quarters, at the Times Building, at 2
p. m., an institute will be conducted
BY Mrs. Biz, one OF our National
Lecturers. All interested are invited
to come to the Institute.
Mr. and Mrs Chester Joy and three
children, Orville, Naomi and URSULA,
and MT. joys brother, Herbert, all OF
Graceham, were pinned under Mr.
joys automobile which upset Monday
on Death Curve" near Braddock
Heights The steering connection
broke as the machine was rounding
4 the curve and the automobile turned
turtle. at suffered slight bruises.
State Motor-Vehicle Commissioner
Roe has announced that the new State
auto tags will be ready for distribu-
/ ton ON December 7th. The new tags
are black, with yellow figures. The
law requires that the color be chang
| ed each year, and the Commissioner
aims to avoid conflict in color with
nearby States. This is to make fden-
LITIGATION the easier. Prices Of the
tags, says Mr.. Roe, remain the same.
Below we give the names OF few
other parties In Carroll county that
were successful in receiving premiums
at the Maryland Week Exhibition at
the Fifth Regiment Armory, Balti-
more, last week: Bachman's Valley
Boys Club, Westminster, first prize
for best display of apples; Carroll
Orchards, Westminster, first prize,
| best plate smokehouse apples, and
Flohr Fruit Company, Detour, first
prize, best plate wine; second prize,
\ best plate Winter Sweet Paradise
apples.
! Born in darkness, Edna Moore, 8
years old, on Gilmore, Md, when sight
was given her by an operation at the
Y Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat
Hospital, Baltimore, instinctively rec
ogniZed her mother as the bandages
were being removed from her eyes.
While congratulating themselves on
the success OF the operation, the sur
'geons found themselves confronted
' by psychological problem and are
still unable to attribute the remark
able recognition to anything but
intuition.
' The condition OF Reuben Rogers,
the young attorney OF Ellicott City,
Y who was badly injured Saturday
night when his auto collided with
that OF Herbert Pickett, OF this coun-
Y ty, on the Frederick road, is still
seriou! He is unable to move his
right arm and Is cut above the right
eye and nose. nj. Dawson Lee, who
was in the machine with him, had his
right collar bone broken and his
right ankle sprained. He just left a
hospital about three weeks ago, hav-
ing broken his right leg in an acct
dent.
a delegation or citizens OF East
Berlin and Abbottstown, Pa, and
members OF the board OF directors of
the East Berlin and Abbottstown
Railroad Company, the proposed cor
poration to take over and operate the
old East Berlin Branch railroad, APP
Ipeared November III before the pub
lie service commission, at Harrisburg,
Y Ill hearing on the question OF Wheth-
er the company viii lbe permitted to
operate the road at grade with all
public roads which II crosses. The
commission has been asked to grant
this right to the road. Owing to there
being several members of the COM
mission absent, decision was not
reached.
a New Testament, which was the
property OF Israel Pickett, soldier
III the Civil War, Is In the possession
or George Vanfossen, Frederick, and
efforts are being made to locate rela-
tiyes OF tile former owner. The fol-
lowing words apear on blank page
of the little volEme: September lS,
1852. From the Maryland State Bible
Society To Israel Pickett, a soldier in
Company l., 4th Regiment, Maryland
Volunteers. Should | die on the bat
tie field or i'll hospital, for the sake
VI humanity, acquailt my wife Susan
Pickett, residing at Winfield, Carroll
county, Oh the fact, and where my
remains may be found" Mr.. Van
fossen cannot remember where the
Testament came from, as he has had
IL for some years,
The Christian Endeavor Society OF
Grace Lutheran Church will celebrate
the twenty-fifth anniversary of Its
founding next Sunday evening, No
vember 20, in the church proper at
7.30 D. M Rev. y. ID. Baker, of Get
tysburg, will deliver the address. AL
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