The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-10-01

"A drain Is being put around the
side OF the Western Maryland depot
in this city.
Mr.. John Poisel, East Main street,
has rented his cafe and will dis
continue business.
The stork visited the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Aaron Miller, near this city,
and left them a fine baby girl last
Saturday.
The fast mail was delayed Is min
utes Sunday morning by two freight
engines humping their pilots together
at Lawndale. Neither engine was
damaged to any extent
MIR. John w. Young, IN sergeant of
Company Fl, is at target range,
Glenburnie. practicing to compete In
the national matches at Jacksonville,
Fla. the second week In October.
Mr.. Walter Helm, or Trenton, N.
VI, and MIR. Edward Green, of Atlantic
City, y. J., both former residents of
this city, are erecting signals along
the main line of the Western Mary
land Railway.
Mrs. Edward Coppersmith, daughter
OF MIR. John 4. Stonesifer, West Main
street, was operated upon at the Uni
versity Hospital, Baltimore, On Thurs
day OF last week. The operation was
success and she is improving rap
idly.
DR.. Bernard o. Steiner, librarian OF
the Enoch Pratt Free Library, of Bal
timore, will lecture in Smith Hall, at
Western Maryland College, on Mon
day, October 18th, at A o'clock IN m,
on Why and What Shall We Read"
Admission free.
\ After a continuous career of over
thirty years in the farming and house
furnishing business, the firm Of Will
lam III. Bennett g. Company, Sykes
vile, which was conducted by Mr..
| William III. Bennett, was sold yester-
day to Messrs. James b. George and
Harry r. Devries.
Announcement Is made of a confer
ence that is to be launched in the
Baltimore Conference OF the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church within the
next three weeks i'm the interest of
O. large fund for the benefit Of retired
clergymen OF that denomination. Rev.
DR.. Herbert @. Richardson, formerly
pastor of Centenary Methodist Epis-
copal Church, this city, Is endowment
secretary of the Conference and is
engineering the campaign plans in
that conference.
From present indications, it il OK
pected that the Western Maryland
Railway Company's new grain eleva-
\ tor, now in course of construction,
at Fort Covington, will be completed
and ready to be put in operation not
\ yrt N@uarrhar "a
time the grain rates from the West
70 the Atlantic seaboard will become
operative over the lines of the COM
pany and the Western Maryland will
! then be put in a position to compete
| with other lines for the big grain
traffic
Bids have been asked by the West
ern Maryland Railway Company on
1000 steel hopper cars, and it is ex-
pected that the contract for the new
equipment will be awarded early next
week The additional cars are made
necessary by the rapidly increasing
coal tonnage which il now moving
over the lines of the company. Speci-
iications call for u T0-ton car, which
il one of the largest i'm use on any
of the railroads in the East. The
cars will be 73 feet long and approx
mately 9h feet wide
The Frederick County Agricultural
Society has announced stock judg-
n ing contest for high school students
of the State to be held at its annual
fair next month. One hundred dol
lars in cash prizes has been offered,
divided as follows: $50 in sweep
stake prizes, divided into Sis, $40 and
Sd; $3.50 i'm each of four classes,
holstein, ayrshire, jersey and guern-
sey, divided into $40, So and $3.50.
The Judge will be an official of the
dairy division, United States Depart
ment on Agriculture.
The semiannual meeting of the
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty will
be held In this city on Thursday, Oc-
tober 28. Ii il expected that this
meeting will be largely attended, and
the fact Is pointed to that transpor-
tation should no longer b. a prob
lem, inasmuch as the automobile has
worked such wonderful changes. The
many advantages to both county and
city members which result from q
day spent at such a gathering OF
physicians IL expected to bring the
doctors In large numbers.
Through tie early discovery OF the
flames, the guests at the Maryland
Hotel, Highfield, were given an OPP
portunity to escape when it was de-
stroyed by fire at 2.20 o'clock Satur-
day morning. The origin Of the FIRE
Is a mystery. Charles Corwell, who
with his sister conducts the hotel,
was awakened by smoke. He at once
awoke his sister and the half dozen
boarders who were still at the hotel.
All had time to slip on their clothes
and most OF them were able to get
their trunks down stairs before the
flames gained Roadway
The board OF directors or the Jew
ISL Home for Consumptives of Balti-
more, will hold their second annual
pilgrimage to its memorial grove on
" it grounds, near Reisterstown, on
Sunday afternoon, at o'clock. This
memorial grove Is To provide suit
able place for the planting Of trees
In memory of deceased persons.
! Every year during the fall holidays
there il public tree planting in this
grove To each tree is affixed an en-
graved plate. which IL retained by the
institution. If tree dies il Is re-
placed SO that the grove may be
come perpetual memory.
Miss Katherine Slower, daughter Of
Mr. and Mrs G. Harry Slower of