The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-11-05
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

- fortune, but ne neeus PAcI1S
g .sarp tools these days
r1-pound boy was born to Mr.
Y No Ernest Crowl, Centre
Street Tuesday.
THOMAS. Bennett & Hunter, con
....tors are busily engaged In laying
.s a1r ranrrete road from Main street to
the freight depot.
mike" aged Is years, the pet dog
49, Nv MIR. John p. Heltibrldle,
carroll street died on Election Gay.
~ Iosephus Ditman, who has
,, fiji residing at Oxford, Ohio, for a
D Deoa many years, moved to bis prop
III church street which he
r nrrchased of MIR. Harry Gosnell-
halloween passed off as usual by
t5a boys doing lots Of mischief by
r,ovinz everything that could be got
+on awav with. One party Is still
Io0ktug for their steps.
Alaska has been the subject dis
orssed at the two last meetings or
tha Woman's Club held at the homes
~ Miss Robinson and Mrs. z. t.
Rsad. respectively. These meetings
IVA Pull of information and are well
attended.
NJ. John H. Six, proprietor OF the
Mnnrour House, West Main street,
has bought Hotel Columbus, McSher-
rvstoWn. Pa, and will assume charge
a. soon as arrangements can be made
with the present proprietor, w. u.
Arnold. who went there about year
ago from Taneytown.
TEe residence or MIR. Daniel Smith,
Mar Magins Mill, was burned %
Monday morning at 4.45 o'clock with
wy contents. The fire started i'm one
of the lower rooms. The only thing
sayei was an organ. The house and
contents we're insured. The barn
caught fire but little damage result
ed
The will of John :. Ensor, who was
the Republican candidate for state
senator In Baltimore county, and who
was killed on Tuesday Of last week
by trolley car, was admitted to pro-
Bate Monday in the Orphans Court,
at Towson He leaves his estate 20
his wife during her life, and after
her death to the testator's children
A. A. Haines, proprietor Of the
Glendon Heights hotel, Pen Mar, left
for Greenville, s. O., where he has
accented the management of the
Chic0ra hotel, large l0O-room
building Mr., Haines has conducted
tAa 2en Mar resort for the past three
yaa-s successfully Mr.. and Mrs
Hanes expect TO return to Pen Mar
again by the middle OF next June.
Construction of a second track over
a portion of the mountain route be-
tween Edgemont and Highfield, &C
cording to advices received, is plan
ned BY the Western Maryland Rail-
way Company and it il expected that
the Improvement work will be gotten
under way at an early date. The
dOuble-tracking of this stretch Of
line will greatly increase the move
ment OF traf.c between the points
mentioned.
The Western Maryland Railway
Company, according to advices re
ceived from New York, has sold to
Blair & Co. ana the Equitable Trust
Company an issue of 10-year serial
per cent. equipment trust notes to
cover the purchase or % locomotives.
The order for the new engines was
placed some months ago with the
Lima Locomotive Works, of Lima,
Ohio, and it il understood that deliv-
cries will begin shortly.
A destructive fire, which broke out
"a South Mountain, near Edgemont,
saturday afternoon, swept along tie
slopes in an easterly direction at a
last rate and is doing much damage
10 the growing timber. Large forces
of men took part in fighting the fire
70 eXtinguish it. The timber in the
Elgemont section consists of chest
nut, pine and oak, and on account OF
tRe leaves and Underbash the fire
swept over several thousand acres.
BESIDES being a physician ana a
member Of the Frederick County
Medical Society, Dir. Fout was presi-
gent OF the Mount Airy Peoples Lum-
per and Supply Company and active
in its business and social life He
was but 81 years old and is survived
WI hls father and mother, Mir. and
Mi Ate Otto T. Fout; his wife, who was
MISS Mary Hendrickson, and two
sisters Misses Ethel and Gladys
rout. He was a graduate OF the Uni
'erslty Of Maryland, class of 1901.
A number of citizens of Manchester
ulstrlet, assembled in the Jr. y. u.
N M- Hall, Alesia, Md, last Wednes-
~ evening, and organized under the
name OF The Tax Payers and Voters
association III of Alesia" and vicinity
Inc present purpose Of the organiZa-
.iol i TO secure more economy In
eApehdlture, and greater efficiency
IN me upkeep of the public roads
uGure meetings will be held the I'd
aIa 40 Friday evenings of each
noatn. All persons interested i'm
sood roads are invited to attend
si&ty petitions and letters, signed
w upward OF $50 members of the
M MI State Grange, as individu-
De- were presented yesterday tc
representative David y. Lewis, by q
TTUhlamittee headed by J. Bentley
taomas' Oh Montgomery county, call
upon The Sixth district Congress
ia Ian 70 enter the primaries next year
MI we Democratic nomination fOI
III United States Senate to succeed
tneuator Blair Lee. Mr. Lewis, IL
Eg the committee, said he
"ouid reach a definite decision with.
" me next few days. It II learned
lever, from his friends that Mr.
l-s"is has made UP his mind W en.