The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-05-28
4. o. DIFFENDAL, Manager.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 2S, 1915
LOCAL AFFAIRS.


The postoffice will close at a. 10.
Monday on account of Decoration Day.
On account Of Monday being Decor
alton Day the County Commissioners
will be in session on Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Camp No. 20, p. o. S. Of A., will hold
an Ice cream and strawberry festival
in the hall at Winfield, June 5. Good
music. Everybody welcome.
Our citizens who are interested In
y safe and sane Fourth. OF July are
requested to attend meeting at D.
~. Monday night in the City Council
Chamber.
Providence Methodist Protestant
Church will hold their Children's Day
service this Sunday, May 80, beginning
al 2.3O ID. IN. All are very cordially
invited to attend.
By request the Maryland Players
will return to the Opera House for an
engagement on June i. This COM
pany has pleased the public with their
high class performances.
Mary Flynn, years old, pupil at
the North Branch Public School, sus-
tanned a broken arm during the noon
recess at the school Wednesday by
falling from the steps leading to the
claSSroomS.
The Christian Endeavor Society Of
Providence Methodist Protestant
church will hold IN ice cream and
strawberry festival in the Gambler
Hall, on June 9Th. All are very cor
daily invited to attend.
There will BE- preaching i'm the
Church of God, in Uniontown, at 10.15
q. ID. Sunday school at 3 a. M.
Preaching at Frizellburg at p. %.
Communion services at Wakefield at
7.3O D. m. All are invited. /. F.
Murray, pastor.
Miss Laura Matilda Nygren, this
city, and Miss Nellie 4. Belt, Hamp-
stead, graduated az nurses at the
Training School or the Hahneman
General Hospital, Baltimore, last
night. The commencement exercises
were held at the Emerson
At meeting Of the National Confer
ence of Dunkards OF the United States
and Canada Tuesday at Dayton, Ohio,
the UNCONVENTIONAL representatives
unanimously decided that members
should not own automobiles. This
question has faced the church for a
number OF years.
Fire DESTROYED the large boarding
house OF William Selby, two miles
north of Mt. Airy, Wednesday. All Of
its contents, except few chairs on
the first floor, were consumed. The
house contained 13 rooms, and was
being made ready for guests due next
week. The loss il between $4,000 and
$4,000.
In celebration OF the discontinuance
Of the tollgates along the Reisters-
town road the patrons OF that thor
oughfare are arranging for a barbe-
cue, crab feast and q regular old-time
country picnic next Monday at OWings
Mills. There will be music by the
Rosewood Training School Band and
a base ball game.
An important real estate deal took
place when the farm Of William IL
Derrick, situated between Mt Airy and
New London, was sold to Pratby J
Kimmel. Or near NIT. Airy. The farm
contains 4O7 acres of land, and al
though the consideration was not
made public, it is understood the fig
ure was around $4,000.
Twenty-Five violations of the law
limiting to LIS consecutive hours the
work of men engaged In running
trains ii the interstate commerce are
alleged i'm a suit brought by the Gov
eminent against the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company I'm the United
States Court Wednesday, through Dis
trict Attorney Samuel X Dennis. The
maximum penalty for each violation Is
$500, 20 that the aggregate claim oi
the Government in the case Is 1000
20 hn ME fnr
the first steps toward increasing the
output OF Maryland farms and estab'
fishing a working confidence between
the farmers and the transportation
companies was submitted to the Bal
timore Agricultural Transportation
Club at meeting at the Hotel Elmer
son Wednesday afternoon. Austin
Gallagher, this city, industrial commits
sioner of the Western Maryland Rail
way and president of the Agriculture
Club submitted the working plan, which
was prepared by committee.
For the first time In its history, Bal
timore gets a differential passenger
rate OF Sis to Chicago under a new
tariff which has been filed by tht
Western Maryland Railway Company
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in Washington. The filing o.
the differential rate il significant BE-
cause it means that Baltimore ant
Chicago will be drawn closer together
in business way by reason OF the low
passenger rate, and presages prob
able passenger rate war between the
three lines operating out of Baltimore
The 18th Lutheran anniversary anC
reunion will b. held at Pen-Mar
Thursday, July %. Addresses will b
made by Revs Jaw :. Hartman, D- ID.
Baltimore, Md, secretary Of the boarC
OF home missions i'm Baltimore, Md
Rev. Fl. Fl. Weber, D. D., secretary q
the board on church extension, 81
York; Rev. Prof. ]. A. Singmaster, p
D., president OF the Theological semi
nary, Gettysburg. The male quartet
OF Union Lutheran church, York, will
conduct the vocal music. The cornet
band, composed OF thirty-five orphans
from the home at LOUISVILLE, has beer
engaged to furnish the instrumental
music.
Secretary Edward Stevenson, ol
Good Will Fire Company, has receiv-
ed replies from a sufficient number oi
State Firemen to enable him to esti'
mate the attendance at the convention
Of the Maryland State Volunteer Fire
mems Association on June 9, 10 anC