The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-07-02
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 2. 1915
LOCAL AFFAIRS


ar-anra has improved his home by
nntting down "a concrete pavement.
K1ee & Hoff, automobile agents,
have sold 2-ton Federal truck ~
KIee Milling Company, at klees Mill.
The state primaries will be held
ai+har IN September ia or H., accord
ing to Y meeting held by the com
niftees of the two parties Wednesday.
me Hampstead Base Ball Club was
defeated Saturday by the United Rail
Wavs Company team of Baltimore, on
+ha formers grounds, by score Of
9 to 5.
The Fourth of July will be fittingly
celebrated at Winfield, Saturday ev-
ening July 3rd. There will be a
street parade at p. M, and display
w fireworks at night
Swinging into the homestretch Of
the fiscal year, the Western Maryland
Railway Company i'm the statement
II earnings issued Wednesday for the
N months shows an increase in gross
w $2S2, 38S-1T-
The Westminster Black Sox base
hall club went to Baltimore Saturday
via the bus line to do the Trinity ~
{. ball team in two games. When
the dust settled after the games and
the sums tailed up The Black Sox
found themselves some distance in
the rear in both games. The scores
we're I'LL to 2 and 10 to 2.
New wheat from the nearby sec
tons of Maryland and Virginia. is
beginning to reach Baltimore, but
the receipts SO far are considerably
behind those of a year ago up to the
corresponding time. However, the
first arrivals were 10 days later, as
the first wheat from Virginia came
w Baltimore last year on June l7-
Henry Graybill, Union Civil War
veteran and hermit, who lived the life
VI y recluse for nearly half century
in South Mountain, near Edgemont,
left his 81, 800 estate, consisting Of
savings from a $50 monthly pension,
one-half to Washington County Hos
pital, Hagerstown, and one-half to
Washington County Orphans Home,
according to his will.
Convicted of manslaughter, and his
motion for a new trial denied by The
Supreme Bench, William II. Flick,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad detec-
tive, who wa found guilty Of killing
15-year-old Evers CLANCY on the
night of March II, last, faced Judges
DybIer, Stump and Bond i'm the Grim
inaI Court, Part 1, Baltimore, Wednes-
day and was sentenced to one year IN
Jail.
Harry T.. Hesse, Of Gainesville, Is
suffering with a dislocated knee and
bruises about the body a. TIE result
Of a motorcycle accident several
days ago. Mr.. Hesse was riding his
machine On the Springfield State
Hospital grounds at Sykesville, when
it collided with an automobile driven
by iii. M. Anderson. MIR. Hesse was
thrown from the motorcycle and his
machine badly damaged.
The suit for $4,000 brought by Mrs
Ernest Wright, Of Union Bridge,
against the Western Maryland Rail
way, for the death of her husband,
was compromised by the Railroad
Company on Thursday. The trial was
held in the Superior Court, No Y,
Baltimore, with Judge Soper on the
bench. Attorney z. 0. Weant repre-
scented Mrs Wright. Mr. Wright vas
killed III the Hagerstown carshops IN
September, 1913.
Mr. Peter ID. Rooms, OF Detour, was
given $169.3S the full amount Of his
claim. in a suit for damages to
carload Or wheat against thu Western
Maryland Railway in Superior Court,
No. 2, Baltimore, before Judge Soper
Friday. The carload OF wheat was
ordered out from Detour to con-
signee in Hagerstown, and it was Just
MIA +irna IN ordered
until it reached its destination, caus-
ing the wheat to heat and spoil. Il
was no fault of the officials rof the
road, BUT the failure Of the worthless
conductors, who refused to move the
car
Closer trade relations will be es-
tablished between Baltimore and the
Eastern Shore by reason OF the GA
rect transportation line to be opened
up between Baltimore and that sec
ton Of Maryland a. the result of tie
traffic agreement just entered into
between the Western Maryland Rail
way Company and the Eastern Shore
Development and Steamship Com
pany Under this agreement the
Western Maryland, for the first time
in its history. Is able to apply
through rates to points on the East
I'm Shore. The tariffs providing tor
these through rates have already been
filed and become effective.
According To an announcement
made Tuesday, the old Blue Noun
tain House, which for SO many years
wa one Or the most prominent
mountain hostelries in the East and
which was destroyed by fire several
years 20, will b. replaced by
larger and handsomer hotel in the
near future The plans call for
building To b. 100 feet in length
three stories high, with basement.
It is planned that the new hosiery
shall have "a hundred rooms, with 2s
baths, large dancing hall, which Ii
planned for wing of the building
to extend back from IT, main 3d.
trance and lobby, Gale and grill
room in the basement.
Washington Camp, No. 3s6, Patriot
ic Order Sons or America, Littles-
town, Pa, held an impressive memo
rial service on Friday evening, June
18th. a procession OF 100 school
children and 200 members Of the Or
der, headed by the Sons OF America
Band, moved through the principal
streets of the town to Mt Carmel
Cemetery, where flags and how
ers were placed on the graves
OF fifty-one soldiers, and flowers