The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-01-15

. Clockmakers are not the only PEG
pie who are known by their work.
The cobbler may BE- justified II
) complaining of awl work and no play
: About $50 skaters were on tht
pond at Cranberry Sunday afternoon
The Baltimore Oriole ball clubs
, franchise has been transferred &c
Richmond. va.
J Mt. Sc. Joseph's basketball team
will play Western Maryland College
. at Irvington, January 20, and Febru-
! airy MT. It. Joseph will play here.
J Miss Elsie Gernand, East Green
street, has accepted a position as
stenographer with the Baltimore
Roofing 81 Asbestos Manufacturing
Company at Asbestos.
The officers of the Westminster
Savings Bank chosen last week were
DR. Charles Billingslea, president;
F- Thomas Babylon, vice-president,
and Jacob III. Handley, secretary and
treasurer.
The Statewide law passed by the
last Legislature exempting from tax
alton furniture and household ef-
fleets, valued at $500 Is now in effect.
BY the terms of this act, It was to
become operative January l.
The trucks under a passenger
coach, attached to local freight on
Friday afternoon jumped the track
near Avondale and delayed trains a
few hours. The cause of the acct
dent was a. axle breaking under the
coach.
Miss Meta +. Eppler, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. William F. Eppler,
Cumberland, has accepted the assist
ant principalship of the Delmar High
" School, Wicomtco county, Maryland.
She is a graduate OF the Western
Maryland College.
1 The A. 0. K. of the M. c. Lodge will
hold an oyster supper in the hall at
Silver Run, on Saturday evening,
January 80, and also on Thursday
evening, February 4, and Saturday
evening, February s.
On Tuesday evening MI. and Mrs.
" Theodore Yeiser, Pennsylvania
avenue, celebrated the twenty-fifth
anniversary of their marriage. Re-
CARELESS of the weather the evening
was very pleasantly spent Refresh
ments were served
The members Of the Pikesville,
Glyndon and Reisterstown Volunteer
Fire Companies attended services
Sunday night at Grace Methodist
Episcopal Church South, at Reisters-
town. The sermon was preached by
the pastor, Rev George Hazel.
Special music was rendered by the
choir.
\ Rock Hill College has scheduled
i two games Of ball with Western
! Maryland College and Blue Ridge
College, New Windsor, as follows:
Blue Ridge College, April p, at
Irvington; May ), Western Maryland
College, at Irvington; May s, at Blue
Ridge College, and June II, at West
ern Maryland College.
a storm, accompanied BY thunder,
lightning ard high wind, broke over
Creagerstown January s. The MIL
dam of William V. Long, on Fishing
creek, near Lewistown, was washed
away and other streams are out of
bank. Ice from five to seven inches
thick on the Monocacy river was
washed Tito fields half a mile from
the end Of the stream.
M The matter pertaining to MT. Airy,
as to the amount of money spent by
the Frederick County School Commits
sioners in sending pupils of this
county into Carroll county was
taken lid at Wednesday afternoon !
session of the school board, but no
definite action was taken. Matters
pertaining to the finances we're also
discussed.
"a young deer weighing go or 300
pounds created excitement in New
Market Friday when it appeared on
the main street of the town. 1t
jumped over back yard fences, ran
through gardens and made it, e.
cape into the country. "a number OF
persons with guns and dogs pursued,
but all were distanced. About a
dozen shots were fired at the animal,
but none took effect
A deed OF trust for 100000 has
been executed by the board Of direc-
tors of Hood College, Frederick, to
secure a bond issue for this amount
to complete the new college now I'm
der way. The first OF the bonds,
which bear per cent. interest, were
sold and delivered. Ninety thousand
dollars in cash and pledges have al
ready been raised toward the build
Ing fund and 100000 more il needed
Due to dissatisfaction that has
been expressed over the coroner
verdict on the death Of Ernest Jen-
! nings Bryan Triplett, 16 years old
ION of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest y. Trim
lett, Of near Pleasant Hill, January
5, whose lifeless body was found
hanging In an icehouse on the farm
Of Mrs. Williams Burns, it Il prob
able that the body will be exhumed
from the Deer Park Cemetery, near
Glyndon. Friends and relatives of the
boy claim that he did not commit
suicide and that hi death was due
to an accident 1t il the contention
that he was experimenting as to how
it would feel to hang by his neck and
,, lost his footing in the icehouse after
tying The moose about hi neck An
autopsy will likely BE- performed Oh
) the body.
: Mrs. Mary S. McCauley, who shot
: and killed her husband, Edgar McCau-
, ley, at West Arlington, On June 70
! last, has brought suit in the Court ot
7 Common Pleas, Baltimore, against
! the Fidelity and Casualty Comnany