The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-06-11
LOCAL AFFAIRS.


$50 western Maryland College foot
hall team IS scheduled for game
;-h the Maryland Agricultural Col
Isre on November ~.
Tuo citizens appeared before the
,avor and Council on Monday night
snd asked for repairs to be made to
a.raars that pass along their proper
ties.
While blowing corn On MT. p. y.
rnrsuch's farm, near Gambler, MIR.
George 4. Gorsuch was overcome by
M heat Monday morning. Mt.
Eorsuch is slowly recovering.
Tbe eightieth annual commence
mant OF Hannah More Academy, near
Reisterstown, was held tuesday
morning in Wyman Hall of the school,
which was thronged with visitors.
The Public Service Commission has
issued a new tariff bulletin for June
n which it announces a reduced rate
over the w. vi. r. r. on cement from
Security and Union Bridge to Balti-
more.
Exercises incident to the nineteenth
annual commencement OF the Frank
lin High School, Reisterstown, will
" held during the week of June 20.
The commencement will take place
June "a.
Pen-Mar Park will open for the
season June 10. The Western Mary
land Railway Company will put on
the Blue Mountain express between
Baltimore and Hagerstown On the
day of the opening
The team OF MIR. James a. Philips,
near Gambler, became frightened and
ran away while MIR. Phillips was ad-
justing the plow. The plow was
smashed to pieces, but Mr.. Phillips
escaped with few scratches.
The Carroll Transit Company has
added the third bus to its equipment
The new bus is immense in size and
can accommodate 40 passengers.
It Is lighted BY electricity. There
are two rows OF seats with an isle In
the center. IT makes a fine appear
ance.
The Democratic County Central
Committee met at the Advocate Office
on June l and passed resolutions per-
tanning to appointments of road super
intendents and election officials. The
committee wants no appointments
made without they are endorsed by
the committees.
A head of wheat measuring six
inches in length was left at this Office
this week, which was taken from a
stalk in a field on the turtle farm,
tenanted by Mr.. Leonard Freyman.
Grains or wheat were In every head
and from present conditions OF the
crop. il will be a bumper.
The new bus line from Hampstead
to this city via Greenmount and Man
chester made its first run on Monday.
This line is controlled by Mr. Charles
Sapp, Of Hampstead. Two trips a day
will be made at present but III the
business will justify one or more
trips will be added to the schedule.
Charles Baumgartner and family, of
near Silver Run, entertained the fol-
lowing visitors: Rev. 8. @. Hoover,
wife and son, Charles, Ernest Stewart,
wife and daughter, Edna Viola. Mrs.
George w. G. Leppo and daughter,
Bessie, Mrs. William z. Study, Mrs.
Denton +. Leppo and Mr. and Mrs.
Ephraim J. Wentz
On Monday Frank Gallagher, q
hobo, hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio,
vas arrested for stealing brass from
the Westminster Metal & Foundry
Company and trying to dispose or II
to Charles Cohen, junk dealer. TIE
was given hearing before Justice
Brown and held under $500 bail for
the November term of grand jury.
a carp weighing seven pounds was
caught in dip net ia Dreschler's
dam at Carrollton, Saturday by Mt.
Elmer kreglo, Liberty street The
monstrous fish was "a inches In
length and was five inches i'm thick
ness. Mr.. Kreglo had an interesting
few moments in landing his prize as
he was in mud up to his knees and
water to his waist
Ticket Agent II. ID. Fowble OF the
Western Maryland Railway, is now
selling tickets by the foot. He has
received the round trip tickets to San
Francisco. They are several feet in
length, and allow stop off privileges
10 some OF the cities. You can 60 one
route and return BY another, making
very interesting trip. The price OF
the tickets range from $92 to $119.
.. NJ. Fitzgerald, former president
Of the Western Maryland Railway,
vas awarded verdict for $105.71 by
jury ia the City Court OF Baltimore
Tuesday against Henry Pyle. MT.
Fftzgerald's automobile was III col
Hsion with that OF Mr.. Pyle On July
II, 1913. He claimed that his car
had been damaged by reason Of the
negligent operation of the other ma
chine
The June number or The Trans
mitter, the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company's monthly publ
cation for employees, has made it. ap-
pearance and has as its leading fea-
ture an article by y. o. Martin called
a Rather Full Day With Salesman.
The story IL an interesting recital of
the adventures which befell a tele-
phone salesman ii typical days
work.
Some of the freight trains passing
through this city look like excursion
trains from the number of hoboes
stealing transportation. Wednesday
morning a hobo made a close shave
from being thrown under the train
when he jumped car a. 1t was pass
lng the station. His body struck the
semaphore throwing him To the
ground, but luckily away from the
track.
Mr. Oscar Clary, fireman on shift
Ing engine NJ AE1 nadp "a narrow