The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-12-03

a ball team in New York next year
This will make FIVE big clubs for
greater New York.
codpty treasurer, has acreptei 4
position with the Westminster Dc
pos,t & Trust Company.
Mr.. Fred Schlerf, who was appoint
cd a substitute mail carrier 81. Rome
10. 4, from this city, hds resigned
MI. Joseph :. Stoner II temDo-a -ily
filling the vacancy
The venerable Frederick Zahn Is
dangerously i'll at the home Of his
nephew, John Zahn, East Main street
Mr.. Zahn is SO years old, and possibly
the oldest person in this city.
Thirty-six persons took the civil
service examination for mail carriers
and clerks on Saturday. December IL
there will bs another civil service *
animation In this city All examina-
tions and no appointments.
we are the recipient Of pamphlet
containing views of the Great Bend
CKansas), cyclone, from Mr.. ]. q
Mering, of Great Bend, Kan. The
cyclone came near wiping the little
city from the map from the views in
the book.
Joshua Linthicum, former Sheriff oi
Anne Arundel county and former SUP
erintendent Of the State Hospital fol
the Insane at Sykesville, Nd, d1ec
early Tuesday morning. Tie was 6I
years old. Death was due to com
plication OF diseases.
Regular divine services at Union
town, December 5th, at 1870 a. m
At Baust-Sunday school 1.S0 p. m
Preaching at 2.30 p. m. Catechise af'
ter preaching. Christian Endeavol
7.30. A week of services will be helc
at Winters Church, beginning De.
cember 18th.
Four York countians pleaded guilty
Tuesday tn chzrge of hunting ant
chasing game on Sunday and paid ?
fine or $25 each. They were: George
II. Brown, Charles Bowman, Charlie:
E. Brown and Henry Eppley. The
charge was preferred by Game Ward
en- F. P. Gemmill.
Two automobiles got several dent:
put in each when they run together
on West Main street Tuesday even
ing. One was turning when the 9th
er came along and gave 1t a pans
about the center on the side. a neV
running board for one and some on
er repairs will make each look bet
ter.
The Star Moving Picture Theatr
will present tonight the five rec
comedy The Galloper." The stor,
ont II II
divides his time between dodg1ni
alimony-hunting divorced wives an
various creditors. He makes love Z
a brewers widow, proposes, and !
accepted.
General ManaE% II Ennes of th
Western Maryland Railway Company
who makes his headquarters in Hag
erstown, Md, says that the compan
broke all records on Sunday in train
load deliveries to the Philadelphi
and Reading Railroad. At Lurgal
the trainloads turned over to the lat
ter carrier amounted to S9S.
The ordinance authorizing tn
United Railways and Electric Com
pany to divert the Emery Grove
Pikesville and Pimlico cars fron
Linden avenue, Howard and Fayett
street to Madison avenue, Eutaw an
Baltimore streets was passed finall
by the City Council Of Baltimore
Tuesday evening.
The Thank offering meeting of tn
Woman's and Young Peoples HON
and Foreign Missionary Societies wa
held in Grace Lutheran church, Mon
day night. Mrs. DR.. A. V. Pohlman
Of Philadelphia, a former missionar,
to Africa delivered a splendid ad
dress which greatly impressed he
hearers. Music was furnished by VA
choir.
There will be preaching in tn
Church Of God. in Uniontown, Sunda
at 1915 a. m. c. e. at p. m. Sun
day school at 8 a. m. Preaching a
Wakefield at p. m. The churches il
Uniontown will observe the week o
prayer. The Church of God will holt
their protracted meeting following tn
last service Of the week Of prayer \
r. Murray, pastor.
Efforts to reopen the East Berlil
railroad received another jolt Satur
day when il was learned that tn
Public Service Commission at Har
risburg rejected the application of In
incorporators of the East Berlin ant
Abbottstown Railroad company TO
permission to construct grade cross
ings on the line connecting the twt
towns with Berlin Junction.
A motor cycle and a Stanley steam
er automobile had a smash-up a
Main and Church streets, Tuesda.
afternoon in which the motorcycle
was reduced To junk and the automo
bile minus number Of it, trimmings
but not disabled. The rider Of th'
motorcycle was bruised up consider
ably by jumping, and luckily he did,a
the machine went under the automo
bile
While ascending the stairs of Hill
len Station early Tuesday morning
Jlme5 r. Jones, son of Mrs. Harr!
Jones, East Green street, was hell
up by Joseph Brasso, "a years old, ar
Italian. Brasso pointed pistol IN
MI. Jones. who fled to the Office Of ID
b. Martin, the train dispatcher. The
Italian followed, pulling the trigger
of the pistol The shells failed to ex
plode, however. Brasso was arrested
The funeral of w. A Barton. tn,
Democratic candidate for Judge o
the Orphans Court for Frederick
county at the recent election, wa:
held Thursday at townsville The
services were conducted by the Rev
Guy P. Bready, of Taneytown, A.
sisted BY thu Rev = ". Repp, n
townsville The pallbearers Francis
NaUman Alhan M W0od R0y