The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-07-16

Another civil service examination
will be held i'm September.
Yesterday was st. Swithin's Day
and it rained. From the old adage
We will have rain for 40 days.
Mrs. May Shipley, residing with her
sister, Mrs. BERTHE Barnes, Of Gambler,
il critically i'll suffering with symp-
toms of appendicitis.
Farmers complain of the earth be-
ing too dry to pillow, and say a good
soaking rain il needed to put the
ground i'm condition to do it. Let u
have rain.
The Waynesboro Foundry and Ma
chine Company has received its char
ter Prominent Waynesboro men are
stockholders, the capital being placed
at 100000
Mt. Vernon Daley, this city, was
bruised by being thrown from his
motorcycle when the fork broke. The
accident happened at the Herr farm,
near this city, last week
Is it Maurice Lowery or some other
colored man? Yesterday afternoon
Chief OF Police John A Stem and Off
Ger William Oursler left on the Ala
train for Petersburg, Va, where
Lowery is supposed to be living with
his first wife. Officer Stem said be-
fore he boarded the train, iii bring
Lowery back if there is any way of
doing it."
The first OF the church reunions
was held at Pen-Mar Park yesterday
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ern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia and the District OF
Columbia II was the twenty-sixth
annual reunion of the church, and
was attended by more than 5000 per-
sons. Nine tickets were sold from
this station.
Records just closed for the year
ending June 30, show that in that
period the Pennsylvania railroad sys-
TEN carried approximately 180,000,000
passengers and not one was killed in
train accident. These records COW
err the entire system, with its more
than $4,000 miles Of track, located in
Is states. The Pennsylvania system
operates some 10000 passenger
trains every MONTH
The will of Mrs. Fannie 3. Chip
chase, who was killed June "a with
her son, Walter N. Chipchase, In the
head-on collision on the Western
Maryland Railway, near Thurmont,
was admitted to probate in the Orph-
ans Court, Baltimore. yesterday. TO
her husband, W. Edwin Chipcnase,
Mrs. Chipchase bequeathed a dwell
ing in Washington county for life and
then to her children.
| The following new telephones were
installed BY the g. e r. Telephone
Company: w. II. r. Bergman, Man
chester, Hampstead 47-12; J. Walter
Getty. New Windsor If; G. z. Conover,
Piney Creek Church, Taneytown 1924;
George Fl. Ogle, Union Bridge 50;
Edward A. Barnes. near. Winfield,
New Windsor 14-22; Harry J. Cash
man, near Frizellburg, Westminster
S16-15; Harry o. Gilbert, near Fair
View, Taneytown 1876; O. E. Valen-
tine, Keymar, Union Bridge 41-5; G.
w. Grimes, Westminster 64k.
4 new $15O,OOO hotel, partially
financed by Baltimoreans, is to be
erected this summer on the site OF the
old Blue Mountain House, at Pen-Mar,
which was destroyed by fire in 1913.
| Options have been acquired, it is I'M
derstood, on % acres OF land adjoin-
ing the site, and it il said that the
company proposes to acquire more
land, which will be developed with
bungalows for summer jewellers.
George @. Davis, head Of the real es-
tate department of the Colonial Trust
Company. is representing the COM
pany III the transaction.
AT meeting OF the executive com
mittee OF the Maryland State Fire
mems Association yesterday at the
Hotel Caswell, Baltimore, plans were
outlined for the work Of the year
and routine business transacted.
President Frederick G. Kelch, of
Raspeburg, presided. Others present
were William Weagly or this city;
Edward Stevenson, Homecoming; a. f.
Fairali, Laurel; j. J. Baumgartner,
Hamilton; Charles T. Davie, Western
port; Robert Strobel, Hagerstown; J.
Hall White, Easton; Russell p. Smith,
Cambridge; @. Howard Whittle, Glyn-
don, and J. Pearre Wantz, this city.
The next annual convention will be
held June z, and 9 at Havre de
Grace.
| Inc GJLu duuudI l1uIuCEdA ISuAlOA
will be held Thursday, July p, at
Pen-Mar. All Lutherans and their
friends are invited to magnificent
Pen-Mar. Splendid music will be fur
nished by the LOUISVILLE Orphans Home
Band. Lutherans from Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
Washington and the District OF Col
umbia will be present. Addresses will
be delivered by Revs- 4. 5. Hartman,
d. d., r. H. Weber, d. d., J. A-
Singmaster, ID. d., president of the
General Synod. The committee i'm
charge has done everything to make
this the most successful and enjoy
able reunion OF all. Good dinners
will be served at the Park restaurants
for Soc From 1 to 1.30 p. M, the "a
nous Pen-Mar Orchestra will give a
grand concert in the auditorium. Ey-
cry pastor IL requested to invite his
congregation, every superintendent his
Sunday school, and every Lutheran
| his friends All are welcome.
What Minnehaha Carries.