The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-07-02


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The dedication OF the Lutheran and
Reformed church, at Pleasant Valley,
will take place Sunday.
me Bethel Church Of God, War
fieldsburg, will hold services on Sun
day evening, at 7.3O o'clock.
Mr. Jesse Sharrer, Willis street,
has improved his property by putting
in concrete walk and curb.
The Mission Band and Junior C y.
Society of Grace Lutheran church were
entertained Tuesday afternoon On the
park
Company H and Band will leave
Sunday morning for Hagerstown
where they will take part i'm the
be held Monday.
Lieutenant Thomas :. Clark, of
Washington, d. c., has leased the
Fairfax property, on Willis street,
for the summer. Lieutenant Clark
will spend 10 days with his family,
after that time he will return for
duty.
A slight fire started in the wash
house of Edward w. Case, East Main
street, on Tuesday afternoon, but
was extinguished before any material
loss was sustained. The fremen
responded to the alarm and were
ready in short order to go to work.
While Mrs Jesse March, Of near
Silver Run, was picking cherries
Tuesday, the limb upon which she
was standing, broke, throwing her to
the ground, a distance OF about
twenty feet She received bruises
and decorations and was hurt inter
nally.
Swepson Earle, engineer to the
Shellfish Commission and who has
taken a deep interest in conservation
of the products of the Chesapeake
Bay, declared that hard and soft
she'll crabs were becoming more
scarce each year because of the lack
OF protective measures.
Fourth OF July will be fittingly OBJ
served at Reisterstown, where the
Ladies Auxiliary OF the Reisterstown
Volunteer Fire Company has mapped
out an extensive program. There will
be demonstrations OF fire fighting,
athletic contests, music, addresses by
prominent speakers, reception to
visitors and fireworks at night.
The rural letter carriers are re
quested to meet at Burke's barber
shop, i'm Taneytown, on the evening of
July 5, at D. m. All the carriers
and postmaster assistants and substi-
tutes are expected to bring something
patriotic In the way OF song, speech,
GESTURE or reading Let us have an
exciting and patriotic meeting that
will long be remembered.
The house, barn and other out
buildings on the farm Of Walter
Hess, near Emmitsburg, were de
stroyed by fire of unknown origin
Monday. The flames started In the
house and were discovered by Charles
Hess, a brother of the owner, who
occupied the adjoining farm By the
time he arrived the house was about
to fall in, and the barn and stable
were in flames The house was IN
occupied.
The premature explosion of pow
der in a scene for motion picture
enacted In the yard on the Vitagraph
Company, on Elm avenue, Flatbush,
Brooklyn, Tuesday afternoon caused
serious injury to three actresses and
minor injuries to several others.
One of the actresses, Miss May
Kearny, of 461 Avenue VI, i i'm the
Coney Island Hospital with burns on
her hands, arms and face. She Is
in u serious condition.
The Western Maryland Railway
Company has made a satisfactory ad-
justment or the matter OF rates and
train service with commuters resid-
ing in this city and other points
along the line. TO meet the wishes
Of its patrons, the company agreed to
put in operation a later train for the
benefit or bankers and business men
residing along the line, to place them
in Baltimore at a more convenient
hour. I'm addition, the company Will
sell to commuters 54-trip tickets and
I5-trip tickets, besides the usual trip
tickets.
William Frock, a blacksmith, OF
Union Mills, Md, was seriously, II
not fatally kicked by mule which
he was shoeing Tuesday about a.
m. The impact of both hoofs Of the
mule struck him i'm the pit OF the
stomach with sufficient force to hurl
him from the shop. His father found
him lying in an unconscious con-
dition near the shop. He regained
consciousness about four hours after
the accident. The young mans con-
dition Is serious and the attending
physician was unable to ascertain
the extent or the injuries
A second TRANSMISSION operation on
Sterling Yingling, Of Reisterstown,
who l. patient at the Union Pro
testant Infirmary, Baltimore, suffer-
ing from anemia. due mainly to in
festival trouble, was performed Mon
day morning. The first operation
was performed about 10 days ago in
am effort To save the young mans
life, bis brother, Roscoe Yingling,
acting as the subject. The partici-
pant i'm the second operation, Charles
Albert Muse, il close friend OF the
Yingling family, and came from Cum
berland to aid in restoring the health
III his friend. The doctors at the in
stitution stated that the second OPP
Grafton had been successful and that
Yingling would be discharged from
the hospital in a few days.
After more than 20 years Of con
tinuous service with the Western
Maryland Railway Company, George
H. Sheets has been promoted by be
I'M made assistant superintendent OF
the Eastern Division of the road,
with headquarters in Hagerstown.
Thn announcement wv his aDDOint-