The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-08-27

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game will start about $50 d. m.
Miss Lydia o. Meredith, or Cam
bridge, was awarded the scholarship
20 the Western Maryland College.
During Chautauqua week the West
minister Hardware Company and I'D. 8.
Gehr, hardware dealers, will close
their stores at D. m.
According to a new postoffice rule
fourth-class mail can not be regis
tered after August 81, but can BE- i'm
sured against loss to the amount of
its actual value.
DR. Robert IT, Wells, Gambler. has
regained his health and will resume
his practice. IRE will also make a
vigorous campaign for the nomina-
ton for Register OF Wills.
The fortieth anniversary Of Pen
Mar Park was celebrated yesterday,
and drew the largest crowd OF the
season. There were between 1000
and $4,000 persons on the ground.
Last Thursday William III. Morse,
colored, Charles street, died from be-
ing scalded. Funeral services were
held Sunday i'm Western Chapel. Har-
vey Bankard & Son, funeral directors.
Mr. W. L. Dorsey will run new
bus line from Westminster to North
Branch, and another bus running
from North Branch to Green Oak
Junction, Baltimore. He will prob
ably start Saturday at IL m, and will
continually run buses forward and
backward until II o'clock midnight.
Miss Della Trimmer, OF Taneytown,
and Mr.. William Cover, of Frederick,
were injured Tuesday when a front
tire of their automobile exploded on
the Liberty pike, near Worman's
Mill, and the machine turned turtle.
Miss Trimmer sustained fractured
arm and bruises about the face and
body. MIR. Cover was cut about the
head and face, bis arm sprained and
was bruised about the body.
One hundred and more aged men
and women, some OF them crippled,
most of them feeble, were guests yes
terday afternoon at Emory Grove OF
the Aged Peoples Outing Association.
ALI entertainment which was given
them at Epworth Cottage and big
dinner made the old folks forget
their disabilities and they entered in
| to the enjoyment of the afternoon
with the spirit if not the activity OF
childhood
When grain shipments begin to
move over the lines Of the Western
Maryland Railway from the West TO
the Atlantic seaboard in the fall,
ample facilities for storing cars al
they arrive will have been provided
at the Port Covington terminals OF
the road The company has planned
to construct p additional tracks in
its terminal yards, which will in
crease their capacity by 800 cars The
grading work is already under way.
Two Maryland postmasters were
removed from Office Wednesday az
ternoon, when Postmaster-G General
Burleson signed orders directing The
dismissal of w. z. Berry, postmaster
at Rockville, and oliver H. P- Clark,
postmaster at Silver Springs, n
Montgomery county, Md Bondsmen
of the two officials were directed to
take charge OF the postoffices and
designate some one to run them IN
til new postmasters can be selected
"A blazing load OF hay belonging to
Ernest Cooper, of Hampstead, had
been driven along the streets OF Bal
timore by Samuel Bowen, colored
for a hundred yards yesterday morn
ing before the flames were discover
ed as the wagon reached Cross and
Paca streets at o'clock. "A passerby
turned i'm an alarm, while the driver
who had been riding astride one OF
the horses, released them from the
wagon. When the fire company ar
rived the entire load OF four tons OF
hay had been destroyed and about ~
worth Of damage done to the wagon
Bowen had no idea what caused tbs
blaze.
The Frederick Citizen OF today
says: THE speediest sprinting negro
not registered in professional athletic
events, Dust" Gibson, Of Carroll
county, who entered the home q
John J.. Dronenburg, West South
street, and frightened the family
more than a month ago, who eludec
the clutches of Constable Miller, anc
who distanced Sheriff John D. Con.
ard, Jr., and Deputy Sheriff Raymond
F'rizzell, in an automobile race oi
nearly six miles, has been captured
and il now in the Westminster Jail
Sheriff Conard and Deputy Sheriff
F'rizzell will today 20 to Westmins'
ter and bring the negro to Frederlct
for a hearing.
Deputy Sheriff William Easton, q
Ellicott City, had narrow escape
Saturday morning, when he arrested
Warner Rhubottom, of Carroll county
Rhubottom was sought by the Carol
county authorities for robbery al
LEGGED to have been committed a yea
ago. It was thought that he was II
: this county, and 20 a bench warran
was issued. Deputy Sheriff Eastol
learned that Rhubottom was Il
Layinson's saloon, and he entered tn
place and placed the man under ar
rest. Rhubottom resisted and unex
pectedly took pistol from his pock
et and pressed it against the officer
body. The pistol was knocked from
his hand ana he was finally taken y
! the Howard County Jail to await Co.
action OF the Carroll county authori
ties.
Is a solution Of the problem con
fronting the Pennsylvania Railroa'
of di-esting itself Of the Chesapeake
Bay boat lines, which the Interstate
Commerce Commission says IL mus
sell. the possibility Of the Western
MARYLAND Railway Company acquir
ing and operating these lines to East
So 80 dican1Gnd III