The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-07-09
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Van never can tell. Many man is
,ong-winded who isn't an athlete.
~ Pen-Mar Presbyterian re
union will BE- held Thursday, July
20.
Poverty is no respector Of persons.
WAN II comes in at the door IL
aver stops to wipe its feet
Mrs Jesse Marsh, near Union
Mills who fell from a cherry tree
rarantly and sustained internal in-
i1ries, is improving.
Mr. C. D. Spurrier, of Union Bridge.
~ stricken with paralysis in his
Waron while delivering produce I'm
baltimore last week.
KIee & Hoff, automobile agents,
sold Maxwell cars to Jacob Folk,
Manchester; VIM Lucabaugh and
lanes E. Smith, this city.
plans have about been completed
wv INV annual Reunion OF the Re
formed churches to be held at Pen
Mar on Thursday, July Is.
Carrollton Church Of God, Sunday,
VIM 11. Sunday school 9.20 a. m.
preaching BY Rev. w. w. Richmond,
.of Fort Scott, Kansas, 1915 a. m. G..
745 D. m. Harry #. Brown, pas
tor.
Providence Methodist Protestant
Sunday school will hold its annual
Picnic on Saturday, July 24th, begin
MIN at 10 a. ~ The Taylorsvllle
band will be present. All are very
cordially invited to attend.
Mill Gorsuch Son Co, this city, re-
.caiyed their first load OF new wheat,
wednesday, from Mr.. George NJ. Ship
lev. near Gist. The yield was ~
bushels Der acre, weighing go pounds
w the bushel. The wheat was in good
condition.
An interesting entertainment will
be given by the young people or
Finksburg in the hall, at Gambler, on
Saturday, July 10, at s p. m. The
program will consist of music, recita-
tions. dialogues, etc. You cannot af-
ford to miss this treat.
Four Baltimoreans lost valuables
amounting to $1,000 from their
trunks July i, when the Western
MARYLAND Railway station at Blue
Ridge Summit, Pa, was entered by
thieves and five trunks and two suit
cases rifed. Railroad detectives
we're assigned to the hunt for the
thieves. The station is in charge OF
Agent o. f. Coonan.
Choosing perhaps the most inter
esting spot in the United states Ior
the theme of its cover picture, me
July issue of the transmitter, the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company's publication for employees,
reproduces a scene at the north por-
tico Of the White House in Washing
ton, with a motor truck delivering
telephone directories for the Presi-
dent and his household.
Charles 4. Stump, aged ~ years,
died Saturday night at Washington
County Hospital, Hagerstown, Of in
juries sustained at the scene Of The Re-
cent wreck on the Western Maryland
railroad near Thurmont. While helping
to remove the wreckage Stump was
struck on the head by a heavy iron
hook On the chain attached TO the
wrecking train, fracturing his skull.
He leaves a widow and three child
rem.
BY winning the 30O-mile automo-
bile race at Omaha, Neb., Monday,
Eddie Rickenbacher, who was third
1n THE 500-mile automobile derby Ira
Chicago recently and first In the
SeO-mile race at Sioux City on Sat
urday, has proved conclusively that
the little Maxwell car h. drove ~
the fastest car built in America to
day. Rickenbacher averaged 91.O7
lliles an hour. His average for all
three Of the recent automobile der
/0les was 1888 miles an hour, which
= record Is away above that for speed
held by any other American car
Train Dispatcher Edgar III. Bloom,
whose mixed orders caused the wreck
q Two passenger trains near Thur
lMont IN which six persons lost their
lYes, states that he will not again en-
Ter railroad work, as his nerves will
not permit it. He has not been dis
charged by the Western Maryland
railway Company, which regards him
as competent dispatcher, and he re-
seNed his full salary for June. He
Ias received many messages OF con
uolence, among the writers being the
WIDOWS Of Fireman Fritz and Of Bag
sagemaster Hull, who were killed in
the collision.
ny an order effective July D, the
quarantine for foot-and-mouth dis
ill., or The Baltimore Stock Yards ~
Iodlled and these yards are now
saasSed as restricted area for hand
mug i've stock for immediate slaugh-
\; Sf only the quarantine regulations
a ae restricted area being the Ieast
ss'ere OF any In the entire quaran-
rue area. At the present time these
pta -.' fhe pens of the Baltimore
c;.l Abbattoir Company Ira the
y w n u Baltimore, and those portions
~., naltlmore and Frederick counties
49, ~ within three miles OF the in-
NJ M. premises are the only portions
aryiand still under quarantine.
ao. rae recent foot-and-mouth cpl
wv. ic n, among live stock in Maryland
No. M. ae state and Federal govern
nsis s SS,412.32, exclusive of salaries
tors 49, 70 veterinarians and inspec-
tsr- NJ N stamp out the disease Secre-
San,.a Meiville, or the State Live Stock
tha sa "a Board, Saturday compiled
dly,dEaa,res showing the total and in
IN S costs and the damage done
VA S"ners OF the stock, most or
buraas were or will be fully reim-
IN baas Foot-and-mouth disease has
eutra eliminated Ira Maryland and TIM
faaa-.., state - now free for local and
ercent movements of all live stock
tury - .nfee small patches Of terri