The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1916-08-11
LOCAL AFFAIRS.


ST. Benjamin's Reformed Sunday
School will hold its picnic in Lem
mons Grove. on Saturday. August ~.
A marriage license was Issued at
the Court House on June u. TO
Maurice e. Wentz and Annie Il. Tracey
both of Lineboro, that we failed to
publish.
The large bank barn on the farm
of John 7. Long, near hmmitsbnrg,
was struck by lightning Tuesday ana
destroyed, with the wheat and hay
crops. The loss is about $4,000.
Miss Hilda Wertz. Liberty street, IL
visiting at the home of DR.. and Mrs
T. FL. WertZ, Of Hanover, Pa.
Mrs. Lillian Peterson. OF Richmond,
Ind, and Miss Katherine NnsDaum. OF
Frederick. are guests of friends In MI.
Airy.
General David McMurtrie Gregg Is
dead-the last Union officer holding the
rank of general who participated In
the battle OF Gettysburg. He died at
his home in Reading Monday night,
after an illness of several months, aged
SO years.
Two games of ball VIII be played
at Sandyyille on Saturday afternoon.
The first game will start At l o'clock
and the second will begin Immediately
after the conclusion Of the first game.
Teams will be Boring and Bethel VS..
Sandyyille.
n last weeks issue we published
that John Shipley, Of Patapsco. had
discontinued the butchering business.
This has been contradicted by MT.
Shipley. and the party who sent the
article to this Office should be more
careful IN the future and learn the
facts.
Those who spent Sunday with Mr..
Ephraim r. Smith and family, near
Gist, were Edward s. Smith, OF Union
Bridge; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Smith
and daughter. Emma. OF Salem: Dir.
and Mrs Walter Lowell, OF statewood;
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Reayer and
daughter. Evelyn. of Salem: Mr. and
Mrs. CLYDE Lowell and sons. Sterling
and Allen. OF Dennings.
" K. Adams. of RidgevilIa, was ar
rested Sunday night by Sheriff Stoner.
on warrant of carrying concealed
weapons and was brought to this city
and placed jail until Monday, when
he was given hearing before Justice
DInst, who fined him 81 am custz.
The Forest and Stream Club has ar
ranged with the Western Maryland
Railway Company 10 stop It's trains
at their Camp. on the Monoracy. The
Fast Mall going west. leaving Vest
minister at 81 n. m. arriving at camp
SIS. and train No. In coming east. ar
irving nj Camp at 5bi u. m, West
minister. $50. Many persons are ex-
pected . take advantage Of this train
service.
Tie Blue Mountain House rebuild
lug project Is not dead 4 prominent
real estate man and promoter. of Nor
folk. has been IN thai territory for the
past ten days endeaporlng to loosen
up the capitalists in the enterprise,
according to report. Il is said thai he
il meeting With much encouragement,
as the financial plan proposed seems
To meet with favor among men OF
diseernment In that line.
The Emory Grove campmeeting
which began Saturday for the forty
fifth season. Is now IN full swing. The
weekday meetings were begun and the
program will be changed daily until
camp closes on August 20. The Rev,
Charles d. Isaac, pastor Of Mount
Washington Methodist Episcopal
Church. assisting the Rev Or. z. H.
Hubbard as director. arrived at The
camp.
More than $4,000 Odd Fellows and
their families, representing i've states
took par in the reunion exercises OF
the order yesterday Ut Pen-Mar There
were ID special trains thai carried
members from their respective states
Those represented we're Maryland. Yir-
ginIa, West Virginia Washington and
Pennsylvania. Il was the seventh re-
union in which all Of the above men
toned states took part.
Meyer Hurst. the 1f-year=0ld son OF
Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Hurst. Baltimore
who Is supposed To have wandered
away from the Jewish Hons for Gon-
sumptiyes. at Reisterstown, On August
4, has not been located. Ever since
the boy disappeared the authorities OF
the hospital have been trying TO find
o clue to his whereabouts. but With
out success Three weeks ago he dis.
appeared in a like manner. and was
later found resting under 4 tree on
the Westminster pike.
So far as the Frederick County
School Commissioners are concerned
the controversy over the prineipalshiT
OF the Boys High School, which de
veIoped when Superintendent G Lloyd
Palmer asked for the resignation OF
Prof. Anon BuTgee. ended yesterday
when they ratified the appointment OF
John l.. sIgmund. philadelphia, grad
uate of Dickinson College. as head oil
the institution. Professor Burgee
who for more than q years was head
OF the High School. has filed a writ
OF mandamus IN the local court Insist
in that he be given consideration on
what he claims are his rights.
Sterling YingIing, aged 20 years. Of
Hanover, Pa, = son Of Edward Ting
ling, this city. miraculousIy escaped
death Sunday morning at 1870
O'clock, Hhennthe large delivery motor
truck of. q. Hamm passed over his
LEFT leg. Tie young man was return
in from Sunday school At Trinity
Church. uhen the motor truck, driven
b. Edward Walters6orff, passed. on
it Way To Penn Grove Camp Grounds
Mr.. WaItersdorfE called to YIngling %
join the party. The youth stood on
the running board OF the machine and
when In front Of his boarding place
be jumped. Slipping - he jumped he
was thrown under the moving truck
The rear wheel Of the vehicle passed
over his left leg between the knee and
hip. cutting deep cash about foot
IonR and aayAFfnz a muscle and arIary