The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1916-06-23
FRIDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE q. 1916
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
L this our rainy season?

i this our rainy season!
Several cases of scarlet fever have
been in the village OF Flohrville.
Those that are i'll nov are rapidly I'm
proving.
carl f. Gray. president Of the West
err Mar. lard Railway Company. WHO
was appointed trustee Of the Mary
land Agricultural College qualified for
that position.
The fourth of July will be celebrat-
ed At Winfield at Mr.. A. ]. Stems be.
ginning at p. m. There Will be fire.
works and music by the Oak Orchard
Cornet Band.
The school superintendent office
will be closed on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of next week, on &C
count OF the meeting OF the State
Teachers Association at Ocean City.
Summer was ushered IN officially
at 1.16 O'Clock Wednesday afternoon
on tho fooi.Id. of . cold thunder
tom aud had the cold shoulder
turned to her for the rest Of the day.
On June 20 at go p. m. the last
meeting Tor the summer OF the Wo-
mems Civic League Will be held At the
Exchange Rooms. Full attendance
desired. Remember the hour 80
sharp.
At the Washington College ON
mencement at ehestertown Wedf y
! day Howard Lester. this city, grad
ated in Bachelor OF Science. cIintozI
Wyatt Corbin, Taneytown. TOOK part
! In the contest for the medals offered
I by DR.. Harry G. Shippers.
! Wilbur Lewis Koontz. a graduate Of
St Johns College, Annapolis, Nd, In
the class OF 1911. received the degree
of Master OF Arts. from the same
Institution at It's Commencement on
Wednesday. Mr.. Koontz has been for
the past five years principal Of the
Taneytown High School.
The State Roads Commission We'd
nesday gave hearings TO delegations
from Frederick. Montgomery, Carroll.
Garrett and Washington counties.
which appeared to ask improvement
Of various roads In their several To-
caiities Al tie members Of the COM
mission and Governor Harrington
were present.
Those Who spent Saturday and Sun
lay with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bow
nan. we're Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hymiil=
sr and children, Kemp. Roy and Mae.
4 Mayberry: Mr. and Mrs. George
bowman and daughter, Miss Marion.
{ Westminster. Mr.. and Mrs. James
'rebertshauser and daughter. Miss
,ernice, and Mr. and Mrs. William
owman. of Tannery.
According TO the report Of the State
oard of Health there were ~ cases
typhoid fever In Baltimore City and
counties during Nay. The num-
n of cases In the counties were a.
flows: Allegany. I. Anne Arundel.
; Baltimore, 10. Caroline. l. Carroll.
Cecil. D: Charles, ! Dorchester, l.;
lederick. 8; Kent, | Montgomery, l.
llnce Georges, q St Maryis. /
smerset. B; Washington, :. and Nor-
cter o.
Owing 70 the destruction by fire OF
grain elevator at Canton. Balti-
nre, the Pennsylvania Railroad
6mpany Friday, through the COOP
elton of the Western Maryland Rail
w Company. completed arrange
nuts whereby such grain as Is Of
plsent en- route over its line to the
PIT Of Baltimore vii be handled
Though the Western Maryland Rail-
W. Company's elevator, At Port Gov
inlon, Baltimore.
he Rev. T. Marshall West. OF
SyasyilIe. who was formerly pastor
of s. Johns N. u. Church, of Hamp-
sted, and under whose pastorate the
preent church was built. has Just
celebrated the 10th anniversary OF
his1irth. He has been in the minis
trymore than 30 years and all thai
tim a member of the Baltimore Con-
ferace. Many old Pensioners and
frie ds in Hampstead unite in extend
ing congratulations.
VIII Newton D. Baker, Secretary OF
War as the principal speaker. the
MARYLAND Branch OF the League 10 En-
fore Peace will hold It's initial meet
ing t the Lyric next Tuesday night.
June 27th. The new organization VIII
commence its career under brilliant
circumstances. the indications being
thai Il will attract not only n very
large but an mutually distinguished
audience. There is 4 likelihood that
President Wilson viii attend Il the
duties OF his office permit. and sew
eraI Prominent Congressman are also
expected.
William Buehler seabrook, OF At
1anta. Ca. elder son Of States AItorn-
ey, y. L. seabrook, Who Is under fire
of the German guns at the first line
of the Allies trenches in France was
safe and veil On June 9th. His father
has received letter from him OF that
date. IN which he says that be and
his eo-workers wear both the steel
helmet and the mask for protection
against poisonous gases, furnished
them by the French Army Young
5eahrook eft Paris for the front on
!. MAY sth, not expecting to return TO
the city for three months. He ranks
n the American Hospital Ambulance
! Corps as . "conductenr," having the
direction Of unit OF twenty autoRio-
bile ambulances. His wife, who Il the
daughter Of prominent lawyer OF
Atlanta sailed from New York LAST
Saturday % become nurse In the
American Ambulance Hospital, at
NeulIIy. Paris
A large mail pouch containing
! mostly newspapers and eecpnd-cIass
! matter for Taneytown. was cut Into
! pieces, on Tuesday morning, By the
East Mail train running over It. Of
MiddIeburg. Taneytown mall for
middIeburg; r. .. No. l, which i the
largest and most important mai re-
eeivad at this Office each day. is
Ibroun of the Tast Mail, 1T MIddle-
Ng. while running At full speed. and
occasionally pouch viii bound pack
and De caught by the train. This
train should be required to sIack UP
sufficiently 10 handle the mall decent
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