The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1916-04-21
LOCAI.AFFAIRS.

Today Is Good Friday and Sunday
is Easter.
Mr.. C NJ. cullison, Hampstead. had
four ton load of hay to burn last
Friday while he was driving down St.
Paul street. Baltimore. The hay was
much damaged and wagon destroyed.
The high wind of Friday afternoon
removed the roof from the residence
OF Mrs. Thomas Bankert. Bond stree.
and the barn roof of Mr.. George \.
Hunter. near this city.
The city College. of Baltimore. de-
feated the Blue Ridge College ball
team at WaIbrook Oval. Baltimore.
Saturday by the score OF 3 TO l. The
game was very interesting.
George D. shearer, Of San Rafael.
Cal. is exhibiting samples Of fruit
picked from pear trees planted IN 1877
b. the padres Who established IN thai
year the mission San Rafael Arch
angel
The Junior League OF Centenary
Methodist Episcopal church will hold
a pink tea in the Social Hall. Monday
evening, April q, from TO 10. Silver
Offering at the door. All friends are
invited
The short apple crop in England
should create , large demand for
American fruits. One estimate places
the yield Of early apples at onezthIrd
of crop aud late apples at one-half
a crop.
State Senator \. d. r. Allen. Of BAL
timore county. who filed his certificate
as a candidate for Congress IN the
Second Congressional district With The
Supervisors Of Carroll County on Non
day of last week. withdrew on Aon=
day
Mr. Arnold Perry, brakeman on
through freight. was injured ut Key
mar. Sunday morning about 2 o'clock
By falling from a box car that Wa
shiftet mo siding The accident
sas caused = The brake coming
loose ter feIng drawn
The motor bus Of the Maryland aud
PENNSYLVANIA Transit Company. op=
Grated by z. Il. sapp, OF Hampstead.
which has ben die for the past three
months on account of the bad roads.
made Is first frio Friday between
Reiste rstoNn and Hanover.
On Tuesday Of last week bond (
Parke attorneys. argued the case Of
Davies l.. kenly 81 al. VS.. Washington
County Railroad Company before the
Maryland Court Of Appeals. The suit
Is the outcome Of the railroad building
through the property OF kenly.
Mrs. NJ. z. erout has taken charge
of Woodland Hall Hotel at Forrest
Park, Baltimore. where she vii be
glad TO see all Of her friends In this
city. Miss Alice Morningstar. who 20
ably assisted Mrs. Grout at the Main
Court Hotel. this city, has accepted \
similar position with Mrs. Cront NJ
the Woodland Hall.
Mr.. Edwin Froek. OF Uniontown. Pa.
made trip 10 this city on Friday ~
witness the execution OF Sudler. Mr.
Frock was Sheriff of Fayette county
Pa, for one term and has witnessed y
executions He Is also one Of The
leading business men in his city
While her he Visited his sister. Mrs
Denton WarehIme. Bachman's Valley
A fash of lightning lights up the
ground for onezmiilionth of a second.
vet IL seems 10 Us to last ever 20
much longer. What happens II thai
the impression remains in tho retlna
of the eye for about one-eighth Of 4
second, or II 900 times longer than
the flash lasts.
The Calendar Club. of the Brooklyn
Methodist Protestant Church. met
Friday night last at the home Of the
pastor, the Rev. s. ". Coe The club
has been engaged during the last year
in raising money to pay of the debt
on the new parsonage recently erect
ed. Over 800 was turned over To
tho Treasurer Of the society.
The dedicatory ceremonies Of VII
ton Heights Methodist Protestant
Church, Arlington. were held satur-
day morning and evening In charge
OF the pastor. the Rev. Ronalds Tay-
1or. DR.. Hugh L Elderdice, president
Of the Westminster Theological Semi
nary. of which the pastor Is gradn-
ate, preached the forenoon sermon.
The Southern trip OF the Western
MARYLAND College baseball team has
been called OF This will give the
up-Staters a chance of meeting the
Johns Hopkins team. The game prob
ably will be played on Tuesday. April
%. A game has been scheduled with
Blue Ridge for April 20 and On the
next day the annual inter-class track
meet will be held.
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee, meeting Friday at the Hotel
Rennert, Baltimore. decided TO hold
The State convention on MAY Il at
Ford's Opera House. II also decided
that the convention should send IL
delegates to the national convention
four at large and two from each Of
the six Congressional districts. Each
delegate will have full vote.
Although It has been more than
month since the Court of Appeals
passed final Judgment in the appeal
of William Il. Prick. the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad detective who was
convicted Of manslaughter, Prick has
been permitted to remain at his home
until Saturday. when he was taken
to Jail to begin serving the sentence
of one year Imposed upon him N the
Criminal Court Of Baltimore. FrIek
has been Ill. aud for that reason he
has remained 1T home under bail lie
was carried out On a stretcher. taken
Jail and then entered as patient
/ the hospital. Mr.. Prick l. from
is county.