The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-04-27

Smith, inglInE Company are max
ing some improvements tO their cam
ing factory.
Mr. H. G. Dewey and family, Cen
ter street, moved tO Rochester, N- Y
Wednesday, where he hAS accepted a
position with a large manufacturing
Mr. Samuel A Myers, linotype CID
orator at the Advocate, left On We'd
nesday with Company iii for B<i-
more, where he will look after thu
commissary department.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Trinity
Lutheran Church will hold their
strawberry and ice cream festival in
the grove adjoining the church on
Saturday night, June g. If not fail
that evening the first fair one.
I'll. Francis Hunter, who was en-
ployed in this Office as q compOsitor
left this morning TO enter the Navy
which The enlisted i'm few weeks ago.
IT. will possibly 20 To Norfolk, where
he will receive hiS assignment
A comical entertainment will ~
given by the public school, at Small w
wood, in the hall, Saturday evening,
May 18th, at ~. &C., If weather I'M
favorable, 1T will d. given the follow
ing Saturday evening. Everybody
welcome.
Jordan's Retreat School will hold
an entertainment and festival on the
evening of May 10. The entertain
ment beginning at s o'clock. The
proceeds will be for the benefit of the
school library and pictures for walls
of school room.
Mr. William Weagly will attend
a business meeting of the executive
committee of the Maryland State
Firemen's Association, which meets
at the Queen City Hotel, Cumberland,
ON Monday, May ri Mr. Weagly II
secretary OF the association and also
secretary and treasurer of our local
fire company.
The funeral services Of Mrs Anne
Virginia Trayer who died last Thurs
day att her home at TaylOrsyille, we're
held Sunday at 2 70. IT,, in New Mar
ket Methodist Episcopal church, Rev.
Muller conducting the services. In
terment in adjoining cemetery. PAIL
bearers were Charles w. Barnes, j. ID.
George w Rigler, r.. G. Con-
oway, George w. Grimes and Harry
Koontz c. M. Waltz funeral director.
Thieves make haul on the citizens
at F'rizellburg on Wednesday night be-
tween IL and / a. m Mr.. Harry Myers
loss consists of A cans of lard and 3
full crates of eggs from his creamery.
Mr.. Benton Myerly had hams and
shoulders taken from his smoke house
The thieves probably had more than
they could haul, - they left three
cans of lard behind at Mr. Myers,
which were with the ones taken The
smoke house Of Mr. Jonas Lawyer
was also visited but they rot nothing,
~ they could not break the door in.
What might have been a disaster
GUS fire occurred at the residence OF
Mr.. David r. Geiman, West Main
street, early yesterday morning
which was discovered in the kitchen
by DIR. s. Luther Bare, when he awoke
and saw the reflection on his window.
DIR. Bare at once aroused Mr.. Geiman
and his family end few neighbors,
who with the use of the garden hose
attached to the spigot in the kitchen
to put the blaze out. The
fire started in the chimney and had
considerable Roadway when At was
noticed
W. a. Sanders and m. McGraw, OF
Baltimore, were arrested by Officer
Stem Wednesday when they arrived
in this city On the Sill adj m. train for
fighting, and were lodged in Jail until
yesterday, when they were given a
hearing before Justice Dinst OH the
charge of being drunk and disorderly
and assaulting Brakeman Parall, On
warrant by the railroad company, and
were found guilty Conductor Eckert
and Brakeman Parall were witnesses
against the accused Both Of the men
were working at Hagerstown, filling
the places of the strikers in the West
ern Maryland Railroad car shops and
were on their way back to work when
they fell out and started to fight
Two Italians got into a scrap in the
Union Bridge Hotel, at Union Bridge,
Wednesday afternoon while being UNI
der the influence OF liquor, in which
one was stabbed in the abdomen with
IA knife, causing a dangerous wound,
while the other made hi escape and
has not been found uD 10 this time