The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-05-25
Our county roads are in splendid

Our county roads are in splendid
condition for travel at present.
Mr.. s. l.. Fisher, optometrist and
optician of Baltimore, will be al
Boyle's Drug Store, this city,next Fri
day and Saturday, June l and 2.
The Aid Society of Finksburg will
hold a strawberry festival in the base.
ment of the Church on next Saturday
evening, May 26. All are welcome.
John Doyle, East Green street, has
accepted a position as umpire in the
South Atlantic League for the season
He left for Durham, n. c., this week
A strawberry and ice cream festival
will be held on the lawn Of J. Wesley
Biggs, near Stonersville, on June
for the benefit Of St Benjamin's Re.
formed Church.
Miss Mary Henrietta Snyder, ioi
Baltimore, formerly of this city, will
graduate from Franklin Square Hos
pital Training School for Nurses
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Truman B. Myers, who served in
the United States Calvary has ra-en-
listed in the cavalry in California. He
is a son Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Myers
near Mt. Pleasant
In patronizing the Westminster
Fire Departments ice cream and
strawberry festival next Thursday
Friday and Saturday you will be help
ing a worthy organization.
Geo. A ShipIey, near this city, and
Roland Bale. of Medford, have receiv-
ed a 1920 International Oil Tractor
and Oliver Gang PloW this week, pur-
chased from Farmers Supply Co., this
city.
The Westminster Fire Company is
taking on some style, they are drilling
on each Wednesday evening, and when
they become acquainted with the mar
shal's orders, they will come out and
give us some of the latest movements
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet this Thursday, May
81, at s o'clock in the Times Building
The subject of the meeting will be
Systematic Giving Miss Mary
Mather will have charge of the de-
votional. Every member come and
bring d friend.
The Red & oil automobile struck the
Buick touring car of Mr.. Geo. A.
Barnes as it was coming out on the
State road at Mr.. William Shauck's,
near StateWood, Wednesday morning
The Buick was wrecked badly, as it
was struck between the wheels by the
truck. The truck was not hurt much.
Thomas & Co. VS.. B. & o. Railroad
Co., tried yesterday in the Circuit
Court Of Montgomery COunty,at Rock
Vile, before a jury, was won by the
b. & O. Railroad. Bond & Parke, this
city. represented the Railroad Com
pany. The suit was over the striking
OF Il team of Thomas & co. by train
at Gathers.
Our citizens will be treated to a pa
rade on Thursday evening at 80
o'clock when the Westminster Fire
Company, in full dress uniform, head
ed by the Boy Scout Band will parade
the streets, on the opening night OF
the firemen's festival. to which all are
invited to come and help to make the
affair d success.
One more free road has been added
TO the list in Frederick county. This
CreagerStOwn pike, four miles in
length, which was formally taken
over by the county on Saturday. when
the tOllgates were removed. The
pike was given to the county by the
turnpike company.
j. Hampton Baumgartner, publicity
representative of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, was Tuesday night
given a dinner at the Hotel Rennert
Baltimore. by his friends in the news
paper business and a few others. Mr..
Baumgartner is shortly to be married.
During the dinner loving cup was
presented Mr.. Baumgartner.
The eighty-fOurth annual COM
mencement exercises of the Hannah
More Academy, near ReisterstOWn,
the oldest school of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in Maryland, will
be held Tuesday morning, June >, at
1920 o'clock in Wyman Hall Of the
institution following morning prayer
in St. Michael's Chapel. There will be
20 graduates.
All day preaching at Pipe Creek
(BricA Church Sunday, May -. Com
muniOn service at 1890 a. M, con-
Quoted by Rev. Hodges of the Semi
nary. DR.. l.. F. Warner. president of
the Maryland Conference will preach
at , p. m. A quartette from the Meth
Odist Protestant Church in Westmn-
ster will sing at both the morning and
afternoon services.
Meetings in the interest of the For
ward Movement Of the Methodist Prot
estant Church will be held next week
in the following churches: Union
Bridge, May Is; Westminster, May 90;
UniontOwn and Finksburg, May 80;
Smallwood, May 81; services at p.
N. All members and friends of the
church are urged to be present. Two
or three speakers will be at each
meeting
Mrs. Robert W. Morrow, of Jeffer-
son City, Mo, who has been visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs r. C.
StOcksdale, Of Finksburg. and other
relatives and friends in the East. has
returned home, accompanied by Dor
Othy and Russell StOcksdale children
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Stocks
dale, who will make their future
home with their aunt Also by her
sister, Mrs Wesley Fennell. and little
daughter Elaine of Pa1tiDoora ubo