The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-05-11


MIR. J. Fl. Ryland, electrician, this
city, has contracted with Mr.. VIM. F.
Cover, Keymar, to wire two houses
and his warehouse for electric lights.
B. F. Shriver Company is making
extensive improvements to their can
ming house in this city by erecting a
large building for the pea hullers.
Mrs. Ella Helm, East Green street,
who is confined to the Church Home
Infirmary, Baltimore, still improves
and will be brought home in about 10
days.
Those that spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob Powder were Mr.. and
Mrs. Yates Murphy, daughter, Carrie,
and son, Murray, of near SykesVllle,
and Mrs. ]. C. Wales, of Plum Tree
Farm.
An ice cream social will be held at
Freedom school May 10Th at 100 p.
m. Should the weather be unfayor-
able it will be held the following
Monday night
Three Companies of the Fifth Regi-
ment passed through this city last
Friday morning about o'clock on
their way West. The train consisted
OIL seven COaCneS
A special service for Mothers Day.
will be held at Finksburg Methodist
Protestant church, Ffnksburg, Sun
day evening, May IS, at o'clock. Ev-
erybody welcome to come.
Mr.. John r. West, of Baltimore
formerly of New Windsor, has entered
the real estate business with J. ChaS.
Linthicum & Bro, Baltimore, and
has placed an advertisement in this
issue to attract real estate owners.
/ Messrs. Frank T. Shaeffer, Walter
Fl. Davis and Charles Hesson were
unanimously elected for councilmen
of this city on Monday, as they had no
opposition All three of the above
men are our present councilmen and
the work they handled before.
Chief Judge William H. Thomas
drew the following jurors to fill the
places Of those excused: Charles B.
Yingling in place of Francis J. Al
baugh, Westminster district, and John
! Fl. Stansbury in place Of A. Frank
Delaplane, Middleburg district.
Mrs H. c. Shipley, of East Main
street, was taken Friday morning last,
! by her physician, to the University
of Maryland Hospital Baltimore,
where she underwent an operation
Immediately after her arrival there.
The operation was a success and Mrs.
Shipley is improving very nicely.
Among the names of the National
Guardsmen eligible for the Officers
Reserve Corps training camp at Fort
Meyer, Va, sent to the commanding
general, Eastern Department, by AdJt.
| Gen Henry NJ Warfield yesterday, the
following were selected from Com
Ipany II: Sergeants Ober S. Herr, Ar
! thur G. Englar, Peter y. SANTOS and
Harry G.. Emigh. George Monroe
Englar, of New Windsor, has been &C
cepted and will also go to the Offic-
! ers camp at Fort Myer.
The telegraph operator at Hamp-
stead says: referring to the article
headed, letter from Manchester dis
trict, and signed by Mr.. Zepp in last
weeks Advocate, that some one
evidently have their dates mixed"
/ He doesn't handle Western Union
messages, and knew nothing OF the
transaction until he received this pa
per last week. These messages are
handled by the Westminster office.
! Western Maryland College beat
Blue Ridge College s to I Tuesday i'll
this city, after an uphill fight. Blue
Ridge got away to a flying start when
the first two men up hit safely and
/ MasOnheimer tripled to right. The
visitors hit Diffendal rather hard in
! the early innings, but as the game
wore on he held down his opponents
With the score a tie in the ninth,
I4angrall doubled to right field. scOr
ing WOOlfOrd from third.
The Conservation Commission is
about to place a Fish Hatchery in
Western Maryland The Forest and
Stream Club through its president, G.
r. Babylon, has requested that the
| hatchery be placed in Carroll county.
| The Commission has been invited to
Westminster and to get in touch with
! Carroll county people and they have
accepted the invitation to be present
at the annual meeting of the Club, to
be held Monday night, May q, at 7.3O
Ip. m, at the Times Building.
! Jesse T. Stultz, q years old, son
| of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Stultz, of
! Arlington, formerly Of this city, who
was employed in the marine yards
at SparrOws Point, was killed Mon
day afternoon by a moving crane
! He leaves a widow, Mrs. Elsie NJ
| StultZ, and son. The funeral took
place Wednesday afternoon at ,
O'Clock from his residence, 10 Lewis
| ton avenue, Arlington. The Rev
Samuel J. Miller. pastor of Arlington
! Lutheran Church of Our Saviour, Of
! ficiated Burial in WOodIaWn GEM
etery.
The Farmers Supply Company de-
livared this week to the B. F. Shriver
Company a carload of 1920 Titan
tractors, manufactured by the Inter
national Harvester Company and five
tractor plOws of the Oliver type.
These tractors were placed by the
Shriver Company on five of their
farms, to be used for general farm pur-
| poses taking the places of men and
horses 1t will be of great interest
to the farmers of this community to
see these tractors at work. B. F.
Shriver Company gave one of the
tractors try out this morning on the
Meadow Farm, near this city, which
done it's work good.
| The Maryland State Firemen's
Association will be convened at Cum
berland June 1916. On the second
! day the parade, drill and band con-
! tests will take place, and on the third
/ hn 10 hncn and