The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-04-06
Today i Good Friday. and q blue

Nj Officer Grant Bowman, Of Tine Han
over police force, has been dismiHset
from the force for shooting cOloret
boy.
Mrs. Oscar Humbert and child, oi
Hanover, Pa, are guests of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. David Currens
this city.
The students OF Western Maryland
College left Wednesday for theil
homes, where they will spend tht
Easter Holidays
\ The section hands at Cranberry and
Patapsco on the Western Maryland
Railroad, have gone on strike for .
raise in salary
Tonight the choir of Grace Luther
/ an church will render a cantata en-
titled Life Everlasting" in the
church at 7.45 p. m.
\ Easter services at Pipe Creek
church Sunday morning, April s. GU
E- Lester, of the Seminary, will
preach Come and worship with VI.
MIR. and Mrs. Hezekiah Study and
family, near Taneytown, have moved
into the Jesse F. Albaugh property,
East Main street, they recently pur-
chased.
There will be Sunday school at 100
ID. m, and preaching at 2.30 p. m, in
| the Bethel Church OF God, at War
fieldsburg, Sunday. Rev >. B- Craft,
pastor.
MIR. James IL. Stoner, OF Brunswick,
formerly Of this city, last week re
ceived his commission at Frederick as
special police officer for the State of
Maryland to protect the B. & o. Rail-
road
Hayes, the young son of Mr.. and
Mrs Clinton Stull, of near CreagerS-
town, became mentally unbalanced
\ and III was found necessary to put
him in Springfield Hospital for treat
ment
Francis Xavier Krichten, the old
est citizen of McSherrystown, Pa,
and probably of the county, died at
the home of his son, Ex-Postmaster
John H. Krichten, McSherrystown,
Thursday, March 20, at 7.30 p. m,
from infirmities He had attained the
remarkable age or ga years, 2 months
and A day.
The u. %. :. Or A OF Uniontown,
will give play, entitled Jumbo jun
and Coontown," at Walden's Hall,
Middleburg, Md, on the evening OF
April A. Lights for room and foot
lights will be furnished by the fa-
nous Farm Lighting System, Delco
Light Co., e. M Frounfelter, agent.
Come and enjoy the evening with u.
IT'D. :. Gehr, the hardware man on
the corner, has recently installed ar
other PipeleSS Heater for William F'.
Eckenrode i'm the house now occupied
by o. G.. Corbin. This makes the sec
ond pipeless heater that has been in
stalled for Mr. Eckenrode. Mr.. Gehr
has also put in one of these plants for
Jacob Weller, Carroll street, this city.
The United States will not sever
relations or declare war on Austria,
Bulgaria or Turkey 10 long a. those
countries do not force such STEP
It was learned authOritatively that any
change which may come in the rela-
tons Of this country with members or
the Central Alliance other than Ger
many must be precipitated by them.
Mr.. William D. Henry, Liberty
street. who conducted general
blacksmithing and horseshoeing shop
lin the rear of his residence for years,
but has been closed for some time,
will reopen his shop ON Monday, and
invites all his friends To give him "a
call when their horses need his ser
one Of the best horseshoers i'm this
city.
The strikers at Hagerstown report
that on Monday evening about fifteen
mechanics from New Jersey arrived
in that city, over the @. ". r. r., to
begin work at the Western Maryland
shops. They were told by the strik-
ers WI the existence of a strike, and
ALL took the next train back home,
claiming they had been brought there
on the grounds that no labor trouble
acknowledgements Globe.
Lester C. B. Leese, of Bachman's
Valley, had his collar bone dislocated,
and Oscar L. Houser, of Mount Pleas
ant, received a. number Of cuts and
bruises Wednesday night when the
motorcycle they were riding on the
state road struck "a stone pile near
Mr.. George Browns residence, at
Brummel, and threw them into the
bank. Both young men were brought
to this city in Mr.. Browns automo-
bile for treatment by DIR. Coonan.
They are resting nicely but are suf-
fering some from their wounds. The
two young men are members or Com
pany H, and returned from duty at
Havre az Grace Tuesday evening
The invitation extended the West
minister Fire Company to attend me
Maryland State Firemen's Convention
at Cumberland, in June, by the Cum
berland Fire Companies, was accept
ed on Wednesday evening at the reg
ular meeting of the Company, and the
following delegates and alternates
elected to represent the Company:
Delegates, Michael IT, Walsh, John D-
Biehl. Joseph Hahn, O- IT'D. Gilbert,
HD. :. Gehr; Alternates, William
Weagly, Luther IT, Wimert, Frank
billiard, j. Gloyd Diffendal, Robert
Ebaugh. The company will take a
reel and hook and ladder team with
them to participate in the races. A
full company will go.
At a recent meeting the State Board
of Education passed the resolution
quoted below, which has been trans
mitted through the county superin-
Itendents To all county boards of edu-
cation. Resolved, That the State
Superintendent Be requested to COM
municate with the county superin-
tendents in the State, and recommend
to them that the teachers be advised
that in the judgment of this Board
here should be some exercise in con-
nection with the opening of the daily
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