The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-08-10
Chautauqua will start on Septem-

Chautauqua will start on Septem-
| Der in this city.
Latenas circus will show in this
city some time in September.
Messrs Samuel X. Yingling and Will
| liam NJ Stoner both of this city enlis-
ted in Troop A Calvary Pikesville.
Poverty may be sure cure for dys-
pepsia, but the most of us would rath-
er take chances with the disease than
! the remedy.
John Brown who had charge of the
meat store in Union Bridge for nearly
nine years has accepted a position as
meat cutter for A. J. Whitfield and Co..
| in Frederick, beginning his duties on
Monday morning.
! Thirty-two passengers waited pat
iently for two hours for the special
train to Pen-Mar yesterday so they
could attend the I. o. o. F. Reunion at
! that place. The engine breaking down
! caused the delay of the train.
/ Miss Goldie Myers, daughter, Of Mr.
and Mrs. William F. Myers, Liberty
/ street was taken to the Maryland Uni
versity Hospital, Baltimore, last We'd
nesday and was operated upon Satur-
day for gorter. The operation was a
success and she is improving as rap
idly as can be expected.
The lightning of Tuesday evenings
storm struck the telephone wire that
runs to the parsonage Of st. Paul's
! Reformed Church, Bond street, and
damaged the telephone and wall of
the residence. The bolt came into the
telephone tearing it from the wall and
knocking off some plaster. Mrs. Walck
and children, who were in the room
at the time were badly frightened.
Sergeant P. n Samois of Co. H,
135 L. S. Infantry, First Maryland,
has been detached to the recruiting
station of the Regular Army, Is St.
Paul street, Baltimore. Any one from
Carroll county who wishes to enlist
can apply to Sergeant SamOis who
can enlist them for any branch Of the
service, Regular Army, National
Guard, Aviation Corps or Colored
regiments.
The seventh annual reunion Of the
/ Churches of God of Maryland, Vir-
GINA and Pennsylvania was held at
Pen-Mar Park Wednesday. The Rev.
l.. F. Murray, UniOntown, Md, presided
at the services held in the park audi
torium Wednesday. The address OF
welcome was delivered by the Rev.
/ Harry G.. Gonso, Woodsboro, Md. The
Rev Vernon K. Belts, Cascade made
! the response. The chief address was
made by the Rev. S. B. Craft, Carroll
ton, Md.
Additional subscriptions received
this week for the Red Cross War Fund
are as follows: St. Benjamin's Re-
formed church $4435; Farmers Fer
tilizer and Feed Co., $500; Westmins-
ter Fertilizer Co., $500; Emory G..
Zepp, 5000; Krider's Lutheran church
additional, $10O; o. D. Gilbert, $1,000;
Woodbine Lutheran church, $3.50;
Westminster Deposit and Trust Co.,
additional, $3.50; Grace Lutheran
Church, additional, $24.41; George
! Fisher, Jr., $1.OO.
| A young man from Melrose came to
this city Saturday to be examined for
the draft While here he visited Deputy
Henry Gensel at the Jail. After look
ing through the Jail he tried on pair
of handouts for curiosity. He admired
them and then asked the deputy to
take them off. Henry eXcitedly said
why I haven't the keys, the sheriff
/ has them" The young man was put
! in an automobile aid taken to Detour
where the sheriff was fishing and was
released. No more handouts for him.
/ Western Maryland freight engine
! No 1856, with the tender and hat car,
/ Jumped the track at crossing IN
WaynesbOrO, Pa, Wednesday and
plowed across the street for a distance
of fifty feet. The engine was coming
from a quarry siding with train OF
heavily laden cars. AS the engine
rounded the curve to pass on to the
main track it left the rails and along
with it the tender and fiat car. The
engine plowed across the entire width
of the street, some fifty feet and tore
up the crossings and macadam as
though a steam plow had cut through.
When the derailed outfit had stopped
the engine was standing across both
the w. M. and C. V. tracks. Bad track
was tie cause of the accident.
The knights of Columbus have al
most completed plans for a State re-
union which will be held next Thurs
day at Pen-Mar. Practically the en-
! tire membership Of the order in Mary
land is expected to be present. The
orator of the day will be Senator J.
Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, Admins
tration whip in the Senate. Harry A.
Garfield, president of Williams College
and at present assistant to Herbert G.
Hoover, food dictator of the country,
will also make an address, as will
Charles w. Darr, master of the fourth
degree, of Washington, D. G. The
train, which will run over the West
ern Maryland Railway, will carry with
the Knights the ST. Mary's Industrial
School Junior Band, which will pro-
vide the music.
The closing session of the Maryland
State Camp, Patriotic Order Sons of
America, was held at Havre de Grace
Wednesday morning and the following
additional officers were elected: Vice
president, Edward J. Carnes, of Bal
timore; inspector, w. o. Sparklin,
Baltimore; guard, r. w. Johnson, Cen
trevilIe; trustees, s. C. Cooper, Ches-
tertown; G. H. Williams and Gus A.
Romoser, Baltimore; ]. K. Marshall,
Guy w. Haines and U. S. G. Hanks,
Carroll county; national representa-
tives, P. B. Englar, Taneytown; w. l..
Seabrook, this city; w. II. Temple,
Eentreville; Joseph S. Robinson,
George r. McCleary, William tt. Childs
and H. Ross Coppage, Baltimore; j.