The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-09-28

Mr.. Jesse II. Null, near Cranberry,
who has been critically i'll for the
past two weeks is somewhat imprOv-
ed.
The fall schedule Of the Western
Maryland Railway will go into effect
on Sunday. The Blue Mountain Elk
press will make its last run tomor-
row afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. James W. Beacham,
AvOndale, announce the marriage Of
their daughter, Miss Alice EnsOr
Beacham to Ernest Franklin Dukes, of
Centreville, Md, next Saturday, Oc-
tOber 6.
Word was received here yesterday
afternoon of the death of Mrs Ezra
Brown, at East Berlin, Pa. Mrs. Brown
has many relatives living in this
county. The funeral will be held Sun
day at her late home
DR.. Thomas J. COOnan, this city,
and Mr.. Milford NJ Myers, Taneytown,
were appointed first lieutenants in
the Medical Officers Reserve Corps
by the War Department yesterday.
They are now stationed at Camp
Meade, Admiral, Nd.
The first meeting of the Girls Club
OF Grace Lutheran Church for the
winter was held last evening at the
home of the Misses Reaver, East Main
street. Miss Nettie Six was elected
president and Miss Anna Lukens sec
rotary and treasurer.
Harry Walter, near Reisterstown,
broke his collar bone Wednesday
morning when the automobile in
which he was riding turned turtle on
the ReisterstOwn road. Three other
occupants of the car received slight
cuts and bruises
One Sunday afternoon recently Mrs.
GusSie Blizzard assistant Superintend-
ent of the Loyal Temperance Legion.
of the Church of God, at CarrOlltOn,
took - of the boys and girls on a
visit to the County Home in this city.
They carried a generous supply of
fruit and flowers and went prepared
with a fine program Of songs, recita-
tiOns. etc, which they gave for the
aged inmates.
The Grand Jury for Frederick coun-
ty has just submitted an exhaustive
report on various conditions in that
county, which has shaken it from
one end to the other. Among other
things more becoming dresses are
urged for girls, so that young men
may live in a realm of purer
thought" The prOnouncement
against dresses that are too short at
both ends is d strong one.
Mrs Eva Brown, who brought suit
for 200 damages against Miss Eta
Snyder, 120 North Calhoun street, Bal
timore a nurse at the Franklin Square
Hospital, for the alienation of the at
fections of her husband Edward f.
Brown, was awarded $4,000 by a jury
in Baltimore Circuit Court, No. 2, yes
terday. Miss Snyder did not appear
in court. She struck out her appear
ance in the case on Wednesday. Miss
Snyder is we'll known in this city.
Joseph H. Yingling, Of Jacksonville,
ILL.,. who died recently has made be-
queaths to the following sisters in
this city, Mary +. Yingling, Martha
a. Sheets, Agnes E. Hymiller, and AL
berta NJ Haines, Hampstead. He al
so remembers the Grace Lutheran
Church and Westminster Fire & Hose
Company with donation. The
amount each is to receive was not
mentioned. Attorney f. 0. Weant is
the counsel in this city for the heirs.
Among the speakers at the Synodl-
cal convention of the Lutheran NO-
mans Home and Foreign Missionary
Society to be held in Grace Lutheran
/ Church, next week, October 3, and
>, is Rev. Abdul Wentz, Phi. D., of the
Lutheran Theological Seminary, Get
tysburg, Pa. DR.. VENT is one OF our
strongest Quadricentennial RefOrma-
ton speakers. His address on
Our New Freedom in the Reforma-
ton, Wednesday night, will be we'll
worth hearing by every one.
/ Amos Eyler was seriously hurt and
/ Clarence Bidinger painfully injured
when a traction engine they were OPP
Grating crashed through bridge Fri
day at Longs Mill, near Rocky Ridge,
and fell eight feet. Eyler, who owned
the machine, was taken home uncOn
scious. and Bidingers back was
sprained. John S. Long, 100 yards
away. heard the crash and went to the
assistance of the injured men. The
machine was wrecked and traffic was
blOckaded until Saturday.
Children of the Sunday School of
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
Hampstead, acted as pallbearers Sat
urday afternoon at l o'clock at the
! funeral of Lawrence Martin, 1O-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Martin, of
near Hampstead, who was crushed to
death Thursday morning by heavy
wagon, loaded with stone, driven by
his brother, Edgar Martin. The Rev.
d. M. Dibble, pastor of the church,
conducted the services. The lad, be-
sides his parents, is survived by four
sisters, Misses Rachel, Eva, Ethel and
Lolo Martin, and thu ee brothers, Ed
gar, Richard and Vernon. Martin The
boy was endeavoring to, climb on the
wagon when he missed his footing and
fell teneath the wheels.