The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-07-07
UNIoNTowN DISTRICT.
Retired from Business = Cookie Large
Yields of Barley and Wheat, Etc.

Joseph Englar who has been running the
elevator, hay press, lumber aud coal yard,
ticket, express and freight agent, fagman,
&C., &C., at Linwood for "a number of years,
retired from that line of business on July lst,
and han1ed the concerns over to his brother,
John Englar, of Linwood. and X. Lee Myers,
of New Windsor. We wish them success and
hope they will be as genial as their predecessor.
The corps of obliging employees-Messrs.
Koontz, Drach. Little and Joe Smith-will
hold drawing card for them. Mr.. Engar
retires with many warm friends and wilLhere-
after look after his farm.
'tWhere does the cookie come from and
how does it get in our wheat fields?' On one
stalk there are about 10 or Is seed pods.
These pods will carry from 10 TO 40 seed each.
On an average stalk there will be $50 seed.
If one stalk is left in the field and narrowed in,
(every seed seems fertile), next year this
one stalk will produce about $50 stalks or an
average of 60, 500 seed.
Peter Smith claims that he will have 10
bushels of wheat to the acre.
Barley has been turning out finely, and so
far as reported those from who have thceshed,
the yield is big one. Suader Devilbiss, on the
Edward G. Gilbert farm, reports 623 bushels
to the acre, George b. Englar 80 bushels,
q
IS, the Bowers brothers, Jesse Nusbaum, Sol
onion Ecker each so bushels TO the acre.
Jonas Wagner, during the past season,
with his threshing rig, threshed out 10000
bushels of grain.
Harvest hands have been very scarce.
The wheat in this section (Uniontown) is
all cut and the crop promises to be a big one.
The straw is long and heads large and well
filled.
On Friday of last week the traction engine
of Jonas Wagner broke through bridge near
Spring Dale school, and one. night last week
was within an ace of being hit By the md
night freight at I.iuwood.
1t is thought that Benton Flater, on the
Daniel Diehl farm, will have about $500
bushels of wheat from 105 acres.
Harry Haines, near Linwood, had wheat so
heavy that it took 80 pounds of Irvine to bind
10 acres.
The ''big egg and the ''litlle egg have
been found. William r. Zolickoffer, of near
Uniontown, found when gathering his eggs,
one of the Plymouth Rock variety that meas
ured 81 by % inches. The egg was double,
that is, there was the usual white and yellow
of an ordinary egg, and also regular sized
egg perfect in every respect, shell, &c, IN
side the big shell. When MIR. Zollickotfer
found the egg he thought the hen had made a
goose OF herself James NJ. Shellman
found an egg-also Plymouth Rock variety
that measured II by q inches.
Here is another: Mr. Zollickoiler; while cut
ling wheat found a guinea nest with SO eggs
in it. He thought he had hunted all over the
farm and does not see how he could have
missed the rest, considering the space 1t COW
cred.
The Pipe Creek German Baptist Congre-
CATION will hold their Harvest Home SER
vices" on Saturday, July l4th.
o. II. Jeremiah, an Armenia student OF
the German Baptist Church, Of Mt. Morris,
Illinois, will preach in Pipe Creek church on
Sunday, July 18th.
The Linwood elevator building is being i'm
proved by adding a story TO the engine room
and one on the office. The former for work
shop and the latter for private office.
Charles J. Spielman, of Maidsville, has ae-
cepted position in the railroad office nj Lin
wood.
Mrs. Louisa Morris, of Oil City, Pa, spent
several days with her brothers, Charles and
Henry Sitfig, near Uniontown. Mrs. Morris
sailed for Europe on Wednesday, for "a visit
of year more.
Miss Ethel Wagner, of Westminster is
visiting her sister, Mrs. W. B. Bankard, near
Uniontown.
Mrs. Ann Brown, and daughter, Miss Mary
Lizzie Brown, of Brunswick, Ca, are visiting
friends at their old home on the Ridge.