The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-03-20
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

"The man with the hoe" will soon
be on the go.
You don't have to pump the organ
to find out all the church gossip.
Don't believe a girl don't like kiss
ing until you get it from her own lips.
Western Maryland Railroad earn
ings for the first week in March were
s95, 626, a decrease of $12,374
The Farmers League of Lancaster
county has issued an appeal to the I'M
employed of city and town to go to the
country for work.
The automobile business does not
effect the horse business at all. Horses
of all classes average $4,000 a head
more now than they did in 1902.
Plans are in progress for the erec-
ton of a modern theater at Gettysburg
at a cost of $4,000. At present Gettys-
burg has no playhouse of any kind.
Farmers will soon be getting busy,
and those who are looking for help
will have trouble enough. Good farm
hands appear to have gone out of fash
ion.
A Tennessee farmer has been get
ting 81 a bushel for acorns shipped
north. They are used for planting.
Here's a chance for some of our farm
er boys.
Get the cider press in order. The
apple crop in Great Britain last fall
was poor, and that country is prepar-
ing to make large foreign purchases of
apple cider.
Squash is now occupying the mid
die of the stage at the Baltimore Ath-
letic Club. The interest Is at fever
heat and the courts are in demand
at all hours of the day.
Get ready to brighten up your homes
with new coat of paint, repair and
straighten up your fences and burn
your rubbish, and let us look sweet
this spring and summer.
Harry N. Git, a wealthy business
man of Hanover, who was defeated by
D. F. Lafean for Congress in 1900, has
again announced himself as candi-
date for the Democratic nomination.
Representatives of the O'Brien Elec-
trio Light Company have been in
Frederick several days looking for a
suitable site for a factory. The COM
pany will employ 200 operatives to
begin with, increasing the force to
about 600.
committee of the Baltimore Citi-
zen's Association on Public Welfare
were in Annapolis Tuesday advocat-
ing the passage of the Carroll bill,
which appropriates $4,000 for the
erection of an additional building at
Springfield.
If you wish to avoid having your
love letters produced in court or
sprung on you by your wife after the
honeymoon has waned, write them
on disappearing paper. 1t is stepped
in sulphuric acid, dried and glazed. 1t
falls to pieces after given time.
The wooden bridge on the West
ern Maryland Railroad, a few hundred
feet from the quarries, caught fire
Tuesday morning, and delayed the
two early passenger trains for some
time, until the fire could be extin-
guished and the slight damage re-
paired.
The Lyceum Musical Club of West
ern Maryland College will give an en-
tertainment at Alumni Hall on Friday,
March 81, 8:15 p. m. Admission rs
This club recently returned from a
tour of the Eastern Shore, land brought
back with them many fiattering notices
from the press of that section.
William E. Edmondson, aged 25, and
his father, Thomas E. Edmondson, of
Gambler, were dismissed Wednesday
by United States Commissioner Rog-
ers, who gave them a hearing on the
oh of nd
erfeit nickels. The Commissioner de-
cided that the evidence against them
was not sufficiently strong to warrant
his holding them for the action of the
federal grand jury.
The Good Roads League of Talbot
met last Saturday and offered $3.50 in
prizes, as follows: $50 for the best
improved mile of road within radius
of eight miles of Easton and second,
third and fourth prize of $40, $50 and
$40 respectively Twenty-Five dollars
will be paid for the best improved half
mile of road on each of the rural
routes originating in Easton. Other
prizes will be SIS, $40 and IS.
The First National Bank Of Union
Bridge will open for business next
Monday, March %, in the room form
cTly OCcupieu NY ItoduIudSIcI OIidW.
The new bank has capital of $4,000,
and the following officers Daniel
Wolfe, president; John N. Weaver,
vice-president; Edward F. Olmstead,
cashier, who, with e A. Buckley, John
HI. Repp, Jacob s. Gladhill, l.. E.Stouf
fer and E. o. Cash, are directors.
Frank M. Stevens, of Creagerstown.
Md, whose sale was advertised in the
Advocate, ia well pleased with the
prices obtained. The sale was one Of
the largest held in Frederick county
this year. Horses brought from $125
to s192.5O. One stable of IL roam Dur
ham cows averaged $44.50, and an
other stable Of 20 head of red-horn
Durhams sold from $31.50 to $500.
Calves right Off the cows brought from
SIS to $25 each. Hogs were almost
given away. It Is estimated there
were from two thousand to three thou
sand persons present The proceeds
Of the sale were $4,355 Mr.. Stevens
kept two OF his best mares, regfst-
cred Durham cattle, fine hogs, SO
barrels OF corn, and some machinery
and harness. If he had sold his en-
tire outfit, the proceeds would have
amounted to more than $1,000. Corn
brought 1925 per barrel and potatoes
$1.00 per bushel. There were persons
present from Pennsylvania Virginia
and six or seven different counties in
this state. 1t was admitted to be
one of the finest outfits of farming ma
chinery and stock ever offered at
public sale in the county Everything
was in order. Mr.. Stevens has always
taken pride in his herd Of short-horn
cattle. He has been exhibiting them
at fairs the past two years, and has