The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-02-11

Theodore LOgue, of Pleasant Valley,
lost valuable horse on Thursday by
some mysterious cause.
Westminster was thawed out on
Monday morning after the cold snap Of
Sunday night. The plumbers were all
out i'm force Strengthening out the trou-
BILE.
Edward Hively, of Union Mills, has
Y sold the Isaiah Humbert farm, con-
tanning 119 acres to Joseph Craft. The
purchase price is said to have been
$40 per acre.
ALI of the sick ones in the Theodore
Frock family, Union Mills, are doing
very well except the youngest child,
Roy, who does not mend quite as rapid
ly as the other members of the family.
The dwelling of VIM. Frock, of Silver
Run, narrowly escaped destruction by
fire last week. A defective f1ue caused
the trouble and considerable damage
was done upstairs before the fire was
gotten under control.
DR.. Geo. E. Baughman, J. Huff
man Fuss and Harry =. Gorsuch,
all of this city, attended the Or
ganization of the new Mystic Circle
order that was started at Union
The manager of Friedman's Fur and
Junk Co. this city, exhibited at this
Office on Tuesday four hides of the red
fox family. The hides we're beautiful
and the smallest measured 81 feet in
length. They will be shipped to Eng
land
Arthur lille, of Winfield, made an
address before the House committee
on Hygiene of the Maryland Legisla-
ture on Wednesday against the clause
of the Pure Food Bill, which provides
S per cent. butter fat in making ice
cream.
Geary L. Stonesifer, the prominent
little four year old singer of this city,
on last Sunday evening responded to
an invitation from the Third English
Lutheran Church of Baltimore, by
singing a solo. AS usual his singing
was a complimenting success.
Marcus, the popular athlete of
Western Maryland College, who suf-
fered from an injured bowel last fall
and was taken to Baltimore hospital
in a critical condition, has recover
ed and returned to the College last
Saturday evening, feeling and look
ing well.
DIR. J. Clement Clark, of Springfield
State Hospital Sykesvt1le, a member of
the Medical Chirurgical Fac
ulty was before the finance
committee of the Maryland
Legislature to urge the appropriation
of $4,000 to carry on the library work
on Wednesday.
A new bank is now being organized
81 hot will no q G
the First National, with a capital of
s25 900. NJ ID. Shamberger and J. nj.
Armacost, of Baltimore county, and
DR.. E. M. Bush, VIM. A. Abbott and G..
E. Cox Of Carroll county, are taking
an active part in the organization. AS
the amount of stock any one man can
take is limited to $500.
Sunday was the coolest day this
year. The mercury was down close to
zero all day, with a raw and pene-
trating wind. On Monday morning
the mercury registered below zero.
MI. Charles B. Roberts, of Balti-
more, formerly of this city, was sue
cessfully operated on at the University
Hospital, Baltimore Saturday. His re-
covery is rapidly expected.
Rev. Dr. T. H. Lewis, president OF
Western Maryland College, appeared
Wednesday before the House Ways
and Means Committee and the Senate
Committee on Finance of the Maryland
Legislature and corrected the error OF
the Board of State Aid and Charities,
which stated that the college received
SO 100 annually for maintenance. DR..
Lewis said this sum is appropriated in
payment OF state scholarships at the
college.
The shooting and hunting Of game
by rural mail carriers while they are
officially employed on the service of
their routes, or the carrying of guns
for that purpose, is to be prohibited in
the future. An order to this effect has
been issued by the POstoffice Depart
ment. Complaints were received that
delay i'm the delivery and collection OF
mail was caused at certain places by
! the practice of carriers hunting and
shooting of game. We have few
marksmen on our rural routes, but we
have not heard of any of them looking
for game while on duty.
A delegation of telegraph operators
employees of the Western Maryland
Railroad Company is in Baltimore to
arrange a conference with the officials
of that corporation on the question of
wages and working conditions. The
committee met Wednesday at the
Eutaw House with the vice president
of the Telegraphers' Union, Mr.. Pier
son, of St. Louis, Mo-, to arrange a
schedule and drew up formal de-
mand to lay before the railroad Off
Gals. They expect to wait upon MIR.
Robertson, vice president and general
manager of the Western Maryland,
today J. Harry Blocher, local chair
man of the Maryland division, Alesia,
is one of the committee.
Nicholas Heating, sos St. Paul St.,
Baltimore, was arraigned before JUS
tice Grammar, Baltimore, Saturday and
was held for court. Heating was ar
rested at the instance of Rufus Woods.
well-knOwn i'm this city. MIR. Woods
testified that he had been paying Keat-
ing money for sometime, amounting to
S74.20, to keep Keating's wife from
starving, as he understood it. On
Friday Mr.. Woods asked Sergeant
Kleinfelter to learn whether Heating
had record or not While the officer
was searching for the mans real iden-
THY, Heating went to Mr.. Woods offices
and said his wife was dead and that he
needed $3.50, which was given him
When he was arraigned for trial in the
afternoon Keating's wife appeared
against him. She Is a robust and at
tractive woman, and when Mr.. Woods
saw her he seemed shocked to see