The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-01-14
Skating is fine on all ponds and

the heaviest and deepest snow flo,
many years Is still falling rapidly.
J. Vincent Eckenrode Of Harnav ~
one OF the engrossing clerks of the
House of Delegates.
From January u, 1909, to January \
19lV, Jeremiah Leese, Bachman's VAL
ley' sold 1909 dozen of eggs.
# The citizens who have ice houses
70 I'll do not take advantage Of this
freeze they ought to 20 without.
The seventh annual report of The
MARYLAND State Library Commission
has been received at this office.
Measles have become an epidemic
At Union Mills, causing the public
school at that place to be closed.
Id this issue will be found a number
OIL socials, weddings, deaths and cor
respondents letters left over from
our last weeks edition.
postmaster r. $. Mckinney, of
Taneytown, slipped and fell on the lev
pavement in front OF his residence
on Thursday last, breaking his left
arm near the shoulder.
q valuable horse belonging to II. n.
Shriver, Union Mills, died instantly
Monday afternoon from internal in
juries received from a fall on the lev
roads when being taken to the black
smith shop to be shod.
J. W. Lockard & Son, automobile
agents, Liberty street, sold this week
two 1910 Model MAXWELL automobiles
to Messrs- Jacob and John Brehm near
Brummel. Both Of the purchasers are
prosperous and popular farmers.
Bernard W. Ecker, foreman Oh the
farms of the B. f.. Shriver Co., Union
Mills, is confined to the house with
broken great toe on his left
foot, which was caused by the wheel
of big wagon accidentally falling
upon it.
With one exception, the entire fam
lily Of Theodore Fl. Frock, at Union
Mills, are afflicted with typhoid fever
The patients are Mr.. F'rock, his wife
and four children, while only one child
in the family is at this time free from
the contagion.
The Fire Alarm System was com
pleted and rendered 70 the Fire Com
pany by Albert F. Arlington on Mon
day. Mr.. Arlington was, as bonds
man for M. W. Shriver, called upon to
do the work, after Shriver left, and he
promptly did 50.
Paul Shipley, near the "Pool'' had
the second Matacarpa1 bone in his left
hand, leading from his fourth finger,
broken, while parting an unruly cow
from herd, which was gearing the
balance on his fathers farm, on Tues
day Of last week.
Adam Gernand, mail carrier No. 8,
of this city, fell on Monday night, on
the slippery pavement i'm front Of T..
0. Grimes, ST., while performing his
duties and severely sprained his right
wrist The injured member is i'm
proving, but is still in splints.
The classes of Western Maryland
College have started basketball prac-
tice for the season of 1910. The in
terclass games will prove interesting.
Most of the players who played last
year will be in the game this season.
There Is plenty of new material, and
good results are expected.
We received the new catalogue of
j. Bolgiano s. Son, dealers in garden,
field, flowers and lawn seeds, Balti-
more The catalogue is handsomely
illustrated with the various lines
carried by this up-to-date seed firm.
It makes ones mouth water to see the
large and beautiful red tomato on the
title page.
The Students Music recital which
was to have taken place at Western
Maryland College tonight, has had to
be postponed on account of illness OF
several of the participants. Next Fri
day evening. January 21st, Henry /.
Southwick. Of Boston, will give Shake
speare's Twelfth Night in Alumni Hall
at o'clock.
William Hood, track foreman of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Il
chester, met with an accident while
assisting his men at some repair work
near Leicester on Tuesday. 4 steel
rail fell on his right foot. DR.. VIII
liam B. Gambrill, VINO gave medical
attention, fears that the foot will have
to be amputated.
Miss nj. B. Kemp, of the Ladies
home JOuEHdl dLlClA NJ - - M
York, will be at the Miller Bros Co
stores On Tuesday, January is and
demonstrate how the Ladies' Home
Journal Patterns are made, why they
are better than others, and how best
to use them. This will be interesting
Everybody invited.
Mrs. Cora Shaeffer, wife of Frank
It. Shaeffer, Pennsylvania avenue, Eel
on the icy pavement near the nome
OF her mother, Mrs. Ella Helm, Eas1
| Green street, and broke her left les
| a few inches above the ankle. She
was carried into her mothers resi-
dence and removed later to her home
/ She il improving slowly. ...
| The annual meeting of the stock,
holders of the First National Bank q
| Mount Airy was held January 13 ano
resulted in the election of these direc'
tors: Raymond Barnes, William Il
Hood, 0. T. Fout, c. A. Runkles, N
| G.. Urner, John r. Lewis, j. +. Bur
dette. y. Y. Bromwell, ". ID. Jones
~. M. Wordsworth, M. F.. Rudy, y. r
RooD, a. w. Hall and Thomas D.Walk
er.
John r. Carmichael, chief engineer
VI the Western Maryland Railroad
has purchased of j. NJ. Jamison tht
latter's handsome residence on Poto
mae avenue, Hagerstown, for $11, 500
and will occupy the house as his resi-
dence. This il said to mean that Mr
l Carmichael will hereafter have hI
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