The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-12-16

=. David Crowl housed ice on Sat.
urday measuring ~ inches.
The thermometer registered s be.
low zero In this city On SATURDAY.
morning.
We received one OF Miller Rros
Co.'S calendars this week. which has
large plain figures and is well print
ed.
George Monroe Englar, of New
windsor, was the first to receive am
automobile license from Carroll
county for 1911.
Dr. j. A Zepp is having an up-to-
date heating plant installed I'm hIs
new residence on Center street. f.. ".
ShaeRer Is doing the work.
IL this weather cold =? Ask the two
Widowers, one Of the grass variety.
VINO are keeping a bachelors resort
ON the Pleasant Valley road.
The Maryland Agricultural College
Is scheduled to play a game of base
pail with the Western Maryland Col
lege, in this city, on May 20.
Jacob Holmes, Madison avenue, has
been belfast the past four weeks with
1nf1ammatory rheumatism. He is
under the care Of DIR. Fitzhugh.
Coasting was fine on the College
Hill this week and the young people
made good use of it. Several double
deckers came down as far as Bond
street.
A Christmas entertainment will be
given by Cranberry school on Friday,
December %. q good program is be-
ing arranged blythe teacher, Miss Alma
McCaffrey
Edwin G. Eckard, West Main St.,
has purchased from Geo. w. Albaugh,
the property formerly used by John
b. Saylor as bakery. MIR. Eckard
conducts abarbershop on the property
at present, and also resides thereon.
j. Leroy Bowers, son of James
Bowers, of Bird Hill, has secured
position as a passenger brakeman on
the middle division of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, through the influence
OF his uncle, Nh. Joseph G. Bowers,
passenger engineer, of Harrisburg,
Pa.
Miss Eliza Lynch, East Main street,
fell on Thursday morning of last
week and broke her right arm and
injured her forehead. The accident
was caused by her foot catching in
the carpet, throwing her against the
corner of table with the above re-
suit.
Candidates Geo. jackson, Jas. z.
Shreeve, Ernest Benson and Chas. Fl.
Harris were initiated into the I. o. o.
f. Lodge at the Odd Fellows temple,
Baltimore, last night. James M.
Stoner, Luther Wimert and James D.
Mitchell, accompanied the above can
didates. .mm.. ....
Oscar d. Gilbert, Fred. d. Miller,
John l.. Reifsnider and DR.. Lewis X.
Woodward, of Door-to-Virtue Lodge,
this city, attended the installation of
officers and banquet given by the
Patmos Lodge No. 34S, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, Of Hanover, Pa, on
Tuesday. .........
The Union Sabbath school of
Frizellburg will hold its Christmas
exercises on Friday night, December
so, in the Church of God 8 short
program comprising of music and
recitations will be rendered. The an
nual treat will then be distributed.
All are welcome.
Harvey Zell, manager of the Com
mercial Bowling Valleys, Baltimore,
states that he had games under way
with the Westminster Bowling team.
Charles l.. Thomson, proprietor of
the First National Alleys, does not
know of any agreement to bowl with
fine Commercial team
DR.. James III. Billingslea, Mr.. Geo.
". Albaugh and DR.. Lewis X. Wood
ward, this city, and Mr.. Wolf, Of
Union Bridge, attended the seventh
annual meeting of the Maryland Turn
pike Association at Frederick, yester-
day afternoon. DIR. J. III. Billingslea
was elected a member Of the executive
committee.
Our citizens should see that their
cellar doors and outbuiIdings are Sc
curely locked these cold nights. Miss
Mary Shellman, East Main street by
leaving her cellar door unlocked, is
Just one ton of coal short. The coal
was not all taken at once, but has
been made way with in small quanti-
ties, until the amount mentioned
above has disappeared.
Fire from the explosion OF coal
oil lamp occurred at the home OF
Jacob T. Holmes, Madison avenue, on
Sunday night, which burned Mr.. and
Mrs. Holmes and destroyed a table
and contents. Mr.. and Mrs. Holmes
were sitting in the dining room with
the lamp upon the table, which was
turned down, but from some cause the
flame gave a puff, causing 1t to ex-
Dlode and throw oil over the table
and part of the room. Mr.. Holmes
had both his feet burned and Mrs.
Holmes her hands in extinguishing
the blaze.
An urgent appeal has been sent
out to all parts of the state by the
State Grange and Fish
Protective Association, requesting
sportsmen to help take care Of par
tridges while snow is on the ground.
Unlike other birds, they roost on the
ground, and when the ground freezes
they are liable to become frozen or
starve. Then, too, while the ground
is covered with snow, particularly
when a sleet tops off the snow, they
have no way to get food. Many
farmers in the state make it prac-
tice to 60 to the woods and scrape
the snow away il places, feeding the