The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-12-15
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hristmas but nine days off.

Sunday was spring like day.
Christmas Red Cross Seals are on
sale at Moore's Drug Store.
It doesn't look as, though We have
much chance Of a white Christmas
this year
George r. Grumbine. merchant,
West Main street, lost his most valu-
able horse Monday night BY sickness.
St. Benjamn's Reformed Sunday
School will render a cantata entitled
"The Gift on Christmas night.
The grand army enjoyed its annual
banquet at the Central Hotel on Sat
urday afternoon. A first class menu
was served.
The public schools of the county will
close On Friday, December %, for the
Christmas holidays and will open on
Tuesday, January 2, 1912.
"A handsome calendar for 1912 was
received yesterday at this Office from
John Leffert, manufacturer OF fine
Havana cigars, East Main street.
Chief Judge VIM. H. Thomas return
ed from Annapolis on Wednesday eve
ming. The Court of Appeals adjourn
ed on that day until the January term
which begins January s, 1912.
Louis Sachs and I. e. Loveman, OF
Baltimore, Md, made a run in Mr..
Sachs Chalmers-Detroit to this city on
Tuesday and visited friends. Mr..
Sachs looks as healthy as ever, and
says he feels good.
Frank G. Dorsey of MT Airy, pre-
sided at the Odd Fellows rally and
had general supervision of the con-
ferring of degrees on 100 candidates
at the Odd Fellows'Temple,B Baltimore,
On Tuesday night.
Charles A. Ham, of Taneytown; and
\ William H. Emlet, of Hanover, Pa,
\ left on Monday with 10 mules and the
7 necessary equipment Tor the tobacco
farms in Porto Rico. They are en-
ployed by the West Indies Company.
An exhibit of the work done by
the children of the Westminster
Kindergarten will be held at the
school Friday and Saturday after
Moons OF next week. December %
4 and %. from to o'clock. The
public is invited.
] On next Friday afternoon at 2.30 o.
clock, an entertainment will be given
- LIZ Al1l l1Alu ASy lIlll anu
School for the Predetermined, at Ow-
ings Mills, BY the children Of the
! school. All the ladies who are inter
ested are invited to attend.
' AT the completion Of the opera de-
partment Of the Odd Fellows Hall it
will probably be rented out by the
year. From reports, two gentlemen
/ from this city will be the successful
bidders. Both are young men and are
capable Of running the show business.
We wish them success,
According to recent statistics Of the
Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, ID. o., Maryland farmers have
been losing about $115.000 year from
hog cholera. The discovery of a
serum which will immunize the hog
has encouraged the authorities in the
Department Of Agriculture. The De
partment is working in connection
with F. ri Mackie, of Maryland to pre-
vent wide spread outbreak.
J. D. Owings, Of Shipley, won the
following prizes at the Agricultural
Show at the Fifth Regiment Armory
during Maryland Week.: 1st on jar
Of cherries; 1st on jar of tomatoes,
2nd on jar Of French pickle; 1st on
wild cherry wine, 1st on cider wine,
End on elderberry wine, md On grape
wine; LIST on broom corn, red LIST On
Il green corn; 1st on citron End on
Doctor apple, End on LAWYER apple.
Through coolness and pluck Miss
Mary Reese, a pupil OF the Westmin-
ster High School, kept her horse from
getting away on Wednesday afternoon
AS the team came from Centre street
to Main the girth broke and the horse
! started to run away, but Miss Reese
held on to the lines and guided the
horse around teams until it was caught
by James M. Stoner, at John street.
She had two school-mates with her
who were very much frightened.
On the charge Of obtaining a piano
valued at $28, from Sidney Nimmo &
Sons, of 511 North Eutaw street Bal
timore, Warren l.. Shipley, who con-
ducts restaurant and moving-picture
parlor at Laurel, was committed to
jail for the action OF the Criminal
Court, by Justice Taylor, last Wednes-
day afternoon. Shipley at one time
lived in this city and conducted a
bottling house; he also formerly ran
the hotel in Hampstead. His parents
are Carroll countians.
The first sentence in this county OF
a wife beater to the whipping post
was executed by Sheriff Elias m.
Davis on Burrier Spriggs, colored'last
Saturday. Spriggs, was sentenced
about two weeks ago by Poice Justice
Edwin w. Shriver Spriggs had both
hands stretched above his head and
tied to his cell door in the jail. He
received 20 lashes, each lash bring
ing blood Sheriff Davis applied the
raw hide in, the presence of Deputy
Sheriff VIM. @. Shearer and DIR. Thos.
J. Coonan, physician to the jail.
Isaac L. Hankey and The Southern
Label and Box Co., filed bill in eq-
uity, at Frederick, asking that a re-
ceiver be appointed for the Paul A.
Ham Co., OF Cragerstown, manufac-
turers OF inks and mucilage. Mr..
Hankey, in the bill, alleges that the
company 10 indebted to him in the
sum of $4,000, and the Southern Label
and Box Co., i'm the sum of $258.5O.
The bill asks that receivers be named
and suggests that If the raw materials
on hand were manufactured into ink
OF mucilage, the proceeds would be
greater, and suggests that this be
done.
Insurance agents from all sections
OF the state at meeting in the Hotel
Emerson, Baltimore, Tuesday morn
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