The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-03-08
Fresh cases Of scarlet fever have

broken out i'm this city
feRain tonight; Saturday rain OF
snow and colder" is the latest re-
port of the Weather Bureau.
Mrs. T. H Lewis was delegate tn
N the Foreign Missionary conference
which met in Baltimore yesterday.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur =. Smith re-
turned from their wedding trip yes
terday and are at the Main-Court Inn.
We are indebted to Mr.. VIM. b.
Thomas, for copy Of The Los An
geles Times, - excellent journal, well
edited and full of news.
Company H, 1st Infantry NJ. N. G..
will hold banquet and present tar
get range awards, at the armOny on
| Wednesday evening, March IT,.
Edwin Gehr has on exhibition a
painting of two hunters in the show
window of IT. wv. Mather a. Son. The
picture il credit to the artist
Mr.. Ray Spencer left on Tuesday
morning for New Orleans where he
has signed to play ball for the com
ing summer or the New Orleans
Club.
The Western Maryland College,
Through DR.. It. IT, Lewis, president,
| has asked to b. PLACID on th same
basis a. regards State aid with 1t.
Johns and Washington College.
DR.. T.. Fl. Lewis, president of the
Western Maryland College, will att
tend the conference OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church, which meets in
Baltimore, on March n, and make an
address.
| "a delegation Of citizens from MT.
Airy, appeared before the School
Commissioners of Carroll county, and
urged that an appropriation b. made
for the erection and maintenance of
high school at Mt. Airy.
The firemen of Hagerstown are CO.
operating in making arrangements for
entertaining the firemen of the State
at the annual meeting of the Maryland
State F'iremen's Association, which
will be held there in June.
| "a straw vote taken i'm NIT. Airy
this week, showed 400 Democrats for
Harmon, 276 for Wilson, Ito each for
Clark and Underwood, and 105 for
Gaynor. Of the Republicans 536 were
for Roosevelt and 237 for Taft.
| At recent meeting of the faculty
| of Westminster Theological Seminary,
Rev O. %. Douglas was, elected tn rep
resent the Seminary at Princeton on
the occasion of the one hundredth an
niversary of Princeton Theological
Seminary, to be held May az.
Our farmers say they are expecting
one Of the best crop years they ever
had They are going on the theory
that hard winters make usually good
crop years because of the killing of
bugs and other insects that 60 into the
ground with the coming of winter.
| Samuel TT. SHERMAN, who shot his
brother-in-law, Samuel r.. Marowitz,
Of Baltimore, in the right hand last
Friday, was arraigned In the Criminal
Court, Baltimore, Wednesday, on the
charge of assaulting Mr.Marowitz with
intent to kill. He was found not
guilty by reason of insanity. Judge
Gorter sent him to Springfield Asylum.
Ground has been broken recently in
MT. Airy, preparatory to the erection
Of modern three-story brick build
ing, on the lower floor of which is to
be located the postoffice for that
town. The two remaining floors will
be used for apartments or number
of Office suites. When completed the
building will be one of the finest in
Mount Airy.
The Health officers Bulletin for
January states that 100 deaths re-
suited from tuberculosis, in the coun-
ties of Maryland (not including Bal
timore city, during that month; -
deaths from typhoid fever 118 cases
of sickness from typhoid were report
ed as compared with ITS the previous
month During the year 1911 there
were 1O,969 deaths in Maryland ex-
elusive of Baltimore.
A contract for 25 new locomotives
has been let by the Western Maryland
Railroad These locomotives will be
used on the new extension now being
built between Cumberland, Md, and
COnnellsYille, Pa, Fifteen consOli-
dated engines will be built by the
American Locomotive Company, Of
Richmond, Va, and Schenectady, N.
Y, while the contracts for 10 Pacific
\ type of engines was given to the Bald
win Locomotives Works, of Phila-
delphia.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has ordered an investigation in
to the proposed advance i'm transpOr-
tation rates on cement shipped from
Union Bridge, Md, to Norfolk, Va.,and
other destinations. The proposed in
crease ranges from 30 cents to $3.50
ton on carload basis. The rail-
roads ordered by the Commission to
be made parties to the investigation
are: Atlantic Coast Line, New York,
Philadelphia, and Norfolk, Norfolk
Southern, Norfolk and Western,
Southern and Western Maryland.
Mr.. w. J Wilkinson, formerly an
editor of The Democratic Advocate
has invented a voting machine which
seems to provide every means of sec
recy of the ballot, and with its use
lit il said that the result of any cleo
ton should be known within 80 min
utes after the close of the polls. I'm
der a bill which will be introduced
in the Senate, the Boards of Election
Supervisors of Baltimore and the
counties are to be given the right to
make experiments with voting ma
chimes for the purpose of determining
their practicability in Maryland cleo
lions. 1t is generally supposed that
the bill has been drafted at the instig-
alton of Lloyd Wilkinson, brother of
the inventor.
\ "a letter from MIR. Wilbur ILL., Zepp,