The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-03-29

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
will open for traffic May T. The
Canal Towage Company, which oper-
ates the canal, has made many inn
provements.
Judge Irving Beekman, of Stirling,
I'LL, fined his own wife $25 for con-
tempt Of Court when she tried tO tell
more than she was asked on the wit
ness stand.
The jury in the case of Frank E.
Bracket, who sued the Maryland Coal
Company for $4,000, brought in a
verdict for $4,000, after being out is
hours, in Hagerstown.
At a cost of $4,000 the Washington
County Hospital Association has re-
modelled Kee Mar College building
and made an up-to-date hospital. 1t
will be occupied by April 1.
During the last week the slaughter
Of wild geese in fields near Elkton,
Md, along the Sassafras river, has
been unprecedented, more than SO
having been killed by gunners within
four days.
Fares To the Democratic National
Convention in Baltimore and the Re
publican National Convention at Chi
cago, were fixed at cents mile at
"a meeting of the Central Passenger
Association.
Three healthy, strengthening chill
dern, two boys and girl, were born
7 nj IN III
berland. Mrs. Wood, who II but 36
years on age, was the mother of nine
children before the triplets came.
Speaker Champ Clark, of the House
of Representatives, addressed the
Hibernian Society at the Hotel Rennert
Monday evening. Speaker Clark il
one Of the leading candidates for
President in the Democratic Party
and has many admirers throughout
the State.
Because Of the loss Of jewelry, valu-
ed at $40, 900, which had been seized
by the Federal authorities, Mrs.
Blanche NJ Carson, widow Of a
wealthy San Franciscan, hanged her
self in most sensational manner,
that she attempted to smuggle the
jewelry
Residents of Pikesville and vicinity
are raising funds to purchase an au-
tomobile fire-engine truck, and the
county commissioners have promised
to aid the project. The Roland Park
and the Gainesville automobile en-
gines have done excellent work, and
the commissioners are discussing
plans to establish one at Gardenville.
Col Gist Bl9ir NM
---., "a montgomery
county, Nd, who had for weeks been
looked upon as receptive candidate
for Congress from the Sixth Maryland
district, tonight made formal an
nouncement Of his candidacy ana at
the same time made III plain that To-
would ask for the support OF the peo-
pie Of Western Maryland upon pro-
gressive platform.
DR. Harvey wv. Wiley, late Ch1ef
Chemist Of the Department Of Agri-
culture, will on April LIST become Con-
tributing Editor of Good Housekeep-
be the exclusive channel for his writ
ings on pure food, health and ike
topics which have SO long been asso-
ciated with his name. The Magazine
has established and will maintain per-
manentIy at Washington Bureau Of
Foods, Sanitation and Health, with
DR. Wiley lin charge a. it, Director.
A., 1iT1oiT1 oT-XT err towards
ding Gettysburg of the large number
of Slot machines run for the purpose
or profit by various shop keepers in
the town, says the Times, Of that
place, the Young Mems Brotherhood
of st. James lutheran Church has de-
cided to lay information against all
offenders who come to their notice.
The first action Of this kind was TAX
en- on Tuesday by CHARLES 5. Bream,
president of the organization when
he laid information regarding two
machines at a shoe shining parlor-
"a great deal of discussion has been
going on recently in Baltimore city
concerning a new disease caused, it
is supposed, by germ-laden milk. The
new disease has apparently not been
given name but IL due, according
to two Chicago physicians, to a
peculiar "Streptococcus." The attack
caused by this microbe begins sud
denly, with or without a chill. The
fever, muscular pains, prostration and
the constitutional symptoms are Aaid
to be out of all proportion to what
one would expect from the amount Of
local involvement. The tonsiIs Ire
always infected, the neck becomes
tender and the act OF swallowing diff
cult.
After undergoing repairs costing
$4,000, the Evangelical Reformed
Church, of Frederick, Md, was reop-
ened and rededicated last Sunday.
Rev. George w. Richards, professor
of church history at the Eastern
Theological Seminary, Lancaster, Pa,
preached the dedicatory sermon at
the morning service. "A special ser
vice was held in the Sunday-school
in the afternoon, when Rev. Mr.. Rich
ards and Rev. j. ]. Rives, the latter
pastor of Trinity Methodist Church,
made addresses. At night Rev. Dr. J.
Spangler Kieffer, OF Hagerstown,
father Of the pastor, preached. He is
a former president Of the General
Synod of the Reformed Church in
America and one of the leading min
listers of that faith in the United
States.
A New York man paid his first visit