The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-01-12
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

3 Farmers Institute will be held at
Inurmont o. Saturday, January 20.
\ Our coal dealers are wearing smfIes
tnat broaden as the mercury drops.
The Western Maryland College girls
nad several jolly sleighing parties
Our citizens are enjoying good
s!e1gh1ng this week owing to the fall
OF snow on Monday afternoon.
Inc Ladies' Literary Club met on
tuesday afternoon at the residence wv
MrS George x Mather, East Main
street
Apropos Of early Christmas shop-
ping, 1t might be a good idea r.
girls to Go their leap year proposing
early. =
DR.. James E. Shreeve who has BEEN
a dentist in this city for several years.
y now practicing his profession i'm
Baltlmore- He left here OH Monday
last.
Michael E. Walsh, Of the Westmin-
ster bar, has been appointed by Gov
ernor Crothers to fill a vacancy On
the State board or the Female House
Of Refuge.
Dr. 5. Simpson, Superintendent of
the schools Of Carroll county, who has
Deen III for several months went IN
the Johns Hopkins hospital, Balti-
more, Tuesday morning, for treat
ment
DR.. William D. hopkins, of Mount
Airy, was appointed a member Of the
Board of School Commissioners ~
Carroll county, last Saturday evening
by Governor Crothers, to fiji the va
cancy caused by the death of the late
pr. William E. Gaver.
Anxious To get their ice houses fill
"a a. soon as possible, Carroll coun-
tlans nave been cutting ice from their
ponds all during the week. The ice
II said to be several inches thick and
from all reports good harvest will
pc made this month.
DR.. T. H. Lewis, president of Vest
ern Maryland College made two ad-
dresses at the Washington county
Ieachers' Institute which convened
I'D HagerstoWn last week. The suh-
Ject OF his first address was Good
English" and his second address was
On The Demands Of the Modern
Teacher"
twenty-five hundred tons Of Irish
potatoes were brought to Baltimore
last Wednesday on the Johnston Line
steamship Ulstermore. The tubers
on the Ulstermore represent the third
Large consignment brought BY the
steamers Of the Johnston Line to sup
ply the shortage in the crop in this
country.
The first Of series OF teachers
meetings to be held throughout the
county during this winter will take
pace at Hampstead, tomorrow, when
Mrs. Ida F. Stabler, Supervisor OF
Urinary Grades, will discuss a special
method in reading and arithmetic. Jaw
these meetings Mrs. Stabler aims to
give the teachers more instructions
than she is able to do at the short
visits she pays to the schools.
This week an Agricultural Educa-
tlonal Train was run over the lines Of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railway in
Maryland. Tomorrow the train will
visit Monrovia from o'clock to iii "A.
TO-; Mt Airy 11:25 a. m., .,ro 1:15 q. m,:
Woodbine, 1870 to 1925 p. M; Wood
stock, 4 to 5:45 p. m. Lecturers
from the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege will discuss dairying, seed selec-
ton, soil fertility, ETC., in the interest
OF better farming.
Most Of the principal public hoIi-
days in the present year will fall ON
Thursday. Washington's Birthday,
February 22,will Be Thursday, ,Memor-
ial Day, May 80, also will fall on
that day. July 4, likewise, will be
celebrated on the fifth day of the
week, and Thanksgiving, as always.
Christmas and Labor Day are the
principal exceptions, New Year fell
on Monday, and next Christmas will
be Wednesday. Labor Day is always
fixed, the first Monday in September.
The Baltimore Sun OF last Sunday
morning offers an apology to Daniel
Freeman Of this county, for misrep-
resenting him. In it's account of the
theft OF meat, the Sun stated that
Daniel Freeman il said to have driv-
en- the wagon" whereas MI. Free
man did not drive the wagon, but
was an innocent victim of the thieves,
who borrowed his horse. The item
was correctly reported by the West
minister correspondent of the Sun, but
the facts were mis-stated in editorial
handling
a tramp dropped into the grocery
store of VIM. ID. Reese, East Main
street, on Tuesday night and notified
him that he was going to stay all
night. Mr.. Reese was preparing to
close for the night and told him he
could not stay there. WELL" said
the tramp, 1T have got to stay some
where" He asked Mr.. Reese for a
gun and said he wanted to kill him
self. Mr.. Reese called Deputy Sheriff
Sharrer who took him over to jail for
the night. When asked where he liv-
ed the tramp replied Under tree"
A subscriber of the Scranton Times,
of Scranton, Pa, asked the editor
the following question: Where is
Frank Malott, who pitched ball in
and around Scranton?" The answer
was, "He is dead and in heaven we
hope" Frank Malott is not dead,
but II foreman for Frich x Allen,
contractors, building the state road
to Gambler. Mr.. Malott says that if
the editor of the Times thinks he is
dead, let the editor put on the gloves
with him and he will think MalOtt IL
the ltvliest corpse he ever stood be
fore.
| Chief Engineer Pratt,of the Western
Maryland Railway Company, has just
received the report of the progress of
\ the work on the ConneIlsYille extern
sion up to December 81. II Is shown
! that 90 Der cent of the grading has