The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1913-11-14
LOCAL AFFAIRS.


We are having beautiful moonlight
nights this week.
Two weeks from yesterday i.
Thanksgiving Day.
Nights are frightening at both ends
and SO are gas bills.
The bark of the rabbit dog and the
explosion of the gun are familiar
sounds nowadays.
Eggs continue to soar in price
They are now selling at from forty tc
forty-fve cents per dozen.
The Hagerstown Board Of Trade
has decided to offer prizes for the
best dressed store windows in its
city.
An American heiress who rejects a
duke and marrieS a fellOW-cOuntry-
man of her choice gets the best there
is in the situation.
Mr.. William B. Thomas, East Main
street, has sold his canning factory
and two acres of land at Williams
port to a canning company. The
price paid was $1,000.
Now that the tariff bill is settled
some people will expect it to pay the
butcher, the baker and the candle
stick maker; set the table, ring the
dinner bell and say. grace.
Mr. Claude N. Erb had been awarded
the contract for the new double house
being erected on Longwell avenue by
Messrs. T. w. Mather, ST., and Frank
w. Mather. The building will be
completed in the early spring.
Many rabbits, but few cartridges
were shot this week by our gunners.
1t is assumed by some people that If
all the liars in the late campaign
were to vote as unit, they would
carry everything before them.
A letter received from Rev. George
". Strine, who has but recently left
the pastorate of Greenmount United
Brethren Circuit, informs us that he
is enjoying his new work i'm Spry, Pa,
very much,and that it gives him more
time for study.
1t is said that steps are being taken
for the organization of State unlver-
sity through the combination Of the
University of Maryland, st. Johns
College, Washington College, the
Maryland Agricultural College and
the Western Maryland College.
There will be no excursion tickets
sold on Sundays hereafter for trains
on the Western Maryland Railway,
though it has been the custom to sell
excursion tickets OH Sunday for some
time. The second sections of trains
8 and will be discontinued on Sun
day.
Attorneys G. l.. Bouve, J. H. Ralston
and w. e. Richardson, representing
j. L. Hendrick, motortruck owner
of Washington, petitioned the Supreme
Court Monday to advance their eli
ent's case on the docket, which COM
bats the power Of the State Of Mary
land to tax automobiles doing an in
ter-State business when they enter
Maryland
DR.. w. A. Long, at one time prom
1nent physician Of Frederick, Md, who
according to dispatches from that city
was under indictment for stealing
tools from garage, by the Frederick
county grand jury on charges of per-
jury and larceny, died on Wednesday
In st. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore
Death was due to double pneumonia
Early last Tuesday morning DIR. Long
accompanied by a woman went to the
hospital, according to DIR. Robert Nj
tsch, the resident physician.
The Statewide Lords Day Confer
ence under the auspices of the Lords
Day Alliance Of Maryland will be held
In Baltimore from December / t. De
cember z. The conference will DO q
great deal toward Strengthening the
church and the home in their stand
Tor quiet Sabbath, and against the
commercialization of the day. All the
morning and afternoon sessions viii
be held in the Church of the Messiah
and the evening meetings in BIowr
Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Contracts amounting to approx
mately 100000 have been awarded by
the Western Maryland Railway Com
pany for tools and machinery neceS.
sary for equipping the new erecting
shop which the company is now build
ing at Hagerstown, Md This Is one
or the largest expenditures made BY
the Western Maryland recently il
connection with the improvement
work now in progress at variou.
points along the line. The contract.
were distributed among a number O
tool manufacturing companies.
John A Johnston, near Pen-Mal
Park, one OF the largest fruit grow
ers OF that section of the county, wa
seriously injured Saturday by bein,
thrown from his vehicle in a collision
with fast moving trolley car ON tn,
Chambersburg, Greencastle and Way
nesboro Street Railway. With hin
In his wagon was Morris Sease. age,
12 years, who was also injured. MI
Johnston, struck the car and then fel
under the wreck of the wagon, Mnicl
was loaded with tables and dishes
4- The horse fell upon the man, injurin
him internally.
After hearing the petitions of Gov
ernor William Hodges Mann, OF Wiz
gln1a, Governor IL. ID. Hatfield, @
West Virginia, and Governor John Z
Tener, of Pennsylvania, three forme
Governors OF Virginia and score O
others, asking for clemency, Presi
dent-Judge 8. McCurdy Swope, of tn
Adams County Courts, at Gettysburg
"a, suspended sentences Monday i
the case OF William Byrd Henry, nov
OF Philadelphia, formerly of Tazewel
Va, who stabbed nine persons in
Gettysburg Hotel at the battle ami
versary celebration in July. All 70
those stabbed by Henry when he Gu
his way out OF hrawl asked for sus
pension of sentence, declaring tha
they believed he was laboring unde
temporary mental alteration at th
time