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

man of the hour.
We are having beautiful moonlight
nights this week.
Two weeks from yesterday is
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 to
forty-fye 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 canning company. The
price paid was $1,000.
Now that the tariff bill Is settled
some people will expect II to pay the
butcher, the baker aud 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. ". Mather. sr, and Frank
W Mather. The building will be
completed in the early spring.
Many rabbits but few partrldges
were shot this week by our gnnncra
IL Is assumed by some people that II
all the liars in the late CAMPAIGN
were TO vote as a unit. they would
carry everything before them.
letter received from Rev. George
W. strlne, who has but recently left
the pastorate of Greenmount United
Brethren Circuit informs us that he
is enjoying his new work in spry. Pa.
very much.an that 1t gives him more
time for study
II Is said that steps are being taken
for the organization Of State nnIver-
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 on Sunday for some
time. The second sections Of trains
and will be discontinued on Sun
day.
Attorneys {. L. BonYe, J. II Ralston
and ". +. Richardson, representing
J. 7. Hendriek. motortruck owner
OF Washington. petitioned the Supreme
Court Monday to advance their ell
ents 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
Or. w. A. Long, at one time 4 prom
lnent physician OF Frederick. Nd. 6ho,
according 10 dispatches from that city.
was under Indictment for Htealng
tools from a 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 Dn. Long.
accompanied BY a woman went to the
hospital, according 10 DIR. Robert Nj
tseh. the resident physician.
The State Wide Lords Day Confer
ehee under the auspices of the Lords
Day Alliance of Maryland will be held
In Baltimore from December / to De
cember Z. The conference Will do a
great deal toward strengthening the
church and the home In their stand
for a quiet Sabbath. and against the
commerciallzatioh of the day. All the
morning and afternoon sessions will
be held In the Church of the Messiah.
and the evening meetings In Blown
Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Contracts amounting to approx
mately 100000 have been awarded By
the Western Maryland Railway COM
pany Tor tools and machinery nsces-
sary for eluipping the new erecting
SHOP which the company is now build
Ing at Hagerstown. Md. This ID one
or the largest expenditures made by
the western Maryland recently In
connection with the Improvement
WORK now IN progress at various
points along the line. The contracts
Were distributed among a number of
tool manufacturing companies.
John A. Johnston. near pen-Mar
Park, one Of the largest fruit grow
ers OF that section Of the county, was
seriously injured Saturday By being
thrown from his vehicle in q collision
with fast moving trolley car on the
Chambersburg, Greencastle and Way
nesboro Street Railway. With him
In his wagon was Morris Sease, aged
IL years, who was also injured. Mr..
Johnston. struck the car and then fell
under the wreck of the wagon, which
was loaded with tables and dishes.
The horse fell upon the man, injuring
him internally.
After hearing the petitions of Gov
ernor William Hodges Mann. of Vir-
glnIa, Governor II. D. Hatfield, OF
West Virginia. and Governor John K.
Tener, OF Pennsylvania, three former
Governors Of Virginia and score of
others, asking for cIemeney, Presi-
dent-Judge s. McCurdy Swope, of the
Adams County Courts, at Gettysburg.
Pa. suspended sentences Monday in
the case OF William Byrd Henry, now
OF Philadelphia, formerly OF Tazewell.
Va. who stabbed nine persons In 3
Gettysburg Hotel at the battle ami
Yersary celebration IN July. All of
those stabbed by Henry when he cut
bis way out of a brawl asked for sus-
pension OF sentence, declaring that
they believed he was laboring under
temporary mental alteration at the
time.