The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-03-20

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| Mr. Herbert Bechtel and family, Of
Pa
The chance of two finger prints
being alike is not one In 64,000,000,-
600.
The Woman's Club met on Tuesday
afternoon at the home or Mrs. y.
Pearre Wantz, West Main street.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works,
Philadelphia, made public their an
nual report for 1913, showing $9,0O0,-
900 more business in 1913 than 1912.
We have received a copy or The st.
Louis Republic, daily newspaper
published at St. Louis, Mo-, from Mr..
wv. Dulaney Reese, OF that city, for
merly of this city. The paper con-
tains a big account of the great fire
disaster which recently befell st.
Louis.
The bill introduced by Delegate
Sayers requiring the automobile com
missioner to pay the county commits
sioners of Carroll county certain
] license fees was unfavorably report
ed by the committee on Ways and
Means.
The Health Officers Bulletin for jan
uary reports that 193 deaths from in
fictitious diseases occurred In the
counties Of Maryland. OF this num-
Der 100 resulted from tuberculosis. as
compared with 81 ID December; 40
from influenza, Id from whOoping
cough, II from typhoid fever and 7
from diphtheria.
The main track of the Western
| Maryland Railway was blocked at
Hancock. Friday morning by the
wrecking of a freight train. Several
cars were derailed, one being de-
molished The Pittsburgh Express
which arrives in this city at 6.45 was
detoured over the Baltimore and Ohio
between Jerome and Cherry Run.
H Ten forest rangers. under the
direction OF Forester Robert G. Conk-
lin, of the Pennsylvania State Reser-
walton, set out in the Groffenburg
district, In the vicinity OF Colindonia,
to kill dogs that have been killing
deer in the mountains by the dozen
since the first of the year. The dogs
have been hunting the deer in packs.
One Of the largest sales ever held
in the county was that OF @. MI. Driver,
near Mayberry, on Wednesday Of
last week, amounting to $3.50. The
highest priced cow was $40; horses
sold up to 1920 Over $4,000 Of the
total was from the sale of live stock.
The $500 fund for the Hampstead
Fire Company has been pledged in
full. This means much for the or
ganization and for the town.
Prof w. A. Burgoon, formerly OF
Littlestown, Pa, who has been a
patient in the Methodist Episcopal
Hospital, Philadelphia, for several
weeks, has returned to his home in
Gettysburg. While he is greatly
benefited by the treatment, he il not
able to resume his position as Super
vising Principal Of the public schools.
Mr.. Burgoon is SON of MIR. and Mrs
John Burgoon, Of Union Mills.
Judge Glenn Worthington instruct
"a States Attorney Lewis to bring
Mrs Jennie Weller, who was al rest
ed last summer with Dr. Wilson f.
Long, charged with stealing auto
mobile tools from the Frederick City
Garage, to trial Both forfeited their
hail and went to Baltimore. Later
DR.. Long died and no effort was
made to press the charge against Mrs.
Weller. For several years she was
oIice assistant to Dr.. Long.
Msssrs. Z. w. Mather e Sons nave
Installed an up-to-date cash system i'm
their store in this city, carrying all
cash to the central desk, where 1t is
handled by a cashier, thus doing away
with the cash registers formerly in
use. The new system will enable
the firm to keep a strict record OF the
sales OF each department, as well as
of each salesman, will tend to mini
miZe the number Of errors made, and
Ii in many ways a decided improve
ment.
! The ffremen's committee that has
in charge the entertainment of Cum
Iberland Valley Volunteer Fire
mems Association convention In
Chambersburg, July 20 to 81,
be awarded as prizes in the
various contests. This is expected
to be one Of the biggest firemen's
meetings in the history Of the asso-
citation. It is expected that fire com
panies and bands will compete for
prizes from Hagerstown, Westmins-
ter, Frederick, Winchester, Martins
burg. York, Harrisburg, Waynesboro,
Cambridge, Port Deposit and other
cities.
Y Monday night thirteen musicians OF
Westminster organized an orchestra
calling it The Westminster Orchestra,
and electing the following officers:
President, Thomas Anders; secretary
and treasurer, William ID. Reese;
director. Jesse Byers; business man
ager, Charles Bollinger. These Off
GERS may be seen for all engagements
in which music is desired The mem
bers are as follows Jesse Byers,
director; Thomas Anders, list violin;
Charles Bollinger, 1st violin; William
Reese, 2nd violin; Theodore Mitten,
bass violin; Charles Brown, cello;
John Byers, 1st cornet; Charles
Frock, End cornet; Samuel Stone,
I trombone; Grove Zahn, LIST clarinet;
James Myers, End clarinet; Francis
Keefer, pianist; Granville Lippy.
drums.
Charles Jenkins, Is years old, OF
Hagerstown. Md, il at Mercy Hos
pital, Baltimore, suffering from severe
decorations OF the scalp and q prob
able conclusion of the brain. He
was injured while he and his brother,
Elmer Jenkins were stealing a ride
atop freight car of the Western
Maryland Railway. Charles was
struck by a girder at the Coal Chute,
below this city, Friday night, and
was kept from falling to the roadbed