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

You can get anything You want
from the old farm now by parcel
post
The county roads have been badly
washed this week by the water from
melted snow.
Herr e Babylon, agents for the
Ford automobile, received a carload
of autos on Saturday.
Miss Bernadette Ham, West Main
street, has accepted a position with
The Times as a stenographer.
Miss Alice Morningstar, OF New
Windsor, formerly of this city. will
take a position as trained nurse at st.
Jossph's Hospital, Baltimore, on
April LIST.
Delegate Wooden's bill authorizing
and directing the Carroll County
School Board to refund S33 to Clar
ence j. Cook, has passed to its third
reading.
Miss Marie Bitzel, daughter of Mr..
Philip Bitzel, East Main street, was
taken to d hospital in Baltimore on
Nm cdnesday to be operated on for ap-
pendicitis.
Tuesday was st. Patrick's DAY and
mass was celebrated at o'clock in
st. Johns Catholic Church ID honor
OF ID Patrick, the French bishyo who
converted Ireland.
Subscribers changing their location
this spring will please notify us as
soon as they know their new post
office or Rural Route 50 as not to
miss a single copy of The Advocate.
MIR. Paul Routzahn, who left last
December for Providence, Rhode
Island, to take a position there, re
turned home last Monday evening
and will spend the summer at Small
wood
Mr.. B. H. Young, having sold his
stock and farming implements, will
move next week from the farm on
which he now resides, near War1elds
burg, to Liberty street, this city. He
has accepted employment at Union
Bridge.
"A fine young horse owned by Mr..
Talbot dropped on Liberty street
Saturday night from being paralyzed
over the hips. The animal has not
improved much. Mr.. Talbot was on
his way home. He lives with Mr..
Kaufman, at Meadow Branch.
Judges of the Maryland Court of
Appeals, assembled in Annapolis We'd
nesday for consultations and filing of
opinions in cases argued during the
recent term. The judges will prob
ably finish the work this week, as the
docket contained only SO cases.
"A corps OF surveyors made a sur
vey on Monday for the switch at the
pIa ~ 49, 49, ~
Metal Company, which il to be in
stalled. a carload of mammoth pipes
to be placed III the drain which runs
along by the foundry, arrived here
Monday.
Comptroller Harrison has an
nounced the quarterly distribution of
the State School Tax, amounting to
$500, 600; the free book fund Of $37,-
500 and $31,075 for approved high
schools. Carroll county gets $7,793,-
98 school tax; $1,162.05 of book fund
and 1926 for high school.
Everybody should make a point Of
patroniZing the oyster supper and
bazaar being held In Firemen'5 Hall
this week by the ladies OF the Civic
League The league il endaav.:lng
to raise money for its work of IN
proving the town during the spring
and summer, and this is a. matter in
which every one Of US ought to Sc in
terested
On Saturday morning IT. mer and
8 women took the examination for the
Office OF postmaster for fourth class
Offices. The examination was con-
Quoted by Mr. Dohnea q. Nygrel, an
employee of the postoffice depart
ment Persons from Patapsco, Mid
dleburg, Manchester, Uniontown,
Keymar, &C., took the examination.
We have often heard of articles be-
ing missing during sales but never
before heard of pig being stolen
On Saturday at Mr.. John n. Kroh's
sale, near Burkholder's distillery,
small pig was stolen from a bunch
after they were sold, causing the pur-
chaser some little anxiety and also
Mr.. Kroh. The person who has the
pig Is known and Mr.. Kroh Is about
to have that party prosecuted unless
the pig Is returned at once.
The Western Maryland Railway
Company pleaded guilty i'm the United
States Court Saturday to 60 violations
OF the Federal law limiting the con
secutive hours of labor OF railroad
men to 16 hours. Judge Rose impos-
ed fine Oh $3.50 In each case, a
total OF $2,250. The alleged violation
occurred last summer and involved
the running OF 10 trains. each mann
Ct by crew OF six men. tt was al
legged that these trainmen had worked
from 171a to 20 consecutive hours