The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-10-16

Inc Mite society OF beLneSOd M0IHO-
dist Protestant Church will hold CT
oyster supper, October 29 and 81, al
Gist.
1t is thought the new First National
Bank or NIT. Airy will be ready for q
formal opening in the course Of two
weeks. All the marble has been fin
ished and work on the interior Is now
being done.
Hon. Johnnie T. Beasman and Mr.
Joshua Gist have been named by
Governor Goldsborough a. delegates
to the thirty -fourth annual meeting OF
the Farmers National Congress al
Fort Worth, Texas, October IA to II.
Bishop w. MI. Weekly VI the Penn
sylvania Conference of the United
Brethren Church, at meeting al
fredericksburg, Pa, on Monday made
the following appointments for this
county: Greenmount, G.. G. Daugherty
Millers, p. o. Hoffman, and fancy
town, NM ]. Marps.
Secretary LuZius, Of the Automobile
Club of Maryland, has issued an order
to club members that speed trap
now exists i'm this city. Luzius
keeps the Automobiles in touch with
conditions throughout the State and
warns members when such traps are
laid. The speed limit il ~ miles an
hour
Miss Ruth Owings, daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs. Carroll Owings, near War
leldsburg, was taken to the Mary
land University Hospital, Baltimore
on Sunday to have an X-Ray taken Of
n rr-hfn oh hy
falling from horse on Sunday, Oc-
tober A. The arm was fractured at
the elbow joint.
The annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Western Maryland
Railway Company will BE- held We'd
nesday morning, October p, in the
Offices OF the company in the Con
tinental Building, Baltimore. The
meeting has been called for the pur-
pose of amending an article of the
bylaws OF the company. There will
also be an election of directors of the
company and other business.
b a little careful of your face
powder, girls, for it is getting more
expensive every day to keep that
shine off. Imported complexion sub
duers, it was learned today, have be
gun to raise in price. 1t formerly
was possible to purchase a box OF
French whitener for s. cents. Now
this same beauty aid costs ST.. Fiji
teen cents on the box may not sound
so literally as it is in these tango
tea days, 1t soon counts up.
The Boys Potato Contest, conduct
ed by the Frederick County Farmers
Association with the cooperation Of
the United States Agricultural De
partment, will come to close next
month and County Demonstration En-
ory O. Remsberg j. preparing to make
choice of the best specimens. Al
the meeting of the Farmers Associa-
ton on October 10, it was unanimous
ly decided to offer fifty dollars in
prizes. There will be ten prizes
varying from 81 to $40 apiece.
= move il on foot among farmers
Of Frederick county to purchase a
farm of 20 acres for demonstration
purposes. County Farm Director
Emory @. Remsberg, backed by the
Farmers Association, is pushing the
plan. The farm will cost beween
So, 900 and $4,000, and after it is pur-
chased it will be conveyed to the
Maryland Agricultural College, which
will maintain and operate it. The
last Legislature appropriated $4,000
to maintain and operate demonstra-
ton farms in the counties, each farm
to consist of not less than 20 nor
more than 40 acres.
On Thursday evening, October 8
State President w. T. Seabrook, state
Treasurer William J. Carter, and
State Secretary William James Heaps
and a member OF the North Point
Monument Commission, paid fra,
ternal visit to Washington Camp, No
3S, at 1104 West Baltimore street
Baltimore The committee on the
monument expects to have the monu-
ment ready for dedication within the
next week, when announcement will
be made to all the camps and mem
bers, and ii il hoped that as large a
crowd will attend as was present at
a meeting in September.
III will not punish any honest man
who, while in search OF work, Is
caught riding unauthorized On trains,
said Justice Schirm in the South
day morning when Leonard Scofield
and William Brady, both Of New York,
and Harry Miller, OF Philadelphia,
were arraigned before him. The men
were taken off a Baltimore and Ohio
freight train Sunday night by Special
Officer Thomas Holland. Scofield and
Brady said they were left i'm West
minister by circus and were on their
way to Baltimore i'm search of work.
They met Miller on the train. In
dispOsing OF the case Justice Schirm
said he would assist the railroad in
getting rid OF tramps who commit
depredations on cars, but when men
without money are in search Of work
he will help them rather than send
them to the House OF Correction.
With a crash that could have been
heard for miles the steam dome OF
Y locomotive No. $50 which was I'M
dergoing repairs in the Western
Maryland round-house, at Hanover,
Pa, on Tuesday afternoon, bursted
and the top OF the dome weighing
several hundred pounds crashed
through the two-inch plank roof OF
the building. The force was 80 ter
rife that a hole nearly % feet square
was torn out of the roof The top Of
the dome was hurled probably 80 feet
above the building and as it came
down it crashed through another part
of the roof landing on the concrete
floor, not over 40 feet from where the
engine stood Along with the dome,
like the tail Of kite, went large
portion of the sheetiron covering of