The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-20
Lent begins next Wednesday.

Lent begins next Wednesday.
Come on out, sleighing liz fine.
Here's hoping March will be like q
lamb.
How about that good old January
that passed about three weeks 40.
Babies are not mailable The post
Office department so holds in an edict
barring them from parcel post
On account OF the roads being drift
Cd badly the County Commissioners
were unable to hold their regular
session on Monday.
How to make hens lay more eggs
was one OF the multitude Of investi-
cations authorized in the agricultural
appropriation bill reported in Con-
gress.
Those people who have been wait
ing for good thick ice to fill their ice
houses have a chance to do il now
This may be your last chance. Get
busy.
A freight train and crew with two
engines which was caught by the 10
hour law, spent Saturday night on a
siding I'm this city. In backing the
trucks were displaced under one car
On Sunday morning the engines were
sent to Hagerstown and the train left
standing
next thing YOU hear Who il going
about four applicants and all seem to
hA ah@ 80
the lucky one. There il one thing
certain to come. Three disappoint-
ments, and may be more.
Mr. J. D. Crowl, Centre street, had
to fight blaze on Thursday evening
of last week, which started in several
bales OF hay which he had brought
out OF the ". II Gorsuch Son Com
pany's fire and stored in field. The
hay was hauled into the field the day
after the Gorsuch fire which occurred
eight days previous.
Last night Pleasant Valley Lodge
No. 1872, Knights Of Pythias, held a
public meeting in the hall in Frizell-
burg to commemorate the fiftieth an
niversary of the order knights Of
Pythias. An exercise prepared BY
the Grand Lodge was rendered. Rev.
]. w. Reinecke, pastor Of Carroll Re
formed Charge. delivered an address.
DR.. H. L. Feeman, a professor at
the Westminster Theological Semi
nary, has published "a book entitled
The Kingdom and the Farm" in
which he reviews the conditions Of
country life as they exist in Maryland
and other states and the important
position Of the local church a. re-
lated to the welfare OF the com
munity.
The Advocate has received a copy
of the report to Governor Goldsbor-
ough, Of the Maryland Country Life
Commission, which contains much
interesting statistical and other mat
ter in relation to farms and schools,
with important suggestions for the
advantage of country life. Mr.. Ed
ward IT, Reindollar, of Taneytown, ~
a member Of the commission.
On Sunday afternoon as a sled
load of men was going up an incline
at the Reese farm, at Meadow Branch,
the horses stopped. In starting the
horses gave a lurch, and five men on
the two back seats went rolling out
into the snow. All they received was
a jolt and a good immersion in the
snow. One Of the men who was con-
siderably larger than the others,
made huge dent in the packed snow.
All egg producing records by fowls
have been broken by the remarkable
production of "Dearie," an Indian
Runner duck, owned by Lynn r,
James, of Bloomsbury, N. Y-, which has
just completed a record of 329 eggs
in one year. Indian Runner ducks
are known as tremendous layers and
they have earned the title, THE
Leghorns of the Duck Family" The
nearest the record OF this duck has
ever been equalled has been by hen
of the Oregon Experiment Station,
which laid 319 eggs in one year.
Governor Goldsborough has sent to
the Senate for confirmation the name
OF Charles w. Melville, Of Sykesville,
for re-appointment as a member of
the Livestock Sanitary Board. w. S.
Evans, of Cecil, is re-appointed a
member of the board of trustees OF
the Springfield Hospital for the In
sane. General Thomas J. Shyrock,
Republican, of Baltimore, is appoint
ed to succeed former Senator Johnnie
e. Beasman, Democrat, of Carroll
county. John Hubner. Democrat, was
reappointed by the Governor two
years ago for term of six years. BY
the membership of Comptroller Har-
rington, and of Treasurer Vandiver,
Democrats retain control of the board.
Charged with criminal libel, Adults
G. Fuss, of Williamsport, well known
in Westminster, was indicted by the
February grand jury of Washington
county, shortly before it adjourned
Saturday evening The indictment
charges that Fuss, who has had sew
eral civil cases and who has frequent
ly written to the Public Service Com
mission, issued a paper, The Spirit
Of Justice" and styled it as a memo
rial to the Maryland Legislature,
charging Associate Judge Martin L..
Keedy, Hagerstown, and Associate
Judge Robert r. Henderson, Cumber-
land, with using the court machinery
against him unfairly. The printed
attacks were or such violent charac-
ter that news dealers refused to
handle the paper. The indictment
covers 80 pages. 1t is understood
Fuss paper, The Spirit Of Justice"
was printed outside OF Maryland. The
paper says it is Volume /, No. L."
and bears the name of Fuss as pub
Usher 1t is believed Fuss contemp-
lated publishing the paper regularly.
The first number contained nothing
but matters relating to his cases In
court and his contentious with the
lawyers and judges. Fuss has read
law and is a college graduate and