The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-06

A have applied for Jobs al floor sweep
ers at the Ford automobile factory il
Detroit
George Waller, a familiar coIoret
individual of this city was sent to /;
hospital i'm Baltimore last week fol
treatment. Waller had been in th,
employ Of MFR. Harry K Oursler, wht
had him sent to the hospital.
There are now almost 2,O0O,00C
\ automobiles i'm the world. I'm thu
United States there are 1,127, $40; il
Great Britain 425,83S; in continental
Europe 273,511; III all other parts "
the world (estimated) 92,500; total
1,919,789.
In the spring is the proper time to
work roads, according to experts Of
the Department OF Agriculture. Tc
put off the work until August or Sep
TENDER ID great mistake, they de-
clare in a statement issued Monday
in which some valuable hints are Civ
en- TO farmers on the subject.
il The first freight train to 90 over the
Central Railroad OF Maryland, which
runs from Keymar to Union Bridge
was put on last Sunday. The cars
were consigned to the cement COM
Ipany. An engine and crew of the
Pennsylvania railroad had charge Of
the train. The road is nearing COM
pletion.
| Without dissenting vote the Pro-
gressive state committee of West Vir-
ginia Saturday afternoon adopted a
resolution refusing to fuse with the
Republican or any other party, and
set the machinery in motion to put
Progressive tickets in the field next
summer i'm every county in the state
for every Office to be filled, from con-
stable to congressman.
Deputy Sheriff Smith on Monday ar
rested at Woodsboro, j. Russell Wine
brenner, Or that place, aged about Ia
upon the charge of entering the store
Of Elmer Powell, Of Woodsboro, Oh
January 20, and taking $40 and some
articles from the store The youth
was taken before Justice Miller, who
held him in the sum of $3.50 for court
Fire destroyed the Western Mary
land Railway freight station at Elkins
W. Va, January 70, causing a loss @
100000. Several consignments FOL
Elkins merchants Of spring goods
station records, five freight cars o
. merchandise and several snlalle
: buildings were also burned Forty
! five barrels OF Oil On the platform
were destroyed.
the mild weather OF the past rev
weeks has caused a number of frui
trees i'm the county to start to bud
and it is feared that should a sever,
cold spell follow the trees will b,
greatly damaged. On the lawns of ;
number of owners of country homes
dandelions can be found i'm grea
, abundance, and in some places wilt
. violets are being picked.
The directors Of the Farmers ant
Mechanics National Bank paid Mr.
! David Stoner, West Main street !
} call on Tuesday afternoon at hi
home. Mr.. StOner is a director mn
second vice-president OF the abov,
4 bank On account of his health h
! does not attend the regular meetings
Of the bank board. Mr.. Stoner wa'
very much delighted at the visit.
J "A verdict OF $500 for Harold X
. Einehart and $3.50 for his mother, Car
RTE w Rinehart, against the Western
: Maryland Railroad company, was rem
dered in Judge MANNERS common
: JlcdS COuII VI IOl NOuhIyS L d.S oe1I
urday. These amounts were decided
by "a jury to be- compensation for tht
: loss Of Harold X. Rinehart's leg by it:
. being run over by one of the 1om
pany's locomotives in the yard IL
York, in the summer of 1912.
Miss Ethel Roop appeared before
the Browning Literary Society o.
! Western Maryland College on Friday
! with a very clever reading "CaDita
Punishment" the story of mischiev
Gus school boy who IL punished by be
ing made to sit with the girls and feels
the shame keenly but discovers aftel
being given all his examples" anC
the core of an apple that what he hat
endured was really capital punish
: ment.' Miss Roop is progressing
steadily and the society is always de-
. lighted with selection from her evel
increasing repertoire.
The will Of former Judge William Il
Day, of the Orphans Court, was filet
! at Ellicott City Tuesday. 1t was no
admitted to probate, as Joshua B. Day
j of Glenelg, brother of the deceased
. filed a notice of a caveat. The viii
leaves all the property, both real ant
personal, to Mrs. Almira Nj. Day, tn
widow, for life, and thereafter to Mar!
e Adams, a young woman who made he
home with the Days, and George ~
: Day, Jr., son Of former State Senator
George ID. Day The other nepheW'
I w Judge Day are excluded, and Joshu;
2 B. Day feels that his children SHOULD
\ have been recognized.
!. Traffic, north and south bound, OF
the Western Maryland railroad wa
tied up for about five hours, Sunda.
4 afternoon about 6 o'clock when AZ
Y engine attached to VI passenger traii
crashed into a freight train about 3O'
h yards south of Walbrook Station
1 Following the accident the engine o
: the passenger train was thrown iron
the track, rolled down an embank
' ment about Is feet and set fire to thu
I. stables of the Hudson Cement Com
pany. About 30 mules were o"tve1
b from the stables by the attendants an
the city Fire Department was calle'
to extinguish the blaze, which dio no
, assume great proportions. HIVE,
VI eastman, OF Hanover, Pa, locomotiv
E fireman, was scalded on the hands
y face and body. The passenger loco
motive struck the first car Of tn
freight and overturned. The ergin
Ger and fireman jumped just as tn
crash came. Hot water and steam
{ reached the fireman before he coull
I scramble out OF reach. Passenger
in the coaches were shaken UP Du