The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-08-21

B- II. Gorsuch farm, threshed 1921
bushels or wheat from 30 acres, and
81 bushels Of barley from 2 acres.
No services will be held at st
PauPs Reformed Church on Sunday
on account of the absence of the pas
tor. Sunday school will be held at its
usual time
Mr. Sherwood Cox, who had charge
Of the Western Union Telegraph
office in this city, resigned his posi-
ton and left for his home on We'd
nesday. He has been succeeded by
Mt Maurice 10y, of Logs Station,
who had been with the Western
Maryland Railway a. an operator
B. T. Scott, president or the Tide
water Portland Cement Company,
Union Bridge, in the August number
of their monthly bulletin, claims his
company offered the railroads, during
TIE last four months, the largest ton
mage Of any Maryland manufacturing
company, using nearly 5000 cars in
the conduct of their business.
United States Senator John Walter
Smith has officially thrown his hat
i'm the ring for the Democratic re
OF Maryland. Senator Smith has sent
to the Board Of Supervisors Of Car
roll county his primary assessment
and formal request to place his name
On the primary ticket.
Thirteen years ago there were in
round numbers, 45,00O,OO0 cattle to
supply population Of 1900 900. The
proportion of cattle to population has
been steadily decreasing. Figures
for this year are 36,000,0OO cattle, in
a population of~-97 O00,0O0-about g.
100000 fewer cattle and 2O,0OO,O0O
more poulation than i'm 1901.
After having spent big time at
Nyack, n. Y, where he visited one
of the applicants to his advertisement
Emanuel G. Fink, wife hunter, has
returned to his home near Evansville
TIL intimates that he il going back
soon, but outside Of this and the an
nouncement that he will sell his saw
mill and equipment, he is not saying
much about his plans
John Winger, an ex-convict, aged
"a, was arrested at Hagerstown Sun
day evening by Sheriff King On the
charge Of shooting Policeman j. O.
Middlekauff, who died at Washington
County Hospital, Hagerstown. After
the shooting, which occurred at a.
M, Saturday, Winger fed to his home,
changed his clothes and took refuge
in the house of Frank Henninger on
Forest drive.
Blinded by the lights from an au-
tomobile coming in an opposite di-
rection, car driven by d. F. Davis,
containing Mrs. Davis, the latter's
sister, Miss Annie Beckley, and Ell
wood Brown, ran into a culvert near
New Market, Sunday night and turn
ed over. Mrs. Davis was caught be-
meath the machine and had her right
leg broken and was bruised about the
body. The others escaped with slight
bruises The above party was i'm this
city i'm the afternoon
The Pen-Mar Express, which leaves
Pen-Mar at p. M, was partially de-
rallied on Thursday evening when the
engine left the track and entered a
derailing switch. The accident oc-
CURED at MOnOcacy, near Detour. I'm
order to save time i'm rerailing the en-
CINE, another locomotive was attach
ed to the train. The accident caused
a delay of two hours. There was no
excitement among the passengers, as
none of them knew of the accident
until some time later. No damage to
the engine was reported.
Every outbuilding on the farm Of
Mrs. Albert Hobbs, near Rover, was
destroyed by fire Monday evening.
The blaze started from some unknown
cause in large barn. IL rapidly
spread to the corn house, granary
and several other smaller buildings.
The farmers for miles around went
to the place and it was through their
efforts that the Hobbs residence was
saved. The damage is about $4,000,
partly covered by insurance. Fifty
tons of hay, 70 barrels of corn, a lot
of harness, a dayton, buggy and a
runabout were destroyed.
I'VE are not suffragettes but
mixers" was the comment of Misses
Ruth and Rhoda Chilean on last Tues
day morning as they started for Har-
ney on foot III was their idea not to
accept ride, but to walk the entire
distance. Strange to relate although
they passed several teams going and
coming they were headed in the op-
posite direction. The young ladies
reached Harvey about noon and saw
what was remarkable to them a
number of men pitching horse-shoes
on the square. The trip consumed
four days and while away they visited
Camps Welcome and Idle While. >
Emmitsburg Chronicle.
The birthplace OF Francis Scott Key
near Keysville, will BY appropriately
and permanently marked, through the
efforts of the P. o. S. of A of Mary
land, in accordance with official ac-
ton taken at the State meeting of the
Order in Baltimore, on August Peter
BaumgaTdner, the owner of the fam
Gus spot, has willingly given his con.
sent, providing the marker be one Oh
worthwhile proportions and design
The order will also erect a memorial
tablet to Key on the North Point
| battlefield, at an old church, still
standing al a historic reminder 81
the battle. The marking OF the birth.
place will be deferred until June IL
1915, the Saturday nearest 'Flat
Day."
Town council sounded the death
knell of hitching horses on MAR
street i'm Waynesboro by the passag'
OF an ordinance Thursday evening
making it unlawful to hitch hors'
or any other animal along any paveC
street. Violations of this ordinances
are punishable either by fine or i'm
prisonment, ranging from 81 to $40
Oh from days i'm the town lookup *
30 days i'm Jail Our Mayor and Com
mon Council of this city have started
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