The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-12-24

More than 1000 pounds or bass,
suckers, carp and other food fish
were seined last week from pools in
the bottom Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal around Sandy Hook when
the water was drawn from the levels.
Mr. Harry Matthias, rural mail
carrier on route No. A, was asked to
resign by the Postoffice department
Mr.. Matthias has been a rural carrier
since the system was started This
will make six changes in our post
Office Ira the past six months
The Maryland Oil Company is
busily engaged in putting up oil and
gasoline tanks on the property OF
tn Consolidated Public Utilities
Company, George street. The build
ings and yard were completed this
week
Falling 30 feet from a smokestack
at New Freedom, Pa, r. J. Krouse, 10
years old, of Woodbine, was killed
Tuesday. He was being hoisted to
the top OF a 100-foot stack and the
cable broke when halfway up. He
sustained fractured skull and other
injuries.
a 55-foot spruce pine, admirably
adapted for the hundreds OF colored
lights under which the people or the
the community will gather on Christ
mas Eve in Baltimore was con-
tributed by Albert Meyer, Sykesville
The tree has been erected on Court
house Plaza.
A congestion of traffic on the Cum
berland Valley and Western Mary
to place a temporary embargo on
freight shipments on both lines, it is
announced The embargo On the
Western Maryland Is not drastic,
however, and the congestion on that
road is being relieved as rapidly as
possible.
On Thursday, evening, December ~,
about 200 of the members and friends
of Glyndon Star Council, No. so, ID.
of A., assembled in Red Mems Hall,
Glyndon, Md, to celebrate the
eleventh anniversary Of the institu-
ton Of Glyndon Star Council, which
was effected on December 8, 1904, by
now Past State Councillor Lizzie Q.
Buchta-
Rev. George A. Royer, who has
been ministering to the Lutheran
congregation at Union Bridge, Keys
vile and Rocky Ridge, the past two
years, has resigned his pastorate and
will preach his farewell sermon at
Union Bridge, on Sunday, January
23 HE has accepted a charge AN
Florence, KY, directly across the
Ohio River from Cincinnati.
Bethel school, at Carrollton, has
purchased a fine talking machine for
I've III the school from the Crescent
Talking Machine Co., of New York.
On Tuesday night, December %, an
exhibition will be given at the school
house commencing at 7.30 o'clock The
patrons and friends OF the school are
cordially invited. If the weather
should be inclement Tuesday night,
will meet Wednesday night.
Complaint was made at the office OF
the County Commissioners of Fred
erick county Tuesday morning about
the alleged custom of following res
concentrations Of district committee
men in making the appointments of
road supervisors. President OF the
Board Frank M. Stevens gave his yer
sion OF the matter when he said "l
have known some committeeman to
recommend people for supervisors
who were unfit to hold the position"
Through a local attorney, 19 men
who were unopposed for nominations
for Baltimore municipal Offices in the
primary of 1911 filed an application
with the Board Of Estimates Tuesday
for the return of the money they de-
posted with the Supervisors of Elec-
tons, amounting to $25 in each case.
Because they were unopposed the
names OF the candidates did not ar
pear on the official ballots, and this
was given as the reason for asking for
the return of the money.
Brother Euguene Worthington, Of
Hampstead, Md, who has organized
more camps of the P. o. s. Of A. than
any other man at present member
Of the order i'm the State, il again
ready to take lid the work OF organ
ization. He is one Of the hustlers OF
the order and may be counted upon
when the time comes to deliver the
goods III organized for W. Camp
No. 70, OF Hampstead, Md; Camp No.
ga, of Boring, Md; Camp No. 81, Of
Carrollton, Nd; Camp No. 102, Of
Ffnksburg, Md; Camp No. 50, Of
Level, Md; Camp NO. 30, OF Dublin
Although Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has
said on different occasions that she
would not contest the divorce suit
brought against her by Harry K-
I'haw, it became known at Pittsburgh,
Pa, that she has retained an attor-
ney to attack the validity of the suit.
An effort also will he made to have
the service Of papers set aside as
illegal. BY person close to Mrs.
Thaw it is said that the principal
reason for her determination to fight
the proceedings il to establish the
legal status OF her son Russell, who
she insists is the offspring of Harry
K Thaw.
The disease known Al black tongue,
which il apparently peculiar to the
Southern States, results in a heavy
mortality among dogs in that section.
Many valuable hunting dogs have
been lost from this cause. Recent
reports indicate its occurrence in
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Caro-
lima, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and the
District of Columbia. AS the name
indicates, there is an infamed and
swollen condition of the tongue,
which may assume a dark color. Such