The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-03-12
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

The Civic League will hold an
oyster supper in the Firemen's Hall
tonight and tomorrow night Every
body welcome.
The Democrat and Journal, at Tow
son, which has been purchased by
the company which publishes the
Jeffersonian, will be merged with the
latter paper. The plant OF the DEM
ocrat and Journal has been purchased
INV the Raine Publishing Company,
which publishes the New Era.
One vi the trucks which hauled
stone on the state road leading from
this city to Sykesville, while on it,
way from Ellicott City to this city,
broke a steering gear coming down
a steep hill and upset, inJurlng q
colored man who was riding on it so
badly that he was sent to hospital
in Baltimore for treatment.
Much wheat il tied UP in the Balti-
more and Ohio yards at Cumberland,
having been consigned from the West
tn the seaboard. I'm the neighbOrhood
of 400 to 600 carloads of wheat have
passed through Cumberland daily
consigned to Eastern ports for export.
Much wheat is also held up at points
on the road west of Cumberland
William Beck, son of Charles Beck,
vi near Hoods Mill, was seriously in-
jured Thursday afternoon while oper-
ating a fodder cutting machine on hls
fathers farm. Young Beck's coat
sleeve caught in the belt on the large
flywheel, which threw him into the
cogs of the machine, cutting his head,
o.. 4na wi, HnGh from
his right shoulder and arm. He would
have been killed had his father not
run tn his assistance and thrown the
belt off the wheel He seems to be
suffering much pain i'm his head, ana
it is feared that he sustained slight
fracture of the skull.
An empty she'll Of .32-calibre car
fridge was removed Thursday night
from the right lung Of Samuel Gore,
son of H. q. Gore, of Lewisville, at
the University Hospital, Baltimore
The operation was considered very
difficult one, and in order to remove
the shell Dr Richard I'll. Johnson had
to resort to the bronchoscope. Satur-
day night the boy was reported tn rs
in a satisfactory condition. Young
Gore was at the Lewisville public
school at the time the shell slipped
into his lung. He had it in his mouth,
and by talking IN inward breath the
shell slipped into his windpipe and
then into the lung.
Miss Marie Bond, Is years old, OF
Washington. and James ID. Baker, ~,
of near MT. Airy, eloped i'm an auto
mobile from Washington Saturday
night and we're married by Rev ~ "a.
Lamar. The groom went to Wash
ington after his bride in his fathers
touring car. They left Washington in
the face of driving snow5torm. AZ
Pleasant Brook Hill, near Damascus,
they were nearly two hours IN
ascending a slippery incline Iney
telephoned To Deputy Clerk Chapl1ne
to keep the courthouse open for them.
After the marriage the bride tele-
phoned her home and received the
parental forgiveness over the wire.
David F. Firor, proprietor OF the
mercantile business Of Error Brolners'
has disappeared from Thurmont. He
has been missing for 10 days. His
brother, u. WI Firor, Of the University
of Georgia, was in Baltimore and ask
ed the police to assist i'm the search
Mr.. Firor lett home March for Balti-
more to purchase stock Of goods. He
had between $50 and $10O i'm cash. AN Ar
not known whether he carried an adj
ditional sum of cash to pay for d.
goods Or intended to pay for them by
check. He was last sen in Baltimore
shortly after A o'clock the GAY he left
home and was recognized by several
friends from Thurmont IT, IL Ri
years old, about five feet six inches
tall and has black hair and eyes. About
d year ago he married Miss Grace
Waesche, daughter OF u. a. Waesche.