The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-01-22

It isn't absolutely necessary for .
poker joint TO have an ante-room-
DIR. Richard r.. Tivnen, of Chicago
has pronounced love as a disease
nothing less than that did he say.
!, The post office at Kingsdale has
been re-established. For a time the
mail for that point was distributed
through the Littlestown Office.
W The Western Maryland Railroad
Company is getting ready to make big
improvements at it, terminals i'm Bal
timore An elevator at the cost OF
$650,000 will be erected.
a bowler i'm Cumberland spilled POI
pins In a duck pin game Monday
night This is some score and we
hardly believe that any OF our expert
pin spillers will try to best the FOL
record.
The anti-noise committee OF Balti-
more have asked the dairy compan-
les to remove the bells from all their
wagons II is pity that the ring
ing OF the bells disturb the slumbers
of the lazy sleeper.
Beginning Monday, February /, the
\ Farmers Institutes will be held in i'm
portant towns throughout the county,
and also Westminster. The places
where the institutes will be held are
al follows: Union Bridge, February
l.; Westminster, February and g.;
Middleburg, February A, and fancy
town, February 5. The sessions will
be from 10 a. m; 1.30 and p. IN.
IA man riding horse back on the
Pleasant Valley road, leading to Mark
er's Mill, was badly frightened by
some unheardof wild animal that
jumped out Of the woods and run for
about 800 feet and only about 10 feet
away The curious animal then made
it's way into the woods again and dis
appeared. The animal was seen about
p. m. Friday, and has not been
seen since.
Directors of the Mt Airy Savings
Bank were elected on Monday as fol-
lows: Charles T.. Poole, Byron = Dor
sey, Frank G. Norwood, J. Windsor
Williams, Francis iii. Engle, Addison
S. Day, William A. Smith, James
Wordsworth OF >, Herman iii. Young,
John 3. Runkles, Charles E. Smith,
Thomas "a. Barnes, George Hardy. At
ter dinner, which was held in the
basement OF the bank, the board or
ganized by electing the following Of
ficers: President, Byron >. Dorsey;
first vice president Chas. 2. Poole;
second vice president, j. Windsor
Williams; cashier, A. r. Molesworth
and assistant cashier, IN. @. Dorsey.
Assurances have been given the cat
tie interests of the country that the
conference committee OF the State
and the House at Washington soon
will agree upon the urgent deficiency
bill, carrying an appropriation Of 81
100000 to be used by the Bureau OF
Animal Industry in compromising live
stock owners for animals destroyed
i'm fighting the foot-and-mouth dis
ease. Favorable action on this bill
will put into the hands Of farmers
S2,000,000. Pennsylvania farmers will
get 100000; Maryland farmers, &c.
900; Illinois farmers, $625,000; Ohio
farmers $4,000; Michigan farmers,
$115,0O0; Wisconsin farmers, $4,000,
and Indiana farmers, $4,000
NJ Rev. Charles M Elderdice who for
seven years has been pastor OF the
Methodist Protestant Church, FEEDER
alsburg, Nd, has been called to the
Second Methodist Protestant Church
Of Pittsburgh, Pa. He will leave for
his new passionate March a, Mr.. Ed
erdice is a graduate Of Western Mary
land College and of Westminster Theo-
logical Seminary. He was admitted
to the Maryland Conference i'm 1906
and ordained in 1907. He served
Christ Church, Baltimore, before COM
ing to fredericksburg. During his pas
torate there have been 204 CONVEX
sions and 105 accessions to the
church, while $4,000 has been raised
a Sunday school room built and the
church made self-supporting
On January s, VIM MI Mehring, Of
Keymar, shipped his milking machine
exhibit for the Worlds Fair at San
Francisco, California The exhibit
consisted Of his foot-power mixers
and the large power mixer, which
horse power electric motor to run
the power mixer. The shipment
goes via. Brooklyn, n. Y, by rail
from there by boat via. Panama
Canal to San Francisco. 1t requires
twenty-one days from Brooklyn to
make the trip. The freight by water
II $3.50 for 100 lbs. to San Francisco
but when intended for the Fair they
give rebate or soc on 100 lbs. The
marine insurance which is added tC
the above rate, is 40c on 500. Rail.
road freight from Brooklyn costs
3Tc per 100 lbs. From Keymar oil
rect to Worlds Fair, by rail, chs
freight is 1910 per 100 lbs. After
the Fair the railroad will return the
exhibit back to the shipping point
free of charge
On March i, H. G. Lescalleet, who
for some years has run the stage be
tween Libertytown and Frederick, vii
begin new notorious line, between
Frederick and Baltimore. In shOrt
|, time the handsome 24-passenger auto
truck will b. completed and ready tx
be placed in service. This machine
cost $4,650 and IL constructed to make
travelling as comfortable as possible
Tt IL a forty-horse power White, ca
pable Of making 20 miles an hour, or
, the steepest grades between here and
, Baltimore, it is stated. Mr.. Lescal.
leet has run the stage from Liberty
to Frederick for IL years, nearly five
, years ago he started with his present
automobile, which is also White. This
he has run 10000 miles. He will trade
it in on the new machine. Asked his
reason for disseminating the run from
! I.ibertytOWn Mr. Lescalleet stated II