The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-12-31
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

when the electric lights went out.
Hunting season closed last week
AMI hunters reported game plenty
You never can tell. Many man
rho hasn't a cent to his name has
Iot in his wife's.
NJ Edward +. Olmstead, OF Union
Bridge. purchased a seven-passenger
Paige touring car.
VIZ. J. Walter Englar, New Windsor,
has enrolled as member Of the
Auto Club OF Maryland.
some people make hay while the
sun shines, and others borrow your
umbrella when it rains.
II makes a small boy mad to realize
that the war in Europe has increased
nv price or almost everything but
soap and castor oil
The employees Of the Western
Maryland Railway presented Mr.. III.
ID. Fovble, agent, with a very hand
some gold masonic ring, for Christ
mas present.
Tomorrow, New Years day, Court
House, all banks, stores, barbershops,
&c. will be closed. The postoffice
will BE- closed at a. M, and no
rural mail will be- delivered.
A fire started in the kitchen OF the
Main Court Hotel Friday afternoon,
but was extinguished before any
damage was caused. The fire com
panY responded but was not needed
rhe young people OF Stone Chapel
will hold a cantata on Saturday
night, January l. II not fair on Sat
vryfn hn FnI1nWinU
TUESDAY evening Silver offering at
the door.
The Christmas mail business OF
Westminster office both incoming and
outgoing, exceeded all past records.
The parcel post packages constituted
the bulk OF the mail and was all de-
liyered on time.
Mr.. R. l. Cookson, formerly Of
Uuiontown, but now OF Froid, Mont,
writes Mr. James M. Shellman,
Uniontown, that he realized from this
years wheat crop 5000 bushels Of
wheat and 3400 bushels Of oats and
speltz.
Mr. Edward Baugher, Western
Union Telegraph operator, this city,
has accepted position with the
Western Maryland Railway in the
same capacity. He presented his
resignation to the Western Union
Telegraph Company.
Three solid cars of oysters con-
signed to the West were shipped last
week on the Pittsburgh flyer. Besides
these extras the train had three ex-
press cars, and two engines were re
quired for the train, made up of
eleven cars. The express has been
exceptionally heavy
We were visited by blizzard on
Sunday, which blocked our roads
with such heavy snow drifts that it
required a force OF men To shovel
them open SO as to allow traffic. The
schedule on Bowers bus line was
annulled on Sunday and Monday on
account of the condition of the roads.
An opportunity for road builders
and others interested i'm good roads.
One weeks course in road building
and maintenance Special attention
will be given earth roads and county
problems, January 10th to 18th. Given
Engineering, Maryland Agricultural
College, College Park, Nd
BY the timely discovery OF win
dow curtain on fire at the residence
of Mrs. Howard Frizzell, Webster
street, Christmas eve, possibly pre-
vented the destruction Of the house.
The IRE was detected by two men
Ind they were passing the house, who
eKtinguished the blaze. There was
no one home at the time Of the fire
Judge vickery, i'm the Court of
Common Pleas, Cuyahoga county,
Ohio, December rs, granted The Fire
stone Tire and Rubber Company,
Akron, Ohio, a perpetual injunction
against raincoat company using tie
name "F4restone." This raincoat
company was operating stores IA
Cleveland, Indianapolis and Detroit
under the name "Firestone Rainc0at
Company.
The board OF canvassers or Howard
county canvassed the vote cast in the
disputed Ellicott City precinct, which
has been the cause OF. "a rather bitter
legal battle. With this precinct
counted ii gave Hart B. Noll, Repub-
1ican candidate for the clerk Of the
court. ID votes, and this, taken with
the order of the court to strike Of
three votes given John X. O'Malley In
another precinct, gave Noll the cleo
ton by one vote.
"A threatened scarcity In fuel has
resulted i'm an advance Of nearly 100
per cent il the price or coal In Con-
nellsville, (Pa.) district during the
last two months. Coal which former
Ivy sold ait Sd cents gross ton now
costs $1.50 and more at the mines.
Local dealers az meeting advanced
the price of domestic fuel from one
to two cents bushel AS result Oh
this action the consumer, dealers say
viii have to pay from SO cents to q
$1 load more.
Joseph T.. Kelly, conductor on q
local passenger train bound from VIII
mington, Del, to Philadelphia, who
VS. killed about $50 o'clock Deem
be- liz, four miles from Chester Pa,
n wreck was native Of Union
Bridge. When he grew To manhood
H. inclined to railroading, and for q
time worked on the wv. WI. R. IT,, from
there he drifted to- the u. a. o., run
ming on trains from Baltimore to
Philadelphia, and later from Whining
to Philadelphia. He was trust
employe and was made Conduc-
r. first OF freight and then Of pas
nger trains. He leaves q wife, Mrs.
n. Kelly, "a married daughter,
and a son, Edward