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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-10-29
ADMINISTRATION FORCES
MOBILIZING FOR DEFENSE
Charimen House and Senate Military
Committees Agree in IndOrsing
Building Up Nations Army.

Washington, Oct. 25.-Mobilization of
the full strength of administration
forces in support of the national de-
fense program apparently was assured
today when Representative Hay of Vir-
ginia, chairman of the house military
affairs committee, after conference
with the president, announced in favor
of the army increase plan.
Senator Chamberlain, chairman of
the senate military affairs committee,
already has approved the proposal to
build up a regular and continental
army of more than million men i'll
six years. Formal publication of the
plans in detail will follow Senator
Chamberlain's conference with the
resident next week. The navy $780,
! 100000 five-year building program al
ready has been approved by both house
and senate leaders. The Importance
attached to Representative Hays an
aouncement was indicated by the fact
that soon after it was made Secretary
Garrison broke the silence he had
maintained as to army plans ever since
he received President Wilson's letter
directing him to have prepared COM
prehensiYe review Of the nations mil
itary needs and recommendation for
strengthening the national defense.
Mr.. Garrison said:
81 am, Of course, delighted. This
will insure the best possible results.
With the aid of Mr.. Hays experience
and skill in formulating the measures
and his powerful ADVOCACY in support
thereof, success in the house IS as
sured. l understand that Senator
Chamberlain Of the senate military
committee takes similar attitude, so
that there will be hearty desperation
all along the line"
Representative Hay said he believed
the necessary army bill to provide for
the proposed increase of the regular
establishment, the organization Of the
continental army and the increase OF
present coast defenses and building up
of an adequate reserve of men, small
arms and ammunition would pass the
| house without serious opposition.
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Explosives In Road Building

One of the newer methods Of road
building that is fast winning the in
1orSement Of the better versed contrac'
tor is that of employing dynamite for
reducing the heavy work
Grading through hard ground or rock
for instance IS tedious and requires
time and labor The use of dynamite
for blasting such material is Il welcome
relief Both rock and hard clay may
be loosened in the cut by we'll placed
charges of explosives if holes are drill,
ed into the ground little way up tie
bank and loaded. Careful spacing and
loading. for electrically fired blasts will
result in bringing down both classes Of
materials in the best possible manner
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Strengthening Streams
With Dynamite

The ancient Egyptians were noted
for their crops because, as history
states, they "Sowed their seeds in the
Nile" This does not mean that they
actually cast the seed in the river. At
certain seasons Of the year the Nile
overfows its banks. depositing on either
shore rich Silt or earth that is highly
conducive to bumper crops. and the
wise ancient Egyptians, realizing this.
profiJed thereby
Water is Il necessity. The tiniest
brooks up to the largest rivers play an
important part in the scheme of things
inasmuch as they are natures way of
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-10-29

both irrigation and drainage. But De-
ing formed according to natures die
tates their courses do not always Jlbe
with mans desires or needs.
Rock ledges impede their progress
Overhanging stamps and trees retard
their fow Numerous Irregularities
cause them to meander about in ap
parently wasteful ways, and mans
carelessness has added to these trou-
bles by allowing driftwood and loose
earth 10 form dams and sandbarS.
All Of these things help to hold the
food Of waters back and cause either
flooding Oh Swamps, which not only oc-
cupy land that could be more proftably
used for farming. but also form fine
breeding places for mosquitoes and
other obnoxious pests. Incidentally
they cause an annual loss running into
millions Of dollars per year.
In this day Of enlightenment such
things are both wasteful and, one
might add, criminal especially so in
view Of the fact that almost instant
relief may lie had by u few we'll placed
charges of dynamite. Not only will
these blasts straighten out the kinks
and bends and remove ledges and
sand bars, but they will deepen and I'M
prove the channels as nature has real
ly intended. incidentally by straight
ening the winding course Of creek
much area Of tillable land can be OBJ
tained and farm operation In many in
stances made much easier.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-10-29
Malaria or ChiIIs & Fever

Prescriptions No. 666 is prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER:
Five or six doses will break any case, and
If taken then as tonic the Fever will moi
return. Il acts on the liver better thar
CsIomeI and does not gripe or sicken. 25t
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n2itZa.
Almost Cut Through.


mitza.
Almost Cut Through.
The first desire of the Germans is
to open a route through northwestern
servia and Bulgaria to Turkey and
this is on the eve Of being accom-
plished.
On the other hand, military writer's
here do not believe that the position
of serYia is so bad as painted. 1t is
serious, but they point out that the
Ser ians have many natural defensive
positions in the mountains, in which
they can hold out for weeks; that, with
OF the quadruple powers carrying out
their determination to help Servia by
rushing reinforcements to Saloniki and
other points, the BuIgarians will have
warm reception and that the Ger
mans and Turks can not send them
the British, French and other members
much help.
British correspondents in France
have. just disclosed the fact made
known to them by the British staff
that even after the Anglo-French Of
fensive in September the Germans had
III egreatest difficulty "A getting new
sreinforcements to meet that adventure
and lad to call men just returned from
Russia for rest to fill the gaps.
Can Not Spare Many.
From this it is urged that the Ger
mans can not spare great many men
for the Balkans, especially as the Rus
SLAMS are keeping them fairly busy on
the Baltic to Roumania. The Italian
offensive is compelling the Austrians
to strengthen their lines and the
French by the capture today of
strongly fortified salient north OF
Lemesnil, in Champagne, have shown
that they have not finished their effort
to break through The French success
is considered important because the
capture of this fortified area clears
the ground for another general ofens-
i've in Champagne.
For the same reason the British are
trying to force the Germans out of
their redoubts and from the Stag heaps
They are only preparatory operations,
while the Italians are in the midst OF
q great offensive which already has
gained for them many valuable van
Age points and, according to Rome,
may any day place them in possession
OF the fortress Of Gorilla.
Battles in the North.
The Russians are fighting pitched
battles in the Riga and Dvinsk region
IN an effort to retake ground won from
dhem by Won Hindenburg last week.
Russian attacks southeast OF Riga and
northwest of Dvinsk have been re-
pulsed, according to the Germans. The
German force which crossed the IL
Iousk, north Of the town of that name,
was thrown back. It IS claimed that
Russian attacks in the lake region
south of Dvinsk were repulsed and
that the Russians have broken through
west of Komonow on front Of more
than two and nalf miles The German
campaign in Courland is being in
terfered with by British and Russian
submarines, which have stopped mer-
camille traffic to the Baltic ports and
one of which mas sunk the Prinz Adel-
bert, the sixth armored cruiser lost
10y Germany since the war began, the
others being the Bluecher, Scharn-
horst. Gneisenau, Yorck and Friedrich
Karl.
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STRUGGLE IN SER1IA
With MIXED RESULT
GENERAL ACTIVITY MARKS YARI
OTS WAR CENTERS.
Central Powers Score in North: Allies
Counter in South; French Gain
on Western Front.

London, Oct. 25.-The Aastro-Ger-
man and Bulgarian campaigns in
northern and eastern Servia are be-
ing carried out according to plans, de-
spite fierce Servian resistance, and the
Bulgars who crossed the Gimok and
took Prohovo are separated now from
the Germans who crossed the Danube
near Orsova by only few miles, but
things are not going so we'll for the
invaders in the south.
Here French troops have joined
hands with the Servians and, accord
ing to French accounts, have inflicted
a severe defeat on the Bulgarians at
Kriyolak 40 miles north of the point
where the Saloniki-Nish railway
crosses the Serbo-Greek frontier.
This success places the Bulgarians
who reached Istip, Veles and Uskup
in an awkward position, for further
advance of the allied army would
threaten their flanks In fact, unof-
fetal reports say the advance of the
French, who are being closely followed
:, the British, alrea1y has caused the
retirement Of the Bulgars toward Stru-
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new conditions, ideas and aspirations,
and that it was, therefore, incumbent
upon all municipal authorities to study
the practical problems surrounding
them. He congratulated Columbia OF
is ErogYess and said that the Interest
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-08-27

Mr.. Andrew Eichorn, of Baltimore,
spent Sunday in this city.
Miss Grace Lowe, Of this city, has
returned home after spending the
past month with relatives i'm Hanover
and York. She was accompanied
home by her grandmother, Mrs. Lowe,
and daughter, Mary, of Hanover, Pa,
who will spend several days here.
Mrs. Frank Wareheim, very de-
lightfully entertained at her home in
Silver Run, August 10, Mrs. George
Hull. Miss Roxie Hull, the Misses
Alice and Mary Bauserman, of Han
over; Mrs. 4. M. Grouse and Mrs.
William Formwalt, or Littlestown; !;
Mrs. A M. Hazlett, OF Philadelphia,
Mrs. Granville Humbert, or Silver
Run, ard Mrs. Frank Bechtel.
Mrs. George Grumbine and Mrs. H.
l.. Hobby, chaperones, Misses Emily
Zepp, Gertrude Gehr, Margaret Gehr
and Emily Hull returned home tn-
day after spending week I'm Pen
Mar, Pa Last Sunday they were
visited by ]. Howell Grumbine, Ster-
ling Schaeffer, Leeds Billingslea,
George r. Grumbine, H. r. Hobby.
Miss Catherine Hobby and Master
Charles Grumbine.
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DEATHS.
..... Mitten.

William w. Mitten, aged GA years
died Friday night at the University
Hospital, Baltimore, from a self In
ficted cash in his throat.
Mr. MitIen had been suffering from
blood poisoning for seven weeks. Ii
developed from a scratch on his hand
and as the poison seized on his entire
system his brain was affected. He
told his son few days ago that lie
feared he was losing his mind and
that he would rather die than b. in
sane.
Mr.. Mitten was employed as a
butcher by his son-in-law, Mr.. Mar
shall h. Campbell. He was also con-
stable for Westminster district.
IL f. survived by the following
children: Charles, OF Manchester;
Mrs. M. K. Campbell, Claude, Norman
and Arthur Mitten, this city.
Funeral services were held Monday
in Uniontown church, conducted by
Rev. Gonso, assisted by Rev. Murray
lnterment i'm the Hill cemetery. Pail
bearers we're Charles K. Goodwin,
George E. Matthews, A. G. Humbert,
Joseph Baust, William n. Keefer and
Joseph E. Hunter. Harvey Bankard
& Son, funeral directors.
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CHAUTAQUA WEEK
SEVEN DAYS OF PLEASURE GOOD
PROGRAM PREPARED.

This evening Westminster Chau-
tauqua opens for one week. The tent
has been erected on the ball gound in
the rear of Bond street, the same
place - last year. The program
prepared will be most pleasing and
instructive.
The first session starts this after
noon and will be followed each af-
ternoon and evening as follows:
junior Chautauqua begins at 900.
Evening Session begins at 7.30.
Friday-Afternoon-Series Lecture,
Superintendent; Concert, Dunbar
Soiree Singers. Evening-Concert,
Dunbar Soiree Singers; illustrated
Lecture, Bright Eyes and Wild
Hearts OF our Northern Woods
Chauncey j. Hawkins; .Chronophoto-
graphs.
Saturday-Afternoon Lee
ture, Superintendent; Magic and
Music, Springer and Chautauqua
Entertainers. Evening Magic and
Music. Springer and Chautauqua En-
tertainers; Motion pictures.
Sunday-A- special program for
Sunday will be arranged and an
nounced. Offering.
Monday Afternoon Series Lee
ture, Superintendent; Concert, Craw-
ford Adams Trio. Evening-Concert,
Crawford Adams Trio; Lecture-Re-
cital, Who Is Great" Paul M. Pear
SON. Motion pictures M
Tuesday Afternoon Series Lee
ture, superintendent; Concert, Col
angeles Italian Band. Evening
Concert, Colangelo's Italian Band;
Motion pictures.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lee
ture, Superintendent. Concert, Boston
Oratorio Artists Evening-Lecture,
Rebuilding the Temple" Montaville
Flowers; Motion pictures.
Thursday Afternoon Concert,
Verkony-Hines Company; Lecture,
Hon. Joseph w. Folk. Evening
Concert, Varkony-H Hines Company,
The Man from Home" presented by
The Avon Players.
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Annual Convention OF w. 9. n. y

The Carroll County Womans CHS
tian Temperance Union, will hoid its
annual convention in the Metnodist
Episcopal Church at Sykesvllle,
Thursday, September ?. There Wlll
be three sessions OF the convention
and two sessions Of the county ex-
ecutive, one at $50 a. M, and the
other at 2 d. m, The morning session
of the convention will begin AZ ~ A.
m.. the afternoon at 2 p. m-, ana the
evening at p. IN. There VIII -
speciaI music by select choir
trained for the occasion. In the al,
ternoon there will be exercises anu
temperance demonstration Dy 70
children, trained by Miss Harris and
Mrs. Carrie w. Ray, state secretary
of the organization, will be preseht
and deliver an address. At the night
session DR.. Hare, superintendent oi
the Anti-Saloon League of Marylanu
wiIl sneak. The ladies of the cnurch
wifi serve lunch and supper 70 MI
delegates and to all persons VINO may
wish it for Is cents. The Carron
Transit Company will run the gray
hna ~ the convention, leaving F1nKs-
hnrp at 7.3O a. III, and Westminster
nj 4 IN a m.. returning, leaves SYKES
vile Immediately after the nlgnt ses-
sion Every effort is being made 70
have this the best conVentioh 80,
held by this society, and 2 larse
number or delegates and friends ~
urRed to attend
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SYKESvILIE.

Mr. John Henry CowSnan, after an
illness Of several months, died at his
home on Springfield avenue, Tues
day night, August "a. Mr.. Cowman
was veteran OF the Civil War and
was eighty-four years OF aEe. Hin
loving smile will be missed by all
who knew him. He is survived by a
widow and one daughter. Mrs. Ida
Gorsuch. He was taken Immediately
to the residence Of a relative In Bal
timore from which he will be buried.
Mrs. Perkins, or Camden, nv, Y.,
who had been visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Bailey Dudderar, has returned to her
home.
Misses Margaret and Helen Harris
spent four days Of last week at
Atlantic City.
MIR. and Mrs. Henry Bennett and
daughter. motored to Baltimore Tues
day.
Mrs. BENZ. Fowble, of Baltimore. is
spending a week at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Ar
rington.
Miss Ruth Bennett, who had been
spending a month at Millington and
Pocomoke City, has returned home.
more, who had been spending some
time with her aunt, Miss Kate Mer
ceron, has returned home.
Miss Effie Wheatley has been
spending week with Miss Lillian
Townsend, of Westminster.
Miss Lula Lindsay, Of Washington,
I'D. C., who had been the guest OF her
sister, Mrs. Willard Weer, has re
turned home.
Miss Elizabeth Bennett, who has
been spending two weeks as the
guest OF Miss Clara Covington, OF
Pocomoke City, has returned home.
Miss Phelan, Of Baltimore, ~ the
guest OF Mrs. Millard Weer.
Mrs. Arthur Brown entertained the
Embroidery Club at her home Thurs
day afternoon.
Rev. O. Leyfield was called to his
home in New York on account OF the
illness OF his father
Mr.. Earle Reynolds is Ill with
typhoid fever.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Phelps. Mr.. G.
II. Sullivan and Mrs. Clarence Brown
attended services at Emory Grove
Camp.
Mr.. e. NJ. Mellor, Miss Annie Mel
lor, Mr.. and Mrs. e. M. Mellor, Jr.,
and children and Mr.. Rob. Graham
spent Sunday In Braddock Heights
MIR. William Owens, OF Howard
county, has been the recent guest OF
Mr.. Wade H. d. Warfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Merceron, of
Towson, havo been visiting friends
here for several weeks.
MIR. and Mrs. Thomas Stewart, Of
Baltimore, have been the recent
guests Of friends here.
Mrs. Harry Mellor, Miss Eloise
Mellor, Miss Elaine Layden and
Masters Harry and Charles Mellor,
OF Baltimore, are the guests Of Mrs.
J. B. Mellor
Mrs. William H. Forsythe is
spending several weeks in Ocean
CITY
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Two Young Horse Thieves Arrested.

Raymond Rinehart and Frank
Byrne, aged Is years each, of Phila-
delphia, we're arrested by Sheriff
Davis Tuesday morning ait Charles
Starner's, Mount Pleasant, on the
charge OF stealing two horses from q
liveryman at Gettysburg, Pa, Monday
morning. The two boys, both wore
knee pants, hired two horses to ride
around the city for an hour, when
they did not return Monday night "a
search was made for them. They
were traced down the Littlestown
pike toward this city by the Adams
county sheriff, but were not appre-
hended, as the boys had stopped at
Mr. Charles Starner's. where they
missed them.
Mr.. Starner's suspicion was aroused
bv seeing the horses with the boys
and called Sheriff Davis, who had al
ready been notified that the horses
and thieves were at hiB home, who
went to Mr.. Starner's where he cap
tured them. To keep the boys at his
place Mr.. Starner had hired them
to pick potatoes for the day and had
stabbed the horses. Both were sitting
at the breakfast table when tine sheriff
walked in the house.
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MeIy1Ie-UnderwOOd.

1obn Graham Melville. son Of John
q. Melville. president q tne .ns Melyale rnoIs
Wooien Company, owner of tne eTon Wool,
en Mil AZ Oakland, and MISS ], RTiHn WisIl
iam n1n' G. Underwood, were 19aadns1 married
II ussua sraonsre by Rev. Dr. = Ellis BeIl, I'LL
M % %Ghambersburg, r. They wiiL hsr hs,.
N N sykesville, Ma, after septempse ohnrse
q q Hben the groom assumes charse
of the wooden mill
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LARGE SALE
Executors Sale on Stocks, Bonds and
Real Estate.

Messrs. S. C.. Stoner and John T.
Stoner. executors of the late David
Stoner, sold at the Westminster De
post & Trust Company yesterday af-
ternoon stocks, bonds and real estate
amounting to $4,000. Following
are the purchasers:
20 shares Farmers & Mechanics
National Bank stock of Westminster,
Md, to Andrew P- Frizzell, for
$1 $3.50. 123 shares OF the same
stock to Mrs. Emma O. Stoner, for
$3,129.50.
14S shares of the Carroll County
Savings Bank of Uniontown, Md, to
Mrs Viola p. Stoner, for $3,815.00.
40 shares OF the Union National
Bank OF Westminster, Nd, to DIR. J.
H. Billingslea, for $1,640.00
shares Westminster Deposit &
Trust Company of Westminster, Md,
to Charles T.. Nicodemus, for 100000
$500 per cent City OF Westmins-
ter, Md. bonds, to the Westminster
Deposit e Trust Company, for S971.
500 5 per cent Consolidated Pub
lie Utilities Company Bonds of West
minister, Md, to George w. Albaugh,
for $9440O.
dependent Order Of Odd Fellows OF
Westminster, Nd, to John G. Skunk,
for $252.00.
Westminster Water Company Of
Westminster, Md, to George wv. Al
baugh, for $4,000.
10 shares Of the Ice & Cold Storage
Company of Westminster, Nd, to DIR.
/ fAr
shares of the same stock to Mrs. T..
=. Albaugh, for $921.31
shares Of the Land Improvement
Loan & Mfg, Company Of Westmins-
ter, Md, to George w. Albaugh, for
$72.00.
/ share of Nonsectarian @. & r.
Hall Association Of Carroll County,
Md, to George w. Albaugh, for $500.
tilizer Company of Westminster, Md,
to Theodore F. Englar, for $522.00.
z shares Of National Bank Of Com
merce OF Baltimore, Md, to Mrs.
Viola B. Stoner, for $238.00.
10 shares Of Fidelity & Deposit
Company, of Baltimore, Md, to DR..
Lewis K. Woodward, for $1,320.00.
shares of the same stock to J.
Pearre Wantz, for $657.5O. shares
OF the same stock to III. r. Gorsuch,
for $660.OO. shares OF the same
stock to Ernest J. Sponseller, for
$924.00. 5 shares of the same stock
to David E. Stem, for $661.5O. 3
shares OF the same stock to Charles
j.. Nicodemus, for $665.OO. 25 shares
OF the same stock to Charles B.
Stoner, for $3,30S.00.
shares of Fidelity Trust Company
of Baltimore, Md, to Mrs. Viola p.
Stoner. for $867.O0.
81 shares OF National Exchange
Bank Of Baltimore, Md, to ]. Pearre
Wantz. for $7,3S7.00. 10 shares Of
the same stock to Mrs. Viola B.
Stoner, for s1,447.50.
10 shares Of National Bank Of Bal
timore, Md, to J. Pearre Wantz. for
ST, 1926. 90. 20 shares OF the same
stock to Guy w. Segafoose, for
$2,657.50. shares of the same stock
to Richard R. Bennett, for $665.25. 10
| shares of the same stock to Mrs.
Annie r.. Stoner. for $1.330.0O- ?
shares or the same stock to DIR. Lewis
X. Woodward, for s665.00.
House and lot, No. Al Liberty
street, in Westminster, Nd, to Mrs.
Emma G. Stoner, for $2,410.00.
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Why She Went.

Governor Dunno was reminiscent.
When ! was boy in school," ne
said, I'VE always had lecture every
Friday afternoon. One Friday a geo
logist lectured about Niagara Falls,
and told US that in the course of
some 100000 years they would have
worn their way back to Erie, and
that town would BE- left high and dry.
Suddenly the lecture was interrupted
by one Of the girls in the class, who
began to sob Historically.
Why, Edith cried the teacher,
are you ill? What is the matter?
Oh walled the girl, my sister
lives in Erie"
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Arnold.

Margaret Ruth Arnold died at her
home, Ogg Summit, Sunday, August
21, aged 20 years. She is survived by
one daughter. Mrs. Daniel Zincon,
near this city, and one son, Lyman
Arnold, near this city
Funeral services were held Tues
day at 10 a. m, in Deer Park Metho-
dist Protestant church, conducted by
Rev. w. A. Sites. Interment in the
adjoining cemetery. The pallbearers
were J- c. Hoffman. George Logue,
August Gesell, Joshua Woolery,
Henry Bitzel and Henry Fowler. +.
A. Sharrer, funeral director.