The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1916-12-08
LOCAL AFFAIRS

The Sunday school of New Windsor
Methodist Church will hold it's annual
christmas entertainment on Tuesday
evening. December 26, at 7.30 o'clock.
l last WeStbOund passenger train
3r lie Western Maryland Railroad,
vn, ii York, Pa, plowed through a
biz u0Gk of crows roosting on the
rrac:,s. Everything in the vicinity
was covered with flying feathers.
Mr.. William F. Jordan, Centre
street, moved his family to Baltimore
Oh saturday where he has secured
employment. Mr.. Jordan was a
deputy under Sheriff Stoner, but re
signed
William Caple, of Shipley, bought
his fathers farm, containing 40 acres,
located near Shipley, at public sale on
Wednesday,, for $3070. The farm was
sold Ivy his mother. Mrs. Margaret Z.
APPLE a eXecutriX.
An Investigator declares that the
n.GltIe man gets the profits on farm
products and that two-thirds of the
farmers get nothing. We don't hap
Nnn to know who gets the profits of
understand who fails to get them from
this one.
Mr.. Joseph Leppo, of Patapsco,
killed eight hogs their weights being
as follows: 3S4, $50, SOL, PIP, 242, 24O,
24G and 476 pounds; Mr.. Calvin r.
Chew killed four, weighing 4631a, 435,
t251. and BAT pounds, respectively,
and Mr.. George Mann, two weighing
@9f and 374 pounds.
The road known as the Washington
and Westminster pike which has been
undergoing resurfacing under
Thomas. Bennett & Hunter, contrac-
rors, for the past three months, is
about completed, and will be opened
i'm week or so. The two trucks used
by the contractors, hauled $40 tons of
stone on Tuesday.
Struck by a stone thrown into the
locomotive cab window, Cleveland
Smith, an engineer of an eastbound
Western Maryland freight train, had
hi, skull fractured and possibly was
fatally injured late Wednesday after
noon JUST as the engine he was driv-
.m4 went under the Frederick avenue
bridge, near Port tOViEgtOn.
Shaves are going up, New sched-
U.n in downtown barber shops next
Saturday. This is the notice given
h" public Of Baltimore city by the
.arNer~ who are hanging together on
rur DDOS ton. The rise in price
viii. . brought about as the result of
TIM r. IN cost OF materials used in
utIylng the human physiOgnomy.
The fourth day of March. 1917, will
come OF Sunday, and there is no eX-
@ot provision in the law covering
what shall be done in the matter of
wearing in the President. President
]iayes took the oath twice, on March
5rd and 9Th. Both Monroe and Tay-
-@r rook the oath on Monday, March
5th res dent Wilson, it is said, will
lake he oath twice, March Bird and
eth.
Guilty 01 murder in the first degree
was the verdict of the jury in the case
Jl Douglass Shipley in court at
Rockville, whose trial on an indict-
ment charging him with the murder
Of his Wife's 1-year-old baby girl,
Sarah Elizabeth Shipley, in the Ship
ley home, on the farm of Thomas B.
Howard. near Unity, Montgomery
county. on September -, was con-
Guided late Thursday afternoon.
John Waunstrect. of Grafton. w.
Va, tried at Hagerstown, Tuesday for
The murder Of Harry w. Matthews, a
Western Maryland Railway brake
man, in Frederick G.. Snyder's saloon
in Cumberland about two months ago,
was found guilty OF murder in the
first degree. The jury, which rem
4ered its verdict Tuesday night after
an hours deIiberatiOn, recommended,
however, that the death sentence be
not imposed
Many applications are now being
made for 1917 automobile licenses.
Some applicants desire certain num-
bers. Frequently a license tag with
only two figures is requested; or may
be three, or four. One person wants
the figures on his license to CORES
pond with the year he was born An
other wants the same number he had
last year, and still others don't care,
any old figure will do them so it car
ries them through 1917.
After marriage about seven weeks,
Mrs. Cornelia Kline Englar, Frederick
has applied for a partial divorce from
her husband, Joseph w. Englar. The
Dill states that the parties were mar
ried on October 10, 1916, by Rev J. o.
WrightsOn, pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church. The plaintiff and
defendant, it is said, never resided
together as husband and wife Adam
donment is alleged as the ground of
the separation. The defendant, it is
alleged, has never contributed to the
support of the Plaintiff. Mr.. Englar
resides at Key Mar, while Mrs. Englar
IS employed at a store i'm Frederick
The Hanover Evening Sun says:
John Dorsey, a colored lad from
Westminster, Md, pleaded guilty of
stealing bicycle from Edward Moul,
While the wheel was standing on West
Philadelphia street, along the curb,
IN the York County Court Tuesday.
Inc bicycle was subsequently recov-
cred along the sidewalk in front of
the Royal engine house, where Dorsey
placed it and took another that was
Standing there. Sentence of six
months in each case was given, to run
concurrently. Letters we're read from
prominent citizens of Westminster
stating that Dorsey had borne good
reputation before the thefts in York.
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