The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1916-01-21

| Master James w. Black, who has
been sick, is able to be out again.
The henpecked man whose wife
buys his shoes can't even call hif
soul his own.
Seven pigs were frozen to death on
Friday night in pen at Mr.. J. ID.
Crowls, Center street.
Some soil is very fertile and some
is so poor that it won't even raise the
interest on mortgage.
Mr.. Carl Abbott, of Union Bridge,
has taken charge of a Walk-Over shoe
store in New London, Conn.
Miss Florence Kelly, teacher in the
Oakland Mills school, is confined to
her home with diphtheria.
Many a girl who marries man to
reform him passes up whole lot OF
fellows who don't need it.
Skating was fine Sunday on the
ponds around this city and the
skaters took advantage of it.
Try to drown your SORROWS in the
flowing bowl and you will find they
are equipped with life preservers.
Mr.. w. Rein Motter, Taneytown, is
acting as agent at Keymar for the
Pennsylvania Railroad, i'm the alb
sence of Agent w. w. Sweigart
Tuesday morning the thermometer
registered degrees above zero in
this city, being the coolest day this
winter. The cold wave struck here
on Sunday night after a light snow
| had fallen
While on his way to visit one of his
patients, DR.. ID. B. Sprecher, of
Sykesville, had the misfortune of
having his automobile badly wrecked
by being run into by large touring
car on the Frederick Road, near
| Cooksville on Sunday afternoon, jan
uary 9.
Three colored women took a watch
and $50 from a white man in Chester
Pa. this week Two of the women,
weighing 200 pounds each, sat on him
while the third robbed him: The
man was either drunk, asleep or a
light weight to let three niger wo-
men pull a stunt like that on him.
For the first time in it's history
Taneytown is regularly supplied with
a Baltimore evening paper, the bus
from Westminster making the service
possible We therefore enjoy the
luxury of both Philadelphia and Balti-
more evening papers, the former be-
ing OF the first edition" class.-Car-
rol Record.
The annual report of the Western
Union Telegraph Company for 1915
with December estimated, shows an
enormous gain in earnings, largely
by reason of the war Total revenues
amounted to S52.356,2S6, against $47,-
463, 952 in 1914, and the net income of
! $10,21S,3S1 represents an increase of
$4,846,9 1856.
| Linwood will no longer abide in
darkness, but will stand on equal
basis with the neighboring towns. d.
G.. Bankert, of Union Bridge, was
there the first of the week making
contracts for wiring the houses for
the new electric light line which will
run from Union Bridge and thence to
| UniOntoWn:
Little Ruth Huber, Chambersburg,
Pa, the siX-year-old girl who was
criminally assaulted after being taken
into a vacant house by an unknown
man on December 10, identified a man
who was detained by the Cumberland,
Md, police as her assailant and the
fellow who gave his name as Charles
Olson, and his home as Brooklyn, N.
Y, was taken to Chambersburg and
placed in Jail.
The Loyal Temperance Legion
meets every Saturday afternoon lat
$50 o'clock at the Times Building.
The w. G.. IT. U. is offering three
prizes this year to this organization.
The first prize is for the most per-
! feet attendance, the second for good
! behavior, and the third for the great
est number of new members secured.
Mrs. DR.. Feeman will have charge of
the lesson this Saturday afternoon.
/ The stockholders of the First Ma
tional Bank, New Windsor elected the
! following officers: David e. Stem, j.
Winfield Snader, John G. Snader, John
S Bale, j. Walter Englar, Nathan H.
Bale, Townsend Scott, George P. B.
Englar, Thomas ]. Stauffer and Alb
ram z. Snader. The officers are
David E. Stem, President; J. Winfield
Snader, vice president; Nathan I'll.
Bale, cashier, j. Walter Getty, book
keeper, and John S. Bale. clerk.
! An illustration of an imaginary line
between counties or townships caus-
ing a unique situation is the farm of
/ A. W. Bream, near Uriah Postoffice,
Pa. Mr.. Bream's house is i'm South
Middleton township, Cumberland
county, his barn in Dickinson town.
ship Cumberland county and part of
mis- farm in Huntington township,
Adams county. However he pays all
OF his tax in the township and county
in which his residence is situated.
The condition of Florida must be
something unusual according to the
letter written by Joseph l. Gist, of
Mcintosh, Fla, to the Times OF
January 4, 1916. He says: If we
down here don't soon have some kind
of a change I do not know what will
| become of us. Democratic free Trade
has sent us to poverty. l have lived
in the south years and 1915 was the
best times" He then says lin 1915
| $75,O 900 in farm products went to
waste" And so 1915 was the best
year, still it was good and bad too.