The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1916-10-06
HagerStoWn Fair next week.

Inc coal dealers are taxing on their
winter smile.
Old Jack Frost" has been getting in
his work lately.
Next Tuesday, October 10, is the last
day for voters to Register
A number of our citizens attended
the York Fair this week.
The ladies of Camp IS, P. o. of A.
will hold an oyster supper on October
y.
It's hair-splitting question - the
wet and dry issue. Don't you think
so?
Many people would like to be good
if they did not miss so much fun in
the being.
For the fiscal year ended July 81,
1916, the cost per pupil in the Talbot
public schools was SSH.
Harvest Home services will be held
at Trinity Lutheran church, Deer
Park Road, Sunday morning, at 1890
o'clock
The man who complains the most
bitterly about the result of the pri-
maries is usually the same one who
forget to attend.
! 1t is confidently promised that the
noble Carranza troops will start in pur-
suit of Villa when they get new pom
poms to put on top of their caps
! Milton A. Sullivan. real estate agent,
has sold the Fred G. Yingling farm,
situated on the Stone Road, to Harry
! r. Formwalt, of near Mayberry.
| The concert that was to be given
October 10th by the singing class Of
St. Benjamin's Lutheran church has
been postponed on account of the ILL
ness of Mr.. Houck
Mrs. DIR. J. j. Stewart who was
operated upon at the Union Protes-
tant Infirmary, Baltimore, several
weeks ago, has returned to her
home on Pennsylvania avenue. much
improved.
/ All persons in the vicinity of Noun
tain View school house are invited to
be present at a meeting to be held at
the school house, at 7.30 p. m, Mon
day evening, October g. Come and
spend a pleasant evening. No charge
for admittance.
The price of canned goods has again
advanced. and good many packers in
Carroll will profit largely thereby. The
rise was evidently anticipated by our
Gamers, many of them having lately
put forth their best efforts to increase
their output.
The indications are at present that
the potato crop will be considerably
shorter than estimated Farmers who
have potatoes and can do so are hold
ing for higher prices. and before
spring the prices will very likely be
much higher than at present
The cunning season for squirrels
closed Saturday. Another season for
squirrels will open with the regular
cunning season, November 10 to De-
cember "A, inclusive. and if any OF
the little fellows are left which seems
very doubtful. there will then be a
chance to diminish them.
The County Board of Education has
decided that teachers of Washington
county need not require of pupils in
the public schools certificate show
ing that they have been properly vac
Icinated, The matter was discussed
by the members of the board and the
decision reached after careful consid-
GRAFTON.
DR.. France is so afraid of Davie
Lewis sO-called socialistic ideas that
he gets the nightmare regularly over
it. Cheer up, Doc, the worst is yet
to come. Little Davie is going to be
elected and those "SocialiStic" ideas
are going to become laws, just as he
succeeded in putting over the Parcel
Post bill.
The chestnut crop in the Western
Maryland mountains this year is a
failure because of the tree blight.
There will, however, be a large yield
of the cultivated variety. Shellbarks
and hickory nuts will be scarce. Too
much rain early in the summer and
the drouth later in the season are
declared to be the cause.
AS the result of fight Friday night
between William r. Ripple and Manse
Wolford, locomotive tremen at the
Western Maryland Railway power
shops Hagerstown, Ripple died Satur-
day morning at the Washington COun-
ty Hospital, from fractured skull. 1t
is said an enmity of long standing had
existed between the two firemen.
Wolford used shovel to defend him
self and struck Ripple on the head.
The long-drawn-out campaign to
provide uniform signals at railroad
crossings throughout the country is at
last about to meet with success. The
railroads have agreed, provided the
| Public Service Commission is salts
fed, to place uniform signals Of black
and white at every crossing. Tests
have proven that black and white, as
color scheme, is much more con-
| spicuous than red and is not confusing
to engineers.
We note with regret but without
surprise the existence of an organ
ized effort to discredit the administra-
ton of President Wilson," says John
P. White, president of the United Mine
Workers of America, in formal state
ment The attitude of the President
toward the many great questions af-
fecting the men of labor during the
past four years has been such as to
warrant a word of appreciation at our
hands at this time"
The Mt Airy Country Club gave a
very pleasant dance in the Masonic
Temple, at Mt. Airy, September 27.
Music was furnished by the Maryland
Orchestra of Baltimore, and delightful
refreshments were served at intermis-
sion. A large number of Frederick
people we're in attendance. The pat
ronesses were Mrs w. N. Hood, Mrs.
c. E. Poole, Mrs. w. r Rudy, Mrs. c.
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