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

Ou, you wednesday Will yOuE Chilly
breezes.
Do you know, a quart and half of
milk has as much food value as a
pound of steak.
Claude Mitten has opened barber
shop in a room in the Fouke prop
erty on East Main street.
To be a good man-live your best,
help your neighbor and keep your
subscription paid in advance.
Mr.. Luther Zahn, of Shipley is con-
fined to his house with broken
ankle. The accident was caused by
him slipping when he made step.
Mr.. Charles Diffendal, Bond street,
has accepted a position with Bartlett
e Hayward, munition factory, at Bal
timore, and took up his duties last
week.
Financiers are worrying over the
great quantities of god flowing to
this country A little of it in West
minister wouldn't keep us awake at
nights worrying about it.
F. p. Gemmill, state game protector,
in his annual report to DR.. Joseph
KaIbfus, secretary of the game COM
mission, says that during the season
which just closed 10000 rabbits were
killed in York county.
Tariff bulletin No. 55 of the Public
Service Commission calls for
change of freight rates on grain and
grain products to apply from various
stations on the Western Maryland
Railway to>this city.
Mr.. Evans, of Baltimore, has put in
operation a freight line between this
city and Baltimore, and is doing a
big business The truck leaves this
city at 7 o'clock in the morning and
arrives here at 6 in the evening.
A successful shooting match was
held Thanksgiving afternoon at North
Branch Hotel. The honors were won
by Carl Jenkins, of Woodbine. The
next shooting match will be held on
Saturday, December 16, at 1.3O p. m.
The Ladies' Aid Society of st. Ben
| jamin's Lutheran church will hold a
meeting at the home of Mrs. John
Stevenson, Thursday, December a.,
at 80 D. m. Holy Communion will
be held at St Benjamin's Lutheran
church, December II, at the morning
| service.
Representative Linthicum, of Mary
| land, member of the House Com
mittee On Coinage, introduced bill
providing for the coinage of a three
cent piece of standard weight OF 60
| troy grains. This coin would compare
| favorably with the one-cent piece, eX-
cept that it would be larger.
The Federal Trade Commission de-
cded to hold another public hearing
on the news print paper situation on
| December 18th, and have invited
newspaper publishers and manufac-
turers to raise prices. The officers
of the American Newspapers AssO-
citation testified at a previous hearing
of the commission that the present
high prices were due to a combination
among the manufacturers. Investi-
gators who have been at work for
months ON this basis will testify.
The jury of inquest which met in
| Baltimore Tuesday to inquire into
the death of Thomas Burns Boland.
! 20 years DID, who was killed by a
Western Maryland train Monday af-
! teTnOOn, gave verdict of accidental
death and eXonerated the railroad
company Boland was struck by an
engine while walking on the railroad
track.
Mr.. }. G. Wilson, of Franklin
| Grove, Lee county, H., in renewing
| his subscription says: We are hav-
| ing fine fall weather. The ground
I
/ Crops were not extra good this sum
mer on account of the dry weather.
/ We are always glad for the paper to
see the news from our old Maryland
home.
Cards have been sent out to friends
from Mr.. and Mrs. William Levin
SeabroOk, this city, to the marriage of
their daughter, Miss Frances Guyon.
to Mr.. Ralph Whitman, Civil Engineer
of the United States Navy. The cere-
mOny will take place on Tuesday, De-
CemEer l., at p. m, in the parlOr of
the Westminster Hotel, where Mr. and
Mrs. Seabrook make their home
The highest temperature for the
month of November was on November
>, which was y degrees, the lowest
. DGlnS ~ Ou -NONeulDer 20. Inc pTCCl-
pitation was 1.S5 inches Rain fell
II days during the month. The total
rainfall for Wednesday and Thursday
was Sc. Hail fell twice during the
month, on November 4 and IA, the
first snow of the season falling on
the IA. Last year the first snow fell
on November 4.
A great many people fondly imagine
that if they are honest, pay their
debts and do not speak disparagingly
OF other people, they are among the
mainstays OF the town. But such is
not always the case Honesty and a
caE, full mouth are much to be COM
10" led, but his town needs more than
tt.2t. 1t needs citizens who will go
O]t OF their way to do something for
the town, who will labor to better 10
cal conditions, who will go their
length to bring new industries and
new people to our community Such
people as these are in reality the
mainstays of a town.
! Perhaps you hadn't realized it, but
/ Christmas is not so very far off and if
you don't watch out, Santa Claus is
going to catch you unprepared on De-
cember 25th, with foot in your
stocking, where, by all rights and
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