The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1916-11-24
LOCAL AFFAIRS

The evenings are getting longer.
We object to the eight hour speech
most OF all.
The price of coal is up SO high that
il belongs in the attic instead Ut in
the cellar.
Next Thursday is Thanksgiving
dav and all banks, court house and
a number of the stores will observe
the day by keeping closed.
Buy at home this Christmas. Just
a. good, just as cheap, and makes
YOU feel better and also our mer-
Truant officer A J. Bemiller, of
Silver Run, is having the time of his
life, chasing kids to school. He is
the busiest man in the county today.
The Thanksgiving proclamations
speak of the blessings of free govern
ment and they might also refer to the
still more glorious fact that election
is over.
The play Chin Chin" which was
staged at the Academy OF Music,
Baltimore, last week drew a large
crowd. Many of our citizens took IN
the play and some said 1T was great.
r4yt. John Crum Clark, the Oldest
lhing clowL, who was knocking EN-
nix Luuir 5l.t5 WIZ the ian Rice
Circus way back in 1S49, died at
Long Branch, n. j., Sunday He was
s. years old.
Some of our country horses step
very light when they trot down our
Main street. Ii they don't, they are
liable to land on their backs as the
streets are like glass, they are so
smooth and hard.
The most talked of human beng OIL
the day is the assessor. Has ne PAID
YOU visit? If he has not you WILL nave
him before long and then you can
entertain the family after your even
ing meal with the topic, L DelleVe
7 am assessed too high.
Tn Philadelphia beer is 6 cents a
glass, schooners are smaller, anu
free lunch abolished. we snoulu
worry. 1t won't he long until the dry
wave will brush the whole business
from the State and then the cltlzens
can save the cents and buy lunch
for their families, as we do.
The federal trade commission says
farmers can save from 81 to sly TON
on fertilizers if they mix the lngredl-
ents themselves. Most certainty !,
thew also could save the prices OIL
shoes and clothes if they made tneh
themselves, but their time is employ
ed at something they know more
about.
Bishop Murray presided at the ser
vices Sunday morning In ot. LUXE .
Protestant Episcopal Church III mar
risonville. He confirmed two persons
and also oiIiciated at communion
This service marked the close Oh Ine
services for the winter, maze neCeo-
sarv because the membership IS "loe-
ly distributed
How much daylight one has de-
Dends on whether one lives Oh d
mountain top or in deep valley. IN
life and what one gets out OF IL INC
same thing is true. Some folks "or-
nv along in one deep valley "neIe
gloom and depression prevail "hlle
others sing the live-long day, because
thew are wise enough to live on the
mountain tops of life, where the sum
light is.
On complaint of the postal authorl-
ties that soldiers along the Mexican
border have been sending live lnsecIS'
animals and reptiles through tne
United States mails, General funslon
has ordered that postal regulations
he strictly observed by the Guarus-
man. The soldiers have been malllng
lizards, scorpions, horned toaas anu
other specimens or Doruer llle W 'Ao
folks back home"
The glass milk bottle, which tor
sanitary reasons has supplanteu III
the last few years the old method OF
distributing milk from the cans 10 tne
family nail or other receptacle, is now
doomed to give way to the destrucu-
h1a bottle that will not be used a sec
ond time. according to DR.. Samuel u
Dixon. the Pennsylvania State com
missioner of Health, who says Ihele
is danger of infection through INC
nromiscuous handling of the bottles'
no matter how clean the dairy or the
creamery may be.
While operating a corn cutter 1onn
T. ri. Ridgely, 80 years old, OF neal
Berr6tt ana son VI SehhOSi
met with a painful accident lhursuay
afternoon by having his mana causn'
in the cogs of the machine. MI
Ridgelv was feeding the corn cutter
when his hand came in contact with
the cogs of the machine drawing MS
hand between the fast reVolVlng
wheels. The index finger was paoiy
lacerated and the bones broken IN
several places and crushed 50 badly
that it was necessary to amputate the
injured member.
Two Adams county fertilizer deal
ers are included in the list OF prose
cutions made recently by the State
Department of Agriculture. Tney
have settled their case by the pay
ment of fines and costs. A bulletin
issued by the department calling at
tention to the arrests that have been
made in the state as a result or fall
INSPECTIONS says: TWENTY-FIVE prose-
cutions for the sale Of commercial
fertilizers that had not been register
e. and seven prosecutions for the sale
of fertilizers that did not meet the
manufacturers guarantee upon analy-
sis have been ordered by Secretary OF
Agriculture Charles z. Patton.