The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-08-31

Centenary Methodist Episcopal church
are visiting friends in this city.
The Missionary and Aid Society O
st. Benjamin's Lutheran church will
meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lev
Myers, Thursday, September, s, at
p. m.
The County Commissioners inspect
ed the road being built from fancy
town to Keymar on Tuesday. Some
thing less than miles is to be com
pleted.
The Real Estate Company of Car,
roll County, sold the Elliott Hotel
located in Taneytown, to Mr. anG
Mrs. A. II. Bankard and wife, oil
Taneytown.
Miss Sarah Kemper, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Kemper, Penn.
sylvania Avenue who had been suffer.
ing with typhoid fever is much i'm,
proved and is able to be out again.
An Italian that applied at the Farm
Army Camp yesterday to act as cook
was badly injured in his left hand
by the barrel Of a gun exploding that
he shot off. His hand is lacerated
terribly.
Shorty" Long, who operates a
leather machine at the Tannery, had
his left hand caught yesterday while
operating it. His hand was SO ter
ribly lacerated on the fingers that
considerable trouble was experienced
| in dressing it.
1t was inadvertently stated in the
Baltimore News, August % that Eltinge
F. Reifsnider, son of Mr.. and Mrs
John l.. Reifsnider, Jr., was a member
of Battery A. He is a corporal in
Company Fl, First Maryland Regiment
now at Admission, Ala.
John Frederick Burlington, of New
Windsor, who is now practicing flying
in the air called on few of his many
friends here the last of the week He
left Sunday evening for Dayton, Ohio
and, we understand he goes from there
to California next.
The Chicago Limited was held up
three hours Saturday at Medford Sta
ton on account of a freight car
jumping the track in long freight
train. The car was in the center Of the
train. A wrecking crew placed the car
back on the track.
James NJ. Shellman received a post
card from Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r.
Miller, dated Chicago, August 25,
We are starting on a long Western
trip" On the Goth, they were in
Omaha, Nebraska, and had a glimpse
of that fine Western city.
Owners of dairy herds in Maryland
are selling them off. In spite Of the
earnest warning of Mr. Hoover to
conserve the dairy industry, farmers
in the last week have found it neces-
sary to sell their COWS because Of an
advance in the price of feed.
The price of No. l Northern spring
wheat was fixed at 1920 a bushel, at
Chicago, for the 1917 crop yesterday
by the Wheat Fair Price Committee,
headed by H. A. Garfield, whose find
ings, reached after three days DELHI
Grafton, were submitted to and approx
ed by President Wilson.
Norman Bankert, of Wanesburg,
Ohio, who is visiting at Union Mihs,
fell down an open stairway in G. w.
Teiser's store, August % and broke
his left arm at the elbow. The injured
man was brought to the office of Dr.
J. J. Stewart, and then to Baltimore,
where an X-Ray examination was
held and the fracture reduced.
Probably for the first time in the
history Of the county a will written on
two pages Of bank book has been
offered for probate in the office Of
Register and Recorder Slower, Way
ncsbOrO, Pa. The will contains less
than 100 words, and was written by
the maker, Miss Ellen Henkell, Of
Mercersburg, two days before her
death.
Acting on the recommendation of
the Winchester, Va, and county
health boards because of the infan-
tile paralysis outbreak in the Shen-
andOah Valley, the directors of the
Winchester Fair have called off the
exhibition set for the latter part of
September The annual convention
of the Anti-SalOon League and many
other meetings have also been can
celled for the same reason
Mr. Ray Spencer, this city, who is
playing right field for the Dayton Base
Ball Club, in the Central League,
was badly injured Friday morning
when a fast B. & O. Railroad freight
train crashed into the passenger train
he was riding on at Mansfield Ohio.
He received injuries to his back and
head and had an ear torn off. Mrs.
Spencer and children left Monday for
Dayton, Ohio, where Mr. Spencer was
taken.
The nineteenth annual reunion of
the Reformed churches of Carroll
county, was held September % at Ty-
rome, near Baust Church. The ad-
dress of welcome was delivered by
Rev. Paul d. Yoder Other addresses
were made by Rev. Chalmers w.
Walck, Of Westminster, and Rev.
Frank H. Blatt, of Manchester Music
was furnished by the different church
choirs, assisted by the Baust Church
Orchestra and the Union Bridge Band.
Melancholy over the thought that
rejected draft men would be patched
up so as to be able to serve, Stanley
Shankle, y years old, near Harmony
Grove, committed suicide Saturday by
taking paris green. He hid in the hay
loft of his fathers barn and fed him
self the poison with a spoon until he
had almost emptied the box Twelve
hours later, after the farm had been
searched, he was found in agony. He
recently had been exempted by the
county board tecause Of physical de-
fectS.
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