The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-30
Wheat is $2.0S today.

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Poe & Davies, bankers and brokers
| Baltimore, are advertising this week
that they will confer with anyone TO-
| garding grain for future delivery
against his growing crops.
The Littlestown Savings Institution
observed it's golden anniversary last
week by moving into it's handsome
marble building. The bank is the
third oldest in the county and its new
| building compares favorably with those
of banks in many towns several times
the size of Ltttlestown.
Mr.. J. Hampton Baumgartner, pub
! licity representative Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, is at the University
! Hospital, where he will undergo a
! slight operation. While Mr.. Baum
gartner's condition is in no way ser
Gus, he will be compelled to stay at the
hospital for about three weeks
A freight train that passed through
here on Sunday afternoon looked like
an excursion train from the number of
buns that were riding on it. There
were no less than - on the train and
! they made themselves very conspic-
| ious. Some of them would have made
good soldiers from their appearance.
Major George c. Wedderburn, reg
| istrar's clerk in the Health Depart
ment, Baltimore, and spent his sum-
mers here for several years, was taken
i'll at his desk yesterday afternoon and
sent to Mercy Hospital. Major Wedder-
burn was librarian Of the department
during the administration of Mayor
/ Davidson.
hn
cenSes will begin April when the new
quart rs begins. Tags at the three
quarter rate, which goes into effect
on Sunday next, will not be delivered
before Monday. Many applications are
coming in by mail and these will be
filled and the tags sent out to reach
the owners on Monday morning in all
! parts of the state.
| The German sympathiZer in this
city, who made the remark Wednes-
/ day that he hoped ali the men in Com
! pany II would be killed before they
returned received brick in the
back Of his neck as an answer from
the party he was talking to. He
would have been handled very rough
! ly and probably badly injured if he
! had not made a hasty retreat
Run down by freight train in the
/ Western Maryland Railway yards Hag-
erstown. Monday, Frank Diveto, an
Italian, 70 years old, was killed. and
j. A. Dorsey, son of the yard foreman,
! had mis- right arm severed below the
elbow and probably sustained internal
injuries. He was taken to Washing
ton County Hospital. Another work
man was badly iacerated and bruised
| Suspicious characters have been
! found in the back yards Of residences
after night on West Main street and
John street, the past week On Friday
night supposed thief was found in
the back yard of Reese BiXler, West
Main street, and was chased, but man
aged to elude his purSuers by
| jumping over fences until he reached
the alley, making his escape. Keep
your doors locked and your gun load
| ed
For a number of years it was GU.
tOmary for us to receive a generous
supply Of garden seeds Since the
! hOmegardening movement began
throughout the country as a means of
meeting the increased cost of food the
! Department of Agriculture has been
sWamped with hundreds of thousands
| OF requests for free seeds. Officials
OF the department say that unfortu-
nately they have no seeds to dis
tribute by members of Congress them
selves direct, and this years supply of
about $2OO.OU0 worth was long ago
exhausted. No more free seeds will
be available until late in the sum
mer.
Mr.. W. d. Taylor. of Washington.
representing the proposed Washing
ton, Westminster & Gettysburg rail
road, met with the LittlestOWn cOun-
Gil and presented an application for
a franchise granting the right-of-
way for the proposed road through
the borough. The matter was con-
sldered and then action deferred I'M
I'll the next regular meeting Other
representatives have been in that sec
! ton recently securing and renewing
rights OF way, and have met with
most cordial treatment The MANY
farmers interviewed along the pro-
posed route are heartily in favor of
the railroad, and are cooperating
with the representatives
The recruiting officers, Mr.. Harry D.
FOWble and Officer William r. Helm
! 49, IiC w CoIClA Midi SldnQ halfway,
who were returning from HamDstead
and Manchester, where they secured a
number OF men for guard duty at Hag-
erstoWn during the strike, had a mar
row escape from injury on Monday
AFTERNOON when the automobile ,Aev
were riding in struck a SiX-hOrse Wag-
on and mashed up the machine They
were shocked but not injured. The
accident happened on Red Hill. the
steepest hill on the Manchester road
Inc break failing to work was the
cause OF the smash. The auto was
hauled in by one of Thomas. Bennett
, d hunters large trucks, and was own
ed by ii. H. Iarbaugh.
That the majority of people have
heretofore overlooked or forgotten the
value or gardens is indicated by the
rapidly with which the idea of vacant
lot and backyard gardening in cities
mas sprung into prominence since the
RAPID rise in the prices of food pro-
ductS. Vegetables and especially
canned goods are unusually high in
price and gardens will do more than
ever before to cut down the cost of
llVlng. Properly cared for small
plot OF garden will supply enough
vegetables for the average family
Good seed, proper culture methods
plantfood, preferable in the form of
both manure and