The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-10-19

The following high school students
from Carroll county entered the boys
stock judging contest, which took
place Wednesday under the direction
of the Extension Department of the
Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station at Frederick Fair: Key Mar,
Arthur Rooms; Mount Airy, Malcolm
Watkins, Robert Spurrier, George
Bowman, C. E. Kolb, Arthur F. Zepp,
Donald Watkins.
Tuesday morning between 40 and
$50 a. m, some thief or thieves enter
ed Mr.. James T. Trayer's cellar, East
Main street, and got away with a sack
containing about II bushel of pota-
toes and p jars of fruit The en-
trance was made by removing a win
dow pane from the back porch ana
then unlocking the door. This is the
second time this summer thieves have
visited Mr.. Trayer's cellar.
Manchester will celebrate next We'd
nesday, October "a, the day set apart
by President Wilson as Liberty Loan
Day by having a parade Of school
children and other organizations at >
O clock and in the evening at o'clock
u parade of decorated automobiles,
three prizes being offered for the best
decorated Following this Senator
William j. Ogden, of Baltimore, ard
other prominent speakers will speak
at the Square. The Manchester Drum
Corps will furnish music. Everybody
invited.
Last Saturday evening about >
o'clock, Phillip Roger, son of Prof. and
Mrs. John T. Roger, West Main street,
received a badly sprained back and
a bruised knee and hip when the BIZ
cycle on which he was riding skidded
and threw him under the front wheel
of an automobile driven by Mr.. H. H.
Harbaugh, this city. Phillip was rid
ing on West Main street, near Bond,
when Mr.. Harbaugh came up behind
him. Surprising he would continue up
Main street, Phillip turned to the side
but instead Mr.. Harbaugh turned up
Bond street, Phillip drew the brakes
on his wheel which caused it to skid
throwing him under the car with the
above results.
MT and Mrs. Edison, of Charles
town, w. Va, in company with the
latter's mother and two young men
were on their way from Washington
to Charlestown. The Edsons had
been visiting in Washington and were
being accOmanied home by relatives.
While rounding a curve near Ridge
vile the driver looked over the side
of the car, when the car swerVed to
one side and struck a pole a glanc-
ing blow The running board and
fender were torn from the car, sew
eral spOkes knocked from one of the
wheels, the top ripped off and the
side of being cut by flying glass the
occupants were not seriously injured.
Mr. William G. Brooks, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph d. Brooks, this city,
and graduate of the Westminster
High School in the class of 1904, has
a very creditable article in the An
nual Railway Number of The Electric
Journal, one of the leading journals
OF the electric world, entitled Train
Operation In City Service. Excellent
cuts of Mr.. Brooks and also of some OF
the equipment used by the Milwaukee
| City Railway Company, of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, are published with the ar
ticle. Mr.. Brooks is a railway sales
man for the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing Company, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, and is in the Chicago
office of the company. AS a graduate
of the Westminster High School he has
the highest regard for Mr.. George F.
Morelock, Miss Ida LOckard and 9TH
ers of the faculty who are still teach
ing in that institution.