The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-01-26

more Auto Show this week telling
the people who visit them how many
miles their cars can go on gallon OF
gasoline, and that hills look like an
Adams apple to the power of the
machine, and many more similar
strong points.
Charles e. Eckenrode and Donald
Myers, both of this city, have formed
co-partnership under the name OF
Eckenrode & Myers, and have opened
store with a full line of auto &C
cessories on West Main street. They
will also do vulcaniZing. Both are
experienced in the business.
Comptroller McMullen's report to
Governor Harrington for the fiscal
year ending September 80, 1916, show
ed that the receipts had been $685.
$3.50 for the general funds, $5,451,-
Ol4.20 for special, or dedicated,
funds and $1,498,365 for the loan
funds, a total of ST., 1868 060.10.
Mrs. Virginia E. Walsh, of this city,
who states in her petition that she is
the wife of David E. Walsh, labor
er and formerly a practitioner Of law
applied for the benefit of the bank
ruptcy law in Baltimore Tuesday
Her liabilities are $6,019, incurred
Jointly by Mrs Walsh and her hus-
band, and assets $500.
Mr.. James L. Stoner, special
police officer of the B. & o. Railroad
stationed at Baltimore for the past
year has been promoted to a State
police officer and is stationed at
Brunswick, Md, where he will reside
in the future Mr.. and Mrs. Stoner
spent Sunday with Mr.. StOner's par
ents. Sheriff and Mrs. James NJ
StOner, this city.
Wheat-growing farmers throughout
the country are cautioned by the De-
partment of Agriculture not to be
tempted by the prevailing high prices
offered for wheat to part with their
good seed wheat and rely upon
shrunken and diseased seed for SOW
ing this year. Disaster to next years
crop is predicted by experts If poor
seed is depended upon.
Tom Baumgartner called at oul
office and said he either left on the
public desk at the pOstOttice, OF
dropped it somewhere in the village
an old pocket knife Of very small
value, only to him a relic-of light
brOWnish. simple wooden back, with
the larger blade much worn in the
centre and in general appearance, fa1
from new. No reward, yet great
thankfulness if left with any OF the
genial clerks at the Post Office.
If YOU are kicker and see the
shadows of f. lure in everything that
is proposed to help the town, fol-
heavens sake go into some secluded
canyon and kick your own shadow on
the clay bank, and give the men who
are working to build up the town a
chance. One longfaCed, hOllOw-eyed
whining, Carping, chronic kicker can
do more to keep away business and
capital from a town than all the
droughts, short crops, chinch bugs,
cyclones and billiards. combined.
The funniest thing is the mishap OF
a gentleman whose wife pays the
store bill He has been in the habit
of having his cigar bill charged as
potatoes, and when his wife takes her
pencil and begins to reckon, she
finally finds that they have eaten more
than ten carloads of potatoes and she
doesn't believe the account is right.
The grocer and the smoker are now
between the upper and neither
millstones, and it is hard to tell who
will be pulverized the finest at the
close.
The money in the banks does not
belong to the banks. 1t is the peo-
pies money. 1t is put in the banks
for convenience and safety. The
banks use it and the business men
borrow it. The great share Of bust
ness Of the country is done with Dor
rowed money. Ii the people with
draw their money the banks can't
make loans, and the business men, I'M
able to borrow, go by the board, and
this condition continued any great
length of time produces a panic. and
then those who have drawn the money
out of the banks, and in reality pro-
duced the panic, will find they are the
first to suffer. If you have any money
you are not using put it in the bank.
Have you ever wondered what the
result would be if the people of this
town thought and said nothing but
good of each other for thirty or sixty
days? Think? 1t would work a re-
volution in both mind and body. Peo-
pie who are constantly nagging
would have lost the habit. The best
that is in each one would have un-
consciously forced it's way to the fore,
and nobility of character would have
made rapid strides toward supplanting
the lenoble and vicious in man ard
WCluankjnd. Our town might not be
a Garden Of Eden, but it would come
nearer to it than any other spot on
earth And it wouldn't cost US a
penny.
A Kansas editor is about as hard to
get ahead of as a Kansas cyclone. O.
w. Weaver, of the Sedgwich Panta-
graph, recently raised the price of his
paper from 81 to $3.50 a year, and in
replying to some complaint heard
about the change says: You may be
of the opinion that the paper isn't
worth $1.50. Neither is a gallon of
CacOIi1a worth mound