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 cam gO on a 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 nf this city, have formed
a cO-partnerHhip under the name Of
Eckenrode e Myers, and have opened
store with full line or auto &C
ceHSOrieS OH West Main street They
will also do vulcanizing. Both are
experienced I'm the business.
Comptroller McMullen'S report tO
Governor Harrington for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1916, show
ed that TIM receipts had been $5,016B-
$3.50 to- the general funds, $5,451,-
014.20 for special, or dedicated,
funds and $1,498,965 for the loan
funds, a total OF Sill 96s,O6O.7O.
Mrs. Virginia e. Walsh, Of this city,
who states in her petition that she ID
the wife Of David IL. Walsh, labor
er and formerly practitioner Of law,
applied for the benefit of the bank
ruptcy law iii Baltimore Tuesday.
Her liabilities are $6,019, incurred
Jointly by Mrs Walsh and her hus-
band, and assets 5000
Mr.. James L. Stoner, a special
police officer of the B- AZ O- Railroad,
stationed AT Baltimore for the past
year has been promoted to State
police officer and is stationed AIT
Brunswick, Md, where he will reside
! in the future. Mr.. and Mrs. Stoner
spent Sunday with MT. Stoner's par
lents. Sheriff and Mrs James M
| Stoner, this city.
Wheat-growing farmers throughout
\ the country are cautioned by the De
partment Of Agriculture not to DC
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 IL poor
seed is depended upon.
Tom Baumgartner called at our
office and said he either left on the
public desk ait the postofhce, Ol
dropped 1T somewhere in the village
an old pocket knife OF very small
value, only to him relic-of lighi
\ brOWnish, simple wooden back, witt
the larger blade much worn in the
centre and in general appearance, fal
\ from new. NO reward, VT great
| thankfulness LIZ left with any OF the
i genial clerks at the Post Office.
If YOU are "a kicker and ZEE tht
\ shadows Of failure in everything thai
is proposed to help the town, To-
N heavens sake 10 into some secluded
4 canyon and kick your own shadow or
the clay bank, and give the men who
are working to build up the town
chance One long-faced, hollow-eyed
4 whining, carping, chronic kicker car
II clio more to- keep away business ant
\ capital from a town than all thu
droughts, short crops, chinch bugs
cyclones and blizzards combined.
] The funniest thing Is the mishap o.
a gentleman whose wife pays tht
II store bill. He has been in the habi
of having his cigar bill charged al
potatoes, and when his wife takes hel
\ pencil and begins to- reckon, Sht
Y finally finds that they have eaten more
than ten carloads Of potatoes and sht
4 doesn't believe the account il right
\ The grocer and the smoker are nov
/ between the upper and neither
millstones, and 1T il hard to- tell wht
win d. pulYerized the finest AT tht
close.
4 The money in the banks does no
\ belong to the banks. III Ii the PEG
pies money. 1t is put in the banks
for convenience and safety. Th'
banks use ii and the business me1
borrow it. The great share Of bust
/ ness or the country il done with Dor
roWed money. If the people with
| draw their money the banks cam
make loans, and the business men, un
\ able To borrow, 10 by the board, ant
this condition continued any grea
4 length of time produces a panic, ant
then those who have drawn the none.
4 out OF the banks, and In reality pro
Il duced the panic, will find they are tn,
fTst to- suffer If you have any none!
you are not using put 1t in the bank.
Have you ever wondered what tn
result would BE- III the people of thiI
town thought and said nothing .bu
good of each other for thirty or sixt.
days? Think? tit would work "a nc
volution III both mind and body. PEG
4 pie who are constantly nagginl
would have lost the habit The bes
| that IL in each one would have un
consciously forced it's way to the fore
and nobility OF character would havt
made rapid strides toward supplantinl
Il the ignobIe and vicious in man ant
H woInanlrind Our town might not b,
a Garden or Eden, but IL would com,
nearer to it than any other spot OF
earth And III wouldn't cost IT, !
VI penny.
A Kansas editor is about as hard t.
let ahead of a. q Kansas cyclone. q
VI WI Weaver, or the Sedgwich Panta
graph, recently raised the price of hi
paper from $1 to $1.5O year, and II
replying to some complaint heart
about the change says: "You may bt
of the opinion that the paper ism
VI worth $1.50. Neither IL a gallon d
gasoline worth FL cents, nor pound
of veal worth 80 cents, nor 10 pounds
or sugar worth $1, nor a bushel o1
corn worth 80 cents, but these are The
prices the people are paying. Pota-
n toes are retailed 1t $2 bushel and
sow bosom at 20 cents pound. Sc
don't get mad at u.s. Goodness knows
W. didn't start that fuss in Europe
The former students Of Western
Maryland College who will attend tbs
\ mid-Winter banquet nc the Emerson
I in Baltimore, on the evening OF Fri
day, February 9th, want to have q
return train leaving Baltimore at AZ
o'clock or later. This train can be
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