The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-30
Wheat w. sos today.

~ MIS-. FTGQ ~. Mlll6T anu daughters
have moved to the residence of Mrs
/ John f. Cunningham, East Main street
Poe a. Davies, bankers and brokers
Baltimore, are advertising this week
Y that they will confer with anyone r0-
garding grain for future delivery
against his growing crops.
The LittlestoWn Savings Institution
observed It'd golden anniversary last
week by moving into its handsome
marble building, The bank il the
third oldest III the county and its new
\ building compares favorably with those
of banks in many towns several times
the size Of Littlestown.
Mr. r. Hampton Baumgartner, pub
Lefty representative OF the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, IL ait the University
slight operation While Mr. Baum
v gartner's condition il i'm no way ser
GUS, IT, will b. compelled to stay att 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 we're riding OF it. There
we're no less than IL on the train and
they made themselves very conSpic-
ions Some OF them would have made
4 good soldiers from their appearance.
Y Major George G. Wedderburn, reg
N istrar's clerk i'm the Health Depart
h 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
Y Davidson.
" The next rush for automobile Ill
censes will begin April when the new
y quarters begins Tags at the three
quarter rate, which goes into effect
NJ ON Sunday next, will not BE- delivered
before Monday, Many applications are
coming III by mail and these will be
filled and the tags sent out To reach
ii the owners on Monday morning i'm all
parts Of the state.
Y: The German sympathizer in this
city, who made the remark Wednes-
Nj day that he hoped all the men i'm Conn
Il pany Fl would be- killed before they
returned received a brick in the
back of his neck as an answer from
the party he was talking to-. He
would have been handled very rough
n ly and probably badly injured if he
had not made a hasty retreat
Run down by freight train i'm the
Western Maryland Railway yards Hag-
erstown, Monday, Frank Diveto, an
italian, rs years old, was killed, and
M. ~ Dorsey, son of the yard foreman,
had his right arm severed below the
elbow and probably sustained internal
n Nnlr %r
tom County Hospital. Another work
! man was badly lacerated and bruised
Suspicious characters have been
!, found i'm the back yards OF residences
after night ON West Main street and
John street, the past week. On Friday
night a supposed thief was found ID
} 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
J the alley, making his escape KeeI
your doors locked and your gun load
WY ed.
For q number or years it was Gus
tomary for M to receive a generous
supply OF garden seeds. Since the
homegardening movement began
} throughout the country ~ a means Vi
4 meeting the increased cost OF food tht
Nj Department of Agriculture has beer
} swamped with hundreds OF thousands
b OF requests for free seeds. Officials
Of the department. say that unfortu-
4 nately they have no seeds to dis
tribute by members OF Congress them
W selves direct, and this years supply VI
m about 100000 worth was long age
) exhausted No more free seeds viii
b be available until late in the sum
mer.
1 Mr. W. u. Taylor, of Washington
: representing the proposed Washing
! ton, Westminster e Gettysburg rail
WI road, met with the LittlestoWn coun
! cil and presented an application fol
q franchise granting the right-of
\ way for the proposed road through
- the borough. The matter was con
A S1dered and then action deferred un
. til the next regular meeting. Other
MY Representatives have been I'D that sec
ton recently securing and renewing
rights OF way, and have met will
y most cordial treatment. The manv
7 farmers interviewed along the BRO
a posed route are heartily i'm favor d
the railroad, and are cooperating
W with the representatives.
W The recruiting officers, Mr. Harry u
D FoWble and Officer William II. Helm
Y Tor the Western Maryland Railway
e who were returning from Hampstead
w and Manchester, where they secured y
4 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 lAey
4 were riding in struck six-horse wag
on and mashed UP the machine. The,
were shocked but not injured. The
/ accident happened on Red Hill tht
i steepest hill on the Manchester road
The break failing to work was The
\ cause of the smash The auto was
n hauled in by one of Thomas, Bennett
Hunters large trucks, and was own.
ed by III. III. Harbaugh
y That the majority OF people have
- heretofore overlooked or forgotten The
. value at gardens is indicated by the
, rapidity with which the idea Of vacant
\ lot and backyard gardening i'm cities
e has sprung into prominence since tho
} rapid rise in the prices Of food pro,
ducts. Vegetables and especially
, canned goods are unusually high il
j price and gardens will do more thar
J ever before to cut down the cost OF
living. Properly cared for, a small
plot of garden will supply enough
: vegetables for the average family
Good seed, proper culture methods
plantfOOd, preferable i'm the form W
both manure and fertilizer and an few
garden t00Ic ara oH fhot &C 10000