The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-12-21
E. o. DIFFENDAL, Manager.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. Il, 1917.
LOCAL AFFAIRS
Everything ready for Christmas.

received at this office from Smith g.
Reifsnider lumber and coal dealers.
Thanks.
Mr.. Howard Hull, near Avondale,
slaughtered six porkers on Saturday
last that weighed 308, 339, 321, 337,
289 and 256.
Elmer Fl. Cross, Sykesville, has
enlisted in the State Board of Fores-
Try service and will be attached to the
Twelfth Engineer Corps.
St Matthew's Union Sunday School
NJ Pleasant Valley will hold it's
Christmas service on Monday evening
December oath. EVrybody welcome.
Jerusalem Union Sunday School,
oI Bachman's Valley will hold it's
Christmas service on Sunday evening,
December 23rd. Everybody welcome.
81. Johns school closed ON Friday
for the holidays. A Christmas tree,
Santa Claus, many gifts, drama and
speech and song, characterized the
closing hours.
Christmas entertainment and treat
Tor the Sunday School of Centenary
Methodist Episcopal Church will be
given Thursday after Christmas,
December q, at 7.30 p. m.
G14h6LAHOOu ANO. @OC "lAA
hold it's next meeting on December
p, at 100 p. m. All members are re-
quested to be present as officers for
the ensuing year will be elected.
A service flag of q stars adorns
the entrance to B. F. Shriver Co.'S
office, East Main street. The men
we're employees of the firm until they
entered the service of Uncle Sans
Army.
Have you completed your list OF
gifts for Christmas? If not, why not
include the Democratic Advocate for
a year to relative or friend, which
will be a remembrance throughout
the year. 1t only costs $1.0O.
Following his usual custom, Car
dinal Gibbons this year will grant per-
mission to celebrate midnight mass
on Christmas Eve to all the priests
in the diocese who may care to OBJ
serve this festival in that manner.
The lap robe and horse blanket lost
by Mr. Harry Little and advertised in
this paper several weeks ago was
found near Mt. Pleasant by Mr.. Les
ter Sell, Of Littlestown, who returned
them to MT Little and received a re-
ward Of IS.
Two carloads of stock were left
standing in the railroad yards this
city, from Saturday afternoon until
Sunday night before they were
moved The cause Of the delay was
that there were no freight trains to
Baltimore for Is hours.
1t is planned to celebrate the
church and sanctuary with album
dance Of Christmas green's, and many
cut flowers, the gift of the congre-
cation, will adorn the altar. A crib
OF Bethlehem will be placed in the
church in representation of the first
Christmas.
T. Herbert KOontz, a former school
teacher Of Carroll county who had
been employed by the Illinois Central
Railroad Co, and stationed at Beaver
Dam, KY, as a telegraph operator,
has accepted a position with the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at
Littlestown, Pa.
Centenary Methodist Episcopal
Church and Sunday School, sent six
teen Christmas boxes 20 the men out
OF their congregation and Sunday
School who are in the service of the
country. Most of these men are at
Camp Mcclellan, some are at Camp
Meade and three are in the Navy.
Mr.. C. Levine Price, foreman OF
The Times, has presented his resig-
nation to the Times Company to take
effect January lst He has accepted
a similar position with the New Era
at ToWson. Mr.. Price is a thorough
printer, having started from the eel
lar to the responsible position he now
holds. He has our best wishes.
Mr.. Robert E. Lee Hutchins, near
Pleasant Valley received a letter last
Saturday from her brother, Sergeant
William Yingling who left with the
502nd Engineer Corps for France
sometime ago, stating that he has
arrived in France safely, enjoyed the
trip very much and didn't get sea-
sick. He is the son Of William Wing
ling, this city.
In keeping with the Gospel story
OF the first Christmas night, the
celebration of the Feast will begin in
st. Johns church at midnight At
that hour a solemn High Mass will
be celebrated and special musical
program including the Christmas
Carols will be rendered Two low
Masses will be offered Immediately
after the High Mass and at every
hour from 6 to 10 o'clock there will
be a low Mass.
At a recent debate by the members
OF the LOngfellOw Literary Society, of
Sykesville, upon the relative merits of
the suffrage question, which was
warmly contested from all angles, at
a meeting last week, vote of the en-
tire membership was taken and it was
decided almost unanimously that it
would be bad policy to give women the
ballot The program Of the society
for the remainder OF the month will
be entirely given over to Christmas
recitations and songs.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the Christmas services which
will be held in Carroll Hall, this city,
by the Church of God. The prepara-
tons that are being made for the
service, give the assurance that this
service will be the best Christmas
service ever rendered by this church.
The program will begin promptly at
1880 Thursday evening December 27.
After the regular Xmas program, the
beautiful Cantata entitled From the
Manager to the Throne, will be rem
dered
Mrs. Vannie Reigart, wife of Ed
ward Reigart, who on Friday, Nov. |
%, was burned by gasoline while !
operating the gasoline pump i'm front
OF her husbands garage, South !
George street, York died SUNDAY |