The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-09


rapid rate. Old Sol can do the trick
: Senator John Walter Smith has sent
: to this Office a supply of garden and
} flower Seeds which will be distributed
to its patrons if they call.
There will be Sunday school at 100
p. M, and preaching at 2.3O p. m, in
the Bethel Church of God, at War
fieldsburg, on Sunday. S. B. Kraft,
pastor.
Miss Ckrist;ane Tingling, the Ma
tional w. C. T. U. speaker who was to
make an address at Sandyville Church,
Sunday afternoon, has been postponed
on account of the condition of the
roads.
Mrs. Hannah Jenkins, aged 80 years,
was run down by a Pennsylvania
Railroad train at Keymar Wednesday
evening and seriously injured. She
! got off of the train and started to
walk down the track when the train
| backed over her, crushing her body
and injuring her arms and legs. She
is in a serious condition at the Fred
erick Hospital.
| The manufacture, sale or gift of
cigarettes would be prohibited in
! Pennsylvania under a bill introduced
in the House by Mr.. Horne, Cambria.
Any person found in possession of
cigarette, and who refused to tell
where he obtained it, would be liable
to a fine Of SO or ten days in Jail.
Violations of this Act would be pun
ishable by fine of $50 to 500.
Attacked by an enraged bull, the
Rev. j. Stewart Hartman, retiring su-
perintendent at the Hoffman orphan
age, near LittlestOwn, was on Monday
evening painfully bruised and a bone
in his left hand broken. But for the
timely arrival of his son, Frank Hart
man, who drove off the Infatuated
beast with a pitchfork, more serious
injury to the pastor would have re-
suited.
The farmers around Easton are all
talking about the poor condition of the
winter wheat. Many say they never
saw it look so poor as it does at this
time and they are unable to fix the
cause. Some believe that the contin-
ued dry weather of last fall after
seeding kept the wheat from getting
the start that it ordinarily should
have to enable it to withstand the
winter weather. Possibly the extreme
cold weather of the past month when
the ground had no protective cover
ing of snow has been detrimental to
the crop.
On last Sunday Mr.. John M. Baker,
the we'll known evangelist of Balti-
more, spent the day here, speaking at
Centenary Methodist Church, morning
and afternoon. Although the day was
stormy quite a good number of people
! hon nd hi N1n.
Next Sunday Mr.. Baker will come
again and assist Mr.. Mowbray, the
pastor, at 1870 a. m. and 2.30 p. N.
Mr.. Baker is an unusually attractive
speaker, and recently has been hold
ing a meeting in Monroe Street
Church, Baltimore, where more than
two hundred persons prOfessei con-
version
Washington county assessment Off
Gals have found numbers of farms
assessed for less acreage than the
deeds for the same farms call for,
says the Hagerstown Globe. 1t is said
that this is probably due to certain
portions of the farm being counted
worthless for any use, and also for
the portions of public roads along
farms where half or all the public
road is counted. The tax officials
point out that road along a farm
adds to its value, and that the farm
without the road would be of little
use and the least that the farmer can
do is to contribute q little something
for that road. They also claim that
special provision is made for worth
less land in the assessment blanks.
William Cox, colored, received 81
from Henry Walking for some horse
medicine, but failed to show up with
the remedies and was pinched. Cox
was asked by Mr. Walking if he knew
of cure for swollen legs on horse.
Oh, yes Give me 81 and | will get
you a bottle of the remedy at DR..
! Jones', West Main street, that will do
the trick. Cox said after receiving
the 81, that he ought to buy two bot
! ties, as possibly the applications from
one bottle would not be sufficient, so
Mr.. Walking handed out another dol
lar Cox with his 81 started for DR..
Jones, on West Main street, but in
stead of going to the store went to
! ReisterstoWn, where he purchased
! linement labeled Good Old Rye
Whiskey," which he applied freely to
his stomach, by drinking, it is said.
Justice Dinst gave Cox a hearing this
week and handed him a meal ticket
| to the Jail with $50 bond to it that
was good until the May term of Court.
The amount of the bond was put up
and now William is walking around
| as usual.