The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-08-17
epDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST II, 1917
LOCAL AFFAIRS

il out
with % much of the country dry
- wonder dry farming is becoming sc
nopuI4r in many sections OF the coun,
try
,tavap the scarcity OF iron in Ger
.,.,nv will become so marked that the
L-aIsar Will have to call in the iron
crosses
Tho Westminster Fire Company die
ro+ 90 to Hampstead Wednesday to
I1~t,I,irate in the carnival that was
held there
The Westminster Fire Company has
,.carr+I an invitation to take part IN
no t7remen's parade at Glyndon next
Thursday afternoon.
The Methodist Episcopal Sunday
.rhooI held its annual picnic in the
grove OF Mr. Theodore +. Englar, near
thIs city, Wednesday.
II we could stow away few good
meals 10 last until next winter, we
wouldn't are about the food situation
o~ back subscriptions.
In order to prevent moths from
f,rrIug the waste OF clothes, now Is
the tlne to prevent them getting into
the garments packed away.
Assistant Scout Masters Carroll
(. ruwIOrd and Glen Z. Miller have
hppu 4vpOlnted to succeed Scout
Master Suriyer of Troop No. :.
hen hour sells at $500 barrel
in Eu2l4nu and $3.50 a barrel in this
rp..utry al the same time no doubt
somebody has something drastic COM
ing to INN,
The Lima Times-DemOCrat editor
saw, that POSSIBLY after all the Toledo
woman Who wants to send an army OF
girl, ro france to keep the soldiers
from 0riug lonesome is only jealous
yf the French maidens.
The Rev Charles ID. BOnsack, OF
New Windsor, began series or evan
geLlsC.l sermons at the Church OF the
Brethren, hanover, Pa, Sunday morn
ing The services will be continued
20 h evening tins week.
Not another drop OF whisky will be
manufactured III the United States al
ter ! O'Clock on the night OF Septem-
ter ~ Ali 0tuer distilled spirits for
LIST as beverages will cease TO be
manufactured at the same time.
American Land Company, Green's
Zorro. =. -. advertise the sale OF 80
residence .Ot5 at SykesVille, in this
issue that they Will sell at auction on
Thursday. August -. The land is own
ii Dt Ion nad9 ii. ID. Nartleld.
Announcement was made by the
Western maryland hallway Company
that an extra dividend oil One-halt per
cent had been declared for the
emrllvees and officials of the road who
are ueuO3.tOrs in the railroad say
lug, fund.
Tu- county commissioners have
unanimously protested against the
9a,~4-. oI the AuamSOn bill that has
Teen introduced in Congress for the
ul4o-t. ol abolisning the license ices
charged lie residents or the Dlstrlct
nj J.uH4A by the State OF Maryland
for the privilege of using its roads.
Mr.. A.. FISHER Wantz, state road Of
Ecvr. uaahei three speeders sunday.
FROM REPORTS they were going some
ta- after ii sprint by Mir. Nantz Cad
lila, eight. they were Overhauled. Mi.
Hanrl W rA his usual good humOf
Smile. ~aIu You are pincned, and the
auto @"cauer forgot he was riding.
Five thousands persons or more at
teudeI III, first Sunday OF camp-meet-
irga 4- Emory Grove Sunday. They
went by train. trolley, automobile ana
vehicles of all descriptions. 1t was d
b. day 0i services and intense en-
.husiasM was displayed. Rev. DIT.
Charles 4. Guthrie. OF Buffalo, preach
ed t01cetul sermon before a congre-
g-Li1l thaa taxed the seating capacity
OF the tabernacle in the forenoon.
The first annual meeting of the
oranges Of Frederick, Carroll, Howard
AMI Montgomery counties will be held
at Wildwood Park. Mount Airy, Aug
us- =. The meeting is being planned
under the auspices Of the Carroll coun-
y oranges John b. Black, master Oh
the State Grange; II. G.. Patterson, OF
the Maryland State College OF Agrl-
culture, and j. T. Anthony, State
Grange organizer, will deliver address
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Some THE es made haul to the
amount OF $40 from the garage OF DR..
Luther S. Bare West Main street, on
Monday night, when they carried OIL
new Goodyear nOn-skid tire, 4 inner
tlJe5 and all of his tools. The nerVl-
est part Of it all was that the gasoline,
about gallons, was drained from the
tank on the car. The entrance was
made by breaking the lock to the door
1hls is the third time DR.. Bare
garage has been entered.
The automobile of Paul Winebren-
ner, president of the Hanover Saving
FUND Society, Hanover, Pa, which
was stolen from his garage last week
was recovered Monday near Thurmont
Md, 1t had been wrecked. George
Brown, So years old, of Philadelphia
VINO is charged with the theft, Is ii
the Frederick Hospital with trac
tured shoulder and leg as a result o
running the stolen car into a tele
phone pole Three other men were II
the machine, but they made their es
cape after sending Brown to the Hos
pital
Robert Hymiller, accompanied D
ms wife and several friends, narrow
~ escaped serious injuries Sunda
morning, when the machine he wa
operating was struck by touring ca
at West Friendship and badly damag
ed. The accident happened at the In
tersection of the Sykesville and FREQ
erlck roads, which is considered on
OF the most dangerous places in tn
part Of the State Observing every pre-
caution, Mr.. Hymiller was in the a.