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

The snow is disappearing AZ 4
rapid rate. Old SOl can dD Tine trick
Senator John Walter Smith has sent
tO this Office a supply Of garden and
flower seeds, which will To- distributed
to it, patrons Ill they call.
There Will To- Sunday school at 100
p. m, and preaching at 2.30 p. m, in
the Bethel Church of God, at War
feldsburg, on Sunday. s. p. Kraft,
pastor.
Miss Christiane TingIing, the Ma
tionaI WV. o. II. U. speaker, who was to
make an address aft Sandyville Church,
Sunday afternoon, has been postponed
OF account of the condition of the
roads.
Mrs. Hannah Jenkins, aged 30 years,
was run down by Pennsylvania
Railroad train at Keymar Wednesday
evening and seriously injured. She
got OH or 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 b. prohibited in
Pennsylvania under bill introduced
In the House by MIR. Horne, Cambria.
Any person found i'm possession of "a
cigarette, and who refused to tell
where he obtained it,. would b. liable
to a fine Of $40 or ten days in jail.
Violations of this Act would b. pun
ishable by fine Of $50 to $500.
Attacked by an enraged bull, the
Rev. J. Stewart Hartman, retiring SUI
perintendent at the Hoffman orphan
age, near Littlestown, was on Monday
evening painfully bruised and bone
i'm his left hand broken But for the
timely arrival Of his son, Frank Hart
man, who drove Off the infuriated
beast with 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 10 poor a. 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 III to Withstand the
winter weather Possibly the extreme
cold weather of the past month when
the ground had no protective cover
ing or snow has been detrimental to
the crop.
On last Sunday Mr.. John M. Baker,
the well known evangelist OF Balti-
more, spent the day here, speaking al
Centenary Methodist Church, morning
and afternoon. Although the day was
stormy quite good number Oh people
heard him and were much pleased.
Next Sunday Mr.. Baker will come
again and assist Mr.. .rMowbray, the
pastor, at 1890 a. 20. and 2.30 p. m.
MIR. Baker H. an unusually attractive
speaker, and recently has been hold
ing a meeting in Monroe Street
Church, Baltimore, where more than
two hundred persons protested 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. It is said
that this il 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 OF all the public
road is counted. The tax officials
point out that a 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 a little something
for that road. They also claim that
special provision is made for worth
less land i'm the assessment blanks.
William Cox, coIored, received $2
from Henry Walking for some horse
medicine, but failed to show up with
the remedies and was pinched. Cox
was asked by MIR. Walking if he knew
Of cure for swollen legs on a horse.
Oh, yes. Give me $1 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 $1, that he ought to buy two bot
ties, as possibly the applications from
one bottle would not be sufficient, 20
Mr.. Walking handed out another dol
lar. Cox with his So started for DIR.
Jones, on West Main street, but in-
stead OF going to the store went to
Reisterstown, where he purchased "a
linement labeled "Good Old Rye
iWhiskey," which he applied freely to
his stomach, by drinking, it is said.
Justice Dinst gave Cox hearing this
week and handed him meal ticket
| tn the Jail with $25 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
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