The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-12-21

Inc western Maryland College has
closed for the holidays.
The public schools for Carroll
county will close today until after
New Year.
Mrs. Herman Dinst, East Main
street, is dangerously i'll with pneu-
monia.
The Advocate will close Monday
afternoon and will not open until
Wednesday morning.
Bowers Bus line was discontinued
several days this week on account of
the roads being drifted shut.
Mr.. Theodore Biggs, Bachman's
Valley, has just recovered from a
severe case of nasal trouble.
The man who makes the smallest
contribution is usually the one who
kicks the most about the way the
church is run.
The happiest man in this city to-
day is J. David Crowl, ESQ.,, he has
his mammoth ice house filled with
800 tons of fine ice.
The man who marries a widow sell
dom says anything about his wife's
first husband, but there are times
when he regrets his demise.
The Deer Park Sunday school will
hold Christmas entertainment
Thursday night, December 9th. If
not clear on Friday night
The wise man follows the lines of
least resistance by telling all women
how we'll they look and all mothers
that their babies are beautiful.
An informal card party was held at
Rbo horoa of Miccoc Mod
nesday evening, December 10, in hon
or of Miss Ort, of Frostburg, Md.
Mr.. Charles Diffendal and Mr.. Geo.
Arnold, who have been on the Vir-
ginia Christian College foot ball team
for the holidays.
Mr. William NJ Stoner, son Of
Sheriff and Mrs. James M. Stoner
this city, has accepted a position as
policeman with the B. & o. Railroad,
at Brunswick.
Judge Solomon Myers, of the
Orphans Court, this city who has
been at a hospital in Baltimore for
two months returned to his home in
Uniontown, yesterday.
Our coal dealers in this city have
fuel, but it keeps them on duty at all
times to prevent it from being shipped
to Baltimore, as many suspicious Or
ders have been turned away.
A brakeman on local freight was
injured by being caught by car in
the yards in this city Wednesday at
ternoon. He was sent to his home.
at Hagerstown, on the 5.36 train for
treatment.
The famous old Springs Hotel, To-
Gated a mile west of Gettysburg and
for some years one Of the most ia
nous summer resorts in Pennsyl-
vania, burned to the ground about
noon Monday.
Last Friday a committee from the
congregation Of Grace Lutheran
church packed and shipped fourteen
Christmas boxes to the IA members of
the congregation who are in the SER
vice of their country, stationed at
different camps.
! The choir Of Grace Lutheran church
will render their Xmas cantata, The
Christ Child" by Petrie, to the SOL
diers at Camp Meade Thursday, De-
cember %, In Y. M. C. A. bungalow
No. 80, at us p. m. and in the Luth-
eran church of Ellicott City on Fri
day evening, December %.
j The social and entertainment held
by Miss Emma Hanna, teacher OF
Stonesifer school, was a success. They
received $4015 and their profit was
$26. The pupils need to be congrat-
ulated for the way the program was
delivered. The silent drama entitled,
Rock of Ages" was very pretty and
the audience enjoyed it very much.
ter street, escaped injury Wednesday
evening when the shafts on their
sleigh broke, causing the horse to up
set them on the pavement in front of
Mr.. William Sharrer's home, on Cen
distance before the horse could be
stopped. They were slightly bruised.
The Westminster Order of Owls,
No.1559 elected the following officers:
Past President, John D. Foutz;
Treasurer, F. L. Hunter; Vice Presi-
dent, A G. Humbert; Invicator, E. N.
Davis; Secretary J. D. Owings;
Treasurer, F. T. Myers; Sentinel,
Jacob Matthias; Picket, NJ. J. Abbott;
Warden, VIM. Eyler; trustee, James
w. Myers.
Charles A. Wolf, a veterinarian, of
Williamsport, Md, pleaded guilty in
the United States Court Wednesday
of selling morphine in violation OF the
Harrison Drug Act, and was sentenced
Ito a year and day in the Federal
prison at Atlanta, Ga. He claimed that
he used the drug in the treatment Of
mules, but the indictment alleged the
sale to human beings.
Westminster Council, No. 1887,
Royal Arcanum, elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: R.,
Charles Manahan, V. R., Jackson
Myerly, O., Joseph B. Boyle, Treas,
Frank R. Cassell, Secty., J. Gloyd
Diffendal, Col, Eli J. Butler, Chap,
DR.. Chas. Billingslea, G., Albert c..
Schlosser, W., George R. Grumbine,
s., Peter F. Little, Trustee, Frank q.
Miller.
Mary Elizabeth Kefauver, Is years
old, Walkersville, Md, who mys-
teriously disappeared on Thanksgiv-
ing Day while bound home from Fred
erick, is at Mercy Hospital, Baltimore,
recovering from an operation for
appendicitis. The girl had secured
work at the institution after she had
sought entrance to the training
school at the hospital, but was re-
fused admittance on account of her
age.
At Annapolis Wednesday Governor
Harrington announced the appoint
ment of six medical advisory boards,
10 oP WI in thoir Uari-