The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-02-02

Mr. Benjamin Dorsey, Bond street
left last night for Kentucky, whert
he will buy a carload of horses anC
mules and ship to this city.
Miss Louise Eckenrode, East Greer
street, who spent the winter in South
| Carolina, has now accepted a position
with Dowell-Helm & Co., Baltimore
On Tuesday last the offices Of the
Orphans Court and the Circuit Cour
closed in respect to DR.. James Howell
Billingslea, during the hour of his
| funeral.
Mr.. Maurice Pryor, of Smithsburg
Md, has accepted a position with the
G.. ". R. r., as brakeman. His rur
is from Chambersburg, Pa, to Hagers,
town, Md.
Mrs. Lulu Frizzell, of Eldersburg
announces the marriage of her daugh-
ter, Nina May, to Mr.. Willard A. Nico-
demus, OF Cambridge, Md, on Satur-
day, October ii, 1916, at Alexandria
Va, by the Rev. j. W. Duffy.
The pupils of Mt Pleasant school
will hold a Spider Web Social Thurs
day evening, February 8th. If the
weather is Indictment then, it will be
held the following evening. The
proceeds will be used for purchasing
library for the school. Everybody
is invited.
Jerome Koontz sold his farm con
tanning about 1870 acres adjoining
Silver Run, to his son-in-law, G
Irving krOh, who conducts a can
ming factory at Silver Run, for SIZE
per acre This sale involves OveI
$4,000 and is the highest price ever
paid for a farm Of that size in that
locality.
An alarm of fire was sounded fol
the Western Maryland College yester'
day morning, but before the fire com
pany arrived the blaze was extin'
guished with chemicals by the stu,
dents. The fire was in one OF the
professors bed rooms, and burned the
bed, door and door frame before il
was discovered.
A defective chimney caused a fire a
$50 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the
home of James Bergman, at RelSters
town The ReiSterStOWn Volunteer
Fire Company was called, and, aftel
a hard fight against a strong wind
succeeded in checking the flames
which were spreading from the chin
ney to the attic. The loss was slight
! Charles w Beard, OF near Ladies'
| burg, has a fresh HOlstein heifer tina
! is giving milk out of six nipples. MT
Beard raised the heifer when she wa
caIved and refused an offer Of 500
for her mother. She gives six gal
! Ions of milk a day and in IA milking
made Is II pounds Of butter. Mr.
Beard has sold the animal to one o
his neighbOrs.
Miss Ruth E. Fleagle, teacher o
! Stonesifer School, Westminster, ha
received an appointment to teach tn
deaf in the Baltimore public schools
| She will begin her work there within
! the next few weeks. She is a grad
uate Of Clarke School, Northampton
Mass, a school especially designed
to prepare teachers for the work o
! teaching the deaf.
The suit of P. Clarence Barnes, al
attorney of Cumberland, against tn
Western Maryland Railway Company
for $4,000 damages for injuries sus
tanned in a wreck near Elkins, W
Va, last July, ended Tuesday, thu
jury rendering a verdict for $1,000.
! Today is ground hog day. You
know the old adage without relating
it, You can believe what you want
Freedom Lodge No. 112, A. F. & A
W., at their meeting last week, install
ed the following officers: Aug. r
Selby, Worshipful Master; Earl l.
clancy. Senior Warden; DR.. J. Free
Waesche, Junior Warden; Eugene c
Berry, Senior Deacon; VIM. d. II
Hepncr. Junior Deacon; c. Harr,
Weer. Treasurer; VIM. nj. Chipley
Secretary VIM Melville, Chaplain
F,lbridge G. Hill, Tyler.
The State Health Board received tn,
first report of case of infantile par
alysis for many weeks. The case ha
created something of a sensation. TIL
victim is Rev. w. II. Muirhead, o
Sykesyille The case is reported b,
DR.. Daniel b. Sprecher. The patien
Is 40 years of age. 1t is not Otter
that a patient of this age is attacked
! by the disease. The health officer
say that there is a case on recort
/ for 1915, when a woman GA years oil
| died of the plague. The disease i
usually found among persons who ar
under l6 years of age.
At this season Of the year, whel
owners of autos keep their garage
! closed and start the engines in tn
autos they run some risk of suffoca
ton from motor fumes. In Philadel
phia, Oswald J. DeRosSe, an assistan
to the president of the Pennsylvani;
railroad, was overcome by the fume
while attaching a license tag and wa
dead when found. Owners Of auto
cannot be too careful If you mus
run the engine better open the garag
doors and get the fresh air. 1t is bes
to take some precautiOn when q ma
chine is running and you are work
ing near the exhaust pipe.
That the receipts from the motto
vehicle license tax for 1917 will
amount to 100000 is the predictl0i
made by E. Austin Baughman, stat
motor vehicle license commissioner
If the figures go that high it will b
an increase of about so per cent owe
last year. Each year the increas
has been about so per cent. TIL
money, after the payment of expenses
goes to road maintenance. The re