The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-10-19


four blue ribbon prizes on apples al
the Hagerstown fair.
Mr.. ID. l.. Marsh has been appoint
ed to the Taneytown charge of the
United Brethren of Christ at meet
ing at WayneGbOro, Pa.
A marriage license was issued in
Baltimore Wednesday to Elmer L.
Roger, Manchester, and Dorothy M
Breckenridge, Lincoln, Va.
DR.. Lewis X. Woodward and Mr.. F.
Thomas Babylon, West Main street,
are erecting comfortable and conven-
lent brick garages on the site of the
ones burned.
/ Rev. w. o. Ibach, Union Bridge, and
Rev. l.. B. Hafer, TaneytOwn, took
! part in the 260th anniversary of the
Elias Evangelical Lutheran church, at
Emmitsburg, this week
! Ice formed and a frost that was
heavy enough to kill all growing veg
citation visited our county Saturday
morning. This was the first taste Of
real winter this fall.
! The case between the Mayor and
! Common Council and Public Utilities
Company will be tried on next Thurs
day or Friday in the Court House
before Judge Forsythe.
Struck by an automobile on which
the lights failed to work, Mrs. Pink
ney Day, of Mt. Airy, was Sunday
night badly bruised about the face
She is getting along nicely
/ The pupils of Mt. Pleasant school
will hold a Halloween social on We'd
nesday evening, October 81. If the
weather is unfavOrable then it will
be held the following evening Ev-
one invited, come and have a
good time.
Rev. S. W. Coe, pastor of Brook
Ign Methodist Protestant Church,
Brooklyn, Anne Arundel county,
preached Sunday morning before a
large congregation for the first time
since he was operated on for appendi-
citis nearly a month ago.
W. r. Jones, cashier of the First
National Bank. of Littlestown, and
E. H. Paxson, a bond salesman, Of
Philadelphia, had a narrow escape
from death when the automobile in
which they were riding was struck
by W. NJ r. freight engine at Han
over, Pa, last Friday.
We were sorry to hear that last
Sunday morning Mrs. George X.
Schaeffer, Pennsylvania avenue, sud
denly lost the sight of her one eye.
She had been having some trouble
with her eye but nothing serious was
contemplated. She was taken to a
specialist in Baltimore for treatment.
Corporal Leland Jordan and First
Class Privates j. Russell Blades and
F. Murray Benson have been trans
ferred from Company C., 18TH Machine
Gun Battalion to the Enlisted Ord
nance Corps of the 10Th Division and
are now attached to the Ordnance De-
pot of Camp Mcclellan. These men
were all formerly with Company H of
this city.
Everything is going up these days,
and most of all the fashions at the
sea shore. Skirts are now worn
three inches above the shoe tops,
showing a liberal eXpanse of silken
hosiery. Collars are worn very high
or very low. according to the incli-
nation o. the Wearer, and there is no
! limit to the lofty height of the au-
tumn bOnnets.
: To meet the extreme deman for
stenOgraphers and typists in the bust
ness offices Of the community, ST.
Johns ParOchial school has opened a
special commercial department it is
thought that the school will afford
better opportunities to a number OF
cur young men and women as well as
render a needed service to t2n men
who are doing things.
Gallaudet College lost a hard-fought
game to Western Maryland at Wash
ingtOn, Saturday afternoon, 10 to D.
/ Western Maryland played superior
! football, the work of Celler for the
winners being the feature. Celler was
responsible for the first touchdown
when he ran 60 yards after receiving
a forward pass and also drOpkicked
a goal from the 3O-yard line.
! John L. Zimmerman, of Cumber-
land. died in the Washington County
Hospital, HagerstOwn, Sunday FROM
injuries received last Wednesday, Oc-
tOber 10, when a motorcycle
on which he and John T. Weber,
also of Cumberland, were riding ran
/ into an automobile driven by b. w.
Pickett, Woodbine, Md, along the
state road near Benevola. He was Il
years old.
Squirrels and chipmunks fOretell a
hard winter, according to the Ha-
gerstown Mail. They have been seen
gathering and storing away acOrns,
a nut which they seldom use. This,
however, may be partly due to the
fact that CheStnuts, WalnutS and but
ternuts are getting scarcer each
year. Fewer squirrels and chipmunks
than usual have been seen this sum-
mer, and some persons are OF the
opinion that their food stores last
winter were insufficient to keep them
and many of them starved to death.
The latest episode in the snake
charmers' contest which has been go
ing on at Mt Airy, since the boa con-
strictors escaped from a circus last
summer, occurred last week, with G
! Arnold Fleming, farmer, playing
the hero. Mr.. Fleming and some Of his
assistants spied the reptile crawling
along in the field at leiSurely gait
These snakes come from India, and
they can't stand cold weather. They
get stiff jointed and rheumatic Mr.
Fleming rushed to the house and got
a box, and then, putting the box down
in front of his snakeship, with the aid
of a. pitchfOrk, he gently directed the
snake into the box. The snake is
now snugly ensconced in his new