The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-02-23

continue for 40 days and nights. IT
will terminate on Easter Sunday
Mr. Frank T. Shaeffer, Tint city
completed this week q good job or
plumbing and thinning for Mrs. Viii
son, RaisterStown-
The Ladies' Aid Society OF Zion will
meet at the home Of Mrs. Bertha
Zahn, the first Thursday in March
Alt arc invited
Sunday school at the Bethel, War
fieldsburg, at 1.30 p. m, Sunday.
Preaching Az gao p. m- Rev. 81 B-
Craft, pastor.
Grace Lutheran church will observe
the Lenten season by holding special
services each Friday at 7-3O ID. m., in
place OF the mid-Week prayer meet
ings, beginning tonight. You are
cordially invited To attend.
In renewing his subscription MIR.
Frank w. Shriver, of Philadelphia,
says tit has been Sd years since
left Westminster and the Advocate
has been my weekly companion, so
keep we'll posted about Carroll county
affairs and do not feel like "a stranger
when A visit my old home"
Mr.. Alfred Stevenson's house at
Spring Mills, tenanted by Mr.. John =.
Hyde and family, caught fira from the
Iichimney last Saturday evening while
the Hyde family were in this city.
Neighbors discovered the fire and put
1T out before TT had gained much
Roadway. The damage was slight.
There will be tea held at the home
of Mrs Dr. Bare Oh Saturday, Febru-
ary IA, from To ID. no., for the bene-
fit of the Woman's Civic League. A
salad will be served There will also
be cake and carmel for sale. Every
member Of the Civic League and all
friends please come and help in this
work
William Logue, mail-carrier OF
Reisterstown, was slightly injured
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock by
being struck by nOrthbound cleo
trio car over the Emory Grove di-
vision of the United Railways. The
car struck the team before the tracks
\ were cleared, upsetting the team and
scattering mail about the tracks.
The revival OF the whipping post, the
registry or purchasers OF revolvers, a
complete renovation of the Court
house which is insanitary, the utili-
cation of convict labor and the elimi-
nation Off street-cOrner loafing were
among the recommendations made
Wednesday by the Frederick county
grand jury ira returning it, report
after an investigation Of nine days.
The timely discovery of fire last
Friday night about 40 o'clock in
Alumni Hall prevented what might
have been a serious one. Upon en-
tering Irving Hall on the second
floor OF Alumni Hall several students
detected smoke and investigating
found that the wrappingS Of the steam
pipes under the floor and the floor
we're CO. fire. It IL thought the fire
caught from the heated pipes.
| BY vote of 321 to z, the House of
Representatives Wednesday went ON
record for prohibition in IT'D most
drastic form by agreeing to the Reed
amendment to the Postoffice Bill in
serted in thu Senate, whereby no liquor
can be sent into a prohibition state,
nor newspapers containing liquor adj
vertisements sent through the mail
into states forbidding such advertise
ments In their own papers.
2. Austin Baughman, State Motor
| Vehicle Commissioner, called atten-
| ton tO the provision Of the law which
provides a prison term for anyone
who Wilfully destroys an operators
card. Violators of the automobile
laws have sometimes destroyed their
old cards because they had bad rec
ords or them and sought to get new
cards that would b. clean MIR.
Baughman said he would enforce the
law.
\ It was reported in WayEesboro Fri
', day that there are quite a number
of farmers and potato growers in that
section and along the Blue Ridge
Mountains who have hundreds of
bushels OF potatoes stored in their
cellars. One grower, who was in
town several days ago, sold about 100
bushels att $1.75 per bushel, and said
that he had 900 bushels more, which
he would keep until they brought the
very highest price.
Milton a. Sullivan, real estate agent
reports the following recent sales:
Aaron Long farm, of 30 acres, situated
v IA mile Of Mexico, to Cover Bucking-
ham, of Kankakee Co., Ill; George
M. SNEAK farm, of p acres, situated
in Mt. Pleasant, to John T. Steiner;
Austin ii. Yingling property, Belle
Grove Square, to George M. Wertz,
this city; also tract of land near the
John Gait farm, for the executors w
John nv Reifsnider, ST., to Chas. w.
King, this city.
n The many friends of Mr.. Walden al.
Brummeli this city, are glad To learn
that he has purchased the tonsorial
parlor of Mr.. u. G.. Heltibridle. East
Main street. Mr. Brummel, with +he
assistance of Mr.. Bernard Nusbaum. W
/ ToWson, former barber in the same
\ shop, will continue the good service
VI extended tO their patrons lin the past
Y Mr.. Heltibridle has purchased tbe
1 Gilbert property, in UEiontown, where
NJ he will open a barbershop. W. ~
tend our best wishes to him and his
family.
After the war the Baldwin Loco
motive Works, Philadelphia. Droba-
bly, will not construct any more IT,
romotives in Philadelphia. 1t will
then take over the plants att Eddy-
stone, which 1t now leases wv the
Remington Arms Cmpany and the
iEddystone Ammunition Corporation
and build ait it, railway Equipment
there The Philadelphia shops will
be devoted exclusively to the manu-
facture of hydraulic machinery. in
ternal combustion engines ana simi-
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