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


0y the active service of the plumbers
during the day.
Germany is using a substitute for
tobacco, says an exchange They are
also using substitute for decency,
and it's vile stuff
AT present it appears that the prin-
clpal task this winter will be to make
one lump of coal do the work that
two formerly did.
An army service flag, containing Is
stars was unfurled Saturday morning
over the main entrance to Centenary
NJ E. church, East Main street.
Thelma May Barnsley, aged 2
years, daughter of Walter C. and
Emma M. Barnsley, died at the home
OF her parents in Baltimore, Friday.
Bond & Parke, counsels for the
Patapsco National Bank at Ellicott
City, won case against Joseph X. T.
Meade ct al, in the Maryland Court
of Appeals last week.
There hasn't been a single head
ache in the town of Wimpleburg, Ark,
for years. Anybody with enough
brains to support a headache has
enough to move away.
Miss Marie Hauer, Hanover, Pa,
formerly living at Manchester, recalls
with interest hearing Abraham Lin
coin deliver his memorial address at
the dedication Of the Gettysburg mon
ument.
Consumers are told by food retailers
that the fair price list is not to be
compared with cost before the war,
but to be regarded as lever fore
stalling worse conditions than those
of the present.
Don't forget that one of the best
Christmas presents can be found in
the new war savings scheme put out
by the governmental gift from Csc.
to $80.40-a gift that increases in
value every day it is held
1t is time someone is looking into
the wood situation here. The price
quoted of S. per cord for pine slab, is
out of all reason. Our working fami-
lies cannot afford to buy even if it
could be found to buy.
What do you think of our past two
weeks of fall weather? "Old Man Win
ter" starts tomorrow for a three
months trip. If this winter COM
pares with the fall, we are ready to
turn back to the summer atmosphere.
Wood stoves are again coming into
their own and many family that had
discarded them have again brought
them from their attics and cellars.
One thing is certain and that is they
will give out the heat if fed with good
wood.
The Hagerstown Brewing Company
Inc. has sold its brewery at Hagers-
: town to the newly incorporated Fed
eral Milling and Refrigerating Com
pany for $140,750. The brewery will
be converted into a large FIGURING
mill, ice factory and cold storage
plant
! His machine skidding in the ice and
snow, Motorcycle Officer Frizzell was
thrown heavily to the road few days
ago, sustaining deep cash in the leg
above the knee He was able to OPP
crate the machine to his home at New
Market but since then has had to
use a cane to get around. Inc
accident occurred near the Seventeen
Mile House.
| Thomas j. Rose, second-class sea-
man. United States Naval Reserve, OF
Baltimore, nephew of DR.. John j. Rose
and Miss Irene Rose, this city, met
his death by drowning on Wednesday
morning when a naval launch manned
by enlisted men was rammed and
sunk in Norfolk harbor by the steamer
Northland Of the Norfolk and Wash
ington Line.
! Philip Clarke, of near Mt. Airy, has
purchased the farm of George Runk-
les, located near Mt. Airy, and mile
hoI
$11 900. Mr. Clarke gets possession
of the farm on April /, 1918, and will
likely move there in about a years
time The farm is a very profitable
one, and contains 1853 acres and we'll
improved buildings.
| The work of surveying the route of
the Winchester and Western Maryland
Railroad to Wardensville, w. Va, was
completed last week. Building Oper-
ations from this end Of the line have
been in progress since summer, and 1t
was stated that the construction work
would be continued during the winter
season. The new line will tap a
rich section of West Virginia.
The subcommittee of the general
operating committee of the Eastern
TdllTOdQS LOT dill DuSluSSS LII L4Ao ICAA
tory up to the Reading terminal met
at Cumberland Saturday and directed
the Western Maryland Railroad to
modify at once its embargo to the eX-
tent of accepting 600 loads of coal
from the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road at the rate of 200 loads day.
The Baltimore and Ohio was directed,
as far as practicable, to give the old
est loads the preference in their de-
livery to the Western Maryland Rail-
way.
In an effort to enforce a more rigid
observance of the motor traffic laws
of Maryland, Automobile Commission
er E. Austin Baughman, in letter
issued this week solicits the aid of the
newspapers of Maryland. Il feel that
the support of the newspapers in the
various counties is really necessary
and that it is practically useless to
attempt to secure a proper enforce
ment of the law without newspaper
support" he writes. A copy OF every
Maryland newspaper will, after this
week, reach the Commissioners office
regularly, and all accidents and vio-
lations of the law will be closely fol-
lowed by state motor officials.
Will it ever be possible to have a
uniform pronunciation of the much
pronounced word "cantonment?" says
the Louisville Courier Journal. Many
are the ways of it's mispronounciation
most nonD1n r6