The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-09

Dear Editor I'm glancing over 8
paper published in Ohio, noticed &C.,
following advertisement which
copied as a curio in these strenuous
days Of hard times":
Wanted, a good girl for general
house work; nO washing, $500 par
week. Write to Mrs. William Mishler.
12204 Woodland Ave, Cleveland, Ohio.
I'm the same paper we find an item
about public sale, nothing unusual
\ in that locality. The sale at H- E-
Sliffe's on Monday was largely attend
| ed, everything sold well, corn sold
for $1.46 per bushel, oats 70c PCT
bEshel, a dairy COW brought $140,
while high registered cow sold for
$155.
TIL Baltimore daily we &C. pic
ture of "a small dog OF tine toy variety
that was purchased by New York
society woman for the modest sum of
$1,000 All around that woman are
people crying for food, yea starving
One woman drowned her infant baby
because she had no food for herself
or babe. These are terrible incidents,
vet w. have reason IT'D believe they
are only too true.
1t is said, "a fair exchange is no
robbery" In Somerset, Pa, a mer-
chant offers for two bushels of pota-
toes the following: '425 pound sack OF
flour, a pound of coffee, two. pounds
of evapor ted peaches, ten cakes Of
soap, loo pounds OF oyster shells, a
box of poultry powder, 25 pounds of
calf meal and washboard."
Recently the famous John p. Rookie
Teller was uneasy because his prop
erty, It'll Ohio, To the amount of 1881 ,-
100000, might be over taxed. Would
that all the rich who seem to have
great power over the poor in money
matters, could read Hebrews 1885
There was census taken OF the
United States in the year 1916, not
officially, but in such a manner that
! lit may d. nearly correct, showing
that our country with Its outlying
possessions, now numbers one hun
dred and eleven million, nearly three
times the population OF the whole of
Europe.
Incidentally we want to mention in
connection with the population, that
\ in IA Pennsylvania town there were
out Of every hundred, only sixty
measured up to the standard, to be a
soldier to defend tie Stars and
Stripes
Truly this is a severe winter. One
of my correspondents in Vermont re-
ports snow 81 feet deep On the level,
while in Florida, the land of oranges,
has experienced winter weather He
is originally from Ohio, We will
give the letter i'm his own words;
February End we had shower
of rain in the morning and the wind
changed from south to northwest. 1t
got cold and blew hard for "a hours,
and on Saturday morning we had "a
| frost that frOze fruit trees and an.
Thousands of boxes of oranges are
gone. Grape fruit is not much hurt.
The damage to oranges will reach
millions Or dollars On the east coast
where tomato fields are, it is claimed
the loss is over five million dollars.
The cold wave lasted three days and
the sun has again warmed up, and
the doors are open, summer is here
again.
I'VE hear of the blizzard in the
North. fit was 12 degrees below
freezing here and some people we're
afraid to venture out. There are some
natives here who never saw snow.
suppose if lit would snow here al lit
does up North, they would think the
end of time is at hand"
y. ALBERT ZEPP.
Manchester, Md.