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

LOCAL AFFAIRS
snow fell Oh Wednesday night, but
melted during the day.
\ Dr John J. Rose IL confined To his
home NV illness He II improving
Mr.. George q. Matthews, assessor
for Westminster, will complete hi
work On Monday
Mr. George Wertz, Liberty street,
has purchased the Austin Yingling
property on Bond street
The GosnelI and King sales on
Tuesday afternoon brought large
crowd OF people To this city
The DIT fox terrier DOG or Mr..
Charles ". Wantz. East Main street,
died last Friday. The animal was ~
years old
The Gambler Base Ball Association
will hold an oyster supper in the
Mechanics Hall, AT Gambler, February
PA, beginning at 5 ~ m-
Master Granville Reese, son Of Mr..
and Mrs William Reese, of Louisville,
who has been critically ill with pneu-
monia, Il greatly improved
Mr.. Roger Paynter, Webster street,
has accepted position in the Palace
Garage, East Main street, as a mech
anician. Mr.. Paynter was formerly
/ with Klee & Hoff.
The Sewing Society OF Grace Luth-
eran church, this city have finished
the name quilt. 1t contains HOB
names and il on exhibition in the
window at Babylon ~ Lippy store
oI,g. u
morning, February 18, at 1880 a. m,
\ by Guy E- Lester, Of thu Westminster
Theological Seminary. You are in
vited to come and worship with us.
\ Rev q Hilton Orrick i'm = sermon
at St- Johns Protestant Episcopal
Church, Hagerstown, urged that the
American flag be- displayed in
churches during tn present national
crisis.
Mr.. Harry Fowler, Uniontown, was
caught i'm planning machine i'm the
Union Bridge car shops and was bad
! ly cut and bruised on Monday after
noon. MT. Fowler is employed in the
wood work shop.
Religious services In the Medford
4 Grange Hall, Sunday afternoon, Feb
ruary 18, at 2.S0 RI. TIL. Professor
Johns of Blue Ridge College, will
preach. "a male quartette from the
college will sing.
II L- Fisher, optOmetrist and opti-
clan, of Baltimore, Md, will be. at the
Central Drug Store, Taneytown, Md,
Thursday, March 9Th. Boyles Drug
Store, Westminster, Friday and Sat
urday, March and 10.
The 15-acre farm of E. S. r. Siam
baugh, situated nc Berwick township,
Adams county, along the Carlisle
J pike, was sold to Adam Manager, Of
Hampstead, Md. MIR. Manager will
move to the farm On April 1st.
Rev. VIM. *. Flick, OF Fairfield,
4 has formally accepted the call ex-
H tended him by the members OF I'D.
Pauls Lutheran Church, Littlestown.
Pa. Rev. Fleck expects to assume
his new charge March 25th.
Daniel Morris Ditch, one of the old
y est hackmen in the Blue Ridge re-
sort section, died at the Wayside Inn.
\ hiS home, at Pen-Mar, Friday morn
ing He had been i'm FOR the past sew
9feral months. He was 66 years old.
Ii 1T will be warm next summer. but
the sun Az fading away. It H. old,
very old; 1t Is past its prime or life.
In 15,OO0,000 years it will be cold and
Dead, declared Joseph McCabe OF
London during lecture before The
y Academy Of Science Aand Art.
A call has been extended by the Re-
formed churches Of CavetOWn, Lett
ersburg and WolfsvilIe To The Rev.
Stewart Hartman, former superin-
tendent of the Hoffman Orphanage,
near LittlestOwn, "a, to succeed the
v Kew. D. WI. Hench, resigned. It Is I'M
derstood Mr.. Hartman will accept.
N What's the matter with Wilkin-
sOn?' al DR. Hare's successor as
superintendent Of the Maryland Anti
Saloon League asked the Snow Hill
NJ Messenger when DR. Hares resiPna-
Y ton was announced The Honorable
Lloyd has won his spurs as a tenn
Nj perance organizer and we recommend
him to the Anti-Saloon League
forces" continued the Messenger.
Many farmers. in Frederick county
WILL IT, interested To learn of the sue
cess OF Carroll county farmer X. IL.
Ensor, who years ago went to the
state of Washington and began to
farm on an extensive scale. Mr.
" Ensor recently sold his wheat crop Of
aoout 1900 bushels for $1,000. Mr..
NJ EnsOr AS one of the most extensive
NJ farmers and stock growers tn In
coin county and has made farming
4 SUCCESS. He is a brother-in-law of
B- NH Hammaker, Of Libertytown.
The large three-story brick dwell
ing on the farm of VIM. j. Reifsnider.
ln M1ddleburg district, was DESTROYED
Dy lre February no, between two ana
y thres o'clock The fire likely origin
ated from a chimney, perhaps through
N crack hidden between the floor and
cellng, and may have been smolder-
ing for some time. The tenant on
the farm is Leroy Reifsnider who
was in Union Bridge at the time the
nre broke out; and on receiving word
or the fire, he and his father nro-
cured an automobile and rushed
rapidly to the scene
1t was said at the Naval Observa-
tory, Washington, that exceptionally
large spots on the sums surface had
been noticed for the last three Or four
days AT Its maximum dimensions the
largest was estimated ait 125 900 miles
across One spot in 1851 was l4O. 900
] miles across, but they seldom are
larger than this. The appearance of
large sun spots, according to scien-
lists here, generally IL followed Nv
magnetic disturbances in the eartb's
atmosphere. That it has any connec-
lion with the weather I'D "A thaorv 49,