The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-02-16
Next Thursday February z2,
Washing tnrHHR NHTfNH@W

NM WaHhingtDn'S birthday
Monday and Tuesday morning
were some cold, tfla thermDmetE
Wi registering around the zero mark.
Dn account Of Our press breakLn
tO miss Our rural mail On $aturda
sr morning
" Rev. William H Muirhead, paste
NM OG IT, $ykGSvilIe PreSbyteria
Church, who has been suffering frOH
infantile paralysis, AZ slowly improv
60.
Mr. &. KY Stoner, West Main stree
haS purchased the Brown property
WI which was damaged by Are On IT'D
ruary 3. MT. $toner will tear ava
Nh both buildings and win erect an up
to-date bri AK structure.
P. A- Hauver, a graduate of th
Maryland State CUllege &Rd head I'd
the agricultural department of thl
Boys High School Frederick, hai
been appointed farHr demonstration
agent fOr Frederick county He enters
upon his duties at once
D- .. GeElr, the hardware man or
\ the corner, haS Just completed tht
past week Eanpire Pipaless Heating
| plants in tn following residences:
mr. Meade OMIer. Westminster; Mr
William EckenrOder Westminster and
Mr- Edward DOdrer, e. c0ll@ctCr
MayberTy, Md
If YOU drive a Co. you dGi not own
\ y0U have tO procure and pAX f@T IA
chauffeur'S license costing $3 and yCu
have III do this every year Such n
the ruling Of Attorney General Albert
lC- Richie handed tO State Motor
\ Vehicle Commissioner IT, AHStiM
Baughman Saturday.
According to statistics there are
\ 2,517 Protestant Sunday Schools in
\ the State Of Maryland, with a total
membership Of 284, ms, including
3D.. s6G pupils and sOy3lO officers and
teachers These figures are based on
reports gotten from all the counties
4 by the Maryland State Sunday School
Association
\ The Warfieldshurg School will hold
a Washington and Lincoln Social next
Thursday evening, February 22. ThR
\ entertainment will begin promptly at
\ 7-30 I'D. m- Ice cream, cakes candy and
other things will ~ on sale If thH
weather should be unfAvOrable 1T will
be held Friday evening, February 23.
Everybody welcome
A girls club has been formed in ME-
Airy, the sole purpose being for &C.
ciahility, with IA membership Of nine
THE club room II located in the Office
Nof Thu Lumber and Supply Company
Mt- Airy Those in the club are
Misses Ruth German, Virginia Baker
Hazel Cleary, Virginia Runkles, Mary
severn, Sadie ellison, Edwina Multi
ri, Helen Houck and Elizabeth Hood
One hundred and twenty-three
candidates we're initiated for IT,
" fourth degree of thu knights ot
| Columbus att the Hotel Belvedere
Baltimore, Monday afternoon. Mem
bers taking the fourth degree from
\ our local lodge were Robert =. ShriN-
er, Joseph nv Matthias, XII GlOyd
\ Lynch, EdW- W. Case, MI Eugene Tub
man.
v Arthur Garrett, Of near Hampstead
thinks IT, Ia IA flock Of chickens thai
deserve the Iron Cross, or AIT least a
\ blue ribbon, fOr IT, greatest prOduc-
ton of eggs during the cold winter
months, when eggs are a luxury with
most people The flock IL of mixed
breeds. During December and Jan
uary he scld 1914 dozens of eggs
\ For the year ending February A the
flock produced 1,254& dozens
NJ Complaining that The affections ot
his wife have been alienated, and tina
NJ She has been induced t0 leave hii
home, William Levi Ham, of Fred
NJ erick, h. filed suit for $10O,O0l
damages against Martin E Kefauver
NJ of Frederick, former president of tht
. Frederick County Agricultural 10
VI ciety and owner of an extensive chair
NY Of gold fish ponds in Maryland ant
NJ Pennsylvania Ham further petitions
the court to have The case tried ~
n fore a jury
I Dissatisfied because 5l nonuniol
stevedOres were employed I'D unloa,
iron ore from steamers at the West
ern Maryland Pier at Port Coving
ton, 150 union men refused I'D Worl
Saturday morning and walked out
The strike did not affect all OR th
M men employed at the elevator, fo
\ three gangs, each gang composed 0
v l7 union men, worked throughout th
day. The strikers stayed in th
WIIAAll% ~ $3.50 p1GA Mh1L1l$ AUE LLRw@A
M delegate, who will make an effort n
settle the matter
Y Caught with money alleged t0 nav
n been taken from the United State
mails, Norman Phillips, 22 years OLD
AZ second assistant postmaster at Woods
\ bOro, was arrested Friday by POst
Office Inspector Everett Partridg
A and after staying .in the Frederic
AK Elail over night, was talERn tD HaEeri
'- Flown for XII pre- linlHaT hearing bt
4. Efore United States Commissions
" EAleSanderHH agndr. The hearing ws
held Ny edneSday and he was foun
W guilty He was sentenced I'D yeal
Etin prison, at Atlanta, G&I a54Fa
NJ Soma farmers begin to planr ttt
KY earliest vegetables at one side an
ifl proceed across THE garden as the sei
NJ son advances. This makes lit east,
N tO harrow the implanted portion
N any time desired and thus keep I'LL frt
from weeds and in a moist, friab
N condition Other desirable feature
VI of this plan are: all similar crops !
any row require the same amount ar
w kind of tillaEe; crops occupying III
!. land about tn same length of tiH
h may H. planted together; after ear
WI maturing crops are harvested I'D
e possible to prepare strip of land
N pl mt late vegetables, if desired.
re Western Maryland COLES
Alnn,, ,i Association celebrated I'll
rnIda,, Jubilee of the institution, W.T.
n ha. at Tine Hotel Emerson, Ba