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

, avenue, is dangerously ill at her home
The W. M. r. tracks at Kirk wer
: blocked Wednesday and Thursday b
engine 912 of train 204 jumping tn
track.
There will not be any preaching il
Medford Grange Hall, Sunday after
noon, due to the bad condition of tn
roads.
The snow guards on the roof of tn,
Methodist Protestant church this city
have been brushed away by the snow
sliding.
Fl. M. Harrison and family, Of How.
ard county, moved in the tenant house
of j. c. Wales, Plum Tree Farm, near
StatewoOd.
| A marriage license was issued in
Baltimore Wednesday to Charles E
Smith and Mamie A. Hobbs, both OF
I Sykesville.
Mrs. George E. Sharrer, West Main
street, was paralyZed Wednesday ev-
ening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
George F. Eckenrode.
There will be a regular monthly
meeting of the Women's Civic League
Thursday, March Is, at 3 p m, at the
home of Miss Nora Gorsuch, East Main
street.
Old Glory is displayed in the Ascen-
sion Episcopal Church to the left OF
the chancel, where it will remain I'M
til after the European war or peace
is declared.
Our stores are taking on their
stunning spring dress. The styles
will surpass anything ever displayed
The opening days are Friday and
Saturday, March 16 and Il.
Mr.. James Leonard Shaeffer, Penn
sylvania avenue, had an operation
performed to a large lump or wart on
one of his legs at the Church Home
and Intirmary, Baltimore, this week.
He is improving.
The WOmen's Club of Westminster,
will present the play The Women
Who Did" at the Opera House, March
Is, at s p. m, for the benefit of the
Civic League. There will also be a
number of musical selections by local
and Out-of-toWn talent.
William Lang and James w. Henry,
of Hampstead, were brought here
from Baltimore, last Monday by
Sheriff James M. Stoner and placed in
jail. They are wanted for the lar
ceny Of some goods from the store OF
It. J. Hunt, Hampstead.
The Maryland Almanac, which has
been issued by Frank r. Kent and
John w. Owens, Baltimore, and con-
tp5 III ,L
State is on sale at the Westminster
News Store, F. d. Dieffenbach, pro-
prietor, East Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. A. c. Shifet, Madison
avenue, are the happiest couple in
town over the arrival of their first
baby, a fine nine-pound boy. Mr.
Shiflet is bOilermaker at the West
ern Maryland Railway shops, and is
used to nOise.-Hagerstow Mail
Should war break out between this
country and Germany an effort will
be made to have German stricken
from the curriculum of the public
schools. A school official said We'd
nesday that steps will be taken in that
direction as sure as the United States
gets involved in the conflict in Eu-
rope.
The pri' es of canned goods of all
kinds have been on a continuous rise
during the last few months. The
prices are going to continue rising.
The supply of goods in the hands
of Gamers and brokers is extremely
small, and likely to be completely eX-
hausted long before the 1917 crops are
available.
The public sale of G.. G. Greenlee
held Saturday on the c. B. Stoner
farm, COneWagO township, at Sells
Station, was largely attended The
sale amounted to $4,000 and the fifteen
head Of registered Holstein cattle
brought good prices. One COW brought
$l93. The sale was advertised in the
Advocate.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad S
new export coal pier at Curtis Bay,
i'll the Baltimore harbOr, which is the
largest in the world and has a ca
pacity of 100000 tons a year or a
maximum capacity of 1000 tons an
hour, was formally opened Tuesday
The pier cost $2,500,000, is of con-
crete and steel construction and is
electrically operated.
Fifty passengers on the Western
Maryland passenger train No. 46, were
transferred at Hanover, Pa, Monday
morning to the trolley, on which they
continued their way to York, as a re-
suit of freight wreck at Brecklyn
west of York. One Of the large loco
motives on the double header freight
No. 21S jumped the tracks. Passen-
ger traffic was tied up the greater
part Of the day as q result.