The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-10-26

PA@y NJ OOAA . NOll6SG LII d. game OIL
foot ball on the College field tomor-
row afternoon
There will be a Halloween social at
the home of Milton Yingling, Thurs
day evening, November LIST. Every
one is invited. An offering will be
taken for the benefit of the church.
Mr.. John Little, Liberty street, was
taken to Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, for an examination and
treatment for stomach trouble We'd
nesday. He expects to return this
evening.
| Congress will be asked Immediately
on recOnyening to include men fr"''
, Is to 40 in the draft Amendments to
the present law are already in prep
aration. The amendments will be
introduced by Representative Julius
Kahn, Republican, of California, rank
ing member of the house military
committee. Representative Kahn is
the father of the present draft act.
Lutheran congregations and other
branches of the reformed church
throughout the world are completing
plans for the celebrations to be held
at the end of this month in honor of
the quadricentennial of the great his
Martin Luther, nailed his 95 theses
on the chapel at Wittenberg and thus
began his fight for the Reformation.
Frederick county has secured the
State Fish Hatchery for Western
Maryland, provided for in the act of
the special session of the Legislature.
The State Conservation Commission
of Maryland, through j. 7. Snyder
United States fish culturist, decided
to locate the hatchery near Lewis
town. on Fishing Creek and He'll Run.
Work will begin almost at once, or
to be exact, November /.
Tuesday morning between 10 and
IL o'clock the residence of Mr.. Bern
Hively, Frizellburg, was discovered to
be on fire, having started in the Chin
ney. One side of the house was badly
burned and a great deal of damage
was done by the water. About 300 peO-
pie gathered and formed a bucket
brigade and it was due to their good
work that the house was saved. The
loss is partly covered by insurance.
LabOrers unearthed Saturday along
the Western Maryland Railway, south
of HagerStOWn, a petritied human
foot 1t was given to Clarence w. Hur-
lev. who placed it on exhibition. The
foot measured t21a inches in length
and AZ inches across the toes. 1t is
thought the foot belonged to a male
Usage Indian. which tribe is supposed
to have roamed this section between
600 and $50 A D.
Guy Holbrook, East Mair street,
was painfully cut and bruised early
SATURDAY. morning when the Bowers
bus which plies between Baltimore
and Westminster, on which he IS con-
ductor, was pushed from the road by
the heavy automobile truck belonging
to Walter H. Odell, an eXpressman'
Baltimore The accident occurred on
the Carroll county end OF the bridge
over the North Branch of the PatapS-
co River.
Paul S. King. of Littlestown, was
given an indeterminate sentence In
Eastern Penitentiary Of not less than
one year or more than two years
King was arrested on a charge or en-
tering the moving picture theatre OF
John l.. Robinson, OF LittlestoWn. ana
taking So. The charges against HIM
were burglary, entering in the night
| and receiving stolen goods. 10 TINS
was added that of aiding prisoners 10
ESCAPE and the penitentiary term was
used 10 cover all
The Farmers Supply Company, this
) city, report the following deliveries
this week: b. f. Shriver Company,
one 1920 Titan tractor complete with
3-bottom Oliver pillow and disc mar
row for the Westminster farms, and
the same equipment for the SykesVllle
farms; to the klee Milling Co., one
1920 Titan Tractor complete; to Mr..
Samuel Bair, near UniontoWn, one 8
16 Titan tractor complete; to Mr..
Roy Basler, near this city, one corn
husker complete.
The heavy trucks must go or Mary
lands stone roads will go to pieces.
This is the ultimate conclusion OF the
State Roads Commission. The COM
mission has another cOncluslon-tnat
the heavy trucks must go that the
roads shall not 60 to pieces. The dis
coyery has been made that the lum-
herring trucks cause vibration in the
roads, and this vibration is grinding
the rock underlying the foundation
into dust With this foundation gone,
the roads collapse.
Thrown to the roadway when the
automobile in which she was riding
cOlllQeQ WITH d Celepuoue POA0' q +AA
Null, of Bachman's Valley, sustained
several fractured ribs and a spralned
back. The accident occurred on the
Baltimore turnpike, near Nace's store
on Saturday afternoon. Milton Resi-
owner and driver of the machine, IS
said, together with Mr.. Null and sew
eral of the Null children, escaped in
iury. The car was badly damaged.
Resi- is said to have placed his foot
upon the wrong pedal.
The Four Hundredth Anniversary OF
the Protestant Reformation will be
befttingly observed next Sunday in
Grace Lutheran Church, 2.30 p. d., BY
the Lutheran Churches, comprising
lJy.oe+r,i1c+or district which includes