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

Dear Editor:-In glancing over a
paper published in Ohio, l noticed the
following advertisement, which l
copied as a curio in these strenuous
days of hard times:
Wanted, good girl for general
house work; no washing, $500 per
week. Write to Mrs. William Mishler,
122O4 Woodland Ave, Cleveland, Ohio.
In the same paper we find an item
about a public sale, nothing unusual
in that locality. The sale at III. E.
Sliffe's on Monday was largely attend
ed, everything sold we'll, corn sold
for $1.46 per bushel, oats roc per
bushel, a dairy COW brought $40,
while high registered cow sold for
$155.
In a Baltimore daily we see a pic
ture of a small dog of the toy variety
that was purchased by a New York
society woman for the modest sum of
$4,000. All around that woman are
people crying for food, yea starving
One woman drowned her infant Daby
because she had no food for herself
or babe. These are terrible incidents,
yet we have reason to 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: ''25 pound sack of
flour, a pound of coffee, two pounds
of eVapor ted peaches, ten cakes of
soap, 100 pounds Of oyster shells,
box of poultry powder, 25 pounds of
calf meal and a Washboard."
Recently the famous John D. Rookie
Teller was uneasy because his prop
erty, in Ohio, to the amount Of $751;
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 1875.
There was a census taken of the
United States in the year 1916, not
officially, but in such a manner that
it may be 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 a Pennsylvania town there we're
several hundred men examined, and
out of every hundred, only sixty
measured up to the standard, to be a
soldier to defend the Stars and
Stripes.
Truly this is a severe winter. One
of my correspondents in Vermont re-
ports snow six 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 in his own words:
February End. We had a 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
frost that froze fruit trees and all.
Thousands of boxes of oranges are
gone. Grape fruit is not much hurt.
The damage to oranges will reach
millions of 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.
we hear of the blizzard in the
North 1t was - degrees below
freezing here and some people were
afraid to venture out. There are some
natives here who never saw snow. !
suppose if it would snow here as it
does up North, they would think the
end of time is at hand"
J. ALBERT ZEPP.
Manchester, Md.