The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-09-21

"ACdI, ldImeTS Will increase Ln6lT
acreage this fall.
We had another bad Saturday last
week. 1t rained and made things dis
agreeable and business very fiat.
Mrs. Phillip Bitzel, East Main street,
has a very beautiful Cactus in bloom,
that Mr.. BitZel sent her from Eagle
Pass, Texas, last summer while camp
ing there.
Miss Catherine Mann had several
fingers cut off and Charles Shaeffer
received broken ankle, while work
ing in Numsen's Canning Factory, As
bestos, this week
Ellsworth Cronnister, of near Sykes
vile, exhibited a cantaloupe ON Sat
urday that measured 30A inches in
circumference and weighed nine
pounds and five ounces.
Beet sugar producers in conference
with the Food Administration reach
ed a unanimous agreement under
which the stable retail price of sugar
will be about eight cents a pound.
Companp H of the First Regiment
defeated Company G of the same
Regiment at a game of base ball on
Sunday afternoon at Camp Mcclellan,
Admission, Ala. The score was to /.
George Hopkins, "a years old, we'll
known and Industrious negro, acct
IDENTIFY shot and killed himself on Sun
day night at his home on the farm of
Beverly Bennett, near Springfield
Hospital.
Mr.. Clarence w. Stoner, LittlestOwn,
Pa, son of Sheriff and Mrs. Stoner,
this city was nominated as tax colleC-
tor at the primaries having received
II votes against his opponent who re-
ceived one vote.
Mr.. Herbert DeVries hauled to the
Warfield Mill, Sykesville, on Tuesday
the heaviest load of wheat of the sea-
son. 1t consisted of 25S bushels and he
received $541.S0 for it. Mr.. DeVries
usually brings in about 1000 bushels
Although the Maryland men selected
for the National Army will not begin
arriving at Camp Meade before Sep
TENDER 20, the Camp was formally
opened Wednesday, when the first
contingent of Pennsylvania "drafteeS
arrived.
September set a record which, &C
cording to the Weather Bureau, has
not been equaled before in forty-five
years; that is, frost on the 18th day
of this month. We have not heard OF
much damage that was done in this
section.
. The Rev w. J. Swigart, Huntingdon
Pa, chairman of the Peace Committee
of the Church of the Brethren
. (DunkardsD has called off the meeting
OF the churches, east of the Ohio Riv-
er, scheduled to take place at Hagers-
town Wednesday.
The leather money satchel which
was taken from the home of VIM. Eb-
bert, Union Bridge, a few weeks ago
together with some money, a copy OF
John Buffingtons cornfield a few days
ago. minus the contents.
Two automobiles owned by a Wash
ngtOnian and a resident Of this city
were in collision Monday afternoon at
EdmondSOn avenue and Old Frederick
road, near Catonsville. Both machines
were badly damaged and the occupants
escaped with slight injuries.
Former Collector of Customs Will
liam F. Stone, for nearly a genera
ti?n the Republican leader in Balti-
more city, died between 6 and ! O'Clock
Sunday morning at St. JOseph's Hos
pital after an illness of 10 days. Urae-
mic poisoning was the cause OF
death.
Now is good time to go through
the corn field and mark thrifty stalks
with large ears for selection for seed
A further selection among the ripe
ears after husking and a final testing
Of the grain should insure seed Of high
quality, almost sure to bring better
results than seed brought from a dis
lance.
Corn cutting has just about started
in Carroll county. Corn in most sec
tiOns of the county is heavy, and in
some places is down badly. 1t is said
the demand for corn cutters is heavy
and farmers are paying So and 81 per
day for men to cut corn, provided
, they have had experience and can do
/ the work.
Veterans OF the Grand Army of the
Republic are up in arms against the
button which the Government has
provided to give men exempted from
military service. They declare that
in design it is too similar to the G. A.
R. button awarded by the Government
to the saviors of the Union at the
close of the civil war.
/ Surgeon General Gorgas has an
nounced that there are 1900 officers
engaged in the various branches of
the medical corps of the army. 1t is
estimated, however that when the full
100000 are in the field, at least "a
900 physicians will be needed to look
after the wounded and preserve the
health of the men under arms.
The storage house of John Hartman,
huckster, living at Fountain Valley,
was entered Saturday morning by
thieves who made away with 300 doZ-
en- of eggs, 10 pounds of butter and a
can of lard. This is the second time
places have been entered and goods
of like amount stolen. The guilty par
ties escaped without being apprehend-
, ed.
! Mrs. Leila Goelet Lehman, of Nor
folk, Va, has announced the marriage
of her daughter, Evelyn Lehman
Wheeler, and Mr.. kermet Wilson, of
Carroll county, Md The couple were
married in Baltimore on August 20.
The bride who formerly lived in Ra-
leigh, n. c., is a daughter of Mrs.
Lehman and the late Albert G.. Lehman,
rr hot aity-