The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-01-05
LOCAL AFFAIRS

LHGAL AFFAlkS
Are we in the midst OF a. rain
season?
All schools opened in this county
Tuesday. after being closed since the
holidays.
A very enjoyable dance was held
in the Masonic Temple at Mt. Airy
Friday evening.
The auto license Of white with green
letters is much better looking than
the old tags.
On Tuesday Mr.. Charles E. Fink
entertained the County Commission
er5 and other county officials at his
home. East Main street, to fine
dinner.
Dorothy Hahn aged years daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph II. Hahn, West
Main street, fell from a chair at her
home Tuesday and fractured one of
her arms.
Thomas Barnhart, clerk in the
freight department Of the W. M. R.,
ir nursing a mashed foot that he re-
cgiVed by having q radiator fall on
it yesterday.
will hold its annual banquet in the
Ffremen's Building, on Wednesday
evening, January II. Officers will
also be elected for the coming year.
The distribution OF school funds
amounted to $34S,038.75, to the differ
eDt counties and Baltimore city. Car
roll cOunty's proportion was 1851
for school tax, 1,625 high schools,
and $l.69T for text books.
The State Roads Commission will
advertise for bids on the road from
Rmmitsburg to Bridgeport. This
will mean state road from this city
to Emmitsburg, as the Carroll county
side is under construction.
We always welcome letters from our
foreign subsCribers-frOm men and
women who once lived in this COM
munity and now reside in different
states. Sit down, sometime. and tell
Us about your new location.
Mrs Bette s. I.ongnecker, wife of
John S. I.ongnecker, Of Union Bridge,
ia critically i'll at the home Of her
DrOther-in-laW, J. Griffith Gent, near
COCkeysville. having come on for the
funeral Of her sister, Mrs. Gent.
number of our citizens attended
he shooting match held at North
Branch, on New Years day. The
match vas success. A friendly
vi7tt was made on Mr. Louis Sachs,
formerly of this city, who conducts
L business at that place.
The directors for the Westminster
lee and Cold Storage Company, are:
George ". Albaugh, F. Thomas Baby
Ion, ;. c. StOner, George r. Gehr, Den
ton $. Gehr Charles f. Fink, j. M.
&eifsnider. JOS. w. Smith, Ezra NJ.
Dish John ID. Bowers and Charles
lesson
Mrs. Beulah f. Eliason has entered
--lt at HagerstOwn in behalf Of her
self and two children against the
Western Maryland Railway Company
FOR 100000 damages for the death OF
her husband, John L. Eliason, an
employee, who was killed in the COM
rauy's yards there several months
ago.
The following directors were elected
Tuesday by NATURALIZATION Grocery
company: George w. Albaugh, F.
Thomas Babylon, Carroll Albaugh,
lawrence CHILEAN and D. Snyder
Babylon. The officers are: George
W Albaugh, president; Carroll AL
"AuEh, Vice-president, and F. Thomas
Babylon, secretary and treasurer.
j. A. Moore, a. Western Maryland
Railway brakeman, Hagerstown, fell
from box car while on the Pen-Mar
5!ilng Wednesday morning, breaking
his left arm and receiving a number
or bruises and cuts about his body
and head. He was unconscious when
picked up and was Immediately taken
10 the Washington County Hospital.
Miss Evelyn Bond, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. S. w. Bond, of Marston, and
sister Of Mr.. W. D. Bond, this city,
was taken to a hospital in Baltimore
Sunday evening and operated upon
for appendicitis. Miss Bond is a stu
dent Of Westminster High School
The operation was successful and
she is doing as we'll as can be ex-
pected.
Master Joseph StOner received a
number Of cuts and bruises and little
Miss Virginia StOner has fractured
collar bone from being thrown from a
sled they we're coasting on at their
grandfather Waltman's, near Frizell-
burg. on Sunday. Coming down the
hill the sled struck a breaker throw
ing both a considerable distance with
the above result.
Westminster Fertilizer Company
elected directors as follows Tues
day: w. L. Marker, George H. Hunt,
Geo. E. Marker, Fl. s. Roop, M. Chew,
John D. Schaeffer, Theo. F. Englar, AL
fred Stevenson and A. H. Huber The
board then elected w. U. Marker,
president; George H. Hunt, vice-presi-
dent; w. L. Marker, secretary, treas
urer and manager of the board
1t has occurred to us that a news
paper Is much like a public school.
Not one patron in twenty visits the
school once a year, yet most of them
are always ready to criticise It, The
same is the truth with the newspaper.
II every person in town would drop
into the Office once week, or in some
other way tell us the news items they
know, what a newspaper we should