The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-09-27
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LOCAL. AFFAIRS

a6arv1and ia called on to raise
49, 1SG JO0O w the fourth Liberty
loan
NHr ana MrB. John Martin, near
Rrmmlrnel. ane the happy parents oL
WV ILL., ten pound soTl.
Mr and MIR. W Frank Thomas
anita city, ara receiving congratuia-
t Ei,sr, over Vs the birth ~ daughter
Tbe 49, touch of the small end
r,r wfmHar wmg experienced here on
Satnr1av 0Tercoats felt very COM
fcrtaBIe. Frost was reported ln low
places
Amr Chester Cassell, Vest Main
IVY r rsna 1egt Monday morning TOT Fort
Sal rrurn WIZ WHY. where he will be CD
nd .nad to military duty in &C. United
States Army
WY Charles CasseIl, son 0f Mr. and
Mrs James CaSsellr East Main street.
has entered tna Massachusetts lnstl-
f,Ifa WY Technology, Boston, Mass,
where he with take A course
Tho cry school Board, at Win
-, ~, s.a ~ ~. voted Friday to grant
fTrTruRhs WIZ high school pupils ap-
Diving tor tte same to pick apples
.d1rTfnr, fFa season which begins this
week.
MERRITT Falidon, aged AVA years, NJ
I.awea. Del, was killed Thursday oi
lasf week while hauling hay when
he jumped from the load AND was
fnllInwnd hy a pitGhf0rk, which
Diarced through Tic back into his
heart
HuntinEaumrs CW. Va youngest
namsnaDer. the Evening Journal, was
requested NY Thomas B. Donnelly
chief of the pulp and paper section
OF the War Industries Board, 1o sus.
pend publication Tor the duration Oh
the war
The hour which dropped from ths
life wv every man, woman and child
in t1nIs country Iast March will be
given back hy the government AT 4
o'clock On tile morning III Sunday
October 2T, when the 'daylight-sav-
ins nlan ends NM.
On "Wednesday Mrs Michael ri
W4lsN. East Main street received y
lovely centarniece from her SON
Lieutenant Eugene Walsh some
where ir France which She highly
appreciates Mrs H H. Harnaugh
Vast Main street also received 2
beautiful scarf and Dolly from her
son. Private Vernon Harbangh, some
where ia France.
western Maryland College has BE-
come one Of the units uf the STU
dents Army Training Corps, which
viii De- established October ], Id
which aIl the students between tht
ages of 18 to Az will enlist The
government will take charge
,Df alI their college expenses, except
textbooks, and will place them as
privates, receiving $50 a month.
washington, September 20.-Bo1
toed shoes, felt heel pads and felt
innersoles are doomed for the period
wv the war. The War Industries
Board announced today that tht
manufacture OF felt used for these
articles must ~ discontinued az
soon as present supplies of raw ma,
tsrial are exhausted, and at once H
its manufacture interferes with the
fulnllment OF government orders.
Voluntary enlistments for tins
army, except a. authorized by acts oi
Congress III certain cases, have beer
ordered discontinued by Genera
March, chief OF staff, and at recruit
tn stations viii ~ closed as speed
ilv aa practicable. The enlisted men
serving at such stations will Ia sem
w the nearest recruit depot 10 De
physically examined and their quail
6cation records made out with
view w their assignment TO "ap-
propagate duty
The Government has called upon
the school children, and others as
well, to save and dry the pits ol
peaches, apricots, plurns, hickory
nuts, walnuts and butternuts, along
with the shells These are used ir
producing carbon for Gas respirators
TO be worn BY the boys over there .
The nuts, etc, are to be well dried
and taken to the various school
houses, the school houses to be cen
tral collecting stations. Two hun
dred peach pits CT seven pounds on
nuts make enough carbon for one
gas respirator. do your bit to save
our boys from the Huns Gas that
stings, blinds and kills.
An absolute divorce from William
J Gosnell was granted in Circuit
Court No Baltimore, Saturday to
Victoria Fl. Gosnell, 1415 Columbia
avenue In July, 1912, Mrs Gosnell
testified, her husband told her 70
spend a month with his sister in Car
roll county. She went Upon her
return the following August she
found that her husband had sold al
the furniture and left their home,
IT, wrote her a. letter, telling her
that he was going to work il Penn
sylvania. Meeting him on the street
subsequently, she asked him where
liz was living and he said he was
boarding at q house where NO women
were allowed. She did not know
where he was now.
The Public Service Commission
will shortly take Up the question OIL
abolition off dangerous road cross
ings. The crossing which immediate
NY interests them IL that OIL the
United Railways and the Western
Maryland Railway at Arlington,
where % trolley car recently had %
narrow escape from being rum down.
The Arlington crossing IS one of
the most dangerous around Balti-
more and one df very Few that are
not protected by q Waterman or
safety traffic, which uses the open
highway at Garrison avenue. ONE
block distant TT is the custom for
the trolley car I'd stop before cross
inS Che tracks and the conductor H.