The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-08-09


The August term or the Circuit
Court for Carroll county will convene
on Monday
Government wireless stations have
been planned for IndO- China that will
be powerful enough to communicate
with points more than 1900 miles
away.
A record breaking crowd filled our
streets On Saturday and also attended
st. Johns Catholic fete, which was
possibly the largest success Of any
Of its kind attempted
Richard RI. Miles, Mayor OF Cath
.ersburg, Montgomery county, and for
merly postmaster of that town for a
long time, was accidently electrOcut-
ed Saturday at the towns electrical
station.
Mrs. Elizabeth White, widow of
James G.. White, died at the residence
of ller SON, at Rockville, Wednesday
aged 85 years. She spent MOST OF her
long married life In Carroll county,
where her husband was engaged in
paper manufacturing.
The local Red Cross Chapter OF
Frederick, shipped to headquarters I'm
Washington the largest consignment of
surgical dressings that has gone from
that city at one time since the beginn-
Iin of the war. It includes 10000 gauze
sponges, 5000 congresses, 1880 band
ages and 1900 pads, total of S.
ESQ articles.
10y. nv Gould, manager OF tn Ford
Assembling plant, Omaha, Neb., re
ceived orders from Detroit to close
the plant because OF inability to get
material. Gould said fifteen plants
have been closed for the same reason
ana that only six are now in opera
ton. Ford production has dropped
from 3,100 cars a day to $50, 400 OF
which are trucks.
Westminster II now just 20 miles
from Baltimore under the new an
nexation act, the northwestern limit
or the city under the act being at the
ola eiFht-Mile stone on the Baltimore
and Reisterstown turnpike in front
lof the old Foley store in Pikesville.
The 2S-mile stone stands on the north
side OF East Main street, near Church
street, Westminster, the beginning of
the turnpike being ut the intersection
or Greene and Franklin streets, Balti-
more
Edward .. Bosley II the name OF
the new cashier of the $ykesville Ma
tiOnal Bank, who will succeed William
M. Chip1ey, resigned to become a
member of the firm of DeYries 6
Chipley. mr.. Bosley is known 70
$ykesville people For two years he
was Comptroller at Springfield Hos
pita1. He has served fifteen years In
the Office Of the County Treasurer OF
Baltimore county and IL an expert
accountant and familiar with bank
ing methods.
Government acquisition and con-
troll OF all the principal stockyards,
cold storage plants and warehouses
and both refrigerator and cattle cars
has been recommended to the Presi-
dent by the Federal Trade Commits
sion to destroy a. monopoly which, IL
declares, Swift AL Co., Armour & Co.,
Morris AZ CO., Wilson IN Co., Inc, and
the Cudahy Packing Company exer-
else not only over the meat industry
of the country but other necessary
food supplies.
Calls for 13O,2O7 draft registrants
qualified for general military SER
vice to join the colors before the end
OF August were issued last night by
the Provost Marshal General One
hundred thousand white registrants
from 43 states are ordered entrained
between August 26 and August 80.
JTWenty-one states and the District of
Columbia are directed To furnish So
207 negro registrants to entrain Aug
ust 1924. These orders bring the
number Of men called out I'm August
to- about 100000, the number contem-
plated in the present military pro-
gram.