The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-11-01
LOCAL AFFAIRS

CO1ored people at WeStpOr aug
graves Saturday for $50 negro corpes
In record time.
An examination will be held for
rural mail carrier at Marriottsviile,
male and female-
The Advocate was delayed with the
present issue OF it, paper on account
Df the press breaking down
western Maryland College foot
Frall team defeated St Johns Col
IeEe. at Annapolis, on Saturday wy VA
score Of l4 tc MI
@ Mrs. Frederick Wagner, Pennsyl-
mnia avenue, is having her houses
lated by William =. Arbaugh and
East Main street.
ir. r. Neal Parke argued the case
Lester 8. Patterson against the
& o. Railroad at the Maryland
vt Of Appeals this week.
fstock market has set price OF
per hundred on hogs as the low
This is a raise Of $500 per
III over last year.
dobbin was put aside again On
44v and the automobile took It,
lee as usual. ri seemed that every
na who was able To- use their car
Elad Al 6ut.
onfederal-cOntrolled railroads
we're given authority by the Inter
STATE Commerce to increase their
iOfnt passenger fares tO a parity with
their connecting lines under federal
control
Mr. Frank Grouse, Of Philadelphia,
80 -izitinp Ill family ait the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bowers. Liberty
street Mr.. Grouse is recuperatlng
from an accident which occurred
while on duty on the Pennsylvania
yellow pine lumber sufficient to
.h-.ild $50 wood ships has been de-
liyered at Atlantic and Gulf Coast
.shipyards, the United States shipping
Board announced. The board mas
contracted for deliveries or 45O,OUO'UUU
feet OH such timber
The prailer wheel OH 200 engine
pulling VA long freight train jumped the
track an Monday morning in front of
fha railroad station and delayed the
fast mail one hour before AN was
placed back on thu track The wheel
ran on the ties FOR 400 yards
Adam Bombagh, musician, of East
Rutherford, mi III, stood over me
grave of his wife at Ridgelawn GENE
tery. New York, early Sunday, played
the Ave Maria on his Fiolin and then
committed suicide The wife. Mrs.
Anna Bombagh, killed herself TWO
months ago.
The Waynesboro Printing Co., Dr.
j. G. Criswell, president. publishers
OF the Daily Herald, with Monday
evenings issue went out of business,
ff1a newspaper being taken over by
th Waynesboro Record Co., Robert 81
Gordon. president and editor. Here
after WaynesbOro will have but one
newspaper the evening Record
Herald
Adiutant General Warfield stated
that missionaries will probably be
sant out early next week, when the
classification will have been cOmplet-
ed. Action was delayed because or
the fiu epidemic, as the filling out OF
the papers would have necessitated
the gathering Of a number of persons
Besides. there was no particular
hurry .vas it is not likely that the new
IL drafted men between Is and 10 and
7 bet wsesn the ages of 81 and 46 will be
inducted into the military service
until next year. The classes between
IA anfG21 and 81 and 81 must first be
exhausted.
Two men. apparently under 30 years
old htiD up George W. Foreman,
night clerk at the City Hotel, FRED
erick, at the point Of revolvers shortly
before i o'clock Monday morning ans
!. robbed the safe, which was alar, of
a.. wM
tide of him the clerk was forced tOI
leave the hotel and walked two blocks
east CHI Patrick street To the terminal
df the Hagerstown and FREDERICK
railroad and told to- beat II. the
robbers then turned into Carroll
street, leading to the Baltimore and
Ohio freight yard, and disappeared IN
the darkness. They have not been
apprehended. The Arlington Hotel
was robbed last year of $500.
A destructive automobile accident
occurred Friday night on the Balt1-
more pike near the residence OF Mr..
John Armacost, near Finksburg, when
one automobile ran into the other.
The cars in the accident
were owned by MIR. Harry Wilson,
Tyrone, and Gilbert near Man
chester. Mr. Gilbert was driving
a Maxwell along the pike when an
axle broke near Mr ArnacOst's
place The CO. III IL said was in the
middle Of the pike and was left there
without lights until IL could To-
moved While he was gone Mr. Will
s0n CAME along I'm "a new Studebakerl
and It'll trying to avoid striking the car
pulled to the side but not far enough
10 clear the car. The left side OF the
car was smashed and the body was
forced up on the motor, the hous-
ing and rods under the machine being
carried away by the impact. Mr.. Will
sons machine is a complete wreck In
front, the tenders, lights and radiator
are gone and the back fender and
body ON the right side badly caved in.
The most or mar. wilson's damage was
caused hy the car striking culvert
after he struck the other CT. NO one
WaS injured, bUt it is almost miracle
how any One escaped from being bad
ly battered lip.
1.-THE restrictions as published last
week On the epidemic conditions are
tlD same except in Union Bridge dis
trict where tine ban haS been partly
raised and day services can w. h
Sunday Tt is hoped the cong
Will 10 improve that the ban nl
Hfted on public meetings and "A
0pen on November IL.