The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-10-18

New Windsor Iast might.
Mr. John POiseI, East Main street,
liz improving from a bad case OF pneu-
moaia.
Mrs wv Frank Thomas, this city,
is suffering from severe case ofI
pneumonia.
Mrs. Joseph ". Shriver, Willis
street, who has been extremely i'll
with influenza, is improving
Attorney Edward O. Whant, Center
street, has been confined Nd hfs bed
this week with an attack OF grip.
s. T. Fisher, optician, who was to be
at Boyle's Drug Store this week, has
been suffering from the tlu and will
not d. here until October 23.
DR.. Louis K Woodward, West Main
street, is at Old Point Comfort, Va,
TOT IA short vacation Dr. Woodward
~ convalescing from IA bad case of
grip.
1t is reported that 165 Western
Maryland Railroad engineers have
been laid I'D with pneumonia Sever
al cf the oldest conductors died from
the flu last week
Any person desiring any doctor to
visit their home during the day should
call or communicate with Doctor II. Tx
Woodward, West Main street, during
the morning or that day.
j. J. VanFossen, manager Of the
VIM. Numsen & Sons, Asbestos gave
a dinner party Sunday at the chris
teninE Of their daughter, Nina Flea
nor. Rev. MIR. Clough, OF Finksburg,
oficiated
The VIM. Numsen Canning Plant, at
Asbestos was closed down on Wednes-
day, October 18th, On account of tine
death OF MIR. VIM B Burrough, or
Baltimore. He was connected with
the Baltimore Branch of the plant.
Approximately $4,000 men register
ed during the five days olf enrolment
In Baltimore OF this number 4O,93S
registered as Democrats, 21,938 were
enrolled as Republicans and the re-
mainder refused To give party afilia-
ton.
Lieut. Chandler Sprague, a former
student of Western Maryland College,
has been commended by Philadelphia
Ledger war correspondent in France
Tor his bravery, for going into THE
middle area between the armies and
rescuing wounded private.
Struck by another train while he
was making minor repairs on his en-
CINE at Port Covington Clarence R.
Sisk OF HagerstoWn, an engineer
OF the Western Maryland Railway,
suffered a fractured skull and triple
fracture of his right arm Tuesday
morning.
"a large building used al "A carpen-
ter shop and woodshed,, on the pro-
perty Of Mrs. Theodore Stocisdale,
Reisterstown, was destroyed by fire
late Sunday night. The dwelling,
which was only short distance from
the structure, was saved by the Refs
terstown and Glyndon firemen.
Frank T.. Harding Washington
chauffeur, who drove IA SeveH-pasSen
ger automobile over a 5U-foot en-
bankment at the Jug bridge on the
Baltimore pike early Sunday morning
while he was intoxicated, was re-
leased on $1 900 bail for further
hearing before Justice #Alfban M Wood,
Frederick
Announcement was made that
Harold Scarborough, secretary, editor
and general manager Of the Unionrs
News Publishing Company Qf ToEsOn,
had purchased the Union-News and
the entire equipment of the company
which was formed in 1909, when the
owners OF the TOwson News pur-
chased the Baltimore County Union
Herbert r. Wooden, Of Carroll
county, the last speaker of the House
of Delegates, was nominated Wednes-
day afternoon AT the Rennert Hotel,
Baltimore, by the Republican State
Central Committee as the party can
didate for Congress in the Second
district for the term ending next
March, in succession to the late J. ~.
C Talbot. -
Another Frederick county Yankee,
Martin Luther Hahn, of near Emmits-
burg, has been killed ON the bloody
fields of France. Word to this effect
was received iby Hahn's grandmother,
Mrs. Wilhelmina Ovelman, near Em-
mitsburg, last week. The telegram
stated that Private Hahn had been
killed in action on September liz.
The daily papers stated that Hahn
was from TaneytoWn which was
mistake.
It. has been recently published in
some of our local papers that the
Government has set "a price OF $3.50
per hundred pounds for live hogs.
This statement is not correct. The
Government has ruled that $3.50 per
hundred pounds shall be the mimi
mum price for live hogs but Eastern
prices have always been much higher
and should continue to be so. The
above price is the same price estab-
lished by the Government about one
year ago,
Pinkney Gorsuch, Of Middleburg,
who was arrested on serious charge
and locked up in Jail for the Novem-
Der term Of grand jury walked away
and has not been heard from since.
Tie was one or the TRUSTEES and was
cutting wood for the Jail when be
was missed by Sheriff Mellor. There
are is i'm Jail and the sheriff has all
To- can do and used this man to help
do some outside work when H. walk
ed OFF. He will be apprehended be-
fore long as he is no roamer.
q tramp by the name of Yelnesk
was arrested by Sheriff Mellor, at
on Sunday on a warrant
for being vagrant. The tramp had
taken up his abode in an aban-
doned mine for the winter, and
has been known for some time
to be living a hermit's life.