The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-09-20


LOCAL AFFAIRS
The R4d Croys of Manchester will
receive secr ad hand clothing TOT
refugees, September 23 tD S0.
Private Edward Nailes 0f near Lin
wood, VINO Wy stationed at Camp I'D
tom, writes INIT. James ~. Sheliman,
WmiOntown, tlat he expects tO go
Over There shortly.
Mr. James D. Mitchell, East Main
street will do photograph work in
Muor@'g studio, formerly Lewis
studio. His position will not In any
Way interfere with htS Insurance Dusi-
ness. He viii make the studio his
ONCE
Telephone companies were directed
ROW. Postmaster General BurlesOn to-
make a Tat charge 0G @S for moving "a
subscribers telephone set from one
location to another within tho same
premises. The order amends regula-
ffomg made August 2G under which
the charge was w be based ON actual
cost
Henry SeWell, Frederick. the color
ed automobile bus driver who volun-
tarFIy surrendered hiE operators I'LL
nenne to Commissioner OF Motor We
hicIes E. Austin BauEhman because
he thought jink was after him, has
claimed hig paAtabOard permit and
last week went out On his regular
rum nO Baltimore for the first time in
several weeks.
OM Wednesday of Tat week about
40 young chickens weighing between
a and III pounds EACH were stolen
from the premises CIR Mr. Henry Fos-
ter, near Tannary. The theft took
place in broad daylight, Mr. Foster
is offering liberal reward for any
information leading tO the guilty
party Or parties.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
stands at the top or the list as the
most prosperous farm county in the
country. The soil ID naturally fertile
and III we'll harmed. Tobacco and
other special money crops are grown
and those require intense culture and
very heavy fertillzing The effect of
this is shown all through the rotation
tha influence df Gill; special crop being
noticed on wheat, potatoes, grass and
all others
Private Warner q. Hood, general
haRdquantora- Camp Meade, who
spent several days with TILL parents,
Mr. and Mrs @. G.. Hood, at Mt Airy,
waA given dinner September g in
honor OF his twenty-third birthday.
Among those present we're Mr. and
Mrs. F al. BrOumgart, or Philadel-
nhias; Mr. and Mrs E. H. FOstenner,
Baltimore Miss Margaret Hood and
Miss Hilda Shipley He was present
ed with handsome wrist watch by
members Of his family and respond
ed to The gift in a very pleasing man
ner.
Mr. and Mrs T. Gloyd Wells, Of
Patapsco. have received into their
home two guests, i'm the persons OF
Master John Dyer and little Miss
Mary Ruth Wells They arrived last
Friday, September 13. From the
fact they paid the visit on such
an unusual event, Friday 18th, and
for fear OF being hoo-dooed, the
happy parents have decided to- keep
them. They, a. well as the grand
parents of both father and mother
@re receiving congratulations from a
host Of friends.
The late Edmund Swifte, keeper Oh
the British crown jewels, recorded in
Rn article in Notes and Queries in
1860 the appearance Of very strange
kind of ghost to- him, his wife, sister
in-law, and his little boy They were
at having supper together in the
Jewel house one evening when his
wife suddenly exclaimed, "Good Godi
What A. that?' and ON looking up MIR.
Swifte saw a figure like a huge cylin-
drical glass tube lowering between
the ceiling and table. III remained
stationary for some moments, and
then slowly moved toward his wife,
who shrieked with terror. Mr.. Swifte
struck at 1T with chair, whereupOn
it passed out Of the room and up
stairs
How would you like to be wheat
farmer I'm Australia or "a corn grow
or IL Argentine? The Food Admin
Gtration reports that nearly 800 mill
Hon bushels or wheat II stored In
Australia. There are no ships to
move III and therefore no market for
it, The government has guaranteed
price Of 83 cents per bushel for it,
and the commonwealth has added Il
cents, making total OF % cents to
the producer. In Argentine there Is
mo market for corn and many farmers
are disposing on II for fuel &c 40
cents per bushel. At that, however,
I'D would To- better To be- farmer in
Argentine or Australia than to be
one in Russia where the Germans
would take your wheat and not even
say thank you. No, thanks, we are
glad To be Americans. and we are not
going to get over being glad either
Among the many lessons which the
war has taught il one very important
one Cd our road builders, says Towson
Union News, and that is that con-
crete road while expensive at the
start, Is cheapest in the end and Is
the only one which will stand the
strain or heavy traffic In all sorts OF
weather. The heavy Government
trucks and other trucks carrying
freight to the war plants in the East
have ruined most of the macadam
surfaces, but where concrete was
laid down 1T still holds, provided the
bed was solid. or course, IL Is no use
te construct a hard road of concrete,
Macadam or any other material over
a mudhole or spring; such places
must first To- cleaned out, drained and
then filed with solid material. "A
niece Nf concrete rOAdhAd which has