The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-10-25

\ Attorney III. O- Wteant ha5 improved
sufficiently to visit his Office
N Miss Salie RoOp, East Main street,
\ iS recovering from IA 1evere case Of
| fIu-
Teller Denton Gehr, of the First
National Bank, IL back On the job, &C.
Ter tackling case or flu.
Mr. Carroll Albaugh il confined to
his bed with the dreaded flu disease
He is very i'll, but not dangerously
Mrs. Margaret B. vogel, is danger
ously i'll with pneumonia at the home
of her brother, Mr.. John Bennett, this
city.
The corporation officials are macad-
amizing Short street, which runs by
the armory to Willis street The
Improvement was needed
Rev Thomas Michigan, pastor of
&C. Johns Catholic church, who has
been bedfast at the home Of hi father
at Westernport, Md, II improving
IT, J. Harry Gardner has accepted
y position a. Ocular Refractionist
with the Irwin Optical Co., EOS W.
Lexington street, Baltimore
Marriage licenses were issued in
Frederick this week to Oscar Harry
and Emma Muser, Mt Airy, and John
Herbert Moser, Emmitsburg, and
Elizabeth Rigler Keymar.
Mr. William T. Shriver, Willis
street, is confined to his home with flu.
His brother, Robert, who has been i'll
with the same disease at his home in
Union Mills, is able to be out.
u Frank Hughes, a Western Mary
land Railway conductor, of Hagers-
town died Of influenza at a hospital
in Harrisburg October 16. He Is sur
vived by widow and four children.
Raymond Thomas Yingling and
Charles Henry Yingling, sons of MIR
Charles B Yingling, Bond street, have
enlisted in the Students Army Train
ing Corps ait Georgetown University,
Washington, ID. @.
William Kopp, son Of Mr. and Mrs
Michael Kopp, Of Spring Grove, and
Miss Mary Leese, daughter or Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Leese, Westminster, were
married October II, at the Lutheran
parsonage, in Spring Grove, by the
Rev. Frederick Geesey.
Long before the Fourth Liberty
Loan figures have been counted up or
the honor flags have been entirely
distributed or the money paid in,
preparations have been started at the
Treasury for the Fifth Liberty Loan
whenever it may be called.
General idieress and his desire to
40 nothing caused Arthur Sprague,
white, Of Pittsburgh, to ~ sentenced
tO The House of Correction for Fix
months by Justice Alban M. Wood,
Frederick. Sprague was arrested at
Ihurmont by Deputy Sheriff Lidie
Harry WI. Slower, baseball player,
prominent business man and member
OF the Borough Council, died last
evening at Glen Rock, Pa,
frora pneumonia He was So years
old. Mr.. Slower came into prominence
as a baseball player about 10 years
ago.
The Carroll County Board of EIec-
ton Supervisors met Tuesday and
arranged the form of the official bal
lot. The names of the candidates for
Congress will appear in alphabetical
order, which gives Carville ID. Ben
son, the Democratic candidate, the
first place On the ballot.
Our arrears lit did not get fully
cleared Nib this week, owing tn the
great amount of extra work required
in revising the list, but next week
viii see the finish; after which there
will not b. a name on the list-ex-
cept by our mistake--nct paid in ad-
vance Of October 4, 1918
In accordance with the ruling of the
Fuel Administration all of the coun-
try clubs in the neighborhood of Bal
timore, in common with those in
other sections of the country, will be
closed for the winter on December L.
This action has been decided on as
necessary factor of the conservation
Of coal.
Announcement was made last week
that the Maryland State Teachers AS
ISOLATION will be held i'm Baltimore
on Friday and Saturday, November
10Th and Both This will d. the sec
ond time thu teachers have met there
and the session held last winter was
attended by something like 1000
teachers from all over the state,
there il every reason to expect that
equally a. many win 20 to the city
next month.
Two large trucks of HOLMAN Bros,
Lawrence, Mass, stopped at the
Square on their return to that city on
Sunday evening. The trucks, loaded
with spirituous liquors, of about five
tons each. drew a large crowd of
spectators owing to the fact that Han /
over is under the dry BAN at pres
emit The trucks left Lawrence,
Mass. last Monday for Carrollton,
Md, where the cargo was loaded. 4
The round trip will take about two
weeks. Hanover Record.
Charged with profiteering in the
sale Of lamb, forty-three retail
butchers of New York made volun-
tary contributions To the Red Cross
81 some other war charity following
separate trials before the Federal
Food Board Monday Each contribut-
ID 800, with the exception Of one
butcher operating two stores, who
was assessed 5000. The smallest
was $25, levied against
a butcher who exceeded the "fair
prices" on lamb by three cents
pound.
More sickness prevails in town and
vicinity than for years, if ever in our
history, principally from 'flu" and
pneumonia. Three of our physicians
are confined to bed, doubtless through
Overwork. Thirty-five per cent Of the
workmen at the Cement Plant are Off
duty owing TO sickness, while in town
persons who are well can BE- enumer-