The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-10-04
the Senate turned down the SUITS
INV III vote Of 52 tO Ell.

The Senate turned down the SUN
Ivy vote OF 53 To BILL
| Red Cross medical authorities hav
advised pOstpOning campaigns for Bel
gian Relief and Linen Shower
Mr.. VIM Clinton CapIe, Of Shipley
/ is critically i'll today with pneumonia
with slight hopes pf recovery
\ The quarterly distribution of tht
state School funds Is announced and
Carroll county viii receive $8,187.6s
Mrr Charles SWartzbaugh, this city
has resigned hIs canning business
| and has accepted a position in Balti-
more in a machine shop.
At $50 each morning cam I'D heard
the bugle at the training unit camp
at Western Maryland College, the
rising time Of the men.
The Spanish hu which A. prevalent
throughout the East has made its
appearance here and many Of our
citizens are dangerously fiji.
The Council of Defense viii hold a
Liberty Loan meeting at Cranberry
School, Tuesday evening, October 8
at 8 p. TT. Everybody welcome
A company has been formed fn
Yokohama, Japan, to- turn out a sub
stftute for Portland cement. The
new material viii be made OF lava
and lime.
The entertainment To- DE- given by
the WOmans Foreign Missionary
Society Of the Methodist Protestant
church r. been postponed until fur
Their notice.
Camp Shelby, Miss, viii be re-
modelled and converted from a tent
camp into cantonment with per
nanent quarters and camp utilities,
at total cost OF SIS, 467, 378.
= Liberty Loan meeting will be held
in IT, hall ait Mechanicsvtlle, $atur-
day evening, October 81 The ladies of
the Red Cross win serve ice cream
and refreshments All welcome.
Mr- Samuel Little this city, an
nounced that H. was going To wear
his straw hat until Company H march
es into Berlin. Well we hope Mr.. Lit
tle will soon have tn hang his straw
mat up-
Francis Dorm. colored, aged II
years, son of Singleton Dorm. Charles
street, died Friday last at franklin
Square Hospital, Baltimore, from
typhoid fever His body was brought
here and inferred in Ellsworth ceme-
terry Sunday
Private Clarence YinElinE oil
Hampstead, member OF co. ID, SD
Machine Gun Battalion, at Camp
Meade, died yesterday i'm the camp
hospital from the flu. Private Wing
ling was sent To Meade from here
with quota Of men.
Dr. George Wells, the veteran DEM
Ocratic leader Cf Anne Arundel cOun-
ty and also Clerk of the Circuit
Court, died at his home Annapolis,
early Sunday from complication of
diseases extending over a period Gf
six years. He was "a years old. r71sA
The property on the corner of Willis
street and Court Place, known a. the
Holy Cross House has been purchased
by Mr.. James H. AlIeEder, CTR Hamp-
stead, one of the school commissions
ers, from the vestry Of Ascension
Protestant Episcopal church. Pos
session will be, given April 1st-
Deputy SHERIFF Mercer arrested
Howard Brashears, about is years
old, at INIT Airy charged with skipping
IA $21 board bill 1T Sparrows Point
Before a justice at SparrOws Point
he settled the matter by paying his
beard bill and costs amounting in all
to .$31.45.
TJr. b. r. Royer, State Commission
er Of Health, of Pennsylvania, issued
an order closing every place Of pIb-
ill., amusement ana every saloon i'm
Pennsylvania because OF the influ-
enza epidemic. The order is to take
effect forthwith The order also pre-
hibits meetings of every description
and directs that funerals be private
Thomas B. Symans, State, Etomolo-
gist, accompanied by Profs. Shaw and
Patterson, superintendent Maryland
Agriculture College, College Park.
Nd, and Mr.. Fuller, county agent,
this city, visited and inspected the
orchard and abundant crop of fruit Of
Myers & Bixler, Bachman's Valley,
October LIST. They pronounced the
fruit of the best quality and perfect
in every respect
After travelling al far north as Can
ada, "just seeing the country, and
finally located and arrested at Mag
ara Falls, William Turner and Percy
Sentz, the 16-year-old Mt Airy boys
who disappeared from home recently,
were brought back on Thursday night
by Deputy Sheriff Edward Mercer
Both said they were glad to- &c home
and will never again run away
The Red G oil tank truck caught
flre in front or Roses Drug Store
East Main street, On Saturday after
noon by the engine back firing. A
great deal of uneasiness was felt fol
| the people and the residences fol
N " time, fearing that the gasoline
Y tank would explode. BY the promp1
arrival of men with several buckets
lof water the fire was extinguishet
with only the damage or burning tht
wire connections. New wires were
procured and placed on the engine
and the tank moved to it, garage OF
West George street . Az nothing hat
taken place The fire was I'm the dus
pan under the engine.
The first regular meeting since
organization or The Maryland Div1
sion. war Mothers OF America, viii
be held at Ford's Opera House, Wed
lnesday October 9th promptly at 100
O'Clock. The meeting will b. of vas
Importance, al plans are being formu
lated for SERVICE and mutual aid
Former Governor Philip Lee Colds
borough. chairman of The Lbert,
Loan Committee, will greet the A.