The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-09-13

u riOttsville, IL reported a. missing In
action in France.
A marriage license was issued ir
VI Baltimore Wednesday to William Nj
Babylon, this city, and Bessie Riley
Ezra Byers, Oft Mt. Pleasant, has
been appointed night Waterman at the
B. At. Shriver Co, packing factory.
The price of gasoline will To- gov
ernment fixed at lg@s than 26 cents,
accOrding ITO the Fuel Administration
General Pershing commanding the
IU. s. forces in France, was born in
Leclede, Mo-, and isr member of the
Methodist church.
IA marriage license was issued in
Baltimore Friday tO Ernest F. tKop-
pen, Portland, Ore, and Mani WI
Wink, Hampstead.
Mr.. Charles F. Miller, East Green
street, was taken ill at the depot
yesterday morning and had to b. sent
home in an automobile. MIR. Miller
was ca his way It'd Baltimore
Rev. John Fl. Gonso, pastor OF the
Church OF God, this city, will sell his
property on Center street and leave
this city. He will probably do Y. M.
lC. a. work.
Lieutenant Monroe Englar, of New
Windsor, and Edward N. Chrest, this
city, write their home folks from
| Somewhere in France that they re-
ceive each week regularly the Demo
cratic Advocate.
DO not engage in hunting without
\ first taking out license. It Al very
much cheaper To buy The license than
Ii IL to pay fine and costs You will
have to do one or the other il you
want to hunt.
| Mr. Allen Lukens, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. a. R. LEkens, Bond street, who
has had charge OF the chemist de
partment at the Baltimore Roofing a.
Asbestos Co, at Asbestos, has ac-
cepted, similar position in plant
near Cincinnati. He will leave Mon
day to take up his duties.
Director General McAdoo urges
II that every one refrain from travelling
unnecessarily, saying that every man,
woman and child who can avoid using
passenger trains at this time should
do so for they will not only hberate
Transportation facilities necessary for
war purposes, but they will save
money to buy Liberty Bonds.
n During the tWO-pounds per month
per-person sugar limitation, do not
complain II your coffee Is not sweet
enough The French are allowing
but thirteen pounds of sugar per
year per person; the Italians only
nine pounds, if they can get IT, The
price Qf sugar in France is twenty
i've cents, in Italy sixty cents .
pound.
On the heels of the, announcement
that threshermen in Frederick county
who have failed to secure licenses Tor
their traction engines, d. required by
Motor Vehicle law, would be arrested
1--WE Or them were tried before JUS
tice J Grahame Johnson, Frederick
Friday. Three were fined $5 each, the
minimum under the law and the
other two were dismissed.
By order OF Federal Food Admins
traitor neither wholesaler nor re-
taller will be permitted to- average
cost Of any old sugar with any new
sugar. They should not he allowed
to advance prices until present stocks
at old prices are exhausted and you
should require any person who ad-
5Eancas the price to new basis tQ2 Jus
fifty it to your agents A
Since January there have been
$50 deaths in Maryland as the result
of automobile accidents. For the
same period of last year there were
So. This increase of deaths IL giving
Commissioners of Motor Vehicles
Baughnlan great concern Although
arrests have been made i'm almost
every instance, but four persons have
been held by the various juries.
We shall turn our clocks back one
hour on the first day of October and
make up the hour lost when the law
went into effect May AL a. We lOoA
back We are compelled to say that tht
scheme has been complete success
Although it was adopted as wal
measure, there is no doubt but thai
it will be made permanent institu-
ton after the war il won Why not
Mrs. Ella Finch, Baltimore, owner
OF the Washington Cliff House, Pei
Mar, has compromised and settled hel
damage case against the Western
Maryland Railroad Company for In
juries to her timberland and orchard
from fire resulting from a sparl
from passing locomotive in the fal
or 1914, when some valuable WOODLAND
! and a fine young fruit orchard wer'
destroyed. Mrs. Finch accepte'
700.
Chief Pharmacists Mate Wilbur M
Stoner, U. :. M, will spend hi
months sick furlOugh with hi aunt
Mrs. Charles Klein, and sister, Mis-
Winnie Stoner, OF near Frederick
Mate Stoner was reared by Mrs W
A. Little, of Union Bridge. He serves
two years as a recruiting officer TO
: the navy i'm California. His parents
living i'm California, may join hin
later. HE has broad militar.
experience and can relate interesting
] stories about the world war.
|, Although Indiana is dry, storie
crop up sometimes which would lea,
stranger to believe there are still
places where "the stuff that cheers
can Dc obtained. Sam Huston, q
Greensburg, Ind, was out hunting re
Gently and came across a waite
fnoccasin approximately 40 inche
) long. When he struck at the snak
) with a club 43 little snakes, ranginI
7 i'm size from seven to nine inches Il
length emerged from the mouth q
the larger snake Sam says IN
I stuck around until all the snake
were dispatched.
! The Board of County Commission
, ers from Washington county an