The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-01-24

The Littlestown pike is in its usual
condition, rough and rutty.
Mr. Michael a. Richter spent the
holidays with his sister, and friend, in
Baltimore.
Winfield Hilditch died Friday at his
home in Baltimore. Funeral services
and interment we're held Monday
Mr.. Hilditch has relatives living in
this county.
We received very serviceable
calendar from the Rasin- Monumen-
tai Company, fertilizer -manufactur-
ers, Baltimore, through their sales
man, MIR. John Smelser, this city
There have been 100000 casualties
in the present influenza epidemic in
Italy, according to Deputy Montiguar-
lnieri, who asked the government to do
all possible to fight the disease.
Mrs Claude G. Buckingham and
Miss Lottie Caple, of Sandyville spent
last week in Baltimore. Mrs.
Buckingham was delegate to the
State Convention for the League of
Nations held at the Lyric last Satur-
day.
John ID. Mummert, near Titles
LOWu, L d.3 VIII ulCu Jduudly 10 III
York Hospital from blood poison, j.
survived by a daughter, Mrs. Charles
/ Shoemaker, near Silver Run, and a
brother, Joseph wv. Mummert,
Humps.
"A Pennsylvania railroad crew with
engine and caboose hauled several
train loads of empty freight cars from
Baltimore to Keymar over the wv. M.
r. R., through this city last week. It
was an unusual sight to see train
from another road passing through
1 here.
Anybody who has work left from
! the exhibit given at the Armory will
please call at the County Agents
office, Times Building, for 1t. We
have quite a good deal of this ex-
hibit work on hand and would be
glad to have you claim your property
, as soon as possible.
w. r. Tyler was appointed by
Director-General Hines as director Of
the Division Of Operations of the
Railroad Administration to succeed
Carl r. Gray, whose resignation
Tyler has been Mr. Grays assistant
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In connection with the stand taken
in New York by Rev. Dr. William +.
Manning to abolish the rented pew
system at the famous Old Trinity
church, it il interesting to note that
this step has just been actually accom-
plished at a. prominent Baltimore
church, and that clergymen generally
seem to be in favor Of it.
Judge Urner in the Maryland Court
Of Appeals, In his opinion Jan. 16,
in The Board of Foreign Missions of
the General Synod Of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church ct al. VS. Oliver
T.. Shoemaker, administrator was by
decree affirmed in part and reversed
in part, and cause remanded, the
costs to be paid out of the estate.
Nine persons were killed and more
than score injured Monday
a week ago when the Scran-
ton flyer on the Philadelphia
and Reading Railway crashed into
the rear OF Doylestown local train
ter OF mile below Fort Washington
Station, Is miles north of Philadel-
phia.
An agreement. by which George F.
Naylor and his wife, Mrs. Fannie s.
Naylor, of ReisterstoWn, agree to live
apart, was filed at the Office Of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court at Tow
son The agreement states that Mr..
Naylor has given his wife 81 200 and
that she relinquishes all interest i'm
her husbands prdoerty and he does
likewise in regard to Mrs. MAYORS
property
+ The fall growing season has been
one of the finest ever known, result
ing in the crop being in the best
condition ever recorded on Decem-
Der LIST, and giving promise Of a
heavy yield. A hugh winter crop,
larger by 8O,OOO,OOO bushels than
any yield in the history Of American
agriculture, was forecast on the 22d
of December by the VI. :. Department
of Agriculture.
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany VS.. Robert W. Carter case re
moved from this court to the Court
OF Appeals and argued last Decem
Der was decided by Judge Burk in
favor of the B. & O. The judgment
was reversed with costs and new
trial awarded Mr. Carter won the
cases i'm the lower Court. Bond &
Parke represented the B. & o. and
Guy WI. Steele Mr. Carter.
Charles r. Posey, who has always
taken leading part in patriotic work
and war relief measures, has been ap-
pointed chairman for the state of
Maryland and Baltimore City in the
drive for funds OF the American Com
mittee for Relief in the Near East-a
drive which il to provide food, cloth
ing and medicine for hundreds OF
thousands starving Christian girls,
boys, women and men in Armenia,
Syria, Greece, Persia and other war
torn states.
John. Snowden negro murderer,
will be hanged. The verdict Of the
lower courts, which found the ne
gro guilty of the murder of Mrs. Lot
tie May Brandon in August of 1917
at Annapolis, was upheld by the
Court of Appeals in a decision hand
ed down last Thursday morning. The
only thing which now can save the
murderer from paying the penalty On
the gallows il interference on the
part of the Governor. He has al
ready indicated that he will not in
terfere Snowden's parents lived in
this city for number Of years.