The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-07-04
Letter from Manchester District.

Letter from Manchester District.
we do not need to visit large
city OF gymnasium to see daring
athletic stunts. On Tuesday al au-
tomobile passed through our town at
a moderate rate of speed Racing
after it was one of our boys on a.
bicycle. After he caught firm hold
of the machine with one hand, guiding
the bicycle with the other, he had
free ride UP and down hill, a distance
of nearly two miles to his home.
On Tuesday evening last a motor
cycle with side car attached stopped
at Sterner's garage for few minor
repairs. The cycle carried two
brothers on pleasure trip starting
at Baltimore, going by way of Wash
ington, Delaware, then on to Phila-
delphia, Reading, Columbia, York and
Hanover and on to Baltimore, total
distance of more than 500 miles.
The trip cost them about $4,000, in
Guiding gasoline and small repairs,
caused by mud roads and rough
mountain paths. They seemed. in
good spirits, but said they did not
care to try it again. Their average
speed was 80 miles an hour, as the
speed law requires, but one Of the
brothers declared that they chit"
some boulevards at go and 70 miles an
hour.
Talking with Westminster gro
ceryman, who has been in the bust
ness an average life time. learned
that he is not discouraged by the Fl.
G. L. He said, "I know things are
unreasonably high but there is plenty
Of work and good wages. There is
some fault-finding but it will all
come right"
Speed is the craze of the day, re-
CARELESS Of life or limb. The latest
record is from Oklahoma City TO the
East and back a distance of more
than four thousand miles in 1GS hours,
without stopping the engine, travelling
at an average speed of about 500
miles per day, almost equal to an
aeroplane.
From daily newspaper we clip the
following: Great teacher shortage
Fifty thousand schools without AN
instructor Almost one-third of all
the American teachers were drawn
for the army, navy and other branch
es of the government and in. various
commercial activities and war INDUS
tries"
Sweden is now in the limelisht
Dan Lmedburg, a Swede, started out,
this week, i'm the forests, naked, with
only a stone axe, flint sharpeners,
arrow tips, fish hooks and plenty Of
advice. A movie man will watch his
progress and later the world will be
shown his adventures ON the screen.
Il What benefit is to result from this
experiment is somewhat hard to I'M
derstand by majority of our people.
Farmers, sit up and listen! Re
Gently in Philadelphia the worlds
champion HOlstein cow was sold for
$4,000. Two thousand breeders
were present at the sale. The cow in
question is six years old and weighs
1900 pounds. Her record is sou
pounds of butter and IL 1928 pounds of
milk i'm seven days. Nothing is said
about the feed. Her daughter brought
$7,10O at the sale.
immigration from other countries,
particularly Europe, has fallen Off
considerably since 1915. In 1916,
there were 325, 900; the next two years
about 100000 and i'm 1918 only 10000
or an average of 1000 each week
Many aliens are leaving to help re
construct Europe, and many are com
PEELED to leave our shores because
they are undesirable citizens.
On Saturday afternoon 1 met a
man i'm e. Frock & Sons store who
was hale and hearty at the advanced
age of 81 and thoroughly enjoying
life. He said that walk Of several
miles was good exercise. He was
not raised on sweet cakes and ice
cream, spending three and four nights
each week in pleasure. This hearty,
old gentleman is Pennsylvania,
having accompanied MIR. Wolf, Of
Shrewsbury, Pa, for a ride to our
town
We consider $4,000 large sum Of
money for a farm. Twelve years ago
the 1920 acre farm OF Woods Brothers,
of near Lincoln, Nebraska, brought
800 per acre. Recently it was sold
for a million dollars
In a letter from Egypt is the fol-
lowing: Egypt likes her old Gus
toms. She still uses the SICKLE stirs
the ground with the wooden plow
lifts the water with pumps operated
by chains with the aid Of the weight
of camels and cows. The Egyptians
sit down in their fields to do their
work.
An experience not often duplicated
and never to be forgotten, happened
one day last week when we were
seated in cherry tree. Perhaps a
dozen locusts were singing on all
sides and perhaps three dozen June
bugs all over your humble CORES