The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-08-15
= from Manchester District.

4brough a portion Of Carroll
uvtT' last Friday we nociceu 5 sU,ttt
eouh'' of grain on shocks no aoupt
fields W - he threshed in the field, put
nealt tinned wet weather retarded
tn III .1, There is also an aDun-
the W. - summer rye and oats to cut.
dance il is down on the ground
hucl the wind and rain. we pass
due W farm where a tractor was used
Oh ad VII the grain is all safely housed
anu Sns farmers here in Carroll mar
oon' +he tractor to a seltblnder ana
nSa %aron. saving time, work ana als-
taR NJ an old paper, dated JGT' 1889,
ad that Hussey's reapins ma
W.T. natened six years before,
cllnI canable of keeping six men busy
wa ,.ng I'M the sheaves Of wheat.
g giIe machine was considered as
L Ln- superior to the cradle as the
m Ladia was to the old fashioned reap
IN 2o+withstanding the unsettled wea-
conditions last week, several
Ael scouts started from Westmins-
d. AN Friday, in full regalia, hiked
to'' Hanover, then on to Melrose,
. ~ at the square and were for
s ,aTfF TO get a ride in Government
. .ul 10 Westminster Home Sweet
Home. L+ :. +bo+ Of
nr A I. Pomeroy, of Windsor, Ohio,
1902 graduated in medicine in
OK and practiced medicine in the
ANA building for the past sc years.
A. he practiced his profession in the
oarIv pioneer days, he was often
ohIigAd to hike from 20 to 30 miles
nor dav. Wonder how many Of the
present day physicians would attempt
such physical exercise
AND there shall be wars and
minors of wars" we find i'm the Holy
acriptures. Since 1910, more than
Ion Americans have been killed in
wavico l. it little wonder if there
would be a general revolt over such
an outrage?
n is often said the --latest" has not
vs+ been made public, but when we
road OF a. church i'm Chester, Conn.,,
that has replaced the pews with
rocking chairs, it is some modern
news. The minister says that the
straight-backed pews have about
killed his church. Since the rocking
chairs have been installed, the atten-
dance is good, and constantly increas-
ing.
Pork $23 per hundred wholesale
in Chicago" was the headline of an
article in the daily papers last week.
Lat us watch and wait for the re
suits.
"PoItteness is to do or say, the
kindest things i'm the kindest way
is rhyme we learned at school.
Because a young man on an Erie
train vas kind to an old gentleman
who travelled over the road daily for
many years, he received a bequest of
$4,000 from the old gentleman.
friend visited the famous plant
wizard at his hospitaIble home in the
suburbs of Santa Rosa, California,
and found him and his tireless help
err his devoted wife, common, hard
working people. MT. Burbank has
done for the world what no other
single individual has ever accom-
pliShed One of the thousands of
wonders he has accomplished is to
help the French people with pea,
that instead Of one crop OF small
peas on a piece of ground, now they
can grow two crops of peas twice the
size On the same space of ground in
the same amount of time. He said,
in the course of conversation, that he
never used tobacco in his life, does
not know the taste of liquors, and, if
he had his life to live over again,
would not have used any coffee or
any other mild stimulant as a bever-