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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-08-08
Mother Kills Self And Seven Children

Jacksonville, o., July 3O-Several
hours before authorities were to re
move them to the Athens County
Home yesterday, seven children
ranging in age from six weeks to 10
years, were found with their mother,
Mrs. Tony Stravisar, burned to death
or were aSphyxiated i'm their home at
Kimberly, small mining town near
beds and coal oil had been sprinkled
over the room.
1t is supposed that worry over the
separation caused the mother to de-
strOy herself and the children.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-08-08

Special attention to the treatman. !,
Stomach, Liver, Skin, Lungs H.. Y
Throat, Kidneys, Bowels Pio LAT
Rectum, Rheumatism, Goitrs
Piles, Blood and Nervous ri NJ
seases of Men, Women and
Children,
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-08-08

Repeal OF the war taxes on ice
cream, soda water and fruit juices
was voted by the House and both
parties supported the resolution for
ia House recess from August Z to Sep
terTfBeTi 9.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-08-08
VERY BAD CASE SPINAL TROrprv

For z years my son had has,
troubled with spinal trouble, Hir
spine was painful, sunken in and bent
around crooked to one side II vsS
60 weak his body would fall over M
itself and cause him very severe MN
We took him to DR.. Greenwood tOr
treatment and all the above trollNas
have gone. His spine has become
straight and stays up properly with.
out the use of brace and he ID nav
able to work.
SAMUEL CAHALL
TempleVille. M
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-08-08
Shingles For Sale

10000 first class Chestnut opID
for sale. Apply rIcLE.
R0llte No. r.. Westminster
Aug 8. 4t#
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-08-08

Joseph Feldman, Chicago, accom-
panied by caddy, paid his Ice cream
war tax m pennies $500 Of them.
He sells III NY the wagOnlOad-
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-08-08
STOMACH AND LIVER Tram, =,

For 20 years | had Stomach =,
Liver trouble. After taking 4 con ~
or treatment with DR.. Greenwooa' :
am feeling in fine condition. 4
MRS MARTHA POWELL.
~ - WillardS IA
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-08-08
Peaches! Peaches 4

For sale at my orchard wv agtop
south of Westminster on Wasn'Ae
State road. r ,,pprNG.
FENBY Il. HEkINgIi MI
RID No. 6 Westmlnsieh
@ g r Tel. S21-F21
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-08-08
NOW WELL.

/ was troubled badly for Is wear,
with dizziness, headaches, pains Anvil
numbness in limbs. not able 10 sIoa0 o
well, backache, felt weak, trouSls
with my stomach. I took treatMor,
with DR.. Greenwood and am 49,
feeling entirely well.
MRS. MARY l.. COLLINS
II \ u 4 Salisbury, Nh
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Our Advertisements Bring lEesHI1s.
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SALE BILLS PRINTED s an
NOTICE AT THIS Or
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ten" All ministers were ordered to say. certain prayers. on-days set apart for. this purpose. The annual Thanks giving was set for May -26th, but it gradually fell into disuse.
 Dutch Reverence
 The Dutch settlers brought their Thanksgiving customs with them. from Holland and on August 9th, 1645, the Indian chiefs gathered outside of Fort New Amsterdam and signed a treaty with the settlers and on the fol- lowing day the first Thanksgiving proclamation we find in the history of New York was issued. It read as fol- lows:
 Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God in His unbounded clemency and mercy, in addition to many previous blessings, to suffer us to reach d. long wished for peace with the. Indians. : Therefore, it is deemed necessary to proclaim the fact to all those of New Netherland to the end that in all places within the aforesaid country. where Dutch and English churches are established, God Almighty may be specially thanked, praised and blessed
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the States and territories and asked them to set the last Thursday in Mo- vember in order to give the day a national character. Failing the first two or three times she never lost hope and continued to write to them year after year and finally few yield ed to her request, but Thanksgiving Day was not very well observed except in New England, where the descend ants of men like Governor Bradford and Captain Miles Standish still clung to the old custom.
 For long time the celebration of Thanksgiving in the South was con- sidered 8 relic of Puritan bigotry and it was not until 1851 that the day began to be celebrated there.
 During the Civil War the custom Jagged but Mrs. Hale did not allow it to be forgotten and she continued to write to high officials and keep the matter before the public, and after the Battle of Gettysburg she wrote to President Lincoln and suggested that he appoint a day of thanks" This he did and ever since each President i has set apart the last Thursday in November. Each President writes a different proclamation. in which he in l corporates the things we. are to be l especially thankful for. and each year 1 the day takes on more of festival occasion, quite different from the old days when our people had much less comfort yet stuck to their prayers with | a firm determination and made for us the rudiments of "a Government of the people. by the people and for the people,"
 Life was not easy on Thanksgiving in the olden days yet the people
 prayed and prayed in thankfulness
 for the blessings God had given them
 and lasted as well. when we now7feast
 and have many more blessings than l they for which we should be grateful.
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ed that the Indian should receive 30 lashes. and be made to pay the owner the price of the deer. This being ception Ca man whose conscience was not satisfed), turned to and ate the meat.
 Washington, when he was at Valley Forge, issued a Thanksgiving proc lamation and there was roast beef for the army, something which they had not had for some time. There were drills and a number of salutes were fired. A few days before Congress adjourned in 17S9 a member of the House of Representatives moved that the President be requested to recon mend a day of Thanksgiving and prayer in acknowledgment of the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially his affording them arSop- portunity of establishing a constitu- ton of Government for their safety and happiness. The motion was sec onded and a vote was taken and the motion acted on favorably and Presi- dent Washington issued a proclama- ton appointing a-day which is at present named.
 Thanksgiving Due To A Woman
 Following Washington several Pres idents issued a proclamation, but the governors of the States could not set tie upon the days and the custom seemed likely to fall into disuse when Mrs. Sarah Hale, of Boston, came to Philadelphia to edit woman's maga- zine. This lady was a thorough New Englander and-she determined not to let any New England custom go out of date if she could prevent it, so she wrote letters to the governors of all
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labor, is at present taboo, for berries so harvested have doubtful keeping qualities. At present most of the har- vesting is done with scoops The scoops are made of wood, are about sixteen inches wide with fingers about ten inches long, placed a quarter of an inch apart. While many berries are picked by hand today, most of them are scooped. The vines are cultivated kept short and untangled,- so that the berries are easily scooped without injuring the vines. The, best cranber- ries are harvested dry and are then stored in well ventilated storehouses from a few days to several months. They are sorted, cleaned and packed immediately before they are shipped. :.
 Sorted By Machinery
 Sorting machines with a fan attach ment remove all dried grass, dried Der. ries and other like refuse, by blowing it away. Bounce machines which tested the berries by their elasticity have been replaced by later inventions which cause less harm to the berries. Instead of bouncing the berries, the latest machines test their elasticity by tapping with hammers on selecting plates where the berries have been conveyed by machinery. The sound berries respond to the gentle tapping under the sounding boards by jumping off the plates on to an endless belt that conveys them to the table where women remove any defective berries that have escaped the sorting ma chimes. f-szsr5 rs=s-4s. s--s
 Cranberries are shipped in carload lots to the large cities of the United States and from them distributed to the surrounding districts
 Drying And Canning
 Cranberries can be dried most sue cessfully and produce better sauce ! than that obtained from other dried
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on next Wednesday forenoon. being the 9th of September, the text to be appropriate and the sermon to be ap- plicable thereto. Your Reverence will please announce this matter to the congregation next Sunday, so that they may have notice. On which we rely"
 There was nothing said about feast ing, games or any enjoyment. The services were long and very dull, then came ameager dinner and another service Yin the afternoon. Several times days were set apart to be cele- brated in this manner, such as for goodly harvest, recovery from sick ness which had been an epidemic in the land or the narrow escape from a war.
 Many times fasting was added to prayer and the day made so unpleas- ait that it is doubtful whether or not the prayers offered were sincere, for it seems in the early days any religious
 service was made as unattractive as possible. The very first, thanksgiving service in North America was held by minister named Wolfall in the year 157S on the shores of Newfoundland and was held to give thanks to God for safe landing after stormy voy- age.
 The earliest: record of any observ- anee of a similar service in the present l United States was held by the Pop
 ham Colony, settled at Sagadhoc, on the coast of Maine. in 1907. Our First Celebration These were but parts of the day 1 but the real origin of our present Thanksgiving Day was with Governor Bradford. the first Governor of the | Massachusetts colony. This was in | gratitude for the plenteous harvest of 1921, which followed a great depres- sion. At this time there was some l feasting, but nothing like that of to- day and the friendly Indians were asked to dinner after listening to a
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lengthy and tiresome discourse at the church.
 These people had spent their first year in the new land on the oceans edge and with haunting fears as to what might come. Friendly relations had been established with the Indians and they had taught the settlers how to cultivate corn. The first winter had been bitter cold and many had died but when the spring came and the corn began to grow and the Indians taught them the haunts of the deer and bear, whose meat was good for food, they began to feel that a time for. Thanksgiving was at hand. The Indian Chief Massoait was their friend and when Governor Bradford issued the proclamation of Thanksgiving he sent his warriors out to hunt for food for the day. Later another Indian Chief paid one of the Puritan women a shilling for making a shirt for his child. This she gave as a thank offer ing at the church.
 It seems that the first Thanksgiving g Day was graced with beautiful wealth CT and the dinner was held in the open and that Pricilla, the Puritan maiden, who was courted by Miles @Standish for another, was one of the cooks. They sat down with the Indians, a noble, inspiring picture of piety and of human brotherhood; and gave thanks to God for the plentiful crops and for His goodness in helping them out of their despair It must have been a wonderful sight-this first Thanksgiving in our country when all, even the Indians, were at peace. Origin Of Pumpkin Pies After this each year a day was set
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fighting frost insects and pests for F four or five years.
 The bog or marsh must be near a lake or stream that can be utilized at will both for~irrigation and for fight ing frost. It hardly pays to under take raising cranberries where water is unavailahle. &s fs Cultivation
 l.. Land must be cleared of all natural vegetation. roots and stumps removed. and land made level as possible for equal irrigation. The bog is covered with a thin layer of sand which serves ito discourage weeds and to hold mois- ture for underlying peat. Each season fresh.s thin layer of sand is added. , All cultivated cranberries = and there areFm many +varieties-are directly raised from wild vines. They vary in size, shape, color and time of matur- ing Over 95 per cent. of the berries produced come from the three cram berry States: Massachusetts, New Jersey and Wisconsin.
 Old bogs furnish cuttings for plant ingathe new land. Vigorous plants are simply moved with a scythe. The cut tings, eight or@ten inches long. stuck dfagonally into the ground. are plant ed ten to, twelve feet part in the ground, which has been carefully pre- pared and leve1ed beforehand.s It takes from three to five years. with much hand pulling of weeds. fighting frosts and insects. to produce we'll covered bog that will produce a crop worth harvesting
 Harvesting
 Harvesting cranberries is most in teresting. Time was when most of the berries were water raked,' ,''Sin other words the bogs were flooded and the berries rose. to. the top of the water and were then raked off. But this method. more economical than hand
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aside as Thanksgiving Day and some Puritan or Dutch governor wrote a proclamation which was duly ob- served. Always there was a church service and to those who had family reunions at that time there was a simple dinner and much prayer. Once in while some farmers whose crop had been especially good would have an extra dinner and pumpkin pie was regarded as the special feature for one of the ancient preachers had said: Let no man make jest at pumpkins for with this fruit the Lord was pleased to feed His people to their content till corn and cattle were in- creased.'' For this reason pumpkin pies are today a part of the Thanks giving menu.
 Thanksgiving soon became a cus- tom in New England. but it was nov able as to dates, and might occur at any time. Beginning in 1884 the fes- tival became a formal one in Massa- chusetts and her example was soon followed by the New England States.
 Odd Story
 The celebration of Christmas was regarded as "Popish mummery" by the Puritans and they readily took up the celebration of Thanksgiving in stead. They were very strict that no 'superstitious meats, such as barons of beef or boars' heads should be put upon the table, but venison and bears meat could be used. They were par -ticular about the day upon which this meat was killed and a story is told that on one occasion an Indian had shot deer for the feast Ion ye Lords Day. and when it was cooked the entire party refused to eat 1t and vot-
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D. is most necessary to fight insects and frost
 Like other. fruits, cranberries have been subjected, with splendid results. to scientific methods of cultivation. Their harvesting. picking, cleaning, packing and shippin g have. been great ly facilitated by the latest and most improved labor saving devices and ma chinery.
 Co-operation among the growers has also been a factor in the develop rqents which has changed some 25. coo acres of waste. bog 9of. marsh land into zproapctivea valuable property. Tie maximu um crop prior to g OF was less than 400, 900 barrels, while the United Sta tesg Government estimates the crop for -191a at '559. 900.
 A. How Named
 It is curious what a strong part the i'm agination plays in naming even our ommonest, everyday necessities. It is to some nature loving person that we owe the name of this attractive. little red berry. The bud Son the long. curVing.s slender pedicle just before it blossoms reminded that person of the head and neck of a erane-hence the name craneberry.. which has since been shortened to cranberry. The lovely pale. pink blossoms that cover the long running vines in May, become jolly red berries Sep te1nber and Oc- tober. These running vines attain tn e length of eight feet, but under eulti- vation .are~cut back. They. cling to the ground as they creep along and put forth shoots at intervals which grow six or. eight and sometimes even a foot high. Leaves, in shape similar to willow leaves, cover the stems until the bog looks; like a. smooth evergreen carpet. This state of luxurious growth isiFthe result of intensive>cultivatio
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w 1OA@-I TOT Ills many blessings }+ hich He has bestowed upon us during fhe past year. It is not fnappropriate however, that we give some thought 10 the manner in which the day was celebrated long ago. Time has wrought some change in the practice of the people, although now. as ever before, the main idea Is gratitude to Providence for His watchfu1 care over us.. But in the early times there was more prayer. more solemnity and pleasure or gayetyr was at one time regarded not only as inappropriate but, almost sinful. Days set aside for. special Thanksgiving to the Lord were known to the Israe1ites and. are men, toned throughout the Bible.
 When Gregory the Great in the year 596 sent Augustine on his mis- sion to Ethlebert, King of Kent, he asked that the pagan ,feasts be turned. into feasts of the church and. among them were the certain days in which thanks were given to pagan gods for certain good fortunes. These were turned into church feasts- and the prayers were made to the Divine Be- ing instead and it is supposed that our Puritan ancestors took up this idea in their setting apart Thanksgfv- giving. Day.
 The discovery of the Gunpower Plot in 1905 brought out a common senti- ment in England and all the people of that country were ordered to make "a public thanksgiving to Almighty
 |od,'' each year and that "unfeigned
 lankfulness would never be forgot
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seal. Keep for midsummer.
 CRANBERRY SAUCE ROLL

Three eggs. one cup of sugar, three tablespoons cold water, one cup four, one teaspoon baking powder. one-third teaspoon salt. Beat the eggs and sugar till quite thick; add the water; then the flour. salt and baking pow der sifted together twice. Line a shallow pan with greased paper; pour in the batter evenly. and bake in al quick oven about twelve minutes. Turn out on cloth or paper sprinkledo with sugar; tear off the paper and spread with warm cram berry sauce. Roll up quickly.
 CRANBERRY PUDDING
 Cream together one-half a cup of shortening, cup and a half of sugar, and add two we'll beaten eggs, half a cup of milk and three cups of flour sifted with two teaspoons of baking powder. Beat well and fold in one cup of raw cranberries which have been, well looked over. washed and thoroughly dried. Pour into but tered mold. and steam. well covered for three hours Serve with hard or liquid sauce.
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Thanksgiving.
 There's an abundance of the firm red cranberries on the market now and it is these first berries that are the best for canning. preserving. jelly. catsup@not to mention the goodies that can be made and eaten each d ay. .tNever3heard of canning cran5erries :? Well. they can be canned most sue cessfulIy and best of all without sugar =remember that in these days of sugar shortage. Berries. canned n ow mean delicious dessert: all winter Recipes that accompany this article have. been tried and found worthy of passing on to you--try them and syou'n findsthe family will call for them con- stantly.
 Did you gkn ow. that the Pilgrims dis covered them growing wild in the swampsa of Massa chusefts? They. hailed them with delight and welcomed them at their frugal board .@-,
 However plentiful they were in their wild state, it was not till nearly a century ago that they were cultivated. Large and small berries grow wild in America They: are found in close proximity to t1reswi1d hucIleberry.land come from the same family. In fact, when searchingsssfor "a suitable place to raise cranherrIes if is said that one should lot ookfor wild hneEfeberries,, for the hoggy. acid swampy soil is an ideal location for a cranberry bog
 thatsfs. fla lake or stream is close at
 and for irrigation purp eses.s Water
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fruits-the flavor changes less.

fruits-the flavor changes less.
 To can cranberries, fill jars with sound berries, cover with cold water that has been boiled. seal and set aside until needed. Cranberry Catsup Is a delicious condiment-cranberr add ed to pot roasts or the cheaper cut of meat to be boiled make tender sue culent dishes. Add two cupfu1s of cranberry 15elIy (with little less sweetening than usual), to the pot roast made by your favorite recipe Cranberry desserts are most delectable a cranberry pudding as you would a huckleberry pudding; you'll agree. that cranberry desserts are de- .1ectab1e. @
 5 When cooking .cranberries if pinch of soda is added, less sweetening will be needed to neutralize the fruit acid.
 The 8.4 per cent. nitrogen contents of cranberries is valuable to growing children, for it -nourishes muscles. bones and nerves.
 Mrs. Julian Heath, President of the Housewives League, and recently made chairman of the League to Low CT Living Costs. says, that cranberries should be freely used. They are one of the most reasonable of fruits be- cduse there S@noWdSee' gnu iA'eiof ot no labor attached to. preserving them.
 If you have never tried these rec sipes. do so this week, and it will be safe to predict that you will use cran- berries several times week from now son.
 -1 CRANBERRY CATSUP
 One quart of berries, one cup of water, and two cups of vinegar. Tie in piece of muslin a few cloves, four whole all-spice, one tablespoonful of broken stick cinnamon and some mace. Simme all together in a gran ite pan until fruit is soft. press through collander Add two cups of brown
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95 Per Gent of This Attrac- five Fall Berry Is Raised In Three States Govern ment Estimates 1919 Crop At 559, ,000 Barrels Fine for Growing Children = Some TastysRecipes.

Copyrieht, 1913, The e1nternational Syndicate.
 " RIsP fall weather rrsset leaves, EZ golden pumpkins, glowing red " stranberries- need but the gobbling NAS Pf F3the turkey to announce
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CRANBERRY JELLY

- Two quarts cranberries, one quart water, granulated sugar. Cook the cranberries and water together until the fruit is tender; strain through Jelly bag; measure the juice. and to each pint add three-fourths pound of granulated, sugar. Heat until the sugar is dissolved, but do not boil Pour into jelly glasses and coat with parraf1ne wax or with paper dipped into white of egg.
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NEXT WEEK

There's time when heavy feasting
 Seems a very foolish thing; When to ways of simple living
 We would very closely cling. Then we feel simple diet
 Is a thing to be desired. And for us a heavy menu
 Will no longer be required But. alas, these frugal feelings
 Never come except when they Have lot of rank excesses
 To help boost them on their way. When we groan with Indigestion.
 When we with dyspepsia whine. Then we wonder how the b1azes
 Any fool could want to dine -SS
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How Our Grandsires Cele- brated the Day Prayer and Family Reunions.
Copyright, 1919 The International Syndicate

T Il' I0I5, IHe IHLeTnaLIOnaI Syndlcate. HEN Thanksgiving Day comes
 around we are asked by the President to return thanks to
 God=for His many blessings