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OaTOCTIN (JIARION
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1914.
Autos Corrupt Farmers.
Ex-Gov. Brown, of Maryland,
Believes That Cause of
High Prices.
[From New York Times.]
Ex-Gov. Prank Brown, of Maryland,
who was widely known and equally pop
ular as the “Farmer Governor” when be
was the Executive of that State, report
ed times as "tight” in Baltimore when
he was at the Waldorf. He added that
in his opinion that same condition was
prevalent over much of the East, and for
it he blamed the automobile.
“The automobile, ” said Gov. Brown,
“has taken the farmer away from his
fields and therefore diminish his produc
tion of foods. Of course, it was only
natural that when automobiles got cheap
and the agriculturist saw the banker and
the merchant riding about in their cars
he should feel that he could get a lot of
pleasure out of doing likewise. There
fore he proceeded to invest in a machine
himself, in many cases putting a mort
gage n his place to do so.
‘ Instead of quitting work at sundown
as had been his custom, he took to leav
ing ciff at 3 or 4 o’clock in the afternoon,
in order to give his family a joy ride.
/ Then, instead of getting up in the morn
ing at 5 o’clock to milk the cows, he be
gan to lie in bed. He decided that he
must have a “hired man” to do all such
work, now regarded by him as menial,
and naturally the market for farm labor
being limited and the price continually
going up, the expense of running his farm
increased. He began to raise less grain,
as a natural consequence, and then he
found cattle raising too much trouble to
look after, and he gave that up. There
fore he, with the rest of us, has had to
buy beef at an extravagant price.
“On every possible occasion he has
got into the habit of making an excuse
for taking a holiday, and he welcomes
the chance of taking his family and him
self away for a little change of air.
When I was a youngster, for a farmer
to stop work during harvest time was
considered little short of a crime. Last
summer, during the early part of July, I
had occasion to make a business trip
through Frederick county, Maryland,
long one of the most prosperous agricul
tural sections to be found anywhere.
Everywhere I found thrashing machines
standing idle in the field and the wheat
standing, drying up, while its owners
weie away holiday-making. Farmers
throughout the county had seized the
occasion of the celebration at Gettysburg
for holiday-making, and they had packed
themselves into their automobiles and
gone up there on Saturday afternoon,
and most of them remained until the
following Wednesday, at what ought to
have been their very busiest season.
And, of course, their crops suffered as a
result.”
Disagreeable Weather.
Weather conditions spoiled the plans
of many people last Thursday, Christmas
Day. All morning the clouds were very
heavy, and after dinner rain began fall
ing heavily and continued well into the
night. The temperature changed to
cooler, causing the rain to take the form
of snow, and Friday morning the earth
was covered with a light coat. On the
mountains to the west the snow was
about two inches deep. Except that on
the mountains, no snow could be seen
here Friday evening.
Heavy Storm at Middletown.
Last Thursday night a very heavy wind
storm passed through Middletown Valley
and did considerable damage. Many
ladies attending the Christmas exercises
at the Lutheran church in Middletown,
left their hats in the church for fear of
losing them. Limbs were blown from
trees, doors t_rn from their hinges, small
buildings blown down, and electric light
and telephone wires rendered useless.
At Myersville and Jefferson the wind was
also very strong.
Mr. Littleton C. Fox a Winner.
A spelling bee was held Tuesday in the
court room of the Frederick city court
house under direction of Superintendent
John T. White, the room being crowded
with visitors. Eighteen persons took
part in the bee. Mr. Littleton C. Fox,
of Creagerstown, a school teacher, re
mained alone on the floor and was de
clared winner.
Best Cough Medicine For Children.
“I am very glad to say a few words in
praise of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy”
writes Mrs. Lida Dewey, Milwaukee,
Wis. "I have used it for years both for
my children and myself and it never fails
to relieve and cure a cough or cold. No
family with children should be without it
as it gives almost immediate relief in
cases of croup.” Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy is pleasant and safe to take,
which ia of great importance when a
i medicine must be given to young children.
k For sale by all dealers.
A AdVWtIMBMUt.
Christmas At The Churches
Large Attendance At All Sun
day School Celebrations.
The Sunday Schools of this place cele
brated Christmas in the usual manner,
each having a very good program. The
music was bright and catchy and full of
the Christmas story, “Peace on earth,
good will to men.”
j The decorations in the churches were
very simple, but pretty. The custom of
! making hundreds of feet of wreathing
has passed, and the placing of branches
of pine about the auditorium of the
church is now in vogue. This requires
much less work in getting ready for the
Christmas festival and is easily gotten
rid of afterward.
The little children performed their re
spective parts perhaps better than usual
and made everybody feel happy.
The last of the entertainments was
held in the United Brethren church Sun
day evening, it being necessary to post
-1 pone this service until that time on ac
count of the very disagreeable weather
last Thursday evening, the date previous
ly announced. The church was crowd d |
to its capacity, and the recitations and
music was particularly well rendered.
| Sabillasville News.
I Mrs. R. C. Curtis and Miss Agnes
: Willard have returned from a visit to
| Baltimore.
, i Miss R. A. Firor, assistant teacher in
1 Thurmont High School, and Miss Marion
i Firor, a junior at Hood College, are
( spending the Xmas recess at their home,
j While the inclement weather of Xmas ,
,' night prevented many from attending
the Xmas service at the Lutheran church,
I those present enjoyed the interesting and
well rendered program. During the even
. ing a letter from the pastor, Rev. Reine
wald, was read in which he expressed his
| appreciation of the kind and generous
, Xmas remembrance given him by St.
j Marks. Mr. Wm. Stern proved a most
! happy and dear old Santa Claus.
Mr. Edgar Wachter, a student at St.
Johns College, is spending the Xmas re
*cess with his parents.
On Christmas eve the Xmas servife of
the Sunday school of the Reformed church 1
was held. The old church looked beauti
ful in its Xrnns garb. The service used,
“The Day of Wonder,” was brilliant and
inspiring, and the entire service wel],ren
dered. Both the pastor and wife were
generously remembered by the Bible
Classes in the school.
Xmas night at St. Stephens Reformed
church, Highfield, Rev. Firor held the
regular Sunday school Xmas service.
Despite the weather, a large percentage
of the school, enthusiastic and hapuy,
was present and rendered a most excell
ent program. As a Xmas remembrance
to the pastor the Congregation and Sew
ing Circle gave—the one an Eagle and
theothera Double Eagle—coinage of 1913.
Services were also held at St. Johns at
6.30 Xmas morn and at Sanatorium at
9.30 by Rev. Firor.
The members of Oklahoma Tribe No.
148, I. O. R. M., are enjoying the pleas
ures and comforts of their new hall re
cently erected here. At the regular
meeting of the lodge on Tuesday evening
there were a number of initiations, after
which a banquet was served.
Mrs. Adam Anders and daughter Helen
of Waynesboro spent Sunday with Mr.
Calvin Stem and family.
The Minstrel Show held at the Sana
torium on Tuesday night was largely
tended and was very successful.
Married.
Miss Cora M. Isanogle, of Thurmont,
and Mr. Harry G. Hummerick, of Eyler’s
.Valley, were married at the residence of
Mr. John Sindeldecker, this place, on
Wednesday evening, December 24th, by
Rev. Paul Holdcraft, pastor of the U. B.
church.
Miss Mae Rosenberrv of Chambersburg
Pa., and Mr. Benjamin H. Eyler, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Bushong Eyler of near
Thurmont, were married Thursday even
ing, Dec. 25th, by Rev. Paul Holdcraft,
in Thurmont.
Ernest Nelson Dubel and Miss Bruce
Jane Munshower, both of near Emmits
burg, were married at Emmitsburg on
Wednesday evening, Dec. 24th, by Rev.
Dr. Reinewald, pastor of the Lutheran
church.
Masons Attend Church.
On Sunday last at 10.30 o’clock, mem
bers of Acacia Lodge, No. 165, A . F. &
A. M., attended services at Trinity Re
formed church. Rev. Poffenberger who
was to have preached to the Masons was
unable to be present, he having met with
an injury which kept him at home. Rev.
S. S. Miller, of Frederick, was secured
and preached a very excellent sermon to
the brethren of the order and others who
attended church.
Lovs Letter.
Mr. and Mrs. Wa-inington Pittinger
spent Friday with their daughter Mrs.
1 Clarence R. Moser.
j Miss Cora Pittinger of New Windsor,
spent last week with Misses Elsie and
Belva Robinson, Mrs. Nettie Shriner and
Mrs. Lizzie Pittinger and family.
Mr. George F. Eyler was a visitor in
Thurmont on Wednesday.
Miss Ruth Fox and sister Leah, of |
Creagerstown, spent Sunday with Mrs. |
, Geo. W. Pittinger and family.
Large Fox Hide.
Mr. Joseph Williar, of near Foxville,
exhibited at our office on Monday of this
week the hide of a red fbx. The hide
measured four feet from tip to tip, the
| brush being 16 inches long and 11 inches
| around. Mr. Williar shot the fox in the
' mountains near Foxville.
Draw Blood To Cleanse. 1
Hopkins Men Then Put It Back 1
Without Stopping Heart.
Three doctors from Johns Hopkins ]
University, by actual demonstration on
a living animal, showed to scientists at
sessions of the Federation of American
Societies for Experimental Biology at j
Philadelphia on Tuesday of this week, (
that it is possible to remove every drop , 1
of blood, clean it of impurities and re- j 1
turn it to the animal without interrupt- |
ifig the heart beat.
The demonstration was conducted on a
dog. The demonstrators were Prof. J.
J. Abel, and two of his colleagues, Drs.
Rowntree and Turner, all of Johns Hop
kins University, Baltimore.
.In their experiment they had every
drop of blood out of the dog’s body cours
ing through a coil of tubes whose con
nected length measured nearly 60 feet.
Scientists who watched the demonstra
tion in wonderment saw the entire circu
lation of an animal going on in glass tubes
outside the animal’s body, the blood be
ing propelled through the tubes by the
action of the animal’s heart, which never
slopped beating.
At the same time, by tht use of a salt
solution, through which the blood was
coursing, the blood was being purified of
sugar, urea and all the diffusable mater
ials. By varying the solution and send
ing the blood through chemicals of differ
ent sorts other kinds of poisons can be
removed from the blood by the same
process.
Professor Abel and his colleagues would
venture no prediction as to the practical
application of their method. The dumon-
I stratum simply showed a step in advance,
they said, and they did not care to dis
cuss its possibilities at the present stage
in their research.
Caught In Fodder Shredder.
While at work shreading fodder Tues
day afternoon for Mr. Harvey Ogle, near
Loys, this county, Mr. John Fisher, a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Fisher, of
near Rocky Ridge, got his right arm too
rair the teeth on the rapidly revolving
cylinder of the machine and in an instant
his arm was horribly mutilated. Other
men helping with the work ran to his
assitance and rendered aid by making a
tourniquet and stopping the tl >w of blood.
Mr. Fisher was taken to his home and
Dr. Birely. of Thurmont, and Dr. Diller,
of Detour, were summoned and found it
necessary to amputate the arm above the
elbow.
Entertained at “500.”
Miss Jessie Rouzer entertained about
forty of her friends at a card party at
her residence on E. Main street, Monday
evening. ”500” was played and the prize
given was won by Mi s Estella Cordori.
Guests were present from Waynesboro,
Littlestown, Emmitsburg and Thurmont.
Railroad Treats Employes.
The Hagerstown & Frederick Railway
have arranged to treat all person employ
ed by the company to oysters on New
Year’s day. Twenty bushels of shell
oysters have been ordered shipped to
Frederick and the same amount to Ha
gerstown.
TO THE DEFENSE OF THE SKUNK
Washington, Dec. 29. —The skunk
was today added to the list of natur
al resources, which should lie con
served or protected before exterminat
ed, the Department of Agriculture
classifying this animal as “of great
economic importance” in a statement
made public today, and asks that it
he given the same protection that the
Federal agents now are compelled to
exercise in the prevention of bird
slaughter.
“Some of the most destructive in
sects in agriculture are such us do
their work below ground ftud out of
reach of any method that the farmer
can apply, and it is against many of
th< ■sc that the skunk is an inveterate 1
enemy,” the statement asserts. “Not
withstanding all of this,” it contin
ues, “there is probably not an ani
mal that is as ruthlessly slaughtered
as is this one.”
FORREST NOTES.
There are 703 bighorns or mount
ain sheep in the national forests of
Nevada.
In 20 states there are state foresters !
who cooperate with private timber
land owners in solving forest prob
lems.
The forest service maintains nine
experiment stations for studies in
reforestation and similar subjects. j
The bureau of entomology and the,
forest service, working together for
the control of forest insects, last year
covered more than 100,000 acres in
their operations.
A national arboretum is being es
j tablished in Rock Creek national
park, District of Columbia. Event- j
■ ually it will contain all American
tree species which will thrive there, j
The total amount of land purchased
in the eastern slates for federal for
ests is nearly 800,000 acres. So far
the principal work on these areas has
involved their protection against for- 1
est fires.
Warning Against The Use Of;
Second-Hand Potato Sacks
t
Powdery Scab and Other Dis- j
eases May Be Carried In Bags. *
The Department of Agriculture has
issued a special caution to all Ameri
can potato growers against the use
of any second-hand British or Euro
pean potato sacks unless such sacks' |
have been thoroughly sterilized since ,
they had contained or come in con- ,
tact with foreign potatoes. ,
The reason for this is that recent
inspections have furnished ample ev
idence of the presence of a number
of the most serious potato diseases
among importations of that staple
from Europe, These include the late
blight disease, silver scurf, both dry
and soft rots, common scab, and the
powdery scab.
Tin* germs of these diseases, the
specialists find, may be and undoubt
edly are carried in the sacks in which '
potatoes have been imported from
Europe. The sacks therefore pro
vide a source of infection to Ameri
can grown potatoes packed in them.
It appears that there is a consider
able trade in such second-hand foreign
potato sacks between dealers located
chiefly at the Atlantic ports of entry,
to the United States, and especially
in New York, and potato growers of
the Eastern States.
In some instances, entire ship
ments from the great potato districts
of Maine to New York City have been
made in foreign, second-hand sacks.
Even though none of the imported
potatoes themselves were used for
seed purposes, which is not the case,
these diseases would none the loss
surely, hut more insidiously, be in
troduced and spread through this
trallic in second-hand potato sacks as
now conducted.
Farmers should rt*quire dealers to
guarantee that the sacks have been
sterilized. Purchasers of seed pota
toes should specify that the seed came
in new sacks or sterilized second-hand
sacks. Dealers can sterilize these
sacks before offering them for sale by
placing the empty sacks in tight con
tainers in which live steam should he
injected Tor about an hour. Pur
chasers of second-hand sacks can
protect themselves by following the
same procedure or by boiling them
for two or three hours in any avail
able vessel. Unless these precautions
are taken the use of new sacks ex
clusively is recommended.
Little Facts of Big Interest
Letter From Southern Mission
ary News Bureau, Nash
ville, Tenn.
The Bible or some part of it has
been translated into 471) languages.
In China one man in twenty can
read, and hut one woman in a thous
and.
The total Christian community of
India is 1,017,014. There are 1,452
self-supporting churches and 4,850
that are receiving aid.
According to recent statistics there
are more than 85,000,00(1 people in
the United States who do not belong
to any church.
The rulers of all the great nations
of the earth are professed Christians,
and not a few of these are taking
special interest in religious things.
The next few years must decide
whether the 50,000,000 outcasts of
India are to lx; evangelized, or are
allowed to be absorbed by Brahmin
ism.
One hundred years ago the tota
contribution to foreign missions was
SIOO,OOO annually; today it is $30,-
000,000.
There are twenty-two times as
| many ministers in the world as there
are missionaries in the world.
In the three colleges in Kansas
there were last year sixty students
who had volunteered for foreign mis
sion work.
| Japan uses 2,000 pounds of opium
l annually for forty-three million peo
ple and finds this amount sufficient
|to cover all medicinal needs, Our
own country consumes 400,000 pound
—a hundred times as much in pro
' portion to our population.
I Opium to the value of $(>0,000 was
publicly burned at Tientsin, North i
China, recently in nine great iron
caldrons. Music was provided by a
band, and great enthusiasm prevailed.
The negro Baptists of America arc
making rapid progress. They num
ber 3,000,000, and have 1,600,000 in
their Sunday schools, and a publish
ing plant at Nashville valued at $350,-
000. They support one hundred mis
sionaries in foreign fields. There are
300,000 negro Baptists m Texas
alone.
“Thirty-eight million dollars are
contributed annually to Protestant
foreign missionary work,” says Dr.
S. Earl Taylor, “and y *t each of us !
contributes only two-fifths of a cent
per week.”
The mission in Porto Rico, of which
Dr. A. B. Rudd is superintendent,
had its first baptism in June, 1895).
Statistics show a membership of 2,300
and annual contributions amounting
to $4,500.
New Advertisements.
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SALK REGISTER.
Under this head will appear, free of
charge, the date and character of public
sale, for which bills have been printed
at this office. Space herein may be se
cured when bills are printed elsewhere
at the rate of SI.OO for the season.
On Wednesday, Jan. 28, 1914, at 10
o’clock, J. P. Harbaugh will sefi live
stock and farm implements near Sabill
asville. C. D. Adams, auct.
On Tuesday, MarchS, 1913, at 10o’clock,
William A. Fogle will sell horses, cattle,
farm implements and household effects
near Thurmont. Harry Snook, auct.
On Monday, March 9,1914, at 10 o’clock,
George J. Crum will sell at public sale
on the Favorite farm, horses, cattle and
farm implements. E. L. Slitely, Auct.
On March 16, 1914, John H. Moser will
sell live stock and farm implements near
Thurmont. Mercer, Auctioneer.
On March 26, 1914, Eyler and Eigen
brode will sell horses, cattle and farm
implements on the Hott farm north of
Thurmont. Mercer, Auctioneer.
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NOTICE!
Citizens Savings Bank,
Thurmont, Md., Dec. 17, 1913.
Notice is hereby given that the Annual
Meeting of the Holders of Weekly De
posits of the Citizens Savings Bank of
Thurmont, Md., will be held at its Bank
ing House,
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1914,
between the hours of 10 a. m and 2 p.m.,
for the purpose of electing a Board of
Fifteen Directors, to manage the affairs
of the said bank for the year 1914.
STANLEY R. DAMUTH,
dec 18 4t Cashier.
Teacher Of
PIANO and ORGAN
MISS MARY FREEZE,
E. Main St., Thurmont, Md.
oct 2 3mos*
SANFORD L. SHAFFER
Licensel Real Estate Agent and Broker
THURMONT. MD.
January First, 1914.
A most appropriate date to present some
member of your family a
DEED and TITLE
to a Desirable Building Lot on Elm street,
“WOODSIDE”,
Thurmont’s Newest Residential Section
and Development.
Only a few lots remaining unsold.
The record-breaking sale of the major
ity of these lots within the past few
weeks, is evidence of the faith express
ed in Thurmont’s future prosperity, by
the many persons of this locality and far
distant points who have seen and taken
advantage of this unusual opportunity.
A positive assurance of early spring
development by a number of the pur
chasers in the erection of a large number
of houses and buildings on this site, make
the prospects of a big enhancement in
value of these lots something tangible.
All these lots are improved by a fine
cement walk, and the streets leading to
same graded, and the section of which
they are a part fits in admirably with a
well defined scheme of a near future de
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terment of Thurmont and this section of
the county in general.
The prices of these lots if purchased
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