The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-02-28
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Mrs. Samuel Jamison, Bond street,
has returned from a visit to relatives
in York, Pa.
Miss Margaret Myers, of Baltimore.
attended the dance held i'm this city
Saturday evening.
Mrs. Harry KINNEY and Miss La
Rue Herr. this city, have returned
from visit to New York.
Margaret Ann Eisenhauer, aged 50
years, died i'm Baltimore Saturday
Interment took place Tuesday.
Harry Ryland, W. M. r. operator,
attended meeting of the Q. T. T. at
Hagerstown. Saturday evening.
Liquor smuggling into Detroit
caused 100 arrests, so automobile
smashes and three persons killed.
Miss Anna Sinnott, stenographer,
has accepted position with the Bal
timore Roofing & Asbestos Co., Ashes
tos.
BY the heavy slump in freight bust
ness the Western Maryland Railway
is back where it was 10 years ago.
Four hundred trainmen have been
lain off.
Lorenzo Dow Grace, Ellijay, Ga,
100 years old, makes his living by
chopping wood. He is a Confederate
veteran and living with his third
wife.
Six armed bandits entered the First
State bank OF Detroit, Mich, and made
haul df $1O,500 in cash and es-
caped. What could bandits do to a
town like ours?
Miss Abbie Roberts, daughter OF
MIR. and Mrs. Charles b. Roberts.
Ruxton, Md, made her, debut at the
Bachelors Cotillion Club, i'm Balti-
more last week. Mr.. Roberts is
former citizen.
After settling his personal affairs
i'm order. Simon Meirowitz, New York.
telephoned for the undertaken and
then jumped from f1ve-story apart
ment building. Death was instan-
taneous.
Cussing i'm the deaf and dumb
language constitutes grounds for di-
vorce. Violet Japes, Detroit, told no"
her husband switched from graceful
finger movement to failing arm move
ments and the judge agreed that NO
lady could countenance that and gave
her a decree.
Lynn w. Meekins, of Baltimore, has
been appointed district Office manager
OF the New England district of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce. He Is the youngest man ever
assigned to this position which, next
to New, York, is the most Important
district Office Of the Bureau.
Charles Franklin Metcalfe, aged 81
years, a retired locomotive engineer
Of the Western Maryland Railway
Company, died at his home, 1O42
Brentwood avenue, Baltimore late
Sunday afternoon. Mr.. Metcalfe is
we'll known in this county as he ran
on local freight for many years and
made acquaintance.
Rev. James Wallace Fraser, who
accepted a call to the First Presby-
terrain church, Ellicott City, about
one month ago to succeed Rev. S. M.
EngIe, was installed Sunday after
noon. Rev. Mr. Fraser was formerly
pastor at the Presbyterian church at
Plumville. Pa, and is a son of DIR.
James Fraser, New Windsor.
The toll Of Federal officials in their
efforts to stamp out smuggling OF
liquor to Michigan from Toledo, Ohio.
February 20 was 30 arrests and a
barrels, 3O5 cases, 20 gunnysacks, Is
suitcases. 6S jugs and $50 bottles of
whisky. Hundreds of Michigan visitors
unable to get home that night spent the
night there in doorways, in railway
stations and in hotels.
1t won't be long, now, before tf1<
base ball "lots" will once more re-
sound with lusty shouts as the bat
ter cracks the horse-hide, and the
players scamper over the ground like
CREASED lightning" and you hear the
umpire yell, strike tuh!" and future
'War-Horse jim Gibson's" cry, 1t
was a mile wide, you robber." They
are days every boy who has red blood
loves.
Worry, it is said, over the national
dry wave caused Robert T. Henry,
So years old. to end his life Sunday in
York, Pa. hotel. Henry, who was
addicted to the use Of intoxicants,
had frequently told his friends that
he would end it all when prohibition
went into effect He strangled him
self with necktie fastened to bed
post An open razor lay by his side
when the body was found