The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-12-12


vile Bank Of Maryland, Is short $40,-
900 on his accounts Galloway has
resigned and admits. his shortage
\ Drinkable hair tonics must 20, said
\ Prohibition Commissioner Kramer,
! at hearing given representatives Of
/ BARRIERS supplies and perfumes trade
organizations.
"A cOlored man was sent to Mounds
vile penitentiaTy for four years for
stealing cents in the criminal cour
of Clarksburg, W. Va. What would
\ have been his sentence if he stole
\ $113?
The Navy defeated the Army at
| Polo Grounds, New York, Saturday
\ i'm the annual football contest by the
| score Of to 0. This is the first time
! since 1912 that the Navy has been
| victorious over the Army.
| The inventor of the Big Bertha"
| which first shelled Paris on March
! %, 1918, from distance of nearly
| 80 miles, now is an inmate of the
| German state asylum i'm Andernach.
Men whose minds failed to stand up
| under the strain and horrors of war
| are his only companions.
| John I'D. Rockefeller has an annual
income of $6O,O00,0OO, and pays an
income tax of $9S,00O.O00. Andrew
Carnegie's income was $16,000,0O0,
and his income tax $6,000,000. Henry
Ford's income was found to be S.
| 100000, income tax 100000. Some
income and some tax.
\ Charged with evading the mill
tary draft, Russell Young, %, Of a
| prominent Hagerstown family, was
arrested at Hagerstown at request of
| the War Department upon informa-
| ton given by Camp Meade officials at
the time the draft contingent from
Washington county were being re-
ceived at Camp Meade.
The National Railroad Accident
Prevention Drive which ended Octo-
Der 81, but later extended until the
first of the year, has shown what
can be accomplished in accidents pre-
vention among employees by the re
port published. In 1918 there were
killed, in 1919 only 2 The injured
were 1856 in 1918 and 3 in 1919.
While the Prince of Wales was in
4 specting the cadets at West Point he
] spied Private Elmer Spearing, who
y since the loss of his leg ''over there"
4 has been under the sheltering wing
! of Mrs Herman Stump, and sent an
J officer asking him to report Mr..
4 Spearing crossed the field in the
a presence of 1000 spectators, rendered
Ia snappy salute, and received the
4 best wishes of the Prince.
Truman H. Newberry, United States
|, Senator from Michigan, was indicted
\ by United States grand jury at
2 Grand Rapids, Mich, for corruption,
a fraud and conspiracy in connection
n with the election by which he obtain
y ed his seat in the Senate, defeating
Il Henry Ford his Democratic oppon-
d emit. Nearly $1,0OO,OOO was spent
Z fraudulently for Newberry.
A singing indictment of the mar
q riage laws of Maryland is rendered
n by reputable clergymen of Cumber-
q land, because these laws are held
a directly responsible for all the scan
q dial concerning marriage runners,
= fee-splitting with taxicab drivers
~ and ministers who devote their time
n to marrying couples from Pennsyl-
= vania instead of preaching the Cos
a pei.
Az One Of the worlds most famous
q dwarfs- Mrs Tom Thumb Is dead
. She was correctly, but less popularity
q known as Countess Magri-measured
N only 80 inches in height. She weigh
" ed 20 pounds Born in Middleboro
~ Mass, " years ago, she outlived all
al the professional associates of hel
generation. Her first husband, Gen
a. Tom Thumb, has been dead for &c
~ years Her sister also dwarf still
= smaller, died 35 years ago.
~ The voters of Baltimore county
-- having at the late election decided By
large majority to adopt a form Of
q local government, some years since
s authorized by constitutional amend
g ment, and the rest of the state will
~ watch with eXpectant anxiety to SEE
8 what will be the fruit of their labors
& The force Of public opinion may much
S more easily be Brought to bear on q
S local board than it can on the state
Y legislature, but this is a sword which
5 cuts both ways and sometimes delay
q in passing proposed legislation is
~ much to be desired.
@ In the United States the tornado
~ belt is all along the Mississippi Val
3 ley. At the southern extremity the
q air il warmed by the warm waters
= in the Gulf Of Mexico. In the spring
b this moist, warm air travels toward
Iu0 where uCCLS Lie U1LLC1
III north and northwest winds sweeping
S across from the Rocky Mountains.
2 This frequently results in the revolv-
5 ing clouds that sweep all in their
y path They assume funnel shape
Y and travel at a speed OF from fifty
5 to sixty miles an hour.
Z At least eight persons in Chicago
3 were killed Saturday and scores
y were injured, and heavy property
q damage resulted from a windstorm
3 accompanied by sleet, snow and
z rain, which originated in northwest
Is Arkansas and swept across the CEN
2 trail valleys and. southern lake region.
= Without a dissenting vote the Sec
: ond Branch. Of the City Council of
q Baltimore passed joint resolution
v introduced by President Howard
\ Bryant, calling upon the Legislature
Z to repeal the Sunday blue laws.
4 The weather man says the aver
= age temperature for October was So
j degrees, 5.5 degrees above normal
!: and the highest mean temperature
for October since 1881, when it was
y I63.6 degrees. The maximum tenn
{ Iperature in October was go degrees,
? the highest temperature in that
] month since 1871, when the record
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