The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-02-28

Thomas. Bond street, visited the for
mer's father Charles y. Stoner,
Hanover, Pa, this week.
Revenue officers guarding bone
dry" Indiana decided on trench he'll
NETS when q whisky-filled automobile
radiator exploded under their noses.
Annie IT, Dell, aged As years, wife
Of. John w. Dell, and daughter or the
late Leonard and Elizabeth Rill, died
February 20, at her home i'm Baltimore.
Funeral services and interment was
held at Wesley Chapel Sunday.
Pomona Grange will meet i'm West
minister Saturday, March i. The
meeting will start at 10 a.. m, and
will be held i'm the Davis Hall. MIR.
Bonberger from the Maryland State
College will give a talk in the after
noon .....
a moving mountain threatens to
demolish the village of Victoria, near
Ebb Vale. Already the sliding noun
tain. which has not any regular
method Of locomotion but simply goes
by fits and starts, has caused the
destruction OF 165 houses.
On April rs will be celebrated the
one hundredth anniversary Of the
birth OF Odd Fellowship in this coun-
try. On this date 100 years ago and
I'm Baltimore was founded Washington
Lodge, No. 1. the parent lodge OF the
order i'm America.
The State Senate in session at
Harrisburg, Pa, Tuesday passed
finally the House joint resolution
ratifying the national prohibition
amendment The vote was 20 to 10.
Pennsylvania thus becomes the forty
fifth State to ratify. M.
Sergeant Truman B. Myers, Battery
F, S1st F. A., Camp Knox, Thomas
Vile, KY, who was ON a furlouGh to
his parents, MIR. and Mrs. Franklin r.
Myers, Mt. Pleasant, has returned 70
his camp. Sergt. Myers has been 10
the army for nine years and visited
40 states.
English investors had 100000
worth of stocks in the breweries OF
Ist Louis. according to figures com
piled by the County Brewers Gazette
~ London in 1918. These figures
show the total holdings Of British -
'terests in this country TO be near
$54, 100000.
Mr.. Samuel x. Yingling, East
Green street, returned last week. from
a visit to his son-in-law, DR.. Jesse W.
HaS,er, at Cleo, S. G.. He spent part
Of his time with his daughter in
Florida. During his visits he enjoyed
himself fishing and hunting. He re-
marked that his trip was the longest
he was away from home.
Thousands OF public school teach
ers are exempt from income taxes on
their salaries as teachers, according
to an explanation by the Internal
Revenue Bureau i'm Qualification of its
recent announcement that salaries OF
all officers and employees OF State,
county. city or other municipal or
local governments are not taxable.
The weekly interview with General
March, chief OF staff, having been de-
ferred because Of the holiday, the
war department made public the usual
statistican review of the progress OF
rehabilitation showing that a total
of 74,313 officers have either resigned
or been discharged from the army to
date, while 1.164,51S men have been
released. .
Thomas Humbertson, who was born
i'm June. 1919, died Monday night In
Frostburg. He was born in a log
cabin built i'm 1854, in wilderness
where Woodland now stands. He
was a carpenter and later engaged In
the manufacture of friedrich at Frost
burg, with L. M. Gorsuch, of West
minister. He was the main supporter
of the First Methodist Episcopal
church. of which he was member 81
years and a class leader for 70
years.
Charles Saylor, 5 years old, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Saylor, near
Graceham. was shot i'm the forehead
with a cat rife by his 7-year-old sis
ter Sunday and died few hours later
at the City Hospital, Frederick. The
tradegy- occurred i'm the summer k1tch-
,er where the girl took the weapon from
the wall and placed cartridge in the
breech. AS her brother, who was
playing in the yard with other child
rem, entered the kitchen she raised
the rifle and fired The injured lad
was carried into the house, and his
parents, at church a mile away, were
summoned home.
When the trees begin to blossom
and the violets to bloom; when the
bull-frog in the meadow MARBLES
boom-ah-b boom ah-boom; when the
ducks are flying northward, and
bright butterflies are out, when the
robin goes housekeeping i'm the
broken water spout; when grass
hoppers are hopping, and black bats
come out at night, and venture in
YOUR bedroom attracted by the light,
when birds fly down the chimney
and hens walk in the door, beetles
hold conventions in the center Of the
floor: when the mud is DER your shoe
tops as you cross the new ploughed
land-you may count on 1T as certain,
sweet spring is near at hand.
Lewis Callahan, Of Emmitsburg, was
fined 800 by Magistrate J. Holm
Kafauver, Middletown, on charge OF
driving his automobile while drunk.
and ST tor not having his license with
him. Callahan was returning from
Baltimore and in leaving Frederick.
no took the wrong road, which