The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-05-30
BRIEFS

Painters dLlu 49,
this city. ros+ Main street
M VI chicago on business.
emttb-Yingling Company are build
INC oI a. large pea vining sned'
ins pinns Court Place, made 9
MI. ! p trim to Cumberland this
week. oi,,
D% hn sT thunder made the earth
', w.. Kiser. Harvey, will be tried
,, mls for the murder OF her hus-
band.
-s guest of her sister, Mrs. T. y
r T" West Main street.
= sbriver Company are pushing
- ~ work on their new factory and ex-
w wv n have it ready by pea season.
musician Carroll Crawford, enlist,
y, n thp navy and stationed at Nor
mix Va, epects to receive MS as
charge this week.
The legislature of West Virginia mas
.,asod q hill restricting to 25 gallons
~ wine that any one person may
make for himself in a year.
gang of 20 convicts are now
norking on the state road that is be-
;ng huilt on the old Littlestown pike
EDWARD Greenholtz is the guard over
the men.
Musician Glenn Miller, West Main
street who is enlisted in the banC
and plays on a transport running
from Norfolk, Va, to France, is home
On six day furlough.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Humbert anC
amilv, of Altoona, Pa, are spending
some time with her parents, Mr.. ano
Mrs, David Currens, this city. Mr.
Humbert returned Monday.
Nm the transport Natoika ARRIVING
At Hoboken Monday were Corp. Geo
N Gettier, of the signal corps, Of
Westminster, and Corp. Benz. 8. Nc
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Battalion. Woodbine.
Robbers didn't take the time tc
crack" safe in the Kroger Grocery
COMPANY office, ST. Louis, but instead
carried a 400-pound safe, containing
1868, out of the store and put 1t in
machine and drove away.
The volcano of Kalut, in Java, hal
burst into eruption, wiping out q
villages in the district of Brengat ant
4 II in the vicinity of Blitar and caus
In deaths estimated at $4,000 accord
ng to dispatch received at Amster
" dam
Jimmy Europe is dead. The blacl
master of syncopation, sometimes
known as King of jazz" whose rag
time band made the feet of royalt,
nisbehave and almost caused Fool
\ to hitchy-koo, was stabbed by one o
bis own drummers at Boston, Friday
David Chrisman, of Connellsvllle
" Pa, a farmer, was out blasting
Stumps. The explosion of dynamit
Y placed under stump threw a mum
Der of stones in the air. One strucl
Chrisman on the head, causing a frac
tured skull, which resulted in hi
death
Ira Converse, Greenfield, ILL, age,
70 years, believed the oldest rura
free delivery mail clerk in Illinoi
if not in the United States, is still OF
the job. He has been hustling mai
here for 20 years and figures he ha
travelled 1925 miles, or nearly 81:
times around the world, in that time
There are church tramps who g
about from church to church holding
sort Of vagrant tenancy" declares
Rev. David T. Magill, of Alton, ILL.,, il
speech before the Baptist minister
N a. st. Louis. He said that IS pc
cent of the church members come t
church in street cars or automobiles
A number of locust, preserved wit,
Alcohol in bottle, are on eXhibitio
a. this office. Seventeen years ag
Wit. Theodore Biggs, Bachman's Val
iey' caught these pests and bottle
Ilem to keep as a curiosity. The lc
Gust are in good state of preserva
uOh and are in as good a conditio
Is when placed away. Not even
wing or leg is loose from the body.
Alter serving for 10 consecutiv
years as president of the State Boar
= barber Examiners, G. Henry Bis
vuoH, baltimore, has rendered hi
lsSlgnatlon to Governor Harrington
VINO accepted it with regret. Hi
stccessor has not yet been names
W. blschoff, who is "a years old, sal
" was unable to give the require
''entlon to the board.
me War Department is to provid
II otate Roads Commission with 2G
NV nu'ortrucks ranging in size frol
r i'm 10 nVe tons. What will be don
Ta .n them has not yet been full
n ' sinnled, but they will probabl
ro, distributed among the counties fc
tbas u maintenance work and some (
ron n VIII go to Baltimore city, tn
CO... aIluer- being used by the road
nsr. -llSSlon in its maintenance de
n.sl" Rhode Island Senate ha
d. sseu Dill providing that all beyel
cobol containing four per cent. of a
intox;oor less shall be deemed mol
Jacob croo 4--s-- MIN.
bis urozerman, NeW-York, despit
cpnt, Ene hundred and five years. r.,
On ~ developed fondness for sittin
biz III eage Of roof and permittin
His Get 10 dangle over the copini
Nh m 1nandson has applied to have th
committed to an institution
caI ses .1 Wilson has informed. off
Paris hn the Council of Four 6