The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-06-20
rpmAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 20, 1919
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rigbtning on Sunday evening put
tbe electric plant out OF commission
Sow about Is minutes.
marriage license was issued at
rulicott City to Gordon Linton and
Tary Haines, Sykesville.
Two hundred motor cycles passed
4a-ourh here Sunday from Baltimore
on their annual gypsy tour.
Mrs Edgar C. Bankert has arrived
from the hospital and is getting along
90 well as can be expected.
Charles Diffendal, Bond street, has
.ccepted position in the garage of
william P. Stoner, New Oxford, Pa.
Miss Ada Neudecker has returned
home after spending the past week
with her sister, Mrs. John c. Basler,
of McDonough.
Mr. Charles Stouch, of Washing
TIM. visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Stouch. Pennsylvania avenue
over Sunday.
Private Herman E. Brown, Sykes
WILLIE previously reported wounded by
the War Department is now reported
killed in action.
Grant Clarke, New York, who wrote
song entitled, II Love the Ladies, :"
loved too many, alleged his wife in
asking for divorce.
Try this one on your burglar. Miss
Catherine Brazier Los Angeles, point
ed a hairbrush at a man she found in
her room. He fled.
Mr.. and Mrs Clarence Shriver and
children, of Baltimore spent the
weeks end with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Eckard, Pennsylvania
avenue.
James w. Treat, Worcester, Mass,
treated himself to several wives. The
state treated him to sojourn in jail.
So far one wife has treated herself to
divorce.
The Maryland State Bar Association
will meet ~ Atlantic City next week.
The session will be held on June 26,
81 and % in Hotel Chelsea. Surveyor
OF Port Guy w Steele, this city, will
address the meeting.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Trinity
Lutheran church will meet at the
home of Mrs. Conrad Schaeffer,
Wednesday, June %. If the weather
should be unfavorable the meeting
will he held the next day.
Theodore G. Zepp, Hanover, Pa,
died yesterday from apoplexy, aged
81 years. Mr.. Zepp was a son of the
late Henry and Sarah Zepp, of Car
roll county. He is survived by his
wife and three daughters. .
A minstrel show will be given in
the Armory, Tuesday evening, June
"A at p. m, produced by the ladies
Of All Saints Church, Reisterstown
under the patronage of Ascension
Protestant Episcopal church, this
city
The Frederick County Commits
SiOners awarded to the MI. ID. Poorman
Bridge Company, of York, Pa, a con-
tract for a new concrete and steel
bridge over Toms Creek, ON the road
Leading from Toms Creek Church to
DetOur, at bid of $9.176.
Miss Mary Harness, Harrington,
Kan. while helping her brother, John
Harness, in the alfalfa field in an at
ing storm, was struck by lightning
and all of her clothing torn from her
body She was painfully but not ia
tally burned.
1t is rumored that the Government
intends to throw vast quantities OF
canned goods on the market, winch
has been held since the war, and the
Gamers in this section, and all parts
of the country, are becoming uneasy,
and a condition bordering on de-
mOralization to the canning trade is
any foundation.
The young girl was shown through
the locomotive works of a big railway
company in London. what is that
thing?" she asked, pointing with/her
parasOl. That" replied the manager,
is an engine boiler She was an up
to-date young lady, and at once be-
came deeply interested. "And why
do they boil engines?" she inquired
again. ITO make the engine tender,
politely replied the resourceful guide
No one in La Crosse, Wis, believed
1t when Gus Rhodes, farmer, living
near West Salem, claimed he had a
white rock hen which was laying six
and seven eggs a day. Poultry men
sent J. Fl. Benson, Of La Crosse, to the
farm to watch the hen for two days.
Later Benson appeared i'm the coun-
" Judges office there and swore to an
afildavit that Rhodes hen laid Ia
eggs in two days. The next day
Rhodes called up and announced the
men laid nine eggs that morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. E. Mitten, OF
Flnksburg, Messrs. Russell and
Charles F. Mitten and Mr.. and Mrs
John U. Smith and son, Upshur, q
ReISterstown have returned home at
Ter a 600 mile tour to Virginia pass
ing through the towns Of Kingsville
Belair, Churchville, Aberdeen, Havre
40 Grace, Perryvil1e, Charlestown,
North East, Elkton, Chesapeake City
GeciltOn, Galena, Chestertown, Church
fill, Centreville, Easton, Preston
aurlock, Sharptown, Mardella Springs
salisbury, Princess Anne, Westover
and Pocomoke.
Due to misleading reports in Balti-
more papers, the story has gone
abroad that chest of silver reputed
70 De valued at $4,000, recently my
seriously disappeared from the vaults
vi the Sykesville National Bank. The
ldct IS that there has been robbery,
lot OF the bank vault, but Of a fire
pfOof vault in the old First National
eank building, now owned by the