The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-06-20
BRIEFS

Llm0Te.
Lightning on Sunday evening puI
the electric plant ont Of commission
for about d minutes
A marriage license vas issued a
Dllieott City TO Gordon Linton and
MARY Haines, Sykesyille.
Two hundred motor cycles passed
through here Sunday from Baltimore
on their annual gypsy tour.
Mrs. Edgar c. DankenI has arrived
from the hospital and Is getting along
as veil as can be expected
Charles Diffendal. Bond street, has
accepted a position in the garage Of
William P. stoner. New Oxford. Pa.
Miss Ada Neudecker has returned
home after spending the pasl week
with her sister. hrs John G. Basler,
Of MeDonough
MT. Charles stouch, Of Washing
ton, visited bis parents. Mr and Mrs.
Joseph Stoueh, Pennsylvania avenue
over Sunday.
Private Herman II. Brown. Sykes
VILE. previously reported wouEsied b.
the War Department IL now reported
killed In action.
Grant Clarke, New YorE, who wrote
a song entitled, = 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 1hairbrush at ! man she found IN
her room. He fled.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence shriyer an
children, o. Baltimore spent the
weelf.s end With her parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Eekard. Pennsylvania
avenue.
James " Treat. Worcester. Mass.
treated himself to several wives. Tns
stnte treated him 70 a soIonrn n JaiI.
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 g.
u and rs in Hotel Chelsea. Surveyor
Of Port Guy W Steele. Tits cilg. viii
address the meeting.
The Ladies' Aid Society OF Trinity
Lutheran church will meet n the
home OF hrs. Conrad Sohaaffer.
Wednesday June 3. i the weather
should be unfayorable the meeting
will be held the next day
Theodore G. Zepp, Hanover. Pa.
died yesterday from auoplexy. aged
81 years. Mr.. Zepp wa : son Of the
late Henry and Sarah Zepp. O Car
roll county. He i survived by hi
wife and three daughters.
minstrel show will be given IN
the Afmory. Tuesday evening. June
"A 1T D. m. produced By the ladies
Of Al Saints Church. Reisterstown
under the patronage Of Ascension
Protestant Episcopal church. this
city.
The Frederick County Commits
slOners awarded II the i. D. roormau
Bridge Company. Of YORK. Pa. con
tract for a now concrete and steel
bridge over Toms Greek. On the road
leading from Toms Greek Church 10
Detour. at bid Of 1916.
Miss Mary Harness. Harrington.
Kan. while helping her brother. John
Harness. in The alfalfa field In IN at
tempt TO save the hay from the com
ing storm. vas struck b lightning
and al of her clothing Urn from her
body. She vas painfully but not ia
tally burned
II Is rumored thai the Government
intends to throw Yast quantities Of
canned goods on the market. which
has been held since the war, and the
Gamers In this section. md al parts
Of the country, are becoming uneasy
moralIzatIon to the canning trade L
likely 10 result should the report have
any foundation.
The young girl vas shown through
the locomotive works OF big railway
company in London. What L thai
thingT she asked. pointing with her
parasol THAT" replied the manager
is an engine boiler" She was IN up.
to-date young LADY. and II once be.
came deeply interested. And wis
do they Dol engInesY she inquired
again. ITO make tho engine tender. /.
politely replied the resonreeful guide
No one in La Crosse, us, believed
It when Gus Rhodes, farmer. living
near West Salem. claimed he had !
white rock hen which WIS laying al
and seven eggs 0 day Poultry men
sent !. II. Benson. IF La Crosse. 70 The
farm 70 watch the hen Tor two days
Later Benson appeared IN the eoun.
~ judges Office there and swore 10 N
affidavit that Rhodes hen aid /
eggs n two days The next dag
Rhodes called up and announced thf
hen laid nine eggs that morning.
Mr.. md mrs. Chas. Z. MitIan, Of
Fanksburg. Mesers. Russell and
Charles +. Mitten and Mn. and Mrs
John !. Smith and son. Upahur, o.
Reisterstown have returned home at.
ter 4 600 mile tour TO Virginia pass.
ing through the towns Of KingsYilla
Belair. ChurchyiIle. Aberdeen. Havrf
de Grace; PerryxIlle Gharleatown
North East. Elkton. Chesapeake City
Cecilton, Gaiena, ChesterIown, Church
Hill, Centreville. Easton. Preston
Hurloek, sharptown. Mardella Springs
Salisbury, Princess Anne. WealoveI
and Pocomoke.
Due 10 misleading reports In Dalti.
more papers, the story has gonf
abroad that ! chest of silver rannted
% be valued at 5000, recently my.
alerlougly disappeared from the vaults
Of the sykesYille National Bank. The
fact i that there has been a robbery
not o. the bank vault. hut Of fire.
proof vault IN the old First National
Bank building. nov owned b this
sykeasIIle Bank, and thai box stored
therein. the property Of Mrs. John
Haaou Brown said In ennIaiu zIIvor.