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

DC q uft6nl iGu NTH HHitp huhhoch5.
Mr.. George Gait. Of New York
visited his mother. Mrs John Gait.
Park avenue. this week.
The oldest bank notes in the world
were issued n China 2,S97 years be-
fore the Christian era.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sharp. Baltimore
were guests Of his parents, MIR. and
Mrs. Henry Sharp this city.
| DR.. George Z. Baughman, East Main
street. viii IeaYe June 9Th for Ocean
Grove for ten days vacation.
Mrs. Geo y. Albaugh and daugh-
! ter, Miss Mariana. this city, have re-
turned from a visit to Atlantic City.
Sandy Mount strawberry and ice
cream festival viii be held Saturday
evening. June Il in the grove adj
Joining the church.
Private Clinton c. Rohrbaugh, Nil
lers, and Private Robert e. Shipley
this city, arrived Wednesday at New
port News on the transport Edward
IIuckenbach.
Lieut. George Monroe Englar son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. George Englar. New
| Windsor. has arrived at Newport
News from France He was met by his
parents at Newport News.
A festival Kill be held in ogg
Summit School House Thursday. June
s. beginning 1t D. m. II the weather
is unfayorable Il vii be held the fol-
lowing night. The public is cordially
invited. Proceeds 10 be used for the
school
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stare and Mr..
/ and Mrs. Harvey {. Myers and daugh-
ter OF York. Pa. and Mrs. Ida Cor
such and two daughters. of Baltimore.
spent the weeks end with Mr.. and
Mrs, Milton :. Sullivan and family.
West Main street
The committee IN charge Of the vel
come of old company II invite the
ladies Of the Carroll County Chapter
OF the American He'd Cross to attend
the reception IN costume to be given
the boys the night after their return
10 Westminster
The following amounts we're con
tributed BY The churches Of Carroll
county To the Million Dollar Campaign
of the Methodist Protestant church.
Finksburg. ss.o00. Union Bridge.
81 900: Wesley Chapel. 81 200: West
minister. $1,000. naiapaco. 500
Mr.. James Pearre wantz cashIer
Of the Union National Bank Wa
present nj The American Iron and
Steel Institute banquet held In Hotal
Pennsylvania. Ssw York, May >.
There were laon n the banquet md
II was a moat elaborate affair
For the third consecutive year the
delegates 10 Ihe convention Of the
Episcopal diocese IT Maine voted not
10 open the convention 10 women mem.
bers. The motion u amend the con
stitution Haa made by Robert Il
Gardner. Of Gardiner and was voted
down, IS 10 i
Mark kreba. = years old a farmer
Of near nrOdbeeEa. committed suicide
10y hanging himself sith halter !
rope thrown or Tafier In his f.
theirs barn. Young Krebs tried TO en- !
Hist In the ARM hnl was rejected 81
account Of physical defects This 20
preyed UPON hi mind that he become /
mentally unbalanced.
Alexander NYes. y. Of steubenyille. /
o., sought = novel method OF com !
hitting suicide. Re looped his lealhz !
er belt about Ins POSI- OF the iron |
bed. pHt hlH head through the loop. !
twisted his BODY several times until !
the belt had frightened about hla
neck, then aid down in bed and
strangled 10 death.
II the electorate Of Ohio refuses 10
ratify the national prohibition amend
ment at It's general election next No
vember the operation Of the amend
ment will be suspended throughout
the United sIaIaH Il least until the
Maine election n September, 1870.
Theodore !. lei. attorney for the
California Grape Protective AssoeIa=
ton. announced
The Westminster Fire Company Il
making preparations for big celebraz
ton here on july iii. Theywill hold \
three day bazar July }. / and and will
appoint committees 10 walt upon our
citizens also our farm friends for
donations 10 mHEe Il one big success.
A parade vi II held and FIRE com
panios and various organizations VII
be invited n participate The cifY
will be decorated.
The committee having In charge tie
celebration o Company II. known n
the 18TH Machine Gun Battalion, are
busily working anf details for an I'D
dress of welcome BY Guy w. Steele.
ESD, n the men arrive here After
ward the men ~ be discharged IN
til the neSt d. Rhen parade will BE-
given and b. iced Al the Armory.
followed by = dance n night. The
celebration ~ be held next week #
the men are discharged from the
army by thai time.
While investigating a burglary in
the home Of he late James orae.
/ Ontario, Cal. better known rs
BLACK Charley hermit, officers
found a trunk filled With a woman'H
apparel of The sort fashionable thirty
years or more ago Pioneers recalled
when B0rge came 10 Ontario In the
later sos he discovered that HI
fiancee. who lad preceded him, had
married another nan. He got pos
session Of her trunk and that was MI
he ever had - remind him of his
blasted romance
The hoaeleHa leg has come
Nothing below the knee" IL the new
est edlct Of fashion. so the Paris
IMannequins are appearing In the
paddock Of The fashionable Long
champs Race Track without stock.
ings All Of the smart women Of
Dat.fe ara as2I.a..z.. IL. .ka,.xa H..