The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-07-11
the tx rate for Queen Anne's

The tax rate for Queen Anne:
county is 1923.
Tomorrow is 'Orangemen's Day.
= Day it, which the Irish celebrate.
Offlcer John "A. Stem, who has beer
conhned to his home on East Green
street from a serious sunstroke, is
improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferdman Prick are
receiving congratulations on the birth
or daughter, Catharine Rebecca, and
are wearing smiles that will not " ear
off.
Mrs. George zentz, daughter, vir-
g1n1a, and son, Francis, OF BaIti-
more, spent week with Mrs. Zentz' s
sister, Mrs. Vernon Rhoten, of Finks-
burg.
Mrs! Maude Waddell, East Main
street was taken to st. Agnes Hos
pltal, Baltimore Sunday and operated
on for appendicitis The operation
was success and she is improving
The postoffice at Tango, w. Va,
just couldn't keep still, and it has
"tangoed" away. The building, with
all equipment, has been carried
down the Coal River by flood
The Patapsco base ball team de-
feated the strong Munroe A. c. OF
Baltimore II to 8 on July A, at Pa
tapsco. The Patapsco boys will play
Statewood at Patapsco, Saturday
July -.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Zentz, daugh-
ter, Virginia, and son, Francis, OF
Baltimore have returned home after
spending two weeks with Mrs
Zentz's mother, Mrs. Annie Pool, OF
Finksburg.
! The Union Sunday School of Pleas
ant Valley will hold it's annual pic
mic July 26 in Jos. P. Yingling' s
grove. a fine program is being pre-
pared. Music by the p. o. :. OF A
Band. Refreshments will be on sale
! Miss Gertie Null is having extern
sive improvements made to her
residence on Pennsylvania avenue
The house has been moved back
from the street to make room for a
comfortable porch. Paul Case is the
contractor.
After his wife had locked him In
a room for two hours, thrashed him
with an old shoe and stabbed him
with a needle, William Clay, Macon
Ga, decided that the parting of the
ways had been reached. He is suing
for divorce.
The rank growth due to the heavy
rains this season, has led to several
"whoppers" being told by farmers in
Kansas. Blue grass has been found
to measure five feet eight inches tall
Gooseberries are plentiful, bushes
yielding 16 quarts to the bush.
To carry a tag marked "violator's
tag" is the penalty imposed upor
automobile drivers and owners who
violate city ordinances providing fol
the regulation of traffic on the city
streets of Ell Dorado, Kan, and who
are convicted in the local courts.
Mrs. Beasman Miller and Mrs. DR.
John Woodlawn, of Sparrows PGn'
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Smith, East Main street over July 4
Mrs. Woodlawn recently returned
from Oklahoma and DR.. Woodlawn
is in Germany with the Army O.
Occupation.
Eldridge Browning, of Mt. Airy
had a strange happening with {
bunch Of guinea keets. One out o
the Matching was Matched with foul
legs, the two, legs that it walked on
and the other two were as perfect al
the others.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Blizzard, o
near Sykesville entertained on Sun
nd
Willie, Mrs. Joseph Shipley, Messrs
Theodore, Harry, Guy, Raymond
Lands, Flohreen and Retha Blizzard
Mr.. jeremiah Flohr and Miss Ma
Ward.
In an effort to relieve the presen
shortage in sugar the War Depart
, ment has been authorized to sell a
home 21,000,000 pounds of exces
| Army sugar at minimum price t
be fixed by the United States Suga
Equalization Board to cover the COS
to the government
Mr.. Walter Helm, East Greer
: street, was laid up several days thi
week by broad-axe cutting him il
the leg and making an ugly woun
, which required several stitches t.
| close. He was hewing a log at tn
gas house when the accident happen
: ed He is out again and improving
!, The Socialists have selected tn
following state ticket for the fal
election: For Governor William A
Toole, Baltimore; Attorney General
| Frederick Halter, MontgomeTTXTt acoun
ty; CIefA -+l~--,sS1u@F- " -ApPo0-~~
DR.. Arthur Blessing, JHagerstoWn;
Comptroller, Clarence r. Taylor,
Baltimore.
A Mulhausen- newspaper published
recently an article stating that 5,OOO,-
900 900 pounds of barley were used
in Germany during the war for max
ing beer, although 100000 persons
d;nd in +hat time owing to lack OF