The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-03-28


Private Earl tents, who was cap
tured by the Germans, il al Camp
Meade and expects to be mustered
out next week.
Mrs. T.. M Churchill, Chicago,
counts on the bare facts to win her
divorce. She charges her husband
with staging parties in the nude.
Carl Beck started for New York to
see the sights and arrived with 4
baby in his arms. A dark woman
on the train gave it to him to hold.
Master Edward ID. Weant, Jr., who
has been dangerously I'LL at the home
OF his parents, MIR. and Mrs. e. o.
Weant, Court Place, is much i'm
proved.
This guy Sam il sure piker when
the takes this" a man told Internal
Revenue Collector Brady at Detroit
Mich, as he handed over nine cents
income tax. aa
Miss Mary Shellman, East Main
street received a. certificate from the
Food administration i'm appreciation
of her services, given voluntarily and
without pay. a,s
| st. Louis, Mo-, has partly solved
the unemployed problem Beginning
March "a iObless ex-sOldiers and ex-
sailors will serve as coroners' Jurors
until they get other jobs. u @ss,:-r.e =; =
4 Two soldiers of Buffalo, M. ", i'm
service in France, who were reported
l dead and their names placed con "a
bronze tablet erected in; Lafayette
Square. have turned up alive.
\ Hubby thought she devoted too
much time to dressing her hair, SO
he cut off her Grown Of GLORY. Mrs.
Paul G.. Werner, St Louis, charged in
answer to her husbands divorce suit.
| Fevered politics means nothing
here. Ffndlay, Ill, officials just dis
covered that owing to the absence Of
\ the village clerk they plumb forgot
to hold the primary election March
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! William A. Adams, Lawrence,
Mass, deaf and dumb" was arrested
for jumping fares on street car
When the judge said $40, Adams
reared, Robert" to the surprise Of
the court
The Missionary and Aid Society OF
ST. Benjamin's Lutheran church will
meet at the home OF Mrs. Charles
HoSfelt, Thursday, April 3, at 100 ID.
m. All members are urged to be
present. 9
John w. Shook has sold his hand
some home to G. Ed. Graham, of
Woodsboro, who will get possession
in the village of Rocky Ridge and has
all modern cOnvenienceS.
The war was profitable for a
Chicago soldier now stationed at Comp
Devens, Mass. He said he won
$1,000 playing craps. He was wound
ed twice-in the war, not playing
craps.
"This is our busy day, Chief" said
one of three men loading leather on
truck in Philadelphia. Don't over
work." answered the copper as he
twirled his nightstick and walked on.
Leather valued at $4,000 is missing.
MIR. and Mrs. M T.. Tyler have sold
their home at Monticello Park, Bal
timore and moved to this city. They
are now on visit to his parents on
the Eastern shore. MIR. Tyler con-
templates opening a garage at the
West end Of our town. =. .-.f
iii, The building formerly used as a
station by the Western Maryland
! Railroad Company and known as
Kinks Station, was destroyed by fire
that broke out at o'clock Wednesday
night. The loss il estimated att
$4,000. ~
Those who spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Myerly and family
were MIR. and Mrs. Lawrence Hess,
Misses Bernetta Smith, Madaline
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timOre; Mrs. Rae Slonaker, Misses
Ethel Jones, Madaline Weller and
Eleanor Rupert, of Westminster.
! Mr. F. Neal Parke and Mr.. Guy w.
Steele were present Wednesday when
the engineer made his report before
the Public Service Commission
on the condition of the
water systems of the Consolidated
Public Utilities Company, this city
From what we can learn the engineer
placed higher value on the water
system than at present.
We have received the following
good news from Private William III.
Young: Sailed from Brest March Is
and arrived at Hoboken March 25. I
enjoyed the voyage and am feeling
fine. II sure am glad to be back i'm
the States again and expect 70 be
home in few weeks Mr. Young
was the accommodating teller in the
Union National Bank, and has host
Of friends here who will be elated over
his returning.
Mr.. Andrew J. Ferguson, of Madi-
son, Ohio i'm renewing his subscrip-
ton writes as follows: 1--WE have
had the warmest winter ever known
here, with no ice and no sleighing.
Four inches of snow was the most
there was at any one time and that
did not lay long. Our coolest morn
ing, January 5th was five above zero.
One morning i'm February was twelve
above. This has been good maple
sugar season. The weather now acts
like April. The roads are good and
the ground getting dry. think of
my friends i'm Westminster often"
The Government at Washington has
made public some evidence of wide
spread plots to overthrow the Gov
eminent of the United States and
set up a Socialist Soviet rule like that
in Russia. Hundreds of arrests have
been made, and tons Of fre-eater
literature" seized. The arrested
ones are mainly Russians. Much OF the
literature is in the Russian language
and the money to pay the expenses
seems to come from Russia. Our
Government seems resolved to trifle