The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-06-20
WILLIAM j. STONE
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tomorrow il the longest day liz The
year. LIN few days they Will start
| to shorten
! The Ladies' Aid Society Of Thomas
4 Chapel, Tannery will hold an ice
cream and strawberry festival at the
church ON Saturday evening, June 81.
Everybody welcome
| Lieut. Guy Preston Miller, of Camp
Taylor, Kentucky, spent a few DAYS
the past week with his uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. N. ]. Miller, Madi-
son street, this city
Mrs. James Beachman, Jr.. il dam
gerously Ill at her home in Virginia.
Mrs. Beachman was Miss Ludwig,
this city, before her marriage.
Sergt. Edward Lantz has arrived
home from France and is now at the
home Of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Lantz, East Main street.
The board Of health calls attention
to the people Of Carroll county as to
the new health regulations that are
published elsewhere in this issue.
The painters of this city met on
Wednesday evening and raised their
40 cents per hour and As cents an
hour for job work.
Upon request we publish the ad-
dress of Captain T. III. Bondurant as
Company A, 4th Division, 10th Ma
chine Gun Battalion, France. Capt
Bondurant was with the 10Th Ma
chine Gun Battalion.
Katie Rose, aged Ia, has been
asleep at intervals for IL weeks in
Mobile, Ala Her physicians are
puzzled declaring the ailment is not
the sleeping sickness prevalent last
year: She has slept for one week at
a time.
The automobile of Mr.. Harry NAgle
turned over Tuesday evening on
Pennsylvania avenue in making the
turn at Union street. Mr.. Nagle ind
another gentleman were buried be-
meath the car but were not seriously
hurt. Mr.. Nagle received a spra1ned
arm but the other gentleman was not
injured.
There will be rally of the Sunday
schools of Westminster district in
Krider's Reformed church, Sunday af-
ternoon, June p, at 2.30. 1t is hoped
that all the schools of the district will
be represented at this meeting Ad-
dresses by Rev. Mr.. Day Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, Westminster
and others.
The first Of series of meetings by
the Freedom District Democratic
Club was held Monday night in the
Lyceun Building at Sykesville.
Robert e. Lee, Of Baltimore, was the
principal speaker. Nathan G. Hobbs,
of Sykesville, a wounded soldier,
made a brief address and told of his
experiences. Music was furnished by
the Sykesville Orchestra.
James H. Welker, former resident
of Hagerstown, is the champion
strong man of the Mount Clara shops
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, raising casting weighing
1000 pounds from the legs Of a fell
low-Workman who was accidentally
caught under the casting when it
fell, while dozens OF other workmen
looked on and waited for the arrival
of crane.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dudrer enter
tanned as their guests on Sunday MT.
and Mrs. VIM. Dodrer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Byers and children, William,
Russell, Richard and Elizabeth, Mr..
Murray Dodrer, Herbert Dodrer, Miss
es Grace and Agnes Dodrer and Miss
Lottie Huff, all of Westminster; Mr..
and Mrs Tilden Dodrer, Of Hanover,
Pa; Mrs. Weber Lippy and son, Her
bert and Miss Catharine Burke, all
Of Baltimore.
After obtaining permission from
Mayor Richardson to take the chemi-
cal engine to Salisbury for the fire
mems convention parade, Chief Ru-
pert Sommers, Of the Crisfeld Volun-
iteer Fire Department., was notified
later by the city clerk that the Coun-
Gil had passed a resolution at spe-
cial meeting forbidding them taking
the engine out of the city. AS g. re-
suit the entire company have quit.
An alarm, when a motorboat caught
fire, was unanswered.
Patrolman Tracy Miller, Scranton,
Pa, proclaims himself the champion
egg eater in the United States. This
announcement was made after he had
eaten 48 eggs in "a hours. Miller's
! feat was started when a wager was
made that be couldn't eat "a in 10
minutes. Miller won this easily. A
few minutes later another wager was
made that he could not duplicate the
feat At the end of his days work
he ate "a eggs and complained that he
was hungry and would like to have
a steak.
The treachery OF father resulted
in one Of the coldest- bIooded murders
that has been committed in this Sec
ton for years, when Guisseppi
Guilino, aged 60 years, farmer iv-
| ing two miles south of Elkton, moved
quietly into the bedroom occupied by
his sons, Vincent, aged 10 years, and
his brother Samuel, aged "A, about 4
o'clock Saturday morning, and while
the two boys lay sound asleep, with
heavy sledge hammer dealt Vincent
several blows over the head, killing
him almost instantly. The younger
brother, Samuel quickly jumped from
the bed and at the command of his
father stood by while the latter
dragged the body down stairs, placed
| it i'm a wheelbarrow and wheeled it O.
! distance of half mile, burying it i'm
potato patch
Mr. G. f. Beck, of Mt. Airy visiting
in Talmage, Kansas, writes as fol-
lows: please send me your paper as
/ am anxious to have the home news.