The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-09-19
BRIEFS.

BRlEES.
ne workers want 6 hour days and
Increase i'm salary. Before long
will probably ask for full pay
no work. !-aa-t A.-.s-
sYi Barnes, aged. 81 years, died
bis home i'm Sykesyille Tuesday.
eral services and fnterment was
Wednesday.
flliam A. BidIe, of Frederick,
at the Springfield Hospital.
Eesyille, last Friday afternoon, at
clock of hardening of the arteries,
years old. s-$ ". ' ...
kp examination will be held short
to fill a vacancy at Mount Airy
st office, R Il. Runkles, the present
,stnaster, having resigned to en-
AGE in other business.
Jerusalem Union Sunday, school OF
Bachman's Valley will hold a social
and festival at the home of Horace
Teppo, ON Saturday evening, Septem-
Der 20. The Pleasant Hill Band will
be present and entertain.
Mr.. E.. F. Garner, of Cornell Uni
yersty, Ithaca, N. Y, and Messrs.
David M. Yingling and VIM. J. M.
Yingling, of Baltimore, were recent
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Lee
Hutchins, Pleasant Valley.
Howard Eigenbrode, of near Grace
ham, on trip to Baltimore in his
new Ford car, left the car standing
in front Of the I. U. o. F. Temple.
When through business he went TO
get his car but it had vanished. So
far nothing has been heard of its
whereabouts.
The Reformed church is rapidly
shaping up it's organization for the
great Forward Movement recently
undertaken by it's General Synod.
Headquarters have been opened in
the Reformed Church Building,
Philadelphia, Pa. where the central
offices are located.
Two men, one in the uniform OF
soldier, broke lock on one of the
doors of the Monterey Country Club
near Blue Ridge Summit Thursday
morning and robbed it of sweaters,
shoes, trousers and other articles.
The caretaker Of the club, K. E.
Tressler, was placed in chair and
gagged and bound.
Major Richard Creecy, U. S.
Marines and Mrs. Creecy have return
ed to Westminster from Cape May
and are visiting Mrs. John l.. Ref
s1ider Major and Mrs. Creecy will
leave very soon for Philadelphia
where Major Creecy will take up his
duties as Post Adjutant at the Marine
Barracks, Navy Yard.
Suspension of all strikes through
out the United States and the de-
claratiOn of a labor truce on the basis
. of the status quo for six months or
more to enable President Wilson to
bring about a reductinO in the cost
of living is recommended in report
of a committee of the New York
State Federation Of Labor made pub
lie at New York.
A carrier pigeon, bearing on one
leg an aluminium band marked H. T.
19-7790" and on the other gold band
and a coiled green band, was found
Tuesday on the premises OF Miss Adj
die f. Spurrier whose address IS
Route 5, Mount Airy, Md. The bird
was so tired and hungry when Miss
Spurrier saw him that she had no
trouble in capturing him, she said.
a barn on the farm of Charles c.
1@k MAINS, about a mile north Of North
&ch, was destroyed by fire 5atur
Afternoon. Hogs and the stock
Snts also were destroyed. The
WAS a large one and the loss is
$%fT to have been close to $4,000.
Neighbors aided in saving other
buildings close by, but the barn was
burned to the ground. The origin Of
the blaze is unknown.
A barrack belonging to c. NJ.
Flohr, at Flohrville. was struck by
lightning Sunday morning, August
"a, about | O'Clock during a violent
- electric storm and was entirely de-
stroyed with all contents. Mr.. FlOhr
lost his wheat, a quantity OF hay and
agricultural implements, without IN
surance. The loss is a severe one
for him. A horse owned by John M.
Ridgely was killed in the same storm.
Among the guests who spent some
OF the last ten days in August at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. John SENT,
SHADY Side" Fruit Farm, were Rev.
and Mrs. S. j. Mcdowell ID. D., and
daughter. Miss Miriam, Sister Sophia,
Sister Magdalene, Sister DOrothea,
from Mother Lutheran Deaconess'
Home: Mrs. Howard Gavan, Sr., Mr..
and Mrs j. H. Gavan and daughter,
Margaret and Gordon Sigmond and
Mr.. and Mrs. John He'll and grandson.
Arthur Fue German, chairman or
the State Tax Commission son OF
the late United States Senator Cor
man, died unexpectedly at 4 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon in Johns Hop
kins Hospital Baltimore, whittier he
was removed on Friday last with the
expectation that relief could be at
forded from what proved to the
elimination OF diabetes. from which
he had been sufferer for several
Years. Death came without a warn
ing.