The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-08-29

Mr.. and Mrs. John Skinner, Balti-
mora, were visitors of MIR. and Mrs.
j. ID. Crowl, Center street, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Truss, Baltimore,
were Sunday guests at the same
place.
Misses Irene, Nellie and Louise
Iippy, Charlotte Zepp, Margaret
Michael, Earl Lippy and Lawrence
Zepp, this city spent Tuesday at
Gwynn Oak and Druid Hill Parks,
Baltimore.
MIR. and Mrs. Edgar Smith and Mrs.
Arthur w. Smith and son, Ray, OF
Dayton, Ohio, have returned home
after spending pleasant visit to
their mother, Mrs. Harry Smith, of
near Marston.
Mr.. and Mrs J. Burner and daugh-
tiers, Elizabeth, Gladys and Virginia,
took touring trip to Virginia to
spend a week. They also spent a
few days in Hagerstown with their
mother and friends.
1t cost Nessin Hiken, of Milwau-
kee, Wis, $25 to recover a 50-cent
handkerchief which his wife had ac-
cidentally dropped into another auto
mobile. Hiken caught the car. He
was pinched for speeding.
1t is said that spring clothes will
cost most. However, we can 20 into
training by wearing a thin summer
suit in the winter, and if We survive
till spring we shall be so tough that
we shall need no clothes at all.
Sergt. It. D. Myers, of the 81st F.
A., who is stationed in Kentucky, is
"a, /
for the Army and visited his parents,
f. I'll. Myers, Mount Pleasant few
days. He returned to Tennessee.
William Stimax, who is at the
Union Protestant Inf'rmary suffering
from injuries received by being struck
by the Hagerstown express at Gran
berry on August q, is improving
and is expected home next week.
The farmers will now have to look
out for new crop pest-the corn
horer. This insect Is said to have
been imported from Europe, like the
Bolshevik, and it's none too soon to
start vigorous measures against him.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beachtel, Mr..
Edward Slifer, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Kindig and son, Allen, MIR. and Mrs.
Luther Slifer and Miss Minnie Har-
ner, all of LittlestOWn, Pa, sent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Willet,
Mt. Pleasant.
Chief of Police John A. Stem, East
Green street, has improved so much
i'm the past two weeks that he is
permitted to leave his residence. He
has been automobiling a few times.
Patrolmen Stem has been ill about
two months from being overcome by
the heat.
Long Island City grave diggers are
on strike for 81 day, and the high
cost of dying may come to rival the
high cost of being sick, with So a
visit for the doctor. That dying
comes only once in a life time, how
ever, is a consideration not to be
ignored.
1t appears that we are now to have
jokes of the aircraft, aerial humor,
as it were Take, for instance, this,
picked up from an English paper:
Small Boy Ito piloD-If you be
a-goin' up, EUR, would We see if We
can find Billy's kite driftin' about,
wot e lorst larst Toosday?
How do you know it was whisky
and not a substitute, asked the at
torney for an accused saloonkeeper
at Pittsburgh. I've been a whisky
gauger for 20 years." was the reply
by the witness. That's sufficient, |
think" the judge concluded, and the
saloonist was held for court.
BY driving his Dodge Sedan through
a wire fence opposite the old toll
gate proerty on the Baltimore pike
Tuesday afternoon the owner pre-
vented a smash up with another auto
mobile. The Dodge was considerably
damaged in front and had to be towed
to Klee & Hoff's garage for repairs.
Those who spent Sunday at the
home of VIM H. Meyers and wife
were as follows: Mr.. John Seipp AND
wife, of Baltimore; Mr.. Harry Black,
wife and children, Frances, George
and Clayton Black and Albert Ham,
of Manchester; Mr. Clarence Feeser,
wife and daughter, Nadine, and Mr..
Floyd Geiman and wife, of Deep Run.
Md
The Real Estate Company sold for
d. Snider Stephan his properties and
lots on Carroll street Tuesday to
the following: Paul |. WhitmOre and
William r. Bowman, double weather
DOdru6u uOuSG duu 90 IOOI AOL, ooO
ject to a ground rent of So annually
for $3450. Thomas Babylon, al
feet, with an annual ground rent Of
SO for $1,000.
Daniel F. Lafean,> former state
commissioner of banking, was ar
rested in York, Pa, charged with be-
ing implicated in the wreckingA of the
North Penn Bank, of Philadelphia.
The warrant for the arrest was
issued by the district attorney of
Philadelphia. 1t charges that he
permitted the wrecked bank to re-
main open knowing it to be insolvent.
Mr.. W1n. Frizzell and Misses Ger
trude and Cora Green, of near State
wood, mOtored to Baltimore Sunday
August "a and there joined Mr.. Oscar
Green, Mrs. John Carney, Misses
Thelma Green and girl friend, Ruth,
and spent the day on the steamer
Dreamland to chesapeake beach.
The scenery was gorgeous on land
and water. Everyone returned home
happy after spending such pleasant
trip on the water.
Mr.. Luther L.. Bankard, Bond
street, formerly with the Western
Maryland Railway, with offices in
Baltimore, has accepted a similar
position with the u. ;. Railroad ad-
ministration in the car service sec
ton division of operators with head
quarters in Buffalo, N. Y. MIR.
Bankard left Sunday to enter upon
his duties. He is well qualified for