The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-01-31

The wheat crop for 1919 in Ameri-
ca is placed at 22,500,000 acres. The
mild winter has been a great help to
the crop.
Private Albert Link and Mr.. Will
liam Parrish, sailor, both from
France, visited Miss Lydia Arbaugh
and family Sunday.
]. J. Lifsey, who has been con-
Quoting a freight bus business be-
tween Frederick, Baltimore, Wash
ington and other points, has sold out
to T.. C. Valentine, Rocky Ridge.
Webster Rusk, at Sheesley's Zoo,
weighing SIS pounds dropped dead.
He measured 104 inches around the
waist. Rusk ate and drank enor-
mously and slept Is hours a day.
Heber Summers, Ridgeville, was ar
rested by Motorcycle Officer Charles
w. Smith, charged with allowing his
car to stand without lights and with
using license tag belonging to
BENJAMIN Keilholtz. He was fined
SIS on the first charge and $40 on the
second.
An unidentified man, apparently
insane, ran amuck with revolver at
Washington, Saturday, entered three
buildings, shot two women, one OF
whom may die, and choked another.
He escaped before persons attracted
by the cries of the wounded could
come up with him.
Mrs. Anna Wilson, of Beacon, N.
Y, gained 100 pounds after falling
over a heap OF iron pipe owned by
the New York Central Railroad and
sued them for $4,000 and was award
ed $235O. The verdict paid her $25
pound for her surplus fat.
Alice ". Diller, of Liberty, has
been granted an absolute divorce
from her husband, Casper w. Diller,
Of Anne Arundel county. The plain
tiff is given the custody OF two or
their infant children and the mother
of the defendant is given the custody
of one OF their infant children.
! Misses Gladys and Dorothy Crom-
well, sisters, of New York, leaped
| from the rail of the French steam
ship La Lorraine as the vessel was
i'm the Garonne river bound for New
York Both drowned. The bodies
have not been recovered. Both
young women belonged to the Ameri-
can Red Cross and were returning
home.
Saying that the big income tax
drive for 1919 il under way, Collect
or of Internal Revenue io Joshua W.
Miles last week issued a statement
i'm which he advises every unmar-
I! ried person who, during the same
beriod earned $4,000 or over, to
sharpen his pencil and figure where
7 he stands.
Influenza's Queerest prank was
played on John True, of Mt. Pleasant,
Pa, who, after recovering from a
severe attack, found his bones 20
brittle that they broke under the
least exertion a short time ago a
! quick turn OF the head caused his
collarbone To snap, while q day or
4 two later, while playing with child
rem around the house, bone OF a
forearm snapped. True is forty-five
years old.
The public road leading from Thur
mont to Graceham for sometime past
Y has been in very bad condition, the
surface consisting of big stone and
deep ruts The county commits
sioners have decided to repair the
road and already stone crnsher has
been set up and crushing begun.
Commissioner Martin says the object
is to straighten and resurface the
road bed from the corporation line,
in Thurmont, east to Graceham. A
number df stone fences and piles OF
stone ON various farms nearby will
W used for this work. The road II
ome much used and nothing OF con-
sequence has been done "a It for
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