The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-05-30
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 30. 1919
BRIEFS

Rural roads are being made in this
county.
Painters and carpenters are busy in
this city.
Mr.. o. r. Emigh, East Main street.
is in Chicago on business.
Smith Yingling Company are build
ing large pea yining shed.
Mr. Binna, Court Place. made a
business trip to Cumberland this
week.
During the storm Sunday morning
the heavy thunder made the earth
tremble.
Mrs. Kiser. Harvey. will be tried
Monday for the murder Of her hus=
band
Mrs. Claude Billmyer. Union Bridge.
was a guest Of her sister, Mrs. Il. ID.
Fowble, West Main street
B. F. shriYer Company are pushing
the work on their new factory and ex-
pect to have il ready by pea season.
Musician Carroll Crawford, enlist
ed in the navy and stationed at Nor
folk, Va. epects to receive his dis
charge this week.
The legislature Of West Virginia has
passed bill restricting to 25 gallons
the wine that any one person may
make for himself In year.
! gang Of 20 conYicts are nov
working on the state road That Is be-
ing built ON the old Iittleatown pike
Edward Greenholtz is the guard over
the men.
Musician Glenn Miller, Vest Main
street, Who Is enlisted in the band
and plays on transport running
from Norfolk, Va. to France. is home
on a SIX day furlough.
Mr. and Mrs Oscar Humbert and
family. of Altoona. Pa. are spending
some time with her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs David Currens, this city. Mr..
Humbert returned Monday.
On the transport Natoika arriving
at HOboken Monday we're Corp. Geo.
NJ. GettIer, Of the signal corps. of
Westminster. and Corp. Benz. s. Nc
Cracker Of The 10th Machine Gun
Battalion. Woohbine.
Robbers didn't take the time To
crack" a safe in the kroger Grocery
Company office. 81 Louis, but instead
carried a i00-pOand snfe, containing
$50 30. ont of the store and put II In
machine and drove away.
The volcano of kalut. in Java. ha1
burst into eruption. Yiping out %
villages IN the district Of BrenEat and
II in the vicinity OF niitar and eaus=
ing deaths estimated al $1,000 accord
ing to dispatch received II Amster=
E dam.
Jimmy Europe Il dead The black
master of syne0pation. sometimes
known as King of Jazz" whose rag
time band made the feet Of royalty
mabehave and almost caused foeh
to hitchy-koo. was stabbed by one Of
his own drummera at Boston, Friday
David ChrIsman. of Connellzyille
Pa. a farmer. was out blasting
stumps The explosion OF Dynamite
placed under stump threw mum.
Der OF stones in the air. One struck
Chrisman on The head. causing a frae.
tured skull which resulted IN hi
death.
Ira Converse. Greenfield Ill. aged
20 years. believed the oldest rurai
free delivery mail clerk IN Illinois
il not in the United States. Is still on
the job lie has been huHtiing mai
here for 20 years and figures he haa
Travelled 1926 miles, or nearly SIS
times around the world. In that time
There are church tramps who &c
about from church to church holding
sorf of Yagrant tenancy declared
Rev David T. Maglll. Of Alton, IL. n
a speech before the Baptist ministers
at ST. Louis. lie said thai = pei
cent of the church members come e
church in street cars Or automobiles
l number of locust. preserved witt
alcohol in a bottle. are on exhibition
at this office Seventeen years agf
Mr.. Theodore BiEgs, Bachman'H Val
ley. caught these pests and bottled
them to keep as curiosity. The 10
cust are in Il good state of preaerya
ton and are in As good a condition
as when placed away. MOI even ;
wing or leg Is loose from the body.
After serving for 10 consecutive
years as president OF the State Boar
of Barber Examiners. E. Henry Bis
choff, Baltimore, has rendered hi
resignation 10 Governor Harrington
who accepted 1t with regret Hi
successor has not yet been named
Mr.. Bisehoff, who Is 81 years old. sal
he was unable tn give the requires
attention to The board.
The War Department is to proyid
the State Roads Commission with 20
motortrneks ranging in size zfror
two TO five tons. What will be don
with them has not yet been full
determined, but they will probab1
be distributed among the counties 70
road maintenance work and some @
them will go to Baltimore city. tn
remainder being used by the road
commission in its maintenance de
paftment.
The Rhode island Senate ha
passed bill providing that all beyer
ages containing four per cent. Of al
cohol Or less shall be deemed non
Intoxicating.
Jacob GrozermanT New York. .despit
his one hundred and i've years. re
Gently developed fondness for sIffin
on the edge of roof and permILtin
his feet to dangle over the eopinp
His grandson has applied to have tn
old man committed to an institution
President Wilson has informed ON
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