The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-01


a. Feldmap will close out his store
stock and move to Baltimore
Miss Julia Wash LETT today for ST,
MAry,s Seminary. ST.. Mary's county,
where she will resume her studies.
The Westminster Grange will hold
its regular meeting on Tuesday next,
October 9Th, at p. M, in County
Agents Office.
Messrs. Joseph H. and N. E. Hahn
announce to the public that they will
open and up-to-date grocery and meat
market in the store property, next to
the Eastern Hotel, East Main street,
Saturday, October 8. They will also
| buy pork.
A play house almost the width OF
the street was hauled on skids from
Willis street to East Green street. One
of B. F. Shriver Company's trucks
was used to pull it. 1t was moved to
the residence of Mr.. Robert s. Shri-
Eyer.
| Because his wife. Fannie, refused
to cook a chicken he brought home
/ for Sunday dinner Daniel Moolik, OF
Brooklyn, beat her with the buckle
end of strap SO severity that Mrs.
M0olik had to be taken to st. Mary
Hospital.
Six. Boston banks seem to be get
ting in bad. They have invoked a 80
day clauses covering Withdrawals
from the bank. Depositors must give
8 months notice before drawing funds,
One bank has been taken over by the
bank commissioner.
The Ladies Aid of Thomas Chapel
| will hold an apron and necktie social
lin the basement of the church, at Tan
merry, on Tuesday evening, October
i 5th. In the event of bad weather. the
same will be held the first clear
evening.
Brown and Shilling, provision mer-
chants, will offer their property cor
ner Of, Bond and Main streets, at pub
lie sale, Saturday, October 16. The pro-
perry has been recently remodeled and
made into one of the most convenient
place for business in the city.
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The climax Of eleven weeks of
strike, dynamiting and disorder in
Pittston. Pa, was reached when Leo
| Al. Capizzo, striker, returned from a
! parade of 1000 miners, found George
LAshaadra attacking his wife and
fired five shots into the latter's body,
killing him.
cs4s f4t,,,<,I NHa+bod;atF Fnisconal
Church will hold Sunday school pic
mic Saturday, October 8, commencing
at i p. m. An interesting program IS
being prepared. Oak Orchard band
will furnish the music. Everybody
come and have good time. Refresh
ments for sale.
3 Complaining from the effects Of coal
gas inhaled in a boiler room at Green
stone, near Waynesboro, Pa, Henry
Ferber, an aged employe, asked for
drink of water at the home Of Charles
Macy, near CHAIRMAN. Shortly after
ward he was found dead in strip OF
woods near the Blue Ridge Summit
trolley station.
Discovery of the body of Jacob
! Charles Denton, Los Angeles captl-
.aiist, who disappeared four. months
4 ago, buried under several tons OF
i earth in a Theoretically sealed box in
the cellar OF house at 675 Catalina
street, brought to light what the po-
4 lice characterized as the most weird
murder mystery in the history of the
city
The bridge over Double Pipe creek
at Detour has been so far completed
that people are now able to drive over
it. 1t is stated, however, that the work
i on the sides had just begun This is
a Joint bridge connecting Frederick
and Carroll counties and is replacing
d d double span iron bridge which was
swept away by the floods last spring.
The two counties share the expenses
Of the construction.
Charles A. Feezer, a well known
! farmer of Freedom district, operating
the Merceron farm, adjoining Spring
field State Hospital, committed suicide
Sept. II, at his home. Going to his
room he took a shot gun, fastened a
string to his toe and to the trigger
and placing the gun-barrel in his
mouth, discharged the weapon. He
died instantly, the charge tearing
away a portion of the head.
The little village of Mechanicsyille,
located about seven miles to the north
of Belair, was the scene of one of the
most unusual and distressing TRACE
dies Sunday in the history of the
county, when two brothers were suf-
located by gas in an empty silo on
their fathers farm. The names of the
dead boys are Samuel j. Poplin, ,16
years old, and Noah D. Poplin, 10
years old. They were the sons of Sam
uel D. Poplin, who recently moved
to Hartford county from North Caro-
lima. Their bodies were shipped to
North Carolina for burial.
J.E. and w. H. Mace. Hanover, Pa,
who have one of the largest exclusive
music stores in Pennsylvania, and
who have recently opened a branch
sEstore at Hampstead have made another
4 addition to their advertising force in
1.-THE form of dance orchestra. This
Eorchestra, to be known as "Nace's
Jazzing 81, is composed of eight
lpieces, all the men being accom-
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