The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-01-16
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t52 persons were killed by @u'oln'
k;las in Maryland last year.
MON in w. Va, has been SEM
nrison for four years for steailns
Iaa+ voar was the record in Worios
,i hasr IN raising money for rellg-
49, Annie Prettyman, who died IN
T I..s D. IS sunday was buried at Sy-
kesviIle Wednesday,
The members of the Methools1 Fps
conaI choir held social In the soci"4
baII in the church Tuesday evening
A marriage license was lsue9 a,,; al
rrowson Saturday, to Isador n. VIII
;an,o and Rose Resnick, both OF Line
bOrO
pittsburg woman killed by gettlng
b;gb heeled shoe caught in elevator,
hut the 81 should worry" crowd VIII
keep walking on stills. ~
Dealers are no longer allowed "
make their customers buy sonietnlus
else to get sugar. Report oh u0Ni
ers who try this trick.
Mr. John Milton Reifsnlder, VINO
has been ill at his apartments at the
Hotel Albion, Baltimore, is CONSIDERED
improving by his physician
caroline E. Sittig, aged 70 years
wife of August Sittig, died IN baltl-
more Saturday. Interment TOOK place
tuesday in Baltimore cemetery.
Motorcycle Officer Charles W. Smith
received a reward of 5000 for the cap
+ure of Ogle and Weinholt, VINO ROB-
he'd the Walkersville Savings Bank.
Now it is Butterfly Farm, an Eng
ish Agriculturaist has started. "A
Young woman's seminary in this coun-
try could qualify as Butterfly farm
Mrs. Weber Lippy and son, Roy oil
BaItimore; Misses Grace and Agnes
DOdrer, of this city, were the guests
of their sister, Mrs. Elmer Wantz, FrIz-
eIIburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shipley, of
near Westminster, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Wanz, of Frizellburg, spent
Sunday with Elmer Wantz and family,
Of FriZellburg.
Mrs. Joseph D. Wimert, of near
Cranberry, who was critically i'll with
pneumonia, is now on the way to re-
covery. The change for the better
came last Monday.
A bill introduced in the House by
Mr.. Demarco takes issue with the
nationwide Prohibition Act by legal
izing the brewing of beer containing
4 per cent. alcohol.
Appropriations which the Maryland
State College of Agriculture will ask
of the coming Legislature total $3,O27,-
1856, according to announcement by
President A. F. Woods.
The latest feminine rage in Paris
is no stockings, extremely short skirts,
no sleeves, sandals. Go it sisters, so
the price of silk stockings can come
down for American women.
Two barrels of cider were sold at
Sandy Springs, Montgomery County
last week, for $4,000. 1t looks like
all the apples we will get in the fut-
ure will be in liquid form.
Miss Anna Altman, Of Syracuse, N.
Y, is the winner of the Maxwell Au"
tomobiIe Beauty Contest Of America.
The judges decided after hours OF
heated arguments in her favor.
In fact mortality is so great in
some sections of Europe, it has now
become q menace to the increase OF
population, expected to take the place
killed or incapcitated by the war
The U. S. Mail in some sections is
now being carried at $50 miles an
hour by Air Ships, an Air ship would
be good thing for some Of our Rural
Carriers to speed up matters a little
Wheat has an average weight OF
56.S pounds per measured bushel fo1
the crop of 1919. This is the lowest
weight since 1904, when it was 55.E
pounds. The standard weight is sc
pounds.
Thrown from the top of an auto
mobile truck on which he was riding
Chas. Shank, Woodsboro, Saturday
morning plunged headlong to the
frozen ground and was rendered un-
conscious.
Ex-senator Wade H. d. Warffeld
committee of 1000, organized to fur
Their the ratification of the Federal
Woman Suffrage Amendment by the
Maryland Legislature.
Charles g. Drummer, Of Mt. Airy, sold
his lot of ground, improved with a
large two and half story frame dwell
ing house and other buildings, stu
ated in Mt. Pleasant district, to Chas.
e. Cramer, of Linganore.
The English who formerly got their
eggs from Russia, Egypt and Italy,
are calling America for hens. So the
Johnnie Bulls can get his hen fruit
fresh to go with his universal break
fast relish, a rasher OF bacon. -.
Twenty-eight hundred school. teach
ers, members of the Pittsburgh Teach
ers' Associations at a-mass meeting at
Pittsburgh. voted unanimously In sup
port Of demand that they be- granted
a fiat wage increase of $500 a year.
The lettuce and celery crops Of
Florida contribute annually about 81,
S0O,000s to the incomes of the truck
growers in that State. About 1000
acres now are devoted to the culture
OF these crops and this AGRA Is being
increased constantly.