The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-02-20


The seligh on the parcel post delivey1
route in this city upset Tuesday and
spilled the parcel post packages
No damage resulted.
Mrs. Geo. Zentz and children have
returned home after spending month
with her mother, Mrs. Carrie Pool and
Mrs. Vernon Rhoten, of Finksburg.
Mrs. Vernon Rhoten and sons, Dom
aid and Raymond, spent Saturday and
Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Pool, OF
Finksburg.
Mrs. George w. Albaugh and Mr..
and Mrs. Carroll Albaugh, this city,
have returned from a visit to Palm
Beach.
No extension of time for fling I'm
come tax returns will be granted this
year by the Bureau Of Internal Rev
enue.
Maryland had Ill millionaires IN
1918. How many will it have in 1919?
The internal revenue will find this out
after March Is.
Thomas Diffendal, So, president Of
I Peoples Banking Company, of Smith
burg, died of pneumonia Friday night
at Diffendal Mills, near Smithburg.
! Miss Emma Case, East Green street,
has returned from st. Agnes Hospital,
Baltimore, where she has been for
treatment.
Master Hamilton Mann, Of Pataps-
co, has returned home after spending
some time with his grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. William Mann, of Lawndale.
Mr.. John Mcdonald, Of Baltimore,
formerly residing on John street, this
city, writes from Boston, that he will
sail for Sidney shortly.
Mr.. William Metz, of Union Bridge.
had his thumb cut OF in some machine
in Union Bridge cement plant last
week.
Robert Wilson, aged % years, who
died in Baltimore last week, was a
student at Western Maryland College,
for a few years.
Mr. James Harry Steele attorney at
Mt. Airy will shortly hang his single
on the Office formerly occupied by the
late Charles e. Fink.
A train rider half frozen from being
exposed to the cold air in his secluded
apartment between the engine tender
and the vestibule of the baggage car
was taken from the 9.46 train Monday
morning and brought before Justice
Dinst for a hearing. After being warm
ed up with hot coffee and something
to eat by Justice Dinst, the prisoner
was sent to Jail for the night. Tuesday
morning he was released by Sheriff
Bloom, but not until after he was Civ
en- money TO get out of town.He SER
we'd in the U. S. Navy during the late
war.
Miss Margaret G. Little, a saleslady
in the ready to wear department Of
Nusbaum & Jordan, this city, has re-
turned from business trip to New
York, which she made in the interest
OF the firms corset department. While
in New York, Miss Little attended a
school of corsetry, conducted by the
H. w. Gossard Co., manufacturers Of
the original and celebrated Gossard
(front-lacipg) Corsets. Miss Little
completed the prescribed course of
studies in scientific and practical cor
set fitting and has been awarded the
diplomas Of a graduate corsetierre.
Msr Susan Brown, Sherman, Texas,
is seriously i'll. Four about
months she has been suffering
greatly from rheumatism, which
has affected her back and arms,
and also her limbs. For about two
/ months she has been unable to go
to bed, her husband being compelled
to dress her. During this time she
has spent most of her time in chair.
Mrs. Brown is daughter of the late
George Bowman, of Silver Run. The
family has many relatives in Silver
Run, where Mrs. Browns father, who
was a successful farmer, resided.
4 A meeting of the Parent-Teachers
Association of Westminster will be
i held in the High School building on
Thursday, February 26, beginning at
7.30 p. M. A special musical has been
provided for the occasion. Rev. Ed
gar T. Read will address the Associa-
ton upon the subject THE Response
bility of Parents for the Kind of
Books Children Read" Several mat
tiers in reference to providing means
. for the betterment of school condi-
tons in Westminster, as well as in
other sections of the county, will be
4 discussed. All members Of the As
sociation, and others interested in
school affairs are urgently request
ed to be present.
Miss Mary Grafton Steele, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Guy W. Steele, this
city, who was presented to Baltimore
society this season at the Bachelors
Cotillon, will be among the brides
maids at the wedding in Washington
on Saturday of Miss Susan Lewis
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fulton Lew
is, to Major Cocktail, U. S. A., OF
Florida Miss Steele spent part of
the winter with her cousin, Mrs. John
A. Barker, Jr., Baltimore, and is now
visiting Miss Elizabeth A. Wright, in
Baltimore. Miss Steele went tc
Washington today for the dinner to
be given for the members of the we'd
ding party.
On Friday the Finksburg Grange
held one day short course at the
Finksburg church. Although the
weather was bad a group of men went
out with Mr.. Shaw, Horticultural Spe-