The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-07-23

Miss Elizabeth Study, East Main
street, is at Ocean City this week.
And now, through the efforts OF
some Burbank wizard, lemons the
size Of grapefruit are grown.
The $40 a. m. train yesterday
struck taxi at Mt. Hope crossing and
wrecked it. The chauffeur was slight
" injured.
Isaiah Fountain, colored, who was
convicted of assaulting Bertha Simp-
son, was hanged at Easton at o'clock
this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Starr and Ed
ward Little, this city, spent several
days this week at Sand Gates, st.
Mary's county.
The sale of the Jacob Il Trenton
property, in FrizeIIburg, which is adj
vertised in this issue, has been with
drawn. The sale will not take place.
Ten thousand persons were present
at the annual reunion of the Lutheran
Churches of Maryland, Pennsylvania
Virginia, West Virginia and the Dis
trict Of Columbia at Pen Mar Park
yesterday
The sap of the Chicle tree, which
grows in South America, is the source
of the chewing gum supply of the
United States The gum is cooked,
Stretched, and then shipped in 20
pound cakes to factories in this coun-
try where It is made into chewing
gum for some 75.0O0,0 600 chewers.
The Hebrew nation, of Bible times.
used sharpened reed, dipping it In
to ink of animal charcoal and water.
Later, the quill pen was the only
thing. Young men considered it an
act of chiVaIry to keep the quill pens
of the Iassies in writing order In
1920, Joseph elliott invented the first
steel pen.
BY doing without a shave for 81
years Justice Wallace. Of Santa re,
Kan, is believed to have broken all
Kansas records for Cheating the bar
ber.,s Justice Wallace, who has not had
a razor on his face since he was 81
years old. figures that 10 per cent.
compounded senfannually. he has
saved $4,000 during his @shaveless''
career.
Charging that officials of the Penn
sylvania Coal Company have been OBJ
tanning graft money from miners to
whom they are alleged to have been
partial, 1000 workers Of the Penn
sylvania Coal Company and Hillsdale
Coal and Iron Company, at Wilkes
barre, Pa, are idle and will remain
so until the company abolishes the
contractor system.
Edward w. Case has just sold
through his Office the Rebecca Zepp
property, 40 East Main street, to
Martha Routson, of Union Bridge: al
so the Josephine B. Gardner prop
erty adjoining Carroll Hall, East
Main street, to Mrs Tom Ampraze.
The M L. Smith house, 1856 East Green
street, to IT, r. Matthias and Mr.. Ma
thias' farm of 18 acres, located near
the State road, at Cranberry, to Mr..
M L. Smith.
Aaron s. Watkins, Of Germantown,
Ohio, has been nominated for presi-
dent on the Prohibition ticket In place
of William Jennings Bryan, who de-
cIined the nomination by saying My
connection with other reforms would
make it impossible for me to focus
my attention upon the prohibition
question alone and besides am not
willing to sever my connection with
the Democratic party. which has SO
signa1ly honored me in years past.
Many men are now looking for
white collar jobs with big salaries
and short hours" a magazine says.
The same magazine says we should
"get ready for the financial panic
that is sure to come, sooner or later.
We should prepare for it just the
same as we make preparations for
the winter that is sure to come. :
Judging the future by the past, after
high prices and high wages brought
on by war, the change must come
soon.