The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-01-09

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is his auto license number 44,444.
They are winners.
Mrs. Eugene Kennedy and son, of
Baltimore, spent from Thursday until
Monday with her sister, Mrs. Eugene
Mccartney, Liberty street.
The annual banquet and election Of
officers of the Westminster Fire Com
.pany will be held January 81 at p.
m in the Firenen's building.
San Francisco is the place and Mon
day, June %, at noon, is the time for
the Democratic National Convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Bahr and
daughter Loretta, Baltimore Misses
Ruth and Mamie Zepp were guests
Sunday at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
,I0hn T. Albaugh and family.
Mr. Charles J. Diffendal, Bond street,
loft Yesterday for Detroit, Mich, with
two Young men from Taneytown. They
have secured employment with the
Continental Motor Company.
Two trucks from Baltimore stopped
at this office yesterday and asked to
he directed to McGinnis Distillery,
CarrolIton. They came to truck two
loads of whiskey to Baltimore.
The Maryland Legislature opened
Tuesday for a three months session.
senator Snader and Delegates Klee,
Gorsuch, Leatherwood and Spencer
were on time and are ready for work.
Mr.. Bernard Nusbaum, tonsoralist
in Engleman's barbershop, East Main
street, has discontinued the business
and has left for Baltimore. Mr.. Jonn
Everhart has succeeded Mr.. NuSbaum.
Police are searching Baltimore for
a negro accused by Morris Harbaugh,
PROPRIETOR of the Central Hotel, Way
nesboro Pa, of swindling him out of
$4,000 in a fake whiskey purchase. An
other sucker.
Mr.. Joseph Little, the accommodate
ing and pleasant looking baggage
master, has returned from we'll earn
ed and pleasant trip to Richmond, Va.
He liked the city and the hospitality
of the people.
Thursday evening, January Is, be-
ginning at 7.30 o'clock at the residence
of Mrs. D. F.. Shipley, the Womah,s
Civic League viii hold its last meet
ing for the year. Annual reports will
be read and officers elected for the
new year.
Robert Biggs, Democrat, was elect
ed to the State Senate by the voters
of the Second Legislative district or
Baltimore city. He won by a MAORI
ty of 2,913 over his Republican oppon-
ent, George W. Cameron, in a special
election made necessary by the death
of Senator Peter ]. Campbell.
The car record Office Of the Western
Maryland Railway Company, employ
ing between 35 and 40 clerks, in
charge of e. r. Rouzer, was moved
from Baltimore to Hagerstown. Ten
or IL Of the employees went from Bal
timore, the remainder being recruited
in Hagerstown. -
" Mr.. Charles G. Gorsuch, Of this city,
was in New York this week on bust
ness. Mr.. Gorsuch has been a mem
Der of the New York Produce Ex-
change for many years and since: his
from business in this city,
has given more attention to his bust
ness on the New York Exchange.
More than 200 chickens were killed
Tuesday night when the big chicken
house on the farm OF Mrs. Virginia
HOODS, near COOhSVllIS, I1OWdIu SOuA-
ty, was burned to the ground by fire
of mysterious origin. Mrs. Hobbs did
not raise the chickens for market, but
was one Of the largest egg shippers
in the county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Bowman en-
tertained at their home on New Years
day to turkey dinner the following
guests: Rev. and Mrs. Wolf and chill
dren, Ruth and John, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilmington Penn, all of Silver Run;
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Myers, of Pleas
ant Valley; Mr.. and Mrs. Amidee Eek
er, Of Sykesville; Miss Margaret Eek
er, of Union Mills, and Mr.. Earl Bow
man, Of Mt. Pleasant.
Joseph L. Baust, of this city, the
New Ideal Spreader dealer for Carroll
county, had the pleasure Of accom-
ipanying the manager, c. P. Hench, of
the Harrisburg division of the New
Ideal Spreader Company, to the home
office and manufacturing plant of the
j New Ideal and Nisco Spreader, Cold
water, Ohio, last week with the object
of learning more about the working
and management of a plant which
! turns out finished spreader every ten