The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-04-02
T. 0. DIFFENDAL, Manager.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 2, 1920
BRIEFS.

Coal is about to take on another
advance.
Sweet corn growers of Frederick
county want $3.50 per ton.
Baltimore Sunday papers will be
increased from cents to cents each
hereafter.
Hog cholera has been discovered
among the swine of Geo. w. DeVries
Sykesville.
Mr.. Oliver Utermahlen, of Balti-
more, spent Sunday with relatives al
Pleasant Valley.
DIR. Royal L. Hobbs, Reisterstown
died Sunday morning. He was rs years
old.
Mrs. ]. L. Reifsnider, ST., Terrace
Hill, is the guest of Major and Mrs. r
B. Creecy, Philadelphia, Pa.
William Renner, of Taneytown, has
bought the stock and fixtures of the
store of A. S. Harner, Kingsdale.
Mr.. Geo. e. Benson, this city, has
resigned his position with the Her.
man Born C sons, Liberty street.
A bill was introduced in the Senate
by Senator Snader to correct errors
in spelling of the name Of Hampstead
Miss Mary Whitmore, College Hill il
spending her Easter vacation with
friends in New York and Newark, Del
Mrs w. Riley Myers, Center street
has moved to her residence on Easi
Main street, that she purchased from
Mr.. Ray Taylor.
DR.. George E. Baughman, Eas
Main street, is spending the Easter
holidays at Ocean City, Md. He viii
return Tuesday.
Mr.. Charles E Lantz, East MAR
street, is enjoying a trip visiting
friends at st. Michaels.
at st. Michales.
A marriage license was issued il
Baltimore. yesterday, to Claude S
Miller, Silver Run, and Margaret H
Crawford, Baltimore.
A bill was introduced into thu
House to prohibit the sale of water
soaked poultry. So we are buying
water soaked into chicken flesh.
Mr.. James H. Steele, attorney, ant
t.
grapher, have opened an office in the
rooms occupied by the late Charles
E. Fink.
Cleanliness is noted by a few people
but filth is seen by everybody. Let's
all get busy and clean up this town
A little by each one means much il
the aggregate.
I,o Oh NJ or
to build on the site where the mil
elevator and straw shed of N. 1. Cor,
such Son Co. stood, a block Of storage
warehouses.
John Kelley, Atlanta, Ca, is being
sued by Mrs Catherine Bristol, Phila
delphia, for $150,000 for giving hel
wood alcohol to drink, which caused
her to become blind.
The Frederick County Commission
ers are to lose the appointment of the
superintendent to Montevue Hospital
Hereafter the superintendent will bt
elected for terra of four years.
The remains of Jacob H. Markley
aged SO years, inferred in Mt. Olive
cemetery, Baltimore, February 5, were
removed Sunday to the family lot il
Prospect cemetery, Mt. Airy.
The new gas plant for the Consoli
dated Public Utilities Company has
arrived and has been stored at thu
gashouse until it's erection, which
will be in the near future.
Mr.. Leese, foreman of the w. H
Davis Co. automobile garage, JOIN
street has moved to Frederick wher,
he has taken up a similar position
in the Grove Automobile Garage.
st. Johns Lutheran Missionar,
Society will hold its regular MONTH.
meeting at the home of Mrs. Stewar
Leister Saturday, April, 10. Ever.
member and friend is invited to b.
present.
United States Senator John Waite
Smith, filed his papers with the Sec
rotary of State at Annapolis as can
didate for denomination in the Dem
ocratie primary, to be held on Monday
May g.
At a joint meeting of the Count.
Commissioners of Carroll and Freder
lex. counties, is was agreed to adver
tise for bids for the building of tn
bridge over Double Pipe Creek, a
Detour.
Mrs. William Mailman, Of FTizell
burg, has returned from the hospita
and is at her home in very serious
condition Her shoulder is dislocatet
and fractured and she is also suffer
ing from a nervous shock.
Income and excess profits taxe
brought $90S,S29, 172.13 into tn
Treasury between January l AM
March 20, 1920, the Treasury an
nounces. These payments include tn
first installment of 1919 taxes.
According to reports brought to tn,
border an entire Mexican farm settle
ment near Santa Barbara, Chihuahua
was wiped out Sunday, March IA, wheI
Francisco Villa and his follower
massacred more than so men, womeI
and children and burned their homes