The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-08-20

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On August 18th, at the Methodist
Protestant parsonage, Robert Milton
Kellenberger and Miss Blanche Marie
ed in marriage by the Rev. e. H. Van
Dyke, this city.
Arthur Jackson, As years old
stepped into a Chicago shoe store
Saturday and asked the price of pair
of shoes on display in the window
"$14.50 without the war tax replied
the clerk, affably. Jackson dropped
dead.
Examinations were given this week
at Westminster High School by
Superintendent Unger to a number
of persons who wished to become
teachers in the school of Carroll
county for the second and third
grades.
Mitchell & Crawford, have sold
through their office Winters
Quick Lunch" at Manchester, and
the Montgomery property of 20 acres.
to Mr.. and Mrs. George Weber of
Baltimore, Maryland.
Detailed statistics of the tremend-
aus increase in the cost of living from
December 1914, to June, 1920, showing
increases of from ITO to 1876 per cent
in every article of necessity, have
been made public by the bureau of la
Dor statistics of the department of
labor.
At a hearing before Justice Adam
Roser, in WOodsboro. Rex Green and
Ralph Creager, charged with setting
fire to straw rick on the farm of Mrs.
John Seeger, near New Midway, were
held in $1,000 bail for the action of the
September grand jury of Frederick
county.
Failing from the top of car of
Western Maryland fast freight No
304 in the Thurmont yards Monday
night, L. Upton Moore, Sc, a front
brakeman, Hagerstown, was run over
and crushed to death. His body,
found upon the track by the crew dur
ing a search after he was missed,
was badly mutilated.
According to figures prepared by
the Civil Service Commission, the to-
tai reduction in the number of civil
ian employees in the government serv-
ice in the District of Columbia from
November II, 1918, the date of the
signing of the armistice, to June 80,
1920, was 25,397 and of that number
the reductions in the War Department
alone was-23,465.
The Patapsco A. %. introduced the
game, known as base ball, and the
most popular sport of the day, to the
Metropolitan Life Insurance team of
Baltimore, Sunday at Hill Top Park,
Patapsco, when they defeated them by
the score of20 to 8. Next Sunday the
Rex Athletic Club of Baltimore, recon-
mended as one of the strongest clubs
of the city, will be at Patapsco. A
good game can be anticipated.
The 9th convention of the Wopan's
Christian Temperance Union of Car
roll County will meet in the Lutheran
Church, Manchester, on Thursday,
September 2, at $50 a. m. There will
be three meetings, morning, after
noon and evening. All local unions
are requested to secure new mem
bers, elect delegates and make plans
for this convention. Mrs. Mary r..
Haslup, State president of the w. G..
T. T., and other speakers, will be
present.
Among the marriage license issued
I'y the county clerk, one for ''Wm.
Gard 1er Sentz, of Harvey, and Miss
lime Martha Yingling, of Gettysburg"
The license was regularly issued, but
there will be no ceremony, as Miss
Yingling was not consulted about the
matter, and was rot party to it in
any way. David fingling, the father,
and the young lady, visited Westmin-
ster about the case, last Saturday,
and there are likely to be further de-
,elopments.
Anyone having canned goods for
sale notify Miss Everett in the County
Agents Office. We often have requests
for canned goods, preserves and jel-
les, and l should like to keep in my
office a list of those who have pro
ducts for sale as we'll as those who
wish to buy, so if you desire market
for any kind of home canned goods
Miss Everett will try to help you out
We have at present an order for $500
worth of canned goods from Washing
ton Anyone having any canned
peaches for sale notify this office.
A novel sight was witnessed last
week. About 6 o'clock a. m. on the state
road west of Manchester, pretty fur
bearing animal of the skunk species
quickly passed over. the road with six
little ones keeping close by her side
In the daily papers we saw Satur-
day last, the following in big head
lines, Threat of winter coal shortage
causes Government to act" 1t is in
deed time for the Government to "act'
not only in the coal situation, but in
many other matters. There will be
much suffering unless there is some
thing done by those in power.
The will of the late Mrs. Amelia
c. Lowman, widow OF the late Den.
mis- Lowman, Mt. Airy, has been filed
for probate in the Office of the reg
/ lister of wills of Frederick county. She
leaves the home farm to Leonard G
Lowman, son of the deceased, to Sam
uel w. LoWman another son, 800; tt