The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-09-17
Hanoxer Fair viii be held next Week.

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Hanover Fair will be held next week
Miss Leila Myers, Of Westminster
spent a few days at Uniontown.
Mr.. Lawrence Hull, this city, left
Monday for Gettysburg College
NJ. Tawney, Myers district, sold a
Is acre farm to John Shaffer, Union
Township. Adams County.
Miss Cleo II. Pittinger, Union Bridge,
left for Steubenville, Ohio, where she
has position as teacher in La Belle
View school
Mrs. Elmer Frock, Of near West
minister, spent last week with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Neuton Eckard,
at Uniontown,
Earle Knott, Of Indian Head, has
been awarded scholarship to Western
Maryland College by Charles County
Board Of Education.
Mr.. Guy w. Steele, trustee, sold the
Daniel Caple farm, containing 40 acres
SITUATED near SandyVille, Thursday of
last week to Harvey Caple for $4,000.
The congregation of the Salem
Lutheran charge will hold social and
chicken supper Saturday, September
IS, at the parsonage, Pennsylvania
Avenue.
Two hundred employees of the Her
bert Hosiery Mills at Conshohocken
Pa have agreed to accept a 10 per
cent reduction in wages so that the
mill will not close.
Norman G. Warehime and Bertha
P. Brown. both of this county, were
married at the parsonage at Krider's
Reformed Church by Rev. j. w.
Reinecke September 8.
Four aeroplanes flew from Nine
ola. N. Y, to Nome, Alaska; In 55 hours
We do not know the distance but it
should satisfy the greatest thirst for
travelling and adventure.
Mr. and Mrs. Neuton Eckard enter
tanned on last Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. F.
P. Derr, of Baltimore, Mrs. Emma
Burns, of Westminster, and Mrs.
Maggie Myerly, of Frizzellburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Sachs and family,
Of baltimore, made pleasure trip to
this city in his Hudson speedster. Mr..
Sachs is in the nsed ear business and
will be glad to see all of his friends
when in the city.
Cyrus Palmer, Chicago, professor
at University of ILLINOIS, is suing his
wife for a divorce on the grounds that
she met a butcher in his refrigerator
three times week Pretty cool place
for pleasure call
9 Leidy's hearse had an excellent Sat
urday in dead animals. He made as
many as three trips. in the morning.
In hauling his, corpse speed matters
but little, from the way they are hauled
to the ORIGINATING pot.
In a suit to get back $1.2O, the orig
inal cost of a pot of homemade pud-
ding, F. Lorraine Simpson, merchant
Of Liberty, lost his case in Frederick
Court and incurred the additional ex-
pense Of SAL. 90 in costs.
Red Cross figures show that $4,000,
600 children lost either one parent or
both parents in the World War Rus
STA stands first with 4,00OOOe child
rem; Germany is next with 100000, |
and France has 100000.
Frank Coleman. motorcycle rider,
was seyerly injured September 10 on
the Union Bridge and Uniontown road,
near the latter place, when his motor
cycle crashed into an automobile. His
leet leg was broken in several places
We are. soon to have new. fifty
cent piece, representing the landing
Of the .MayfloWer'' ship in 1920, with
101 souls on board--the beginning of
colonizing America. Governor Brad |
ford ia Pilgrim) will be en- one side
and picture Of the "Mayflower" on
the other side of the coin.
z persons were killed when an auto-sl
mobile fell over an embankment near
N. Y, Sunday In the car
were DR.. George IL. Mcclure and his
family. The only survivor of the party
Of eight was the physicians IL year
old son Francis, who was taken to a i
hospital suffering internal injuries.
In Louisville, Kentucky, and, per-
haps. in other cities, the officials have
put up ign-boards In different parts |
Of the city, an exact imitation of /
tombstone, with the following inscrip-
ton. A fatal accident occurred. here
last year" They claim it sets people |
10 thinking. and avoids many acct
ients.
One of the finest tributes ever paid
10 the labor record of Governor Cox
was that of a. PennsylYania miner /
who in strike escaped across the
State line into Ohio and said: Penn
sylvania is Siberia; Ohio is America"
The Governor of Ohio, then as now,
was James NJ Cox, who settled all
Ohio strikes without calling out SOL
der or firing a hot.
On account of the difficulty Of hear
ing the fire bell when an alarm is |
sounded for fire, the Mayor and Com I
mon Council have ordered the Fire
Company to purchase. fire sreene and
placed on the building for the pur-
pose of giving fire alarms instead of
The bell. The serene can be heard for
three miles and is operated by an cleo
Iric motor