The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-12-17

i Surveyor of the Port Guy w. Steele
made a business trip to Washington
i Tuesday.
Edward Byers, at Dennings, who
was operated upon has returned home
much improved.
Hog cholera has been found on the
/ farms of Vernon Smith, near Pleasant
/ Valley, and Wesley Bond, Asbestos.
Mt. Zion Methodist Protestant
church will hold their Christmas en-
tertainment OH December 80, at Z D. m.
Mr. Artie Boisvert, of Geneva, N. Y,
! is spending some time with his broth
Ter, Mr.. T. Fred Boisyert, near Carroll
ton.
The textile mills n New England
and New York State have cut tie
wages of 100000 employees 221k per
cent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Upton Gladhill, West
Main street, have returned from a
visit to their daughter, Mrs. Lewis
NJ Rolkey, near Urbana
Miss Emma Slagle, of Baltimore, is
! a guest of her sister, Mrs. Noah
Schaeffer, East Green street. Mr..
Slagle visited Mrs. Schaeffer Sunday
Mr. Harry Foltz, of Hagerstown,
who has been confined to his home for
| the past two months by illness, has
returned to his position at McGinnis
DistilIery.
Five shares of the Union Bridge
Banking & Trust Company was
bought from Mrs. Florence E. Stoner,
executrix, by George NORMAN, for
$261 per share.
District Deputy Michael. E. Walsh
and Grand knight N H Baumgardner
OF the local knights of Columbus were
present at installation of officers of
the order at Emmitsburg.
One of the newest advertisements
reads, New Stomachs for old in As
hours IF you send $3.50 in a safe way
the firm will send in sealed letter
what they think will do the work.
The pupils of Testers school will
hold an entertainment and social, on
Thursday evening, December %. If
the weather is inclement the follow
ing Friday evening, December "a.
A project to bring coal from the an
thracite regions in Pennsylvania into
New York through two fourteen-inch
pipes, by water pressure, was given
consideration by the city docks and
health commissioners.
Richard Evans, of Cabin John, Mont
gomery county, former supervisor of
roads for Bethesda, Potomac, Rock
vile districts, who was recently found
guilty of defrauding the county out of
$S4, was sentenced to one year in jail.
The MechanicsvilIe public school,
No 6, of MechanicsvilIe, this county,
will hold a Christmas entertainment
in the Jr o. U. A. M. Hall, December
%, at 100 p. m. The proceeds are ior
the benefit of the school. An admission
will 3e charged.
Charles c. Crawford, of Gathers
burg, is reported to be critically i'll in
Jacksonville, Fla. While en- route by
boat to Florida a few days ago he is
understood to have suffered a stroke
of paralysis. After he reached Jack
sonVille, it is said, pneumonia deFel-7
oped. ~ -.
Trinity Lutheran church, Deer Park
Road.-W. L. Seabrook, pastor. Sun
day, December 10, election of officers
Sunday, December 26, at 2 p. m,
Christmas service, with address by
Rev. Ripley, pastor of Grace Lutheran
Church. Sunday, January 9th. the
Holy Communion.
Much is printed in newspapers and
magazines about the power of the
ballot in the hands of the women. 1t
is already intimated that four years
hence there will be a woman candidate
for president, and the masculine sex
will be compelled to vote as their
wives and sweethearts dictate.
The life Of Olive Thomas, the mo-
ton picture star who died at Paris in
September as the result of self-ad-
ministered mercurial poison, was in
sured for $4,000. The insurance has
been paid in full to the Selznick Pic
lures Corporation, the concern which
took out the policies on it's star
DIR. Wilbur f. Crafts, founder of the
International Reform Bureau, an
nounced that within the next three
years, he is going to spend $1,000,000,
in safeguarding Prohibition, extend
ing the blue laws and amending the
Federal Constitution so that the Unit
ed States will be designated as a
christian Nation"
Word has been received that Robert
L. Cookson, had dropped dead at his
home in Montana. Mr.. Cookson was
well-known by most of our people,
having resided in this county up to
about fifteen years ago, when he re-
moved with his family to Montana He
leaves a widow who was Miss Kate
Roop, also three sons and three
daughters.
A fall from a tree on December 8
proved fatal to Ashby F. Sutherland,
81, of Kent, O., Friday Sutherland
was employed by the Daisy Tree Elk
pert Company, of Kent, o., and met
with the accident while at work near
Reisterstown. He was taken to the
Maryland General Hospital, where lie
found to -bouo Of int