The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-11-12

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j so per cent. on wholesale prices in
Chicago, Tuesday. It will take six
months to effect Baltimore. That is
according to previous reductions that
were made in the East.
Mr.. Charles E. Eckenrode and Mr..
Mapp, representatives of the Good
year Rubber Tire Co., left Monday in
Mr.. Eckenrode's auto for Akron, Ohio,
to visit the Goodyear tire plant. They
will be gone two weeks.
Three hundred and twenty men
were killed in the mining industry in
West Virginia during the year ending
June 80, last, according to the annual
report of the State Department of
Mines, made public here today.
| At Mt. Airy district election day a
woman voter remained in booth
while IS votes were cast, when she
stuck her head from under the curtain
and exclaimed, How much time have
II" Was she lucky twas not wash
day
Applications for membership in the
League of Nations will be made at the
meeting of the Assembly of the
League in Geneva this month on be-
half not only OF Germany, but of
Austria, according to information at
Paris. Bulgaria, it is learned, will
make direct application.
A marriage license was issued in
Baltimore Tuesday to Harry A. Har-
man, New Windsor and Miss Effie E.
Kreg1o. this city. Mrs. Hartman is a
daughter of Mrs. Thomas Kreglo, East
Main street and sister of Mrs. Ray
mond Myers, this city.
Fire, believed to be of incendiary
origin destroyed nearbeer emporium
just below the Imperial Hotel at the
station at Pen Mar about 8 O'Clock
last Tuesday night, November 2. A,
negro had been seen lettering about
the building for several days.
James M. Miles, former vice-presi-
dent of the Standard Trust and Saw
ings Bank, Chicago, was sentenced
to from one to 10 years in the peni-
tertiary when he pleaded guilty to alb
scoHding with approximately 100000
of the banks funds.
The printing paper question is one
that affects the nation as rs percent.
of the people read newspapers and
magazines. This important product
has jumped in price since 1918
years ago-from &c. per pound at 18c.,
the latest named price.
Because the Japanese are not too
friendly to the American people we
have noticed that California is thick
r. he nvrsn fo1
The Japanese population of California
is $4,000, and they are increasing at
the rate Of 4,108 per year. They own
and operate 74,769 acres of land.
From Boston comes this message:
thousands of automobiles go on
pleasure trips on Sundays, forgetting
church and Sunday School, and as a
result, churches are only half-filled.
It must not only be discouraging to-
the minister, but to the regular church
member when he sees so many of his
fellow men absent from their ac-
customed places, being sure they are
somewhere on pleasure bent.
On last Friday night, of last week,
Miss Mora Haines, teacher of Marston
school and the scholars gave a little
Halloween entertainment, which was
much enjoyed by those present. The
school room was decorated with
autumn leaves and pumpkins. At the
close of the entertainment Miss
Haines surprised the scholars by a
fine Victrola which she bought out of
the proceeds of the festival last
spring and by what the county allow
ed her.
We notice that Pennsylvania school
officials are seeing that some of the
country school houses do not have
sufficient light, and are adding more
windows to the buildings. 1t is, sur
prising to notice how many boys and
girls wear glasses. Twenty-Five years
ago, "spectacles," as they were then
called were only thought to be worn
by the aged people. And we have
noticed that those who have light
colored eyes are the most numerous of
the thousands who wear glasses.
Those who spent Sunday with Mr..
William Snyder and family, near
Union Mills, were Mr.. and Mrs. Chris
topher Tanner, Mr.. and Mrs. Leon
Tanner and sons, Leon, Ellsworth and
Eugene, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert I'M
hoff, of Mt. Washington; Mr.. and Mrs.
Ephriam Cover and family, of Pixies
Vile; Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus Myers,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Snyder, of Sill
yer Run; Miss Catharine Tanner, OF
Baltimore; Miss Beulah Tanner and
Miss Noami Van Trump, of Mt. Wash
ington. Mr.. Day, of Baltimore and Mr..
Ellsworth Tanner, of Mt. Washington.
Chauffers, and there are thousands
of them, do not seem to care for
sSafety First when running over
chickens; neither do they seem to
care if articles of value drop from the
machine. A man who lived on the
public road for number of years,
but who is now a resident of large
town, told us recently that he found
caps, blankets, and other things Of
value, everything but money and
shees." He claims that people who
lose such things do not seem to worry
the least and do not try to locate
them.
There may sometimes be reasons
for neglecting the Safety First"
motto. A truck driver who has cross