The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-05-14

Mrs. Thomas Rowe, East Main
street, has returned from a visit to
her daughter, Mrs. J Norman Folk,
Williston, S. G.
Tile police headquarters at Shik-
oku, Japan, are planning to employ
woman constables. The chief work
will be the caring for stray children
and the taking OF the census.
Maxwell car belonging to Law
renee Long, of Mt. Airy, burned up
Monday, of last week between Ridge
caused by back firing. The loss will be
between $500 and $780,
Roy Brandenburg, of Marriotts-
vile, is recovering at the Maryland
University Hospital, Baltimore, where
he was taken when an automobile
ran into the motorcycle in which he
and a friend were riding, breaking
his leg.
Reports from Toxic say the Japan
marriage bureau has been organized
there to act as agent in matrimonial
contracts. Shares placed on the mar
ket have been almost entirely sub
scribed by many prominent officials
as we'll as school girls.
James Richard Paradise, farmer, of
London, was fined SIPS for neglect
ing to thresh six wheat ricks when
ordered to do so, and for not taking
all reasonable steps to destroy rats.
The prosecution was the first of it's
kind undertaken by the official rats
officer.
Think of it, is years ago, butter
was selling at rs cents per pound;
eggs, at 16 cents per dozen; buck
shad at 25 cents each; roe shad at %
and rs cents each; herring at 10
cents per dozen; live chickens soc.
a pair and dressed chickens at so
cents each.
William H. Anderson, State Super
intendent of the Anti-Saloon League
of New York, intimated in a state
ment that he might become a candi-
date for United States Senator in
New York this fall against Senator
James W. Wadsworth, Jr., on the pro-
issue
What is believed to be a Kansas
record for an incubator hatch was es-
tablished by Mrs. G. H. Owens, wife
of farmer near Belleville, Kan,
few days ago. The egg capacity of
the wooden hen" is lao. When Mrs
Owens counted the brood it numbered
1873 lively chicks.
Giving as his reason, inadequacy of
compensation, w. Frank Gather has
declined to qualify as police justice
for Montgomery county. Since pro-
hibition became effective, the office
has paid less than $50 month incIud-
ing fees and an allowance by the
county commissioners of $25 a
month.
James Hetzer shot and killed Mrs.
Kate Rowe Saturday night, at her
home at Snyder's Landing, near
He then fired bullet
into his own head. He died Sunday.
He was SO years old and is said to
have been infatuated with Mrs. Rowe,
who was "a. She was the wife of Will
lam Rowe.
every family of the United States
is paying profiteering tax of $240
year as result of the excess profits
made by the combined corporations. Of
the country during the war, Jet
Lauck, consulting economist and for
mer secretary of the war, Labor
Board, declared today before the Fed
eral Railroad Labor Board
Frank Carter, % years old, New
York, who took the juvenile lead in
Henry w Sayage's musical comedy.
See Saw was instantly killed
when he ran his new automobile into
a bank on the National pike, two
miles west of Grantsville; several
others were injured. The machine
was running at a high rate of speed.
J. H. Blount, Forrest City negro,
will make an active campaign for
election as Governor of Arkansas
and his name will appear on the
ballots as an Independent Republi-
can, a committee elected at the re-
cent negro Republican State Con-
vention and designating itself the
Republican State Central Committee
Of Arkansas
The Municipal Election held at
New Windsor May 8, resulted in the
of the following: Burgess,
John W. Myers; Commissioners,
Nicodemus, Granville Bullock,
Issac Smith, Charles T. Repp and
Nimrod T. Bennett. J. Walter Getty
whose name was on the ticket, pre-
sumably without his consent, with
drew before the election.
J. Harvey Halter, a well-known
farmer of near Silver Run, met with
a serious and painful accident, April
%. While assisting some workmen to
saw wood with a circular saw and
while in the act throwing a piece of
wood aside, it struck the revolving
saw hitting Mr. Halter in the face
fracturing his nose and the bones of
the face and seriously injured his
right eve.
The committee having in charge the
securing of a speaker for the Memoir
ial Day Hanover, Pa, exercises an
that they have secured the
services of Guy W. Steele, Esq, of
Westminster Md. Mr.. Steele is a prom-
inent attorney and a member of the
Bar. He enjoys the dis
tinction of being an orator of ability,