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

VIEW UdSe Dan ledSue dIIer DdDe
Ruth
Mr.. Edward Yingling, janitor at the
Court House, has presented his resig-
nation to the County Commissioners.
Mrs. Martha Diggs, 40, fled suit for
a divorce from her husband, Andrew
Diggs. at New Philadelphia, Ohio, al
leging that he beat her in an argu-
ment on election day over how she
should vote.
Children hunt your weighing and
measuring card. Come to the Ar1nory
next week and see how much you have
gained and grown. If you cannot
| find your card we will give you a new
one.
The rural mail carriers will hold a
special melting this Saturday evening
November 10, promptly at p. m. in
the Davis Hall, this city. and every
carrier is requested to be present if
/ possible.
Lieut.. Henry H. Fowler, son of Mr..
Charles H. Fowler, of Winchester,
Mass, formerly of this city, who was
killed in an automobile accident, was
buried Monday in Arlington National
Cemetery, Washington.
| A barking dog saved the lives of
members of two families early Sat
urday morning when flames destroyed
the home of Joseph and David Valid
man, brothers, Cleveland, Ohio. The
loss was estimated at $4,000.
Mr.. Leeds X. Billingslea has opened
the offices on Court Street, this city,
formerly occupied by the late Mr..
Charles E. Fink, for the purpose of
handling Fire, Tornado, Automobile,
Insurance, ETC., along with his Mutual
Benefit Life Insurance business.
Those who spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs Emanuel Dull and family,
october 81, were Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Dull. Mr.. and Mrs. George Miller, Mr.
and Mrs. Milton Dull, Mr.. and Mrs
Mervin Close, Mildred, Naomi and
Emory Dull, Helen, Margaret and
Mary Miller.
The Supreme Court decides that
mail carriers are not required to take
out auto licenses. 1t was test case
that brought about the decision
through mail driver in Frederick
refusing to take out license. Mr..
Baughman took the case to the high
est court for the verdict.
CLERK of the Court e. o. Cash, was
the busiest man in this city Tuesday
from the crowd perched around the
office anxiously waiting for hunting
license. If all the individuals that Sc
cured license used gun for game
the first day we can hardly see how
why game escaped. Over 5000 hunting
licenses issued.
Calling his wife, Mrs. Atella Kost-
kan, 10 years old, from whom he had
been separated, to the room he had
been occupying on the second floor OF
2013 East Hoffman street, Baltimore,
Monday night, John Kostkan, sc years
old. locked the door and shot her to
death, after which he committed sui
eide.
Mrs. Alice Dorm, wife of Frank
Dorm, a chauffeur in the employ OF
Charles Weiland millionaire hard
ware manufacturer began suit
against Mrs. Rose Weiland, the Man
ufacturerss4 wife, for $250,O00. Mrs.
Dorm alleges that the defendant al
ienated her husbands affections
from her.
Charles Bonebrake, aged 81, Hag-
erstown, committed suicide Monday
afternoon by throwing himself in
front of a moving freight train on the
Altenwald cutoff of the Western
MARYLAND Railway. His body was
ground to pieces, and was ident1f1ed
by papers containing his name, Whlch
were found in his clothing.
Throughout the sovereign State OF
Maine there is scarcely sign OF the
coming of winter. Various theories
are advanced in explanation of this,
one of which, not without its plaus1-
biIity. is to the effect that there is
so much contraband liquor cached in
the soil that the frost is finding diff
Guilty in boring its way into the
ground.
Those who visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Dull and family, Sunday, were
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smith, Mrs.
Henry Deal and son, Dora; Mary
Steger, Mr.. and Mrs. George Miller,
Helen, Margaret and Mary Miller,
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Shaffer, Elton
and Louise Zentgraf, Mary Shafer,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Webster and
daughter, Martha.
Owing to slack business along the
entire line, the Maryland, Delaware
and Virginia Railway Company has
laid off many of its employees indefin-
itely. Every branch of the division.
from clerical forces to section labor,
has been affected by the layof. Many
of those whose services have been
dispensed with have been employed by
the railroad company for years.
Official weather forecasters can
not "get over the beauty Of this pro
longed spell of Indian Summer
tbe most ideal since 1874-and be-
lieve it will break the record OF that
Autumn of As years ago. Only ten
times during the last so years has the
Temperature gone above so degrees in
October as it has done this year. The
temperature was decidedly high in
the Eastern portion of the United
States.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Shipley were
injured last Saturday night by Two
L II FrrNTwa laTNE