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

A runaway street car in. Kansas
City, Mo-. overturned killing eight
passengers Saturday.
Centenary Methodist Episcopal
church 9.45 a. m. Sunday scnool; IL
a m. Rev. William j. Thompson; 100
p. m. Evening worship
Mr.. C. B. Stoner. of Hanover, Pa,
visited his daughter, Mrs. E. o. Diffen-
day, Bond street, Sunday.
Mr.. Andrew Fresch, of Union Bridge
1 is guest of his daughter, Mrs. Laura
A. Fresch Harr, Big Pool, Md.
4 Common foods have dropped as
much assS0 per cent. in prices as COM
pared with year ago at Chicago.
| A marriage license was ISSUED at
Ellicott City to Howard Williams and
Mildred France, both of Watersyille.
The elevator and mill at Sykesville
! that were destroyed by lire December
will be rebuilt at once, and much
larger.
Twelve pallbearers were required
to carry the body of Joseph H. Kre-
beck, at Sacramento, Cal. He weighed
$40 pounds.
Six carloads of peanuts were dump
ed in wrecks on the Pennsylvania
Railroad in the vicinity OF perryville
last week.
Kyriakos Angeles, 10 years old, a
professional second story worker, has
been caught and sent to the Juvenile
Home, New York.
Isaac l.. Gilbert, Union Bridge. who
was paralyzed g few days ago while on
his way to work at the Cement Plant,
does not appear to improve.
Mount st. Mary's defeated Blue
Ridge College by the score of 33 to II
at Emmitsburg Saturday. The Blue
Ridge boys were outclassed.
ItaIian-American bicycle team won
the 10Th international six-day bicycle
race at Madison Square Garden, New
York, which ended Saturday night.
Fire in the chimney in the residence
occupied by Miss Emma Lippy, Penn
sylvania avenue, caused an alarm of
fire Monday morning. No danger re-
suited.
Operation of the United States post
al service for the fiscal year 1920 re-
suited in a deficit of 1920, 482-the
second largest in the history of the
service.
Harmony Grove Church of Gist will
hold a Christmas entertainment on De-
cember %, at O'clock. If the weather
is unfavorable the next clear night.
All welcome.
The Smallwood Changers will hold
it's Eleventh annual election of officers
on Tuesday, December 21st, at 1 p. m.
If weather unfavorable the following
Thursday at / p. m.
Some people send off hundreds Of
miles to buy articles at mail order
houses, and then they are mad because
the local store does not carry missing
parts when the thing breaks down.
Thanks to Mitchell & Crawford,
proprietors of Westminster Realty and
Insurance Company, for an excellent
calender. A handsome photograph
1.-THE Misty Cliffs of Vennachar," sets
off the calendar at the top.
Charged with illicit selling of liquor,
former Deputy Court Clerk Worth
ington w. McCauley, Hagerstown, once
weIl-known school teacher, was ar
rested, pleaded guilty and was fined
$500 and costs.
Miss Hildegarde Porter, daughter of
Professor Porter, of Harvard Uni
versity Medical School, is to wed
Charles Pickering Heffenger, son of
Dr. Arthur C. Heffenger, U. S. N, and
Mrs Heffenger, of Portsmouth. N. H,
on December 81. DR.. and Mrs. Heffen-
ger were formerly of Sykesville.
Harry Wohl, New York, purchased
a Is cent piece of sausage in which
he found one-quarter carat diamond.
Right in this city party bought
pan of scrapple and he found lump
of lead as large as his front finger.
would rather have diamond hunk in
stead of a lead mine next time.
The Farmers Supply Company, of
New Windsor, which was being organ
lied had some disagreement and met
on Monday night, it was said, to re-
organize, but after discussing the I'M
settled condition of all business en-
terprises it was thought best to post
pone the OF organization till later date.
Mrs. Jennie Ferris, Wilmington,
Del, convicted of demonstrating,
asked for a long sentence today so
that her whiskers might grow out and
she could resume her former trade,
that of bearded lady in circus, and
support herself and child. The Judge
gave her a year Her husband had
lost her savings in oil stock.
Trapped in burning automobile
when a garage employe used a lighted
lantern to ascertain the amount of
gasoline in the tank, George Gise, Of
Abbottstown, saved himself from Sc
we're burns by breaking hole through
the top of the machine and crawling
out to safety. He was uninjured.
In January, 1915, the Board of Coun
ty Commissioners of Carroll County
passed a resolution exempting from