The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1921-07-01
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY /, 1921
Y BRIEFS
DON'T FORGET THE FIREMEN's
CELEBRATION HERE NEXT WEEK.

DVN y EVtNUEI lHE fihEMENFN
CELEBRATION HERE NEXT WEEK.
Tomorrow is a legal holiday. Banks
and Court House Will be closed
The Advocate will be closed on July
4, so will the banks, Court House and
stores.
Automobiles have caused the death
of S6 persons in Maryland since Janu-
airy 1.
Mrs. Elmer Roger and two daugh-
tiers. Of Baltimore, we're visiting Mr.
John Roger, Park avenue.
Joseph l.. Matthias left Friday on a
business trip to Proctor and Barry
Vermont. He also expects to visit
Canada.
Gompers was elected to head the
American Federation of Labor az
meeting Of the Unions at Denver Col,
Saturday
The stork presented nine pound
bowler to Mr.. and Mrs, John Beard.
East Main street early Tuesday
morning.
Miss Madeline Weller of Baltimore,
spent the weeks end with her tpar-
'ents. Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Weller, Car
roll street.
Mrs. Francis Miller, OF Virginia is
spending some time with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Shaeffer, Penn
sylVania avenue.
A number OF members OF Company
H. who spent a week at Camp Richie.
returned Saturday evening. They had
on their full marching equipment
The marriage OF Mary Plckford and
Douglas Fairbanks was not annulled
by the Mnden, New, court last week
Both are happy over the decision.
Mrs. Ralph seilmah. Of Watersville.
acted as matron OF honor at the Ow-
ings-Pearce wedding at Towson cal
vary Church June 81 She is sister
Of the groom.
Claude Loyer. OF near Porters, was
removed to the York hospital on sat
urday suffering with a crushed head
sustaited at the coal chutes of the
Western Maryland railroad, at Valley
Junction.
The serious drought which has pre-
vailed in Carroll county for several
weeks was broken Sunday morning
with a good down pour OF rain. last
ing for half an hour or more. We have
had showers each day since.
Lena Frank, 30. Of Philadelphia.
confined TO the insane department oi
the Philadelphia Hospital, built FIRE
on the floor of her room and stood In
the flames. When the door was broken
down she was so badly burned she
died in a short time.
Cows in the Franklin PaD County
Cow Testing Association produced
1.404 100 pounds OF milk du1ng the
official year 1904 and - $50 pounds
Of butter fat, according to the report
OF he years work submitted 10 Farm
Agent Knode of Official Tester Rice.
Cows tested during the year number
2S1.
Lieut.. John +. Bay and Private Eu-
gene H. Norton were mustered into
the air service unit of the Marylgnd
National Guard Monday at Logan
Field, Dundalk. An hour and half
later both men lay unconscious,
crushed and battered amid the twisted
wreckage Of the airplane in which
they had essayed their first fight az
suardsmen
George ogle, operator at Union
Bridge, has asked the w. NJ. X. H. Co,
for leave OF absence for an indefinite
time on account of his health. He eX
poets this to be granted about July ],
when he will IN all probability go to
a hospital for treatment. Had he con
: tinued until next April he would have
rounded out a period Of 80 years rail-
road work, 81 OF which were for the
W. NJ. Ry.
Lawrence Kubal, confess9d murder
er of Mrs. George W. Bartlett at her
isolated home In Hampstead l., J.,
on the heels Of his verbal confession
Friday night after his arrest came d
written confession without detail
spared. Then he led detectives into
the lonely woods near the Bartlett
home. and there pointed out where he
had flung away the weapon he used
and the useless loot
DON'T FORGET THE FIREMEN'S
CELEBRATION HERE NEXT WEEK.
The remains Of Rev. John G. Moss,
who died at New Holland, Pa, June
10, aged SO years, were inferred be-
side those OF his wife, Mrs. Belle
Moss and two OF his daughters, Misses
Mary and Pauline Moss, in the new
cemetery at Silver Run. He is sur
vived by three children: Rev. Dr.
christopher Moss, Reformed Mis-
sionary in Japan; Rev. Charles l.
Moss, Manor, Pa, and Mrs. Emma
Bnrkholder, New Holland, Pa,
When Western Maryland excur-
sion train carrying several hundred
Baltimore negroes on the return trip
from Gettysburg to Baltimore reached.
Hanover at o'clock Monday evening
Tuna On a riOf was in f1roprpgs in one