The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-12-15

4 Mr.. Andrew Fresh. of Big Pool. was
in this city this week, connecting bust
ness with pleasure.
Mr.. Frank w Weant. of Baltimore
received another stroke of paralysis
and is dangerously i'll.
Mr. Samuel Engleman, East Main
street, has moved into his new resi-
dence on Willis street.
Snow to a depth of an inch fell
Sunday morning, but disappeared
when the sun came out, but during
the night We were visited by colo
wave, which was keenly felt by our
citizens.
There will be a Spider Web social al
Wisner's School House on Thursday
evening, December y. Ii the weather
we unfavorable come the next fair
evening. A short program will be
given promptly at 7.3O p. III. Refresh
ments on sale. Everybody welcome.
Mrs. Jerusian KeXel, of Baltimore
died at the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. &. H. Trout, in Baltimore, on
December Z. Funeral services were
held Saturday at IL a. m. The body
was brought to Manchester Sunday
and inferred in Manchester cemetery.
Chenoweth Jock, the grand cham
! pion steer at the International Live
stock Exposition, was auctiOned for
$1.25 a pound for Christmas beef. The
animal, which weighed 1000 pounds.
and which won the honors for its own
ers was sold to one of the largest
packers as agents for Chicago hotel.
! Richard Johnson was shot to dealt
/. Robert and Garland Johnson were
Wounded. probably fatally, and two
Iasmbers of the Roger family an
fouh other members of the Johnson
family are in Jail at Hickman, KY. as
result of pistol fight between the
Roger and Johnson families on Is
land EighA
j Commissioner Baughman sent Il
this city Saturday six of his motor
cycle officers to- warn auto owners OF
the violations of their lights by using
unregulation lens, While here they
gathered in % violators who were
given hearing before Justice Hut
chins who imposed fines from 81 to
$40 according to presentment. The
charges were one light out no tail
light, no operator cards, etc.
Twenty thousand French soldiers
who died in Germany as prisoners o!
war are to he buried in great Gene
terry at SarrelbouIg, near the frontier,
according TO an arrangement cOnclud-
h,, NTinictaF. nf War with the
municipality. SarrelbOurg requested
the honor of providing last resting
Mace "fOr those unhappy heroes
whose lives were sacrificed in captlV-
ity." The cemetery will be Laid out
next spring.
The plea of Douglas Fairbanks to
restrain Hyman Wink and others
from reVamDing films in which FAIR
banks appeared several years ago was
denied by Supreme Court Justice
Wagner. at New York, Saturday. The
Court held that Fairbanks was but
an employee of the company that
made the films, and that the produc-
ers had right to make changes IN
commodity they had hired him to
help produce.
An announcement by the State De-
oartment says that Mrs. Marguerite
E. Harrison, Baltimore newspaper
woman and relative of the late Cover
nod Edwin Warfeld, is again pris-
oner of the Russian Bolsheviki. The
charge on which She has been arrest
ed has not been disclosed. Some time
ago Mrs. Harrison was held prison
err by the SOVIET government and was
released only after strong representa-
tions had been made by the United
States government.
MollevilIe Farm Post No. $50, Vet
erns of Foreign Wars, elected the
following officers for the ensuing
year: Commander, Jesse d. Myers;
Senior Vice-Commander, Howard
Coppersmith; Junior Eice-Command-
err! Percy Grouse Adjutant, Carroll l..
Crawford; Quarter-master, Clarence
Lockard: Chaplain, John n. Weigle;
Officer of the Day, Joseph Scott Fears,
Inside Sentinel, William Sebour; Out
side Sentinel, l.. A. Baker; Trustees.
Sterling Schaeffer. Joseph Scott
Fears and Paul Wimert.
Prohibition claimed two more vic
tins at Scranton. Pa, when Paul
Wisneski. As, hotelman of Dickson
CITY. and Joseph SZczpneski. 53. VINO
lived with the hotelman. died 10 MIN
utes after they are alleged to have
drunk a sample of whisky being Of
Tered for sale by an unknown boot
logger and dropped dead. The authori-
ties are bending every effort possible
to locate the dispenser of the poison
GUS liquor. County detectives, nrohl-
bition officers and borough ponce
have set out a dragnet in an effort To
locate the alleged boOtleggers.
The St. Augustine, Florida, Evening
Record of Monday, November q, 1922
announces the sudden death OF Mr.. ID.
II. Sprecher. He fell just as he was
alighting from the elevator in his no
tel. at Jacksonville, on the Saturday
evening before Mr.. Sprecher was
brother of DR.. D. =. Sprecher' OF Sy-
kesville. He was born at Jenersoh,
Frederick county, 60 years ago an
moved to Florida in 1856. The funeral
services were held in st. Augustine
at the home of his only sister. Mrs.