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

! Two men were arrested and finei
for; delivering bread on Sunday il
! Mr.. John Kastner, Spring Mills
slaughtered two hogs weighing 4O3 and
373,pounds.
Mr.. William A. Blum has been hon
orably discharged after two years OF
service in the navy.
The Zion Methodist Protestant
Church will hold their Christmas en-
tertainment on December 81 at 7.3O
p. m.
a marriage license was issued at
Frederick TO Columbus NJ. Wagner,
this city and Myra Hammond, Syke.
vile.
Plans have been completed to en-
terrain Col. Willard L. Tydings, OF
Havre de Grace, over his election TO
Congress at the recent general cleo
ton.
Mrs. George W. Owings and SON,
George, Jr., and Miss Hilda Blum, of
Sandyville, spent the past week in
Baltimore, visiting relatives and
friends.
William Slices, and son, Miners
vile, Pa, tplunged into Long Dam in
closed ear. They saved themselves
by jumping asthe car submerged into
deep water. ~
An interesting entertainment will
be held at Friendship School Tuesday,
December 10, at S p. na.l Proceeds for
benefit of school. A cordial welcome
is extended to all.
Twenty-six below zero was Me at
mosphere in the Western stateSNJast
Monday. In Carroll county the thai
mometer registered 10 above zetS>
Quite a difference.
The foreign embassies at Washing
ton received their Christmas whisk-
erS from their countries this week.
The Maine. 4 British steamship, ar
rived at Canton Tuesday with the
cargo. Everybody happy.
Willard r. Tydings was selected to
represent the Havre de Grace Chau-
tauqua at the lecturers conference on
public opinion and world peace, in
Washington, ID. G., last week.
Two prisoners escaped from Easton
jail Monday morning. They gained
their liberty by breaking the lock
with a poker. Six others remained in
the Jail although they were invited TO
make their getaway by the other two
Thomas, the 12-year-old son of
Postmaster VI. S. Dunn, was killed
almost instantly Tuesday, while at
tending hog butchering at Masseys.
Several boys constructed swing OIL
the hog gallowS, causing it to fall.
one of the heavy arms striking Young
Dunn.
December rains bid fair to recon-
penSe farmers for the November
drouth, according to the fOrecaster
SO far this month .75 of an inch OF
rain has fallen as compared with Al
of an inch for November. November
was PAS inches below the
average.
The business district of Astoria,
Oregon, was laid in ruins by Il fire
which broke out shortly after d. m.
Friday, and despite efforts of the fire
and reinforcements from
Portland, swept q blocks, causing a
loss estimated at between $10,000,000
and $l5,00O,000.
Firebugs who have terrOrized farm
ers of Chester, Delaware and Mont
gOmery counties, Pa, for several
weeks visited the estate of DR.. J. Blair
Spencer, Assistant Director of the
Department of Welfare.
at Malvern, early Friday morning and
fired the barn, after cutting all tele-
phone wires communicating with the
estate.
Mary Pickford, beloved of the movie
devotees, was injured at Los Angeles,
Cal, Saturday night in an automobile
accident The piquant face of the
star, which has smiled from the
screen at so many thousands, is re
ported to have been badly cut by fly
ing glass from the windshield of the
auto in which she was driving. Wheth-
er or not any permanent distigure-
ment will result cannot be determin-
ed at present.
Getting your buck from the porch
of your residence is the fashionable
way of killing deer in the village OF
Swift Water, Pa. At least that is how
Milton Warner, 17-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Warner, OF. Swift
Water, killed his buck Friday. Some
one in the house noticed the buck in 4
nearby field and told young Warner,
who had never even shot Il rabbit be-
fore. The deer was about 100 yards
away, but Warner went out on the
porch, took a shotgun and downed the
buck the first crack.
The members of the Rotary Club OF
Baltimore, came to Westminster and
met at a conference luncheon at the
Westminster, number of profess
sional and business men of this city
The purpose of the visit was to ac-
quaint the Westminster representa-
tives present with the plans and ac-
tivities of Rotary Clubs and TO con
slider the question of organizing q
club in this city.
One of the speediest murder trials
.I.,-.. ~.