The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-02-17

(, Several inches of snow fell. in this
feity' and county Wednesday. 1t made
good sleighing but, hard travelling for
the benzine buggies. The State. Roads
Comm ssion had their snow plows
clearing all State roads for traffic and
Experienced very little trouble "a in
brushing the snow away. 'sas
J. Grant Eckert, Baltimore, conduc-
tor of passenger train No. AZ of the
! Western Maryland Railway, has
! watch and chain which he says was
tyen his father by President Lincoln.
| Conductor Eckert values the watch
! highly and it is kept in a safe deposit
vault.
Charles Williams, colored, South
Gainesville, Pa, was sentenced to
three years in the Chester county pris-
Il and lined 800 and costs for felon-
rs assault and battery on his wife,
whom he stabbed. Surgeons placed 25
stitches in a wound in her abdomen
and saved her life.
Two young men, members of Com
pany A. First Regiment, Maryland Ma
tional Guard of Frederick, were ar
-SSIcu LUZ HUI Ia anu PAnS-
ed in Jail until they paid their finds.
Did it ever occur to members of Com
pany H, this city, that the same may
| q their fate some time IL they do like
wise?
John w. Dysenberry, of. Star City,
W. Va, aged 20 years, is celebrating
the birth of his seventeenth child. AT
the age of three-score and 10 he is
in excellent physical condition, and
works eight hours each day as a car
penter. The seventeenth child was
born to his second wife, who is aged
% years.
We owe our subscribers an apology
~ missing the mails last Friday, and
hope it will not occur again. We wera
just as much disappointed as You
were in not being able to have your
naper on regular time. A bearing run
hot on our press and the only rene
dy conceived was new drive shaft
as the old one was welded fast.
4 school in which Deputy Collec-
IS Of Internal Revenue were taught
Ta various processes by which in
come taxes may be extracted from the
pockets Of the people of Maryland had
/ laen in operation in the Custom-house
! 81 Baltimore all last week. The school,
was attended by 80 deputies from all
over the State.
Confronted suddenly by his brother,
wealthy Montana rancher, Frank L.
Durwarde, who disappeared from his
parents home on Riverside Drive,
New York City, four years ago while
suffering from shell shock, recovered
o.. ,no'1o~v in ST Paul Police Court
and cleared a mystery which has
puzzled Eastern detective agencies.
William Hainly, white, so, is in the
hospital at Labanon, Pa, suffering
! from serious stab wound il the side,
! Il Bernard Grayson, colored, is a
>risoner in the county iail, awaitin@
he result of Fainly's injury. which
nav prove fatal. The men are reported
/ - lave been principals in duel.
J Gravson welding q razor and HainlV
a butcher knife.
18th . 6Nn O0O bushels Of grain stor-
ed in the bins of the Port Covinetor
N''NT n''l"' lDt ISdL ~
! efficient working limits the Western
~'arvIand Railway placed an embargo
IN grain shiprnents to Baltimore. The
CONGESTION is caused by an insufficient
nunrher nf ships booked for grain car,
go 70 balance the unusually heavy re-
ceipts.
To ta,sa a+-rr0snhare of the death
,'aT,1her of the State Prison. at Tren,
-on. n. T.. was ac"entuated last week
-iu~ing the execution of George Cares
-r,urde!n: of a little Girl in New Bruins
vio1, when the wiring connected witt
iha e'entrode alta nhed to the condemn
+ II mans leg became disconnected
'oo~'-19 the nan FL" a moment or NV,
gasping and writhing in the chair
The incident was the most dramatic
'hat has ever marked an ele"trorutior
in that State. producing terrific men
tai strain upon the witnesses gathered
in the death chamber.