The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-08-11

Il avenue, is visiting friends IN BATH
more.
The new store front of T. W
Mather & Sons is being placed in pc.
sition.
Lightning during the thunder storm
of July 81 killed four cows in various
| parts of Franklin district.
Our Jail is filling up with summer
boarders. Sheriff Martin is entertain
ing Is prisoners at this time.
Miss Phyllis Cecil, of Baltimore, is
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Essich. Pennsylvania avenue.
The hat factory of NJ. S Levy &,
Sons, at Aberdeen, is being dismantled
and the machinery moved away.
Isiah Demmitt, Union Bridge, after
continued service of nearly ten years,
has resigned his position with the
Cement Plant.
John Utz, aged 20 years, died July
% at his home in Gettysburg. Pa. Mrs
Mary Mickey this city, is a sister of
the deceased.
Misses Catherine Haines and Emma
Bemiller. Pennsylvania avenue, spent
this week in Hanover visiting friends
and relatives.
Miss Grace Hosfeld, of Pleasant
View Farm, was a weeks end guest
of her cousin, Miss Estelle Essig,
Taneytown.
Mr. and Mrs. w. Maurice Williams,
of Washington, D. c., are guests of
Mrs Williams parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ T. Yeiser, Pennsylvania avenue.
Lightning struck in the house of
Tom Haines, of Dennings, tore off
boards and knocked his son, Lawr-
ence, down on the floor and frighten
ed the family.
Clinton B. Reed, of Pottsville, Pa,
is selling coal at $3.50 a ton. He found
that he had $1,000 tons at Tamaqua.
He wants to show the public that he
is not a profiteer
Miss Beryl Summers has returned
to the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hos
pitaI, Tnwson, after enjoying a three
weeks vacation with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Summers. Warfields
burg.
Mrs. William Slorp. this city, who
has been at the Woman's Hospital,
for treatment for the past
three weeks, was brought to her
home Tuesday in a very much i'm
proved condition.
James N. Dorsey. of Dorseys Cross
roads, this county, is at Johns Hop
kins Hospital Baltimore, to undergo
an operation. His condition. while
serious. is not alarming. according to
attending physicians.
The Conference of BonaFide Labor
Organization of Baltimore met in ex-
ecutive session with representatives of
the Socialist and Fermentation par
ties to further map out combined
program of political activities in the
coming elections.
David NJ Young purchased at
Trustees Sale on Saturday last the
David !. Roop farm containing 2l2
acres at $1,000 per acre, for the total
sum of SIS ,404S2. This is one Of the
few farms that has a large timber
tract of Virgin timber.
A test of the pumps of the West
minister Fire engine was given at
Cranberry and found to be working
to perfection. A stream was thrown
from the bridge on the state road to
the barn roof on the farm nearby, Il
distance of nearly t25 feet.
Mrs. William Fritz. of Oak Orchard,
a few weeks ago, had a terrible fright.
She carried copper snake of some
good size in her clothes for some lit
tie time. She discovered something
was wrong and while undressing the
snake dropped from her body and ran
behind the stove.
Wholesale prices for hams have
gone down Is to 20 per cent. in the
last 80 days and hams are relatively
cheap compared with other foods. &C
cording to Edward Morris, president
of Morris e Co, Chicago Has the
drop reached Westminster? Ask the
meat market owners.
Captain Weigle is looking for the
advance agent of Geo. d. Iverson, wet
candidate for Congress. who placed
the placards on the electric light
poles in this city Saturday night.
Chief Justice HutChins would noSSi-
bly, entertain him if caught and will
long remember his visit.
A movement is On foot among the
merchants and business men of I'm
ion Bridge to employ a night watch
man regularly to patrol the business
section. II is proposed to raise a part
IF the cost through subscriptions the
town to be asked to provide the bal
ance. Already about 500 has been
pledged by the merchants and others
Part of the State road from Union
Bridge to New Windsor has been
opened for traffic by Thomas, Ben
nett & Hunter. The people living
along the route are all smiles. Why
shouldn't they be? Haven't they been
exiled every winter when the roads
were hub deep with nice soft and
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