The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-03-17

MISS Antony 3SalceQO, OF dHlpiCo,
Mexico; Miss Katharine Blum, OF
Jacksonville, Florida, and Miss Annie
EStarner Senft, all students of the
Lankenau School, Philadelphia, were
: weeks end guests of Miss Senft's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John SENT,
Shady Side.
i N. T. Wantz. of Chino, Cal, has
sold his grocery business in the above
place and has moved to his fruit
ranch home at 400 East 9th street,
Pomona. Cal 1t will be remembered
that Mr.. Wantz lived in the vicinity OF
Union Mills before going to Califor-
mia.
Approximately 5000 Government
employees, holding their positions by
Presidential order, are held to be not
entitled to the benefits of the retire
ment act in an opinion rendered by
Attorney General Daugherty and
transmitted to the Interior Depart
ment which administers the act.
A bilf' has been filed in the United
States District Court at Baltimore by
Thomas w. Perkins, receiver of the
Second National Bank of Elkton, ask
ing that the estate of the late Will
liam T. Warburton, president of the
defunct institution. be turned over to
him, instead of the executor.
Chas. H. Cobry, of Baltimore, SON
in-law of Mr.. William II. Paynter,
East Main street, had the misfortune
to badly mash his two first fingers on
his left hand by getting them caught
| in a printing press in c. E. Stevens &
Co., printing shop, Monday. Mr.. Cobry
spent Sunday in this city with Mr..
| Paynter.
| 1t will cost Joseph Kelly, of Pitman,
| $125 and Court charges for biting
Samuel Glading, of ,Wenonah, n. j.,
! in a dispute at a football game at
Pitman on Thanksgiving day A coup
lie of Glading's teeth were knocked
out and his mouth badly cut. He sued
| for $1,000 damages, but the jury
awarded the lower verdict
| Leaving a white handkerchief flut-
tering from a stake in the roadway
as a signal for any who might care
to look into his lone tragedy, a we'll
dressed man about % years old, step
ped into clump of bushes at the road
side near East McKeesport, Pa, ami
ended his life with bullet in the
forehead.
Mr.. Claude Koontz, near Mt Pleas
ant. sold his personal effects and left
Wednesday for Hagerstown. Mr..
Koontz was fireman on the Western
Maryland Railroad for four years, bu.
was furloughed when the business
slump came. He will leave the above
place for st. Louis, Mo, if he fails to
secure employment at his previous
occupation.
Word has just been received of the
release from MoundSyille of a dis
abled former service man who was
serving eight years for a dangerous
assault upon a war Stacker. The for
mer soldier, whose name has been
withheld, has been returned to the
custody of his mother, near Wheeling,
w Va. where he has been given en-
ployment by local firm.
Westminster Realty &c Insurance
Co, report the following sales last
week: House and lot of Frank B.
Stevenson, on Carroll street, extend
ed, to Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn E. Miller,
of this city, and the 45 acre tract of
land, situated at Reese, on State Road
belonging to Jessie R. Matthews, to
Jesse E. Stoner, proprietor of the
Westminster Nursery.
Hundreds of dead crows can be
seen in the fields northeast of Get
tysburg as the result of a poison
grain campaign waged by land own
ers in that section. Permission was
secured from the State Came Com
mission to poison the birds. Thous
ands of these birds infested the region
and were destroying seed in the
ground. After the first killing the re-
mainder of the flock disappeared.
Aunt Liddy held the newsboy. AT
ter the young (?O paper boy learned
that Aunt Liddy held him by the arm
he protested with language that was
unbecoming to a dealer in his line. II
mattered little to "Aunty" she hell
all the same The last seen of him
was about Z d. m. Sunday making for
his home with Aunt Liddy hanging
fast to his arm, and the little fellow
in a rage.
The Standard Oil Company is push
ing the work OF the grading on
George street and Madison avenue.
These thoroughfares were never grad
ed for travel SO the Standard Oil Co.
after an agreement with the Corpo-
ration decided to do the necessary
work for their own convenience. When
completed both citizens living on the
streets and the Standard people will
have fine travel for vehicles.
The cost to the Government of
guarding the mails has been S250,0OO
Major General Lejeune, commanding
the Marine Corps, told the House Ma
val Committee. The money was taken
from the Marine Corps fund, the gen
eral explained, and was used for
transporting men from Quantico, Va,
and the West Coast to the stations
assigned by the Post Office Depart
ment and for the upkeep of the force.
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