The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-03-10

! "Wednesday, March Is.
Free mail delivery was inauguratet
in Elkton last week.
Mrs. J. Walter Getty, New Windsor
is spending some time in st. Peters.
burg, Fla.
Two hunters in Lewisburg, Pa, were
fined $117.50 for killing a rabbit out
of season.
Mrs. Winter Bond, Finksburg, and
Mrs. Paul Bond, this city, were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Devilbiss, New
Windsor.
Western Maryland College students
were guaranteed last week. A case
of scarlet fever was found. The victim
being in the boys department.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Long, of Balti-
more. were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Snyder, Webster street, Sun
day.
Mr.. James Bowers, near Bird Hill,
has rented his farm, and will have
sale of stock and farming implements,
March 20.
at Centenary Methodist Episcopal
Church. last week was a decided sue
cess financially.
Miss Bald and Mr. Blades, both of
Annapolis, and Mrs. Haines, of Balti-
more. formerly of Westminster, were
Of Nrc 11it-
ten. SundaT
There will be a spider web So
cial at Stonesifer's School on the even
ing of March Is, if the weather per-
mits. Everybody welcome. 1t will open
at $50 .. m.
The sale of the farm machinery of
Farm Power Company, on John street,
on Saturday and Monday was we'll at
tended All the articles brought fair
prices.
John Burton Muslin, Jr., member
of the senior class at St. Johns Col
lege, Annapolis, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head when he
found out that he failed in his studies.
Charged with stealing shoes valued
at 1892 from a freight car of the
Western Maryland Railway, Henry
Brown, colored, Baltimore, was held
for court.
Automobile owners of Brunswick
will pay an extra license to run their
cars if a bill masses that has been in
iofa unnSn Tho foe IS tn
be one half e the regular State Ii
cense.
AS a token of appreciation of the
work done when the chimney of their
home caught fire, Miss Lizzie Boynton
and Mrs. Sidney Johnson, of Port De-
post. have given the firemen 500 to-
ward their new engine.
One of our business men was ar
rested by a State Policeman on the
charge of letting out his dealers Ii
cense tags for another automobile,
for the purpose of operating it,
The fine is from SO to 500. The case
will come up before Justice Walsh.
Mrs. Mary Ridgely Brown Lee,
daughter of the late former Gov Frank
Brown and a Baltimore belle of
ago, died early Sunday
morning at her home i'm New York
CITY. Mrs. Lee had been i'll since last
and her death is believed
to have been causd by neuritis.
One hundred and five dollars and his
license revoked for an indefinite peri
cd was the penalty paid by an auto
mobile driver in this county for Operat-
ing his car while being intoxicated.
Two State policemen found the party
iazzing his machine on the road and
arrested him.
The Yorkville Hose Company lost
$4,000 chemical truck when it was
temporarily removed to a garage to
make room in the fire company'S build
ing for a dance. The garage caught
fire and the truck was consumed in
the flames, with half dozen other au-
tomobiles, the total loss being $4,000.
Right of way for the new State road
between Union Bridge and New Wind
sor has been secured and all prepare
lions are maui lOI Tic DullulHS VI the
road as soon as the contract is let.
Mrs. Minnie Harris and sister Edna,
of Bark Hill, have returned home. be-
ing visitors at the home of Mrs. Jacob
Hutting, this city.
Life was not worth living so Fran
els l. Deveney, aged SO years of Bal
timore, jumped from the top of Wash
ineton's monument, 164 feet high, tC
commit suicide. Every bone in his
body was crushed. He was chauffeur
People going to church saw the man
leap. He turned over and over until
ie struck the pavement below.
An eight cylinder Peerless auto
mobile, without tags, was found Mon
day morning in field on the property
of Joseph Wimert, near Tannery. From
identification it was found to be own
ed by VIM. A. Leibowitz, Baltimore,
who was notified by States Attorney
Brown of its whereabouts. The owner
was little concerned over the finding
of the car He sent for it.
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