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


4 cardsd with the following: "Scarle
I fever" t3. a3ls 5i
Mr.. Wesley lBeggs, East Greer
stree, had six chickens stolen from
his POULTRY yard last week in day
time. The thieves are getting holder.
Mr.. Guy Neudecker, of Brummel
who suffered an attack of flu, has re,
covered and is back on the job al
Albaugh Babylon Grocery Company.
Mrs. Charles L. Thomson, PennsyI-
vania avenue, who was at hospital
in Baltimore for treatment last week
returned home Monday.
Paul Bowie, aged 8 years, son oil
! William r. and Clara B. Hoover, died
at Della Sunday. Funeral services
were held Wednesday with interment
in New Oakland cemetery.
Gu. of an estate estimated at $780,
/ 900, Mrs. Sadie Howard, of Chicago
who died last Saturday, bequeathed
/ $4,000 to care for a dog and two
pups. Another crank gone.
Wicomico County Commissioners
have adopted a resolution requesting
the representatives in the General
Assembly to pass a bill limiting the
term of the road engineer to one year.
Westminster seems to be at the top
at all times. The Westminster team
of Boston won two straight games Of
hockey from ST. Paul Athletic Club
of
Henry Beall, employee of the
Maryland Milling Company, Sykes
Vile. was painfully injured last week
when he fell between a freight car
and a truck.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Methodist Protestant Church, of Pa
tapsco, will meet at the home of Mrs.
Edgar Bankert, March 80, instead or
the 23rd Everybody invited.
Mr.. Dick Weller, Carroll street, will
fill the position as yard master at the
w. NJ. R. R. freight warehouse while
Mr. Joseph Little is enjoying well
earned vacation to Los Angeles.
Some harness was stolen from the
stables OF Mr.. J. D. CroWl, Center
street, last week. Mr.. Crowd is al
most certain who the thief is. Let's
get him!
Although she is So years old, Mrs.
Ella V. Millman, of near Laurel, at
tends her household duties, does
'needlework and writes letters with
out the aid of glasses.
Robert Macdonald. employed on a
farm in Schuylkill Valley, Pa, was
arrested by State police, charged with
desertion from the army, bigamy and
manslaughter.
Slipping while carrying two buck
cts of boiling water, Horace Cullen,
who lives on the West Nottingham
church farm. near Colora, was serl-
ously Scalded.
Cinders are to a large degree TAX
ing the place of oyster shells, once
used extensively in the construction
Of highways along the bay and river
fronts in South Jersey.
The Women's Home and Foreign
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Lutheran Church, Pleasant Valley,
will hold its March meeting at the
home of Miss Grace Hefwfg, Saturday
afternoon, March %, at p. m.
A Spider Web Social will be held at
Mt. Pleasant school house, by the
school, on Thursday evening, March
%. If the weather is unfavorable on
Thursday evening come on Friday
evening.
One Of the last things attended to
by President Harding before leaving
WASHINGTON for Florida last week
was the pavment of his income tax.
His check included $4,000 as income
on the presidential salary
Minnie Whitehurst, wife of William
H Whitehurst, of Baltimore, ana
mother of MIR. Reams Whitehurst,
PENNSYLVANIA avenue. died Monday
after a lingering illness. The funeral
was held Wednesday.
The bills to protect raccoons ana
onnossums and authorizing the coun-
~ Commissioners to borrow money
for certain contingencies has been
signed by Governor Richie ana are
now laws.
The Westminster Deposit (; IrCS'
Company is draped in mourning lot
the death of its President, David T.
Stem and the Westminster Fire Com
panv for William Noel, deceased mem
Der.
Sliding from third base to the home
Mate. during a baseball game follow
ing the afternoon session OF the pup
lie school. Clarence Mitchell, 10 years
old. Of Egg Harbor City. n. j., rup-
tured an artery of the heart and died
instantly.
The Westminster Mill & Body Co..
Inc designers and builders OF COM
mercial bodies and painters, have no"
in process of completion one oil the
largest vans in the State OF Maryland
and when completed will be aslght 10
see.
The frame building on Chase
street, formerly occupied by Knapp
Machine Works has been purchased
Nv q number of progressive citizens