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more, were visitors of Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. Crowl, Center street, this week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Truss, Baltimore,
were Sunday guests at the same
place.
Misses Irene, Nellie and Louise
Lippy, Charlotte Zepp, Margaret
Michael, Earl Lippy and Lawrence
Zepp, this city spent Tuesday at
Gwynn Oak and Druid Hill Parks,
Baltimore.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Smith and Mrs.
Arthur W. Smith and son Ray, of
Dayton, Ohio, have returned home
after spending a pleasant visit to
their mother, Mrs. Harry Smith, of
near Marston.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Burner and daugh-
ters, Elizabeth, Gladys and Virginia,
took a touring trip to Virginia to
spend a week. They also spent a
few days in Hagerstown with their
mother and friends.
It cost Nessin Hiken, of Milwau-
kee, Wis., $25 to recover a 50-cent
handkerchief which his wife had ac-
cidentally dropped into another auto-
mobile. Hiken caught the car. He
was pinched for speeding.
It is said that spring clothes will
cost most. However, we can go into
training by wearing a thin summer
suit in the winter, and if we surviva
till spring we shall be so tough that
we shall need no clothes at all.
Sergt. T. B. Myers, of the 81st F.
A., who is stationed in Kentucky, is
now touring the country recruiting
for the Army and visited his parents,
F. H. Myers, Mount Pleasant a few
days. He returned to Tennessee.
William Stimax, who is at the
Union Protestant Infirmary suffering
from injuries received by being struck
by the Hagerstown express at Cran-
berry on August 21, is improving
and is expected home next week.
The farmers will now have to look
out for a new crop pest-the corn
borer. This insect is said to have
been imported from Europe, like the
Bolshev it's none too soon to
start measures against him.
Mrs. Frank Beachtel, Mr.
Slifer, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Kindig and son, Allen, Mr. and Mrs.
Luther Slifer and Miss Minnie Har-
ner, all of Littlestown, Pa., sent Sun-
day with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Willet,
Mt. Pleasant.
Chief of Police John A. Stem, East
Green street, has improved so much
in the past two weeks that he is
permitted to leave his residence. He
has been automobiling a few times.
Patrolmen Stem has been ill about
two months from being overcome by
the heat.
Long Island City grave diggers are
on strike for $4 a day, and the high
cost of dying may come to rival the
high cost of being sick, with $3 a
visit for the doctor. That dying
comes only once in a life time, how-
ever, is a consideration not to be
ignored.
It appears that we are now to have
jokes of the aircraft, aerial humor,
as it were. Take, for instance, this,
picked up from an English paper:
Small Boy (to pilot)-If you be
a-goin' up, zur, would ye see if ye
can find Billy's kite driftin' about,
wot 'e lorst larst Toosday?
How do you know it was whisky
and not a substitute, asked the at-
torney for an accused saloonkeeper
at Pittsburgh. "I've been a whisky
gauger for 20 years," was the reply
by the witness. "That's sufficient, I
think," the judge concluded, and the
saloonist was held for court.
By driving his Dodge Sedan through
a wire fence opposite the old toll-
gate proerty on the Baltimore pike
Tuesday afternoon the owner pre-
vented a smash up with another auto-
mobile. The Dodge was considerably
damaged in front and had to be towed
to Klee & Hoff's garage for repairs.
Those who spent Sunday at the
home of Wm. H. Meyers and wife
were as follows: Mr. John Seipp and
wife, of Baltimore; Mr. Harry Black,
wife and children, Frances, George
and Clayton Black and Albert Hann,
of Manchester; Mr. Clarence Feeser,
wife and daughter, Nadine, and Mr.
Floyd Geiman and wife, of Deep Run,
Md.
The Real Estate Company sold for
D. Snider Stephan his properties and
lots on Carroll street Tuesday to
the following: Paul L. Whitmore and
William R. Bowman, double weather-
boarded house and 38 foot lot, sub-
ject to a ground rent of $3 annually
for $3450. Thomas Babylon, 141
feet, with an annual ground rent of
$9 for $2100.
Daniel F. Lafean, former state
commissioner of banking, was ar-
rested in York, Pa, charged with be-
ing implicated in the wrecking of the
North Penn Bank, of Philadelphia.
The warrant for the arrest was
issued by the district attorney of
Philadelphia. It charges that he
permitted the wrecked bank to re-
main open knowing it to be insolvent.
Mr. Wm. Frizzell and Misses Ger-
trude and Cora Green, of near State-
wood, motored to Baltimore Sunday
August 24 and there joined Mr. Oscar
Green, Mrs. John Carney, Misses
Thelma Green and girl friend, Ruth,
and spent the day on the steamer
Dreamland to Cheasapeake beach.
The scenery was gorgeous on land
and water. Everyone returned home
happy after spending such a pleasant
trip on the water.
Mr. Luther L. Bankard, Bond
street, formerly with the Western
Maryland Railway, with offices in
Baltimore, has accepted a similar
position with the U. S. Railroad ad-
ministration in the car service sec-
tion division of operators with head-
quarters in Buffalo, N. Y. Mr.
Bankard left Sunday to enter upon
his duties. He is well qualified for
the work that is assigned to him and
will be a large benefit to the service
from his previous knowledge.
The Union Bridge Pilot says in its
issue of August 22. "Several political
