The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-15


Halloween Social at Mexico school
] October 90. ALI kinds of good eats.
Everyone invited
Miss HaIy Bankert, Of Mt. Pleas
ant, has returned home after spend
I ing a week in Baltimore.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Young, West
Main street, are being congratulated
over the arrival of son.
Miss Madeline Weller spent the
weeks end with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w C. Weller, Carroll street.
Messrs. Paul and Dewey Reese and
/ Harry Greenholtz, near Cranberry,
are. seeking their fortune in Detroit,
Mich. They left this week.
Mrs. Harry Adams, of this city, is
enjoying this week in Baltimore help
ing her daughter Mrs. Maurice Pryor
ato move in their new home on North
avenue.
Our return missionary; Rev. and
Mrs. Howard W. Cover will speak at
Westminster Church of God Sunday
! evening, October II, at 100 p. m. A
4 cordial welcome is extended to all.
Four men held up the Bank Of Ala
media, at Alvarado, Cal, Wednesday,
shot and seriously wounded August H.
May, president of the institution, and
escaped with $4,000
A large herd of cows of Abraham
Isett's farm in Greenfield township,
near Altoona, Pa, has virtually gone
dry as, a result of eating aDples. The
cows got into the orchard and feast
ed on fallen apples.
Blakely. Coughlin, the missing Nor
ristown baby, was accidentally smoth-
cred and, later buried near Egg Har-
Dor, N. j., by August Pasquale, who
confessed to the kidnapping in the
jail at Norristown.
Westminster Realty & Insurance
CO., Mitchell & Crawford, sold the
James A. Phillips property of three
acres, on the Westminster and Balti-
more State road. to Mr.. Oscar G. Hess
and wife, of Baltimore city.
Mr.. Leonard shaeffer, Pennsylvania
avenue, while helping to place a boil
err at the County Home Wednesday
had his ankle and foot badly mash
ed by the boiler falling upon it. It
will be some fine before he can use
his foot to walk on again.
Mai. Gen. George Barnett, former
oommandant Of the United States
Marine Corps, charged that APPROX
mately $3.50 armed Haitien bandits
were killed by United States marines
Or native gendarmerie in the five and
a half years of American occupation.
The Carroll County executive COM
nfttee of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will meet Friday.
October %, at 1 o'clock sharp, in the
county agents Office, second floor,
Times building. Miss Everett. hostess.
This is anexceedingly important
meeting and every member of this
body of women should be present.
81 killed the old merchant with a
hammer. Then | killed my accom-
plice with the limb of a tree, because
he would not split $3.50 with me"
Clifford Crosby, young negro, sat
cross legged in the Central Detective
Department at police Headquarters
Norfolk, Va, Wednesday, and calmly
confessed to double murder that has
had the Pennsylvania authorities on
the alert since the middle of August.
A double shooting ARRAY at Peters
h,Irg va. Wednesday night resulted
in the probable fatal wounding of a
woman and the man who, it is alleged,
fired the shots. The victims are Alice
OBrien, a .dressmaker, and Henry
Moore, machinist, both about 80
years of age. The shooting occurred
in front of the wounded woman's home
and is said to have been the result
Of jealousy
In order to relieve congestion in
the schools at several places the
County Board of Education of Fred
erick county has secured six portable
school houses. These wooden struc-
lures are ready-built and are shipped
knocked down" At the. present cost
of building the school authorities find
these temporary houses very econom-
ical and at the same time, very satls-
factory. 1t takes four days to erect
each house when delivered.
Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor, in his
address Wednesday before the inter-
national Brotherhood of Bookbinders
at Southern Hotel, scored the Re-
publican national candidates an said
he was going to vote for Cox and
Roosevelt. He referred to Governor
Coolidge as "police-baiter." Senator
Harding, he said was closely aligned
with all the reactionary, stand-pat in
terest of the county inimical to la
Dor.
After a long illness, Mrs.. Emily v.
Jones, widow of Bennett Jones, died
Wednesday evening at the home of
/ her son-in-1aw, w. w. Walden, 2619
/ st. Paul street, Baltimore. Three
weeks ago her daughter, Mrs. William
Walden, died and the shock is thought
to have fastened her death. For many
years she was a member of the ST.
Michael and All Angels Church. Her
funeral will be held Saturday morn
ing. The body will be taken to Mid