The Democratic advocate., 1920-10-08

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Mr.. and Mrs. MT. Yeiser and
daughters, spent Sunday with rela-
tives in Hanover.
Foxes devoured 4S turkeys in one
night at Huntingtown, Nd, on the
farm of Charles w. Hooper.
Carroll county has s,51S farm in its
boundaries from report given by
the census bureau Of Washington.
The Baltimore American announces
I that the Democrats in Baltimore City
are 8456 in the lead in registration.
A halloween social will be given by
! the East End Primary School, at Grace
land, on the evening of Friday Oct.
/ 29. A supper of sandwiches, coffee, and
salad will be served. Ice cream, cake,
and candy will be ON sale. Everybody
welcome.
An automobile struck the buggy of
John Peltz, opposite Main Court Inn,
East Main street, Saturday night, and
wrecked it badly. The automobile
driver got away without being identi-
fled, or the number of the car secured.
The Emmitsburg Motor Car Com
pany, Incorporated, the pioneer of the
automobile industry of that section,
changed hands this week when the
controlling stock was acquired by
Washington and Frederick interests.
Thomas Sexton Smith, over 70 years
OF age and prominent farmer of Pitt
sylvania county, Va, will have to pay
| to Miss Mabel Milan the sum of $40,
900 for falling to marry the young
woman following their engagement.
Miss Milan lived with Smith.
Mrs. Helen Sweetser, of San Fran
cisco, CAL, and Mrs. John F. Balm, Of
Baltimore, returned home after spend
ing from Saturday, September rs, uri-
til Thursday with Mr.. and Mrs. John
w. Owings and family, of near War
fieldsburg.
Unconscious and seriously injured,
Mrs. Estelle Tyler Warner, widow OF
Professor Adolph Warner, of Amherst
Agricultural College, was found in her
bed at her summer home in Country
Way, Egypt, Mass. Her chauffeur
Ralph Lopes, has been arrested.
The third Farm and Home Exhibit
and Poultry Show of Carroll County
is scheduled to come off in the Armory
November II, 18, 10 and 20. Big pro-
gram is being prepared and prominent
speakers will address the gathering
on various subjects to fit the occasion.
Herman Born and Sons Inc. who
have been conducting an automobile
repair shop and accessories, Liberty
street, have discontinued business
and moved to Baltimore. Mr.. Roy
Gambler will carry on the repair shop
in the building until March 1st. 1921.
The explosion of ammonia fumes in
large unused tank in the yard OF the
Monumental Iron and Metal Company,
Baltimore Saturday killed child and
injured six other persons. Fragments
of sheet iron were scattered like par
ticles from bursting shell. The wall
Of house adjoining the property was
wrecked:
/ Charging extreme cruelty and vlo-
Ience, Mrs. Frances Swope Hyde, wife
of Or. B. Clark Hyde, who was three,
times tried on charge of murder in
connection with the death of Mrs.
EHyde's uncle, Thomas II. Swope, mil
lionaire philanthropist, today filed
SUIT for divorce from DR.. Hyde, at
Kansas City, Mo. IA
The Criterion Male Quartet, of New
York; will give recital in Alumni
Hall, Western Maryland College, Mon
day evening next, at 8.15 o'clock. The
public is cordially invited. There Will
be no charge for admission. This
Quartet is one of the finest in the
country, and his concert will be one OF
the chief attractions of this season.
The large bank barn on the farm of
Mr.. Vernon Hook, near this city, was
destroyed by fire Saturday evening.
IAN proyender from this year was con-
sumed by the blaze. No stock was
| burned as it was all in the pasture
fields. The origin of the fire is url-
known and from every indication the
! barn was fred by some one unknown
The loss is several thousand dollars
with insurance of $500.
Thomas McGrohan, gunman and
gangster, of New York, according to
| the police, lost his life for having
"copped" pals sweetheart. Joseph
Burns, who was best man at the we'd
ding of the two, was wounded. The
body of McGrohan was found against
a fence at West Broadway. A bullet
had entered his left shoulder blade
and tore out the heart of the man be-
fore he could draw his own automatic.
John F. Keystone, Jr., who was ac-
quilted in Part 2 of Criminal Court,
Baltimore, on September % of the
charge of attempting to steal $4,000
/ from the M. A. Long Company, insti-
tuted suit in the Court OF Common
Pleas yesterday for alleged false ar
rest and malicious prosecution, claim
ing 100000 damages. Keystone was
arrested August 10 upon the charge
thtt he had attempted to obtain con-
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