The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-05-21
E. o. DIFFENDAL., Manager.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 81, 1920
BRIEFS


more.
Workingmen will soon be wearing
regular clothes to avoid the cost of
overalls.
Mr.. Benjamin Sherry. near this city
attended the funeral of John NJ. Fish
er. Creagerstown, Sunday.
Miss Frances Mann, of Patapsco, is
quite i'll at the home of her aunt
ter, Mrs. Isaac Long, of Tannery.
Mrs. William Mann, of Patapsco, is
spending a few weeks with her sis
ter, Mrs isaac Long, of Tannery.
The carnival left Sunday for Mar
tinsburg, w. Va, after spending a
very unsatisfactory week in this city.
John Hopkins University viii open
It's entrance examinations for the De-
partment of Engineering course, at
Homewood. from June Fl to 26.
Officer Helm investigated a report
that some colored man was trying
to steal an automobile opposite Mon
tour House Saturday night, but found
no one tampering with car in that
vicinity,
The 914, one of w. M. r. r largest
freight locomotives, slipped tire on
its driving wheel Sunday and had to
be side-tracked until tire outfit was
sent her@ on special engine from
Hagerstown, to replace it.
Three-fourths of the students of
Washington College, numbering about
SO, were suspended for week for re-
fllsing to attend chapel exercises in
the morning. They have been sent
to their homes.
From the large crowd of people in
this city Saturday evening our stores
must have done an excellent business.
Automobiles lined both sides of Main
street from Odd Fellows Hall to the
Forks of-the-Road, and many were
parked on the side streets.
The Baltimore Sun paper truck
caught fire in front of the Westmins-
ter Savings Bank Sunday morning.
and was put out of running order.
Charles E. Eckenrode put out the fire
with an extinguisher. The truck
was taken to Baltimore in the even
ing.
Those who spent Sunday past with
Miss MaTgfe Mann, at her home near
Lawndale, we're: Mrs. Ora Bieffl.
Mrs. Oliver Spencer and son, George;
Lester v. Caple, of Patapsco; Mrs
Henry Halbrook, of Rosland, Balti-
more county; and Mrs. Adam Hugh,
Of Deer Park
Tohy1 nj LTcI,ar = ,.o+5~c,7 $780,.
died at his home near Cragerstown,
on May IS, aged go years. He is sur
viyed by his widow, two daughters
Mrs. VIM Long, of Logs; Mrs. Calvin
Putnam, Lewistown, and one son,
Peter Fisher, at Creagerstown; also
two brothers in Ohio
Esther Kelley, IL years old, daugh-
ter of Nj. and Mrs. Wilmer Kelley, of
Reisterstown, was killed when a rife
accidently discharged Sunday. judi
son Kelley, 13-year-old brother Of the
dead girl, was about to shoot a cat.
which was after his pet rabbit, when
the sister, it is said, is to have caught
hold of the frearm.
Rev. Edward Baird has brought an
action in Brooklyn for $4,000 against
the rector, church wardens and yes
trymen of Grace Episcopal Church of
Milbrook, Duchess county, N. Y, for
alleged breach of contract Mr. Baird
says he was given to understand in
December, 1917, that the rectorship
of Grace Church was vacant.
The reward of $1,000 offered by the
fxy
for the apprehension of the person
who assaulted Miss Mary Saunders,
near Somerset, Montgomery county,
on July 5, last, has been awarded to
former Sheriff William l.. Aud, of
that county.
The Hon. e. T. Meredith, secretary
of agriculture. will be the speaker at
, the seventh annual Farmers Day cele-
bration at College Park, Saturday,
May 9th, when farmers and their
families and others interested in rural
activities will be drawn from all parts
of the State by the interesting feat
ures which mark this yearly event.
The worlds greatest sea-fighting
machine, battle cruiser to be 1000
feet long, with speed 10 miles an
hour faster than the Inflated Lusi-
tania, is now in course of construc-
ton. Charles M. Schwab said at a
New York meeting of the alumni
workers Of New York University's
Z endowment fund. The new battle
cruiser, he said, will have a width of
104- feet, displacement of SO, 900 tons
and will carry IL 16-inch guns.
Basil Dorsey, one of the oldest and
best known farmers at Berrett, who re
ceived frightful injuries on his farm,
May IL, is improving and has good
chance to recover. He had been using
the team and drag in smoothing a
field and had unlocked two of the
horses and started them for the stable
While standing in front of the drag in
the act of unlocking the last horse,
the team started to follow the. others.
Mr.. Dorsey was thrown under the
drag. He was rolled under the drag
for considerable distance and cut
and bruised about the head and body.
One arm was nearly torn of at the
elbow. The flesh and muscles were
horribly torn and the dirt was ground
into the quivering flesh. About sixty
stitches were put in the injured arm.