The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-07-30
Rev. and Mrs. E, i. Mewhray were
ii this city Monday gteeEing fEiehds


Rev. and Mrs. E. T. Mewbray we're
! ID this citg Monday gteeEing friends.
Msssrs. Frank r. shaeffer, Walter
Helm and Leonard Shaeffer enjoyed
a successful fishing trip on the Ches-
apeake Bay this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Dull and two
daughters visited Mr.. and Mrs. George
Stoide and family and also Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Webster, near Snyders-
burg.
Samuel schleisner, prominent
Baltimore. merchant, is serving nine
months in the House of Correction,
for fictitious returns Of his income
tax.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Therit, Mr..
and Mrs. Edward. w ebster and daugh-
ter, Martha, spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Dull and
family, near Snydersburg.
Al heavy fat car truck of the United
Railway started backward at Wal
brook Station Saturday and in its
fight struck a car loaded with pas
sengers injuring nine Of them.
Robert Chandlee, IA months i old
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar ChandIee,
of Evansville, Pat, was instantly
KILLED Saturday night when an auto
mobile which was being backed out
rof the garage by his uncle, passed
over him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Shaffer, Elton
Louise Zentgraf; Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Reed and children, Mr.. and Mrs. Mil
ton Dull and son, Emory and Wilbert
Dull spent Sunday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Webster, near Snyd-
ersburg.
Miss Mary B. Shellman and Mrs.
VIM. HI. Gingrich had as guests on
Tuesday afternoon Mrs. VIM. T. SUIT
ton. Mrs. John Power; Miss Sue Sultz-
er and Miss Mary Sultzer, OF Balti-
more and Miss Sultzer, Of Butte, Mon
tana.
Home brew at last has come into
its owns Thar justly famous drink
bids stair ito become the great ma
fional beverage now that the Fed
eral Governments has, after a fashion,
indorsed it's manufacture for home
consumption. As ,
Two men were killed, several per-
sons were injured, miles of telephone
lines were torn down and great dam
age was done to property and farm
cTops By violent electrical storm
that swept ClaTksburg and interior
West Virginia Saturday night.
Superintendent Kennedy, of the
Cumberland Valley Division OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad, announced
that in connection with the contem-
plated discharge of 10000 employees,
lit men will be laid off Immediately
at Hagerstown and Chambersburg
Two bandits and two express COM
pany paymasters were shot, one OF the
latter probably fatally, and $4,000
stolen in two daring payroll robber7
les on the West Sidetof Chicago, with
IN 20 min ites 4of IeaefS other .MOnday
afternoon All of the bandits escap-
ied. SltE asnl11f4
fMr. and Mrs. Edward Hail, Mn. and
Mrs. John BuruetteI Mrs. Mary Aul4l
bach. William Brunette, Mary Bur-
ngtte, Henry Stronger, all OF Baltl-
more, ana Mr.. and Mrs. Walter <.
Warehimes of Bachman's Valley,
.snant Sunday with IN r.s. and Mrs.
FRANK Nargnifne, near Silver Run i
William Bennett, Jr. of Fayette-
vile, son of Judge William r. BEN
nett, at one time judge of the Criminal
Court b Fayette co slpty W Va was
taksn ANh Jail bs 4 SrAQh d iQe and
lynched after having begun lie
sentence for the murder of his wife,
to which charge be had pleaded guilty
in court.
A baby with fractured skull was
Hound in the ladies toilet in the rail-
road depot Sunday evening by Oper-
ator Ryland. The police officials were
notified and hurriedly investigated,
finding OF the baby, but up until this
time they have. failedsto find any clue
as to who is the owner: The baby was
left in charge of the railroad officials.
John Whitefogle, Of Conhellsyille,
fireman on that division of the Bait
more and Ohio Railroad. was killed,
and j. w Smith en- ginee was seri-
konslg injured when the Ter Of their
rs exploded at India reek, near
Conn elisRiFfe Satursa ne locomo-
was pun ssIig "a; train cut Of the
!; Eonnells ville when the ex-
I6H ppened.
ii wife OF Frank o. Roberts, De-
tfpi Mich lay helpless on her death
led. victim of multiple sclerosis. In
Eher agony she prayed and begged for
IAN end to her misery Won't you
mix some paris green with water and
put it beside me-" she pleaded with
her husband. Roberts did so. She
drank it and died, Roberts has start
ed a life sentence in the penitentiary
! for doing it.
The new owner of residence IN
Fredericksburg, Va, was having some
repairs done in the cellar by a car
penter, when a Quart bottle contain
| ing real old Kentucky red whiskey
was discovered hidden away on a
shelf. The former owner was
notified of the discovery. He recall
/ ed that he had taken the quart home
on a Saturday night Is years ago, had
hidden it and then forgot all about it.
Those who spent Sunday with Mr..
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