The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-05-14
E. o. DIFFENDAL. Manager.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY Z, 1920
BRIEFS

$l.oV on the $lVV.
The May term of Frederick county
court is in session.
Counterfeit $40 and $50 bills are
being circulated in Baltimore
The Western Maryland College
ball team was defeated Saturday.
Mr. Sterling Killer, .Sykesville, spent
Sunday with his brother, Mr.. Herbert
Killer, West Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Diffendal,
Hagerstown, were Sunday guests of
Mrs. Robert Myerly, West Main street.
Our young people held a Leap Year
dance in Ffremen's Hall, Monday
evening and large crowd attended.
Martin e. Radtke, 65 years of age,
near Arlington, was struck by the 6.21
a. m train Monday and instantly kill
ed.
Misses Grace Miller and Myrtle
Holmes, of Baltimore were guests of
Miss Margaret Wilson, Carroll street
over Sunday.
BY carrying large number of $50
counterfeit bills, Louis Brine, a
spaniard, was arrested. He also had
$1,000 in genuine currency.
Miss Marjorie Green, Park avenue,
is still at the Universlt--' of Mary
; land for treatment. She is improving
after a successful operation.
John T. Stone, leading Republican
of Baltimore city, died from pneu-
monia Sunday He was at the head of
the Maryland Casualty Company.
The Friendship Sunday school, of
F'enby will meet to reorganize Sun
day May Is, at 2 p. m. All are invited
to come by order of committee.
Miss Mary B. She1lman has return
ed to her home on East Main street
after spending the winter with Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Reese, Charleston,
w. Va.
Mrs. Annie Deliozer, of Coalport,
Pa, who was visiting at the home of
her sister, Mrs. John A. Arbaugh
for the past two weeks left for her
home today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brooke Shelton, of
Birdsboro, Pa, visited her father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Reaver,
ever Sunday and attended Leister's
church communion.
Officers Bale and Helm captured
runaway boy from Baltimore at the
Carnival grounds Monday evening
and returned him to his parents on
the 6.55 train. The boy was mute.
Those who visited Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Gummel Sunday last were
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Albaugh, Mr.. and
Mrs Joseph Yingling, Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Albaugh and John and Ralph
Yingling.
In an advertisement in another
column of this issue the Carroll Oak
Tanning Co. advertise an advance in
the price of bark, paying $40 per ton
for Prime Chestnut Oak and $12 per
ton for Prime Black Oak.
For the second time IN few
months the police call box at Ais
quith and Orleans street was de-
moIished yesterday, when struck by
the automobile of Guy Reifsnider, of
Westminster, Md. Reifsnider, who
was driving a large truck, backed
into the box, tearing it from its
foundation - Baltimore American,
May 10.
Among the guests who spent last
Sunday with Mrs. Catherine Rupert
and family near Shipley, were Mr..
John Schneider, and Oliver Barnes,
of Halethorpe; Mrs. Annie Hallemyer,
son and daughter, George and Marie,
Mr. Chas. Miller, Miss Catherine and
Helen Adams, of Baltimore; Mr.
George Rapport, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Magin, of near Shipley.
Those spending Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs, R. j. Leeppo and family
were Mr. and Mrs. George Feeser,
Mr.. and Mrs. Nolan r. Leppo and
daughter, Dorothy, Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Feeser, all of Baltimore; Mr..
and Mrs. Oliver j. Leppo and daugh-
ter, Helen, Miss Margie Mann, Ed
ward E. Mann, Lester v. Caple. and
Thurman Ruark, of Baltimore.
Edgar Wilson, about 20 years old,
son OF John Wilson, of Mt. Airy, was
struck by an automobile on the Bal
timore pike near Bartholows, on
Sunday afternoon, and sustained a
fractured skull. He Was picked up
in an unconscious condition and
taken to the City Hospital, accompan-
led by DR.. Abraham T. Cronk. 1t is
stated that Wilson is getting along
nicelv.
Prof. Kent Roberts Greenfield, well
known in this city, has been appoint
ed assistant professor of European
history, of the first grade, in Yale
University Prof. Greenfield was a
resident of this city from 1907 to 1911
and is a graduate of Western Mary
land College of 1911. He received the
degree Of Dotcor of Philosophy in
History at the John Hopkins Univers-
ity in 1915, since then has been an in
structor and assistant professor of
European history and economics at
Delaware College, Newark, Del.