The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-03-10
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Mrs William Bowman and daugh-
ter, Ruth, Carroll street, have gone to
visit Mr.. Bowman in North Carolina.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bennett, this city,
have returned from pleasant vaca-
ton to Florida resorts.
Mrs. Robert Hesson, this city, left
for Yonkers, New York, Saturday,
where she is going to spend some time
with her husband.
On account of the bad weather ia
cob l.. Stocksdale did not hold his sale
of personal property March 7th. 1t
will be held March 14th, rain or shine.
The next Parent Teachers meeting
of the patrons and friends of Charles
Carroll High School will be held next
Tuesday evening, March IA, at 7.30 at
the High School. Mr. Thomas L. Glib
son, supervisor of music, of Baltimore,
will be present.
Mr.. C. Edgar Nusbaum, of the firm
of Nusbaum and Jordan, this city, and
Miss BERTHE L. Biehl, buyer for the
Department, spent several
days in New York, this week selecting
dresses, coats, suits and millinery for
the spring season.
Those who visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodore Yingling and Mr.. and Mrs.
Vernon Yingling, on Sunday were Mr..
and Mrs. Leonard Hosler, Mr.. and
Mrs Milton Dull and son, Emory, Mrs
Henry Dull, Gilbert and Naomi Dull,
Or. Claude Mummaugh, Elton and
Louise Zentgraf.
John r. Sutton, whose home burg
IlrS have ranSacked four times with
in the last two months, has an adver-
.isement in Tampa (Fla) newspap-
er asking the marauders to stay away
from his place. Il have very little left
low worth taking" the advertisement
said. please pass me by for little
while"
Stricken while standing at the
sraveside of his wife, who had been
buried several hours before, Ernest
F. Reachard is in serious condition
at his home at LaBott. Long months
Of care and worry caused by his wife's
illness are said to have brought him
% the verge of prostration, which his
vigil at the grave Tuesday eliminated.
Smoke was found coming from the
bed room of Roy Shipley's house, on
West Main street, Tuesday night,
about SIS and on investigating it
was found that a coal oil stove had
exploded and set the bed on fire. Mr..
and Mrs. Shipley were not home at the
lime. The fire company responded and
the blaze after throwing
he bed clothing out into the street.
Patrolman James Stoner, of Balti-
more, is spending some time with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ. Ston-
ar, Pennsylvania avenue. Mr.. Stoner
IS nursing a dislocated thumb and
many bruises on his body by being
beaten by a bunch of Baltimore thugs
that he was about to arrest. Their
we're six men, all jumping on Mr..
Stoner at one time.
A big Texas bull broke loose in Man
haitian and Paddy's market, a couple
Of blocks west of Times Square, be-
zane a topsy-turvy scene of frightened
shoppers, overturned pushcarts, scar
I'd peddlers and damaged vegetables.
The bull used a young lady's pretty
red parasol as an excuse for abruptly
quitting a herd that was being led to
IN abattoir.
In a fast game featured by close
guarding on both sides Westminster
High School defeated the Blue Ridge
College birls' basketball team by the
score of to 5, in the Armory, Friday
hight. The Blue Ridge forwards were
helpless before the superior guarding
If Benson and Rife, while the defense
work of Brumbaugh for the losers
was of the highest quality. A large
crowd of interested people packed the
building.
Tie annual election of officers of the
Brick Methodist Protestant Church,
Wakefield. was held February 18th and
he following officers were elected for
he ensuing year: Trustees elected
we're Scott Bollinger, Harry Englar,
Frank T. Hoover, Mrs. Isaac n. Ston-
,r, Mrs. Barbara Hoover, Mrs. Scott
Mrs. Carroll Fritz, Miss Eta
Stoner, Mrs Harry Englar; the Stew
ards elected were Mr.. Scott Bollinger,
Harry Englar, Allen Ecker, Frank T.
Hoover.
Sophie Killian, % years old, Wilkes
barre, Pa, was indicted by the Grand
Jury for the murder of George John,
4 fruit merchant, who was shot to
ieath on the Pocono Mountains on
January last. Just what happened
is not known to the authorities, but
the girl went to a farm house and said
she and her companion had been shot
at from a mysterious automobile that
pursued them, John, she said was
wounded The girl disappeared, and
farmers found the fruit merchant dead
along the road. The girl was arrested
and then released. Stories she told
brought about her rearrest and the po-
lice now charge her with shooting
John, claiming robbery was the mo-
tive.
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