The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-10-20


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E Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ditman, of this
: city, spent Sunday with their son.
/ Billy Ditman, who is student at
2 Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown
Pa.
The handsome Reifsnider residence
on College Hill, has been purchased
by the Western Maryland College for
IL consideration of $4,000. The prop
erty adjoins the college grounds.
The Charles Carroll school will
hold ii Japanese Halloween social, on
the evening of Monday, October 3Oth,
for the henefit of the fund which is TO
be used to purchase victrola for the
school.
David Carbaugh, Hanover, Pa,
bought Chas. b. Schwartz farm. near
Taneytown, on the south side of West
minister road for $4,000, and the small
place at which Mr.. Schwartz lived,
was sold to Mrs. McBee. of Balti-
more. FOR $4,000.
Miss Henrietta Linderman, of AL
banv, y. Y, and Miss Annie Starner
SENT. both students OF the Lanke-
nau School, at Philadelphia, spent the
weeks end with Miss Sentt's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Senft, Shady Side,
near this city.
Five German prisoners are all that
remain in French jails of the several
hundred thousand taken by French
troops during the World War, Presl-
dent Millerand having granted full
pardon to q of the 20 convicted or
crimes against the common law
These five remaining prisoners, who
are held at ToulOn prison, were found
guilty OF particularly heinous crimes.
Thomas Malott, Il carpenter, fell
distance OF 80 feet while working on
an unfinished building in York. In
falling, he struck a plank, smashing
II in two, and breaking the force OF
his fall. When he reached the bottom,
he surprised his wOrkmen by getting
I'D and walking away. He received
only a few scratches and bruises.
! Those who spent Sunday with Mr..
Harry Dull and Mrs. Annie Staub
we're Mr.. and Mrs. Emanuel Dull
and five children, Gladys. Mon
roe, Rachel. John and Ruth, Mr.. Lew
is Zentz. all of near Warteldsburg'
/ Mr.. Charles Stonesifer and wife. OF
near Taneytown, and Mr.. Arthur
Mumford. Of New Midway. All spent
very pleasant day.
With one baby buried in far-on
Mexico. with another dead at birth
and with no relatives to give her com
fort or relief Mrs Emily Beaumont,
wife Of Faust Beaumont, who was
convicted of the robbery of the wales
/ home last July and who committed
suicide in the State Penitentiary Mon
day, is suffering from a nervous col
lapse mt the Mission Home for Wom-
en- in Norfolk.
( C.. Fl. Cooper, IS years old, Knox
Vile. was killed when he fell through
the Evitts creek bridge on the Baltl-
more and Ohio Railroad just east OF
Cumberland. shortly after midnight
Sunday night. He was conductor
and his train had been help up be-
cause Of the dropping of brakeDeam
He went forward to fix the beam anu
in the darkness fell 10 feet TO the
creek bed He is survived by his wild
ow and eight or nine children.
I Mrs. Mary Ehie Brandenburg, wife
Of w. w Brandenburg. died at her
home at Harmony Thursday morninS
at 2.I5 o'clock from complication OF
diseases. aged 50 years, 2 months and
. ~. llnpht1r Inln
Green and the late Rebecca Moser
Green and had spent all her life in
the vicinity OF Harmony. She was
always interested and took promi-
nent part in community and religious
activities.
. Western Maryland scored its first
victory of the season in collegiate
ranks when ii defeated Gallaudet, IS
to o. Saturday i'll this city. The col
Iege boys got revenge for the defeat
handed to them by the Mutes two
years ago. From the start OF the FIRST
Quarter until the last man was down
ed in his tracks just before the whistle
blew for the end of the game, West
arn outclassed their opponents.
Henry T. Singer, aged 20, OF WIZ
Transport. the oldest boatman Of the
( Chesapeake and Ohio canal. accident
" drowned in the canal at the Log
Wall level, Is miles from Washington,
bv falling from his boat Friday. He
was i'll charge of one OF the boats
engaged in hauling sand to Williams
port for large power plant. Singer
had been a boatman for over 90 years
\ lucky jump on Friday, the thir-
teenth saved Elmer Bone. operator Tor
a Philadelphia brokers' house, living
at pitman, when steam train on the
Reading Railway struck his auto
mobile at a grade crossing at VIII
Jamestown, n, ]. Bone was the only
occupant of the car. He leaped when
he saw the train bearing down upon
him and just cleared the track. His
only injury was a sprained ankle, but
his new touring car was ground to
pieces under the train.
Miss Josephine Kutz Shellman,
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