The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-09-01

ana elRnt years AFTER she ndu relnaf-
ried, Mrs. Helen Courtney, of Brook
Ign, sued her second husband, Hugh
Courtney, for an annulment and was
granted a decree. She married Geo
Beck in 1905 and separated IL days af-
terWard.
Eleven-year-old Jennie Kovanski, of
Rochester, n. Y, has not swallowed n
bit Of food in the past eight years.
Her sophagua is entirely closed at the
throat. When she was years old she
underwent an operation for tonsilit1s,
and since then she has not been able
to swallow. She takes all her food in
liquid form through a rubber tube in
an incision in her stomach.
DR.. and Mrs. 7. H. Wertz and chill
dren. Theodore, Pauline and John
Tracy WertZ, Hanover, Pa, were pres
ent at a family gathering which was
held at the home of Mrs. Wertz's
mother. Mrs. Annie Tracy, Lineboro.
Mrs. Wertz's brother, Grover Tracy,
and his wife, Chicago, and her sister,
Mrs. NJ. c. Wentz, and husband, DR..
VI. c. Wentz and daughter Kathleen,
York. were also present.
Expressing regret that he could not
give him some of the treatment the
accused had administered to his e.
year-old daughter, Recorder William
!. Cain. sentenced William H. Moore,
of Bayonne, n. j., to the county peni-
itentiary for one year. Moore was
charged with burning the knuckles OF
his little daughter, Dorothy, because
she had been cutting and tearing
things about the house
The fifteenth annual convention of
the Baltimore County Firemen which
met at Arcadia, elected the following
officers George II. Stevenson, Refs
terstown, president: NJ. j. Buttner,
Pikesville, president; William
Weber, Lansdowne, treasurer and c.
Homer Janey, Brooklandt0wn, secre-
tary. The treasurer was the only Of
fetal reelected. The next convention
will be held in Pikesville on the
fourth Thursday of August, 1923.
The Interstate commerce Commits
sion transmitted 20 the Senate a re-
port upon the condition Of railway
motive power, i'll which it was stated
that approximately three out of every
five OF the 1885 locomotives recently
inspected were more or less seriously
defective. A total of 169 are unsafe
to operate" and 1926 others should
have attention" The commission does
not know the state of the 6. 900 loco
motives that have not been inspected
Frightened by her narrow escape
from an automobile collision while
driving from Phoenixville, Pa, Mar
garet Wisler. has lost the sight OF
both eyes. A car approached hers
with headlights glaring, and as it
whizzed by Miss Wisler swerved TO the
side of the road, everything going
black before her. Her nerves regained
their poise and her sight came back,
only to go again as a second spell
attacked her. This also passed off, but
the third time the girl became blind
Those who spent Sunday with Mrs.
Catherine Rupert and family, near
Shiplev. were Mr.. and Mrs. John
Daugherty, Mr.. and Mrs. Bohn, Mr..
and Mrs. Hallemyer, two sons and two
daughters, Miss Gertrude Lanahan,
John and Joseph McGFaine, all OF
Baltimore: Mr.. Adam Rupert, daugh-
ter Theresa. and two SONS, John and
Adam. Ir, of Westminster: Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Freyman, of near Law
renee: George and William Rupert,
son and daughter, of near Shipley,
Harry Gilmore and others.
Those who visited the home of Mr..
Jacob II. Little and family, Bachman's
Valley, Sunday We're Mr.. and Mrs.
manuel 0. Little and two daughters,
Frances and Alice, and son, Howard
Little, of Hyattsville, Md; Mr.. John
H. FrOck, OF Mt. Pleasant; Mr.. j. T.
Yingling and Mr.. j. @. Jones, of Bach
mans Valley, and Mr.. Charles and
! Paul Jones, of Baltimore. made a fly
ing visit also. Mr.. and Mrs. j. T.
Yingling. accompanied by Mrs. Chas.
Jones, of Baltimore, called on Friday
evening and all enjoyed music and
songs on the piano and mouth harp.
| On Sunday afternoon last while Dan
| Bowersox, of Hanover, was driving
! from Emmitsburg to Taneytown, ac-
companied by his wife and children
in turning to the side of the road, to
get out of the way of a car coming in
the rear, he swung the car suddenly,
when it upset, and all the occupants
were thrown on the concrete roadway.
AS a result, the bones of his right
arm were broken at the wrist. Mrs.
| Bowersox, daughter, Geraldine, and
son, Junior, were bruised consider
ably, but their injuries are not SER
! iouS.
The shock of his fathers death
seems to be responsible for care for
color blindness in the case of E. Ford
Barner. of Williamsport, Pa. Eighteen
months ago he lost the power to dis
I tinguish colors as the result of injury
in an automobile accident. While al
! his fathers funeral last week he sud
denly leaned over to his mother and
said that he had something wonderful
to tell her After the funeral he prov
ed that his color blindness had dis
appeared by naming the color of flow
ers in the garden. .-.--