The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-07-21


Roland Holmes spent Sunday evening
with Mrs. Annie Staub and Mr.. Harr,
Dull.
Declaring that she deserved to b.
shot," Mrs. Margaret Maher, New
York, refused to lodge a complain
against her husband, George, WIFI
shot her five times June %. One of tn,
/ bullets is still lodged in her spine.
A concrete pavement was laid from
! the railroad to Liberty street in from
of the Farmers Fertilizer & FeeC
| Company. The old stone pavement ha.
| seen nearly half century service
and was very uneven.
To avoid striking two ladies Sat
urday afternoon at the corner OF
Main and Center street, a woman driv-
or run her car up on the pavement
against tree, damaging the cal
slightly.
An advance agent to a circus which
Is shown in Baltimore stopped of
here Saturday to arrange a date for
an exhibition, but on account of the
went to Hagerstown
Maryland is very definitely on the
automobile map of the United States
With the 1922 registration of S.307
motor vehicles to a population of l.
449,661. according to the census OF
1920, there is one such vehicle to ev-
cry 81 persons in the State.
Timely discovery of a cotton iron
casting that had toppled off a fiat car
at curve, mile west of Northumber-
land, Pa, classification yards of the
Pennsylvania Railroad early saved a
Philadelphia Williamsport express
train from crashing into the obstacle
Howard Meyers, of Chicago, partici-
pant in the 1914 Olympic games at
Stockholm as a representative of New
York, who committed suicide by drink
ing poison in a loop drug store Satur-
day morning, killed himself because
his wife ran away with his best friend
William Knox, a 40-year- old-color-
ed man, supposed to have been crazed
went on a rampage Monday morning
in Philadelphia. AS a result he now
lies dead in jefferson Hospital, and
one of his victims, Ernest c. Tref-
finger, Jr., is in a serious. condition in
Hahnemann Hospital.
Charles Summers, who was knock
ed down and robbed in the locker
room of a Williamsport factory sew
eral weeks ago, is searching for his
assailant to reward him for having re-
stored by the blow he struck Sum
mers on the head the sight of a use
less eye.
McSherrystown base ball team de
feated Patapsco, at McSherrystown
Sunday afternoon by the score of
to ,. The game was well played for
innings the score being l to 0, but the
next inning Patapsco weakened and
the home team rolled up six runs in
the next four frames.
At Salem, O., several girls were
tossing a ball around in the lake dur
ing a storm. There was a flash of
lightning and four of the members OF
the party were knocked down. Others
went to their aid and when they were
lifted from the water, two were found
dead.
/ Six persons were killed when a
Maine Central Railroad train struck
an automobile at a blind crossing
near Waterville, Me. A baby girl was
the sole survivor of the party of sew
en- in the automobile. The infant was
thrown 20-feet from the tracks and es.
capped with minor bruises.
VIM. Fogle, Union Bridge, who was
thrown beneath the milk train and haG
foot severed at Linwood on June IS
and taken to a hospital, returned last
week. The injured member was am
putated above the knee and his quick
recovery is regarded as almost mirac.
ulous. 1t is said he has already or,
dered an artificial limb
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Pfoutz, Lin.
wood, motnred to Chambersburg, Pa.
last Friday to the home of Mr. DAME
Pfoutz. When he started for home il
the afternoon, John Pfoutz, theil
nephew. left with a party of Boy
Scouts When Mr. Pfoutz arrived home
ne received WOTu Ildt his nephew nat
drowned while in swimming
Hector Lefever, a poultryman o
South Vineland, n. j., was astOundeC
when on opening his henhouse dOol
a big hen hawk flew furiously into hi.
face, nearly knocking him down. TIL,
hawk had been locked up with tn,
chickens all night, but did not disturb
them. After vanquishing Lefever tn,
would-be thief flew away.
!. William belong, an alleged deserte
from the Marine Corps, was arrested
at Shamokin, Pa, Sunday by his faith
er, who had letters from the Navy De
partment telling him of the desertion
When the son turned up in Shamokin
the father, with visions of a $50 re
ward for the arrest of a deserter, tool
him to League Island.
Singleton Dorum, Charles street, 70
his faithful service during his tim
while working as a drayman for tn
late f o. Grimes, was remembers
by the deceased Mr.. Grimes gave hi
teams and all equipment that wen
with them to Singleton, who will car
ry on the business in his name, here
| after