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

IS spending the weeks end in Atlantic
City. .m,
Mr.. Bernard Nusbaum, of Baltimore
spent the Fourth with friends in this
city.
Mr.. John Skinner, of Baltimore, is
this city.
Mr.. Edward Beck and DR.. Frances
of Waynesboro, Pa, called on friends
in this city Saturday.
Mrs. Catherine, Jackson, of Balti-
more, was guest of Mrs. Harry Kim
mey, East Main street, over the
Fourth.
Misses Cordelia Myers and Elizabeth
Diffendal. this city, are guests of the
formers grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. o. Myers, Pen Mar.
Mr.. William Myers, of New York,
and Mr.. Joseph Myers, of Philadelphia.
were guests of their mother, Mrs w.
Riley Myers, East Main street.
Mr.. c. H. Miner, Jr., of Smallwood,
land State Sanitarium slightly i'm
proved. He is very i'll at this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Seamafis, of Bal
timore. and Mr.. Robert Seamans, of
uniontown, Pa, were guests of Judge
and Mrs. VIM. H. Thomas, Court
Place.
Our colored citizens held a celebra-
ton in "Snowdens Woods" near this
city, on the Fourth. A colored band
and drum corps from Frederick en-
livened the occasion with their music
The first cargo of Welsh anthracite
coal to be landed at this port in 20
years arrived from Swansea on the
British steamer Watsess. The ship
ment comprised 1000 tons.
How would you like to be tax pay
er in Somerset county? The commits
sioners fixed the levy at $3.50 on the
$1O0: Charles county rate is $193. Liv-
ing old Carroll is not so bad after all
A north-bound engine on the Penn
sylvania Railroad, running light,
plowed through three newspaper au-
tomobile trucks at the main depot at
Asbury Park, n. j., July 4, killing
three men and seriously injuring four
others.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Ditman and Mrs.
Katherine Evans, of Baltimore; Mr..
and Mrs. August Gesell, Lester and
Walter Gesell, of Reese, motored to
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Harris, of War
fieldsburg, Sunday, July 2, and spent
very pleasant day.
Slain with cleaver, the body of an
unidentified young man was found on
the roadside near Elmhurst, New
York. Physicians said the depth of the
wounds. most of them about the head
showed they had been inflicted by
powerful assailant.
With her hair shingled and attired
in suit of overalls, Mrs. Mary Nc
Grew, 40. of Washington, D. c., who
claims to be the widow of a once
wealthy Seattle real estate operator
and landowner, was held in the Duval
county Jail Jacksonville, charged with
having beaten her way on a freight
train.
: James Harvey and Joe Jordan, ne
groes, convicted of criminal assault
and resDited by Governor Hardwick,
of Georgia, were taken from a deputy
sheriff near Lanes Bridge. Ga, and
lynched. The negroes were being re-
moved from Wayne county to Savan-
nah for safe keeping. J. r. Tyre, dep
uty in charge of the prisoners, report
ed the lynching.
Burl V. Huffman, aged 35, was kill
ed at Buffalo Mills, Md, Sunday night
when maple sugar tree on his farm,
blown down during an electric storm
struck him. The farm has a sugar
grove of considerable size and light
ming struck the clearinghouse. Huff
man was engaged in beating out the
| flames while the storm was still in its
fury and the tree was hurled on him
John H. Vitelle, former exalted cy-
clops of the Taft (Cal) Ku Klu Khan,
was found guilty by jury Friday
night of assaulting DR.. Dwight r. Ma
son of Taft by beating him with
ropes. Vitelle was acquitted of a
charge of assault with intent to COM
nit murder and the jury disagreed on
the charge of assault with intent to do
great bodily injury by hanging. The
third indictment on which Vitelle was
convicted is punishable by from l to
10 years in prison.
After a years delay, the residents
of Henryton and vicinity are witness
ing the actual beginning of work on
the State Institution to be located at
that point. This is the State Tuberculo-
sis Sanitorium for colored people. The
land was acquired months ago, but the
amount appropriated for building was
too small to make possible any at
tempts to start the building program.
At the session of the Legislature last
winter. additional funds were provid-
ed, and the contract for the first OF the
group of buildings has been let and
work is already well under way.
| According to the Pittsburgh Dis
patch. four bank robbers, apprehend-
ed at Braddock, Pa, about a week ago
nave been identified by Maryland Off
Gals and police as the men who loot
ed the Woodbine National Bank, OF