The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-10-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Lockard gave
birthday dinner, September 81, tc
their son, Holmes and nephew, How
ard Myerly
Mr.. and Mrs. Ployd Bortmen, of Ar
cadia. had quite an extensive "trip 10
Norfolk. up the Hudson to Boston, AL
bany, New York and other places.
Striking a COW with his motorcycle
while travelling at high speed along a
rural road near Shamokin, Pa.
George Thrash, %, was catapulted over
an embankment striking into a nile
OF rocks on his head with such force
as to fracture his skull and cause
death St the Shamokin State HospitaI
! several hours later.
Those who spent Sunday with Mr..
! Harry Dull and Mrs Annie Staub
were Mrs, George Sprinkle and Mrs.
John Sheffield. all of Baltimore; Mrs.
John Kasner, Mr.. Howard Phase, of
Spring Mills; Mr.. Edward, William
Adam and Dewey Rickel of near this
city. A very pleasant day was spent
by ALL
Sarah Blunt and Bradley T. J..
Blunt, trustees under the will of
Amanda F. w. Blunt filed a suit in
the Circuit Court at Towson against
the Guilford and Watersville Granite
Company, in which the court is asked
to require the company to account
for all stone sold or shipped by it
from the quarry leased of the plain
tiffs from December ., 1918, to. date
The dance to be held in the Ar
mory, Westminster, Wednesday even
ing. October IL, by II Company, LIST
Infantry is the first of a series of
dances to be held by this organiza-
ton this fall and winter in order that
they NAV complete their athletic equip
ment in the Annoy. These dances will
be chaDeroned and the music will be
the best that can be had in Maryland
John Sterling, oldest-resident of
Somerset county, died at his home
in Lawsonia, Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Sterling was SO years old,
and since 1919 the Masonic fraternity
has acclaimed him as the oldest
Mason in the world. For many years
prior to 1919 he held the distinc-
ton of being the oldest Master Mason
in Maryland.
Judge Walter SchinZ in the Circuit
Court at Milwaukee, Wis, Saturday
gave man two wives. The man, Mat
thew Klein, divorced his wife, Mary,
in Milwaukee, March IL, 1921, and q
year later, lacking only one day, the
judge temporarily set aside the di-
vorce decree on the ground that Mat
thew had perjured himself During
that time Matthew had married at
Charlotte, n. c.
Those who visited Mr.. and Mrs. John
Strevig and family were Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Snyder, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Strevig. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lowe.
Mrs. James Strevig, Mr. Noah Miller,
Misses Marie Fleagle, Attic Strevig,
Grace Snyder, Mildred Lowe, Esta
Stonesifer, MesSrs. Garry Giggards,
Guy Morelock, Roy Beck, Paul Han
kles. John Strevig, Eltinge Strevig
and William Lowe.
Charles W. Horn, aged 80, OF Sham
okin, Pa. employed as a track walk
er for the Pennsylvania Railroad
from York to Brilliant. was killed
while at work near Brilliant when IN
express train, running half an hour
late, struck him. The force of the i'm
pact tore the steps, which weigh about
100 pounds, off a car and they flew a
long distance and knocked a telegraph
pole down Horn leaves a family in
Shamokin.
% The fifteenth annual convention OF
the Frederick County Sunday School
Association, which was held last
week in the Grace Reformed Church,
Frederick. came to 4 close Friday
evening These officers were elected:
President. DR.. George A. Snyder;
President, Rev. j. r Weybright.
Thurmont. corresponding secretary.
Miss Eleanor Abbott; recording sec
rotary, Mrs. Gayson F.. Palmer, and
Treasurer, George Castle.
A suit for $4,000 damages against
the Western Maryland Railway Com
pany, filed in the Circuit Court OF
Washington county by Vernon n.
Schildtknecht, is the outgrowth of the
first disorder occurring in HagerS
town last March, after the railroad
shopmen went on strike. Schildt-
necht, who was a striker. was shot
in the leg when railroad detectives
are alleged to have fired from an en-
CINE after stones had been thrown at
the engine while it was at a street
crossing in the railroad yards.
William Ferguson, colored, &c years
old, was brought to the Woodbury., n.
j., Jail Monday morning about 3
three o'clock. after he gave himself
up to the GlassbOro officials. He shot
and killed William Henry, also col
ored claiming he found the man at
his home with his arms around Mrs.
Emma Ferguson. Ferguson has been
working in Atlantic City, and expected
to have visit from his wife Saturday
evening. but when she did not come.
he came up last night. His house war
full of people, he says.
d. X. Pavey, who says he lives at
$40 West Lombard street, Baltimore,
doc, mt ouraa with pracidanf Hard