The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-08-04


A marriage license was issued il
Frederick to Lewis C. Myers an
Flora V. Porter, Mt. Airy.
!, George c. Thomas, of Berryville
Va, died July 16, aged 81 years. Mr.
Thomas was resident of TaneytowI
at one time.
| The Kiwanis Club of Frederick
journeyed to Ridgeville Tuesday even
! ing, July 25, and held it's regular
weekly session at the Nelson Hotel
A fine chicken dinner was served.
Miss Blanche Sheeler, Pennsylvania
avenue. and Mr.. Joseph Sheeler, Of
Shippensburg, Pa, are visiting in
Philadelphia and Atlantic City, this
week.
| Grief and remorse over having hel
| long, luxurious, blond hair bobbed
drove pretty Ruth Evans, 25, New
York, to suicide. She was found dead
in her room in Brooklyn. The end OF
rubber tube, connected with the gas
jet, was in her mouth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bollinger and
son, East Main street, have returned
from a visit to Atlantic City. On re-
turning they stopped in Philadelphia
leaving a dress suit case in the car,
while visiting a store. When they came
out they found that a Philadelphia
thief had relieved them of it. The
dress suit case contained Mrs. Boil
fingers best clothes.
James Henri de Rothschild son of
Baron Herr de Rothschild, head of the
famous Rothschild family of France,
was sued for 100000 damages in the
State Supreme Court, New York, We'd
nesday by Marie Porquet, French
girl, who alleged she came to this
country last Spring upon his promise
to marry her and that he has since re
fused to fix a date for the marriage.
The wheat crop on the big farm con-
nected with the LaurytOwn almshouse,
1T Laurytown, Pa, is a record-break-
Sr this year, and averages 40 bushels
to the acre, which is equal to pro
duction on the famed prairie lands of
the West. More than enough wheat will
be harvested to provide bread for the
300 inmates of the institution during
the coming year.
Laying particular stress on the bad
condition of the road and the poor
facilities of the Western Maryland
Railroad company at the Deerfield
crossing, a coroner's jury, presided
over by Justice Robert Cadow, of
Thurmont, at Deerfield, exonerated
the Western Maryland and the crew
of the train which caused the death OF
Miss Grace Hauver, 80, of Foxville, at
the Deerfield crossing July 16.
George Rudolph, of Skunk Hollow,
near Punxsutauney, Pa, was killed
Friday night by a hunter who mistook
him for a grounding, according to
county authorities. Rudolph, they said,
was lying in the grass, when the
hunter mistook his brown cap for
and fired, the charge en-
tered the victims face and chest. No
will be made, they added, as
the shooting was purely accidental.
The Hotel Slagle, Emmitsburg, was
sold to VIII F. Roberts, of Washing
ton. Mr. Roberts took possession
on Tuesday. This inn at Emmits-
burg has been in charge OF a number
of people since it was first erected,
and up to 1913, when it was taken oy-
er by Mrs. A. NJ. Slagle, was known
as the Emmit House. The old hostelry
was renovated by Mrs. Slagle. Since
the death of Mrs. Slagle last fall the
hotel has been in the control of Mrs.
M. j. Thompson.
The registration ana election laws
of MARYLAND in up-to-date form, in
Guiding the amendments passed by
the last session of the Legislature,
have made their appearance in a vol
ume published by the Secretary OF
State, Philip B. Perlman. A new in
dex has been compiled and the vol
ume contains the corrupt practices
law, absent-voting law, Baltimore
city annexation law, and all other
laws of Maryland relating to elections,
as well as extracts from the Federal
and State Constitutions.
Alleged to have represented himself
as a stock salesman for New York
corporation with a store in Lancas-
ter, Pa, George Sellenberger, alias
George holden, alias George Allen, of
DoyIestown, is in Jail awaiting a hear
ing on charges of false pretense, at
Lancaster, Pa. Sellenberger is charg
ed with having sold fake stock to sew
eral Lancaster county farmers. 1t is
also claimed by the police that he is
wanted in other cities for forgery.
Mr. Charles Lippy, of Philadelphia,
is spending some time with Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Null, Pennsylvania av-
enue Mr.. Lippy will stay here until
he improves from an illness he has
been suffering from for some time.
Mr. and Mrs. James Coppersmith.
and son, Paul, and Mr.. and Mrs. Gran
vile Coppersmith, of Bachman's Val
ley, spent Sunday, July %, with Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Stocksdale, Sandy
mount.
Although the State Geological Sur
vey does not include the elevation OF
Ridgeville in the table of towns list
ed in a recent compilation, it was