The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-03-24

Accidentally bringing a burning
match with which he had just lighted
a coal oil lamp into contact with what
he thought was a piece of iron, Jo-
seph Gall, II years old, of Lancaster,
Pa, blew off the thumb and index fin
ger and part of the palm of his left
hand. The piece of iron was cap
charged with nitroglycerine.
Thirteen of the 45 members of Zion
United Brethren Sunday School, OF
Myerstown, Pa, who have continued
on it's membership roll for so years
participated in special services COM
memorating the event. Each was
heard in a brief address reminiscent
of the half-century activities in the
school.
prosperity is Returning" was the
glazing head line in daily paper last
week. Does this sound like prosperity?
100000 coal miners order to strike
April LIST; Western Maryland shop
men are considering walk out. The
only prosperity we notice very much
is for Sheriff Martin with his sheriff
sales.
Enraged because she repulsed his
numerous proposals of marriage,
George Fulmer, an overseas veteran,
81 years old, Tacony, Pa, shot Mrs.
Nettie Shriner, 81 years old, and her
2-year-old son, Robert, at Mt. Airy,
Pa, while she was carrying her baby
boy in her arms, and then attempted
to kill himself by firing bullet into
his head.
Those who visited c. Edward Lit
ties father and brother, Sunday after
noon, March 10, were Mrs. Herbert
H. Frock, Misses Hilda and Nettie
Frock, Naomi and Corrine Thomas,
Evelyn Coppersmith, Messrs. John II.
Frock, Edward c. Frock, Daniel ami
Joseph Frock, Wilmer Barnes, and
also a flying visit from Roland Wing
ing and Dorothy Jones, of Baltimore.
Messrs. J. Benjamin Darr and
Charles Monk Mobley, of Westmin-
ster, made a short visit to New York
last Sunday on an excursion from
Hanover. Pa. Mr.. Darr visited his
brother. Mr.. Leo NJ. Darr, while there.
Monk" says he didn't know whether
he was on top of the ground or I'M
derneath.
Mrs. Harriet Thomas, widow of the
late Charles Thomas and mother of
Rev. Nilsson Thomas, former pastor
of HAMPSTEAD NJ. E. Church, in her
81 year. died suddenly at the resi-
dence of her son, 500 North Milton
avenue, Baltimore. Services were
held at the above address. Inter
ment at Frostburg, Md, Friday at 2
o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Welty Streaker, of
Claymont. Del, spent ten days recent
ly with Mr.. Sneakers parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Ambrose Streaker, of near
Winfield, and with his sister, Mrs.
Wilbur L. KoontZ, of Kavanaugh
Heights. Ellicott City. Mr.. and Mrs.
Streaker are preparing to move on
their farm near Reading, Pa, by
April LIST.
Death by poison ended the flight of
Otto Haldor Larsen, senior at the
Massachusetts Institute of Techno-
logy, Boston, from the gay party at
which Pauline Virginia Clark, di-
vorcee, ended her life early last
Thursday morning. His body was
found in the Fenway, behind the mu-
scum of fine arts. Apparently he had
been dead only a short time. Larsen
was in love with Mrs. Clark.
The modest home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Yiengst was the scene of a
triple anniversary, at Myerstown, Pa,
It marked the eightieth birthday of
Yiengst and the seventy-fifth of Mrs.
Yiengst with the fifty-fifth anniver-
sary of their wedding. A result OF
wounds received while serving with
the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry
in the civil war Yiengst has been an
invalid for several years.
The entertainment given at Bach
mans school Thursday evening,
March 16, was quite a success and
largely attended from far and near.
The teacher and scholars deserve a
great deal of credit and also the rest
who took part in the plays. All did re-
markablv we'll and acted their parts
fine. Every body seemed we'll pleased
with the evenings entertainment and
also enjoyed the refreshments which
were sold after the play.
Edna Simon, aged 16, was drowned
and her father, mother and sister
narrowly escaped Friday night when
their automobile ran off road of
Seymour, Ind, plunged into the high
waters of White river and was car
ried fifty feet down stream before be-
ing submerged. Although the automo-
bile was submerged the family man
aged to get on top of it and call for
help Edna was drowned when she
tried to reach safety.
Counsel for Mrs. John w. Mont
gomery, formerly Miss Peggy U'Ner-
tie. an actress, filed petition in the
Circuit Court at Elkton to the suit in
stituted by Montgomery asking for an
annulment of the marriage. The cou-
pie came to Elkton about 5 O'Clock
one morning in January last, and
were married. He alleged in his pc
tition that he was intoxicated and
but slightly acquainted with the
woman.
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