October 3
Romance
Blasted
A
wedding romance of a trifle over
three months has been blasted
following the application of
Mrs. Mary Horner in Frederick
court for the divorce from her
husband Dr. Arnold Horner, a
prominent druggist of
Emmitsburg. The couple was
married after a brief courtship
and lived together until
September eleventh.
Mrs.
Horner states in her filing that
on one occasion her husband
choked her, and on another
threatened her with bodily harm.
She declares that he has,
conservatively estimated, an
income of $3,000 a year and that
she is without support. She
asked counsel fees and funds to
defray the expense of divorce
proceedings. In reply, Dr.
Horner denies the ill treatment
charge and says that Mrs. Horner
left him and returned to her
home in Germantown, despite his
pleadings. He makes counter
charges of various conduct, on
her part, but does not specify
them. He asks a reduction in
counsel fees, charging his
income has been grossly over
estimated.
Boozer’s
Rocked Romance
The
membership of the Former-Former
Boozers association were rocked
by the revelation that Jack
"Stinky" Deatheridge has been in
a secret romance with one of
Emmitsburg’s new lady
farmerettes. When confronted by
his fellow Boozers, Deatheridge
defended the illicit romance by
stating that he was simply
following his natural God given
duty by providing the farmerette
what every woman needed – a man
to "cook and clean up after."
"For without that," Deatheridge
said, "women folk waste their
limited mental capacity thinking
up useless things like
prohibition and suffrage."
Deatheridge went on to blame the
success of the prohibition
movement on men who picked up
after themselves as opposed to
letting their womenfolk do it.
October 10
Community Show For Emmitsburg
On
Friday, October 31 and Saturday,
November 1, Emmitsburg will hold
a community show. Entries of
livestock, grain, fruit,
poultry, cured meats, preserves,
marmalades, jellies, canned and
dried fruits and vegetables - in
fact, anything possible to raise
on a farm or in a garden - will
be displayed. In the home
economics department there will
be shows of needlework, woven
rugs, baskets and the like.
The
merchants in Emmitsburg and many
individuals have offered prizes
for the best entries and decided
enthusiasm is being shown
throughout the community.
Farmers, merchants and town
people throughout the entire
district are manifesting the
keenest interest in what
promises to be the banner event
in Emmitsburg.
The
public school house will be the
show place for the undercover
entries, and the Firemans’
field, on which there is already
a large pavilion, will be the
scene of the livestock judging.
Stalls and pens will be erected
within the enclosure and the
different entries judged on the
diamond.
Newsboy
Beating Article Incorrect
Conspicuous articles appearing
in local newspapers last month
stated that Lawrence Porter, of
Emmitsburg, had attacked and
beaten Richard Ervin, an
Emmitsburg newsboy, are
absolutely incorrect according
to a statement made by Mr.
Porter. "How they managed to get
my name connected with that
affair I cannot understand,"
said Mr. Porter. "I was in
Gettysburg and Fairfield on
Monday afternoon and was never
in Emmitsburg. Through the
carelessness of some newspaper
reporter I have received
criticism for an act I never
committed."
Driver’s
Hard Luck
Hard
luck came in quantities for
Joseph Lynn of Harney, driver of
a six-ton truck, Tuesday
afternoon. The climax came when
the heavy truck broke through
the bridge over Plum Run on the
Taneytown Road just outside of
Harney. Lynn started from
Baltimore on Monday with a load
of metal, but hard luck overcame
him quickly. First he had engine
trouble and then the drive
chains broke. While repairing
the engine his coat became
saturated with gasoline and
later became ignited and
severely burned his right arm.
He continued to drive until he
came to the Plum Run Bridge
where the weight of the truck
resulted in him breaking through
the decking. It took hours for a
large gang of men to extract the
truck from the bridge and repair
the decking.
October 17
Former
County Commissioner Dies
David
Rhodes, one of the oldest and
most respected citizens of
Emmitsburg, died Friday at the
age of 83 years old. He was born
in Freedom Township. He resided
in Pennsylvania until March
1915, since which time he lived
in Emmitsburg. He served as an
Adams County Commissioner for
many years and owned and
operated the Middle Creek
Flowering Mill, which had been
in ownership of the Rhodes
family for more than a century.
He was a member of the Reformed
Church in Emmitsburg and served
as an Elder in the congregation
for many years.
Motor
Company Loses Suit
A
verdict of $400 was returned by
jury in a suit by Charles
Sanders against the Emmitsburg
Motor Company. The case is a
result of a mishap of a year
ago. The accident occurred on
the public road leading from
Emmitsburg to Gettysburg.
According to Sanders, he was
driving a horse attached to a
buggy when an agent of the motor
company, operating an
automobile, struck his team,
throwing him out and injuring
him and the team.
October 24
Murder
At Thurmont
The
authorities are on the lookout
for an escaped murderer who shot
and instantly killed Leo Creager,
age 35, a lumber and coal dealer
of Thurmont, when the latter,
with a small band of men,
attempted to close in on him in
a peach orchard just outside of
the town on Saturday.
Creager
and his companions have been
notified to be on the lookout
for two young men who had fled
in that direction after
dynamiting safes in the offices
of Marshall & Ford and the
wholesale establishment of
George Kehne in Frederick,
earlier that day. The men
arrived in Thurmont on the
trolley car and were arrested
upon their arrival. As they were
being escorted to the lockup,
one of them upset the Deputy
Sheriff and both darted away.
One got on the Western Maryland
Railroad train but was
recaptured a little later. The
other made for the open country
and took a stand in a peach
orchard.
The
fugitive was pursued for ten
minutes until he was a mile from
the railroad station and entered
the peach orchard. Two of the
posse had made a detour and it
was beginning to look to the
fugitive as if it was time for
his gun-work or to surrender
peacefully. The latter, however,
was apparently far from his
mind, for he whipped out a long,
blue steel service revolver and
shot Creager, who had started in
to tackle the man barehanded
The
murderer then disappeared. It is
supposed that he is trying to
reach Baltimore. The murderer is
described as a 25-years old,
white man, with a dark shallow
complexion, weighing 175 pounds.
He is 5’ 2" tall and was wearing
a dark green felt hat and a dark
green suit; the trousers are
torn. $1,000 reward has been
offered by the County
Commissioners in Frederick
County for the murderer, dead or
alive.
Sheriff
Klipp stated that the search for
the murderer has been
exhaustive. The Sheriff has
deputized practically every
farmer in the Thurmont, Detour
and Rocky Ridge area and plans
to patrol the Western Maryland
Railroad and guard all the
turnpikes and public roads.
The
murderer had an hour head start
on the main body of searchers on
the account of tending to
Creager. Reports continued to
come in all weekend of an
unidentified man in the woods,
but when the posse showed up, no
trace of the fugitive could be
found.
While no
excitement exists, calm
indignation prevails all over
the northern part of the county
and it is felt that the fugitive
will be dealt with on the spot
when captured. The opinion has
been freely expressed that
officers will have a hard time
getting the man to surrender in
the event he is caught and the
citizens can save the courts a
lot of time by simply killing
him on the spot.
Many in
the community, however, believe
that the murderer has
successfully escaped. They are
of the opinion that the posse
and bloodhounds would have
closed in on him by now. A
number of officials are of the
opinion that the murderer
received some assistance. They
believe mountaineers gave him
food and information through
fear, knowing that he was
heavily armed and that he had
killed another to make his
escape.
Sherriff
Klipp, however, thinks the
murderer is still holding up in
the heavy woodlands adjoining
the Thurmont, Rocky Ridge and
Detour railroad right of way. He
believes the man will eventually
hop a train and escape to
Baltimore unless the citizens
are able to apprehend and kill
him locally.
October 31
Autobus
Wrecked
The
Thurmont and Emmitsburg bus
crashed into a fence along the
Pike in the vicinity of Dr.
Fredman’s home near Thurmont
Tuesday evening. While the
driver and the four passengers
escaped injuries, the machine
was damaged considerably. The
driver was attempting to pass a
calf in the road; the action
that caused the accident. The
wayward calf was struck, but not
hurt.
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