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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1932
Page
4
Fritz the celebrated movie dog and Rin Tin Tin ally will attend the Great Hagerstown Fair next week with owner Floyd Newell. He will appear daily and take part in the Pet and Doll Parade Monday evening and the Baby Show, performing for dog lovers at the event.
Fritz the German police dog, known for docile nature and Hollywood roles, will autograph his own photographs for San Mar orphans at the Fair Tuesday afternoon. He has appeared with Rin Tin Tin and often doubled for the late star. Fritz carries $5000 life insurance and is noted for one bad habit, smoking cigarettes.
Larger enrollment reported at Clear Spring and Hancock High Schools by Superintendent Grimes. Broadway School in the city is overcrowded but relief may come from a transfer of pupils.
A grand flower show will greet visitors at the Main Exhibition Hall. Miss Mary Bester and J Forney Young oversee carefully arranged displays creating a colorful, fairyland atmosphere replacing the former automobile exhibit with booths featuring household products works of art and home products. Automobiles move to the former machinery row space.
The Horoscope notes adverse planetary influences for Saturday September 10 1932. It warns that holidays may prove more profitable than work and predicts quiet trade for merchants while urging cooperative schemes to solve local finances. It mentions possible storms, rising inventions, diplomacy needs, and stresses restraint of ego and fatigue. John Crittenden is listed as born on this day in 1787.
A guard who wounded Martin Luther Miller on the Smithsburg Leiteresburg road identified as R. M. Purdum, 45, of 137 West Franklin Street. Miller, 28, is hospitalized with shotgun wounds after an alleged attempt to siphon gasoline from a tank at M. J. Grove Lime Co. An accomplice fled the scene and remains unidentified. Purdum said he fired at a man who walked from the tank with a bucket. The bucket bore holes, leading investigators to consider a second injured man.
Miller says he will take the rap and will not name the other man. His condition is not serious, though he may stay in hospital for some time with a deputy at his side constantly. The M J Grove Company won the contract to rebuild a road section from Smithsburg to Leitersburg after prior gas leaks. The firm had been losing gas and recently hired Purdum to guard the tanks.
Charles Lynn Hutson, 51, of the Bronx, killed in the steamer Observation blast, born in Hancock and longtime iron worker in New York, survived by widow Marion Hutson and brother John S Hutson. Burial in Cumberland today. Allen-Cooperage stave mills to reopen Sept 15 after May shutdown, 350 jobs restored.
Bill Layman of Troop 5 received the Eagle gold palm for earning ten more merit badges beyond 21 at a Court of Honor held in St John’s Lutheran auditorium. Major Roy B. Seymour of Philadelphia spoke, outlining a new ten year Scouts program, as Dr J Walter Layman presided in Colonel Carmichael’s absence.
Layman William Hopkins Edward Carpenter Dick Funkhouser Charles Shockey Ralph Bonney Claude Minnich Kenneth Maddran Warfield McBride Roger Newcomer Jack Holliday Gillis Hutson appear as participants or stake holders in a local public notice.
Charles W. Lynch aged 81 former jurist and State Supreme Court president dies at his Clarksburg home after a period of illness. Lynch served a long career in public service culminating in the highest post on the State Supreme Court. He died at his home in Clarksburg on September 9.
The passage notes Lynch, a Republican, served as a teacher prosecuting attorney circuit judge legislator and city school superintendent at various times before his election to the Appellate Court and his later selection by fellow judges as president of the state's highest tribunal.
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