The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-07-30
SATURDAY, JULY 80, 1881.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.



Summer tourists are on the wing.
Phosphate agents are as active as sand leas
Harvest is over; now pay for your fertilizer
Adams county fair will be held September
27-29.
Mosquitoes are sanguinary insects and vivi'
sects.
Harry R. Hiteshue, of Chicago, will accept
our thanks for late papers.
Typhoid fever and diptheria are prevailing
in and around Westminster.
The cat crop of Carroll is said to be better
this year than for ten years past.
The August term of the Circuit Court viii
begin on Monday week-the Sth.
Early Beatrice peaches were in mar ket last
week, and the first run of watermelOns.
Mrs. Rebecea Crowl, aged Sc years, died in
New Wiadsor, on Thursday Of last week.
Mrs. DR.. Isaac Cole has sent to this Office
this week two baskets OF fine eating apples
Robert Gist shot white crane on Winters
dam on Saturday last. Its plumage was
beautiful.
The steam thresher is around; let the farm
ers lock out for the sparks; the farmers
daughters also.
A tournament and pic mic will be held IN
Cornelius Buckley's woods, near tlnksburg,
on August Y.
Everybody and his wife and daughters, Is
attending Sunday school festivals, pie-nles,
excursions and tournaments.
Stanley Still, of Warfeldsburg, showed Us
on Tuesday a cucumber, grown in his garden
that weighed three pounds and five ounces.
The phaeton is supersed;ng the buggy in
and around Westminster, as a more tasty, a
I'D E-bfar aud M
vehicle.
A festival for the benefit of the Westmin-
ster Brass Band will be held in Belle Grove
SQUARE on the nights Of August 10Th, llth,
I2Ih and 18th.
PROT. F. R. Buell., of this city, raised 2O4
bushels of potatoes from piece OF ground
50xsO feet. On the same ground there is q
fine lot of corn growing.
The artesian well has attained depth Of
525 feet. The company have decided to sink
it to a depth of 700 feet, unless sufficient water
is reached at a less depth.
The Church OF God of Creagerstown, Fred
erick county, will hold a campmeeting IN Mr..
Myers grove, near that place, commencing
August 10, and continuing for about eight
days.
Mrs. Alleweit, wife Of Samuel Allewelt,
died at her home in Elmwood, Illinois, July
s. OF dropsy She was a native OF this eoun-
ty, and removed west in 1866. Her maiden
name was Mellvain.
The small boy and the worm both share
the early summer fruits. Look at that pink
colored rascal revealing in the very core Of
the apple and the pear. He barely es-
capped the boys ineisors.
The Church of God, Uniontown Cireaii,
will hold a camp meeting in the grove OF Mr.
Moses Haines, near Pipe Creek Station, W.
NJ Railroad, commencing August Sd and
continuing until the 18th.
The Waynesborough, Pa, GGzette says
On account of the scarcity Of water, Frick
Co we're obliged to stop their machinery on
Wednesday last, in consequence Of which the
majoriiy Of their employees we're unable 10
work.
The employees Of the Western Maryland
Railroad aud their friends, numbering about
twelve hundred, went down the bay Saturday
on the steamers Pentz aad keyPort to Anna
pelis, where several hours we're pleasantly
spent in visiting the Naval Academy, State
House and other points of interest
Brother Stable Of the Gettysburg Compiler,
insists thai The bass have worms, as an ex-
animation in that town recently demonstrated.
Ii would be singular if they hadn't, for almost
every living thing is troubled with these par
asites, men, horses, hogs, sheep. dogs, BIRDS
Oysters, in fact every living thing
While freight train On the Western Mary
land Railroad was crossing the mOaatain near
Blue Ridge, Tuesday, one Of the standards on
a car loaded with lumber broke, and some OF
the lumber fell upon the track, wreeking five
freight cars in deep cut The harrOwness
of the cut rendered il tedious aud difficult to
clear the track, and consequently some OF the
trains we're delayed several hOars.
A large sewer is being made aloAg Main
street at the intersection Of Liberty. This IS
a ssluable improvement. The immense vol
.ume ef water that flows from both streets after
heavy rains, and carries the washiugs down
ON the railroad, will now be conducted of
underground The deep gutter al the inter
section of Mails and Liberty is done away
with, also. and wagon and carriage springs
will be safer The Western Maryland Rail
road Company ia bearing part Of the expense
IF the improvements