The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-09-16
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Isens.

Inc IOurth annual tournament OF the Pop
lar Springs Trotting Association took place
on Thursday of last week. The day was
pleasant, the attendance large, the fitting spir-
tied, the people enthusiastic and happy. I.
Thomas Jones, Esq, Of the Baltimore Bar,
and prominently mentioned in connection with
Democratic judicial nomination of this coun-
ty, delivered the charge to the knights in a
brief and well chosen address. The knights
were Harry Steele, of Watersville; Harry
Spurrier, of Pleasant Springs; VIM. Jarden,
OF Florence; Harry Burdette, of Greenwood;
David Worthen, of Poplar Springs; VIM b.
Campbell, of Sykesville; VIM. B. Pearce, of
1vanhoe; Tilghman Waters, of New Market.
Judges, Messrs James H Steele, Rufus Bur-
dette, j. ID. Baxley, Samuel Jarden and E.
q. Selby; Marshal, David Burdette, Jr.; As
sistants to Marshal, Harry D. Gould, VIM
Delawder; Heralds, Won Delashmutt, Frank
Henderson and Frank Thierman a.
Knight of Ivanhoe won first honors, and
crowned Miss Lutte Waters, of Carroll county,
queen of love and beauty. Knights of Sykes
vile, Greenwood and Florence crowned Misses
Fannie Gould, Amelia Jarden and Lulie Grit
nth first, second and third maids of honor,
respectively. The prizes, saddle, bride,
whip and pair of spurs, were awarded in the
order named.
The coronation address was made by Prof.
j. d. Warfeld, in which he spoke of the du-
ties imposed by the order of knighthood, and
the contrast, as well as the similarity, between
the chivalric order of medieval ages and that
of day. '"H
The season has been. one of unsurpassed
plenty in our midst, and our farmers may an
ticipate the advent of the winter king with
full granaries and happy hearts. The wheat
! yield has been even more bountIful than an
unusually bright harvest augured. To give
an illustration of the natural fertility of our
soil, and the ever attendant results of high
cultivation, it will not be out of place to men-
ton the wheat crop of Mr.. Christopher Thier-
man, of Poplar Springs. A few years ago his
farm, known as the Blackberry farm, be-
cause of the abundance of this fruit and the
marked absence of other agricultural products,
was one of the poorest in the length and
breadth of the county. Wheat was as an alien
crop to its broad fields. Mr.. Thierman is
thrifty and progressive farmer. In few
years he has literally converted desert into
garden spot. His crop of growing wheat
this year was pronounced by stranger who
had just been travelling through Liberty, Frank
lin, Latonsville, Sandy Springs, Lisbon and
Glenwood districts, to be superior to any that
he had seen; in fact, the prettiest crop he had
ever seen. The opinion of this gentleman is
fully concurred in by all who observed this
growing crop. The out turn would seem to
confirm this, since he realized thirty bushels
per acre from a corn stubble field, and from
a fallow field, not yet threshed, his neighbors
expect an out turn of not less than forty bush
els per acre.
Thirty bushels or Whereabouts would appear
to be general crop. The crops of Messrs.
Richard Hutchins, Leopold Kuhn, Hon. Ed
win Warfeld, Aug. Warfeld, c. c. Burton,
Stephen Hood, DR.. NJ. w. Warfeld Allen
Dorsey and others will uniformly reach and,
in some cases, exceed this figure. The entire
crop of this community will range between
twenty five and thirty bushels per acre.
The corn crop is fifty per cent. better than
usual. Many crops will yield from eight to
fifteen barrels per acre. The fruit season has
been quite an average one, and some orchards
would indicate superabundanee of this com
modify, Notwithstanding shorter crop OF ap-
Piles than usual in some instances.
To recapitulate, the general development
and improvement that has been directed TO-
ward our broad acres and rural homes within
the last twelve months, and the happy results
that have grown out of it in the bountiful har-
vests, neat and attractive farmhouses and good
health-whch outranks wealth-is unprece-
dented in the annals of our community, and
despite wet harvests and retarded work, farm
ers have ceased to groan and grumble, and we
are forced to believe that we are marching
''onward and upward to an era of peace,
prosperity and plenty.
The Dushane paper mill, at Morgan's, has
been undergoing complete repairs Many I'M
provements have been added, new machinery
has been introduced, a new boiler.house
erected, and external improvements in the
way of excavations, grading, paving, road
building, &C., have been made. The mill will
soon be in operation on full time, with full
set of competent men. There is a scarcity of
straw, and the ruling prices are in keeping
with current market prices elsewhere. The
management, as conducted by Mr.. White,
gives general satisfaction and is more popular
| than that of his predecessor. -r
Mr.. Albin Owings, the affable and enter
prising agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company at Woodbine, has in course of
completion at that place handsome frame
residence, which he will occupy in the course
of few weeks.
Mr.. Benjamin F. Day, son of the late John
and Emily Day, of Carroll county, and for
several years connected with the general
freight department of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company at Camden Station, Balti-
more, died in that city on Wednesday of last
week, of typhoid fever, in the twenty fifth
year of his age. Mr.. Day was a member OF
the Baltimore Oratorio Society and several
church choirs, was an efficient clerk and an
energetic worker. His genial and generous
disposition won him the love, respect and
friendship of both relations, employers and
co-laborers. To the former his death is an
irretrievable loss; his employers will recognize
therein vacant place that can but imper-
fectly be filled; and over the pathway OF the
last of this trio group-his fellow-workers-
his early demise has cast shadow dark and
widespread, which time alone can etface.
Permit your correspondent-on of the latter
number-to bear testimony of the worth and
integrity of the deceased, and to extend his
sympathy and coincidence to the family OF
which he has been the hope and pride, who
must "know him no more forever"