The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-04-21
SATURDAY. APRIL 2l, 1888,
nrAL AFFAIRS.
Local IyreVifieS.

-. r., .,.ostminster Forest and Stream Club
=. ~, %, INFO camp on the Monocacy about
W. Iohn Tracy. formerly of this county,
s.. w. rcntrd the farm of J. Howard McHenry,
%s,. near PikesyiiIc.
VI Vim. Henry Caple, living about SIX
.,d improving his barn.
n. Coguty Commissioners have decided
n,,' tonernit the vending of peanuts, apples,
" ~, and cakes i'll the Court House.
Wheat is reported to be looking well in all
.,.,;nnS of Carroll. The cool vet weather
emily has been very favorable to it.
On Thursday of last week, SOW, of the
,.ar rcd breed. belonging to Jesse w. Phil
i'm, living near this city, farrowed nineteen
VI, brgIbiSs. of Uniontown, has sold his
,..,I.+nr ropir. fixtures and horses to John
p..;g,r. Of near Manchester, for the sum Of
$50
r,n J,,yIor Works. at Chambersburg, are
oow bu,r on saw mills for Mexico. The
,,nmpany has declared three per cent divi-
,irni.
inrv summoned by Sheriff Thurman sat at
1nGmr House on Wednesday last and decid-
81 tbat Maria l.. A. Knight is IL lunatic and
insane.
The racing stable. formerly belonging to
,bo Iate +. 4. CIabaugh, passed through this
civ OH Tuesday. on their way from Middle
burg to Pmlico.
Mr. Vim. NJ. Gist, son Of Mordecai Gst,
nr,r This city. will start for Kentucky next
week. He is going to see about Il business
offer made to him.
u. c. Strasburger has taken the store-room
FORMERLY occupied by Mrs. Grumbine as tin
store. opposite Central Hotel, and will re-
sumo Business next week.
Abou, 800 extra copies of the ADVOCATE
.rcr, printed last week, yet the supply was
exhausted by Tuesday and calls for copies
have continued ever since.
The annual election for Mayor and Coun-
r-lmrn five will be held on Monday, May
,rh. The polls will b. opened at Central
Hotel from II m. to t p. IN.
rnior tAc grouping of missions, by the
Baltimore Presbyteiy. New Windsor and
mon Bridge have been united, and SO has
hccn donated for six months.
4. Y. Dahouey of Feruaudipa, Florida,
who lived at Westminster some years ago,
ha- sent to Miss Mary b. Shcllman two dol.
lars for the suffers by the fire.
Mr. Elijah Hilton, who has been engaged
with f. o. Crimes Il Co. for some years, will
start for Colorado next week, with the eXpec-
raou Of settling in that state.
David Roger. the young man whose injury
bv falling tree was noticed i'll the ADVOCATE
last week. was removed to his home last
Monday. and is now improving.
The Compiier says the judgments entered
at the April term i'll Adams county number
:;95. against 479 year ago. Mortgages re-
corded are considerably in excess of last
spring.
4 letter received by Mrs. c. j. Shellman,
Of this city, from Hinsdalc, Mass, dated April
l2ih. SAYS The show is SO deep that the
mails have to be carried ON horseback, they
being impossible for either sleighs or wagons.
At Joint meeting Of the Council of
TRACE. testers and Ksider,s Lutheran
churches last Friday. it was decided to rebuild
the parsonage, adjoining Grace Church, at
once. and to bid Of brick. The properly
belonged to IT,, 'hree congregations.
The Westminster Fire Department, through
!. y. Warner. +. j. Lawyer and Orlando
Il
Hcskel. Of Baltimore for aid at the fire here
last week. and received reply, regretting
that the Baltimore fremen could not be OF
assistance.
\ German. aged about 81 years, came to
Westminster ON Thursday. and acted very
quecry In the afternoon he jumped up lltQ
carriage in which two young men were
driving, and pushed both out. lie was ar
rested aud taken to Jail. and acts like de-
ranged man.
Ground was broken at Hunters Run on
Wednesday morning for the new railroad from
gettysburg to Harrisburg. When the first
plra was struck a canon was fired from Gem
etcry Hill. Gettysburg. a survey from Get
.y>burs 10 Washington, via this city, is short
~ to be made.
We have been presented by James NJ. Shell
man. news dealer. who has Il supply on hand,
a copy Of the Nc,e I1rk Graphic, with pic
lures Of the ruins by the late fire i'll this city.
The ruins were photographed by c. p. Burger;
photographer. Of Westminster, and are well
reproduced in the Graphic.
At a special meeting Of the directors Of the
Westminster Gas Light Company, on the 18th
instant, it was resolved to reduce the price OF
eilS to s.. % per 1000 feet This will be graf
tiv news to large number of our citizens, and
We nope that under the reduced rates many
more will be induced to use it.
Last Sunday an excursion train brought
about three hundred persons from Chambers
burg and WayneSbOro to Westminster to look
at the burnt district. On the same day
number came up from Baltimore for the same
purpose, including thirteen bicyclists, eight
coming upon their machines the others by
cars.
Mr.. +. !. Wheeler, former resident Of
Westminster, but now Superintendent of the
house OF Correction, was in this city from
Saturday until Monday, the guest of Jas. A.
- Bond, Esq. He came to look at the de-
,'ructon wrought by the late fire, as he still
!eeLS much interest in the place and regards
It as his home
On Friday evening next, the 9th, the lrv.
ing Literary Society OF Western Maryland
College will give an entertainment at Odd
fcii9wS Hall. The occasion will be the SIN
tcenth anniversary of the Society," and the
programme will consist of an address by the
President, T. H. Shaelter, an Grafton by A.
L. Miles, and drama, Robert Emmett.
, The small pox scare in the upper part Of
lIe county has abated to a great extent. A
physician OF Uniontown reports that there are
no cases OF the disease in Uniontown and Vi
'hIt{y, and says that he knows of only one
case IN the county, that of Mr.. Unger, who is
fohvalescent The same physician has vac
'Inated 300 persons during the past four
:, Westminster is like beehive. The burnt
HlStnct Is being cleared up and everything put
III readiness for rebuilding. Our master car
pehterS and masons have ransacked the coun-
Try roundabout, for additional hands, and
some have been drawn from Littlestown and
mher places. AS soon as brick can be had,
ne burnt square will spring from its ashes,
pn%nlX-Iike, with renewed strength and beau
a Sunday School and Missionary Society
were " organized at Stone Chapel, near War
eeeidsburg, Last Sunday. The officers of the
iprmer are Benjamin Gorsuch, superinten-
teht; Joshua W. Selman, assistant superin-
ITehGI gent; Louis NJ. Sellman, secretary; Chas.
T. Manahan, assistant sectary; Nathan Ship
icy, treasurer; Charles Williams, librarian;
I TaW!n +. Stoner, assistant librarian. The
y customary Society officers were chosen as
iEUu00Ws.;-George Pennington, president; Miss
dell. =, Belle Poole, secretary; R. D. Gorsuch,
citizen of Woolery' district, being awak-
e g BY, the glare of the great fire here last
week, thought II was an aurora Not Salts