The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-05-31
SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1884.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Local RrevIties.

.raWberries by the Darrell
rho festival at Odd Fellows Hall last week
.bo benefit of Ascension Church, melted
S III $50 and $40.
Ms L. S. Dallas has returned to West
.;aster for the summer. She is stopping al
he City Hotel.
Wheat began heading about week ago and
now nicely headed. The prospect is fine
for a large yield.
david Stoner, county commissioner, has
t.sn confined to bed by sickness this week,
SSf Is now recovering.
Yesterday, May 80, was national decoration
,,r Burns Post of this city decorated the
s raves of ex,federal soldiers.
Raw s. P. Pond, rector of Ascension
rbnreh. this city, was ordained priest in Grace
T5urch' Baltimore, yesterday morning.
H. yanderford, Esq, is attending the Pro-
,ostopt Episcopal convention in Baltimore,
a. Law delegate from Ascension parish.
At the annual meeting of the Maryland
Hockey Club last Friday night Mr. Frank
Brown. of Carroll was reelected director.
Ex.Judge Henry F. Carey, of Baltimore,
vas in Westminster yesterday. He is coun-
,sI for his brOther-in-law. Ben. A. Richard
son. 49, ---A a. ~ : y - =. u
Mr.. George W. Hook, formerly OF this city,
Int now living in Chambersburg, has Joined
be franklin Guards, military company of
that place.
game of base ball was in progress yester-
4 day afternoon on the Association grounds
here between the Westminster First Nine
and the Excelsior Club, of Baltimore.
Samuel H. Hoifacker, of Manchester dis
riot. and Theodore A. Clay, of Union Bridge
district. were re-commissioned justices of the
Dpace BY Gov. McLane on Wednesday.
There will be no lack of amusement and
entertainments in Westminster for the next
few weeks. There will be festivals, literary
and musical entertainments, a comic opera,
college commencement, and base ball.
"The Lovely Galatea,'' comic opera by
Franz Won Suppe, will be given at Albaugh's
Grand Opera House by select company from
,he Academy of Music, Baltimore, on Monday
night, June Q. El1 4GLLa
Mr.. Frederick Hook, living about two and
A half miles southeast of Westminster, has
torn down his dwelling and will replace it
with substantial brick house 24x3G feet, with
a bodybuilding l6x24 feet.
Among the graduates of the Normal School,
which closed its exercises on Thursday last,
we're Mary c. Bixler, Edward G. Hoff, Anna
C. Keck, Lucretia v Palmer and Alice V.
Selby, all of this county.
Dr. j. W. Herring, of this city, has been ap-
pointed by the General Conference of the NJ.
P Church as one of the fraternal messengers
10 the Centenary Conference of the NJ. E.
Church, which meets this year.
Democrats, don't forget the primaries this
afternoon. Observe the hours, conduct them
according to instructions and properly make
ont the credentials. The convention will be
held in this city next Tuesday.
A change in the running of trains on the
Western Maryland Railroad has been made,
and the new schedule appears in this issue.
Two more trains-the Blue Mountain Express
and the Fast Mail-wiI be put on shortly.
The weather for the past three days has
been in strong contrast to that of the week
previous, the mercury ranging from 40 to GO.
There was slight frost in low places. In New
England there was ice on Thursday morning.
tits doubtful if one person in twenty knows
anything of the city ordinances. As some of
them are ambiguous in terms, would it not
be well for the council to examine, revise and
re,enact them, and publish them in some
form for public distribution?
Mr. Frank A. Grimes, of Grafton, CAL,
will accept our thanks for copies of the San
Francisco Chronicle of May IA and Is, con-
tanning an account of the laying of the corner
stone of the Odd Fellows new hall in San
Francisco. The paper devotes nearly twelve
pages to the order.
Mr.. Thos Bosley, living near Greenmount
station. in Manchester district, bought three
steers last fall from Mr. Charles Z. Thurman.
They weighed then 800, $40 and 1856 pounds.
On May II he sold them, when they had
gained respectively AIS, 4lO and 405 pounds,
or an aggregate of 200 pounds.
Richard Moore, student at Western Mary
and College, nearly severed the second finger
ofhis left hand by falling upon a piece of
glass few days ago. A child of Patrick
Brana, of this city, fell from pile of lumber
recently and dislocated an elbow joint DR..
N. L. Bot rendered necessary surgical aid in
both cases
Mr.. j. Hamilton Singer, of Uniontown,
while coming TO Westminster last Tuesday,
observed a field of very tall rye on the farm of
Elder Solomon Stoner. He stopped and got
two stalks of about the average height-not
the talleS-and brought them to the ADvo-
GATE Office. They measured s feet inches
EACH How's that for high-on an average.
The Pimlico races closed last Friday On
that day Jeter Walden's Flower of Meath was
eco.ld in the first race, for all ages, one mile;
time l:42. r. w. Walden's Welcher won
second money in the Preakness stakes. Dis
lance /! miles; time 1891. Mr.. R. w. Wal
den's winnings during the meeting amounted
10 s., lS5; Mr.. Jeter Walden's 1915.
AT the annual meeting of the Baltimore and
Hanover Railroad Company, held on the 23d
INST, the following board of directors were
elected Capt. A. w. Eichelberger, Stephen
Aeeier, l.. f. Melsheimer, of Hanover, Pa;
ghas. W. Slagle, W. H. Vickery, of Baltimore;
Vim. +. Hoffman, of Baltimore county, and
&c Wooden, of Carroll county. The com
Pany is reported to be in a prosperous CON
dition
A walk through the cemetery will show
numerous improvements introduced under the
present management. Mr.. Brown, the super
lntendent, is courteous to all visitors, and
seems to take pleasure in keeping this city of
The dead in a condition which manifests the
llOnghtful care exercised over it by those in
whose charge it has been placed. The trees,
lAe shrubbery, the flowers, the memorial
tablets and the winding walks and avenues,
al seem to be alike the objects of the watchful
care and solicitude of those having supervision
over the last resting place of our departed
loved ones. 4... ,S-7-g,e- ~ spur.~,.7.
Commencement Week. -
:, The Seventeenth Anniversary of Western
Maryland College will open with the Bacca-
1aareate Sermon at NJ. p. Church, Sunday,
Ward;
Sermon before the Literary Societies, Sun
ton;
JOINT exhibition of the Browning Literary
aud the Philomathean Societies, Monday,
June 10, o'clock, p. M; lHa'r
elass-Day of the Senior Glass, Tuesday,
June IL, 10 clock, a. M; .e1
uratoneal contest between Irving and Web
aer Literary Societies, Tuesday, June II, 8
" Annual meeting of the Alumni Association,
"sHenesday, June Is, 8 o'clock, a. m.
NJ distribution of certificates of distinction,
w weq1lesday, June IS, 80 a. M, by President
annual Grafton before the Literary Socie-
YES, Wednesday, June IS, 8 p. M, by Hon.
Lewis Ii. Steiner, NJ. d;
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