The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-12-27
SATURDAY, DECEMBER p, 1884.
AFFAIRS.
Local Breyities.
Happy New Year to all our readers.

VIM. Rineman, of Hampstead, killed 1G
hogs that weighed 400 pounds. The two
heaviest weighed SIS and 400 pounds.
Public schools closed Tuesday, instead of
last Friday, as enormously stated last week.
They will reopen Monday, January 9TH.
The Taylor Works at Chambersburg have
closed until January 9Th, in order to take
stock A number of the boys are spending
their holiday here.
Mr.. George Snyder, of this city, has .pur-
chased As acres on the road to Avondaie,
known as the Stout nursery farm, from Mr..
William Coon, for $4,000.
Mr.. Josiah Dutrer has sold about los acres
of his farm at Silver Run to John L. Dutrer
at $40 per acre. He reserved part OF his
place and will build on it shortly.
Among the delicacies advertised for Christ
mas in the Baltimore papers on Wednesday
were Carroll county dressed turkles, weigh
ing from eight to twenty-seven pounds.
The ladies' Mite Society of the Union Mills
NJ. Z. Church will give an entertainment on
Thursday night next-New9 ear s-consisting
of tableaux, dialogues, vocal and instrument
tai music.
Chas. b. Roberts, ESQ.,, trustee of VIM. H.
Grouse, on Tuesday sold farm near fancy
town, containing 157 acres, roods and
square perches of land, to Rev. p. A. Long,
for $685. per acre.
Thursday next, New Years Day, being
legal holiday, the banks will be closed, but
the ADVOCATE office will be open for the re-
ception of bills due for subscription, adver-
Using and job work.
The streets of Westminster have been lively
this week. Sleighs, sleds, carriages and
wagons have filled the streets from one end
to the other, all loaded with Christmas goods.
Our business men have sold piles of goods.
Read the letter from North Carolina in this
issue. The south is the place for the young
and middie-aged who desire to change loca-
ton. Healthtul climate, productive soils, and
fine business opportunities for the active and
energetic.
The Fourth Quarterly meeting for New
Windsor circuit so we are informed by Rev.
ID. NJ. Browning, will be held in the NJ. E:
Church at New Windsor on Saturday and
Sunday, January 10th and 18th. Preaching
by DR.. Lanahan, presiding elder
Mr.. j. P. Hull, of Silver Run, has invented
a motor, which has just been patented. 1t is
a spring motor and is capable of adaptation
to a variety of uses from watch to thresh-
ing machine. Mr.. Hull believes his invention
is valuable, and we hope his anticipations
may be realized.
Mrs. Jacob H. Massamore, near Melrose,
died suddenly on Tuesday morning. Her
husband is huckster, and that morning she
assisted him in loading his produce. Before
he got to Baltimore she was dead, and on his
arrival there telegram announcing her death
was awaiting him. She was a daughter of
Mr. Phanuel Wantz.
One day last week, car load of turkeys
ON the way to Baltimore, got loose somewhere
below Patapsco. The car contained about
one hundred. How the accident occurred
we did not learn, but the turkeys got out, and
were pursued and flew and ran in every d.
rection A few of them were shot, but the
rest got away and are still at large.
On Christmas night Door-to Virtue Lodge
No. 46, A. F. A. NJ, this city, elected the
following officers to serve for the ensuing
term: W. NJ, w. A. Cunningham; S. W.,
f. L. Cunningham; J. W., Jas. A. Dilfen-
baugh; Sec'y., VIM. Moore; Treas, Jas. w.
Reese. The remaining offices will be filled at
the regular communication on New Years
night.
Mrs. John Young, living in this vicinity, is
celebrated for the number and excellence OF
her capons. She raises the light Brahma
fowls, and some seasons has as many as one
hundred and fifty capons. For these choice
birds she has received as high as "a cents per
pound. Her poultry is celebrated, and brings
sold to special customers.
The many friends of J. Frank Brinkerhoff,
in this city and county, will regret to learn
that on Friday evening of last week he had
both bones of his right leg broken above the
ankle joint. Mr.. Brinkerhoff was at the
skating rink in Gettysburg, and after taken
some instructions from one of the teachers,
felt confident he could manage to skate with.
out assistance, but in moment he trpped
and fell with the result as above stated.
High silk hats are rather novelty in West
minister, only few of our citizens wearing
them, but there was deluge of them Christ
mas day. Very many of the young men, and
few Of the older ones, wore them, and all
looked fifty per cent. better. Those who
wore them were generally Democrats, the
hats being won on Cleveland's election.
Young men, keep up the silk hat style. They
are becoming, and you all look like gentle
men with them on Come out with them to-
morrow.
The Sunday School under the management
of that genial christian gentlemen, William
Fenby, Esq, held its annual Christmas festi-
val at Friendship School House. near West
minister, on Christmas Eve. The exercises
consisted of singing, responsive readings,
very interesting address by Rev. j. ID. kinzer,
many amusing scenes from n magic lantern,
the greatest event, a visit from Santa Claus,
who dispensed his many good things with
lavish hand.
Christmas Day was quite a pleasant one,
the weather being quite moderate. and the
overshadowing clouds were light, through
which the sunlight occasionally broke. The
day was very much like a Sunday. Ser
vices were held in the Protestant Episcopal,
Catholic, Reformed and Lutheran Churches,
all of which were trimmed and decorated with
evergreens and flowers. The services and
sermons were appropriate to the day, and the
,choirs rendered unexceptionally fine music.
Business was suspended and the day spent in
rational enjoyment
There was a grand sleighing carnival in
Westminster on the afternoon of Christmas
day. Plug and pad and palfrey, the high
stopper, and the 2.40 flyer, and everything
that could ''go" was brought into requisiton,
and many a "brush" was the consequence.
The sleighing was fine, and the temptation,
when challenged, was too great for resistance.
The six miles an-hour ordinance was not in
all their thoughts, and even the Mayor, had
he been out in his cutter behind his favorite
little cob, would have cast that ordinance be-
hind him, ''you betn ''He would, be gosh y
A pleasant reunion of few of the old pu-
pills of Rev. John A Munroe, who was princ
pal of a large school in Westminster for
number of years, took place at the residence
of N /. Gorsuch, Esq, on Friday evening
last, where Rev. Mr.. Munroe was guest. AT
eight p. M, about twenty five ladies and gen
temen had assembled together, and the guest
of the evening found it difficult to give the
names of some of his old students, whom he
remembered as boys and girls, but who met
him now with bearded faces, or decidedly ma.
tronly airs At ten o'clock the party repaired
to the dining room where feast of good
things awaited them, and where an address of
welcome was read by Miss Mary B. Shellman
and touchingly responded to by Mr.. Munroe.
An album containing the address and the au-
tographs of all pupils esentwas presented to
Mr.. Munroe, and large cake sent to Mrs.
Munroe. l.. l.. Billingslea, Esq, made the
presentation, concluding with the assurance,
that ''the hearts of all present are as full OF
affection for you as the cake is full of sugar
A neat little address was also made by Mr..
Henry Vanderford, an invited guest, who re-
lated some "reminiscences Of his own school
days. The table was handsomely decorated
with flowers and leaves, and memorial tablet
bearing the names of students who had been
stricken from the roll by death, framed in