The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-08-29
SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1885.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.


At 6 o'clock on Thursday morning the mer-
curry was down to SOC; frost had formed and
the air was chilly.
The telephone line to New Windsor was
opened yesterday.
Don't forget the Democratic primary meet
ing in this city this Saturday afternoon,
from to s o. clock.
Nathan H. Wilson, of Woodville, Frederick
county, has been awarded scholarship IN
Western Maryland College.
Mr. John Marsh's second Hannis colt,
foaled last week, died on Monday morning.
1t was sick but short time
On Friday next, September 4, the County
School Teachers Association meets in this
city, at Central Hall School building.
The Sunday school of Centenary NJ. E.
Church, this city, held picnic on Thursday,
at the pool of the city water-works, near
town
Mr.. /. A. Miller, Of this city, shot a large
blue crane at Gladhill's mill pond, on Thurs
day, which measured feet inches from tip
to tip of its wings.
UPTON Roop, as trustee of James Fl. Nc
Quay, Jr, sold on Wednesday farm of al
acres and 6 perches, situated in Freedom
district, to John w. Conway for $500.
Ordinance No. II requires owners of dogs
within the corporate limits of Westminster to
take out a license on or before September /,
prox Clerk Baug Imam has blank licenses
ready.
We are informed that the jury on the con
dition of Mr.. Joshua Sellman stood eight for
Selman and nine for the heirs. 1t was
stated last week, nine for Selman and eight
for the heirs.
The race for a purse of 5000, between Pierce
Marsh's Daisy Dean and p. j. Yost's Minnie
b., comes off at Hanover next Saturday.
There will be several other races on the track
the same day.
Persons having children to educate should
examine the advertising columns of the AD-
yocATE. Colleges, private schools and
military academy have used our columns to
announce their openings.
Messrs. Samuel Cover and VIM. B. Thomas,
of this city, spent several days IN Warren
county, Va, last week. Two days were spent
fishing in the Shenandoah, and Mr.. Thomas
landed bass that weighed 6pound ounces
The ADVOCATE returns thanks to Mr.. John
r. Covell, of Centreville, Queen Anne's CO.,
on the Eastern Shore, for basket of the
finest peaches seen in this city this season.
They were of the Magnum Bonum variety,
large, yellow peach
Read the Business Locals and advertise
ments Bargains are announced each week,
and readers may save money by glancing
over the business columns. They are the
guide to purchasers. The ADVOCATE adver
tisers are all responsible business men.
The Carroll Rifle Club had their regular
.raetice at Meadow Brook range on Tuesday,
but the weather conditions were not favora-
bic for high scores. Out of possible rs,
Roop made ga, Beard and Dayhof each 81,
Kringer 50, Stremmel 81, Spielman Al.
Mr.. S. w. Glover, living near Easton's
store, on the Washington road, will make sale
of his stock and implements next Thursday,
and will shortly thereafter move to Prince
Georges county, where he will manage the
farm OF Col. Roger Belloes, near College
Station.
Democratic primaries will be held this
Saturday afternoon throughout the county
to select delegates to convention to be held
in this city on Monday, which convention will
select delegates to State convention. The
hours for the primaries in Westminster dis
trict are from to o'clock.
By change, to take place in the schedule
of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad to-mor-
row, the fast mail will be delayed in its east
ward trips. Instead of passing here at 1898,
A. M, as at present, it will pass here about
L.
here at $50, a. m, as usual.
A note from Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reck, at
Union Bridge, returns thanks for the express
sions Of kindness from many friends, as stated
In last weeks ADVOCATE; also thanks for pa
tronage extended them, and says they will be
pleased to welcome any friends at their new
home in Richmond, where they will shortly go. |
There was drop in the mercury of q de-
grees on Wednesday morning from where it
stood Tuesday morning, and a still further /
drop of 3 degrees on Thursday morning. In
the West and North the mercury was down
below freezing in various places, and snow,
ice and frost were reported on Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Andrew Miller died at the Aims House on
Tuesday last He had been at the institution
m0re or less for four years, was about IA /
years of age, and died from complication Of
diseases He formerly lived in the neighbor-
hood OF Pleasant Valley. His remains were
Inferred IL the Catholic cemetery, this city, |
on Wednesday.
W. L. Seabrook visited Philadelphia on
Thursday of last week, and on Friday and |
Saturday rode home on his bicycle, by way of
Downingtown, Coatesville, Lancaster, Colum |
bia and York. A heavy rain on Saturday
morning compelled him to travel by rail from
DTk 10 lJlJJleSlOWly the DdidbueE VI lnC Ilp
being by wheel He rode 50 miles on Friday
and As miles on Saturday. Yesterday he
started On his bicycle for Washington, D. c.
On Thursday evening, as Mr.. w. A. Gun
,ningham, cashier of Farmers and Mechanics
National Bank, was returning home in his
buggy, and when opposite Mr.. j. L. Orn-
.dorff s store, his horse SHE'D at passing
agricultural engine, badly wrecking one of
the buggy wheels, and came near upsetting
him aad his son, who was with him, on the
paveBept. His buggy was so badly broken
that he WAS obliged to walk home.
The County Commissioners are piking
Court street, from Main to the Court House.
The Commissioners propose to pike only down
one side of the street at present, but they
might as well have it all done at once; other
wise the street will present a very bad appear
ance this winter, and be very muddy and
sloppy on one side. The stone is being got
ten at the Aims House farm, and Street Com
missioner Await is experimenting the work.
The annual reunion of the Sixth Maryland
Regiment will be held at Mechanicstown on
Friday, September 18th, September 18th is
the regular day for the annual re unions, be-
ing the day the men were mustered in as a
regiment, and the time adopted at the meet
ing here last year. The date was changed
this year to the 18th, in order to accommo
date the members of three companies from
Cecil county, who would either be unable to
attend at all, or would have to remain until
Monday, on account of the running of trains,
if the reunion took place on the 18th.
The Memphis appeal of August 18th says:
At the residence of the brides father, IS
Adams street, at 8 o'clock last evening, Mr..
IL. II. MOurer was married to Miss Lula May
Dickens, the Rev. H. A. Jones officiating.
The attendants were Mr. Leslie Dusenbury
of Richmond, Va, and Miss Katie Miller of
Collierville; Mr.. Thomas Sharon and Miss
May Thompson. Mr.. and Mrs. Mourer, at
tended by the hearty congratulations of
host of friends left after the ceremony on the
Memphis and Charleston road to visit the
Louisville Exposition and Cincinnati.
Miss E. A. Smith, chairman of TIE Flower
Mission, Baltimore, requests us again, in
the name of the Mission, to solicit contribu-
tons of flowers for their use. The Mission is
a charitable organization, that visits the sick
among the poor in the hospitals and at their
homes, and distributes fruits and flowers and
do other good works. The Western Mary
land Railroad carries the donations free on
the early trains on Friday mornings. Some
contributions have been sent from Westmin-
sster, bnt none recently because flowers have
been scarce and no one has had enough to
make up a box. If those who care to con-
tribute will send their contributions to the
ADVOCATE Office next Thursday afternoon by
8 o'clock we will receive and forward them to