The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-11-28
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1891
LOCAL AFFAIRS.


By Judge Roberts.
car containing 100 turkeys, from IVES
virqipia, passed through Westminster to Bal
timore on Monday.
The new church at Deer Park is being com
,Iated. slowly but surely. The first coat o
master has been put on.
band of gypsies passed through West
Minister on Sunday. They had a number o
opartment wagons and horses.
The Western Maryland College football
. tam defeated the New Windsor college team
here last Saturday by score Of GG to o.
GsgnThe date after your name on the labe
an your paper shows the time TO which youl
subscription is paid. Examine it.
Mr. Albert Schaeffer has purchased fol
sr0OO0. from his brother, Mr.. Milton Schaeffer
The Zacharias farm, just north Of this city.
The third quarterly meeting of the Union
Bridge and Lnganore charge of the NJ. f.
Church will be held in Union Bridge on
December 9Th and 9th.
The revival services which had been in
rrogress at the Methodist Protestant Church,
His ety, for several weeks, closed on Sunday
night last. Services are now being held al
Centenary NJ. L. Church.
Ex.Judge Bond has been engaged in the
Calvert county contested election cases, by
Judge Magruder, who is counsel for the Re.
rnbiicau contestants. He will argue the case
before the Court of Appeals.
Mr.. Henry Poole, of this city, having exam.
med hog melt predicts mild weather dur.
ing the winter, with a great deal of mud. Mr..
Poole has watched this sign for over fifty years
and has never known it to fail.
Among those injured by the destruction OF
the Ketterer wagon works, at Hanover, Pa.
on Monday, reported elsewhere in detail,
we're Jacob Rusher and William West, both
of whom once lived in Westminster.
On Monday last Margaret and James Rea-
YER, trustees. sold the Hawk farm of the late
Benjamin Reaver, situated between Union.
Town and New Windsor, and containing 165
acres, to William P. Keefer, for 81, $50 cash.
The Fraternal Mystic Circle, of Westmin-
ster, will have an anniversary supper at the
City Hotel on Wednesday evening next. The
Mystic Circle is thriving mutual beneficial
association with a membership here of thirty
five.
Mr.. Thomas w. Russell, of Union Bridge,
is an inventive genius. In his shop there is
a hens nest of his patent, patent extension
ladder and a patent attachment for harvest
ing machines, designed to catch up and put
improper position low.lying or tangled wheat.
John H. Gribbin, whose license was sup
pressed last week for selling liquor to minors,
secured another license last Saturday and re
opened He presented to the court petit
ton signed by twenty-five citizens, asking a
renewal of license, and the court directed the
Clerk 10 issue one.
Thomas Harrison and Charles Gray were
arrested at Frederick on Wednesday by OH
Ger Renner on suspicion of being the parties
who broke into and robbed the store and
pOstofiice at Piney Creek, on Tuesday night
Turner to await the action of the Carroll
county authorities.
The commissions of the newly elected Off
GERS in Carroll have been received, and the
new officers will soon assume their duties.
Hon. Chas. B. Roberts took the oath as
Associate Judge on Monday afternoon before
Clerk Grouse. Next week Mr.. Albert A.
Dorsey will succeed sheriff Wickert, and on
December 9th, the new Board
Of County Commissioners will swear in.
On Monday last there were succession
of heavy showers, with high wind, thunder
aud lightning. The heaviest rains were about
o'clock, p. IN. The wind changed from
southeast to the west, and clearing weather
followed. The high wind blew down some
fencing, trees and straw stacks in various
parts of the county, and unroofed some houses
and barns in the upper part of Carroll. Our
local correspondents give details.
The County Commissioners this week were
mostly engaged in settling road bills. Elk
Judge Bond was chosen counsel to the board
for one year from November 24th, 1891, at
800. Jefferson Byrne, of Franklin district,
was granted special pension of $500. The
report of the examiners in the road case of
Noah c. Wentz and others was ratified and
confirmed. The next meeting of the Board
will be on Monday, December It'll.
Mr.. Lovelace Gorsuch, OF Frostburg, Nd,
4 brother of Mr.. Nathan /. Gorsueh, of West
Minister, was paralyzed on Tuesday last.
Mrs. Edward Lynch, of this city, is also
slightly paralyzed. Mr.. George P. Albaugh,
who has been sick for several weeks, and in
eebe health for some months, is still i'll,
hough he is reported little better. He is
now nearly seventy FIVE years of age. Mr..
Lovelace Gorsuch is extremely i'll. Mr., n.
!. Gorsuch and his wife and Mrs. S. X. Herr
Ire with him.
There is time for all things, and tits about
Inc for the annual discussion of better roads.
L has begun in some sections of this and adj
oimng states. There is one sure way to i'm
,roVe public highways, and that is to macad-
Imze them. The way to do this is to raise
he tax rate and build the roads by gradual
process, or issue long term bonds, so that
loStcrity will have to bear some of the bur
len. Public meetings and newspaper dis
ussiOn don't build roads-it requires money.
he mode is plain-only means are required.
Among the storm damages in Carroll, not
IOted elsewhere, were-Dwelling of George
Brown, near Brummel, partially unrooted;
arm of Lewis Green, near Tannery, some
That damaged; wind pump ct Tannery blown
own; barn Of Elias Reed, at Carrollton, I'M
oofed; barn of Mr.. Neudecker, same neigh
orhood, partially unroofed; barn of Mrs.
'ordelia Beaver, near Westminster, unroofed;
onnd house at Ebbvale moved off its founda
ion; on the farm of Mr.. VIM. Struth, near
Westminster, 30 panels of fence were blown
own, and some window panes broken in his
yelling.
Rev. Irl Hicks in his November predictions
avs stiff blasts will send the days and nights
reezing into December. December will begin
q reactionary period. About the Sth, 9th
nd 10th there will be transforms, turning to
now with blizzard tendencies in the north,
ollowed by hard freezing. Storminess and
now and rain is predicted about the 18th and
9th, and severe storms from the 18th to the
3D., bringing snow and cold for Christmas.
his prediction was made on May 3lst, 1890,
more than eighteen months IN advance.
Watch the weather and see how near the
'rOphet hits it.
Christmas is approaching. The stores and
hops are already putting on their holiday
appearance. Santa Claus will have his head
uarters in Westminster this season, and the
BEAUTIFUL articles on sale are pleasing to the
ye and tempting to the choice. Let everyone
eel that sit is more blessed to give than to
eeeive," and it will be the happiest Christ
mas ever experienced. Remember, too, that
he best time to buy Christmas presents is
When stocks are fresh, and when you are not
hurried as you will be if you postpone pur-
nasing day or two before Christmas. Buy
low, and lay the presents away.
Mr.. John G. Stitcher, of Westminster,
bowed us this week, a number of almanaes
y various dates, from 1896 to 1850. The
,adest, published in 1876, was published in
baltimore by Samuel Saur, in the German
aSnguage, and was called Samuel Saurs
,,aiendar." The next oldest was "The New
19a!iitilmore Calendar" also in German, by