The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-08-22
SATURDAY, AUGUST %, 1891.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

free scholarship at Western Maryland College
\ due Frederick county.
At n tournament at Elicott City on Thurs.
day Miss Susie Brown, of Carroll, was crowned
second maid of honor.
The contract for a bridge over Big Pipe
creek, near John Stewards, in Myers dis
trict. was not awarded on Thursday.
John g. Hess, formerly carriage builder
Of this city, now of Hagerstown, has applied
for the benefit of the insolvent law.
Litllestown is to have bicycle races, trot
ting and running races, on Labor day, Sept.
7th. Beva A. Lockwood is expected to
speak.
will be sent to any address during the cam
paign for twenty five cents. Send in your
orders at once.
Marshall p. Richards, of st. Miehael's,
Talbot county, Il graduate of the Western
MARYLAND College, has been appointed prin-
cipal of the Frederick City High School
Democratic primaries will be held this
Saturday. afternoon. The hours for the
various districts are given in the official call
at the head of the column on the I'd page.
Isaac Bruce, Isaac Cross, Ellsworth and
Martha Walker, of Westminster, belong TO
the choir at the colored camp at Asbury
Grove. Martha Walker is one of the organ
lists
Mr.. 4. l.. Bachman, of Wakefield, is sue
cesslul fisherman. A few days ago he caught
ten, weighing from 2 to pounds His hooks
could not stand the weight, and half dozen
were broken while he was taking the ten.
The contract has been let for the bridge
over the Patapsco at Marriottsville, to be
built by Carroll and Howard counties. The
Cleveland (0hio) Company do the iron and
wood work for SlS75, and L. j. Await does
the mason work at $3.50 per perch.
The friends of the ADVOCATE have remem-
bered us right generously this summer with
apples, peaches, pears, tomatoes, &c. This
week Messrs. Thomas j. Ham and VIM. Ii.
Haines, of New Windsor district, each pre-
scented us with some excellent tomatoes.
Rev. NJ. l.. Firor will be installed pastor
orSi. Paul's Reformed Church, Union Bridge,
tomorrow Sunday evening ut o'clock, by
Revs. c. 4. Slagle, U. II. Heilman and H.
Dilzler. Mr.. Firor will have service at 1870
in the morning and at go in the afternoon
at Baust's Church.
On Thursday of last week, while David
Sheaier, of near Hampstead, was driving to
Baltimore with load of produce, the Blue
Mountain express ran into him as he was
crossing the W. NJ. railroad at Glen Morris.
Mr. Sheaier was seriously injured, his horse
was killed and the wagon demolished.
Bernard F. McGlone, against whom petit
lion had been filed by Ella A. Ward, seeking
to have him adiudicated an insolvent, has
filed an answer in which he denies the in
debtedness claimed by Miss Ward, and files a
statement of the accounts between them, by
which he makes it appear that she is indebted
10 him.
During n wind storm on Tuesday evening
Mr.. Rufus Myers, of Uniortown district,
while closing the barn doors was caught by n
whirlwind and carried about thirty feet. The
flesh was torn from his legs and mashed TO a
Jelly. DIR. c. W. Weaver, of Taneytown,
was summoned, and found it necessary to
put in about fifty stitches.
A sunnower stalk in the lot of Mrs. L. J.
Rippard adjoining Odd Fellows Hall in this
city, measured thirteen feet in height and is
surmounted by partially blown flower now
ten inches in diameter. Besides this 1t con-
tains forty buds. Another sunilower
stalk in the same lot is Q feet inches high
and has thirty seven flowers on it.
The largest exhibit of farm machinery ever
seen in the East is on exhibition at Mt.
Gretna, near Lebanon, Pa, at the farmers
encampment. 1t is under the management
Of DIR. COrrell, a former resident of fancy
town. One of the exhibitors is Marshall Il.
Shaw, of Uniontown, to whom we are indebted
for Lebanon daily papers containing an
account of the encampment.
Mrs. John Marsh, of this city, met with q
severe driving accident last Saturday. She
was on her way to a picnic near Hampstead,
and while endeavoring to pass wagon ran
her buggy against a tree. The shafts broke
of and the horse kept on. Mrs. Marsh held
on to the reins and was dragged from the
buggy. In her fall she broke rib and sus'
tanned some bruises. Her daughters and
Grandchildren were behind in dayton, and
she was taken to Hampstead and returned
home by rail in the evening.
Westminster prospect for another railroad
is better now than ever before. A survey is
now being made of route between Green
Spring Junction and this city A corps Of
five were put on the route on Monday
of last week and by Saturday night they had
reached the Patapsco. The corps was in
creased to twelve this week and by today the
work may be completed to Westminster. 1t
is not known whether the proposed road viii
end here or whether it will be continued on
to some point on the line of the Frederick
and PENNSYLVANIA Line road.
Mr. William Warner formerly of Westmin-
ster, died at the residence of George Z.
Miller, in Baltimore, on Thursday, aged "a
years, | | months and 81 days. His funeral
will take place this Saturday morning at
Meadow Branch. "Uncle Billy" as every
body alfectionately called him here, had been
blind for forty.two years Until the last few
years he supported himself and family in part
by peddlng fruit and peanuts. He was
always genial and pleasant and few failed
10 buy when Uncle Billy called. His eyesight
was destroyed by flying rocks from blast in
stone quarry.
The remains of John Feeser were inferred
at Krider's cemetery, near this city, on We'd
nesday. Mr.. Feeser's death was quite sud
den. On Friday morning last he was as well
as usual, and ON Monday he was a corpse
The deceased was a native of Carroll and foI
some time was huckster here. Later he
kept hotel at Reisterstown, and at the time
of his death the Craddcck House, ten miles
this side of Baltimore. He was brother Of
Mrs. Jacob f. Elgen, of this city, and haG
other relatives in Carroll. A delegation Of
Red Men, of which order he was member
accompanied the remains TO their last resting
place. His age was AZ years, months and
days.
The McSherrystown, Pa, club visited
Westminster on Saturday last and was defeated
by the home team by the score of to l.
the visitors scoring their only run on home
run hit. The contest promised to be inter
estng, and very large crowd witnessed it,
OF which quite number were ladies. D.
Edwin Davis, the Johns Hopkins pitcher
who has been playing here during the sum
mer, pitched for the home club and Manning
caught. The principal features of the game
were their battery work, Davis striking Out
IL men and but safe hits being made of
him; the home run hit of P. Staub and the
fine fielding of Goulden and Smith, of the
visitors. The Westminstars were beaten by
the Union Bridge club on Tuesday, by a score
OF Is to 10, on the Uuion Bridge grounds.
A site for the maleabIe iron works of the
Norwood Car Replacer Company, in connec
ton with the manufacture of the invention o.
Mr.. j. L. Norwood, of Sykesville, has been
settled by the selection of Norfolk, Va. The
Lamberts Point Company has given for the
purpose mentioned four acres, fronting 40C
ieet on Pocahontas avenue and running back