The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-11-21
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 81, 1891
LOCAL AFFAIRS
I.ocAL RREVITIEs.

the place OF ID. +. Painter.
dance will be given at the City Hotel,
this civ, on Thanksgiving evening, by the
Young gentlemen of Westminster.
aSgnThc date after your name on the label
IN your paper shows the time to which your
subscription is paid. Examine it.
We are indebted to Senator Gorman for
copy of the Statistics of Population, tenth
census, for which we tender our thanks.
There was real winter weather this week,
narticularly on Wednesday and Thursday.
in Tuesday afternoon and night a very high
wind prevailed.
There will be game of foot ball between
teams of New Windsor College and Western
MARYLAND College at the College grounds here
this afternoon.
Mrs. Sarah Eliza Spalding, wife of Mr..
Samuel S. Spalding, a former resident Of
Hoods Mills, this county, and we'll known
school teacher, died in New Kent county.
Va, on Sunday last.
The eclipse of the moon last Sunday night
was witnessed by many persons in this city,
although the clouds iuterfered with the view.
Another total eclipse of the moon will not
occur until 1904.
Jesse Rynes, colored, died at the home of
Mr.. +. B. McKinstry, at McKinstrys Mills,
on November 9th. He was perhaps the old
est person in the county, his age being 95
years, II months and 10 days.
The thanks of the ADVOCATE are due Mr..
VIM f. Moore for Raleigh, North Carolina,
papers during the visit of the Fifth Maryland
Regiment to that city last week. They were
fall of welcome to the Maryland boys and
good words for Maryland and Baltimore.
A number of New subscribers have been
added to the ADVOCATE list recently. Fifty
cents will pay for it three months. Congress
will soon be in session and the Maryland
Legislature ALSO and everybody oughtto keep
posted on matters of state and national legis
lation.
The Western Maryland College foot ball
team was defeated at Gettysburg by the Penn
sylyauia College team last Saturday by 9S to
o. This is the second drubbing the Western
Maryland College boys have received from
the Pennsylvania College team, both bad
defeats.
Mr.. John C. Nutting died at his residence
in Woolery's district on Tuesday last, aged
about so years. He was a well known school
teacher. In politics he was Republican and
had accepted places on the Republican ticket
several times. His funeral took place on
Thursday.
II. d. Dietz, u bicyclist OF Baltimore, took
record run last Sunday, and covered 1913
miles. He took supper in Westminster and
arrived in Baltimore at 1920 at night. His
trip was from Baltimore to York, then over
roads in Pennsylvania, then to Hanover,
Westminster and on home.
Letters from Rev. DR.. I. II. Lewis to his
family announce his safe arrival in Yokohama.
Japan, on the Doth of October. He escaped
seasickness entirely, as well as the earth
quake at Najoya, and is in the enjoyment of
perfect health and rest. He preached ON the
steamer Belgic on October Sth.
Mr. Thomas o Neil, a merchant at Houcks-
Vile, died on Friday morning last, the 18th.
lie was an excellent citizen and universally
esteemed He was native of Baltimore,
but had lived in Carroll some ten or twelve
years. His funeral took place on Monday at
ST. Mary's Church, Govanstown, Baltimore
county.
The Mechanicstown Cornet Band will have
an excursion to Baltimore on Wednesday,
December I'd. The train will start at Pen
mar and stop for passengers at all stations to
Westminster. Train will leave here at S.25
in the morning and the fare will be % cents
for round trip. Returning, train will leave
Baltimore at ll.25 at night.
On Friday morning of last week, Jacob
Shaler, formerly of Manchester district, this
county, was run over and killed by passen-
ger train, about two miles from Petersburg,
Va. Mr. Shafer was a stone mason, and had
recently been at work at Roanoke. AT the
time he met his untimely death he had bag
of mason's tools on his shoulder and a rifle.
Miss Aggie Wine, daughter of Mr.. Samuel
Wine, Of Bachman's Valley, was married on
Thursday afternoon, November 18th, at the
residence of her father, to Mr.. Jacob B.
Wentz, of the firm of c. B. Wentz d Bro,
of Hanover. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. C. NJ. Eyster, of Manchester, and
the bride was the recipient Of many handsome
and useful presents.
The potato crop of Carroll county is the
largest ever produced in the county. 1t has
been variously estimated from half million
10 a million of bushels, and some have placed
the number of bushels even higher than that.
Two farmers in Woolery's district, sold be-
tween them, twenty.seven hundred bushels.
Nearly every farmer, we are told, has from
200 to 500 bushels for sale.
Tramps are roaming this county, living by
begging and stealing. and many farmers could
not get hands to cut off and husk corn. Many
could find employment now if they would
seek it, but that is something a tramp shuns.
The only effective way to rid the county of
tramps is to require them to work if caught
here, and law of this kind will be presented
the next General Assembly.
The County Commissioners were in session
on Monday and Tuesday. The chief business
of public Importance was the re-appointment
of DR.. Leonard Zepp physician to the Aims
house and Or. Jos. T. Herring physician to
the Jail. The commissioners will be in ses-
sion again next Monday and Tuesday. The
Board is closing up business as rapidly as
,,,c.;blo rTha pavy Roard wi into office
early next month.
Mr.. Tobias Hahn, residing at Harvey has
in his possession silver watch which was
carried in the Revolutionary War, rs years
ago, and is still in good running order and
keeps accurate time. The case, dial and
works are quite a curiosity compared with
those of modern make, yet the workmanship
is of a very superior order for those days,
and as rare and unique relic the old watch
IS very highly priced by its owner.
The Baltimore grand jury dismissed the
cases of George Herbert and John Erb, who
were charged by the coroner jury with Grim,
inal carelessness in causing the death oil
Thomas Hughes. Herbert aud Erb were the
,engineman and fireman, respectively, OF the
Western Maryland r. r. passenger train
which ran into a gang of laborers IN the Union
tunnel on the 7th of last October. Two OF
injured.
The building at the corner of Liberty and
Green streets, known as the Hess Manufac-
turing Company Building, twostory brick,
thirty feet front, was sold at public auction
on Saturday, to DIR. j. Howell Billingslea,
mortgage, for $3.50 The adjoining build
ing, thirty feet front, two stories high, TO
Mrs. George Stouch, for $500. The large
stone building belonging to B. I. Shriver u
Co., on Liberty street, near the depot, oeeu-
pied as a canning factory, was Withdrawn at
bid of $1,000.
Frank Z. Miller & Co., wholesale and retail
dealers in groceries, CONNECTIONS, and general
merchandise, are extending their business
facilities very largely Mr.. 6. w. Albaugh
is putting up an addition running back to the
alley. When completed which will be in
three or four weeks, the building will be 100
feet in length, affording ample room for the
most extended trade. The addition will be
of irnn,a ono etnr,y oovarad with cOFrtinateQ