The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-09-10
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1892.
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LOCAL AFFAIRS


LOCAL BREvITIEs.
E. Lynch & Son are now using patent dump
coal carts.
Mrs. Rausch, near Carrolton, aged 81
wears, is i'll from pneumonia
Ex- Judge James A. G. Bond is building
an addition to his law Office.
Mr.. Joseph s. Git, of New Oxford, Pa,
is making survey of Hampstead.
Damsons, ounces and other preserving
fruits are in demand in Westminster.
The Cleveland Tariff Reform Club of Union.
town will hold an important meeting tonight,
Saturday.
There was frost in low places in Carroll on
Tuesday morning. Fine showers fell Thurs.
day night.
Mrs. Morley has sold her farm, near this
city, to Mr.. John Zentgraph, for 81, $50. The
farm contains about SO acres.
1t is thought that two more houses will be
erected on Willis street next spring. Two
lots there were purchased this week.
The cornerstone of the Pipe Creek NJ. P.
Church will be laid on Tuesday next with APP
propriate religious services at $50 p. IN.
There were gentle showers on Thursday
night, with lightning and thunder, but not
enough rain to soften the fallow for ploughing.
David L. Davis, of this county, has been
promoted from cerkship in the unclassifed
service in the Baltimore custom. house to be
day inspector.
The Mayor and Council of Westminster
will sit on Monday and Tuesday evenings,
September 10Th and Goth, to consider trans
fers and ATTACHMENTS.
Mr.. Ernest Rausch, near Carrollton. has
an unusually fine crop of potatoes of the Lilly
i
realized over four hundred bushels.
The Westminster Fire Department at a
meeting on Wednesday night voted to sell
their present building, and placed the matter
of sale in the hands of a committee of three.
Jesse Kress, while working in the process
room Of Smith, Yingling 4 Co.'S. cannery, on
Thursday, was severely hurt by the crank of
the crane breaking and striking him on the
arm.
A call appears in this issue for meeting
next Tuesday night, at 100 o'clock, at the
Wantz Building, near the Depot, Westminster,
to form Democratic campaign club for
Westminster district.
Clifton Shreeve, aged five years, son of
Mrs. Helen Shreeve, of Atlanta. Georgia, and
who are now visiting at Mr.. Charles Hessons,
fell about eight feet in Mr.. Hesson's stable
on Tuesday, and was severely hurt.
A mad dog passed through Patapsco on
Monday. 1t was first seen at Mrs. Barrick's,
and from there it went to John STALL S.
After leaving Patapsco it went toward Sandy
vile. 1t is reported that many dogs were
bitten.
Reports from all parts of Carroll say that
the acreage sown to wheat will be LEGS this
year than usual, owing to the long season of
drouth, and that for the same reason the corn
and potatoe crops will fall considerable below
the average.
The Woolery's District Prohibition Club
will hold a mass meeting, opposite Bethel
Church, near Carrollton, next Saturday, the
18th, afternoon and night. VIM. Daniel, W.
F. Tucker, John Parkers and others, of Bal.
iimere, will speak.
Charles H. Yanderford has been appoint
ed correspondent for Carroll county OF the
Executive Committee of the National Asso.
citation Of Democratic Clubs. Hon. William
l.. Wilson, of West Virginia, is Chairman of
the executive committee.
The firm of Cover & Cash have, in addition
70 their York Road business, leased the Mid
dLeburg warehouse property, where they will
conduct a general warehouse business. They
will also succeed the late George Wilson as
ticket, freight and express agent.
Mr.. Leander Hull, a well known farmer,
died at his residence near this city on Sunday
afternoon last, after an illness from typhoid
fever for three weeks, aged about forty years.
Four of his children are sick with the same
disease, but were reported better yesterday.
Meetings to form Democratic campaign
clubs in Woolery's and Hampstead districts
will be held enthusiastically Small
wood in the former and at Hampstead in the
latter. Uniontown, Manchester and Free
dom districts have already organized clubs,
the latter district two.
Mr.. Francis A. Eckenrode, of Carrolton,
from lot containing two acres, recently pur-
chased from Elias Reed, obtained this season
IL tons and 1866 pounds of sweet corn He
sold the corn to the cannery of Smith, Wing
ling Co., this city, at $40 per ton-about
$ll6.89. This is good cropping.
Mars, which is nearer the earth this year
than it has been for seventeen years. and
which has attracted SO much attention from
astronomers and the people in general, pass
ed over and kissed ''The Man. in the moon
last Saturday night, and went on. 1t is now
far in advance of our nocturnal luminary.
On Tuesday Col. William A. McKellip,
as assignee of mortgages, sold Is acres,
l rood and 20 perches of land, on the Union
town turnpike, near Westminster, adj
joining lands of Messrs. John Gait and John
Young, and owned by Thos Tate, to Messrs.
David ID. Bonsack and Isaac G. Bale for
$500.
The Cleveland, Stevenson and Talbot Club
of New Windsor at their last meeting elected
officers as follows: Louis Dielman president,
DR.. George II. Brown vice president, James
E. Devilbiss secretary and Jesse +. Lambert
treasurer The club will meet next Wednes
day night and will be addressed by B. F.
Grouse, ESQ.,, chairman of the county central
committee.
The Reisterstown Register learns that the
stockholders in the Western Maryland Land
Improvement Company have been called upon
for fifty per cent. of their subscriptions; that
q large barn will be converted into a hotel;
that there will be an electric railroad to
Glyndon; that a new railroad station is to be
built there; and that the Western Maryland
railroad will soon be double tracked to that
point.
The basket picnic and mass meeting of the
Uniontown Cleveland Tariff Reform Club
takes place next week, Saturday, the 18th.
Music by several bands, speeches on the
issues of the day by able orators, and an eX-
cellent dinner in the woods, will be the chief
attractions. The Club would be pleased to
have every Democrat in the county present,
and as many persons of other political faiths
as the woods will hold.
A Cleveland. Stevenson and Talbot Club
was organized at Sykesville on Thursday OF
last week, with a membership of forty one
and the following officers. President, DIR. j;
w. Steele; vice presidents, P. j. Nobel and
j. E. Norwood secretary, James Il. Weer I;
corresponding secretary, VIM. P. Gorsach {;
treasurer. John Mcdonald executive com
nittee, John T. Pearce. p. j. Nobel, Pen.
ningtoR T. Bennett, John B. Nichols and
Wilmer K. MeCordle.
The County Commissioners met on Mondas
and Tuesday The general statement OF re-
eeipts and expenditures for the past year, way
completed, and will be found on the first page
of this issue. Joseph A. Linton, of Freedom
district, was allowed special pension Oslo
New flooring and sleepers were ordered for the
bridge over the Patapsco at Carrollton Sta
ton A special pension of $40 was allowed
to Rebecca Hahn, of Uniontown district.
Joseph Dephy was appointed constable for