The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-05-07
LOCAL AFFAIRS.


A. Dietienbach, formerly oil this city,
nos reelected Assistant Warden ofthe Peni-
tertiary on Wednesday.
Rev. j, U. Asper, formerly of this city, has
beep elected pastor of Bethel Lutheran Church
al Gainesville, Frederick county.
The new pipe organs for Grace Lutheran
oud the Methodist Protestant churches, of
This city, are expected to arrive in few days.
Al the Clerks office during April there
were recorded 10 deeds, IA mortgages and
II bills of sale, and q marriage licenses were
issued.
Misses Annie Shriver and Lottie Moore
went TO Baltimore yesterday afternoon for a
len days visit.
The Woman's Home and Foreign Mission
arv Society of the Middle Conference of the
Lutheran Church, will meet at Union Bridge
on Thursday next, the 18th inst.
Mr.. Charles C. Gorsuch, of this city, went
to Omaha, Nebraska, last week, to attend the
sessions of the Quadrennial Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
J. Elsie Miller, of Westminster, and Miss
ME-. Wolfe, of Union Bridge, will be mar
ried in the Lutheran Church there on Tuesday
afternoon next, at 3.l5 o'clock.
The Ladies' Aid Society will give free
entertainment in Frizellburg on Tuesday
evening. n cOrulll lnNllsltlOn Is eAleuueu u
the friends of the society.
The corner stone of the new Reformed
Church, at Hghfeld, will be laid with ap-
propriate services on Sunday, May Sth. Rev.
Calvin s. Slagle will deliver the address.
The barn of Pemberton Wood, near Union
Bridge, was destroyed by fire, said to be of
incendiary origin, on. Sunday afternoon last.
Three horses and a colt persisted in the flames.
Peach trees bloomed the last week in April.
The cherry trees did not bloom until the first
of May. The pear, apple, and other fruit
trees, bloomed few days later
There will be Prohibition meeting at
Horner's Hall, Finksburg, on Saturday even
ing OF next week, Frank Tucker, Esq, State
Organizer, of Baltimore, will address the
meeting.
Jacob II. Silver, aged nearly thirteen years,
of Silver Run, was committed TO st. Mary's
Industrial School, Baltimore, by Justice
Moore, on Thursday, as incorrigibIe and be-
yond control.
1t is expected the repairs to the NJ. p.
Church, this city, will be completed next
week, and the church reopened on Sunday,
the 18th. Prominent ministers will be pres
ent to assist in the exercises.
The Kent News, of Saturday last, says:
"Rev. j. l.. Mills, the new pastor of St.
James NJ. p. Church, arrived by steamer on
Thursday afternoon, and was given warm
reception by his congregation
The Democratic Central Committee ofCar-
roll will meet in this city on Monday morning,
May 10th, TO arrange for primaries and con-
yention to select delegates to the state and
congressional district conventions.
A party of three or four Carroll county
farmers will go to st. Mary's county, Nd,
next Wednesday to look at the cheap lands
there. Several would like to locate their
SONS there, if satisfactory places, are found.
Salem Lodge, No. 60, l. o. o. F., of this
city, will hold family reunion on Thursday
evening of next week. An address and re.
ireshments are on the program. The ADvo-
CATE acknowledges the compliment of an in
yitation.
The high licen Sc law will yield about ST.
600 this year to the School Board. The exact
amount cannot be told now, nor can the effect
ofthe law be ascertained, in the matter OF
reducing the number of drinking places. In
Westminster the number is three less than
last year.
Duringa game of ball at Rock Hill College
on Saturday last, between the club of that in
stitution and the Western Maryland Collie ge
club, Hammond I4eas, of this city, a member
of the latter club, fell and badly sprained an
ankle. The Western Maryland Club won the
game bya score Of to l.
In exchange for the privilege of running
trains through to Frederick over the track OF
the Pennsylvania road, the Western Mary
land has granted the Pennsylvania road the
privilege of running their trains to Gettysburg
over its track. A switch connecting the two
roads is now being put in at Hanover.
The Woman's Home and Foreign Mission
ary Society of the Lutheran Church in Union
town, will give an entertainment on Thursday
evening next. There will be an address by
Rev. Dir. Charles Albert, of Baltimore, and
an interesting literary and musical program
A small admission fee will be charged.
Judge Roberts has excused j. Vincent Eek
enrode, John Allen, Joseph Tener, Abraham
n. Hess, Reuben g. Rish and John Painter
from Jury duty, and drawn in their places
Oliver Stonesifer, 10th district; Thomas Pick
ett 9th district; John kuh, 4th district; Jos
Cookson, Sd district, and Henry Iroutielter,
2nd district.
Peter Michael, young Baltimorean who
was visiting his uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Coogey, near this city, died suddenly
on Wednesday Of consumption. lie was
walking about n short time before his death
He was nineteen years of age. His remains
We're inferred in St. Johns cemetery here
yesterday morning.
At a meeting of the joint consistorics of
the Westminster Charge of the Reformed
Church, held on April 30th, Elder j. /.
,0rndorif was elected primarius and Elder
Plus Little secundus to represent the charge
at the annual meeting of Maryland Chassis,
which was opened at Mt. Pleasant, Frederick
county, on Thursday.
Enterprise Lodge, !. o. G. T., at Daniel,
recently elected officers as follows: M. ID.
Penn. c. T.; Miss Lucy Davis, V. T.; VIM.
Aldridge, Secretary; Miss Ella Conoway, +.
S.; Mrs. Ii. l.. Shipley, Treasurer; Ii. l..
Gosnell, Chaplain; NJ. b. Wilson, Guard; j.
A. Snider, Sentinel; j. W. Conoway, S. }. L.
Delegates to District Lodge-Wm. Aldridge,
D. N. McQuay, Miss NJ. L. ellis.
The May term of the Circuit Court COM
mences on Monday next The docket con-
tains 1913 trials. 40 appeals and Is originals.
There is but one prisoner in Jail awaiting the
action of the grand jury. 1t is thought the
term will be very short, first, because there
is very little criminal business to be disposed
of; second, very considerable business was
disposed of at the February term; and third,
because the repairs to the Court House are
incomplete.
The annual election of directors OF the
Meadow Branch Turnpike Company was held
on Monday, and resulted in the choice oil
David d. Bonsack, David Reese, Samuel
RoOp, John D. Roop and J. I. Difienbaugh.
The directors organized after the election
and elected David d. Bonsack president,
John d. Roop treasurer, and John L: Diffen-
baugh secretary. A dividend Of four Per
cent. on the capital stock was declared Tor
the past year, payable on and after the 18th
inst, at the First National Bank.
On Saturday last Judge Roberts heard ar
gument in the case of George B. Yantis, pro-
prietor of Hotel Albion, this city, whose APP
peation for license under the high license
law had been objected to. d. N. Henning,
ESD, appeared for The applicant. The court
held that the provision of the law requiring
applicants to answer certain questions, was
intended merely to elicit information under
oath concerning the applicant, which would
be useful to the clerk and the court in de-
termining whether the applicant be proper
person, under the law, to sell liquor. Mr..