The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-02-11
LOCAL AFFAIRS
LOCAL BRgv1T1Es.
day next is Valentine Day.

4 Tuesday next is Valentine Day.
The Westminster Band concert on Monday
@Fening.
The February term of the Circuit Court
hegins on Monday next.
Samuel Bowens, colored, of Westminster.
rs been granted a government pension.
+ Lent begins next Wednesday. Good Fri
IN falls on March 81 and Easter Sunday on
April I'd.
Measles are said to be epidemic in and
near Sykesville, particularly on the Howard
nonnty side.
A daring attempt was made one night last
eek to enter the residence of Miss Emma
Weybright, of Double Pipe Creek.
Ephraim Grouse, well known citizen.
died at his home, near Double Pipe Creek, on
Xnesday in his seventy second year.
Supposed whitecaps have served upon Mr..
George Renner, of. Double Pipe Creek, a
fhreatening notice. It is looked upon as a
During January there were recorded at the
fMrk's Office 10 mortgages, AZ deeds and ID
h;lls of sale, and 81 marriage licenses were
issued.
A new engine, weighing over ten tons, and
0sler new machinery have been placed in
the Woodbine paper mills, which have started
MP after q suspension of four weeks.
Mr.. Michael Walsh, near Carrollton, re
emily cut down chestnut tree that measured
I'VE feet in diameter and ad IA rings, iudi-
ceting that it was as many years old.
The star service from AIesia to Grave Run
Nile has been curtailed so as to begin at
HoffmanYille, emitting Alesia and Roller
snd decreasing the distance four miles.
Governor Brown has selected Granville s..
Haines, j. Oliver Wadlow and George p.
mickey as delegates from Carroll county to
iii conference to discnss the assessment
4pestion.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Ensor, wife of Augustus
Ensor, and daughter of Henry Morelock,
died on Tuesday morning, aged about forty
<3:ree years. Her death, it is thought, was
rom lcckjaw.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Stevens, Of Baltimore,
z1eretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary
70ciety, delivered an interesting address at
<>sntenary NJ. f. Church, on foreign missions,
50 Sunday night.
Mr.. John Fl. Gerke has purchased from
tie Westminster Fire Department the build
:ags on the Busby lot, purchased some months
sgo by the Department. The material will be
ssed in constructing stable.
During the recent sessions Of the Carroll
Eennty Teachers Institute the teachers, ex.
z:ainer, several of the school commissioners
md several of the lecturers were photograph
Sd. They numbered about one hundred and
ny and the photographs are excellent.
The report from the committee on roads,
al the Union Bridge Farmers Club. in which
3 ~ oact of sofatn.uu Tho I shartv an1 pina
&feek turnpike was given, was made by
#sniel Wolfe, chairman of the committee,
nd not by Solomon Shepherd, as was re-
forted two weeks ago, in an account of the
fFoceedings of the last meeting of the Club.
On Saturday last the house of John I.
Wagner, on the Washington road, near this
ely, tenanted by Jacob Wagner, caught FIRE
TOM the chimney. The family fought the
lt1 resolutely and extinguished it. The root
4ad ratters were damaged to the extent OF
atont s2s. BY fighting the fire instead Of
{4moving furniture, the house was saved, and
ne furniture, too.
The large barn on the farm OF Mr.. Jacob
Al Frederick. tenahted by Mr.. Sannel Dietz,
I've miles north Of Manchester, with q large
4aRntity of hay and straw and all the farming
snplements, was destroyed by FIRE last Sun
lay. A large hog pen adjoining was also
1sstroyed. The fire is supposed to have been
fznsed by the carelessness Of children who
&ere playing in the barn. The loss is about
81 800.
There was q shooting tournament at live
zigeons at Hampstead on Wednesday, par
.ieipated in by Harry Quicker, Of Resters-
own; Bombay and Hunt, of 0wings' Mills;
Iracy, Of Baltimore county; DIR. George E.
i&nghman, Joseph W. Smith and Robert
Hoppe, of Westminster; Richards, of Hsmp-
cad, and others. The Westminster delega-
ION came home with forty three birds, about
1Alf the spoils.
The large fire on Friday night of last week,
&c reflection of which was plainly visible in
<A;s city, was at the large barn on the farm Of
4essrs. r. G. and P. II. Magill, near Oak
I'D, in the sixth district Of Howard county.
me hundred and fifty tons of hay. some
&zgons and farming implements and a lot OF
f9dder were also consumed. Twenty-six
*orses and forty-fye esttle were gotten out in
<6fefy. The barn was recently erected at a
|zost Of 81 500, and was insured for $1,000.
Ezra Leppo and George Huff, then both Of
&Sers' district, were partners in the horse
|1siness for several years. While in business
ley obtained a pair of horses from Harry
1rr, Of Hanover, Pa. A note at six months
zas given, and when il was due i was not
2aid and the parties could not be found
foceedisgs were instituted against them in
ennsylvania. and requisition for them Was
stained from Gov. Pattisen. Leppo wal
Gated in the employ Of the Pikesvillt
Iectric railroad. Detective Seibold went il
eareh for him and he was arrested in Balti
ore on Thursday evening oflast week and OF
fiday afternoon Huff was arrested at bis
tme, near Union Mills. Both were taker
jail at York, Pc.