The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-06-03
LOCAL AFFAIRS
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

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Union Lodge No. 81, of Uniontown will
,sit Westminster Lodge No. Al, |. o. NJ, on
Tuesday evening next.
Mr. r. C. Mulvehill, of Winchester, Va,
h,s leased the City Hotel, Westminster, and
viii omen it about the 18th inst.
Cardinal Gibbons will visit st. Johns
n,rish, this city, on Sunday, June 18th, and
administer the right of confirmation.
l. Clarence Mobley has been working for
,bo Westminster Gaslight Company seventeen
Gears. He came to Westminster, June list,
1876.
Officer Matthews has made several arrests
tbe mast ten days for fast driving. He pro.
noses to enforce the ordinance against all
offenders.
An excellent crayon portrait of Col. John
4 Longwell. president of Union National
Rank. has been placed in the directors room
at the bank.
Edward S. Mobley, of Westminster, went
IN Frederick on his bicycle last Saturday
evening, making the run, - miles, in hours
and 40 minutes.
The Western Maryland College club de-
feated the St. Johns College club here last
Saturday by score of TO 3. The game
was an interesting one.
Alta meeting of the Board OF Governors of
Westminster Theological Seminary on Tues
day Rev. DR.. l.. W. Bates was elected to the
chair of historical and practical theology.
VIM. S. Callaghan, of Baltimore, formerly
If Westminster, has been granted patent
onapneumatic tire for bicycles. The patentee
claims the tire absolute proof against pune
ture.
Gov, Frank Brown was one of the honorary
pallbearers at the reinterment Of the re-
mains of jefferson Davis, ex-President of the
Southern Confederacy, at Richmond, Va, on
Wednesday.
The Union Bridge Fire Company has elect
ed Charles Hiltabridle. James A. Seabrook,
William Eckenrode, Edward Hoover and
George Mitten delegates to the Firemen's
convention at Frederick on June and s.
The annual spring love feast of the Pipe
Creek German Baptist Brethren Church was
held in the meeting house near Uniontown,
on Saturday and Sunday. There were about
1900 people present on Sunday.
Among the graduates at the State Normal
School on Thursday night were Misses Mag
gle Chase and Carrie Fleagle of Carroll county.
Prof. DifIenbaugh and the Carroll county
School Board attended the commencement
exercises
John Black, James Dowry and Joseph
Simpson tried to break jail day or two ago
by picking a hole in the wall The prisoners
were in the Jail yard at the time and used
stove poker for the purpose. The escape
was foiled by the timely discovery by the
sheriff.
Decoration services will be held at Baust's
Church on Sunday afternoon, June 18th, at
go o'clock. Burns Post, G. A. r., of
Westminster, is expected to be present to
assist in the services. Rev. NJ. l.. Firor, Of
Union Bridge, and Rev. G. W. Seilhamer,
chaplain of the Post, will deliver addresses.
MIR. A. H. Huber, of Westminster, who
was appointed special agent of the Treasury
department. in the Baltimore Custom House,
was notified on Wednesday that his services
we're no longer needed. and the same day Mr..
Samuel Cover, also of Westminster, was APP
pointed to the vacancy. The salary is about
$1,000 a year.
Decoration day was observed with the
usual services in this city, Hampstead, Union
town, Taneytown and Winfield. Major John
|. Yellott and Rev. NJ. l.. Firor made ad
dresses at Westminster cemetery, and Col.
Maulsby and Col. McKellip at Hampstead.
One of the speakers at Winfield was Vim. p.
Maulsby, Jr., of Frederick.
Mrs Mary r. Dorsey, widow of Alexander
W. Dorsey. died in Baltimore on Thursday.
aged " years Funeral services will be held
at the Methodist Protestant Church at 3
o'clock Sunday afternoon and her remains
will be inferred in Westminster cemetery.
The deceased was daughter of the late Rev.
Isaac Webster and a sister of Mr.. Chas. w.
Webster, of Westminster.
The convention of the Episcopal Church,
Diocese of Maryland, met in Baltimore on
Wednesday. Bishop Paret recommended a
division of the diocese and appointed a COM
mittee to consider the matter. Rev. j. b.
Purcell, of Sykesville, was appointed chair
man of the committee on Wariield College.
Ascension Parish, Westminster, was not rep.
resented at the convention.
The Flower Mission will open for the Sum
mer next Thursday afternoon, June Sth, at
the room over Mr.. NJ. Babylon's store, near
the railroad. Those who wish to assist
will please leave their names at the residence
of Mrs. Joseph I. Herring within the next
week, so the appointments for the month may
be made The receivers for next week are
Misses Kitty Noel and Mae Nelson; packers,
Misses Bette Shriver and Eva Blanchard.
The Philadelphia Ledger of Tuesday says
A number of people have been victimized
recently by n young man who claims New
Windsor, Md, as his home, and gives as ref
erence a Maryland clergyman. The man
represents that he is in destitute cireumstan-
ees, but has been offered position, which
will be vacant in few days, and then Dor
rows enough money to live on in the interven-
ing time. The clergyman referred to speaks
of the young man as worthless character. !"
Mr.. Edwin c. Harris, son of Mr.. Benjamin
q. Harris of Baltimore, and nephew oil
Mrs. William Ii. Vanderford of Westminster,
was found dead at Coney Island, New York,
on Thursday. There was wound in his
breast and knife lying beside him, and it
was probably case Of suicide, though no
cause for such an act can be assigned by his
relatives. The young man visited Westmin-
ster quite frequently, and was known to many
persons here. He was mechanical engineer
and machinist, and skilled in his profession.
lie was twenty-three years old.
The annual May procession of the children
oil st. Johns Catholic Church took place in
the presence of a very large congregation last
Sunday afternoon. Seventy-two girls, wear
ing white wells and wreaths and carrying
flowers, and forty boys marched from the
parish schoolhouse to the church, where,
under the leadership of the teachers, the
Misses Mccall, they sang their hymns to the
Blessed Virgin. The service consisted Of
renewal of baptismal vows, act of consecra.
ton and benediction. Fifty children took
their first communion in the morning.
In this section the predictions of Rev. Irl
Hicks for May were not very accurate. We
had the cool frosty nights, but not the very
warm weather. The disturbance for the close
of May and the first of June, he says, will
disappear by the Sd, leaving pleasant weather
behind. The eth and Sth will bring higher
temperature, with storms. About the 10th
the weather will grow excessively warm,
continuing on the l1th and 18th, and unit
storms result There will be storms eact
afternoon up to the 18th and 18th. From
the 10Th to the 18th is a regular storm period
Bright, pleasant days and nights will follow
up to the 25th, and the month will end warn
and stormy.
At Harvey ON Tuesday evening Mrs. Jos
eph Witherow, aged about seventy five years
her daughter and grandson, Joseph Phil
lips, aged eight years, were kicked by mare
and severely injured. The mare is usual,
very gentle, but she has colt, which ma,
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