The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-04-01
AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

of Woolery's district, is quite ill.
Mai. John l. Yellott, of Towson, will deliver
lfe address in Westminster on Decoration
Lay, May Both.
To-day is April 1st-general settlement day.
LED everybody "fool' everybody else by
sQuaring accounts.
Subscribers who change their residences
mould gire their old postobfce address as well
al the one to which they want the paper
sent.
Mr.. John I. Shueey, near War6eldsburg,
has purchased for $500 the farm of Levi N.
eaader, near New Windsor, containing Ill
ores.
Mr.. A. Kleff has given up the City Hotel,
lis city, and the house is now closed. His
iAmily have gone to Salisbury and he will re-
main here for the present.
The Union Mills Gun Club will have
shooting match on Easter Monday, commeRc-
ihg at noon. The prize will be breeeh-
Ioading double barrel gun.
James A. C. Bond, as trustee, on Saturday
old the farm of Joseph Hess, containing 80
acres, situated in Woolery's district, to Mel
son Yingling at $50 per acre.
Thomas Davis Deutche, aged seven years,
1f Middeburg district, was on Wednesday
sent to St. Marys Industrial School, Balti-
lore, by Justice G. w. Crapster.
The Westminster Band, in their new uni
t5rms, will show themselves on the streets of
Westminster on Monday afternoon. The
Republican Drum Corps will parade also.
The funeral of DR.. II. C. Nelson will take
6lace at Ascension Church on Wednesday
4fernoon next at O'Clock. The interment
I'll be at Deer Park Chapel at Smallwood.
Andrew Hammer, all aged citizen of
Houcksville, is dead at the age of seventy
I've years. His only known living relative
ii q son, John Hammer, a school teacher IN
Wisconsin.
The officers of the Grand Lodge, |. 0. o.
h, will visit Salem Lodge, No. GO, of West
.ninster, on Monday evening next, to confer
he initiatory degree upon six candidates for
The consistory of St. Paul's Reformed
church have rented the house of Augustus
Ensor on Green, street, and the pastor, Rev.
Calvin S. Slagle is domiciled there pending
he building of new parsonage.
Money is said to be plenty at five per cent.
IL Westminster, but security is scarce. Real
state. especially farming land, is so low
that lenders do not care to loan to more than
Mr.. Edwin W. Shriver, formerly of West
minster, is candidate for postmaster at
ozone Park, N. Y. He is endorsed by the
iocal Democratic club, and the Brooklyn
Times says he has the inside track,
Among the portraits of distinguished Mary
Ianders to be loaned for the bazaar and exhibit
ton in Baltimore to raise funds to erect u
Monument to Maryland patriots of the Re-
= s al
James Il. Dugan. of Westminster, plays
r;ght field fer the Georgetown University
Club. The Club outpayed the Washington
National League Club on Wednesday, but lost
5he game by one run. The score was 6 to 8.
i rom Mr.. James E. Smith, agent, we have
received "a Winters Walk with Cowper'
Caleplg. ISSUED by the American Casualty
Company. 1t is the handsomest and finest
frustrated calender that ever came to this
9iiice.
Mr. Leonard Weer, native of Eldersburg,
tbs county, died of heart failure at the home
Of his daughter, Mrs. L. C. Groomes, at
Rockville. Montgomery county, on Saturday
Ast, aged IS years. Randolph Weer, of
Sgkesville, is son of the deceased.
The farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Com
Many of Dug Hill has reelected its directors
md officers. William Y. Frizzell, of Bloom,
vas chosen collector, and an assessment of
three per cent. on premium notes was made,
collectable between the LIST of May aud the
Id of August.
The new lodge of independent Order Me.
ohanics at Uniontown will meet and elect
Ulcers on Monday night next, and will be
instituted on Tuesday night, April 11th, by
ulcers of the Grand Lodge and the officers
Members from Westminster Lodge
VII be present.
Col. William A. McKellip, as executor of
dohn S. Murray, sold on Saturday last the
lot and two-story brick dwelling, on Main
slreet, this city, adjoining the railroad. to
Aary f. Wilson, Ann l.. Vanstaven, Emily
.. Baker and Kate Morgan for $4,000. The
fot frorts 409 feet on Main street.
Congressman Talbot and Hon Frank 4.
Shaw were at the postoffice department on
Monday, the latter looking out for the inter-
Asts of the people of Carroll Among the
applications field by Mr.. Talbot were those
81 Noah II. Hester for postmaster at Pleasant
Valley and +. A. Anderson for postmaster at
10. Airy.
The appointments of the Baltimore South
ern Methodist Conference, which has been
81 session at Front Royal. Virginia, were
announced on Tuesday. For Baltimore dis
zrict DIR. Samuel Rodgers is presiding elder.
j. II. Light goes to Reisterstown. NJ. Strick-
lei and r. l.. Fultz to Freedom, and j. Fl.
Dnlany and S. j. Carver to Linganore.
The Westminster Democratic Drum Corps
feorganized on Tuesday night, with about
thirty members, N. H. Baumgartner was
ehosen present, VIM. D. Reese vice president,
Charles L. Herring secretary and treasurer,
drum major. The name has been changed to
The Westminster Piecalo Drum Corps. New
Uniforms will be purchased.
The funeral of Mr.. Timothy Lane, who died
near Avondale on Thursday of last week,
tssk place on Sunday at st. Johns Roman
Catho,.c Church, and was one of the largest
aver witnessed there. The aeesal tributes were
Unusually handsome. Rev. Father Cassiday
officiated The nall.bearers W ere Edward
Lynch, E. o. Grimes. G. w. Morningstar,
!. Q. Stitely, F. H. 0fendorf and Jeremiah
Hingling.
In Gettysburg, Pa, on Saturday. Mrs.
katharine Garlarch, aged II years, died sud
Denly, and Sunday Mrs. George Gordon died
while teaching in The Sunday school. On
be same day Maria Ellen Stevens, colorsd,
aged 9S died. She was formerly owned by
The Lilly family of Conowago, Michael Law
rer, of Fairfield, Adams county, Pa, died on
March %, in his 9lst year, and Rudolph
Rasche, native of Germany, aged 70, also
lied.
Irl R. Hicks said that March would be cool
coward the close. The weather will turn
suddenly warm about April ID, with hard
Electrical storms. up to the 9th. A sharp
cold wave will follow, giving way to warmer,
stormy weather about the 9th and 10th.
From the l4th to the 18th more violent dis.
kurbances may be expected, aud there will be
Freezing weather northward. Warm and
stormy weather will generally continue to the
end of the month.
The completion Of the Western Maryland
3Railroads extension to York, Pa, will now
Be pushed. small force of men were put
70 serk on the road Tuesday aud their mum
Der will be added to next week. The grad
ing is almost all done, cst near the entrance
nto the borough of York being the only i'm
portsnt work TO be finished on the line, but il
will soon be finished. Nine miles of tracks
are still to be laid between Porter's and West
York. The spring will witness an active
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