The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-08-25
LOCAL AFFAIRS
LOCAL BREvITIEs.


signed.
Mr. William Arlington, near Henryton,
..;.ed tomato in his garden this season that
gsiobed one and half pounds.
Tbe Sunday school Of the Westminster
ua,bodist Protestant Church held picnic in
Ronsack's woods, near town, on Thursday.
The Democratic Central Committee will
..aat in this city, at the Court House, on
Monday morning, September 3, at 10 o'clock.
Ms Catherine Kress, widow of J ohn Kress,
died in Cranberry Valley on Thursday morn
mo of cancer of the stomach, aged Do years.
The electric light company are moving along
.sn;dly. and expect to turn on the light about
,Sa 6rst OF October. Poles to carry the wires
are being put up.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union
sill meet next Thursday afternoon at clock
st Miss Lizzie Hers residence, and it is de-
sired that every member be present.
Rsnublican primaries will be held today
ond the county convention on Monday. The
confessional nominating convention will be
held al Havre de Grace on Tuesday.
sneeial meeting of the members of the
Keely League of Westminster will be held
nsyt Tuesday afternoon. at O'Clock, at the
rssidence of Mrs. B. F. Grouse, West Main
street.
The opening of the park of the Carroll
County Riding, Driving, Trotting and Pleas
are Association, on September 10, promises
IN be big affair. Flaming posters have been
ant up, and the attendance is expected to he
Sery great.
The County Commissioners have been asked
IN nrOyide better quarters for the aged male
inmates of the Aims House. The petition
asks for the erection of special house for the
Superintendent, and the removal OF the old
men lo the main building.
Mr.. Joseph f. Beam, a brother OF Mrs. r.
A. (iorsuch, Of Westminster, died at his home
Al Arlington, Baltimore county, early yester
day morning, aged 43 years. A wife and two
children survive him. He had been mem
her of the NJ, T.. Church for more than twenty
years.
The contributors TO the Flower Mission this
week were Mrs. George w. Matthews, Mrs.
Samuel Skunk, Mrs. John Utz, Misses Carrie
Willhide and Emma Reese. Receivers for
next week are Misses Grace Herring and Mag.
gie Huber; packers, Misses Laura Grouse and
Mae Nelson.
Typhoid fever is prevalent in Double Pipe
Creek neighborhood, and six deaths have
occurred in the past few weeks. The last
victim was Miss Maria Grimes, aged "a years.
Some tyDnOlu lever cases nave oCSuitcN ."
Cranberry Valley also, and in Manchester
There are several cases of diphtheria.
Messrs. George NJ. Parke. B. f. Grouse,
T. J. Baumeartner, Joseph II. Krichton and
John II. Cunningham started on Tuesday fol
run on their bicycles to York, Lancaster,
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Middletown,
Delaware, down to Colchester, in Kent coun:,
ty, Nd, thence by boat to Baltimore, and
then up the pike home.
Miss Maggie McKellip, who has been spend
ing some weeks in Westminster, will go to
Washington next week, and on the lst OF
September will open boarding house at l4Ol
MsssaehUsetts avenueI one square west OF hei
former location. Her house is at Thomas
Circle, one of the prettiest parts OF The
Capitol.
The Western Maryland Railroad will run q
special excursion to Bay Ridge today, the
18th Train will leave Union Bridge at .. 4
this morning and will stop at all stations tc
0wings' Mills. The train leaves Westmip
ster at G. 80, and the fare from here aud all
stations west is SIPS for the round trip.
From stations east the fare is gradually less
ened.
The new tariff bill imposes tax of two
cts. on every pack of playing cards in the hands
of manufacturers or dealers after the law goe:
intoeffect. 1t also provides penalty OF 500 FOL
the sale of every pack of cards after the law
becomes operative without two-cent STAMP
attached. Every. one who has playing cards
intended for sale is required TO forward TO the
internal revenue collector of the district II
which he does business sworn statement oil
the number of packs of cards be has on hant
the day the bill becomes law.
The many friends and admirers here o
Prof A H. Merrill, of Vanderbilt University
will be glad to know that he will visit TIM
city week after next, and while here will give
an exhibition of his Evolutionary art. In the
entertainment he will likely be assisted by
some musical talent at Western Maryland
College. When Prof. Merrill was at Western
Maryland College, he was regarded as an elo
eationist of the first rank, but It Is SAID ina
he has advanced very much.
The Taylorsville tournament ON Wednes-
day attracted an attendance oil some SIX Oh
seven hundred persons. Fourteen knight
contested in the tourney, and the riding wa'
spirited The successful ones were tran
Beasman, Charles Crawford, James Linton
and George Beasman, in the order named
Grant Beasman crowned Miss Shirley, o
baltimore county, as queen, and MISS II
Barnes, of Winfield, Miss Nan BowersoK AM
Miss Cecilia BowersoX were chosen as mau
of honor. Michael Z. Walsh, Esq, OF thu
W westminster DAT, uellNtTcu - -
knights and Mr.. Sarslield Doyle, OF Nestmih
ster, made the earnation address.
While crossing ford below ID. p. Smel
ser's mill dam, near New Windsor, MISS Clar'
Tudor, Of Baltimore, Miss Elise birely, O
Frederick, and Miss V. Marie Bale, OF New
Windsor. narrowly escaped being drowned
The first two Young ladies were the guests o
Mr.. N. H. Bale, Of New Windsor, and were
ont driving. The horse left the ford and go
into the deep water Of the stream, which d
fifteen feet deep in places. The water cam
into the buggy, and there was no-one near !
answer the cries of the young ladies ior heip
The horse succeeded in reaching and climb
ing a steep bank and bringing them safely on
of their perilous position.
A public meeting in the interest OF tn b,
Westminster and Union Mills Electric hali
way will be held at Odd Fellows Hall mex
Tuesday night, at I. 80 O. clock. Gov. Brown
President Of the Baltimore Traction Company
Mr.. Z. NJ. Hoffer, President Of the Gettys
burg Electric Railway Company, and Dr. >
w. Herring, Cashier of Union National BANK
will address the meeting, and perhaps others
Mayor Brooks will preside and the Weslmin
ster Band will be present to eniven tne occa
sion. 1t is desired that the people Will tur
out en- masse and hear the advantages OF u
proposed road presented; not the citizens
Westminster merely, but those living alon
the route from Reisterstown to Union Mills
The Christian Workers Camp Meeting no.
progress on the Linwood camp grounds
meeting with abundant success. On Sun9ay
August 26th, special services will he held a
day. At a. IN. a conservation meeting ie'
by Bro. Travis, Of Philadelphia, 10 ~ a. m
Preaching by Rev. Ed. Walton, Of Pniiaae
phia, on the Second Coming OF Christ; y
100 p. m, children's meeting; 2So ?; m.
preaching by Mrs. Kate E. Denninson, ivan
gelist of Philadelphia; $50 P. m, oun
Peoples meeting, in charge Of Bro. Josepl
Gross, Wilmington's noted boy preacher
7aO p. M, preaching by Rev. e. N. Grana oa
son, of Wilmington, Delaware, formally pres
ident of Bennett College, N c.
VIM. P. Gorsuch, of Sykesville, died sue
denly from hemorrhage on Saturday mornln 10
last in his 10th year. Sheriff Arnold an
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad detectives ha
arrested number of tramps on the trains !,