The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-07-21

Z: ). Davis has been appointed postmaster
at Morgan in the place Of t. H. Tolson, re.
signed.
Thirty -four tickets were sold at the depot
here on Thursday for the Reformed reunion
at Penmar
The McSherrystown base ball club defeated
the Westminster club here last Saturday by a
score of IA to 9.
farm OF 200 acres near Winfield to Marcus
Pickett for $1,000.
Centenary Church Sunday School, West.
minister, had their annual picnic on Thurs.
day, in Bonsack's woods, near town.
Mr.. S. K. Yingling, the paint brush artist,
and three assistants, are identifying the
residence of Messrs. f. Il. 0rendorff and
Simon +. Weaver, this city.
The commissioners of Carroll and Howard
counties Will meet at Sykesville next We'd
nesday, to consider the erection of Joint
bridge at that place, over the West Branch
of the Patapsco.
On Tuesday evening Miss Maria Stoner, OF
West Main street, this city, fell from box
upon which she was standing and dislocated
the left knee joint and injured the knee cap.
DIR. NJ. l.. Bot is attending her.
-NSSSAhi oeCo . years, SUI Vi anureW
Rupp, Of Westminster, is dangerously i'll
from being struck by an axe in the abdomen
on Wednesday. The axe few off the handle
while Vincent Yingling was cutting wood
Mails are dispatched to Baltimore from
Westminster at 7.02 and 8. l6 a. M, and L. l2,
4.S2 and COG p. IN. The mails close few
minutes before these hours. Mails arrive
from Baltimore at $40 and ll.4l a. m. and
5.42 p. m.
The contributors to the Flower Mission
this week were Mrs Fred. D. Miller, Mrs.
Reigle, Mrs. Hawn, Mrs. Geo. W. Matthews,
Mrs. VIM. A. Cunningham, Misses Lille
Woodward, Emma Reese and Lizzie Nus.
baum. Receivers for next week-Misses
Barnitz and Huber; packers MissesLockard
Among the Executive nominations received
by the Senate on Tuesday was that of Joseph
B. Boyle to be postmaster at Westminster, in
the place of George E. Sharrer, whose com.
mission expired on March 4, 1894 The
Administration has been right generous TO
MIR. Sharrer, allowing him to serve nearly
FIVE months over the four years for which he
was appointed. Mr.. Boyle's appointment
was confirmed on Thursday.
The colored citizens of Westminster have
a social sensation on hand John Wheeler,
who draws $3.50 pension annually from the
government and has an application pending
for an increase, and the wife of Thomas
Francis, one of the most respected and re-
spectacle of his race in the county, are the
principles in the affair. 1t is said that
Wheeler went to Baltimore and rented
house and returned here and on Tuesday
eloped with Francis wife. The woman took
three small children with her.
A party of men, about a hundred in mum
Der, calling themselves Cockeyites, passed
through Westminster on Wednesday evening.
bound for Washington, D. C. They were
not permitted to encamp here, and passed on
through to point two miles down the Wash
ington road. What they are going to Wash.
ington for no one knows, and it would puz-
ze the Generals, y "Colonels'' and "Adju.
tants'' in command to tell. They will keep
up their wanderings, very likely, just as long
as the people will feed them.
The Westminster Electric Light and Power
Company on Thursday evening contracted
for 100 horse power boiler and 100 horse
power engine, and have also employed
practical electrician and superintendent,
Mr.. Funk of Lebanon, Pa. Mr.. Funk has
put in electric light plants at Gettysburg,
Hanover, Lebanon and other places. He
will make canvass of the town next
week, to see who will use the light and
power. The company have purchased from
NJ. Schaeffer the lot in the rear of the Fire
Department Building for the power house.