The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-12-08
SATURDAY, DECEMBER $, 1894.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
local BREyITIES.

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During November S6 deeds, IA mortgages
and 8 bills of sale were recorded IN the CLERK 5
office. and 81 marriage licenses were issued.
Joseph Story was run over by freight train
near Mt. Airy on Friday night and died at a
Baltimore hospital the next day. lie came
from England.
The electric road from Gettysburg to Lit
tlestown is booming. The people at both ends
and all along the route are deeply Interested
and success is assured.
John L. Reifsnider and Charles 7. Ref
snider. MS executors of Jesse Reifsnider, have
sold the s-story brick dwelling house, occn-
pied by Mr.. Harbaugh, near the depot, to f.
Thomas Babylon for $4,000.
Father Sargent. Superior of the Order of
the Holy Cross, last Wednesday evening began
n series of instructions on Historic Faith, ut
Ascension Church, this city. The Instructions
will be continued on Wednesday nights, 18th
and 18th.
Theodore johnson, colored, of Westminster,
is doing service on the chain-gang. He was
arrested for disturbing the peace on tuesday
night by Officer Buckingham, and on Wednes-
day was sentenced to thirty days labor by JUS
lice G. W. Crapster.
Mr.. Andrew Rupps big sausage, 81 feet
long, has been beaten out of sight. Mr. u.
A. Zahn, of Westminster, made one tins week
that measured 46 feet and Mr.. Jacob Wlmert
also of Westminster, made one 40 feet 6inches.
One made by the Misses Lampert, on Penn
sylvania avenue, was about As feet long.
Mr.. John Routson, of Uniontown, died sud
denly at his home in that place Monday even
ing Of paralysis, aged about htty-seven years;
He served in Company A, Sixth Maryland
Regiment. for three years during the late war
II - Il and thrpp sOUs-( linton
Routson, of Baltimore, Morris Routson and
Harry Routson.
Golden Leaf Mandolin, Banjo and Guitar
Club of Westminster was organized on Mon
dav night last by number Of colored young
men. w. l.. Bell is president, W. Il. Ed
wards vice president, John Mclean secretary,
Frank Frisby assistant secretary and Harry
C. Smith treasurer The other member is
Thomas S. Edwards.
Mrs. Mary C. Wagner, of Double Pipe
Creek, recently lost her reason from religious
excitement, and was brought here on Thurs
dav and her condition inquired into by jury.
She was declared insane and Judge Roberts
committed her to Spring Grove ASYLUM Mrs.
Wagner is a widow with seven children, from
three to sixteen years OF age.
Officer Buckingham arrested William Hill
and John woodward, colored, on the charge
of stealing celery from Henry Simpson, also
colored. They were given hearing before
Justice Matthews on Tuesday. woodward
confessed, and the offence was proven on Hill.
and both were sent to jail for thirty days.
All the parties live in Westminster.
Rev. John L. Walsh, of Centenary NJ. Z.
Church. Westminster, is preaching a series of
sermons TO Young women. Last Sunday night
his subject was the ''The Woman of Pleasure;
tomorrow night it will be ''The Model Wo-
man. on December 16, ''Woman's Work;
ON the 2sd, 'The Glory of Womanhood; on
the 30th, ''The End Better than the Begin
ming.
The store of John W. Nelson, this city, was
robbed on Wednesday night of a lot of artl-
cles, including cigars and cocoanuts. lhls IS
the second time the store was robbed tins TALL
On the same night an attempt was made to
enter the store of Jacob Bixler, that has been
robbed so frequently the past month or two
and the residence of A. Baker Myers. on Col
lege avenue.
Mr.. A. Hanson Senseney died at Union
Bridge ON November &c. in his SD year. He
was stricken with paralysis just one week be-
fore his death, and being enfeebled by age he
sank RAPIDLY. His aged widow survives. His
surviving children are Mr.. Silas ID. Senseney,
of Union Bridge. Mr.. Ezra Senseney and Mrs.
Dutterer, of near Uniontown, and Mrs. Roop,
of near Westminster.
The County Commissioners were in session
on Monday and Tuesday, engaged IN general
business. William F. Stocksdae was reap
pointed constable for Woolery's district for
two years, and special pensions were allowed
as follows: To Elizabeth Haines, wife of Viii
liam H. Haines, of Franklin District, So. 90;
to Catherine Thomas, of Taneytown district,
$500; TO Eliza Stem, of Westminster district,
$500.
Capt. A. W. Eichelberger, of Hanover, Pa,
last week offered 80 free scholarships at Eich-
elberger Academy at Chenille. The prefer
ence was given to the boys and girls of Han
: over, and after them to any boys or girls i'll
Pennsylvania or Maryland. Hanover took
but 81 of the scholarships, and are open to
the boys and girls of other sections. Charles
NJ. Stock. of Hanover, will give full informa-
ton to those desiring free scholarships.
Elias ]. Hill, of Washington, d. c., who
died recently, has bequeathed to Westminster
Theological Seminary of the Methodist Prot
estant Church, at Westminster, 81, 500. to be
placed at interest forever and the interest 10
be used exclusively for educating young men
for the ministry in the service ofthe Methodist
Protestant Church. He gives the board OF
foreign missions of the Methodist Protestant
Church $500 for the mission at Yokohama and
$500 for the Margova mission, in Japan.
The members of the Lutheran congregation
of Harvey, gave their pastor, Rev. w. G.
NIinnick, a donation on Thanksgiving day.
They carried wood, corn, oats, bran, wheat
coffee. sugar, -four potatoes, apples, butter
preserves ieilv. canned fruit, and many Other
useful articles. Mr.. A. J. Iightner, in pre-
senting them for the congregation, spoke o
the esteem in which the pastor was held. Mr.
Minnick thanked them for this additiona
manifestation of the kindness with which ht
had been treated since coming into their midst
Rev. FL. FL. Weber, General Secretary o.
the Lutheran Board of Church Extension
spent n day last week in Littlestown ant
Kingsdale, Adams county, and consummatet
deal by which one of the Dubsite churches
of the Evangelical Association will pass int
the hands of the Lutheran Church and thu
deed made to the Board of Church Extension
of that Church. The church property is sit
nated in the town of Kingsdale, few mile
south of Littlestown on the line of the Fred
erick Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Ii will be Mission for the present, of st
Johns of IittlestOwn, and the pastor of tina
church will supply the same with preaching
Mrs. James II. Gambrill, mother of Mrs
John NJ. Roberts, of Westminster. died sud
denly on Tuesday night at Edgewood, tn
lamlly nome, NEAR Iitu
.erick county Mrs. Gambrill attended spec
ial service at All Saints Episcopal Church
Frederick, Tuesday evening, and was takel
Ill at the church. She was removed to tn,
home of her daughter, Mrs. Willard c
Heller, and at her own request taken to he
own home at Edgewood, where she died in
few minutes after being carried to her room
A husband and nine children survive her
Mrs. Gambril was in her fiffy-seventh year
and before her marriage was Miss Antoinett
F., daughter of the late Cornelius Staley, o
Frederick county.
A meeting of farmers who ship milk to Bal
timore will be held at Sykesville today, II
consider plans by which the milk trade ma
be made more satisfactory. Propositions il
reference TO the handling Of milk have alread
been made the shippers by the Milk Exchange
which was recently organized in Baltimore
and the secretary Of the exchange, Mr.. Geo
Gambrill, will, it is stated, be present at tn
meeting to explain fully its proposed dealing
with the shippers. The commission 10 b
charged by the exchange for selling the mill
will, it is said, be one-half cent per GALLON
Some of those interested in the matter are