The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-08-08
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIES.


bollyhock with $50 blooms.
There have been number of acquisitions
10 the guests at Winchester Place this week.
Mr. Wash. L. Brown, of Westminster, raised
tomato this season that weighed two pounds
and six ounces.
The Prohibitionists of Woolery's District
will hold their fifth annual picnic Saturday,
August 10Th, at Squire 0ursler's Grove, near
Carrollton.
Do not kill the red-headed woodpecker.
The breed is nearly exterminated in this sec
t;on. They are industrious insect destroyers
and should be protected.
Mr.. John R. Johnson has been appointed
General Superintendent of the Western Mary
land Telephone Company of Carroll county
by General Manager Hazlett.
Tramps undertook to hold up freight train
nm the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Gathers
IN last Saturday night. The trainmen beat
them off, after stubborn hight
DIR. Thomas j. Coonan, of this city, has
been appointed a member of the Board of
Pension Examiners in the place of DIR. }. W.
Steele, of Freedom district, resigned.
Mr.. Edward A. Chrest has purchased from
Drs. Charles and j. Howell Billingslea
trustees. the dwelling on the corner of Main
street and Manchester avenue, this city, for
$1,000.
Partridges, squirrels and rabbits are said to
he yery numerous this season. 1t is to be
hoped that sp0rtSmen will enjoy the hunting,
and that all the laws against pot-hunters will
be rigidily enforced.
Mr.. S. C. Stoner, who has just completed
his new residence in the West End will move
in it on orabout the 18th instant. The build
ing is frame and finished in the best manner
throughout. and has all the modern eonven-
fences.
The Ice and Cold Storage Company
of Westminster is finding sale for the entire
output of its plant. Ten tors are shipped
weekly 10 the Blue Mountain House, 10 to
Emory Grove and between 3 and tons are
sold daily at home.
johnson & Hazlett, manufacturers of
electrical supplies, have established an indus
try in this city of considerable Importance.
They employ seven men, two OF whom are eX-
pert electricians from New York city. Their
factory is in the Albaugh Block, on Court
street.
Messrs Edward Lynch Francis H. Oren
dorf, David N. Henning, and others of this
city, own farm of several hundred acres
near Martinsburg, West Virginia. A large
vein of fine bituminous coal has recently been
discovered on it, specimen of which Is on
exhibition at this Office.
Mr. NJ E. Walsh is remodelling the offices
at the Fouke property, on Main street, tins
city, he recently purchased. There were
two. but one had no entrance from the street.
In this one he is virtually putting new front
Both offices will be painted different color
from the dwelling. Mr.. Ivan Ii. Hof Will oe-
eupy one as a law office.
On August 18th the regular annual tourna-
ment will be held at Crawford grove. near
Tayorsvlle. Messrs. Ivan L. Hof and }.
Frank Long of the Westminster Bar will be
the orators; Jos. W. Berret chief marshal;
James Hewitt assistant; Frank Davis and
Harry Barnes heralds; DIR. Ed. Cronk. }.
Oliver Murray. l.. C. franklin, George Chase
and Theo. Hoffman judges.
BY changes in the train service on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, which went into effect
last Monday, the Western Maryland trains
make close connection at Bruceville as fol-
lows Going West trains arrive at COG and
1929 a. M, and 4. SO and 6.23 p. M, arriving
at Frederick at Q. Is and Ill n. m. and 500
and G.55 p. m Returning, leave Frederick
at 725 a. m and 800 and 800 p. M. arriv-
ing in Baltimore at 926 a. m and 5.5S and
7.l3 p. m.
Contributors TO the Flower Mission this
week were Mrs. ]. A. C. Bond, Miss Maud
Waesche, Mrs. Thomas Zepp, Mrs. C.. Carr,
Miss Grace Diehl, Miss Mollie Reid, Miss
Annie Shreeve, Mrs. John Diehl, Mrs. Jehu
Utz, Mrs. H. c. Keefer, Mrs Laura 0rndorff,
Mrs. George E. Baughman, Mrs. Walter
Skunk, Mrs. James F. Rinker, Miss Lizzie
Nusbaum. Miss Frank contributed apples
Receivers and packers for next week Misses
Bessie Herr and Ella Snader.
Jacob NJ. Corbett, of Hagerstown, has been
held for the action of the grand jury upon the
charge of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. The information was laid before
Justice Skunk by NJ. O. Myers, Of Westmin-
ster. Mr.. Myers alleges that Corbett sold him
fence right for Carroll county for 5000. and
turned over to him some contracts for fence,
that when he called upon the people who had
contracted for fence they informed him they
bad not ordered fencing.
Wornnen employed by John Yingling in a
graystone quarry, half mile from Taneytown,
on the Gettysburg road, recently uncovered a
substance resembling coal. The quarry is on
the banks of Piney Creek. Mr.. Yinghng en-
gagged the services of a geologist from the
Johns Hopkins University 10 determine the
character of the find, " and it has been pro-
no"iNSh u SOou Audlil1 VI dhihiaNitS wal
lhe geOlogist also expressed the opinion that
at greater depth it will be found in paying
quantity.
Mr. R. B. Hazlett, of the firm of Johnson
Hazlett manufacturers Of telephone equip
ment, Of this city, left on Thursday for Nor
folk, Va, to install the hotpoint switch
board for the Norfolk office of the Southern
States Telephone Company, Of which Charles
II, Fink Fec Of Wasf,niprfar is President
The Portsmouth and Berkeley boards will be
put in as soon as the Norfolk office is COM
pleted. Mr.. Hazlett will be absent a month
or more. A. Little, manager of the West
Minister exchange, and Ed. Matthias, operator,
went with Mr.. Hazlett.
Benjamin Phillips, of Union Bridge, stone
mason, was very seriously injured on Tues
DAY, near Clearspring station, on the Potomac
nalley Railroad, not far from Willamspori,
Nd He is a stone mason, and was working
on the repairs being made to a trestle, when
large stone, weighing over hundred pounds.
ieii' striking him, breaking both legs and
Tnlnrng his stomach and one side of his body.
lie was attended by physician from Clear
spring, and in the evening was removed to his
home, He passed a good night and was re-
ported much improved on Wednesday,.
Mrs. Ida W. Little, wife of Mr.. Albert
LATHE, of Westminster, died last Sunday
morning of typhoid fever, after an illness of
IlTee weeks. Mrs. Little was daughter of
Sohn Thomson, builder and contractor, of
lnls city. The death Of Mrs. Little was very
SAD one, as she had only been married two
months, and was quite young, her age being
~ years, weeks and days. Her funeral
lSek place ON Tuesday, Rev. j. Macallister,
99llelahng. Among the floral offerings was a
aEeSlgn by the officers of the Western Maryland
telephone Company, of which Mr.. Little IS
an employee
IN V9 Monday night last the Common Council
q q westminster passed an ordinance providing
,or reassessment of property within the cor
po5ahon limits, and Mayor Smith signed the
"1ulnanee. The reassessment is TO take place
a once, and the Mayor nominated, and the
TToaneil confirmed, Edward Lynch and Chas.
= Goodwin assessors. The ordinance re-
~ 9ires that blanks be sent out by the Clerk to
T., property owners, and these are required to
"enlled out and returned within ten days. If
IIuy person declines TO make a return he can
ave ave no appeal from the judgment Of the as
sessors; After the ten days eIapse the asses
sos VIII take the blanks and personally as