The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-04-04
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIES.

LUCAL BkENIllES.
son of Mr.. Samuel Grouse, of Tyrone,
died on Sunday, aged 10 months.
Lewis Ramer and family have removed
from Manchester TO Gettysburg, Pa
Samuel Bohn and wife removed from Bal
tmore TO Westminster on Monday last.
Mr. Peter Lingenfelter, an aged citizen of
this city, was paralyzed on Monday last.
Mrs. Eliza ]. Shreeve, of this city. went TO
Baltimore on Thursday and will remain until
after Easter.
IDENTITY Collector James A. Diffenbaugh
snent last Sunday with the Baltimore base ball
club at Atlanta, Georgia
DR.. Harvey S. Reese has purchased for
$500 the house of Mrs. Julia Manning, on
East Main street, this city.
Mr.. J. Ed Beck, of Waynesboro, Pa, has
sold his property, 3S9 acres, near Linwood,
10 Abraham W Caylor, for So, 500.
Master Walter and Miss Ethel Darby, of
Baltimore, will spend the Easter holidays
with Miss Nettie Shreeve, Westminster.
Col. R. NJ. Polk is having the City Hotel
here put in first-class condition. Carpenters,
plumbers, plasterers and painters are at work.
During March there were recorded in the
Clerk office 81 deeds, % mortgages and l6
bills of sale, and 2G marriage licenses were
issued.
Two ear loads of fat cattle were shipped to
market from Linebere on Tuesday Among
the lot were fine steers fed by Willis Tracy.
The gain of weight on one was 42S pounds.
Mr.. C. O. Brashear. whose suicide near
Marriottsville was noted in the ADVOCATE last
week. was a son of Mr.. Cornelius Brashear
Mt. Airy. He leaves wife and two children.
An election was held in Mt. Airy on Tues
day last on the question of issuing bonds to
the amount of $4,000 for street improvement.
The rote was 10 for the issue aud IL against.
Every lover of music should attend the con-
cert at Odd Fellows Hall, this city, next
Friday night, April 10, by the Carroll County
Band 1t will be the finest ever given in this
city.
Mrs. Eta Taylor is having some improve
ments made to the Yingling property, on
Main street, this city, she recently purchased.
Charles B. Hunter, carpenter. is doing the
work.
Chairman Charles r. Woods has issued a
call for county convention TO meet at Carroll
Hall. Westminster, on Friday, April II, at
p. m. The convention will select delegates
10 the State Prohibition Convention.
Mrs. Catharine Powell died at the residence
Of her daughter, Mrs. Howard Myers, near
Pleasant Valley Death resulted from blood
poisoning, caused by running splinter in her
hand. The deceased was a sister of Mrs. Col.
II. NJ. Polk, ofBaltimore. land Mr.. Daniel Calf
rider, of Frizellburg. Her age was 10 years,
month and "a days.
The cornerstone of the new building Of the
Westminster Fire Department will be laid on
Monday afternoon. The firemen will assemble
at o'clock, and, accompanied by the West
minstor Band, will have parade. The corn
er-stone ceremony will take place after the
parade. The Door of Virtue Lodge A. +.
A. NJ. will lay the cornerstone.
The County Republican Central Committee
met in this city on Monday. The attendance
was slim. The committee fixed the date for
primaries, for April IL, to select delegates to
county convention to lie held on the 18th.
The county convention will select five dele
gates to the state convention and five to the
second congressional district convention.
Herbert Thomas and Harry Slower were
arrested by Constable Miller in Taneytown
last Saturday night, upon the charge of steal
ing blaBket from the horse of Mr.. Haugh.
They we're put in the lookup and held until
Sunday, when Sheriff Murray went to fancy
town and brought the accused to Jail here.
Thomas secured bail and was released but
Slower is still in prison.
A note from Mr.. Edward Leese, of Bach
mans Mill, says: son Tuesday night some
one entered my smokehouse, but he was badly
disappointed, if he was after meat, for it had
all been removed few days previous. The
fellow dropped his pipe, and really lost by his
midnight raid. He can have the pipe by com
ing after it, proving property and paying
charges for picking it up and caring for it.
If he wants piece of meat and will come and
ask for it | viii give him piece
Miller Bros, merchants of this city. have
arranged for grand lily show at their
stores on Easter Monday, from noon until 10
o'clock, p. M Mrs. Brooks, florist of West
minister, will have fine collection on eXhi-
bition, and the ladies of town and vicinity will
lend lilies for the show. All will be num-
bered. except Mrs. Brooks, and visitors to
the store will be entitled to vote on the hand
semest lily. The one receiving the highest
number will draw as prize handsome ham
boo tea table.
When the County Commissioners meet to
make the tax levy in June they will add about
six cents, making it 4S cents instead of ~. as
at present. This increase will be necessary
by reason of the expense of having a re-as-
SeSsment and new registration of voters, and
the new election law will increase the expense
very materially. A new assessment alone
will cost about $1,000, and a new registration
and the new election law will cost probably
$500, making $4,000. The cost will not be
below $4,000, and may be $1,000 more.
Rev. A. D. Melvin, pastor of the Methodist
Protestant Church Of Westminster, was last
seek elected Secretaryofthe Board of Missions
Of the Methodist Protestant Church, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Rev. Mr.. Col
bourne, who died few weeks ago. Mr.. Mel
vim will be chosen at the General Convention,
which meets in Kansas City next month, for
the full term of four years. He will keep his
family here and make Westminster his head.
quarters, though he will have to visit the yari-
Gus conferences throughout the country when
IN annual session.
Mr.. Edward W. Wampler, son of the late
George E. Wampler, of this city, once Clerk
fthe Circuit Court for Carroll died in Bos-
ion, Massachusetts, on Monday last, after an
illness of one month with pneumonia, aged
" years, month and days His funeral
took place on Tuesday afternoon, after which
his remains were cremated. The mother of
The deceased was sister of Mr.. A. III. Huber,
o. tins city. He leaves several brothers and
SISTERS, one sister being Mrs. Clara Wampler
Robinson of Baltimore, and his brothers are
deorge i. and Harry Wampler.
Mrs, James Massicott died in this city on
Saturday last, aged 81 years. She had been
very i'll with complication of diseases for
about three weeks, and during her illness gave
birth 9i to an apparently healthy infant. Mrs.
aassieott was unable to take any nourishment
Tor ten days before her death. Owing to her
inability to give any attention whatever to the
infant 1t was attended 10 by nurse. A short
while after the death of the mother the nurse,
on going to the infant, found it dead. 1t was
~ me same room with the mother, and had
aed without the least noise or struggle, and
apparently about the same time as the moth
81, The mother and infant were buried on
c Honday ~ the same grave from st. Johns
catholic Church.
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