The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-04-24
SATURDAY, APRIL "a, 1897.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREyITIEs.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY By

Mr.. George N Hunter has D0ught the
huckster route wagon am fixtures Of the late
Samuel P. Everhart.
Mrs. Oleyia Fliekinger, wife of Mr.. Rufus
Fliekinger, died at her home, near Winfield,
on Tuesday, in her forty-seyenth year.
The entertainment to be given under the
auspices Of the Jr. NJ. P. Society at Odd Eel.
lows Hall, this city, has been postponed
until May A.
Mr.. George A. Miller represented Salem
Lodge of this city, in the Grand Lodge of
Maryland, /. o. O. F., which was in session
on Monday and Tuesday in Baltimore.
A disease which has broken ont among the
cattle of Mr.. c. c. Crawford, at Waterloo
Farm, in Franklin district, has been pro-
nounced tuberculosis by the state veterinary
surgeon.
Central Hall school, this city, will be
opened on Monday as a GUNNER school, with
the grades Just as the public schools were con-
Quoted. The West e I'd school opened last
Tuesday,
Walter B. Rudy has been appointed post
master at Mt Airy, in the place of b. M. An
,derson, removed, and j. H. Lppy at Sny-
dersburg, in the place of h. A. Snyder, re-
signed.
Miss Maggie Bolinger. living near Reese
Postofice, sent to the ADVOCATE office last
Saturday curiosity in the egg line. 1t was
a double egg, or more particularly speaking
two eggs Joined together.
The Westminster Junior base ball team was
defeated by the New Windsor club, on the
grounds of the latter, on Easter Monday, by a
score of II to 6. Errors were the feature OF
the game, the Westminster boys excelling.
Mr.. Michael E. Walsh has sold to Mr..
Erastas Gorsuch, for S1l0 lot fronting 40
feet on the New Windsor road, not far from
Main street. Mr. Gorsuch has started the
foundation for q dwelling.
The remains of Mrs. Eliza Grimes, widow
OF The late Joshua Grimes. Of Franklin dis
Arict. who died on Sunday, ia her eighty
second gear, we're inferred in ths burial
ground Of Ebenezer NJ. i. Church, near VIM
field, en- Tuesday.
LittIestown, Pa, has decided to have the
town lighted by electric light company
has been formed with john A. Liyers, as pre-
ident; Henry S. Riley, of Hanover. treasurer,
and d. B. Alleman as secretary II will be
capitalized at $4,000,
Edmund Reed, trustee to sell the Croft
property, at Manchester, has sold the same at
private sale to George ThierEek Tor S475.
The property consists of a house and little
over 81 acres of land, part Of which is in the
corporation limits of Manchester.
Mr.. Samuel n. Gist, living near this city,
brought to the ADVOCATE Office q few days
ago two apples, called the tGreat Keeper.
They were both gathered from the same tree,
one in October, 1895, and the other in Octo-
Der, 1896, and both were sound.
The egg-rolling at Winchester Place last
Monday was the first Witnessed in Westmin-
ster and was quite success. The net pro
eeeds amounted to about $28, and the chill
dren had $50 worth of fun and the older peo-
pie nearly as much in watching the children.
Mr.. Joseph Button, secretary of the Virginia
Senate and treasurer of the Democratic State
,Ceatral Committee, paid the ADVOCATE office
"A visit on Wednesday. He is son of the laie
C. W. Button, editor of the Lynchba1y p1r-
giaiaR, and has been visiting the Zolliek
offers, his reisaiyes, at Uniontown.
Mrs. John j.. Reifsnider has presented to
Ascension Church. this city, a handsome
lecterR. II is brass stand, with ball at the
top, upon which is large eagle with out
stretched wings. Following is the inscription
apOa it: 'To the Glory OF God aud IN
memory of Eltinge Ferree Reifsnider. March
], $780, August y, 1894
The County Commissioners on Monday
ranled a special pension of S10.0 to Rebecca
u OSl. OF 0a0CUeHbeT utStIiCts anu oitc III
$500 to Lucinda Linton, of Freedom district.
An order wes passed directing DR.. J. W.
Helm, of New Windsor district, to remove
the fence from the Liberty road, near his
property, in Franklin district.
Mr.. George Albin, living neaF Miller's Sta
zion. Manchester district, died last Sunday
night FROM the effects of injuries received in
aS accident. He vas cutting timber in the
woods about four weeks previous, when he
was caught under failing tree and had all
the flesh on MS right leg from the knee to the
ankle mashed and torn from the bone. He
was about fifty years of age. -Four small
children survive him.
On Tuesday of last week Dick Brown. col
ored, ianitoF OF the Albion Hotel, this city,
while trying put piece of baggage on the
fast mail when it was moving fell and rolled
against the wheels of the train, the wheels
serapiug his face, while the piece of baggage
was jumping around under them. William
Helm, gatemaH, grabbed the baggage from
ander the wheels. The satchel was all that
saved Brown from being cut in two.
a blast from the North bore down on this
section MonCay night, sending down the mer-
curry to 26 at ! o'clock on Tuesday morning.
The weather was cold all day Tuesday. lee
formed Monday night and fruit buds were ser
iously damaged, it is thought. On Wednes-
day morning there was heavy frost and ice
formed in low places. This has been the
coolest April for twenty years. La the West
on Monday the mercury was down nearly to
zero.
Mrs. Louisa Hoffman, widow of the late
William Hoffman, who for many years was
prominent hotel keeper in ReisterstOwn, Bal
timore county, died at her home about two
mules from Manchester on Sunday evening.
She was in her sxty-nintb year. Five sons
William Hoffman, of the Baltimore city police
force; John Hoffman, of WoodbeFry; Jesse
Hoffman, of Hanover, Pa, and Jacob and
Aaron Hoffman, of Manchester, are her chill.
dren.
On Monday the WarGeldsburg base ball
club went to Oak Orchard and cleaned up the
club of that place. The score was 5 to l.
Neither club scored in the first six innings.
The War6eldsburg boys made two runs in the
seventh inning, one in the eighth and two In
the ninth, while the one run of the Oak Or
chard boys was aade in the eighth. Babylon,
of tn. Warfeldsburg club. struck ont 20 of his
opponents, aud was well supported by banner,
catcher. Oak Orchard battery-Nicodemus,
Ecker and Byers.
The attention of young men of Westminster
is called TO a notice in another column calling
a meeting on Thursday night, May 6, at the
Fire Department Building, TO consider the
organization q military company. There
is good prospect of the company being joined
to the first regiment, if one should be formed,
and being uniformed and equipped by the
state. Westminster had two military COM
paeies prior to the late war, and there was
sone organized re in 1867. There is plenty
material here for company of young and
soldierig looking men, and it is hoped the
effort to form one may be successful.
Miss Sailie Goldsborough Hollingsworth,
died on April 18th, at 'Sorency,' near Glen
Falls. She was in her Goth year, and was
daughter ofthe late j OH and Mary Keene -.ol-
lingsworth. Truly it may be said of her that she
was a lady of "the old school," Educated in
mind and polished in manner she drew around
the best of society. As a eonyersationalist
she had few superiors, as she kept thoroughly
posted with current events, while as worker
in the Masters vineyard she was untiFipg
Her remains were inferred at Grace NJ. +.
Church cemetery, Reisterstown, on Sunday
last. She was a granddaughter of the late
Judge Zebulon Hollingsworth, of Baltimore
One sister, Miss Ann, survives.