The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-05-08
SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1897.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIES.


Of Carroll County has putt a telephone tor MI.
Joseph Englar, at Linwood.
The Western Maryland College base ball
team defeated the New Windsor College team
last Saturday, by the score of Z to 8.
The assessable basis of Westminster is ST.
739, 965. t. This includes the assessment OF
the Savings Bank, to which the bank objects.
During April 81 deeds, SO mortgages and
II bills of sale were recorded in the Clerk s
Office, and IS marriage licenses were issued.
The Mayor and City Council of Westnin-
ster, on Monday night, decided to make some
new crossings on Main street and repair
others.
The Isaac Bair property on Liberty street,
this city, heretofore advertised by George W.
Albaugh, has been sold at private sale to Mrs.
Mary A. Lane for $1,000 cash.
Mr.. Ezra Yingling, carpenter removed
from W stminster to Hagerstown about the
Ist of April He found times so dull there he
has removed to Westminster again.
The County Commissioners this week did
nothing of special importance to the public.
They sat fer transfers and examined and
passed few bills and did other routine bust
ness.
MIR. John T. Zahn has purchased Of Mr.. l..
Howell Lamotte Che lot on Main street, east
of Court, formerly belonging to Col. Mckellip
and upon which he had his law office. Price
$3.50.
The May term Of the Circuit Court for Car
roll will begin on Monday next. The term
will likely not last over three weeks. The
docket contains IS trials, II appeals and Is
originals.
Charles T. Reifsnider, Esq, has been
elected delegate from Ascension parish to the
Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Church,
which meets in Frederick on May 10. Mr.
Hugo E. Fiddis is alternate.
The building that was destroyed by fire on
the farm of Mrs. Clara Bale last week was
not insured in the Dug Hill Company but in
the James E. Smith Agency. The fire oc-
Cured on Thursday and the loss was paid on
Saturday.
A mad dog came up the Finksburg pike last
Sunday morning and went through Main
street to the West End, where it was killed in
an alley by a colored man. 1t bit several
dogs in its journey, which have since been
killed.
Charles II. Fowler, cigar manufacturer and
retail dealer in cigars and tobacco, has made
an assignment: George w. Albaugh IS his
trustee. This is the eig tn assignment here
in the past two years-more than in the %
years previous
in Westminster next Thursday. The City
Council of Westminster and the officers of all
the other towns who are interested in the san
itary condition of their towns and the county
generally are invited to be present.
The excursion of Sulphur Springs Lodge OF
New Windsor to Baltimore on Tuesday was
a great success. The train had 481 persons
aboard when it left Westminster, and other
stops were to be made. Thirty-nine whole
and tw0half tickets were sold at Westminster.
The Y. P. S. C. E. of ST. Benjamin's Luth-
eran Church elected officers last Sunday as
follows William E. Starner president Dan
lei B. Schaeffer vice-president, M. t. Yeiser
recording secretary, Lydia B. Starner cores
ponding secretary, Miss Minnie E. Schaeffer
treasurer.
Miss Minnie c. Gardner, daughter of Mrs.
Elizabeth Gardner, died in this city on Mon
day af eEpoon, after long illness of consump
ton, in her 2Sth year. She was sister of
Miss May Gardner, the milliner, of John P.
Gardner, of Taneytown, and of Dr. j. Fl.
Gardner, of Harvey.
Patrolman Harry Algire, of Baltimore,
formerly of Carroll county, arrested John
Toner ct Ferry Bar last Sunday. Toner re-
sisted, and Henry Emerich and Christopher
Handler came to Toner rescue. Algire, be-
lieving his life in danger, drew a revolver and
shot Handler in the leg.
A gentleman in Baltimore in renewing his
subscription to the ADVOCATE, writes: I'm
closed please find one dollar for renewal of
my subscription to the ADVOCATE, which |
consider the brightest star in the frmamentof
Democratic journalism in the state, and which
would not do without, regardless Of cost. "
Dir. Edward Lynch, of this city, brought to
This Office on Thursday sample of new fer
filizer. 1t was taken from pit 80 feet below
the surface at NeWberne, North Carolina, and
is composed almost entirely of decomposed
shells. He intends to have it crushed and
use it as top dressing. The rock is very
much of a curiosity.
Samuel W. Bonn, green grocerynian of
Westminster. was taken to Baltimore or, Mon
day, by Detective Seibold of that city, upon
the charge of obtaining money under false
pretences from Sherman Dryden, 1904 St.
Paul street. The matter was fixed up and
Dryden declined to prosecute. Bohn returned
home in the evening.
Daniel B. Schaeffer was elected delegate
and Jere. Schaeffer alternate, from Salem
Lutheran Church, to attend the Middle Con-
ference of the Maryland Synod, which will
convene in the Lutheran Church at Burkitts-
vile, on May 10th, and continue its sessions
until May 18th, 1897. Rev. P. H. Hitler viii
preach the closing sermon.
A letter was received at this office, this
week, from Silver Run, thanking Judge
Roberts for his action in the liquor license
cases from that village, and also stating that
ihe respectable people of that vicility did not
want liquor sold in the district There were
some other things mentioned with which the
pubic in general are not interested.
Major NJ. W. Boyne, civil engineer of the
,a1
on Friday of last week, at the Baltimore City
Hospital, of injuries received by being struck
by train near Blue Ridge Sum nit two days
previous, while engaged in suFy yipg. He
was 66 years old, and had been connected
with the Western Maryland Railroad Com
Spany many years.
In a notice last week of great-g andchild
of Mr.. Julius B. Berret, it was stated that
Mr. Berret was probably the only resident of
Carroll who had voted for Andrew jackson.
The writer was in error, as DIR. Geo. Shower,
of Manchester, now in his Esd year. voted for
Andrew jackson when he ran in 1923. He
is probably the ol1est citizen of the county
and this spring sowed clover seed and har-
roEed it in.
The board of directors of the Woman's
College of Frederick city, under the auspices
of the Reformed Church, held their annual
me ting at Frederick on TUESDAY. Inc
higher education of women was discussed and
measures taken for increasing the endowment
f9nd of the college. Addresses were delivered
by Rev. C. S. Slagle, of Westminster, Gen. j.
e. Roller, of Harrisburg, Va, and VIM. ii.
Lakin, members on the board.
John ]. Reese, Jacob Thomson and j. Mil
son Reifsnider, trustees of Central Hall school,
met on Wednesday night and organized by
electing John ]. Reese president and J. Mil
ton Reifsnider secretary, Teachers were
chosen for next year as follows: Simon P.
Weaver, principal; George F. MGrelock for
school Ne. 2, Miss Margaret Grass for school
No 8, Miss Ida Loekard for school No. A.
Miss Mollie Runkles for school No. 5.
At the annual election of the Westminster
and Meadow Branch Turnpike Company, held
on May Sd, the following directors were chosen
to serve during the ensuing year: Samuel
Roop, Joha D. Roop, Theodore +. Englar,
Charles D. Boasack and John T. Diffenbaugh.
The board organized by electing Samuel
Roep, president; John D. Roop, treasurer;
John 7. Diifenbaugh, secretary. A dividend
of per cent. was declared on the capital
stock for the past year, payable at the First
National Bank of Westminster, on and after
May IS.