The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-08-14
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREYITIES.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY

WEEK.
The frequent showers have kept the ground
in fine condition and most farmers are finished
blowing
Republican primaries will be held today,
Saturday. In some districts there will be
spirited contests
Miss COVE May, Of Elkton, has received
the scholarship from Cecil county for Western
Maryland College.
P. NJ. West, executor, will sell farm of
931 acres in Silver Run on Saturday, August
2lst, at 2 p. M, sharp.
I.ittlestown, Pa. was lighted by electricity
on Monday night, and its citizens now have
regular New York city strut on them.
The Methodist Protestant and Methodist
Episcopal Sunday schools spent Thursday IN
Mr.. Samuel Roop's woods, near this city.
Mrs. John Zahn, of Fountain Valley, pre-
scented the employees of the ADVOCATE office
with a Jug Of fine cider on Thursday. for
which they return thanks.
The many friends of Mr.. J. VIM. Earhart,
of u Mon Mills, will regret TO learn that he has
been i'll for several days. On Thursday he
was said to be conyalescing.
From Mr.. Joshua Gist, near this city, we
have received several Mangoes. They are
only grown in Asia and the West Indies.
The fruit is odd shaped, has pleasing odor
and is of fine favor.
The Marst0n base ball team easily defeated
the Dennings team on Saturday last by score
OF IA too The latter failed to bat Nieode-
mus great ball. The battery work of the
home team was the feature of the game.
Clifton Sheets. son of Mr. jesse Sheets,
of Baltimore, formerly Of this city, yardmaster
for the Western Maryland Railroad at Ship
pensburg, Pa, was badly scalded about the
legs by escaping steam from an engine on
Friday of last week.
The County Commissioners were engaged
on Monday in general routine work. Harriet
Myers, of Westminster, was given special
pension of$5. On Wednesday Messrs.. Stoner
and Stem met the Howard county commits
sioners in regard to the building of a bridge at
Woodbine.
Emory Grove camp began on Tuesday and
will close on the 25th instant. The Western
MARYLAND Railroad will run special trains on
Sunday, the 18th and 22d. On the 18th the
train will leave Union Bridge at a. M,
stopping at all stations, and on the 22d the
train will leave Hagerstown at a. M, stopp-
ing at all stations.
Sixty-fve coIored persons we're arrested on
a train OF the Western Maryland Railroad
Company, at Walbrook. on Thursday. They
were on their way to the emancipation cee-
braton at Frederick. but for one cause or
another they had not provided themselves
with tickets. Each was fined $1,000 and
costs, and went to Jail in default of payment.
Wheat took another jump on Wednesday
san& advanced three cents to 49, for Septem-
iber delivery in Baltimore and to Sl9 in
Chicago This is the highest price tor Sep
,tembeg delivery since 1891. Wheat is tavo-
rite commodity to speculate in and trading
has been very heavy for the past three months.
The entire crop has been bought and sold
four or FIVE times.
The Maryland Telephone Company of Bal
timore City, with capital stock of 5000 600,
Syas Incorporated on Thursday in Baltimore
by Messrs. Claude Acklen of Howard county,
Ira III. Gather of Baltimore county and Chas.
C. Richardson, R. B. Hazett and Charles r.
Fink of Carroll county. The following Off
GERS were elected Claude NJ. Acklen, pres
ident, and R. B. Hazlett, general manager.
Prof. George w. Ward, of Western Mary
land College, this city, who was at the
Blue Mountain House, met with quite an ad-
venture on Thursday of last week While he
and Mrs. Ward were going to Eagle Rock
they encountered rattlesnake about four feet
long which showed fight upon their approach.
After tough battle the snake was killed, and
the conqueror brought back the rattles as y
trophy, which he took home as a souvenir.
Prof +. Bonnatte, Phi D.. instructor in
French at the Johns Hopkins University, has
resigned from that faculty TO accept the chair
Of French at the Western Maryland College,
this city. He had accepted n position in the
faculty of LELAND Stanford University, Cali
fornia, but resigned to accept the Westminster
chair, as he preferred to remain in the East
DR.. Bonnatte is spending the summer with
his family at Blue Ridge Summit. He will
move here in September.
Judging from the sudden rising of the vari-
.ous streams in this district, there must have
been . cloudburst on Monday night. Some
persons who were fishing in the streams and
dams state that the water rose from three to
Eve feet In less than half an hour Recently
piowed fields were washed into gullies. and
corn was beaten down and covered with mud
In the eastern portion of this city the cutters
and sewers were unable to carry off the water,
and payements were covered with mud and
inany cellars we're flooded
Contributors to the Flower Mission this
week were Mrs. Panl Roger, Mrs. j. F. Rim
ker, Mrs Wesley Geiman, Mrs. J. A. c..
Bond, Mrs. Julia Wilhide, Mrs. Alice Carr,
Mrs. J. r. Erb, Mrs. H. Hoppe, Mrs. Mary
b. Rinehart, Mrs. j. Utz, Mrs. H. c. Keefer,
Mrs. J. Diehl, Mrs. Mather, Mrs. I. Zepp.
Mrs. q. +. Baughman, Mrs. w. +. Rinehart,
NJ. Smith, Mrs. E. S. Mobley. Mrs. John
Daley. Mrs. 7. R. Sullivan, Mrs Nelson
Gilbert, Miss Mile Myers, Miss Laura
Grouse, Mrs Chas. Cassell, Mrs. Wagner
Misses Annie Geiman, Emma Reese, Carrie
Wilhide, NJ Louise Shriver. Alice Miller,
Annie Diehl, Belle Nygren. Gertrude Baer,
Lou Bxler Ella Yingling Mrs. Newton Lee.
Receivers and packers for next week Misses
LauEa Grouse and Lillian Erb.
The Emory Grove correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says :-"0ne of the most at
traetive tents at the camp is that OF Mr. G. G..
.Gorsuch, of Westminster, on Waugh avenue.
The furniture is ash, with one of the bed
steads of brass, both having lace coverlets
over Nile green. Fur rugs are over the matt
Jug. and a small gold-embroidered Japanese
screen is at one side Two leather sleepy
hollow chairs look most inviting. The tent
has sirikingly patriotic appearance, as the
curtain on the back is almost covered with
tiny American flags, while large flag is
draped across the top. Pink and white fan
shaped ornaments are fastened TO the side OF
the tent. A red and a white rocking chair
ana Il COuch WIN Hotd LhSitpiiS aaiA ~ tffN
comfortable appearance. There are several
lamps, one of them an oriental affair Of many
colored glass, looking like a jeweled ball
when lighted at night
The annual picnic and tournament for the
benefit of ST. Louis Catholic Church. Clarks-
Vile, Howard county, took place on Tuesday
and was a success. People crowded to
GAINESVILLE from Howard, Montgomery.
Prince Georges, Anne Arundel, Baltimore
and Carroll counties. The following were the
successful knights in the professional class and
the ladies crowned by them: G. w. MERCER,
Knight of Sherwood, first, and crowned Miss
Julia Crook, queen of love and beauty; VIM.
limbaugh, second. crowned Miss Ida Carr. of
Baltimore, first maid; Harry Peddicord, third,
crowned Mrs. Peddicord, second maid Jas.
Crook, fourth, crowned Miss Agnes Mercier,
third maid In the class of amateurs in the
contest, Thomas Ellsworth won the honor OF
browning Miss Brooksie McCeland, queen;
William 0. Amos won the honor of browning
Miss Ella Barlow, first maid; E. Brown
crowned Miss Blanche Ellsworth, second
maid, and F. Kreuse crowned Miss Rosie
limbaugh, third maid.