The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-07-17
SATURDAY, JULY II, 1897.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
IncAI BREvITIES.

is on the program for an address also.
Wheat is Welding unusually well this year.
Several farmers have reported seven bushels to
the hundred s;ieaves. All the crops are large,
and if the corn should be short, as some think
il will be, there will be no scarcity of feed.
Miss Mabel Yingling, daughter of Rev. J.
NJ Yingling pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Cumberland, formerly of Carroll
county, has been appointed second assistant
in the Unions Street High School Of Cumber-
land.
The County Commissioners on Monday APP
pointed Tobias Fl. Eckenrode, Hezekiah
Hahn and Daniel S. Diehl examiners on a
road in Myers and Taneytown districts petit
tioued for by John Dnttera and seventeen
Others.
The Prohibition party of Carroll will bold
a convention in Westminster, at Carroll Hall,
on Thursday, July %, at 10 a. M, to select
delegates to the state convention and also TO
nominate a county ticket. There will be a
mass meeting at night.
An old weather adage, very popular hun
dred years ago, says:
''0nion's skin, very thin,
Mild winters coming in;
Onions skin, thick and tough,
Coming winter cold and rough.
On Monday night COW belonging TO Mr..
Augustus Bowman, living just oyer the line IN
Pennsylvania from Myers district, broke
through the platform around well and tell
TO The bottom. 1t was injured by the fall and
was drowned before being discovered in the
morning
Thursday was ST. Swithn's day. Around
it bangs a weather prediction, told IN the fol
lowing lines
"St Swithin's Day, if thou dest rain,
For forty days it will remain;
st. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair,
For forty day twill rain ma mair,
Postmaster Boyle has had card printed
giving time of arrival and departure OF mails
from the Westminster office. They arrive from
the east at g. 40 and IL SO a. m. and 5.42 and
5O5 p. M; from the west at 7.02 and 9. IL a.
M and 12O and 6.07 p. NJ. Mails are dis.
patched at the same hours and mails are closed
ten minutes before these hours.
Mrs. Allgire, wife of Harry Allgire, formerly
of Carroll, but now member of the Balti-
more police force, gave reporter of the Bal
timore Herald, of Sunday last, a long state
nent of her grievances against her husband.
In substance she says that Mr.. Algire has de-
serted her and is in love with a young lady on
his beat Mr.. Algire declined to discuss the
matter with Herald reporter.
Mr.. Evarard P. Duke, who was educated
sat Western Maryland College, was killed by Il
fall from pear tree at his home, Prince
Frederick, Calvert county, on Monday morn
ing. Mr.. Duke was gathering fruit fer ship
saent to the Baltimore market when a limb of
.the tree broke under his weight and he
was thrown about twelve feet to the ground,
falling on his head. He was picked up I'M
conscious and died in two hours and half
after the accident. He W $ thirty eight years
of age and single,
The negotiations between the City Council
and the Electric Light Company, in regard to
reducing cost of street lighting in Westminster
failed to secure the result desired, and we
shall continue to have "electric lights, all
night. every night in the year" The Electric
Light Company agreed to keep the lights
burning until II o'clock at night for $4,000
and the Council offered about $780, The
Company declined, and as the cost for all
night lighting is only about S2400 the Council
determined to continue present contract.
There was a jolly party at Mr.. Oliver n.
Lees, near Westminster, On Saturday, July B..
The Fourth was celebrated at night by grand
display of fireworks. Those present from
Baltimore were William Penn and wife, Misses
Kate Murray, Emma and Florence Hamilton,
Eva Miller, Lille Savers, Mollie Dieffenbach,
Gertrude Penn, Mrs. Lizzie Miller; Messrs.
Ormond Hamilton, Bernard and Emmett
McDermott, George Adams. William Hamil-
ton, William Bennett and William B. Collins.
A number of persons were present from West
minister.
During a thunder storm in the northern
part of this county on Thursday afternoon OF
last week the barn of William Shildi, in
TaneWoSn district, was set on fire by lightning
and destroyed All its contents, consisting OF
,la,,, to
quantity Of hay, were also consumed The
barn of Clay Bishop, near Harvey but usI
across the line in Adams county, Pa, was
struck by lightning during the same storm,
agd with its contents was totally destroyed.
The barn of Josiah Hawn, at Harvey, was
also struck by lightning, but not ignited.
Commissioner Stem is of the opinion that
when the County Commissioners sit next
spring for transfers and attachments the total
l2asis for taxation will drop very considerably.
Applications were made this year for abate-
,ments but the law did not permit them to be
made Mr. Stem knows OF a number of in
stances where Attachments will have to be
shade, and he says he would not be surprised
II the total attachments would be several hun
dred thousand dollars. The Appeal Tax
Court Of Baltimore, however, have decided
that no attachments can be made for two years.
In Hagerstown Justice p. B. Small. Jr.,
imposed a fine of $40 and costs of Sl2 on Mr..
Martin l.. Main on the charge of adultery
with Blanche Knodel. Anappeal was taken,
Mr. Main claiming that the charges were
brought for the purpose of laying grounds fol
suit for damages, and says it is case OF
blackmail. He denies the charge entirely
The Hagerstown Globe says that Blanche
Knodel was married to man named Robin
l,.4 hut ha,, ofad lodi al
phia. The same paper states that last week
she was adjudged incorrigible on complaint Of
her father and sentenced TO two years CON
fnement. She is held until suitable institu-
ton is selected for her.
A party of gentlemen of Westminster will
spend week ON the banks of the Big Pool,
near the Potomac river, opening camp next
Monday. They will have three tents, IL cots,
&c, &C., &c. Jabez Powell will be the
culinary artist and Hill Ardinger of Williams
port, will be master Of the fishing boats. The
week will be spent in fishing and in the usual
amusements Of camp life. The party viii
consist Of Messrs. S. Carr Wiekert, Joseph
Witter, Jesse G. Sharrer, VIM. Shriver John
H. Cunningham, Charlie II. Baughman, Geo.
A. Zahn, John j. Reese, John NJ. Roberts
and Drs. Geo. L. Baughman and Joseph I.
Herring No orders for carp less than foul
feet long, or for perch less than eighteen
lnebes, will be received.
Ne. William Manning, an aged citizen o.
Westminster, whose extreme illness was noted
last week. died on Saturday morning last
from complication of diseases, aged 76 years,
He was SOP of the late jesse Manning, and
a brother OF Mr.. Richard Manning, secretary
and treasurer of the Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Carroll County. The deceased
was a tailor in early life, but for some year:
had not been in business. His funeral tool
place on Monday morning services being held
at the residence of Mr.. Richard Manning by
Canon Taylor, of Ascension Church. The
.interment was in Westminster cemetery, and
the pail bearers were Francis Shipley, james
E. Smith, George w. Miller, John j. Reese
John Bernstein and E. Mackley.