The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-11-19
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Brooks, of Sykesville, died on Wednesday.
Mr.. William Dodrer has sold his farm, near
Piney Creek, containing IS acres, to Fillmore
Bowers for $500.
The Western Maryland Railroad Company
began running their freight trains through to
Harrisburg on November II.
Thursday next is Thanksgiving Day. All
the offices, banks and a majority OF the stores
will be closed as it is legal holiday.
Mr.. James Grimes, butcher of this city, has
a horse that chews tobacco. If he asks the
horse if he wants chew of tobacco, he will
walk up and take it..
A meeting will be held in Baltimore, today
Saturday to form an intercollegiate orator.,
cal association. Prof. Reese will represent
Western Maryland College.
Mrs. John Henry. maiden name Fair, near
Roller, this county, was buried at Stltz's
cemetery, on Thursday, November 10, aged
&c years. month and II days.
The Western Maryland College foot ball
team has diSbanded for the season, as several
Of the players were not in good condition.
The team had won one game and lost two.
Mr.. Simon p. ID. Bish of this city, died at
the MARYLAND General Hospital, Baltimore,
ou Wednesday. aged IS years. Q months and
II DAYS. His funeral took place yesterday,
Friday.
Nil, Louisa AddelSperger, aged II years,
months and : days, died in Baltimore, Nd,
ON Monday last. Her remains were brought
here ON Wednesday and inferred in Westmin.
stcr cemetery
Mrs Mary BiggS died at Green Valley. H.
Iinois. recently. She was the daughter of.
the late David Burns, of this city, and sister
Of the late Lieutenant Burns, after whom
Burns Post, this city, is named. She was
about 80 years old
Mrs. Joshua Stevenson. near this city,
brought to the ADVOCATE Office on Tuesday, a
chrysanthcmum stalk that was Il curiosity. 1t
was one stalk with three branches. The CEN
ire branch had white flowers on it, and the
other two had yellow flowers.
The Onion Thanksgiving service will be
held in ST. Paul's Reformed Church, this city.
The sermon will be preached by Rev. p. H.
Miller. The Methodist Episcopal the Meth
odist Protestant, the Lutheran, and the Re-
formed Churches, Of this city, will unite in
this service.
Prince Troubetzkoy, of Washington him
self an artist, and the husband of the we'll
known authoresS, Amelie RiveS, and Pietro
Menetti, in charge of the vocal department at
the Peabody, spent Sunday at Western Mary
land College as guests of DR.. and Mrs. Bon
Note, of the department of French.
The State convention Of Christian Endcavor
Union met in Baltimore, on Tuesday. The
delegates from this county were Lizzie c.
Birley, George Mather, Mrs. C. B. Stocks
dale, Bernete Shipley, Virginia Moores, ia
cob Lenyer Rev G. W. Baughman, of
Cniontown, was the principal speaker at
tuesday evening session.
The County Commissioners were in session
on Monday and Tuesday. Objections to the
ratification Of a road in Taneytown district
known as the Gait road, were heard on the
10th, and again on Monday; the objector,
James d. Haines, being represented by Geo.
l.. Stocksdale. On Tuesday, the commits
Sioncrs ratified the report of the examiners.
The remainder of the sessions was routine
business.
The second annual meeting of the Mary
land Conference of Charities and Correction
will be held at Johns Hopkins University.
Baltimore, ON Tuesday and Wednesday, No
j. W. Herring, of this city, will preside at the
meeting held in lowering Hall. The topic
to be discussed will be How to Deal with
Tramps and Homeless Persons in County and
City Among the speakers is Hon. Harry
NJ. CIabaugh, of Baltimore.
Jacob Sitter aged about SO wears. died
suddenly on Friday of last week. While
getting out of bed he fell to the floor and ex-
PRED inside of ten minutes. His remains
were laid at rest in StiltZ's cemetery, on Sun.
day morning. Rev. Mr.. Hilegrass, olliciat-
ing. Mr.. Sitter was for many years proprie-
tor Of Stitler'S mill, near Hildebrandt'S. in
Codorus township, York county, Pa. AT the
time of his death he lived with his son Eman-
ueI, near Roller postoffice in this county.
Mr. Edwin w. Shriver's "Postofiice on
Wheels has received a more extended no.
tice, perhaps, than any other improvement
adopted by the Postoffice Department for
many years. Every newspaper that is fur
nished news by the several news associations
of this country and Europe has had mention
of it, some giving the full details of the ar
rangement, and all the county papers have
also spoken Off it. The project seem to meet
with favorable comment and the result of the
first three months experimental trip will be
anXiously awaited. Several counties have
filed applications for its use in the West.
The SEVENTEEN anniversary of the organi-
cation of the NJ. p. Church was celebrated in
all the churches that denomination, on Sun
day. In this city at the morning service Rev.
DR.. Silas B. Switzerland, now upward of 80
graphically recounted the events which led to
the institution of the sect and the establish
ment of a branch of Methodism in which the
laity was given an equal share with the clergy
in the government Of the church. In the
evening there was a service, a program for
which had been prepared for the use Of all
the churches within the conference Adj
dresses were made as follows: By DR.. Chas.
Billingslea, on ''The Origin and Growth of
the Maryland Annual Conference by Geo.
Mather, on the ''The Institutions of the
Church" and by DR.. j. W. Herring, presi-
dent of the general conference, on 1.-The Doe
trne and Policy of the Methodist Protestant
Church." The pastor, Rev. w. R. Graham,
d. d., also delivered an address appropriate
to the occasion.
The Western Maryland Railroad Company
has suspended its arrangement with the Read
ing Railroad, by which passenger trains on
the Reading Road have been arriving at and
departing from tie Western Maryland Station
an Chambersburg for nearly lwo years past,
to take effect today at midnight. The sus-
pension is only temporary, pending the com
pletiOn Of the cutoff, which the Reading is
building at Shippensburg, and the compile
ton Of the short line which the Western
Maryland is building from Altenwald to Ha-
gerstOwn, called the Washington and Frank
lin Railroad. These two big improvements
will be finished early next spring, and it is
announced that then through passenger and
freight service between New York and Chi
eago will be inaugurated- New York to
Allentown, Pa, by way of the Central Raib
road of New Jersey; thence to Shippensburg
6y way of the Reading; thence to Cherry Run,
Md, by way of the Western Maryland, and
thence to Pittsburg and Chicago by way of
the Raltimora on1 Ob;o PoiIroo1
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