The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-12-29
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIES.

Nine OF the sixteen wells III Sicai ie'uSes
near Uniontown, are dry.
Miss Sadie Masenhimer, of Manchester, has
been appointed notary public by Gov. John
Walter Smith.
]. Clinton White has been appointed post
master at Morgan. on the Baltimore d ONO
railroad, in the place of c. A. Hartsock, de-
ceased.
communication signed .'Nescio" has been
received at the ADVOCATE office. 1.-THE author
makes himself known to the editors the article
will be published.
There will be wheeling match at Medford
on New Years Day, beginning al 10 o'clock.
Lots of amusement is anticipated and large
crowd to witness it.
John B. Allen, mail carrier No. IL. from
Woodbine and other places, 245 miles, has
resigned, and will be succeeded January l,
1901, by NJ. X. Cross.
The County Commissioners last Monday
approved the bond of WIN. F. Stocksdale,
constable for Woolery's district, and granted
a special pension Of $500 to Deborah Green,
of Westminster district
Charles w. Quynn, executor of Jane f.
Williams, sold on the 10 instant, farm OF
2292 acres, near Sykesville, TO Mordecai Z.
Jones, of Mt Pleasant, Frederick county, at
SI6 80 per acre-$9790.S7.
On December "a, 1900, the mercury at Up.
m. registered 81 in the shade, and 20 in the
sun. The weather was clear and our streets
were thronged with Christmas shoppers.
Christmas day was very pleasant, and gener-
ally fair.
Mr.. George E. Stoner, of Westminster, was
last week elected one of the vice presidents Of
the Maryland State Horticultural Society.
Mr. Stoner is the proprietor of an extensive
nursery near this city and an experienced
grower of fruit stock, as well as all other
varieties of nursery stock.
Thieves visited the premises of Mr.. Frank
P. Fenby and Mr.. Frank Bitter, near La
motto, on Thursday night of last week and
making an effert TO discover the guilty per-
sons, and will pay reward Of $1,000 for
their arrest and conviction.
Miller Bros, merchants of Westminster, on
Christmas eve presented each of their AZ
clerks and employees with handsome gift.
The clerks and employees presented the firm
with an elegant Office chair and box of cigars
to each member. Mr.. R. Fl. Reininger made
the presentation speech, and Mr.. Fred. ID.
Miller made feeling reply.
Mr.. Charles e. G orsuch's invitation 10 the
children of Westminster and vicinity to Odd
Fellows Hall on Christmas afternoon was
heartily accepted, and about $50 children we're
present The children were pleasantly enter
tanned with some slight-of- hand tricks and a
Punch and Judy show, and at the close each
child was presented with a box of candy.
The handsome doll at Roses drug store,
Westminster, was won by Ex-Sherif George
N. Fringer, who guessed the dolls name as
Eliza. The crokinole board, awarded to the
person guessing the nearest to the correct
) y,
in a show windaw, won by Henry z.
Stitely, who guessed $40. The actual number
was SAL.
The farm of Sebastian Bowers, near Bird
Hill, containing 203 acres and advertised to
be sold last Saturday, was not sold, on account
of insufliciency of bids. Mr.. Bowers wants
$1,000 an acre for it. John L. Strevege, as
attorney and agent for the heirs of Edward
Sirevege sold on the same day farm of 999
acres, near Tyrone to William Upton Marker,
of Tyrone, at S23.3 per acre.
S. B. Berkowch, son of Mr.. Moses Berko-
wich, of Westminster, who is an apprentice in
the United States Navy, has been transferred
to the Monongahela, which lett Newport,
Rhode Island, on Thursday, for a winter cruise
to the Barbados and West Indies. The ship
is scheduled TO arrive at Yorktown, Va, on
May %. Young Berkowich entered the navy
last May, and is in his 18th year.
Mr.. George Yingling, aged q years. second
son of Mr.. j. Wesley Yinging, died at the
home of his father in this city on Monday
evening. He had been in poor health for
some time. His funeral took place on Wed
nesday, at Centenary M. E. Church, Rev. P.
H. Miller, of Grace Lutheran Church, otfici-
ating in the absence of the pastor, Rev. Dr.
j. A. Price. The interment was in Westmin-
ster Cemetery.
The Miss Carrie Lauer, who was horribly
burned, as published in the ADVOCATE last
week from the York, Pa, Gazette, was Miss
Carrie Lauver, a daughter of the late DIR. Mil
ton Lauver, of Middleburg, this county. She
was "a years of age, and lived with Mrs.
Annie Lloyd, of York. She was polishing
stove, when there was an explosion of the
polish, and she was SO horribly burned that
she died a week later Her funeral took place
last Monday, interment being at York.
While Mr.. Emanuel Bowers, of Baltimore,
was driving along the Nicodemus road last
Sunday, going to visit his father, Mr.. Sebastian
Bowers, near Bird Hill, he was startled by
report of pistol or rifle and the whizzing of
bullet very close to his face. The bullet
struck a tree on the opposite side of the road,
where Mr.. Bowers examined it. The shot
was no doubt carelessly fired, but carelessness
with the use of fire arms is not excusable.
Had the ball struck Mr.. Bowers, it would
have produced a serious, if not fatal, wound,
and the person firing the pistol or rifle, if dis
covered, would have been severely dealt with
by the court
The Mutual Fire Insurance Company of
Carroll County has Used its thirtieth annual
statement. Its receipts were $1l, S96.O1, as
follows In hands OF treasurer $37 p. interest
on premium notes $40 CAB. II, from invest
S1 D00 10 from, 0r0up1 S1h IN
Paid out-Union National Bank $4,000. First
National Bank So, 200, interest on loans $43,
insurance commissions 500, clerical assistance
SIS, taxes 71.16. over draft in bank $312.0S,
rebates $42. 81, directors meetings $47.35,
salaries 81, ITS, agents commissions $303. AZ,
office expenses $363.04, Investments ST, 500.
The losses by fire were 81, 854. SO and from
lightning Sl02.65. Number of policies is
2,746, amount of property insured $751;
277, and the amount of invested funds is ST.
AGO.
On several days before Christmas Derr &
Lamberd, dry goods merchants of Westmin-
ster, had advertising banners suspended in the
air, high above the house-tops, which at
tracted much attention. On Christmas Day
they had banner up bearing the words
MERRY Xmas and Happy New Year, Derr &
Lamberd.' Far above the banner n
United States flag, by 10 feet. The banner
was 10 by "a feet, and the letters on it 8 feet
high The banner was visible as far away as
Hampstead, and was observed by many per-
sons within radius of FIVE or six miles. The
banner and flag were supported by six Eddy
kites, each three feet high. They were sent
up separately, and afterwards connected with
one cord. Between four and five thousand
feet of cord were used.
Mr.. Hanson T. Bartholow, a well-known
citizen of Carroll, died at the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. Margerie R. Wilhide, near
Bird Hill, on Friday, December l4tb, in the
s0th year of his age. His funeral took u ee
on the 10th, at Mt. Pleasant Church, near
Gambler, and was largely attended. The pail
bearers were William Baker, Harrison Davis,
Alfred T. Buckingham, John Davis, William
Shilling and George Barber. Mr.. Barfholow
was twice married, bul he outlived both wives.
One son, Alfred. went to Florida some years
ago and died there. His only other child,
besides Mrs. Wilhide. is Thomas Bartholow,
of Baltimore. The deceased was active as u
Democrat for many years, and in 1857 was
member of the Board OF Control and Re-
~ffor he ocuoocrn mi nf 1878