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Springfield Tournament.

Thursday, August %, was gala day at
Springfield State Hospital, the occasion being
a tournament Carroll, Baltimore, Howard
and Frederick counties were largely repre-
sented, together with many Baltimoreans.
Misses Rose Coursey and Beulah Bauer acted
as heralds. Both of the ladies are trained
nurses at the Hospital and were as much at
home in the saddle as in the wards. Thirty
one Knights entered the list.
The charge to the Knights was delivered BY
Mr.. j. Malcolm Dorsey, of Ellicott City, and
the cornation address by Mr.. Guy w. Steel,
of the Westminster Bar
The prizes included purse of $40, divided
among the winning contestants, and wreaths
and waxen flowers to crown two queens oil
love and beauty and their attendant ladies.
The money prize was divided in the follow
ing order: Messrs. Lee H. Amos, w. Wet
eel. w. Amos, John Brady, c. Brown, C.
Amos, W. Shirley, Fl. Croals.
Mr.. George Baesman crowned queen Miss
Grace Turner, of Montgomery county, Md,
who was attired in a white silk waist, skirt and
| slippers. Mr.. " Carver crowned Miss Ida
| Cooper first maid ofhonor. Mr.. w. Lee con
! ferred his honor on Mr.. NJ. Phillinger, who
crowned Miss Rose Courfey second maid o.
honor Mr.. Robert Mercer crowned Miss
| Mamie Eyler third maid of honor; Mr.. Gram
| Baesman crowned as second queen Miss Ida
| Frazier, who was attired in lavender silk with
| blue trimming. Mr.. C. D. Hobbs crowned
| Miss Elsie Harrington first maid Mr.. Georgt
GALLON crowned Isabelle Thomson SECOND
/ maid and Thomas Davis crowned Miss Mamie
! French third maid.
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PICNIcs AND FESTIVALS.

The Epworth Leaugue of Pleasant Grove
M. E. Church, will hold Birthday Social at
the home of Mr.. j. F. Magee, on Friday
evening, September 6. A penny will be
charged for every day the month is old when
your birthday occurs until after the 18th, be-
yond that date one-half cent. Refreshments
served free of charge. The public are cor
daily invited. If the weather is inclement
it will be held the following Monday.
Harmony Grove NJ. P. Church will hold its
annual picnic in the grove at the Church,
Saturday, August 81, commencing at p. m.
A good program is being arranged.
Strawbridge Junior League of Stone Chap
ell, near Warfeldsburg, will hold a social on
the afternoon and evening of August 31st, at
the residence of Mr.. Jesse Robertson near
Warfeldsburg, beginning at 2 o'clock. Du-
ring the afternoon social games and CONVEX
sation will be INDUCED in by the Juniors, and
ice cream, cake and confectionery will be
served to all desiring them. In the evening,
at o'clock, literary program will be given
by the Juniors, which will be interspersed by
music from violins, cornet and graphophone.
Salem Sunday school will hold its festival
in the grove adjoining the church, September
It'll, at II O'Clock M, sharp. Prominent
speakers will be present. Refreshments will
be sold for the benefit of the school.
Providence Sunday school will hold their
annual picnic on Saturday, August 31st, com
mencing at l o'clock, p. M, when they will
treat all the children. The public are invited.
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state Firemen's Association Delegates and
Committees.

Mr. John H. Cunningham, of Westminster,
President of the Maryland State Firemen s
Association, has announced the appointing MT
of delegates to various conventions and com
mittees to conduct affairs for the ensuing year
The officers of the association, members of
committees and delegates are as follows:
Presideut-John H. Cunningham.
Senior Vice -President-John Stuckert
Secretary-William M. Crimmins.
Treasurer-Hiram r. Heck.
Executive Commttee-Dr. Lloyd j. Mac
gill. Jr.. chairman, Frederick; A. r. Lohner,
Salisbury; Charles j. Herpeh, Cumberland;
G. NJ. Jones, Annapolis; G. j. Hennick, Bal
timore.
Auditing Committee-E'rank Spates, chair
man. Frosthurg; W. r. Straw, Jr., Union
Bridge; w. A. Rowland, Pocomoke City.
Transportation Committee-T. A. Smith,
chairman, Homecoming; Oscar D. Gilbert,
Westminster; William A. Null, Westport;
William H. Salter, Pikesville; Robert s. Nc
Kinney, Taneytoyn.
Legislative Committee-Dr. Edward Nell
sou, chairman, Frederick; William Gregory,
Baltimore; Alfred Jeffries, Frostburg; John +.
Lease, Manchester; j. Oliver Murray, Hamp-
stead; John M. Reifsnider, Westminster; STAN
ley G.. Reaver, Taneytown; Frank q. Eppley,
Union Bridge; Ernest barrow, Cumberland;
I1OUs JOHN W ElCOCiiSh " " tASNAN3
Jr.. Cumberland; Edward Stevenson, Iona
coming; E. Z. Hopkins, Annapolis; w. Irving
Mace, Cambridge; John Richie, Cumberland;
D. W. Wilson, Elkton; Frank Jewell, Annap-
oils; Samuel B. Munroe, Westport; j. l..
Paradee, Pocomoke City; Arthur Chenowith,
Pikesville; Geo. W. Brock, Aberdeen; Frank
Downin, Hagerstown; Thomas Troxel, Cum
berland; c. j. Ullman, Salisbury; B. W.
Hearthway, Snow Hill.
Topic and Statistical COMMITTEES E.
brennan, chairman. Cambridge; j. A. Swing
ley, Aberdeen; w. H. A. Hamilton, Hagers-
town; Charles W. Curddry, Snow Hill; Au-
gustus Albert, Baltimore.
Exhibit Committee-William G. Feehly,
chairman, Elkton; Samuel Knight, Lonacon-
ing; William Mcdonnell, Baltimore
Delegates to the Convention of the National
Firemen's Association of the United States,
Buffalo, N. Edwin j. Lawyer, Westmin-
ster; August Albert, Baltimore.
To the Convention of the International As
ISOLATION of Chief Engineers, to be held at
indianapolis, Ind.-Wiliam M. Crimmins,
Frederick; Charles V. Wantz, Westminster.
To the Convention of the Virginia State
Firemen's Association, Staunton, Va.-John
J. Stump, Cumberland; J. Roger McSherry,
Frederick.
To the Convention of the Pennsylvania State
Firemen's Association, Philadelphia ohm
II. Cunningham, Westminster; DR.. Edward
Nelson Frederick
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CHAPTER 4Ss.
AN ACT to amend section four, of Article 8,
of the Constitution of this State.


SEcrtoN1 Be it enacted bUthe General assem-
blu of Mdrlfidnd, (three-fifths of all the men,
beers of the two Houses concurring, } That the
following section be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment to the Constitution
of this State, and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof as herein provided,
said section shall supersede and stand in the
place and instead OF section TOUR OF Article 3,
of said Constitution.
SECTION 4. AS soon as may be after the tax
ing and publishing of the National Census of
1900, or after the enumeration OF the Popula-
there shall be an apportionment OF representa-
ton in the House of Delegates, to be made on
the following basis, to wit: Each of the sew
eral counties of the State, having population
of eighteen thousand souls or less, shall be en-
titled to two delegates; and every county hav-
ing q population of over eighteen thousand
and less than twenty -eight Thousand souls,
shall be entitled to three delegates; and every
county having population OF twenty-elght
thousand and less than forty thousand souls,
shall be entitled to four delegates; and every
county having population of forty thousand
and less than ffty-five Thousand souls, shall be
entitled to five delegates; and every county
having q population of fifty-fiYe thousand
souls and upwards, shall be entitled to six dele
gates and no more; and each of the four legis,
latiye districts of the City of Baltimore shall
be entitled to the number of delegatesto which
the largest county shall or may be entitled
under the aforegoing apportionment, and the
General Assembly shall have the power to pro-
vide by law, from time to time. for altering
and changing the boundaries of the existing
legislative districts oil the Cliy OF BaitimOre So
as to make them as near as may be of equal
population but said district Shall always con-
sist of contiguous territory.
SEC. 2. And be 1t further enacted by the d't-
tIiority aforesaid, That the said foregoing sec
ton hereby proposed as an amenumene 10 the
Constitution. shall, at the next election for
members of the General Assembly of this
State, to be held on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in the month of November, nine
teen hundred and one, be submitted to the
legal and qualified voters thereof, for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance OF the d.
rections contained in Article II, of the Consti-
tuition of this State; and at the said election
the vote on said proposed amendment to the
Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each
ballot there shall be written or printed the
words ''For the Constitutional Amendment"
or Against the Constitutional Amendment"
as the voter shall elect, and Immediately after
the said election due returns shall be made to
the Governor of the vote for and against said
proposed amendment, as directed by the said
Article IA, of the Constitution.
Anprnvad Yof.l IQ00.
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St. Bartholomew Foretelis Weather.

Last Saturday was the oath, and it was
showery all day. According to the old couplet
eff the oath of August be bright and clear,
Then hope for prosperous autumn that year. "
st. Bartholomew Day is the one tbs said,
by which all weather sharps are enabled to
draw line with a surprising degree of GER
tainty upon the forecast for autumn weather.
Weather men and those interested in eli
matte conditions attach much importance to
August, claiming it to be an excellent baron
eter. One claim that these prophets of wind
and wave set forth is that all thunderstorms
after Bartholomew Day are generally more
or less violent.
A glance over the old weather charts some
what bears out this belief. Some of the most
violent storms recorded have been after Au-
gust "a. Then, again, another prophet said ::
DRY August and warm
Doth harvest no harm'
If this old couplet holds good, farmers
should have little to be thankful for this Au-
gust This is borne out, too, by the walls and
loud complaints of the many farmers through
out the State, who report surfeit of rain.
Another old adage says:
''If the first week in August be unusually
warm,
The winter will be white, cold and long"
According to this, all signs point to long
cold winter.
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McKinstry items.

Corn promises to be an abundant crop.
Miss Bulah Englar, of Taneytown, is visit
ing her grandmother, Mrs. Mary A. Englar,
of this place.
Miss Rhoda Pfoutz, of Taneytown, is visit
ing Mr. M. 0. Repp.
Miss Fannie Lynn, of Union Bridge, spent
several days last week with friends here.
Miss Rula Englar, Miss Fannie Lynn, Miss
Grace Zumbrum were guess of Mrs. j. B. Kee-
fauver last Friday evening.
Mrs. w. R. Zumbrum entertained number
of her friends last Wednesday.
Miss Iva Albangh, of Hagerstown, spent
the past week with her uncle, VIM. Routzhan.
Last Saturday evening" j. r. Keefauver
was driving his COW from pasture, there were
four ladies on the road, when the COW sud
denly dashed through the bushes to escape
the flies, soaring the ladies very much.
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Maryland Affairs.


During the year 1900 there were 20, 422
deaths in this State.
Deals Island, Somerset county, was visited
by terrific thunder storm last Saturday, aud
great damage resulted.
Cardinal Gibbons reached Baltimore Tues
day, after his tour abroad, and was greeted by
thousands of mis- fellow townsmen.
The National Angora Goat and Cattle
Company have received 1000 Angora goats at
their farm in Prince Georges county.
Henry Ward, of Norfolk, Va, temporarily
residing at Ellcott City, was nearly killed III
an attack on him and some young companions
by negroes in Howard county last Sunday
afternoon.
Illinois farmers are buying land in Prince
Georges county. Eli Harrison and c. Boice,
of Whistle county, bought 600 acres last
week from Richard S. and Francis W. Hill,
paying SIS, 600 for the land. 1t will be made
a stock farm.
1t is estimated that the damage in York
county, Pa, and the upper portions OF Balti-
more and Carroll counties, last week, will
amount to over $500, 600. Twenty mill dams
and rs bridges on the Northern Central R. r.
were washed away, and the Stewarstown
branch had not been repaired last Monday.
oscar II. blanck, ABOUT OZ years uiu' IUo
North Fulton avenue, Baltimore, was killed
at $50 O'Clock Sunday night by being crushed
by the Ocean City special on the Baltimore,
Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway just as it
reached the Claiborne pier from Ocean City.
He was on his way to his home with his r.
year-old daughter May, the two having been
on a two-days' outing to the seaside.
Benjamin F. Hiss, one of the best-known
Republican ward leaders of Baltimore, was
arrested last Sunday afternoon, charged with
shooting with intent to kill Howard A. Cole
man, a customs drayman, of 1913 Hanover
street. Late in the afternoon he was released
on bail by Justice Reviol for hearing Sep
TENDER 10. Coleman is al the Maryland Uni
versiiy Hospital suffering from two bullet
wounds. One shot passed through his right
hand and glanced upward into the forearm.
The other struck his right groin and passed
downward into the thigh. The wounds are
not considered serious unless blood poisoning
should set in. Hiss has two scalp wounds,
said to have been inflicted by Coleman with
the butt of the revolver, which he seized and
took from his assailant
. -cM@--
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Proclamation.

WHEREAS, at the January Session in the
year nineteen hundred of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, bills were passed proposing
amendments to the Constitution of the State:
First.-By amending section of Article 8.
of the Constitution of the State.
Secondly amending section of Article 8.
of the Constitution of the State.
Thirdly amending section of Article 8,
of the Constitution of the State. which said
bills and amendments are In words following,
TO wit:
CHAPTER 1856.
AN ACT to amend section nine, Of Article 5,
of the Constitution of this State, and to pro-
vide for the submission of said amendment
to the qualified voters of this State for adop-
ton or rejection.
SEcTIoN1. Beitenacted by the General ASSEM-
bly, of MdTyldHd, three-ffthS of all the men,
beers elected to each of the two Houses con-
curring,) That the following section be and
the same is hereby proposed as an amend
ment to Article 5, of the Constitution OF this
State, and if adopted by the legal and quail
fled voters thereof, herein and as by law pro-
vided, it shall supersede and stand in the pace
and stead of section nine of said Article
SECTION 9. The States Attorney shall per-
form such duties and receive such fees and
commissions or salary not exceeding three
thousand dollars, as are now or may hereafter
be prescribed by law; and if any States At
torney shall receive any other fee or reward
than such as is or may be allowed by law, he
shall, on conviction thereof, be removed from
Office; provided that the States Attorney for
Baltimore city shall receive an annual salary
of forty-tive hundred dollars, and shall have
power to appoint one deputy, at an annual
salary not exceeding three thousand dollars,
and such other assistants at such annual sala-
ries not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars
each, as the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City
may authorize and approve; ell of said sala-
res to be paid out of the fees of the said States
Attorneys office, as has heretofore been prac-
ticed.
SECTION 2. Alad be it further enacted, That
the foregoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of this State,
shall be- at the next general election for men,
bers of the General Assembly, to be held in this
State, submitted to the legal and qualified vot-
ers thereof for their adoption or rejection, in
pursuance of the direction contained in Article
Ia, of the Constitution; and at said election the
vote on said proposed amendment shall be by
ballot and upon each ballot there shall be writ
ten or printed the words For the Constitution,
nj Amendment'' or Against the Constitutional
Amendment as the voter shall elect, and I'M
mediately after said election one return shall
be made to the Governor of the vote on said
proposed amendment, as directed by the said,
Fourteenth Article of the Constitution.
Approved April 5, 1900.
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WESTMINSTER WATER
COMPANY NOTICE.

AS an inducement to the pub
lie to avail themselves of an OPP
portunity seldom offered, the
Westminster Water Company
herewith announces that it is
still continuing to introduce into
the homes Of new patrons con-
Meeting pipes, a basin and spigot
at the Expense of the Company.
This is the only plumbing with
out charge that will be done, ex-
cept the furnishing of washers
and the minor labor incident to
their placing. Other work will
be charged at cost prices for
material and labor. The Com
pany has on hand the most COM
plete stock of Plumbing Mate
rial to be had anywhere, espec-
tally in the line of Bath and
Toilet Outfits. 1t guarantees all
plumbing material and work
manship to be first class.
WESTMINSTER WATER GO.
july Is If
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nowowned by George E. Marker; and thence
along the center of said Turnpike to the point
where it intersects the line of division between
Districts Numbers Seven and Three; and
thence along the line of division between Dis
trcts Numbers Seven and Three until it
meets the line of division between Districts
Numbers Seven aud Two; and thence along
the line of division between Districts Numbers
Seven and Two until it meets the line of
division between Districts Numbers Seven
and Eleven; and thence along the line of d.
vision between Districts Numbers Seven and
Eleven, until it intersects the center of the
Western Maryland Railroad; and thence along
the center of said Railroad to the place of
beginning.
JOHN NJ. ROBERTS, President;
HARRY s. MUSSELMAN,
CHARLES E. NICODEMUS,
Board of Supervisors of Election of Carroll
County.
Notice is hereby given that the names of
John w. Hood as Republican Judge, and
John <. Davis, as Republican Clerk for Dis
trict Number Thirteen, were heretofore erro-
neousIy published. The true appointees for
those positions being,
Judge, Norval w. Hobbs, Mt. Airy, Md.
Clerk, John W. Hood, Mt Airy, Md.
The Board of Supervisors of Election for
Carroll County, per
JOHN NJ. ROBERTS, President.
Test:
aug 35t SAMUEL ]. STONE, Clerk.
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sunday Trains.

On Sunday trains viii leave Hiilen Station al IS
q. IN. and 2.35 p. M, Westminster Ills a. Az p.
m arriving at Union Bridge at Il45 a and 4.50
p. m. Leave Union Bridge at Gil a. IN. and AT p.
m Westminster Gas a. m. and l.46 p M. arriving
at IIien Station at S IS a. III and 62j D. NJ
Frederick Division Pennsylvania X. r. DAILY eX-
cept Sunday. )-Trains for Frederick leave Bruce
vile at S.3S, e3G and 1910 "A. and 49, and $50
D. III. Trains for Taneytown, Littlcstown ami
Columbia leave Brueeville 9.47 a. IN. and Si5 p m.
Through trains for Hanover and Gettysburg and
points on Baltimore and Harrisburg Division leave
Baltimore daily, except Sunday, at 7..5 a. M. and
3.S2 p. m. Through cars for Gettysburg and inter
mediate points leave Baltimore also daily, except
Sunday, at TO- 70 a. nj.
Passengers for and from CherrJ Run. williams
port, p. V. and intermediate points, from and for
stations east of Hagerstown, change ut Iiagerstown
Orders for baggage calls can be left at Ticket
Office, No. 2l5 East Baltimore street, Baltimore.
]. NJ. HOOD, General Manager.
jun29 B. FL. GRIswoLD. Gen'l Passenger Agent
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I week days only.
To land Baltimore Passengers only.
RIue Mountain Exnress.

Leave a. M, Hagerstown CO. Potomac 6.44, Smith
burg e5s Edgemont9.06 Blue Mountain 7.15, Buena
Vista Spring 7.19. Blue Ridge Summit 30, Thur
mont 739 Rocky Ridge TAI, Bruceville 7.57, Union
Bridge S.0I New Windsor S.11. Westminster sd
Glyndon $50, Sudbrook Park 9dS, Walbrook 9I7
Fulton 9.19, Penna. ave- 9.2l, Union 800 arrive
Hillen 93l. Leave Hilen 3.22 p m, Union S.27, Pa
ave. $50. Fulton 1874. Walbrook 1885, Westminster
I25 New Windsor 40 Union Bridge La, Brueeviile
453 Thurmont 5.12, Blue Ridge Summit b.39, Bucna
Vista Spring 542, Blue Mountain - 80 Edgemont
sos. Smithburg $50 Potomac ave. G Is. arrive Ha-
gerstown GIL p. IN. Does not run ON Sunda vs.
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No Diphtheria Nor Rowdyism in Mt. Airy.

letter to this paper, from Mr.. Ernest M.
Anderson, of Mt. Airy, under date of August
"a, 1901, says:
notice an item in your issue of this date,
of the visit of DIR. Foutz, health officer for
Carroll county, to Mt. Airy, and the quaran-
timing of six houses on account of diphtheria.
These houses are not in Mt. Airy, but in
negro settlement about one mile from Mt.
Airy Mt. Airy has no epidemics of any
kind. An occasional case of typhoid fever
is the only serious cases we ever have. Ialso
noticed another item that should be corrected,
and that is the tTerrorizing by negroes EN-
ployed by the B. & o. R. R. CO. These
troubles all occur at Ridgeyille, but as the
county Magistrate lives at Mt. Airy, and the
commitments to Jail are made from Mt. Airy
the town seems to get the credit for all the
rowdyism that occurs. We have had no riot
ing here since our town bailifl' shot and killed
a negro some months ago. Mt Airy is as
quiet and peaceable as any other town of its
size in the country. As these reports are cal
culated to give the town bad reputation, |
hope you will kindly correct your notices.
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Tail and AImshouse in Good Condition.

Rev. William C. Stoudenmire, general
agent of the Maryland Prisoners Aid Asso-
citation, says the Baltimore American of last
Monday, has just returned from inspecting the
iails and almshouses in Carroll, Washington.
Frederick and Montgomery counties. He
found those institutions generally in good
condition. He says ''the sanitary condition
of the Jail is as good as can be expected with
the old, out-of. date prison. Religious SER
vices are held by the young men from the
Western Maryland College regularly, except
during the summer months. Mr.. G. W. Mot
ter, the sheriff, is making every effort to keep
the Jail clean and healthy for the inmates,
and he showed me every courtesy on my visit
The almshouse near Westminster contains 26
inmates, IA males and ~ females. This in
stitution is greatly improved since our last
visit in its sanitary condition. Sanitary ar
rangements of the latest design are placed in
the buildings, and the painting of the interior
and placing of oilcloth on the floors have made
it cosy and neat The superintendent, Mr.
Edward Berwagcr and his good wife are do
ing all they can to make it pleasant, cheer
full home for the unfortunate inmates. The
County Commissioners have employed
chaplain to hold regular services and bury the
dead. The farm is in good condition, and
the crops and fruits are good and plentiful