The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-08-03
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREyIrlEs.


are blowing by moonlight.
State Auditor George r. Ash was in West
minister several days this week and examined
the accounts of the public Offices.
The Federal census gives Carroll a popnla-
ton Of SO, 860-16, 991 males and 1860 fe-
males. This shows 122 more males than fe-
males.
Among those declared qualified to practice
law by the State Board of Law Examiners is
Mr.. J. Bernard Wells. son of DIR. G. Wells, OF
Hampstead.
Among the donations to ST. Johns fete was
check for nice sum from Mrs. Peter La
mothe, of Matanzas, Cuba, through Mrs. Or
lando Reese.
Prof W. NJ Clarke, of Marriottsyille, a
graduate of st. Johns College, Annapolis,
has been elected to position in the faculty of
Frederick College.
Thursday. August I'D, will be a big day in
Freedom district, the occasion being a tourna-
ment at Springfield State Hospital, with Col.
Joseph W. Berret as chief marshal.
A report has been industriously circulated
throughout Carroll this week that Mr. Joseph
D. Brooks would not be candidate for As
untrue.
luz. dHtu SiA years, uduSutCl VI
Bowersox, Of Carrollton, who had her right
thigh broken about four weeks ago, is rapidly
recovering. DIR. Coonan, of this city, is at
tending her.
During the storm on Thursday of last week
hay barrack on the farm of the late Thomas
Pickett, in franklin district, was struck by
lightning and burned. Insured in the Dughil
Company for 500.
The old Tyson -four mill, Gwynns Falls and
the Frederick road, is being improved with a
view of establishing wooden mill there. Mr..
Nicholas w. Steele, formerly of the Oakland
Mills, will have charge.
Levi, son of Mr.. Levi Maus, ST., was over
come by the heat Monday while superintend-
ing the threshing of wheat on the farm of the
Messrs. Reese, near this city, and was for a
time in a serious condition.
DR.. John E. Bolte, formerly of Hampstead
district, this county, but now residing in the
Second district Of Baltimore county, was
prominently spoken of as county treasurer,
but the convention failed to nominate him.
Messrs. Johns and O'Neil, of Hanover, Pa,
who recently purchased the Carroll County
Telephone Company, have purchased the line
between Frederick and Mt. Airy, and con-
nection will soon be made between this city
and that place.
The right eye of Miss Mary B. Shellman, of
this city, which had been afflicted with eornea
ulcer for two months, has been restored
Permanent loss of sight was much feared, but
under the care of DIR. Jos. I. Herring she has
entirely recovered.
Dr. George Y Everhart, of Dickeyville,
Baltimore county, was nominated for the
House of Delegates by the Democratic con-
vention at Towson on Tuesday. DR.. Ever
hart is native of this city, and his many
friends here wish him success.
According to the Gettysburg Star the wheat
fields of that county must be very productive.
In its last issue its Two Taverns correspondent
says :-"While hauling grain for Howard
Hartman, shoulder Of meat was found under
a shock of wheat. A piece was also found
under a shock on D. C. RudisilI's farm
Westminster was once noted for its freedom
from malaria and mosquitoes. There is still
no malaria, but some mosquitoes have APP
peared, occasionally in considerable numbers.
In the last few years number of pools, dams
and ice ponds have been constructed and the
pests have bred upon them, and they are blown
into town.
Mr.. Edwin w. Shriver, of this city, is now
at Lockport, N. Y, for the purpose of estab-
fishing Free Rural Mail Delivery in Niagara
county The Union Sun of that place is in
ecstacies over the event and announces the
fact in large type that that county is the first
one in the Empire State to have a complete
rural system.
Some persons raided the distllery of Mr.
Samuel Fl. Hoffacker, near Alesia. Wednes-
day night of last week, and stole every article
composed of copper in the establishment.
The brick work was torn down to get at this
material Nothing else was disturbed. A
year or more ago the Rohrbaugh distillery, in
the same neighborhood, was robbed in a sim
liar manner.
decided change in the temperature fol-
lowed the storm aud rain of Thursday of last
week. At 315 p. IN. in the sun the mercury
registered 1l8o, and at the same place on Fri
day at p. m. $50. Light overcoats were
comfortable at night and early Saturday morn
ing. At . p. m. Monday, in front of The
ADVOCATE office, the mercury registered 1100
in the sun; at p. m. in the shade it registered
93o.
Another old land mark of this city has been
RACED this week. 1t was the house adjoining
the residences Of DIR. Shipley and Mr.. George
Shrner. twas built over so years ago. Mr..
John Greenwood, carpenter, has contracted
with Mrs. Annie Beaver, the owner of the
properly, to build two-story frame house,
is by % feet, with back building Is by %
feet 1t will have porch in front and on the
side.
Henderson Smith, alias Robert Fitzgerald,
negro, was arrested in Sykesville last Mon
day on suspicion of being the man who as
sanlted Miss Mary Norrington, Of Aberdeen,
Hartford county, on Wednesday of last week.
Sheriff Kinhart, of that county, was notified
aud he went TO Sykesville and took the man to
Belair. The negro had been working on the
B. & o. Railroad up to the time of the assault
aud suddenly left
Atameetng of the Caroline County School
Commissioners this week, Prof. William S.
Grouse was re elected school examiner. Pro-
fessor Grouse was elected year ago to fill the
unexpired term of Prof. M. Bates Stephens,
who resigned to accept the position of Super
intendent OF Public Instruction of the State.
Prof. Grouse is son of Rev. VIM. A. Grouse,
of this city, and his many friends will be
pleased to hear OF his re election.
The contributors to the Flower Mission this
week WEEK.-MRS. Harry Keefer, Mrs. William
Keefer,- Mrs. Utz, Mrs T.. A. Kaufman, Mrs.
C. H. Baughman. Mrs. Geo. Baughman, Mrs.
j. +. Rinker, Mrs. M. L. Cunningham, Mrs.
Charles Cassell, Mrs. Laura 0rndorff; Misses
Laura Greenwood, Gladys Stem, Lou Bixler,
Lizzie Nusbaum, Marguerite Skunk, Della
Bale Receivers for next week Misses Irene
Woodward and Eva Rinker.
A letter to The ADVOCATE, dated Hanover,
Pa, August 1st, says: John Shanabrook,
living on Baltimore turnpike, near here, was
instantly killed today He was at work at the
American Foundry and Machine Cos. works,
which were burned last Saturday, when he
caught hold of an insecure beam, which fell,
throwing him with great force TO an iron plate
below, breaking his neck. He is survived by
a wife and several small children.
Mr. Oliver l.. Fassig of the United States
Weather Bureau, Baltimore, was one of the
speakers at the Farmers Picnic, at Copper
vile, last Saturday He came TO this city by
the Fast Mail train in the evening and left on
Sunday evening. In the morning he and his
wife visited Mr.. J. II. Myers. in Bachman S
Valley, and he was greatly pleased with the
high state of cultivation he saw in that portion
of this county, and regretted that his duties
prevented him from making longer stay and
more extended visit to the garden of Western
Maryland.