The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-07-27
SATURDAY, JULY 81, 1901
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIES.

Garner, LInW0Ou camp mas ocet PoStPotie''
Several of our citizens have lost fattening
hogs recently, supposed to have been caused
by the intense heat
Read the statement Of the receipts and ex-
penditures for the county for the past year on
the last page of this issue.
On Thursday about 5000 persons attended
the Lutheran reunion at Pen Mar from this
station there were SO tickets sold
Nose Harper, proprietor of the Hagersto1wn
Bottling House, will furnish the German PIC
mic with $50 dozen bottles OF pop.
On account of the rain this week the feie at
the Catholic church will be continued on
Monday and Tuesday evenings OF next week.
At u m. yesterday, Friday, the Wealth
er Bureau sent out the following bulletn:-
Cloudy weather; showers tonight and Satur-
day.
Mr.. John Myers. of this county, has pur-
chased the farm of Ferdinand Brler, in Union
township, York county, Pa, containing ~
acres, for $1,000.
Mr.. Thomas Turtle, OF this city, sent to this
Office on Wednesday last York Imperial
apple of last years growth It was perfect
and as odorous as if just taken from the tree.
The American Bell Telephone Company is
extending its lines from York, Pa, to wash
ington, d. G. The line will be run wa Cen
terville, Manchester. Snydersburg, Carroliton,
ON down TO Mt Airy, and through Montgomery
county.
Several telephone poles were injured during
the storm last Thursday afternoon, and com
munication between here and several points
in the county was suspended. MIR. Frank
Myers, the superintendent, had she INES ~
working order yesterday.
The Baltimore, Westminster and Gettysburg
Street Railway Company, of which l. A..
Sweigard is President, has purchased tract
of 400 acres of land at point on the Blue
Ridge known as High Rock, and located
about 81 miles east of Hanover, for pleasure
park.
Many complaints are heard from nearby resi-
dents of mill ponds of the indecent exposure
made by half-grown boys who battle III them;
Especially is this the case at the dam owned
by the Citizens Wafer Company, near this
city, and the Company, have taken means to
stop such exposure.
Democratic primary meetings will be held
this Saturday afternoon throughout the county
10 select delegates 10 county convention
which meets in this city next Monday to
choose delegates to State convention to be
held August LIST, and also to a Judicial con-
vention to meet in this city on August a.
Between and o'clock last Thursday at
ternoon a severe thunder gust visited this Sec
ton. Brilliant flashes of lightning and crash
ing peals Of thunder followed in rapid success
sion. and the rain fell in torrents There were
several heavy showers later, but no lightning.
During the night there was an occasional light
rain.
Mr.. james E. Smith, of this city, has pen
of fine hogs, one of which became so SICK that
l., Tor
quantity of air-slacked lime in the pen and
placed in their slop some fenngreek, flour OF
sulphur and pulverized rosin, which acted very
satisfactorily, as the sick one is eating and the
others are thriving finely.
Contributors to the Flower Mission this week
were Mrs. Ezra Bish, Mrs. W. /. Wilson,
Mrs. Fl. C. Keefer, Mrs. j. F. Rinker, Mrs.
M. l.. Cunningham, Mrs. Ella Baughman;
Misses Mollie Shriyer, Lou Bixler, Margaret
Grumbine, Laura Greenwood, Lizzie Nus
baum. Matilda Derr, Grace Eichorn, Clara &.
Stem. and Francis Keefer. Receivers for next
week Misses Mollie Shriver and Allie Bixler.
Mr.. Joseph D. Brooks, Register of Wills,
ON Wednesday exhibited specimens OF his
skill as a farmer They were potatoes, yes,
the kind that makes your palate long for, some
of which would weigh over pound. On
April Is he planted the Early Puritan variety
on piece of ground 100 feet, by 40 feet, by
10 feet, from which he realized over 30 bush
els. and began using them on June rs. lie
says they are the finest he ever used, being
easily cooked and mealy.
Following is the apportionment by Comp
troller Herring of $3.50, 900 for the purchase OF
textbooks in the several counties and the city
of Baltimore, as required by the Act of 1896,
chapter 1856, as made July co. and payable on
August l. Carroll county will receive SO,
1871. 38 for white and 1888. 25 for colored; Bal
timore county So, 1872. so for white and 81, 348.-
SO for coIored; Frederick S., 722. 10 for white
and 1864 GO for colored, and Howard 81, 0l9,
O4 for white and $649. so for colored.
Mr.. Jesse Smallwood, of Laurel, Md, died
at his home there Monday evening from pull
monary trouble of the throat. He had been
i'll about four years. Mr.. Smallwood was in
his 63d year, and was a native OF Howard
county, and son of the late Philip Smallwood
of that county. A widow, who was Miss
NARROW, of Montgomery county, and daugh
ter, Mrs. James Travers, survive. In 1882 he
was miller at Mr.. Perry Winchester's mill
near Carrollton, now owned by Mr. Andrew
Dreschler.
The Sweigart Manufacturing Company has
been organized for the purpose of manufac
turing rural mail boxes after design patented
by w. w. Sweigart, York Road, this county
The company's headquarters will be at Thur.
mont, Nd. The incorporates are John Z.
Motter, Frederick, Md. !; Webster w. Sweigart
York Road, Md; Samuel NJ. Birely, Thur
mont: Vincent Sebold, diminishing; Horace
g. Reese. Westminster. The capital stock is
$4,000, all of which has been subscribed
On Tuesday night last the following officers
were elected-W. w. Sweigart president,
Geo. w. Albaugh vice president, and Samne
NJ. Birely secretary and treasurer. The man
ufacture of boxes will commence shortly.
Probably one of the grandest displays Of
electricity ever witnessed in this vicinity oc
Cured last Monday night between 8 and u
o'clock. Words are inadequate to describe
it. but it was beautiful in its terribeness
Jagged, forked, perpendicular flash and sheet
lightning followed in rapid succession, anc
were rendered all the more terrifying by the
intensely black clouds in the background
Peal after peal of deepest rolling thunder fol
lowed causing a shudder to pass over the OBJ
server, only 10 be succeeded by a fash o.
lightning that almost blinded and dazed the
locker on. In this city there was only sligh
rain, but to the northeast, north and east there
was a fine rain, with an occasional heavy
shower
At the close of business on July 10, the date
of the last call for statement of the condition
of the several banks, the banks of this city had
on deposit the following amounts :--Unior
National $2Ol, $685. So; First National $So5,
83Os7, and the Farmers and Mechanics
$l41, 942. SO; the First National of New Wind
sor had $50, 582. 10. The Westminster Saw
ings Bank had on deposit on the 18th instan
1858, S5s 55, and the Westminster Deposit an'
Trust Company, on the same day, had 1882,
3S8. 10, making grand total of 81, 7lS, 29l. 4S
besides what is on deposit at the two institu
tons at Taneytown, and one each at Union
town, Union Bridge, Mt. Airy, Manchester
Union Mills, Hampstead and the Sykesvill
Bank.
Barn and Crop Burned.
ofa lacf Thursday