The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-01-12
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREyITIEs.

L0N<fL DINE
The State Board es Health has reelected
Charles N. Mitten, Of this city, Inspector.
Bank and other elections Of directors
brought many people to Westminster on Tues
day.
Mr.. Harvey E. Weant, of Taneytown. while
skating one day this week, fell and was Sc
verely injured.
Ice five inches thick was harvested from
ponds and mill dams in the neighborhood of
Westminster this week.
The Farmers Fertilizer Company has de-
clared an annual dividend of six per cent,
payable on and after January Is.
We have received from Mr.. Chas. E. Her
ing agent of the Massachusetts Mutual Lille
Insurance Company. beautiful calendar
Mr.. Milton A. Bachman has purchased Of
Mr.. John W. Stonesifer, for $4,000, the
property No. SO, Pennsylvania avenue, this
city.
Royal Arch Chapter. No. 81, had special
work on Tuesday evening last, after which
thirty of the members partook OF a banquet at
The Westminster.
Public sales are likely TO be numerous this
season. The Advocate sSale Register will
be published next week and continued until
the sale season is over.
The County Commissioners last Monday
granted special pensions of $500 each to
Catharine Smith. of Westminster, and Catha-
rine Warner, of Uniontown district.
Ii will be gratifying to the large number of
persons in this county who use the Liberty
TURNPIKE to learn that large force is at work
on ii, and that il will soon be IN first. class
condition.
At II a. m. yesterday, Friday, the Wealth
er Bureau sent out the following bulletin II
Occasional rain tonight; clearing ard colder
Saturday, with northeast winds becoming
northwest, and1brisk on the coast.
By the will of Miss Rebecca Woolsey, of
Hartford county, Mrs. Mary E. Mather. wife
of MrT. W. Mather, of Westminster, is be-
oueathed certain furniture and personal be-
longings and $1,000 Miss Woolsey was a
sister 10 Mrs. Mather.
During a cold day about month ago the
toes on the right foot Of NJ !. John Wonder, of
Shipley, were frozen while returning home
from Springfield Asylum. Gangrene Of the
large Toe set in recently, and DR.. M. L. Bot
was summoned The Doctor thinks amputa
ton will not be necessary.
If the subscribers to the ADVOCATE will
read each week the bargains advertised in it,
and take advantage of them, they will save
two or three times the price of subscription.
Goods are cheaper here than in most places,
and some great bargains are advertised today.
The Farmers Dairy Company, which was
organized on December &c. last, to take over
the business of the United Milk Producers
Association, began business on January LIST
and Oh the 9th went into the hands of a re-
ceiyer. As the receiver had nothing to receive
except some debts and bills receivable no bond
was required.
Mrs. Salie Alverta, wife of Mr.. Charles
E. Durbin and daughter of Mr.. H. II. Bittle,
of Carroll, died in Baltimore on the Sd in
slant, aged go years, months and Is days.
Besides a husband. who is proprietor of the
Roland Laundry, Baltimore, she leaves two
sons, Charles r. Durbin, aged years, and
Roland Durbin. aged 2 years.
The Committee on Claims of the House of
Representatives at Washington, have reported
bill to the House making appropriations TO
pay for stores and supplies taken during the
Civil War by the government. One item is
$326.0 90 to Adam Shower, formerly of Man
chester, this county, now living in Baltimore
county The claims had all been favorably
acted upon by the Court of Claims.
Deputy State Fire Marshal Charles "
Wantz arrested Nelson W. Scott, of Lancas-
Ger. Pa, on Friday of last week, at Pilot,
Cecil county. Scott owns distillery at Rock
Springs. Cecil county, and is accused ofseiting
FIRE to it on December Z, but the fire was ex-
tinguished by two citizens, who state they saw
Scott and colored man start the fire. The
distilery was burned on the 10Th of December
Miss Mollie Warehime, aged about 18years,
daughter of Mr.. Charles Warehime. of Fritz
ellburg, attempted suicide last Monday morn
ing, by shooting herself in the head with a
revolver 1t is said the act was done just after
her father had reproved her for some miscon
duct. The ball entered at the right temple
and passed out two inches above. and the
wound is not very serious. DR.. j. Rinehart is
her physician.
The ADVOCATE will begin publishing Sale
Register on January 10. The notices of pub
lie sales will embrace the time, place and
general idea Of property 10 be sold. Persons
who have their sale bills printed at this office
will be charged so cents for notices in The
Register; all others will be charged Sl.0O.
These prices are very low, when it is consid-
cred that the circulation of the ADVOCATE is
very large and general throughout the county.
Mailing list is always open to inspection by
advertisers.
Messrs. D. N. Henning and E. 0. Weant
attended court at Frederick on Wednesday, as
cOunSei LOT Onarlts p. AuueLs ~ a SUIT aSo,hoe
him by his broteer-in- law, Charles e. Saylor,
Register of Wills of Frederick county, on
promissory note for $4,000 given in 1887
Two years later Anders was adjudged a bank
rupt, but Sayor claimed that Anders, snbse-
quent to his insolvency, promised to pay the
note. The court gave Saylor verdict Tor
$4,000, with interest from 1856.
Mrs. Gorilla Brown, widow of Ex-Sherif
William S. Brown, and for many years Court
Crier, died in Baltimore on Tuesday night,
aged 81 years. She was daughter OF the
late Jesse Manning, Of this county. Her re-
mains were inferred here yesterday. Her
surviving children are Mrs. Louisa Forsythe,
William E. Brown and Richard Brown, Of
Baltimore; Mrs. S. Carr Wicke and Wash
ington L. Brown, of this city;C. Hall Brown,
of Frizelburg, and DR.. Columbus Brown, Of
Pleasant Valley.