The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-03-02
March onened with a snow fall.

Mr.. Michael Walsh, near Carrollton Station,
and DR.. d. f. Shipley, of Westminster, are
quite sick.
Surveyors are at work stalking off the line
for double track on the Western MarylaRd
Railroad from Cherry Run to Shippensburg,
Pa.
Representative Baker has recommended the
appointment of g. w. Ward as postmaster at
Morgan, this county, in place OF ID. Y. Nc
Donald, who has declined.
Owing to adult market for -four and q full
stock on hand, Carroll FIGURING Mill, this
city, closed on Thursday evening until there
is an improvement in the market
During February there were recorded in the
Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Carroll County Al deeds, % mortgages and
bills of sale, and 26 marriage licenses were
issued.
The Westminster Band has been engaged
to accompany Brooklyn, New York, batal-
lion to Washington to take partin the inauga-
raj parade. They leave tomorrow morning,
and will meet the Brooklyn troops in Balti-
more.
Mrs. Catharine, wife of Mr.. Ed. L. Hively,
near Frizellburg, died yesterday morning,
aged 40 years and days. Her remains will
be inferred at Baust Church Sunday at 10 a.
m The friends are requested to meet at her
late residence at 8 a. m. Rev. G. W. Baugh-
man will oficiate.
In speaking of the State Firemen's Conyen-
ton to be held here next June the Annapolis
Advertiser says :-.sOur Fire Department ex
pect to be largely represented at the meeting
and already the 6remen here are talking OF
the Trip, and those who will attend anticipate
having good time.
The Christian Endeayor Union of the Meth
odist Protestant Maryland Annual Conference
convened in Baltimore this week. Mr.. Geo.
X. Mather, President of the Carroll County
Union, was elected State President. The
Methodist Protestant Society of Westminster
contributed $50. rs to the Twentieth Century
Thank Offering, which heads the list in the
amount contributed so far by any society.
The preliminary contest to select princi-
pal and alternate to represent Western Mary
land College at the State Intercollegiate Con-
test will take place tonight Saturday )at Alum
nj Hall at 80 clock. The public is invited to
these exercises. The State Intercollegiate
Contest will be held at Maryland Agricultural
College, College Park, on the last Friday IN
April In 1900 it was held at ST. Johns Col
lege, Annapolis, and in 1899 at Western
Maryland College. In both 1899 and 1900
the representative of Western Maryland Col
lege won the medal.
A telephone combine is in the process OF
organization, as recently noted in the ADve
CATE, looking TO consolidation of the local
telephone companies of Southern Pennsyl
vania, Western Maryland and West Virginia,
giving one large and widely extended service.
On Tuesday representatives of the Lancaster,
Columbia, Merchandising, Carlisle, Shippens
burg, Delta, Chambersburg, Gettysburg, York,
Hanover, Norfolk, Hagerstown, Westminster
and Baltimore Telephone Companies met at
York and discussed the project. A commit
tee was appointed to report al a meeting next
week, when plans wi be decided upon. Mr..
Charles E. Fink, President of the Western
Maryland Telephone Company of Carroll
County, was made chairman of the committee.
James, son of Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ.
Stoner, this city, member of Battery o, 9th
u. S. ARTILLERY, is now stationed at Fort San
Christopher, San Juan, Porto Rico. Under
date of February IS he writes two interesting
letters, one to his father and family, and the
other to his grandmother and aunt. He says
seThe weather here is like midsummer; we
battle every day while the boys at home are
skating and coasting; | am very much sun
burned; the people here do not respect any
one; we cannot teach them much, except the
use of a rife, though they know how to throw
rocks and use knives; the temperature today
is So; oranges and bananas sell two and three
for cent, and cocoa nuts three cents each;
haven't been sick since reaching here. though
the practice marches are pretty hard on tel
low during the warm weather. battalion
OF native Porto Ricans and band will be pres
ent at the Inauguration March a.