The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-11-08

The David Cassell farm was not sold Thurs.
day, owing to insuficiency of bids.
There was thunder and lightning on Thurs
day night The day was quite spring like.
A Mission will be held next week at St.
Johns Church, this city, by two Jesuit clergy
men.
The Westminster Fire Department will
parade on Thanksgiving Day, to be followed
by an oyster supper in the evening.
At 10a. m. yesterday, Friday, the Weather
Bureau sent ont the following bulletin -
Fair and cooler tonight; Saturday fair.
THE ADVOCATE returns thanks to Mrs
Samuel Miller, near this city, for box o.
beautiful and luscious pears, of the keifel
variety.
Charles Miller, train dispatcher at Hagers
town, formerly popular conductor on the
Western Maryland Railroad, is i'll with typhoid
fever. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Hos
pital, Baltimore, yesterday morning.
Mr. e. Oliver Grimes, Jr., of the West
minister bar, has been appointed Referee in
Bankruptcy for Carroll, By Judge Morris, o.
the United States District Court for Maryland.
The appointment was made Thursday.
Mr.. Joseph D. Brooks, Register of Wills,
says the report published last week in the Sen
tinel that he had appointed Reindollar Motter
clerk in his Office temporarily was incorrect.
The young man was simply making up record
for Bond Il Pafke, for whom he is clerk, and
which had to be made up Immediately. The
Office of the Register at the time was full OF
pressing work, and one clerk was absent.
Chester NJ. Geiman, young farmer resid-
ing about three miles from this city, was seri-
ousiy injured last Tuesday in a singular man
II vypQd With q
circular saw by horse power and was feeding
the saw, when stick he was in the act of
placing in position to be cut fell against the
saw in such manner that it was caught by
the swiftly revolving disc and hurled against
his face and forehead with terrific force, crush
ing his nose aud fracturing his skull. lie is
attended by DR.. j. I. Herring, of this city.
.sShadeland,' the beautiful country home
of Dir. d. E. Stone, near Mt. Pleasant, Fred
erick county, was the scene of an interesting
wedding on Wednesday. October 20. The
bride was Miss Lenore O. Stone, daughter OF
DIR. and Mrs. Stone, and the groom was John
Brooke Boyle, well.known young farmer OF
Unionville. Frederick county. The marriage
ceremony was performed by Father Samuel
]. Kavanaugh, pastor of st. Peters Catholic
Church. Libertytown The groom is grand
son of the late John Brooke Boyle, of this city.
Mrs. Margaret Strine, near lie Gore, Fred
erick county, was found dead at her home on
the evening of October 81. She was in the
83rd year Of her age, and is survived by seven
sons and three daughters. The sons are John,
Frank, George and Samuel Strine, of Walkers
vile, and Pierce, Amos and Isaac Strine, OF
LIE Gore; the daughters, Mrs. William Mort,
of Ladiesburg; Mrs. Taylor Toms. of Walkers,
vile; Mrs. William Duvall, of Mt. Airy, and
Mrs. Webster Wolf, of Baltimore. The funeral
took place on Sunday at Rocky Hill Church
and the services were conducted by Rev. W..
L. Wheeler, of Woodsboro. The seven sons
Of Mrs. Strine acted as pall-bearers.
Joshua Barnes, a well-known farmer and a
veteran of the Civil War, died at his home,
near louisville, quite suddenly ofheart disease
Monday morning last at the age of about u
years. Mr.. Barnes served as a private in
Company F, Fourth Maryland Volunteer ln-
fantry, from August II, 1862, till May 81,
1865, when he was honorably discharged.
He was Republican politically. His wife
died several years ago. One daughter, Mrs.
Adelaide Holbrook, Of Woodbury., and two
sons, Messrs. George and james Barnes, of
this county, survive him. His remains were
inferred in the burial ground of Wards
Chapel, Baltimore county, where his wife is
buried.