The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-05-17
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIES.
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that his wife is slowly improving.
The paint and whitewash brush are adding
much 10 houses and other buildings in West
minister.
The soldier pension Of William Engleman,
Of Linwood, has been increased to $1,000 a
month.
Chas. B. Hunter, contractor and carpenter,
is repairing and renovating the City Hotel,
Westminster.
At II m. yesterday, Friday, the Wealth
er Bureau sent out the following bulletin
Partly cloudy tonight; Saturday showers.
Mr.. Mark o. Shriver, brother of Messrs B.
F. and T. Herbert Shriver, of Union Mills, is
foreman of the grand jury in Baltimore City
John T. Zahn has purchased the stock of
groceries, &C., of Henry Himler, trustee of
John Himler, this city, and will continue the
business.
Charles E. Phoebns, of Sykesvile, has been
granted soldier pension of $1,000 month,
and William Adams of Westminster, has been
increased to Sl2 per month.
Mr. William Richter, near Warfeldsburg,
was thrown from wagon on Friday of last
week and broke his breast bone. DR.. Joseph
T. Herring rendered surgical aid.
Ex.Gov. Frank Brown has sold the Berkeley
Street Railway, of Berkeley. Va, to the Rail
ways and Light Company of America. Mr..
j. w. Middendorf, of Baltimore city, is pres
ident.
Mr.. Henry O. Devries, of Marriottsville,
Howard county, who has been i'll at his home
for some time. but who had been improving
for several days, suffered relapse the early
part of this week.
Mr.. Milton Chew, of Carrollton, brought to
NJ III .Nfo
burbank plum tree, about three feet long, that
was literally covered with small plums. If
one-half of them mature the yield will be very
heavy.
Mr.. Charles C. Gorsuch on Tuesday morn
ing presented the Westminster Fire Depart
ment with check for $25.00, as an evidence
of his appreciation of their efforts to save his
barn and other property during the fire on the
afternoon previous.
Children playing with matches started a
fire in the barn of Eugene Lawrence, at Irish
town, Pa, Friday afternoon of last week. The
flames spread to half dozen houses and the
barn and two houses were destroyed, entailing
a loss of about $4,000.
VIM. A. Blouse, aged % years, of York
county, Pa, and Miss Ida May Bitzel, aged
Is, whose residence was given as Westmin-
ster. were married Wednesday at the parson
age of Calvary Baptist Church, at Towson, by
Rev. VIM. E. Robertson.
The annual list of promotions and increase
in salaries in the clerical forces of the postof-
fees throughout the country has been pub
lished. At Westminster one additional clerk
is provided for and the salary of one clerk has
been advanced from 5000 to $1,000.
In publishing the list of directors of the
Westminster Deposit and Trust Company
elected last week the name of Mr.. George w
Albaugh was omitted. Mr.. Albaugh was.one
of the active organizers of the company and
has been director and member of the exec
utive committee ever since its foundation.
The County Commissioners were engaged
in transfer and abatement matters on Monday
and Tuesday, and no more changes Will be
made in assessments to affect the levy this
year. Upon petition and certificate OF two
physicians the Commissioners directed that
VIM. Byers be taken to Springfield Hospital.
Harry Ditman, Thomas Dell, Harvey Web.
ster and Harry Gist, while at work on the
John W. Holmes farm. about three miles
from Westminster, a few days ago, had an
exciting experience with huge black snake.
They succeeded in killing it, aud found 1t
measured feet IL inches long, and inches
around the body.
The old stone church at Lisbon, Howard
county, built in 1926, and used by Presby-
terians, Methodist Episcopaians, Methodist
Protestants and Dunkards has been torn down
and the stone is being used by Nicholas R.
Henderson in the erection of a cottage. All
the congregations who once used the building
have built churches for themselves.
Mr.. James A. Diffenbaugh, formerly school
examiner of Carroll, has been aoJudged insane
by medical commission. at Helena, Mon
,tana, and the District Court ordered him Ia
be taken tothe State Insane Asylum at Warm
Springs The wounds on his neck and wrists
have healed His physicians believe that
with careful treatment he will eventually re-
cover.
A raise in the price Of beef was made on
Saturday last and another raise on Monday
a total Of ST. 50 hundred pounds. This was
by the beef trust. Retail prices in Baltimore
on Tuesday were-porterhouse steak 20 to 81
cents, sirloin steak %, round steak 18, rib
roast Is. prime cut % to %, and the butchers
say that there is very little profit even at these
prices.
The Johns Hopkins University closed its
base ball season by defeating the Western
MARYLAND College Club here last Saturday by
a score of 6 to l. The Western Maryland
bows did not play with their usual vim. This
Saturday afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock, the
College will play the team of Sadlers. Bryant
& Stratton Business College, Baltimore, on
the College grounds.
With impressive services the handsome
new ST. Panl's Reformed and Lutheran
Church in Mannheim township, York county,
of which Rev. j. III. Hartman and Rev. John
A. Metzgar are pastors, was dedicated last
Sunday Two dedicatory sermons in German
and English were preached, one by DR.. Geo.
Stibitz, of York, aud the other by Rev. DIR. j.
A. Singmaster, of Gettysburg.
Howard. aged years, months and 8
DAYS, son of Mr.. Charles Henry Bitzel, near
Snialwood, fell backward into bucket Of
boiling water on Monday, and was so severely
scalded that he died on Tuesday afternoon.
His funeral took place on Thursday morning,
services and interment at the German Luth-
eran Church at Deer Park. DIR. Joseph L.
Herring rendered all possible medical aid.
i Noses Costley, colored, of Winfield, whose
arrest was noted in the ADVOCATE last week,
. was on Monday held by Commissioner Rogers
for the action of the Federal Grand Jury on
the charge of raising postal money order,
issued by the postmaster at Mount Airy, Md,
on the postmaster at Westminster, Md, from
81 10 Sl2. 1t lis alleged that Costley confessed
to raising the money order, but he now AYERS
he is not guilty of the charge.
The Omnibus Public Building bill, which
has passed the House of Representatives, does
not contain an appropriation for postoffiee
building for Westminster. A dispatch to the
Baltimore American, on Wednesday, says the
Congressman from Maryland were derilect in
the matter, and Mr.. A. w. Machen, Superin-
tendent of Free Rural Delivery, is making an
effort to have the bill amended in the Senate,
so as to get an appropriation to buy site at
least.
On Monday night John Law and several
other tramps encamped in the barn of George
p. b. Englar, near New Windsor. About
midnight Law got up to get some water and
accidentally fell out the door to the barnyard,
about II feet, severely injuring his spine and
causing paralysis. Law is an ex-soldier, and
served in Company l, 1o4th N. 7. Volunteer
Infantry. Since the war he has been pro-
fessional tramp, and had frequently been in
New Windsor and neighborhood. Mr.. Chas.
p. Bale, also an ex-soldier, has known the
unfortunate man for some years, and had him
taken to the Aims House. He will try to
have Law removed to the Soldiers Home at
Bath, New York, next week.
Sister Mary Dolores, who was Miss Mary
Atlee, daughter of the late James Atlee, OF
New Windsor, this county, celebrated her
golden jubilee at the Academy of the Vista
ton at Frederick on Sunday. Rev. Father
Casey, of the Novitiate, said mass, which she
attended with the members of the community
in a body. number of friends called during
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