The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-12-20
LOCAL. AFFAIRS.
LocA vITIHs.

AON<1 :
Life is real, life IS earnest,
And the grave is not its goal;
It's great aim, thou sadly learnest,
Is to get sufficient coal
At I0a. m. yesterday, Friday, the Weather
Bureau sent cut the following bulletin =
Fair and warmer tonight; Saturday increasing
cloudiness.
Mr.. Chas FL. Baughman has sold bis prop.
erty in this city, on Willis street, corner OF
Centre, 10 Joseph Wagner, of Baltimore.
Mr.. Wagner will occupy it in the spring.
Tomorrow, the 2lst, will be the shortest day
! Of the year. The Sun will have reached lis
fartherest point south, and will then come
north, reaching its highest point June 2lst.
Rev. n. W. Doiy will preach a special SER
mon 10 the Independent Order Mechanics at
St. Johns (Leister's) Church, Sunday, De-
cember q, at p. M, to which all members
of the order are invited.
The first hard coal to be received in West
minister since April arrived on Tuesday;
Smith & Reifsnider and The Lumber, Coal
and Supply Company each received carload.
The coal was distributed in small lots to GUS
toners.
Mr.. George W. Zepp has sold his farm of
so acres, roods and Is perches, near 81.
Paul's Church, in Hampstead disil.ct, to Mr..
John NJ. Blossom, of Arcadia, for $1,000.
The farm was to have been sold on Thursday
at public sale.
Application has been made to Gov. John
Waller Smith for the pardon OF Joseph Cost,
Cameron Reaver and Walter Angel, all con,
victed in the Circuit Court for Carroll and
now serving terms in the Penitentiary. The
Governor will take up the cases next week.
A 4. 1,r% u,aol tho 90
of Levi Black VS.. The First National Bank of
Westminster was argued by Messrs. Charles
e. Fink. Roberts & Grouse and Guy W.
Steele for Mr. Black, and Messrs. JohE Milton
Reifsnider and W. B. Trundle for the bank.
Mr.. Charles C. Gorsuch will entertain the
children of Westminster and vicinity at Odd
Fellows Hall Christmas afternoon at three
o'clock. Professor Ramsey and wife, OF Bal
timore, will be present and perform tricks,
and otherwise amuse the children. At@the
close boxes of candy will be distributed. All
the children are invited.
Last week two focks of partridges, num-
bering 26, settled near the home of Mr.. q. W.
Brown. in Cranberry Valley, about five miles
from Westminster. Mr.. Brown discovered
them aud scattered wheat screenings for them.
They come up daily to be fed, aud Mr.. Brown
saws they are large and quite tame. He pro-
poses to protect and feed them through the
winter.
Master Charles Vanderford, who had his
head so severely cut while at play at the West
minister High School ten days ago, is able to
be out again, owing to the skilful and careful
attention of DIR. W. d. Wells. Charles re-
ceiyed the cut about four inches long, by
falling against an iron desk But for the pro-
lection of wooden cap the injury would have
l,,n
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company which recently acquired the Howard
COMPANY under foreclosure sale, has begun
the extension of the system in Howard coun-
Nv. The first new line to be erected is to ex-
tend from Ellicott City to Sykesville and the
Springfield Asylum. For this purpose line
is already we'll under way from West Friend
ship to Sykesville.
On january 20, 1908, there will be an ex-
animation held at the postoffice in this city
for an expert freight-rate clerk, male, also for
a seamstress for the Indian service at Southern
Ute School. Colorado; Siletz School, Oregon,
and Pryor Creek School, Montana. Full par.
ticulars can be obtained from the United
States Civil Service Commission, Washington,
D. c., or at the postofice in Westminster.
The Comfy Commissioners last Monday
appointed DIR. William D. Wells physician to
the Jail for one year at $4,000; DIR. Charles
r. Foutz physician to the Board of Health
for one year at salary of $25.0O. William
81. Colston, q lunatic pauper, was directed TO
be taken tolthe Almshouse. Special pensions
OF $500 each were granted to David Mickey,
of Westminster district, and Josephine New
man, of Woolerys district.
Rain fell on Friday night and Saturday last,
freezing as it fell, and the telephones, tele.
graph and electric light wires we're damaged
to some extent. The telephone service IN
Westminster was interrupted for several days,
and outside lines for longer period. No
poles were broken down in this city, but on
some of the county lines number of poles
were carried down by the weight of ice and
some wires broken down by falling limbs OF
trees. The cost of repairs will not be one
tenth of the cost to repair the damages OF the
sleet of last February. There was more rain
on Monday night and Tuesday, but the mer-
curry had gone up above the freezing point and
wires and trees were cleared of ice.
One. of the most enjoyable and pleasant
events of the season took place on Tuesday
evening last the occasion being the celebration
oftbe niney-first anniversary of Door-to- Virtue
Lodge, No. 46, Ancient, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Westminster. Appropriate exer.
c;ses we're held in the spacious and handsome
lodge room, attended by the members and
their families The musical program consisted
of solos by Miss Lila Snyder, of Baltimore;
Miss Bessie Herr, Mrs. B. Frank Grouse and
MI, Waller Graham. Miss May Belle Coch.
ran, of Western Maryland College. and Miss
Madeline Gilbert greatly entertained the audi.
ence with recitations, followed by an enter.
tanning and able address by Past Master DIR.
James w. Reese, after which refreshments
were served.
William q. Volkmar. vice consul at Puerto
Cabello, Venezuela, and now acting consul IN
the absence of Consul Ellsworth, was educated
at Irving College at Manchester, this county,
an institution that fourshed there prior to
1861. The forts at Puerto Cabello were bonn
barded and sienced last Saturday by the
British and German fleets, and the American
consulate was only 100 feet away from the
Liberator fort. After the bombardment the
subterranean passages in the latter were blown
up by dynamite by British tars. Mr.. Volk
mars home is in Baltimore, where he has
several brothers and sisters, though he has
been in Venezuela some years, and vice consu
since Mr. Cleveand's second term, having
been appointed by Mr.. Cleveland.
Rev. L.. M. Zimmerman, native of Man
chester district, this county,in commemoratlon
of the fifteenth anniversary of his assumption
of the pastorate of Christ English Lutheran
Church, Baltimore, gave reception to his
friends and members of his congregation a
the Academy of Music Concert Hall last Tues
day evening. The hall crowded witt
those who wished to do honor to the occasion
Rev. DIR. Zimmerman stood at the entrance t.
the hall from O'Clock until after O'CLOCK
receiving the guests as they arrived. During
this time Herrmann's Orchestra discourseC
music. A musical and literary entertainment
followed. Rev. Mr. Zimmerman has ISSUED
handsome souvenirs of the anniversary in thu
form of a folder, with an embossed cover bear
ing the pastors likeness and picture of thu
interior of the church. Inside is given some
historical data in connection with the church
and. the PASTORS anniversary prayer.