The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-03-29
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvIrIEs.

LOCAL BREvITIES.
Tomorrow is Easter.
Next Tuesday is All FOOLS Day.
The annual lovefeast at Meadow Branch
will be held May Is.
Pipe Creek German Baptists will hold their
love feast on Saturday, May 31st-
Prof. Simpson visited the public schools in
Union Bridge district on Wednesday.
Western Maryland College closed on Thurs
day for the Easter holidays. Nearly all the
students left for home.
The Westminster Fire Department and
Westminster Band will have a parade on
Monday afternoon at o'clock.
Michael Weisse was fined $500 and costs on
Wednesday, for assaulting Frederick Z. Graft.
The parties live in Hampstead district.
A marriage license was issued in Baltimore
on Wednesday to Guy Calvin Bopst, aged 20,
and Harriet M. Rusk, aged "a, of Henryton.
The mild weather and bright sunshine of a
week past has greatly benefited the wheat
crop, and the prospect is far more promising
than it was.
Justice Moore held William Cox, who was
charged with carrying concealed weapons and
assault with intent to kill James johnson, for
the action of the grand jury.
John S. Mills, as attorney for the heirs of
the late Mary C. Mills, sold the house on the
corner of Green and Centre streets, Westmin-
ster. to Martin l.. Minters, for $1,000 cash, last
Saturday.
The suit of the Oakland Manufacturing
Company against N. w. Steele, removed from
Carroll 10 Howard, came to sudden termina-
ton on Friday of last week by the plaintiff
taking non pros.
Harry, son of Mr. M. d. Harper, of this
city, died of consumption on Sunday last in
Chambersburg, Pa. The young man took q
heavy cold last fall and went to Chambersburg
for treatment, where he died.
Capt. Bob Stoner, former conductor on
the Western Maryland Railroad, died near
Mercersburg, Pa, on March II, aged about
y years. In stage coach days he drove a
stage between Westminster and Emmitsburg.
IF you have not cleaned the caterpillar
cocoons from your trees do so at once. You
can thus do something toward preventing q
repetition of the plague of hairy crawlers
which robbed the trees of their leaves last
summer.
Mr.. n. F. Lucabaugh, of BARRIERS Mills,
Wells county, Indiana, in renewing his SUBJ
scription to the ADVOCATE, writes that farmers
are seeding oats and planting potatoes. Wheat,
he says, is very promising. Land during the
past year has taken boom from $40 to SIS
per acre.
The colored man arrested in Ellicott City
on March &c. supposed to be Charles Tabb,
who is wanted by the Carroll authorities for
assaulting Thomas Lewis at Sykesville with
razor, was taken to Sykesville last Saturday
for hearing before Justice Curley. He
proved to be the wrong man and was dis
charged.
A tallyho party of eight from Baltimore put
up at The Westminster on Thursday night.
They were on 200 mile drive to Gettysburg
and Frederick and back to Baltimore. The
party consisted of DR.. VIM. B. Perry, G. Mel
son Thomson, s. Likes, Edgar Lyon, Louis
McMullin, E. H. Thomson, Jr., and Harry
Hammond.
Francisco Bonivento, who was shot by
Raffeli Di Stefano on Christmas Day, at
Sykesville, and who since that time has been
at the Maryland University Hospital, Balti
more, was brought to Westminster last Satur-
day and was committed to Jail by Justice
Moore, to appear against Di Stefano at the
May term of court
Loring, the three -year-old son of Robert l..
Cookson, near Uniontown, fell from stone
wall on Sunday last, striking his head on a
stone and receiving a cut of about four inches
IN his scalp. DIR. j. T. Shreeve rendered sur
gical assistance. About year ago the little
fellow fell into the spring and was nearly
drowned, and afterwards caught his hand in
cog wheels, MASKING his fingers.
The Boyds Telephone Company was last
week turned over to s. L. Johns, Harry N.
Git, George D. Git and Thomas ]. O'Neill,
the gentlemen who purchased telephone lines
in Carroll, Frederick and Washington coun-
ties Maryland. and in as many more counties
in Virginia. West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
In the reorganization of the Boyds Company
montgomery county, Raymond Barnes, of
Mount Airy, is director.
Justice Harry NJ Clabaugh, of the District
of Columbia Supreme Court, was presented
on Thursday by the jury of Circuit Court No.
2, over which he presides, with handsome
pair of 6ve-light candelabra and a bouquet of
flowers. The presentation was an entire sur
prise to Justice Clabaugh. Each candelabrum
Harry M. Clabaugh by the first jury under the
new Code, 1902
Claude Haines and bride left Westminster
on Monday for North Dakota, where they in
tend to reside. Mr.. Haines has spent some
time in that state. He returned to this county
last fall and ON Thursday of last week was
Lubfficu W MISS dtShiCt DoWCuo3 VI ~ WihS'
Mills, Baltimore county. The marriage IL
cense, issued at Towson, states the age of the
groom at SO and the bride AZ. A correspond
ent of the Baltimore Sun says the bride is go.
Mr.. William Lawyer, of this city. entered
upon his 92d year last Sunday, having been
born on March %, 1911. He is active for his
advanced years, and last week was at the First
National Bank, of which he is and has been
for many years vice,president. He was one
of the % members who organized the congre-
CATION of Grace Lutheran Church here in
1868, and has given itsubstantial support ever
since. A number of persons called to pay
their respects to him on Sunday and to offer
congratulations
Mr. Charles W. Koontz. living near Silver
Run, has an Easter Egg. that is % years DID,
He is son of Mr.. R. N. Koontz, of Union
Mills. He was born on the 22d of January,
1880, and Easter fell on March %, following.
Being the first born his father thought he must
have an Easter egg so one was colored red
for the baby, and the father carved his in
itials-C. W. K.-on it, and also two pine
trees, together with the date, March %, 1880.
The egg is still well preserved, and it is one of
the prize possessions of Mr.. Chas. w. koontz
Daniel ]. Baker, of the firm of Baker Il
Zentz, Mount Airy, on Tuesday swore out
warrants IOT tue drrcSt VI OOnh DySC oho
Barnye Zeitz, before Justice Moore, charging
them with robbing their store in the early part
of January. Dyce and Zeitz were arrested in
Baltimore on January IL by two policemen
who caught them throwing lot of knives in
Jones' Falls. They were brought to West
minister January IL by Sheriff Crawford and
lodged in the county Jail. No warrants had
been issued for their arrest, and they were not
regularly committed until Tuesday afternoon.
They will have hearing on April l, and the
officers who made the arrests will testify at the
hearing Zeitz is from New York city and
Dyce comes from Boston.
Surveys for the electric line between Balt-
more and Frederick began this week, survey
ing parties starting from Baltimore and Fred
eriek, in order to complete the work speedily.
The road will run via North Branch and
through or near Eldersburg, Freedom, VIM
field, Taylorsville, Unionville, Libertytown
and Mount Pleasant. Two bridges will be
built, one across the north branch of the Pa
tapsco at North Branch, and the other across
the Monocacy at Ceressille. As the Hagers-
town and Boonsboro Electric Railway is ex-
pected to be extended during the coming
summer to Myersville, connecting at that
point with the Myersville and Catoctin Rail-
way, which is operated by the Frederick and
Middletown Railway Company, it is probable
that by the time the Baltimore and Frederick
road is completed there will be through trolley
connection between Hagerstown and Balti-
more.