The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-03-22
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIES.
Nv is Palm Sunday.

LOCAL BREVITIES.
Tomorrow is Palm Sunday.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were
cold blustery days--a case OF winter lingering
in the lap of spring.
The price of lumber has advanced and a
representative in Baltimore of large lumber
firm on Monday said the price is likely TO go
higher.
The Monarch Bowling Team, of Baltimore,
will play match game with Albaugh's team
Wednesday night, March 26th, 1902, at Al
baugh's alleys.
A marriage license was issued in Baltimore
on Tuesday to Harry Edward Carver, aged
go years, and Cordelia Cyrus Horn, aged 20.
both Of Mt. Airy.
Mr. A. T. Buckingham, of Bird Hill, had
sale this week, and removed to Baltimore.
Warren L. Shipley and family have removed
to Baltimore also.
Mr.. J. L. O'Farrell, of Westminster, has.
purchased the furniture, stock and fixtures of
The Franklin House, Hanover, Pa, and will
take charge of the house April LIST.
The Westminster Fire Company intends
having big parade on Easter Monday after
noon, at which time they will start their fair
and oyster supper in the Firemen's Hall.
FiauS nave DGtiI tUduG stuQ DiuS ICCClFCd
for a station and Office building for the West
ern Maryland Railroad at Union Bridge, but
the sale Of the road may delay the erection of
it.
William Black, son of Mr.. Lee Black, of
Westminster, has accepted position in the
store of James a.. Orendorf, at Motter's Sta
ton, Frederick county, and will go there April
LIST.
Gov. Smith has designated Friday, April
IL, as Arbor Day. The practical effect of
Arbor Day is loss of time TO school children in
learning a program for the occasion and in
performing it.
The Miller Bros Company have purchased
the stock of mems furnishing goods of Fred.
BatzIer, 603 West Baltimore street, Baltimore,
and removed them to their store here. They
bought the entire stock at bargain.
Mr. P. A. Gorsuch, of Westminster, will
leave Monday for Frostbnrg, Nd, taking with
him pair of mules for Col. s. K. Herr He
expects to roach Frostburg in four days. He
will drive back, and get home the following
week.
John Joseph Zentgraf, step-son of Mr. Vim
cent Yingling, near this city, has wandered
away again, for the third time. He left home
on Friday evening of last week, and he told
some of his playmates he was going either to
fItiSDurg OF harrisburg.
Mr.. Abraham G. Strasburger, of Westmin-
ster, is one of the executors of the will of his
late father-in law, Isaac Nordlinger, who died
in Baltimore last week. Mr.. Nordlinger's
son William is the other executor. The en-
tire estate is left to the widow.
Mr.. Thomas E. Kreglo, who has been
tenant of the DIR. Crawford farm, in Franklin
district, made sale on Monday and will remove
to Westminster, where he will occupy the Jail
residence and become deputy sheriff. Sheriff
Crawford will board with him.
Abraham Jacobs, of Baltimore, was released
on 81 500 bail on Friday Of last week for the
action of the Circuit Court for Carroll, by
Judge Phelps, on the charge of receiving
about 1900 pounds of copper wire, knowing 1t
to have been stolen at Westminster.
There was banquet given at Union Street
Hall, this city, Thursday night of last week.
in honor of the return of the pastor, Rev. Pa
g. Walker, and his son, DR.. p. G. Walker,
who served two years in the q. s. Army Hos
pital Staff, in the Philippine Islands.
The County Commissioners were engaged
in general routine business last Monday.
They directed that Patrick Boyan, whose
mental disorder was noticed in the ADVOCATE
last week, be confined in Springfield Hospital,
near Sykesvile. His mental unsoundness
was certified to by two physicians.
A dispatch from Carlisle, Pa, on March
IA, to the Baltimore Sun, says-"From Wash
ington, d. c., TO Reading, Pa, by way Of
Baltimore, historic Gettysburg, Carlisle, Har
risburg and Lebanon, is the plan of a syndi-
cate of trolley promoters The company
whose line is to be the nucleus of this big pro
ject is The Baltimore, Westminster and Gettys-
burg Electric Railway.
The Omnibus bill, presented in the House
of Delegates on Thursday, carries the follow
ing appropriations for Springfield Hospital for
Insane-for hospital $36 600. for buildings
$I2. 500, for stocking farm 81 200, repairs
81, 500, shops $4,000, insurance 81 900, new
boilers and large washer $500 each, drainage
81, 600, bakery 81, 500, heating apparatus ST.,
800, building road Sc, 000-a total of $67 800.
The Mutual Fire Insurance Company of
Carroll County, which had insured the Wake
field mill, owned by Messrs. VIM. B. Thomas
and E. O. Grimes, for $1,000, on Saturday
last admitted the total destruction and paid
the full amount, although the thirty days limit
does not expire until the oath inst. Messrs.
Thomas and Grimes are much gratifed at the
fairness of the company and the prompt pay
ment of the loss.
The next annual session of the Baltimore
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
will be held at Grace Church, Baltimore, com
mencing Tuesday evening, April /. Homes
for the ministers during the meeting have been
provided, Rev. j. A. Price, d. D., of Cen
-tenary Church. Westminster, will be enter
tanned by Charles R. Wilcox, 231l Callow
avenue. Conference will close on April Z.
Bishop E. G. Andrews will preside.
In the past week number of persons left
Carroll for Colorado, where they will locate
in Prowers county and engage in sugar beet
culture. They left Westminster at different
times to meet at Chicago, then 10 go to Colo
RADIO in body. In the party were Mr.. and
Mrs. Roger Bish and two children, Mrs. Clara
Bale and four children, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Roger and three children Miss Jane Wolf,
Mrs. George Zepp, Richard c. Starner and
Harvey and Charles Utz, of Westminster and
vicinity, and Albert Elseroad, OF Patapsco.
On Thursday afternoon of last week, Mr.
John Geiger, living mile and half from
New Windsor, met with very severe acct
dent. He was having some wheat threshed
and the work was nearly finished, when he
undertook to step over the driving rod of the
thresher. His clothing caught in knuckle
and he was whirled around, having his left leg
dislocated at the hip joint and the right leg
fractured near the thigh. Mr.. Geiger is 10
years old, and the accident was very severe
one. Drs. Shreeve and Kemp, of Uniontown,
attended him.