The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-11-22
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
IncAL RREyIrIEs.

LOCAL RREvITIES.
Counterfeit quartal dollars are in circulation
in the upper part of tkis county.
Wesley E. Linn, of Taneytown, has been
granted soldier pension of $500 month.
George w. Albaugh is erecting frame
dwelling house ON Pennsylvania avenue, this
city.
Mr.. D. Keener Shriver, of this city, has
had his soldier pension increased to Slo per
month.
At 1Oa. m. yesterday, Friday, the Weather
Rurean sent out the following bulletin =
Fair tonight and Saturday.
Thursday of next week is Thanksgiving Day
and is legal holiday. All the banks pnohc
Offices and stores will be closed.
Last Sunday, November 16, several stroilers
in the fields adjacent to this city found clover,
daisy and dandelion blossoms. Yesterday
many dandelions were in bloom.
Mrs. Alfred Mitten, of near Spring Mills,
who recently underwent serious operation
at the University Hospital, Baltimore, is con-
yalescing and will return home shortly.
TIE Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Prot.
eslaut. Lutheran and Reformed Churches will
unite 10 the State and National THANKSGIVING
Day service at ST. Paul's Reformed Church,
at 1890 a.
The MARYLAND Telephone and Telegraph
Company opened service this week with Har-
risburg. York, Columbia, Elizabethtown and
Wrighisvile, Pa. Next week they will have
connection with Philadelphia.
Joshua Nickum, well-known colored man
of Westminster, died at the Aims House early
Monday morning. He had only been at the
institution two or three days. Joshua was
about so years old and was always polite.
The rededication service of the Reformed
and Lutheran Church at Bachman's will be
held November 30. Services at 10 a. 10. con,
Quoted by Rev. e. Fl. Flick, Lutheran, and
at 2 D. m. by Rev. James B. Stonesifer. Re-
formed.
The Western Maryland College eleven de-
feated the Maryland Agricultural College team
here last Saturday by a score of 26 to 6. The
NJ. A. G. club is better at blowing than at
foot ball. They should inaugurate plowing
matches.
Messrs. John L. Cassel and Ephraim
Haines, trustees of Mr. David Cassell and
wife, have sold at private sale farm OF ll6
acres, 8 soods and ~ perches, near Medford,
10 Mr. Samuel A. Roser, of Frederick coun-
ty, for $4510.
The Westminster Fire Department, pre-
coded by the Westminster Band, will parade
Thanksgiving afternoon. At night there will
be an oyster supper for the benefit of the Fire
Department, which will be continued until
Saturday night.
The first car of anthracite coal shipped over
the B. & o. r. R. since the strike. was con-
signed to Wade n. D. War6eld q Co., of
Sykesville, and was placed in their coal dumps
on the 10Th This firm has kept their trade
supplied all during the strike.
AT the session of the Middle Conference of
the Maryland Synod of the Lutheran Church,
at Woodsboro, last week, Rev. P Fl. Miller,
D. D., pastor of Grace Church, Westminster.
was elected treasurer. The next session will
be held at Gainesville, May 10, 1908.
Mrs. John Mailman, of Frizellburg, came
TO this city yesterday to take the a. m. train
for Glyndon. As she was stepping from the
vehicle her dress caught, throwing her to the
platform, and dislocating her right shoulder
DIR. Charles R. Foutz reduced the fracture.
The attention of our correspondents is called
TO the letter of Mr.. Horace G. Reese, acting
postmaster, in another column of this ISSUE
nS-Please send in your letters by Wednesday
of next week, except those who send by rail-
road, otherwise they will be too late for pnb-
LEGATION.
The Gettysburg (Pa.) Star of Wednesday
says DIR. J. B. Colgrove, president OF the
proposed Washington, Westminster Gettys-
burg Railroad, is in town looking after the
interests of the proposed road. The Doctor
assures us that the road will be built, and that
it is only question of little time.
A meeting of shippers of milk living along
the line of the Western Maryland railroad has
been called for this Saturday afternoon at
Firemen's Hall, Westminster, at l.30 o clock
prompt The call says-"A large attendance
is requested as business of great Importance
will be brought before the meeting
Sportsmen who have no land of their own
to hunt upon are having hard time this sea-
son getting a shot al rabbit or partridge in
Carroll. Warnings against trespass are met
everywhere, and many persons have adver-
tised in the papers, warning all persons not 10
come upon their property for the purpose OF
cunning, hunting or trapping.
Between the closing of the store of Mr.. Fl.
Landon Sbipley, at Daniel, last Saturday
night and Monday morning, it was robbed of
about 20 boxes of gun shells. Entrance was
made through cellar window, and from there
through trap door leading into the room
above. The spigot of can of oil was opened
and it ran over the floor. Nothing but the
gun shells was missed.
Mr.. George A. Grass received letter from
his son Albert last Wednesday stating that he
was living in the Cumberland Hospital with a
serious case of malaria. Mr.. Grass went to
Cumberland and brought him home. He is
now lying in critical condition at his home
near this city. Mr.. Albert Grass was a brake
man on the Brunswick Division of the b. u
O. R. R., and his run was from Cumberland
to Grafton.
Land for terminals for the Western Mary
land railroad, near Ferry Bar, has been Sc
cured Twenty. FIVE acres have been pur.
chased, and will give the railroad about half
a mile of water front The extension of the
line 10 tidewater will be made by the Gwynii
Falls route. and will branch off from the main
line near Howardville, ten miles this side of
Baltimore, and cross Spring Gardens by a
bridge to the south side of Locust Point.
The Western Marylands new station aud
office building, just completed at Union
Bridge. was used for the first time last Satur-
day. The buildings are located on the west
side of Main street, on the north side of the
tracks. The station is one story and built OF
red brick, with neat trimmings. The dimen.
sious are %. 1884 feet. The office building
is two stories, of the same material and is
25.4x50.4 feet. The buildings adjon and are
covered by one tile roof. The baggage room
is between them.
mission at ST. Johns Catholic Church,
this city. conducted by Rev. William j. Stan
ton, of New York. and Rev. P. a. Casey, of
Boston, Of the Society of Jesus, which opened
with high mass Sunday, November 9, closed
Sunday night, November 16, with a sermon
by Father Stanton, followed by the renewal OF
baptismal VOWS and benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament The baptistery in the church has
been renovated; the ceiling is Gothic, with
groins of finished oak, aud a white tile floor
has been supplied. A large, handsome wtite
marble baptismal font, executed by Mr.. John
w. Beaver, of Westminster, and donated by
the Misses Irwin, of Baltimore, as memerial
to their mother, Mrs. Emily Irwin, has been
put in place and blessed.