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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-04-04
81 Dine On Horaebaek.

NEW YaRK. March 27--Sca,rl On
horses in the great ballroom a, sherry :,
c. X. q Billings and 81 guests eajoyci
dinner tonight a. If on ls~n AMID tree-
and aowsrs. Pink -eozied grS1ms carried
out the Illusion that it was hunt meeting.
bat thi. wAs dispslled By the evening
clothes Of tho~e who pArtook Of the sur
Prise equestrian feast,
Daring the week shcre had been nany
stories about the dinner and il was supposed
ii would be held in Mr. Billings new
$3.50. 900 stable on Washington Heights
The w0rd va passed thaI u bad been
found Necessary to abandon the tuP "a
Washington Heights and ,ha! Mr. Bd
hngs bad decided that quiet hstlc dinner
at Sherry's woali Be the entertainments.
For nearly half al hoar an ingenioR.
deception was pracsioed By Mr. Billings
upon his frisn3- They were escoTtsd %
one of the small banqge, rroms, where
they ate tso courses at bong table IN the
form Of an ellip~c, srafed horse IN the
oeater. Thea Mr. Billings saii the mex,
course would be served in the ballroom
A space 65x55 feet had been inclose-i by
scenery. On all sides vas the country
Around the eenterpiece we're arranged &c
horses, waiting for their riders Each
guest found his mount BY means Of horse
shoe shaped cards attached to the saddle.
Ga the pommels Of the saddles were al
tached small tables With special refer
ence to the conditions under which It was
served, the menu was simple, but not fFu-
gal. The walters eapered nimbly uP the
horse blocks. while the orchestra played
qaiekstsps Little res,iyeness was displayed
by the horses and they enjoyed the dinner
ia their own way when two feeding troughs
Eere uncovered
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Winter Bugs Bite Very Dangerous

MESDoN, Mich, March 28.-Prof.
De Won Olinberg, who came here from
Wheeling, w. Va, to obtain specimens
Of the winter bug, aud was bitten on the
chic by one, is somewhat improved, but Is
still far from being out of danger He
has not yet become insane, as did Oscar
Newasaky, young Polish farmer, who
died as the result Of being bitten
Newasaky's farm is in lowlying ground
few miles from here A winter bug bit
him few days ago, and within "a hours
his body swelled to frightful proportions.
Physicians could not help him. He be-
came raving maniac, and remained SO
until death relieved his suferings
Professor Olinberg, a noted entomologist,
of Wheeling. W. Va, came here at the
request of the National Museum at Wash
ington D. c., to secure specimens Of the
bug. He found nest of the insects in a
bog near Newasakys home, and while
trying to capture them was bitten on the
chin, aud within an hour was in a semi.
conscious condition.
OHnberg does not show the symptoms
of insanity that appeared in Newasaky :
case, and the physicians are hopeful of his
recovery.
Scientists know very little about the hab.
its of the winter bug, whether it is poison
Gus all the time or only during certain sea
sons. It is doubtful whether any speci
mems can be obtained now for the National
Museum, for everyone in the neighborhoOd
is afraid to 90 into bogland where the
winter bugs are.
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Entertainments. sc.

The Ladies Aid Society Of Fiuksburg VI.
p. Church. will bold at Alphabet Social
on Easter Monday night, Al the residence Of
Mrs John y. ArmAeost. Entertainment aud
refreshments furnished for 10 cents admission.
The Church Of God Sunday School, Union.
town, will give public Easter entertainment,
ia the church. on Sunday night, April IL
Defiance Juvenile Temple viii hold au en-
tertainment on Saturday night, April llth,
under the Odd Fellows Hall.
A stereopiieal illustrated lecture will be
given in the Church of God, Frizellburg, Sat
urday, April 4, at p. m, by Rev. }. ID.
Clark Subject, The Life Of Christ; 50
views. Proceeds for the Sunday school and
aid society Admission and 10 ceuts.
Sunday School Rally at Sandy Aount.-On
Sunday, April 9th, an all-day Sunday school
rally will be held at Sandy Mount NJ. p.
Church. 1t will be n Union gathering under
the auspices of the Maryland ). ). Union.
State Superintendent George H. Mock will
be Ia immediate charge of the exercises.
There will be an old-tsshioned Sunday school
experience meeting at $50, a Sunday school
sermon al 1890, children's service at >. 80
and grand rally at 100 The county presi.
dent, Mr.. J. p. Garner, aud others will be
present to assist the state superintendent.
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Bottomless Hole In Great Salt Lake

The first fatal accident on the quagmire
of the Ogden Lucin cutoff of the Southern
Pacific, across the northern arm of Great
Salt Lake occurred March %, when an
engine ran on the track across the sink.
The track had sunk six inches and the en-
CINE was overturned, Fireman Watson be-
ing killed and Engineer jenkins slightly
injured.
For several months a stretch of less than
600 feet of the fill and trestle work across
the lake has given the engineers much
trouble, and numerous minor accidents
have occurred Thousands of tons of rock
and earth have been dumped into the sink,
seemingly without effect. Two and three
40foot piles placed end to end have found
no bottom, and the theory has been ad-
vanced that subterranean outlet to Salt
Lake has been carrying away material as
fast as it could be dumped.
At no other spot on the long fill across
the lake has any trouble been experienced,
and the engineers believe that ultimately
they will find the bottom and succeed in
filing the hole.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

Carroll Charge. -Reformed church sunday
School at Benjamius at a. m. Divine service at
10 u. NJ. Divine Service at Pleasant Valley AT p.
m. Rev. James h. StOnesiter Pastor.
Grace Lutheran Chureh-SerYices during Holy
Week AT 7.45 p. IN Confirmation and preparatory
services Good Friday evening. Holy Communion
Easter Sunday morning. Special Easter Exercises
By the Sunday school in the evening.
2. II. Miller ID. D.. Pastor
salem Charge, Lutheran Church-BenjAmin's-
Sunday School at p. IN. Preaching At p. m. Cat
echise saturday las p. m. ST. John's-Sundsy
school a. IN. Preaching at 10 a. NJ Cateehise
Saturday II. m.
Rev. K. W. DOty. Pastor.
St Paups Reformed Church-Sunday School al
9l5a N. Divine Service at 10 S0a. m. and = 10 D N
Passion week services at 80 p. m.
e. ). Sagle, Pastor
81. Johns Church-Sundays-LOw Mass at us
and High Mass at 10 q. N. Vespers at 80 p. IN
During the week.-Mrs. al q. IN.
Joseph Il. Cassidy, Pastor
Centenary NJ (. Church.-Sunday School a. els
q. m. Preaching at 10 80 a. m. and 80 p. M. Ep-
worth League at 6. 40 p. u.
Rev D. G. Miller Pastor.
Methodist Protestant Church. Rev. L. F. Warner.
Pastor-Sabbath Serviees.-Preaching at 10 80 H. IN.
and 7 30 D. N. Sabbath school 9.l5 a. m Junior C.
E. ESQ m. Ups. c. E. at $50 p. N. Mid week
Service in the lecture room Wednesday evening at
$50 o'clock.
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A BANDIT GANG.
Arrests Reveal A Robber Gang En-
couraged by Cigar Men.

Concerning the arrest of four young
men at Red Lion on charges of robbery,
and the prospect of sensational develop
ments arising therefrom, the York Pa, }
Press says:
Always lettering about the twin towns
towns neatly dressed, but never working,
the secret of how Harry I. Rooms, Virgil
Poet and Charles Doll. of Red Lion, and
Emory Sechrist, of Yoe, were able to lead
butterfly existence in the midst of so
much industry. was revealed last week in
their arrest for the numerous recent rob
berries which have occurred in that section.
They were the robbers, a regularly organ
lied gang who imagined themselves heroes
Of the james boys type, whose dime
novel described career was the seed from
which their criminality rooted
This gang was not composed alone OF the
four boys arrested, but has several add
tional members aud was encouraged by
cigar manufacturers and dealers who
bought the stamps, cigars and tobacco
which was the principle loot of their raids.
Other arrests are to follow and one Of the
most sensational criminal cases in which
Red Lion and the cigar manufacturing
district ever figured will be the sequel to
Investigations and arrests pending. Even
prominent church members are under sus-
picion of having abetted in the criminal
career Of the youths.
The four members Of the gang under
arrest were taken into custody Monday by
Constable q. w. Raab and High Consta-
bic w. H. Ferree, Of Red Lion, on
charges Of stealing cigar stamps aud Su-
matra tobacco. Koons, Doh aud Sechrist
were committed TO jail, but Poet secured
bail
Poet has diyulged some very important
information, but the officers say that 1t
will be withheld from the public until the
proper time comes to make II known.
The arrest of these four young men viii
probably be followed by another tune as
many arrests. Several cigar manutac-
turers are implicated in the cigar stamp
ard tobacco robberies The officers say
that they know who purchased the $500
worth of Sumatra tobacco that Was stolen
at zoe ON January 20, Of this year.
The entire gang has not been captured
There are two or three at liberty who are
alleged TO have figured in the robberies,
several aecompliees and several cigar man
ufacturers who are believed TO have par-
chased the stolen tobacco and cigar
stamps.
During the past year Red Lion residents
were greatly annoyed and embarrassed by
the numerous thefts- From some chickens
were stolen, and from others tobacco,
cigars, cigar stamps and anything that
could easily be turned into cash. The
young thieves got 50 audaeious in the eX
ecution of their designs that it leaked out
that they intended to make a raid on the
Sumatra tobacco at Mr.. Snyder factory
at Voc Monday evening Mr.. Snyder
had made arrangements to have watchers,
armed with firearms, hid on the premises,
with instructions that they should FIRE
deadly volle5 upon the intruders. Their
arrest thwarted their plans and they might
have Jared worse had they not been ar
rested
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s,rovsa as sHestaally a, if overfan BY fire

strosed as efeethally as if overftn BY fire.
The insects, millions of them together,
suck the sap Of the trees, each one of them
covered with &axy scale, which forms a
sort of grayish scurf on the bark, mas
much as single female may have as many
as 1915, 900, 600 descendants in single
season, it is easily understood why the pest
spreads so dangerously fast. Recently the
Department of Agriculture has imported
from China bug that preys upon it, and
which is now being propagated in outdoor
cages for distribution among fruit growers.
EATS STORED GRAIN.
The grain weevil, which destroys mil
lions of dollars worth of stored cereals in
granaries and elevators every year, is a
little brown beetle quarter of an inch
long. The question of how to fight it is
one of growing economic importance.
1t was imported originally from the Med
iterranean, and has been 'domesticated >
so long that it has lost the use of its wings,
Indeed its ravages made it famous long
before the Christian era, and it is men
toned in the 'Georgics' of Virgil. The
female beetle punctures the grain kernel
with her snout, and inserts an egg from
which it matches little worm that lives
in the hull and feeds upon the starchy in
terror
The cabbage worm, which does more or
less damage in every truck patch, is a
green caterpillar an inch and half long,
1t is the offspring of common white but
terfy. The apple worm, whose parent is
likewise moth, is a reddish worm half an
inch length and unpleasantly familiar to
everybody. There are many other de-
structiye insects in this country, of course,
but those mentioned are the one, that do
the bulk of the damage and which are
most dreaded by the growers of crops. Up
to date the Government with all Its power,
has been almost defenseless against these
dozen tiny but unrelenting foes.
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MAItI 7. VhOI I, LAtCuIIIUtS.
Vim. E. Warner, Auctioneer
J. VIM. Earhart and Weldon R. Nusbaum
Clerks. MARI is
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Twelve Insects Cost $3.50, ooo, 900
A Year

Washington Correspondence Chicago Record Her.
aid.
Twelve insects will cost the United
States $3.50, 600, 900 this year The chinch
bug will draw 500, 900, 900 of this
amount; the grasshopper will take $780,
600, 900 and the Hessian fly will call for
at least $50, 600, 900 more. Three worms
that attack the cotton plant will assess the
farmers for total of s65, 900, 900, and
the potato bug will eat So, 600, 900 worth
of its favorite kind of garden produce.
Ten millions of dollars is a moderate
climate of the injury that will be d one by
the apple worm, and that caterpillar that
makes cabbages its speciality will destroy
$4,000, 900 worth of crisp, green heads.
The estimate, which is conservative, fol-
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DUBLIC SALE
| l. or VALUABLE
Real and Personal Property.

BY virtue of the last will and testament OF
Samuel Kesselring, late OF Carroll county.
Md, deceased, and by virtue of an order OF
the Orphans Court Of Carroll county the sub
scribeTs. as acting executives of SAID deceased,
will sell at public sale at his late residence, in
the village OF Silver Run, Myers district, in
the county and State aforesaid, on
SATURDAY, APRIL 4th, 1908,
At II clock m, sharp, the following valua-
bic real estate, being the same whereon the
deceased resided at the time of his death, in
the village Of Silver Run, and containing about
6 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS,
adjoining lands of George A. Formwalt,
Austin Croft and others. The
improvements consist Of Two 4 AZ
Story Frame Weaiherboarded M -
Dwelling House, conveniently
arranged and well ventilated, porch ia front,
also kitchen attached, has good cellar,
well with pump, and pure water convenient to
the house; fine small barn, well laid off and
arranged. and ali other necessary buildings;
fruit of different kinds. This property has
many advantages being situated in fine and
thriving village and community, with two large
churches observation-disclosures and Reform
ed-also fine school in the village, and has
Free Rural Mail Delivery daily, morning and
afternoon.
Asy one wishing to see the property before
the day of sale will please call on Austin
Croft, living adjoining the same. An actual
survey OF the same will be made before the
day OF sale
Possession given as soon as terms of sale
are complied with.
Terms of Sale.-0ne-thir of the purchase
money to be paid cash on the day of sale or
on the ratification thereof by the said Court,
and the residue in two equal payments, the
one payable in six and the other payable in
twelve months from the day of sale; the credit
payments to be secured by the bonds or single
bills of the purchaser or purchasers, with suf6-
cient security, bearing interest from the day
of sale; or all cash at the option of the pur-
chasers.
Also at the same time aud place large
variety OF household goods, &c. See bills for
particulars.
SARAH NJ. CRATIN,
MARY Z. CROFT, Executives
Vim. E. Warner, Auctioneer.
]. Vim. Earhart and Weldon R. Nusbaum,
Clerks. mari is
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County Blown OF the Map.

County Surveyor A. j. Coombs, of
Hodgeman county. Kansas, has written to
Governor Bailey that his county has been
blown from the map and that the people
want the state to appropriate funds to pay
for re-establishing the county lines.
Terrific sand storms have prevailed in
Western Kansas for several weeks, and all
lines and public roads have been wiped out
by the sand which covers the prairies.
There are no fences or farms in Hodge
man county, the entire county being given
up to the ranchers
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7 week days only.

week days only.
stops TO land only Baltimore passengers.
Sunday Trains
ON sunday trains win leave Hillen station 50
T. m and $ p. m. Westminster Ills a. m 4l6 D.
m. arriving at Union Bridge AZ Has q. and $50
p. Leave Union Bridge az As a. m and 4.05 p.
m. Westminster 7.20 q. m. and 434 p. M, arriving
At Hillcn station at 900 a. m and 6.l5 ?. m.
Frederick Division Pennsylvania R. r. daily eN-
eept sunday. Trains for Frederick leave Bruce
vile $50 go and 1910 n. and As and $50
y. IN Trains for Taneytowu. Littlestown and
Columbia leave Bruceville AZ a. and S.s5 p.
Through trains for Hanover and Gettysburg and
points on Baltimore and Harrisburg Division leave
Baltimore. daily except Sunday at IDS a. m and
$50 D. N. Through cars for Gettysburg and inter
mediate points leave Baltimore also daily except
sunday. at 10 u u. m.
Passengers FOR and from Cherrf Run. Williams
port, 7. Y. and intermediate points, from and for
stations east of HagerStown change at Hagerstown.
Orders for baggage calls can be left at Ticket
Oftce, No. 2lS East Baltimore street Baltimore.
+. s LANDSTREET,
vice-PreSident and General Manager.
B. Il. GRHvoLD, Gen'L Passenger Agent. oct4
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VXTEsTERN MARYLAND RAIL
w =. ROAD
La - q


P. & R. R. at Shippensburg and Gettysburg
Norfolk & Western R. r. at Hagerstown;
B. & 0. Railroad at Hagerstown and Cherry
Run; Penna. R. R. at Bruceville and
Hanover; P. W. & B., N. c. and B. 4 P.
Railroads at Union Station, Baltimore, Md.
Schedule in effect September 2Sth, 1909.
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ELECTION NOTICE.

Union Mills Savings Bank,
Union Mills, Md, March 20, 1908.
The stockholders ofthe Union Mills Savings
Bank are hereby notified that an Election for
Twelve Directors, 10 manage the affairs ofthe
Bank for the ensuing year, will be held at the
Bank. on the
FIRST MONDAY OF APRIL, 1908,
being the 9th day of April, between the hours
of , and O'Clock, P. NJ.
c. E. BANKERT,
mar 2l3t Treasurer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01
SCHOOL STILL OPEN.

The rumor that the Nora Springs
Seminary has been closed is erroneous,
SO this writer has been informed by
one of the instructors in the school.
Trne, the independent district of Nora
Springs has purchased the building,
but the school will be conducted by
the district along the same lines and
with the same course. with few
changes which will improve it. TUT
ton will be free To pupils who are
eligible to high school work in the
public school, but all outsiders will
be required to pay the usual tuition.
The state law grants this privilege to
independent districts and it certainly
will prove benefit to Nora Springs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01
GARNER GETS 1T.

The question of the relocation of the
seat of government of Hancock county
from Concord to Garner will be sub
mitted at the coming November cleo
tion. The present county seat is at
Concord, a mile from Garner, ''as the
crow flies"-across the corn fields.
Five or six years ago when the board
of supervisors decided the last Britt
Garner court house fight in favor OF
the present location, the people of
Garner erected fine capitol building
and undertook to extend their city
limits and take in Concord, and thus
acquire the county seat. The Britt
people enjoined them from removing
the records to the new building. The
election will decide that question in
the affirmative without doubt.
Garner petitioned for such election
and Britt sought to defeat the move
ment The supervisors found the petit
ton several hundred to the good and
ordered an election in accordance
Herewith.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01
A DIAMOND ROBBERY.

= Chaplin, in Franklin county, has
been the scene of diamond robbery.
Some days ago young man, total
stranger, applied to the ticket agent
at the depot, who is also express
agent, for package, giving a name.
The agent brought out small pack
age to tie address named and it was a
diamond, with privilege of examina-
tion. The fellow examined it care
fully and finally handed it back. to the
agent, telling him to return it, that
it was not what he ordered, which
the agent did. But when the package
got back to the Chicago house that
had sent it out, it was discovered that
a cheap stone had been substituted for
the five hundred dollar diamond, and
the strong presumption is that it was
done by the smooth chap while max
ing the examination at Chaplin. The
thief was traced TO Mason City, and
the papers say that the stone has been
recovered, but that the crook got away
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01
AN UNUSUAL PHENOMENON.

The high water which has filled the
old bed of Sand Hill Lake in Lakeport
township has developed an unusual
phenomenon in the shape of an artesian
we'll. Shortly after the lake filled
with surface water following the
heavy rains of May, passers by noticed
water bubbling up il the ditch as
though from spring. One farmer.
imagining that flow of water might
be obtained, drove pipe into the
ditch where a spring of water appeared
to be located, and at once he had a
flowing we'll. The flow is not great
nor does the water rise to great
height. but the peculiar phenomenon
is exhibited of we'll of water pure
as crystal and cold as ice springing
from the midst of the muddy and
heated waters of the lake.-Sloan Star.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01
INCENDIARY AT WAYERLY.

An attempt to burn the A. M. Roger
grocery store at Waverly was made
Thursday night. Investigation dis
closed carefully laid plot to not on
ly destroy the stock but to wreck the
entire building. A rope which was
commonly used to raise and lower salt
had been left tied near the cellar
door. This rope had been thoroughly
saturated with kerosene its entire
length and anchored among some empty
sugar barrels at the foot of the stairs
From thence it passed through the Gel
lar door which had been placed slight
ly open to allow the flames to follow
the rope, across the room and ended
in an eighty-five gallon tank of kero-
sene. Besides the rope, midway be-
tween the cellar door and the kerosene
tank was placed two gallon can of
gasoline. The stopper had been re-
moved from the can. This can must
have been brought upon the premises
by the incendiary as Mr.. Roger had
been out of gasoline for several days.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01
ROUSTABOUTS STRIKE.

The negro roustaSouts on the
steamer Dubuque caught the strike
fever last week and held up the boat
for few hours while they took rest
from their arduous labors. All along
the line they were compelled to load
big cargoes of freight, one item being
800 barrels of oil at Red Wing, so
when they reached Wabasha and saw
$1,000 bushels OF potatoes in big heavy
sacks awaiting them, they concluded
that 1t was time to rest while The
captain and mate protested, but to no
avail and the coons lay around on the
deck and rested for several hours till
their strength hat returned, then got
up and went after the potatoes with a
will
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01
ATE PARLOR MATCHES.

The Cresco Plaindealer relates that
little two year old boy of M. B. Doc
Titles found box of matches behind
clock on shelf which he had
reached by climbing on a chair, and
before he was discovered had bitten
the heads from % parlor matches and
swallowed them. DR.. Ahern was
for phosphorus poisoning, he could do
but little other than TO relieve the
stomach. Wednesday morning the boy
was seized with a spasm and soon died.
The little stomach was literally
cooked with the phosphorus.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01
A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.

Last Saturday afternoon Willie Web
Der and Earl Gammons were playing
with Earl's air gun when Willie, boy
like, looked into the barrel to see if
the load was in proper position, when
the ball was discharged, striking
him on the pupil of the left.ey 1t
is feared that Willie may lose his eye,
although it is too early for the doctors
to say as to that. -Cresco Republican.