The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-01-17
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

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THE Westminster Bowling Team on Thurs
d,v night lost two out of three games with the
CI,rkrs, of Baltimore, on Clarkes alleys.
Harry C. Jones, Jr., who recently broke
IL Ia,t in two places while coasting, is i'm
nrpying under the care of DIR. L. j. Coonan.
Mrs, David Morelock, of this city, aged IS
vrars. while walking in the yard at her home
last Saturday morning fell and broke her right
ankle.
Should the sleighing in Westminster last
ruch longer there ought to be good market
here for horses This is the longest slelghing
for twenty years.
Mr. William B. Thomas, banker and broker
nf Westminster, was on Wednesday re elected
director of the City Trust and Banking Com :
pany of Baltimore.
4 donation was given to Father Cassidy on
Thursday night of last week, and to the Sis
ters who are teachers of the Catholic school,
on last Monday night.
John. son of William Stansbury, near this
city, died of pneumonia on last Wednesday,
.ord II wears. The funeral took place at
Union Mills yesterday.
Mrs. Eliza Ransom, coored, of Baltimore,
WIS buried in the colored cemetery, near this
city. on Sunday last, aged 70 years. She was
formerly Of this city.
Mr.. Harry Kane, who is employed with the
Abaugh- Babylon Grocery Company, this city,
ran a screw driver in the feshy part of his
hand. He is great sufferer.
At lOa. III. yesterday, Friday, the Weather
Bureau sent out the following bulletin =
Fair tonight; Saturday increasing cloudlness;
prullby rain in the afternoon.
On the first page of this issue will be found
the report of the condition of the Fidelity and
Deposit Company of Maryland, which is the
strongest surety company in the world.
By the will OF Miss I.avinia Fisher, whose
death in this city was chrUnicled in the ADvo-
GATE last week, Grace Lutheran Church,
Westminster, will receive 500, and the Sun
day school $50.
Emily Johnson, colored, who lived with
Mrs Elizabeth Roop, this city, for the past
20 years, died in Pitsburg, Pa, at the resi-
dcncc of her daughter, Dolly johnson, on
January s, 1903.
There has been unusually fine coasting this
week, and the old, as well as young, have been
taking advantage of it. Some of the double
drckers have come from Fair Ground Hill as
far as and turning down Court street, and
from College Hill as far as Bond street.
4 coasting accident occurred on the hill
back of the College, on the Meadow Branch
Turnpike, Thursday night Two sleds, going
in opposite directions, collided, and several
were hurt, the most serious of whom was Wal
Ter Cross, cOlored, who had leg broken in
two places
George Buringame, of Baltimore, formerly
physical director at Western Maryland Col
legr, has decided to take up wrestling again,
aud on Thursday night tried his luck on the
mat with Frank Phillips, whom he succeeded
in placing on his back twice in one minute and
ten seconds of actual work.
A slight fire occurred at the residence of
Mr. William Shrver, on Green street, last
Saturday evening, in which the Westminster
fire company responded to the alarm. The
mautel piece in the diuingroom took fire from
an overheated stove. aud was extnguished
with few buckets OF water
Mr. Burt Caple, near Smallwood, met with
an accident in this city on Wednesday night.
He was going up Green street in sleigh
when his horse became frightened by sled
coming down the hill and ran into a tree,
breaking the sleigh and throwing the occupants
ont. The horse was caught before it had gone
far with the wreck of the sleigh.
On account of the inclemency of the weather
last Sunday morning the Hymnal Jubilee
which was to have been held at the Methodist
Protestant Church, this city, in celebration of
the first anniversary of the new Methodist
Protestant Hymnal, was postponed until to.
morrow, Sunday, at 1870 a. m. There will
be several addresses and special music by the
choir
Mrs. Taylor, wife of Rev. E. B. Taylor,
rector of Ascension Church, this city, met
with severe accident on Thursday afternoon.
In descending the front stairway she had the
misfortune TO fall and fracture her left limb,
between the knee and ankle. DR.. William
ID. Wells was summoned and put the limb in
plaster of paris and splints and anticipates
Mrs. Taylor doing well.
The suit Of William B. Thomas, of West
minister, against Edwin D. Selby, of Reisters.
town, was on trial for four days before the
court and jury in Baltimore county, and on
Tuesday the jury rendered verdict for the
defendant. The Westminster attorneys en-
gagged in the case were Messrs. Bond & Parke
for the plaintiff, and Charles E. Fink, Esq,
for the defendant.
freight wreck occurred last Sunday after.
noon at Jessup's siding. on the W. NJ. R. r.,
near Glen Falls, in which two car loads of
coal and a caboose were backed off the end
of the switch and rolled down bank on the
main track. All trains were delayed several
hours. Passengers were transferred around
the wreck and brought to this city on a special
train. No one was hurt.
We learn from the Omaho (Nebraska)
Herald of January 5, that Rev. Luther Kuhns
has resigned the pastorship of Grace Lutheran
Church, in that city, to accept the General
Secretaryship of the Luther League of Amer
lea, with headquarters in New York. The
League, while comparatively young, has a
membership of 1876, 900, with $500 societies.
tits intersynodical, aud comprises all branches
OF the Lutheran church. Rev. Mr. Kuhns
was active in the organization of the League
at Pittsburg, Pa, in 1895.
Mr.. Harry T. Petry, of New Windsor, who
was announced in this paper some months ago
as having rheumatism, and had no use of his
limbs, had his limbs amputated above the
knees at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Balti-
more, last Friday. He had been under x Ray
treatment for tuberculosis long time, doctors
hndlng amputation necessary. Mr.. Petry.
who lived in this city some time, made many
friends, who will be sorry to hear of his ter
rlbIe misfortune and wish him speedy re-
covery. Mr.. Petry was in the dairy business
IN Baltimore, where he contracted the rheu-
matism.