The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-08-08
SATURDAY, AUGUST s, 1908.
The date on the Label OR yOHf'
paper SIOUS the time to 1Chich yOHr
absorption is paid.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
IOCAI RREVITIES.

Frank Hartsock has been appointed rural
free delivery carrier at Woodbiue, and j. Ed
ward Pickett. substitute.
During July there were recorded at the
Clerks office % deeds, 3 mortgages and s
bills of sale. and marriage licenses were is
sued.
Walter H. Waddell, groceryman of West.
minister, made deed of trust TO Edward o.
Weant on August /, for the benefit of cred
itors.
AT 10 a. ~, yesterday, Friday, the Wealth
er Bureau sent out the following bulletin -
Fair tonight and Saturday moderate temper
AZURE.
A marriage hcense'was issued at Towson
on Thursday 10 W. g. Bale, aged %, of
Reisterslown, and Elizabeth A. Smith, aged
"A, of New Windsor.
The ADVOCATE Office is indebted to Mr..
Joseph p Yingling of Pleasant Valley, for a
fine supply of eating apples. Also to Mrs.
Joshua Stevenson, near this city.
Joseph A. Wagner, who bought the c. II.
Baughman property, this city, last fall, and
occupied it with his bride IN June last, re
moved back TO Baltimore this week.
The James Mcdonald farm of 164 acres in
the Fourth district Of Howard county was sold
last Tuesday BY William p Maulsby, mortga-
gee. for S27 an acre. John NJ. Reynolds, of
Carroll county, was the purchaser
John T. Zahn is having foundation dug
FOR dwelling, on the lot adjoining his stores,
Westminster The dwelling will be brick
frame. % feet front by depth Of So feet.
Mr.. Zahn will occupy it with his family.
Charles w. Smith is having "a handsome
dwelling erected at New Windsor. on Church
street. The canning factory of B. f. Shriver
& Co, at the same town, is about completed
and ready to have the machinery placed in.
An exchange Of the United Telephone and
Telegraph Company is to be established in
Manchester with Miss Lizzie Trump in charge.
Workmen are extending The line from Hamp-
stead. and a new line viii be built from Maple
Grove to Melrose.
Lieut.. Palmer Til,on. L. s. A.. Of this city.
who is summering at Traymore Cottage, Blue
Mountain, sent this Office copies of The Blue
Mountain News. Il Is the society and hotel
reporter of that delightful region Of MARYLAND
and Pennsylvania.
Mr.. VIM NJ Gist. Of McIutosh. Florida.
sends US Farmers Institute Bulletin No. l. Il
contains several practical and interesting arti-
cles on farming. stock raising, &c. IN that State.
one of which is BY Mr. Gist ca the growing
and fauening Of hogs.
Or. J. " Herring went to IIsrrisonburg,
Va, on Friday Of last week to visi, his eldest
brother, DR.. Edward a. Herring who IL quite
81. He returned on Monday aad reported his
brothers condition as serious. Or. Edward
A. Herring is nearly IL years of age.
Peter Smith, living near Uniontown. lasi
Tuesday. while going home FROM Uniontown,
was thrown from his wagon by wheel Sirik
ing a projecting root Of tree. One shoulder
was severely injured. Mr.. Smith Is about IL
years Of age. making the injury the more seri.
GUS
The fifth annual reunion Of The Reformed
churches of this county, will be held al Silver
Run. on Thursday. August ~. Music viii b.
rendered by the ehoirs Of the Reformed
churches aud Taueytown Band. Trombone
solos by Mr.. Giede, Of Harrisburg. II the
day Is unfavorabla the reunion will be held on
the 2Ist.
The annual meeting Of the stockholders of
the HamrStead Bank was held Monday last
aud VIM H. Wheeler, f. L. Ham. Whitfield
Siansbury. Thomas J. Hunt. Irwin ;. Lrister.
John o. Murray VIM. II. 5. Algire. Or. r.
e. Wells. II. 5. Cooper, George ", Albaugh
and John II. Stansbury We're elected directors
for the ensuing year.
1t was Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Blizzard who
met with an accident ON June %. near Fred.
Walklings. instead of John Blizzard and wife,
as reported last week. Mrs. Blizzard had her
back severely hurt and has not been able TO
do anything since Mr.. Blizzard received an
injury 10 one Of his legs, just below the knee
cap, and has suffered much pain. The top of
the buggy was smashed and the harness badly
torn.
A letter from Mrs Charles II. Bushy TO a
friend in this city on Thursday stated that her
husband. while on a visit last week 10 brother
in law, at Pomona, Iowa, went Ia the fields 10
help haul in hay. and when loading the last
load he fell off and broke his neck, dying In-
stanty. He was buried on Saturday last.
Mr. Bnsby was a native Of Westminster. He
leaves widow aud one sister, Mrs. George
A. Rush, Of Baltimore city.
A mosquito net At the residence of Ex Gov.
Frank Brown, Baltimore. caught fire from
swinging lamp on Monday night. Mr.. Brown
was in abe room and quickly pulled down the
canopy. From the net the bed clothes caught
fire, aud Mr. Brown was severely burned ~
his efforts TO put out the fire Two policemen
went to Mr.. Brown assistance and the flames
were extinguished. after a damage Of about
$3.50 had been wrought.
William A. Shriver, Percy II. Shriver and
George X. Gehr, trustees. sold on Saturday
last the property Of the late Caroline SbnYrr,
near Ayondale. as follows The home farm,
containing 2l5 acres. 10 Vincent w. Power.
of Washington, ID. c., at $50. IS per acre an
adjoining farm. containing $50 acres, known
as the David II. Shriver farm, to Mrs. Joseph
It. Herring, at $751; % per acre wood lot Of
7 acres roods and p perehes to Frank +.
Logue, at $500 per acre.
On August l6 and % the Western Maryland
Railroad will run special tram 70 i.inwood
camp, leaving the Tank at SAT and 1882 a.
M and 1853 p. M, stopping at all stations.
Returning viii leave Pipe Creek for Tank aud
intermediate stations at GO a. m. and 4. "A
and 902 p. M. and for Westminster and IN
termediate stations at go 4. M, aud Il -,
424 and 9.02 p. M. All accommodation,
mail aud through passenger trains will stop
at Pipe Creek. both going and returning, dur
ing the camp.
Eighteen years ago. while John NJ. Bush, Of
Hampstead was cleaning the fence rows on
one of his farms, he found a well developed
land terrapin. aud being weary sat ia the
shade of tree and carved his initials - NJ
b. and the date of the year, 1885. on the I'M
der she'll Since then it has been frequently
seen and picked up a few days since. The let
tiers and date were plainly observable. When
ever seen it was seldom more than $50 yards
from the place where it was first discovered
Officer Jerome on Tuesday arrested Roy
Young. colored, and Clarence Stoner, both OF
this city. The charge was for fighting and
disorderly conduct. Young, who appeared
10 be the aggressor, was arrested under the
State law and Stoner under the corporation
law They had trials before Justice James
F. Rinker oMIuesday. Young was sent TO
the House, Correction for three months,
and Stoner was s 500 and costs. Young
was taken te the House of Correction We'd
nesday morning.
Girardus H. Walters, known IN Westmln-
ster and all through Carroll as "Roddy, was
arrested at Atlantic City on Thursday on the
charge Of assaulting a waiter. Roddy went
into hotel, picked up a rod and tried TO push
il through crack in the boardwalk. The
waiter went out and got it, wbereupon koddy
followed him into the hotel and assaulted the
waiter with heavy cane. He was arrested,
and at the hearing talked so incoherently he
was sent to Jail to await examination by ply
sicians as TO his sanity. Roddy calls himself