The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-04-29
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIES.

LUNAL DRENlilESs
Ex-Judge James A. C. Bond is having his
residence and law Office repainted.
Mr.. Harvey Bankard, of New Windsor, has
been appointed deputy game warden.
Owing to vacancy Mr. Jonas NJ. Wagner
has been appointed road commissioner for
New Windsor district.
In less than two weeks wheat has fallen 35
cents per bushei, and the market is panicky,
and the indications are for further decline.
An election for Mayor and FIVE members of
the Common Council for Westminster will be
held on Monday next, between the hours OF
- noon and p. m.
Constable Davis on Tuesday arrested Ed.
Brown and Lewis Wilson. both colored, for
fighting and disorderly conduct Before JUS
tee Moore Brown plead guilty and paid $500
and costs. Wilson was discharged.
NJ. C. Cornelius, of Baltimore, right of way
man of the Western Maryland Railroad, has
been in Carroll this week arranging rights of
way along the new route surveyed several
: weeks ago.
Mr.. Alice W. Wampler, mail carrier No.
81, brought TO this office yesterday Friday
samples Of rye from a field of Mr.. Marion J..
Lester, near FinksbGrg. that measured feet
inches in length and were IN head.
Sterling, son of Frank Grumbine, of West
Main street, was painfully injured while wit
Messing game of base ball. by being struck
in the stomach by bat slipping from players
hands, on the college grounds, last Saturday.
branch of the Red Gross Society has been
organized in Maryland, with Gov. Edwin
Warfield as President Ex Comptroller j.
w. Herring is Vice President for Carroll. IL
is the first State organization formed in the
country.
The County Commissioners last Monday
and Tuesday heard applications for transfers
and ATTACHMENTS Next Monday and Tuesday
districts 8, 10 and II will be taken mp.
special pension of five dollars was allowed 10
Mary Hawk, of Taneytown district.
John Schneider, of Baltimore, son of Mr..
Frank E. Schneider. near SmallwoOd, who WAS
considerably injured and bruised. while work
ing as n brakeman on n Pennsylvania Rail
road train, several weeks ago, arrived AT his
fathers home last Saturday for n rest Of two
weeks.
Westminster Council, Royal Arcannm, IL
increasing rapidly in membership. Sixteen
members were recently added, and twenty
more persons will be initiated next Tuesday
night. Grand Officers aud the Degree Team
from Baltimore will take part IN the work OF
the Council.
Six lady members Of Ascension Church and
a lady of another Parish have presented 90
Ascension Parish. this city, rich and beautiful
vesimenis, consisting of ehasuble. naniple
and stole. They are Of heavy Nile green silk.
lined with purple, and embroidered and let
tered IN rich gold.
Al the annual election OF Ascension Parish,
held on Easter Monday, the following gentle
men were elected to serve as FestryInen for
the ensuing year Hon. WIN. II. Thomas,
Messrs. J. Milton Reifsnider, Guy W. Steele,
Edwin w. Shriver. Howard l.. Benson. Chas.
W. Moore, d. W. Hunter and Prof James
W. Reese.
The medal awarded Florence Little by the
Westminster Fire Department. OF which he IS
q member, is on exhibition 10 the show WIN
dow OF Charles V. WANTS. cigar and tobacco
store. The medal is Of gold, representing a
fireman's hat engine, hose and nozzle. I'm
grayed upon il IS the name Westminster Fire
Engine and Hose Company, No. !.
A temporary building has been erected by
the Western Maryland Railroad, opposite
Smith & Yingiing's Canning Factory. this
city, for the floating gang. which consists OF
80 men, who are raising the track from Car
roIIton to Hagerstown, and preparing 10 lay
heavy steel rails. The building is equipped
with three cook stoves and hunks for Inc 80
men.
Last Tuesday Messrs. Ellsworth +. Lowell,
VIM. Y. Frizzle and ]. Ezra Stem. as trustees
Of the late J. Thomas Haines, sold farm of
IS acres TO J. Edward West, Of New Windsor.
ut SIS. so per acre, and also a tract Of land
containing Is acres, no buildings, to David
E. Stem al $52 per acre. Both of the proper.
ties are situate in Franklin district. near Dem
nsngs.
The twenty second commencement exer-
cises of Westminster Theological Seminary
~ 4 > n a. px,@
estant Church. The graduates will be Noah
C. Clough. Hope, Nd. John d. Keith, Con
lev. Ga; William l. Morton and Thomas II.
Slater, Alleuwood, Nj; John III. Tuthili.
PASSPORT, n Y; Arthur Evans. Cuba, Ill. I;
Winfred p Roberts, Baltimore, Md.
The entertainment to be given by the pupils
Of The. Westminster High School on Friday
night, MAY 5, will be held at Odd Fellows
Hall. instead of Assembly Hall in the High
School Building This change was made
necessary on account of the lack OF proper
stage fixtures at the latter place. The pnr.
pose of the entertainment is worthy one, and
for this reason alone should attract large
audience.
Alta town meeting at Odd Fellows Hall,
Tuesday night, to nominate candidates for
Mayor and Common Conncilmen of Westmin-
ster, II. Peyion Gorsuch presided and ). Z.
Stoner wes secretary. Mayor .. ID. Gilbert
and Counciimen John J. Reese, John II.
Elgen, John t. Zahn and William ID. Henry
were renominated. Edwin w. Shriver was
nominated to succeed Nelson Gilbert, who
declined to serve longer.
Judge Thomas last Saturday heard the OBJ
iections to the granting of liquor licenses to
Henry Huning, Henry Thiee and George Z.
Linton, all OF Sykesvile. After hearing evl-
denee the Court directed license to issue
10 Huning and sustained the objections to the
applications of Thiele and Linton. The OBJ
ieetors were represented by Jno. Milton Reif-
snider: Steele appeared for Hnning and Ihee
and Bond & Park for Linton.
Arnistead S. Marshall, an undertaken OF
Baltimore. formerly Of Gambler, this county,
was discharged in bankruptcy by the United
States District Court, at Baltimore, on Wed
nesday of this week. The hearing OF the
specifications filed by the creditors in opposI-
ton to his discharge consumed the whole day:
Steiner 4 Putzel, of Baltimore, represented
the creditors, and Joseph ID. Brooks, OF this
city, represented Mr.. Marshall.
It's said that George j. Gould has purchased
the Georges Creek Railroad, short branch
which runs through the mountain section of
PENNSYLVANIA and the upper part of Maryland
Although the road is short one, II taps the
greatest soft coal territory in the country. II
will be most valuable link to the Wabash in
the laiter's efforts to get to the seaboard, for
its ACQUISITION will solve the problem Of the
Wabash getting across the mountains
Mr.. A. p. Gordon Cumming, we'll known
in Westminster and lower Carroll, failed OF
election for Chief Clerk Of the Bureau OF
American Republics at meeting of the Latin
American diplomats in Washington, d. C.,
last Saturday Mr.. Cumming was the choice
of President Roosevelt, and this was his weak
ness. He received the votes of four of the
South American States and the vote of the
United States. Eight other countries voted
for W. @. Wells, Washington lawyer. The
South American republics do not like Roose-
velt's 'big site" policy.