The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-11-18
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LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIES.

Thursday, November 81, has been set apart
as Thanksgiving Day. 1t will he legal holi-
day also.
Mr.. Ferd A. DiefFenbach, of Baltimore. a
former resident of Westminster, has purchased
the paper business in this city from Mr.. l.. II.
Barber.
The Western Maryland College foot ball
team is still winning At diminishing last
Saturday they won from Mount st. MaryS
College by score of 10 8.
DR.. Norman E. Sartorious, of Tangier, Va,
and a graduate of Western Maryland College,
was married at Pocomoke City, Md, to Miss
Ella Frances School6eld of that place, on
Wednesday.
The Baltimore & Reisterstown Turnpike
Company have sold that part of their road
from the Baltimore county line. below Hamp
stead to the Pennsylvania line, 10 the County
Commissioners of Carroll for $1,000.
We have received from Mr.. J. B. Stevenson,
proprietor of the Stevenson Machine and Re
pair Works of Bryan, Texas. copy of the
Carnival edition of the Houston Posi-, of No
vember u. Il contains 81 pages and is filed
with advertisements of the hustling business
men of that progressive city.
On Monday night, during service at Mt.
Zion u B. Church. in Baltimore county, four
.Iiles from Hampstead, a chandelier fell,
4 A FIRE resulted, burning carpet and furniture
and causing loss of SIS Insured in the
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Carroll
county.
Mr. John Sinnott, an employee q; Western
Maryland Railroad Station, this city, will take
the agency for the Adams Express Company
for this city on December |. The business
will be carried on in a room al the station
until suitable place can be procured on Main
street. Mr.. Clark Taylor, who is employed
at the station, will be his assistant
In the case of George b. Hoover VS.. John
Kimple, tried in the Court Of Common PleHs
of Adams county, Pennsylvania, on Wednes.
day last, involving guarantee OF The lease OF
the Central Hotel, in Taneytown. this county,
the Court instructed the jury TO render n yer
dict for the defendant Joseph d. Brooks,
Esq, represented the defendant, and +. q.
Wesni. Esq, the plaintiff.
Mr.. Arthur McGinnis, senior member of
the A. McGianis Company, died Sunday
night at ST. Joseph's Hospital, Baltimore.
As heretofore reported in the ADVOCATE, Mr..
McGinnls had bis left arm badly crushed at
the distillery of the Company, near Tannery,
this county on November !, aud 1t was ampa-
tated on November 4. Blood poisoning,
however, had set in, aud his life could not be
saved.
Last Tuesday Joshua W. Herring. executor
of Miss Sale Lougwell, sold ia Gettysburg
l01 shares of stock of the Gettysburg National
Bank to the following parties at prices uamed
Dr. F. W. eastman, 10 shares; Thouas q.
Nicely. shares; J. Mervin Bender 10 shares;
Frederick Rhodes, 10 shares; Dr. J. ". q.
O'Neal, Is shares, and VIM. McSherry IL
shares, at $ll275 each. WIN. McSherry 40
shares aud Hon. D. p. Mcpherson > shares
at SIP. 80 each. Par value $50.
The first delegated convention of the Society
for the Confederation of Christian Churches
began Thursday at Carnegie Hall, New York
city, nnd will continue TO and including nexI
Monday. Elk Comptroller J. w. Herring and
DIR. T. H. Lewis, ID. D., of Westminster. are
delegates from the Methodist Protestant
Church OF Maryland. The federation holds
out TO the denominations the ideal Of united
effort Ga the foreign field, the submergence Of
denominafiOnal into common Christian effort.
AT the close Of business on November 9,
the several banks Of Westminster had on de
post the following amounts: Union National
$3.50, 53S. SO; First National S30S, AIS %;
Farmers and Mechanics $l47. 342. 06; Savings
Bank $S65. 1851 81; Deposit and Trust Com.
pany 1862, TO "a. First National. New Wind
sor. $s4. 025. 10; Manchester Bank SOL ,996. III
Union Mills Savings Bank Sl02, 04S. 63; Sykes
vile Bank 1922, 1865. A total u S2,6S4,
63S. %.
Mr. Charles SchaefFer. of Westminster, who
died November 3, was member Of West
minister Council, Royal Arcanum, holding a
certificate for So COO The proof of his death
was forwarded to the Office of the Supreme
Council, AT Boston, Mass. on the 9Th, aud on
the 18th a check for So, 600 was received aud
turned over to the widow. Thus, ia eight
days, with legal holiday intervening. which
delayed proof of death one day. the death
benefit. was paid. This is commendable
promptness.
The application for the pardon of Frederick
Graf has met with protest nm Michael
Weiss, for shooting and maiming whom Graf
rs now serving a term of eighteen months IN
the Penilepliary. Weiss went TO Annapolis
on Wednesday 10 make his protest to the par
don of Graf before the Governor. The Gov
ernor being absent he filed his protest and
petition. Elk Judge Bond appeared before
the Governor on Thursday TO urge the pardon
Governor Warfield postponed action until he
can investigate the matter.
In addition TO the surveys being made by
engineers of the Pennsylvania Railroad to
locate route for the proposed freight line
around Baltimore, the Baltimore and Ohio
also has men in the field making surveys for
a proposed cutoff from Sykesvile to point
about FIVE miles east of Bayview junction,
and on Thursday morning II was learned from
an authoritative source that there is proba
billy of the two roads getting together an d
building line which both can use. II such
an arrangement shonld be made, il would re-
suit in great saving 10 each company.
The Baltimore American Of last Saturday |
said-"James A. Shaetfer. who until recently |
boarded at 5O4 West Mulberry street with |
Mrs. Anna NJ. Steele, was held Tor the Grand |
Jury al the Western Police Station yesterday |
on the charge of attempting to defraud Mrs. |
Steele out Of & board bill amounting TO 81. |
Charges were also preferred by Mrs. NJ. K. |
Rupp, 1889 Myrtle avenue, and VIM. K. Ford, |
1911 Myrtle avenue. II was alleged that |
Shaeffer contracted for board and lodging al |
all of the above-named addresses for himself |
and a woman whom he introduced as his wife. |
Shaeffer claims to be from Westminster.
The Court of Appeals on Thursday decided |
two cases from the Circuit Court for Carroll, |
as follows Nos. Is aud IA, Roberts ct al. |
vs. Roberts ct al; decretal order affirmed IN |
part and reversed in part, the costs in No. IL |
ioffiee docket) to be paid by the appellant IN |
that Case, including one-half OF the cost OF |
transmitting and printing The record, aud the |
costs in No. 10 (oiiice docket) TO be paid out |
of the estate of Augustus Shrlyer, including |
the other half of cost of transmitting and
printing the record Tone half by the trustees |
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manJed for further proceedings Judge Boyd /
delivered the opinion of the court.
The Towson correspondent of the Baltimore |
Sun. of Tuesday, says "Mr. Henry Stull, of |
Patapscc, Carroll county, visited the County |
Orphans Court on business, and while he |
was there the subject of big crops of corn
came up. Chief Judge Melchoir Hoshall, as
usual, claimed to be The champion corn raiser |
of Baltimore county, as well as of big pigs |
The highest yield of corn in the ear this year |
by the Judge was 20 barrels to the acre. At |
this the gentleman from Carroll county smiled |
broadly, as he presented a sample of corn and |
said it grew 264 barrels to the acre, or 523 |
barrels upon the two acres on which he had |
experimental The Chief Judge still con-
tended that he had raised more barrels of corn |
to the acre in Baltimore county than anyone |
else and was not competing with Carroll |
county"