The Democratic advocate., 1906-12-21
HE ADVOCATE wishes all its patrons and

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| on East Green street.
Sergeant Hashabiah A. Simonson made
high score last Tuesday night at the armory
of Company H, this city.
Christmas services at St. Johns Church
Solemn high mass and sermon, a. m.; low
mass, sermon and benediction, 10 a. m.
Mr.. Wm Fl. Stonesifer, of Bachman's VAL
| lev, who was reported extremely i'll last week
in this paper, is still in critical condition.
Father Cassidy, pastor of St. Johu's Cath
Ollie Church. quietly celebrated his silver an
niversary of the priesthood on Monday last.
Mr. Joshua Gist, near this city, who was
taken to the Maryland University Hospital,
Baltimore, last Friday for operation for
| appendicitis, is improving.
Lloyd CLANCY, aged 49 years, of WauHegan,
| ILL.,, died on December 2. Mr.. Chaney was
a former student of the Western Maryland
College and made many friends while here.
The Baltimore and Reisterstown turnpike
Company has sold to Misses Lotte and Elsie
| Fowble, the residence of the late Mrs. Helm,
containing half an acre of land, adjoining
Woodensburg Station, for $3.50.
w. A. Burgoon. son of John Burgoon, Of
| Union Mills, hrs been appointed librarian of
the Free Library Commission of Pennsylvania,
at Littestown, Pa. Mr.. Burgoon is principal
of the Lttlestown High School,
The November term of the Circuit Court
adjourned on Monday last after hearing the
case of Charles E. 81. Shriner VS.. Burgess and
Commissioners of Taneytown; action for
damages; tried before jury; verdict for the
plaintiff for $3.50. Steele for plaintiff; j. NJ.
Reifsnder for defendant.
Mr.. Fred. Rinehart. West Main street, had
the end of his index finger on his right hand
| ma Qff m TueSdav aft
ing gasoline engine. Mr.. Rnehart was in
the act of leaving the engine down, when the
props slipped, allowing the engine to drop on
his finger, mashing it completely off.
| Carroll county was represented at the meet
| ing of the Farmers League of Maryland at
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, on the
2Oh inst, by Michael E. Walsh, delegate
| from the Carroll Grange; Luther NJ. Bushey,
of the Freedom Grange; Jesse Fuss, of Union
| Bridge Grange, and Mrs. Herbert Wooden,
of the Hampstead Grange.
| THE ADVOCATE is the recipient of very
| handsome embossed calendar from Babylon &
| Lippy Co.'s Cash Department Stores. The
| calendar is made up of cannon, handsomely
festooned. with young lad standing close by
pointing his finger toward the fuse hole where
| it is fired off. This calendar is given away to
every customer making pun chase of $l.0O.
Inc COunty COMMISSIONERS ulSDOSeu OF the
following business on Monday last {: Mrs.
| William Hawk, of District No. l, was granted
| a special pension of $5. 90; the bond of Con.
stable Archibald Lambert, of District No. l,
was received and approved, and Mrs. Mary
| C. Fisher, of District No. Z, was allowed
special pension of $500.
The case of the Farmers and Mechanics
National Bank. of Westminster, against Flor
ence Lee Vanderford, of this city, executrix
of William Fl. Vanderford, deceased. tried
| before the Frederick County Conrt at Freder
ck. and decided in favor of the plaintiff, will
he taken to the Court of Appeals for final set
| tlement. The case was Instituted by the
bank to recover $500 on promissory note.
Mr.. J. David Crowl, this city, who pur.
chased a small wood lot from the Longwel
estate, opposite his property, had the timber
sawed up into lumber this week. 90l feet of
lumber sawed from one log. The log
| was solid oak and immense in size. Mr.
Alfred Shipley, who did the saving with his
outfit, says it was the largest log he ever made
up into lumber.
Several merchants of our city are being ter
rorized by shoplifters. Last week Mr.. James
| Fl. Cassell. jeweler was relieved of very
costly bracelet by a slick fingered woman, and
on another occasion she lifted a ring. Mr.
| Cassell says he will expose the woman if she
| does not return same within a week by hay
ing her prosecuted. Mr. William C. Devil.
bliss, merchant, was also taken in, and re-
lieved of some goods.
Christmas will be appropriately observed at
the Methodist Protestant Church, this city,
next Sunday. The pastor, Rev. l.. f. War
ner, will preach n Christmas sermon in the
morning. In the evening the Sunday school
will render IA beautiful musical service called
| ,kNv G. A. poll Ik,, IL,
occasion the choir will be augmented by an
orchestra. The annual treat to the Sunday
school will take place Thursday evening of
Christmas week i'll the lecture room.
On motion of William Hersh, attorney for
William Eyler. argument of the case for a
new trial was continued Wednesday. Mr..
! Hersh filed nine additional reasons. Since
the trial of the case the defendant has dis.
covered new evidence. The names of the
new witnesses are VIM. Herrick. Harrisburg;
Guy Ham, Rocky Ridge, Nd; Young Hir-
lev, Detour, Md, and several others, whose
names at this time unknown. These wit
nesses were present at the hearing.
Another case of smallpox, said to be due to
contagion from the cases at the home of Mr..
Daniel Sunday, near Clemsonville. has been
discovered in Frederick county. The victim
is Mrs. Bradley Glenn, of Utica, upon whose
person the marks of the disease have just made
their appearance AS told recently in the
News, Mr. Sunday, his wife and their two
children have been suffering from smallpox,
believed to have been contracted while return
ing from recent "trip TO Kansas. Mrs. Glenn
is said to have visited the Sunday home, and
thus to have caught the disease.
The Granger's Mutual Storm Insurance
Company of Carroll County, Maryland. has
been incorporated. The Circuit Court for
Carroll county and the Attorney General of
MARYLAND have approved the certificate of iu-
corporation. The directors for the first year
are as follows Luther M. Bushey, John E.
Davidson, Nicholas j. Walsh, Frederick w.
Hull Dr. Jacob Rinehart, Daniel Wolfe and
Harvey E. Morelock. Michael E. Walsh is
the attorney for the company. The purpose
of the new company will be the insurance of
any person or body corporate against loss by
wind, hail and possibly rainstorm, and will
not be confined to patrons of husbandry alone.
Governor Warfeld, who visited the peni
,entiary on Tuesday and Wednesday, granted
pardons to seven convicts. Among them
were two from this county-Thomas Smith
and Ross B. Miller All of the men pardoned
had saved nice sum of money, and the one
to save the largest amount was Thomas Smith,
who was paid Sl6l. The warden sealed $3.50
in an envelope, which Smith secured in a
pocket, and the remainder he kept loose. Al
though he had been incarcefated II years,
Smith had the ruddy complexion OF farmer
Warden Weyler said this was due to the fact
that he worked in the yard in the open.
Smith and Ross B. Miller were the first to be
released. Miller, who is only young man,
was serving two years sentence for the lar
ceny of cloverseed. He intended to get
train for home within an hour after his re-
lease, he said.
An-application for absolute divorce from
her husband, J. Roger McSherry, was filed in
the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court OF
Frederick county, Tuesday, by Mrs. Cornelia
Ringgold McSherry, through her attorneys;
JJrner & Urner. Hammond Urner attended
to the filing of the suit, and, after having, the
formal entry made on the docket Wllhdrew
| ,ba nonars from the clerks Office. Mrs. Nc