The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-10-26
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL RREvITiES.

positiOn rs clerk III Mr.. JOnn McDohaiu
store, Sykesville.
Rev. O. C. Marriott, of Unionville, who
fell and fractured his arm six weeks ago, has
very little use OF 1t.
Hilda Buchanan, of Sykesvilp, attended
the Alumnae Association of Mount de Sales
Convent in Baltimore on Thursday.
Mr.. George K. Mather, of this city, was
elected AS one of the directors of the Christian
Endeavor Union. which met at Salisbury,
Nd last wrek.
Joseph l.. Matthias, stone cutter, OF this
CITY, has erected 81 very fine Italian monument
AT the grave of the late John Beaver in ST.
Johns Catholic Cemetery.
Mr.. George Lease, of this city, had his
thumb laceraied last week by circular saw
while saving lumber at Elgen's carpenter
shop, on Pennsylvania avenue.
MIR. James d. Mitchell. photographer of
this city, presented this Office with several
souvenir postal cards of the Western Maryland
College buildings grouped. Thanks.
Ernest l.. Frizze. of Emmitsburg, is one
of the incorporators of the Emmitsburg Broom
Company at that place. Mr.. Frizzell was
formerly of this county and is doing well.
Harry Greenhotz of near Unionville, who
about year ago fell aud fractured his knee
cap, has been taken to the Frederick City Hos
pital the broken bone having never knitted.
Master Roland Matthew'S of Hampstead,
who has been at the Church Home In6rmary,
Baltimore, for a month"; where he was oper-
ated upon for appendicitis, has returned home.
Lonis Lee, trucker, of Warfeidsburg, ex-
hibted at this office this week a turnip that
weighed 24 pounds and was 16 inches in cir
conference. The turnip was of the late
variety.
VIM. X. Grogg, of Hampstead, and Miss
Caroline Smith, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward E. Smith, of Baltimore, were mar
ried on October II, in Baltimore, at the home
of the brides parents.
The Bishop of Maryland will visit Ascen
sion. Church on Sunday, October %, to ad-
minister the rite of confirmation. The service
will:be held at 2.sO p. m, and the Bishop will
preach the sermon.
Rev. William Z. Wheeler, of Taneytown,
preached on the theme, "What Constitutes
Ministerial Education" at the Maryland
SYNOD of the Lutheran Church at Waynesboro.
Pa. on Wednesday last.
The Lend "a Hand Club. of this city, will
meet at o clock Saturday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Charles Bllingslea. A full at:
tendance is desired, as plans for the fall and
winter work will be discussed.
A plat of the B. Il o. freight cutoff that it
is proposed to build from Sykesville to some
point on the Philadelphia Division of that
road has been filed in the County Clerks
office at Towson. The line passes short
distance north of Towson.
The syndicate operating the Rinehart Mar:
BILE Quarries, near Union Bridge, purchased
the Daniel Wolf farm and limestone quarries
and kilns this week. The farm contains 38
acres and the price paid was $4,000. The
oomnapv will nparatp hOth Ouarrlas
1t is rumored that the Western Maryland
railroad will shortly make number of
changes in the present schedule. These
changes are said to include the running of the
''owl' daily to Union Bridge and of an addi-
tional early train from Union Bridge to Balt
more.
Thanks are due Mr. James Pearre Wantz,
secretary of the Westminster Fire Company,
for a copy of the 18th annual convention of
the Maryland State Firemen's Association
proceedings, which took place in this city in
June last. The catalogue is we'll printed and
is very nice piece OF work all the way
through.
Mr. Charles Hayden, day foreman of the
Baltimore American, and son Arthur, of Bal
timore were guests of x. o. Diffendal on
Sunday. The gentlemen were much pleased
with their visit to our little city, and also ex-
pressed themselves as TO the fine residences
and nice country city.
On last Tuesday night Company II, First
Regiment. NJ. N. G., held an election. First
Sergeant John N. Weigle was elected captain,
William r. Anders, first lieutenant, and Ser
geant W. E. FrzzelI, second lieutenant. Cap
tain George Fisher, of Co. B, Hagerstown,
presided.
Mr.. Albert S. Algire, of Hampstead, re-
Gently had misplaced bone in his nose re-
moved at a hospital in Baltimore, and a
hemorrhage from the wound made it necessary
for him to return to the hospital, where he
will likely remain until the wound is entirely
healed.
Mrs. Philip Gore, Of Wooery's district,
who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Giles, Reisterstown, returned to her home on
Thursday. Shortly after reaching home she
fell down the stair steps and fractured her
collar bone and sustained other injuries. Her
condition is rather serious. She is nearly 10
years of age.
A large party of Baltimore business men
passed through this city on Wednesday over
the Western Maryland railroad for Charleston,
w. Va, to attend the annual meeting OF the
West Virginia Board of Trade. The party
were the guests of Mr.. F. s. Landstreet, vice
president of the Western Maryland and for
mer Senator Fl. G. Davis. of West Virginia.
William Bauer, of Carroll county, was ar
rested Sunday afternoon by patrolman Dennis
Starr, of Arlington, charged with disorderly
conduct on all Emory Grove car. Mr.. K. +.
Mules, an empoye of the railways company.
who was on the car, laid the charge against
Bauer, He was taken to the Arlington station
house. where he remained until Monday morn.
ing, when he was tried before Justice Bevan
and fined 500, which he paid and was released.
As evidence that the Uniontown and Wheel
ing Short Line, an extension of the Western
MARYLAND Railroad of the Wabash system.
will be built and in confederation of the state
ment of President Winslow s. Pierce, of the
Western Maryland Railroad, that actual work
of construction of the Wheeling line would
soon begin, number of deeds for right OF way
through Fayette county, Pennsylvania, were
fled for record at Uniontown Saturday by ).
Q. Van Swearingen, counsel for the ROAD.
Mrs. Minnie Denham, who escaped from
the Sheppard Enoch Pratt Hospital, at Tow
son, on Thursday last. is at Montevue Hos
pital, the Frederick county insane asylum.
AS told in The American Wednesday,. q
strange woman, evidently deranged, was found
in vacant house at Ridgeville on Monday,
and was brought to Frederick by Sheriff Martz
and committed to Montevue. She was on
Wednesday identified as Mrs. Denhan by
means of telephone communication between
the Sheppard. Pratt Hospital and the local In
stitution.
The first through train from Baltimore to
Ekins, w. Va, on the Western Maryland
Railroad left Baltimore at 8 o'clock Saturday
morning and was scheduled to arrive there at
o'clock. It was hauled by Engine No. lO2,
the latest type of passenger locomotive, and
was in charge of Conductor W. T. Cooksey,
the oldest conductor in point of service with
the road. The engineer was Henry Spurrier.
The train consisted of q combination baggage
and smoking car, an observation and buffet
Pullman and combination mail and express
car. The Pullman is named West Virginia,
and is the first ever run on the Western Mary
land. Another, the Maryland. will leave on
its first trip today.
About two weeks ago the B. F. Shriver Co.
moved bunch of stock steers from the cars
M Wost..;nator 10 unian Mills While they