The Democratic advocate., 1907-06-07
.RlDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 7. 1907.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREviTiES.

Several farmers near this city have plowed
m their corn and replanted it. OF what was
nanted before only one-third matured.
Carroll county was established in the year
1e26 by an act of the General Assembly. 1t
,.,s named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
The statement of the First National Bank
,fSvkesyille will be found on another page
IN this issue. The bank is gaining strength
each day.
For the first time in the history of the postal
sorvice the receipts for a quarter have ex-
ceeded the expenditures. The excess is ST.,
500, ,31j35.
The 125th anniversary and commencement
uvercises of Washington College, Chestertown,
Nd. begins on June 13. The invitations
sent out by the college are very elaborate.
Mr., Louis A. Mcdaniel. of West Arlington,
Nd, who died suddenly at his home from a
stroke of paralysis on Sunday afternoon, was
. hrotber of Prof. William R. Mcdaniel, act.
inc president ofthe Western Mary Col
lege.
The cave-n that took place under the tracks
of the Western Maryland Railroad, opposite
the Westminster Gas Works, two or three
wears ago, opened up again on Saturday night
last but not so large as the first time. The
section boss had several men at work on Sun
day morning filling up the hole.
Charles NJ. Smith, of Hagerstown, who was
killed at Shippensburg, on May 30, in
wreck on the Western Maryland Railroad,
was brought 10 Taneytown on Sunday on
special train from Hagerstown and buried.
HIS wife was Miss Shoemaker, of fancy
town.
The Postoffice Department announced last
Saturday the annual adjustment OF the salaries
of the postmasters in the various cities OF
MARYLAND outside of Baltimore. Taneytown
was the only Office in Carroll county to receive
nm increase. which was $780, The present
salary is $1,000. The change takes effectJuly l.
The sporting fraternity of Westminster, who
cougrpgste on the base ball grounds at the
Atlantic Machine Works each evening during
the week, will try to amuse the citizens ofour
town bv paying a game of base ball on Saur-
d,vs A committee has been on the lookout
for suitable grounds, which they have about
located.
There was grand change among the milk
meu who serve milk to customers in this city
this week Mr.. George Bell purchased the
Levi Barnes route and Charles Manahan the
William R. Steele route. The latter route
WAS formerly owned by Mr.. William R. Black
and has been in the hands of three different
proprietors since.
Sykesville is being terrorized by burglars.
On Friday night of last week Joseph Lippy
had a box of chewing gum stolen from his
door and on Saturday night Mrs. Olrlcht, who
assists in her husbands bakery, stepped into
an adjoining room, and on her return, to her
surprise, found that she had been relieved OF
s. 90 and a number of pies.
The sixteenth annual meeting Of the Wo-
mans Home and Foreign Missionary Sncle-
lies of the Middle Conference of the Marylan
synod of the Lutheran Church held on May
2S in st. Johns Church, near Eden. was wall
attended. The church was handsomely
trimmed for the meeting.
The Julius Bros, Littestown, were fined
S25 by Deputy Factory Inspector Quinn for
giving employment TO a son of Amos Miller.
Of Littlestown, a boy under thirteen years of
age The firm had given the boy employment
on his own earnest solicitation, believing HIM
to be over the required age.
Mr.. Chas II. Berry, who has been at home
for the past three months suffering with
broken arm, returned to Baltimore Tuesday
to resume his duties as train dispatcher with
the Baltimore and Ohio r. r. Mr.. Berry
recently served as clerk to the grand jury in
Westminster, displaying high order of abil-
ity and making host of friends.
After an idleness of several years the ore
bank on the Catochn Furnace property, near
'rhurmont, which was purchased last year by
Tx Congressman Joseph E. Thropp, of Penn
Sylvania has been resumed, and about sixty
men are now employed in taking out iron ore.
Four carloads of ore are being shipped daily
to Congressman Thropps furnaces at Everett,
Pa.
Sunday was the coolest June day known in
the annals of the Weather Bureau. These
cover period of 81 years, so that for the
lifetime of an entire generation the day was
unique At 10 a. IN. the mercury stood at 46
degrees. the minimum for the day, and only
.auce before on June 10, 1884, when mini
mum of AZ degrees was recorded, had any
such June temperature been experienced.
The rural mail carriers of Baltimore county
held meeting in Baltimore on Decoration
Day. Several new members joined. including
Messrs. D. A. Hyson and Henry Snyder, of
Hampstead. Mr.. Charles Royston, of Hamp
stead, declined a reelection as president.
Leonard Clifton, of Woodensburg, and John
s. Hughes, of Arcadia, were again elected
secretary and treasurer, respectively.
The commencement exercises of the gradu
ating class of the Gaithersburg High School
were held in the Masonic Hall, Friday last.
Senator Blair Lee delivered the address, and
Geo. Ii. Lamar, president of the board of
school commissioners, presented the diplomas.
Music was furnished by an orchestra from
Washington. The graduates were Misses Ma
mie B. Briggs, Mae E. Phoebus and Mayme
b. Hyatt
The graduating exercises of the Springfield
State Hospital Training School for Nurses
were held at the women's group on Monday
afternoon at o'clock. Rev. Thomas G.
Hill offered very beautiful prayer DR.. j.
l. tol ,L 20
the graduates DR.. John D. Blake delivered
graduates were Miss Hannah M. Bailey, Miss
Caroline Basley, Herbert B. Ecker, Allan
W. Hoffman and Miss Eunice Moore.
Rev. r. W. Doty, pastor of Salem Luther
an Church, at Krider's, near this city, cele
brated the fifth anniversary of his pastorate of
the above church on Sunday last. The church
was handsomely decorated for the event. Dur
ing the five years of Rev. Doty's pastorate he
has married 65 couples, baptized 16l children,
ofciated at SO funerals, preached sos ser
mons, delivered 2l5 addresses, received 1872
members made 1865 visits, drove 1922
miles and money raised for all purposes $5,-
740.67.
The County Commissioners on Monday re-
solved that they would give the Manchester
and Hampstead Railroad Company of Carroll
County, Wnen Sdlu company Is property III
corporated, and when it has complied with
the requirements of the laws of Maryland, re:
laing to railroad corporations, the right of.
way over the public road, the old turnpike
running from the Baltimore county line to
the Pennsylvania State line, through the
towns of Hampstead and Manchester, upon
such conditions as may be hereafter deter
mined by the Board of County Commissioners.
Mr.. Edward L. Bartlett established an
automobile time record from Baltimore to
this city and return on Decoration Day. He
made wager of $50 and bottle of wine that
he could drive his runab bout to this city IN
hour and Is minutes and like wager that he
could drive it back TO Baltimore in hour
and 3 minutes He made the rim to this city
in hour and minutes and returned in
hour and minutes, winning both bets and
speeding at such clip that neither his friends
nor unfriendly cops could distinguish whether
they had seen an auto pass or whether the
fumes were those of a vehicle which had