The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1907-05-17
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIES.


dwelling houses at Tannery.
Frank |. Lewis, Esq, Mt. Airy district,
vae amounted member of the Democratic
Central Committee in place of Oscar M.
Spurrler.
The Littlestown base ball team celebrated
.bair opening on Saturday last by defeating
the Metropolitan Club of York by score of
to-.
Emanuel Whitmore, Pennsylvania avenue,
;s having fresh coat of paint applied to his
residence. Messrs. Lippy and Cassell are the
painters.
River View Park, the well known summer
resort below Baltimore city, was opened on
Saturday last. The prospectors have added
some new attractions.
The members of the Democratic Central
Committee of Carroll County are requested by
the chairman to meet at this ONCE on Mon
day, May q, at 10 a. m.
Mr., John f. Crout the pioneer hotel
keeper of the Pen-Mar Hotel when the park
was in its infancy, is already on the grounds
and is preparing for the summers business.
The members of Company II gave hop
ON Wednesday evening at their Armory on
East Green street, which was well attended.
Stonesifer's Orchestra furnished the music.
Mr.. John T. Driscol, Pennsylvania avenue,
has accepted the agency for the Elite Laun-
dry, of Baltimore. for this city. Later on he
will visit the various towns OF this county ana
solicit.
The underground in the ivy Hills" be-
tween Spring Mills and Avondale, was burned
over to an extent of six acres on Monday
afternoon. The section men extinguished the
fire after hard fight.
Edward Houck, who was clerk in Gilbert
AZ Gehr's hardware store, has resigned his po'
sition and has gone to his home in Hanover,
Pa. where he will work for his father, who
conducts a bakery.
Mr.. S. w. Pfoutz, of Linwood. writes that
"a hOming pigeon came to his place recently;
On the pigeons left leg was band marked
249 and another 1902. On the right leg was
Il band marked L. e. 1887.
The president and hoard of directors of the
Baltimore and Hanover Turnpike Company
gave their men at the tollgate notice that all
who drove through any of the tollgates to the
different churches may 60 free.
Alva C. Garner has filed suit in the Circuit
Court at Towson against the Western Mary
land Railroad Company for $l25 alleged to be
due for rent of the station property at Owings
Mills. The suit is for six months rent, which
is alleged to have become due May l.
Baltimore Day. at the jamestown Expo.
siton will be Thursday, June 29th. big
demonstration will be held. The Governor,
the Mayor of Baltimore and other public OH
Gals will take part. A number of associations
have already arranged to run excursions.
George W. Albaugh, of this city, was in
Waynesboro on business last week with the
Fred Frick Clock Company who are building
L. A HAL nrt
Deposit. The bank is now ready for the work
and the gentleman was there to urge 1t for
ward.
Sykesville has had rapid yet healthy
growth and with the new electric railroad,
which is to be built this year, will make
further advancement Situated on the border
of Carroll and Howard counties, it has a
prosperous and broad field from which to
draw.
Mr.. E. l.. Mullinx, owner of Wildwood
Park, Mt. Airy, is making preparations to
have Wildwood more attractive than ever.
Mr.. Mullinix contemplates extensive i'm
rrovements and by the time picnic season
rolls around the park will look more interest
ing than ever.
The County Commissioners on Monday
ordered Charles c. Anderson, of Freedom
district, to be taken to the Maryland Hos
}ital for the Insane at Springfield and there
confined at the expense of Carroll county un-
til recovered or otherwise discharged in due
course of law.
1t is rumored that after the Western Mary
land Railroad Company finishes up their
double tracking from Emory Grove to Balti
more they will build a new coal chute at
Cranberry in place of the old one. The new
Que that is under consideration will be much
larger and is said will be built at the cut west
ofthe old one.
William Watson, colored, and ex.jail bird,
relieved Thomas Bruce of an overcoat few
weeks ago and disappeared. Watson was a
boarder at Bruce's. A warrant is out for his
arrest, but Bill, not having any particular
place for his domicile, is satisfied with any
old garbage barrel or dump to hang up in,
and will be difficult to capture.
The Lyric Theatre, better known as Music
Hall, was sold at public auction on last Friday
for $l26,OOO. The bidding was started at
100000, but was run up to the foregoing figure
terest of Boumi Temple, Ancient Arabic Or.
der Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, who desired
the building for hall.
A bolt oflightning during heavy thunder
storm last Friday night that passed over the
village of Taylorsville struck into the large
barn of Ernest Franklin, tearing one end OF
the building to pieces and killing q sheep
and 2 COWS. 1t also stunned and rendered a
valuable horse deaf. The bolt did not set the
barn on fire. Loss $500; insurance 500.
Lewis Green, near Tanuery, is one of the
most famous fox hunters in this county. Mr..
Green began his hunting career in the tttles
No man in Carroll county has studied the
cunning and habits of the fox more than Mr.
Green, and on Friday last he was up at a.
IN. and ran two foxes in before daylight. He
has seven of the finest hounds in the county
and enjoys the sport very much. Mr.. Green
is in his 84th year and can ride a horse all day
without being fatigued
The coored population of Union street
was in an uproar last Sunday when George
Bruce, colored, slashed his wife several times
with a knife. Mrs. Bruce received several
deep gashes on her arm that required mum
Der of stitches TO sew each wound up. DIR.
Foutz rendered the surgical aid. A warrant
was sworn out for Bruce's arrest on Monday,
but while the police justice was looking up
one of our thrifty officers to serve the warrant
Bruce escaped on the 9. 10 train to Baltimore.
heavy frost occurred in this locality on
Sunday and Monday nights and in exposed
places ice formed as thick as ordinary window
glass. Tender vegetation was scotched, pc.
tato vines were killed and lie black and
ruined on the ground. This is noticeably the
case in low ground. On the higher ground.
however. this damage is not so perceptb.e.
II is not thought that serious damage was in,
tiicted on such fruits as withstood the severe
weather during April, when cherries, peaches,
apricots and plums suffered severely. Apples
and pears promise fair crop, except in ex,
posed places, unless the deleterious effect OF
the earlier cold should appear later.
Bond was received by the County Commits
sloners on Monday from two thirds of the
owners of the land bounding OIL the section OF
the public road running through the village
OF Gambler, and stating further their willing.
ness of such petition of owners TO pay for said
construction and repairs a sum equal to 10
per cent. of the cost of such construction and
repairs, according to Act of 1904. Chapter
225. The survey, which was made about a
year ago, calls for distance of three. quarters
of mile to be made. This is the first tract
of road to be constructed in this county under
the Shoemaker Road Law, passed by the
Legislature in 1904. The above law was en-.