The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1907-03-29
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIES.

Mr.. Charles E. Bowers, painter, is painting
II. H. Harbaughs residence.
Next Sunday is Easter and fashion day.
FriIls and feathers will be in evidence.
Most solemn of all religious services were
those held yesterday and today.
Mr. Jesse Chrest, blacksmith, is erecting a
house at the junction of Pennsylvania avenue
and Sullivan road.
Mr.. Herman Dinst is building an addition
10 the property he recently purchased from
DIR Frank r. Shaw, East Main street.
w. Frank Thomas, real estate agent, sold
the Dorsey property. on the "Fair Ground
Hill. to Mr.. Francis A. Brightwell for $500.
Supervisors of Election sat on Monday for
the purpose of transferring voters from this
county to Baltimore for the May election in
that city.
Thomas K. Shaw. proprietor of Shaw Drug
Co., West Main street. has improved the front
Of his store by erecting al awning with a
metallic top.
Mr.. Harry E. Gilbert, candidate for the
Judiciary of the Second Branch City Council
Baltimore, on the Prohibition ticket, is a
graduate of the Western Maryland College.
Mr.. Pau! Case is erecting himselfa very fine
residence on East Green street. Later on he
contemplates the erection OF two more adloin-
ING the one he has now under construction.
A subscriber from Baltimore in renewing
his subscription says: THE ADVOCATE con:
fans so much news from my old home that
would feel great loss without its weekly ar
rival"
Mr.. W. G. Osborne, WHO'S chief clerk TO Dr.
Dunott, chief physician OF Western Maryland
Railroad Company, has moved into the San
ford property, West Main street. Mr.. Osborne
formerly resided in Baltimore.
Rev. DR.. T. S. Landes, president of the
Allentown College for Women, Allentown,
Pa, has resigned to accept call to the Re-
formed church, at Manchester. The change
will take place April list.
A subscriber from Baltimore in paying his
subscription says: "Being IA former resident
Of dear old Carroll, | could not do without
"THE ADVOCATE" l consider it one of the
best newspapers of the country; the so called
great dailies'' not excepted
On Tuesday J. Thomas Roop, auctoneer,
sold at public auction in front OF the West.
minister Hotel 10 shares of the Lumber, Coal
and Supply Co. to Nathan H. Banmgartner
for 500 per share. Par value $25.
The estimated gross earnings of the railway
department of the Western Maryland Rail
road Company for the week ending March
u. were So, 839, O97. 81, an increase of $3.50,
pa. II over the same period IN 1906.
Mr.. Harry KINNEY has resigned his posi-
ton AS clerk in the Westminster postottice, to
accept a position with Mr.. w. L. Wescott,
candy manufacturers of Philadelphia, Pa.
Mr.. KINNEY will leave on Monday to enter
upon his duties.
Mr.. Jacob NJ. Fitze. of Avondale, who ad
vertsed his sale in this paper and others had
the best sale and the largest crowd in this
county tins spring on Thursday last. Horses
brought from 500 to 5000; two pairs mules
1920 and 1898, and cows from $40 to SCI.
The corporation of Westminster is laying
concrete crossings on Main street. This is an
Improvement that has been needed in this city
for some time. When heavy rain comes the
streets get into such state that it is utterly
impossible to cross without getting in mud
Louis Krkhoff, of Union Mills, while work
ing around corn chopper at Mr.. William
Ieppos sale on Wednesday, had his right
hand caught in it in some way and four fin.
gers mashed, two of them so badly that they
were amputated by DR.. Lewis Wetzel, of
Union Mills.
B. F. Shriver Co. sold to Mr.. Harry f.
Cover 20 of the finest steers ever seen on the
streets in this city. The steers were fed on
the Miller farm, near this city, by Mr.. Tobias
Oursler, who, is said, by cattle raisers. to be
the best in the business, and this bunch otsteers
fed by him were pictures OF beauty.
According to the weather man, all previous
high temperature records for the month OF
March were broken Saturday. At p. m. the
thermometer registered sc degrees. In the
sun it registered SO degrees, the heat being
50 intense that all business houses had their
windows up and the doors thrown wide open.
William D. Lowell deputy clerk of the
court, photograph was in the Baltimore
American of March "a on the secret order
page. He is district deputy grand master of
sulphur Spring Lodge, No. $50, New Windsor.
He is also one of the most active and untirlng
members of the order in that locality, and was
leader in the work of establishing an en-
campment at his place.
Application has been made for the incor.
poration of a company of capitalists organized
to promote an electric line to run between
Emory Grove and Hanover, Pa, via Hamp.
stead and Manchester, and an ordinance was
introduced in the Hampstead City Council on
March Is which is intended to give them the
right to grant charter TO this company
through the town.
The Western Maryland Railroad is to take
precautions against wrecks by trains running
into each other while on side track by placing
at each switch a safety device. in the way of
a lamp, which will show when a switch is open
Or closed. When a switch is closed it will
show a white light, when open it will be red.
A number of large wrecks that have occurred
recently was caused by carelessness of the
employees, having switches open.
Mr.. John NJ. Diller, Of Thayer, Kan, sent
blossoms taken from peach and plum trees to
his sister, Mrs. John 7. Lynch, East Main
street, this city. These blossoms were taken
from the trees on March 10, and the Their
mometer registered 80 in the shade. On the
same date last year a firm harvested about 80
tons of 3.inch ice from Lake Richmond. the
only natural ice they were able to get that
winter.
The Executive Committee of the Carroll
county c. E. Union met in Union Bridge,
Saturday, March 10TH to arrange for the an.
nual meeting of the Union. 1t was decided
that May 9th and 10th should be the date OF
such meeting at Union Bridge. The following
persons were made chairmen of the several
committees; convention committee, Rev.
Edgar I. Read; entertainment committee,
49,. W. II. DTtgeHZtTi DusiC, Mis- 4""N6o
McKinstry.
Robt. Stauffer, of Howard county, about one
and half miles from Jessup, was found dead
at bis home March 81. He was a native OF
Germany, but had been living on his farm
tor Is years. Saturday night he visited
Robert White in Baltimore and returned
home Sunday night. Monday morning
James Wheeler and Constable Easton, of
Howard county, visited the house, and, not
seeing Stauffer, entered and found the body
hanging from a rafter. with the throat cut and
shot in the breast. The supposition is that
Slautfer killed himself while temporarily in
sane.
mad dog on March made its appear
anee on Mrs. Daniel W. Hunters farm, ten,
snted by her son Joshua, near this city, and
mt several hogs, which were taken with by
GGrophobia last Friday. and up until Monday
i've had died. The hogs when taken would
rave raw; around, biting pieces from their pen un,
III they died from agony. Mr.. Hunter took
preeaution and killed his only dog, which had
played with the one that had the rabies. Mr..
Myers, residing on the B. F. Shriver Co.'s
i,arm, neighbor of Mr.. Hunter, had COW
ohen by the same dog.