The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1907-04-12
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL RREVITIES.

Joshua L.. Smith, or near Avondale, ma
moved to this city.
Row. NJ. j. Kline will preach at Grac
Lutheran Church Sunday night.
Row DIR. NJ. J. Cline will preach at boil
,a;ster,s and Benjamin Reformed Churche,
on Sunday.
The Dickinson College, of Carlisle, Pa.
aotaated the Western Marylan College by .
core of IA to last Saturday.
snecial pension of $500 was allowed
pb;neas A. Gorsuch, of District No. 7, b,
the County Commissioners on Monday.
W stansbury, of Hampstead, purchased ,
rony on Tuesday last at the sale of the Shad,
avn PONY Farm, in Baltimore county. Pric,
SIPS.
The Columbia base ball club is scheduled
,o play the Mt. Airy team on July and thu
Sykesville team on September 2 for two
games.
Jobn SNYDER, who has been conducting {
blacksmith shop at Frizellburg for year OF
on has returned to Baltimore. where his fam
lily resides.
Daniel NJ. Leppo, of Silver Run, and Lev
Myers. of Littlestown, Pa, will leave shortly
far Oklahoma, where they will make theil
future home.
The Westminster Fire Company on Friday
evening last engaged the First Regiment Bano
IN accompany the company to Annapolis tc
take part in the parade held by the Maryland
State Firemen's Association in June.
Rev. Albert C. Difenbach, of Allegheny
Pa preached the dedicatory sermon at the
ded;cation of the new St. Marks Reformed
Church, Baltimore, ON Sunday last. Rev.
Diffenbach is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ferd.
Difenbach, of this city. He is also well
known here as he lived in this city at one
time with his parents.
The residence of James Albaugh, at Wood
bine, was totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday,
April 2. The building was frame structure.
The origin of the fire is not definitely known,
but it is supposed that it caught from sparks
of passing locomotive on the B. & 0. r. r.
as the house was built close to the tracks.
Loss $500. insured in the Mutual Fire Insur.
ance Com pany of Carroll County for $500.
The Eagle Lumber Company has purchased
from Mr.. and Mrs. Albert W. Sisk the grow
ing timber on two tracts of land at Glyndon,
containing about IS acres. The price paid is
Sc. 500. The deed was recorded at Towson
Yesterday. 1t gives the lumber company the
right to cut the timber off the first tract for a
period of two years and off the second tract
for Il period of three years.
The sub. target machine gun now in use at
the armory of Co. 81 is a wonderful piece of
mechanism and will interest any person who
would care to see it. 1t will be kept at the
armory for or weeks. The public is vel.
come to see it in use on Wednesday and Fri
day nights of each week, when Capt. John N.
Weigle will take pleasure in explaining 1T.
The members of the company have made
some very good scores at 200 yards.
A subscriber living at Decatur, Illinois, in
renewing his subscription, says "We look
for the ADVOCATE as we would letter from a
friend" Another from Chicago, ILL.,, says :
Il look forward with great pleasure each
week for the ADVOCATE, as it gives me all the
news of my former home" And one from
Baltimore "We would sooner do without
the daily papers than the good old ADVOCATE. "
Four carloads of machinery, to be placed in
the new Western Maryland Railroad shops,
have arrived in Hagerstown and will be
placed in position as soon as the buildings are
finished, which will be very soon. The con
crete smokestack of the new shops will be
1870 feet tall. The new Office building, in
connection with the shops, is nearing compile
ton. The first floor will be used for storage
and the second floor for the offices of General
Foreman Kalbach.
On March 31st Charles 81. Ilgenfritz, car
inspector for n c. R. R. at Bruceville, was
retired, having reached the age limit, 70 years.
On March 4th he had been i'll the service OF
the company since November, 1859, except
for nine months when he served as color SER
geant in the 207th Pa. Vols. during the re-
belIion. He had been stationed at Bruceville
since 1877 and is Familiarity known by hun
dreds of travelling men aud the travelling
public generally
DR.. j. W. Herring, president of the Board
of Trustees of Western Maryland College,
addressed the Seniors at the chapel service in
Baker Chapel Sunday evening last. His text
was, "What Shall You Do With Jesus ?''
which was treated in his usual feicitous man.
ner. AS customary during the third term the
addresses at Sunday evening chapel will be
particularly to the Seniors. The other speak
ers will be DR.. James Reese, Prof. Douglas,
Prof. Forelines, DR.. Warfeld and DR.. Elder
dice
The weather we've been having of late is
something unusual. and it is hard to tell
whether we are going to have spell OF spring
or fall weather in the next two weeks. Sew
eral days the first of the month the thermom
eter registered 81 degrees, now you can find
it anywhere from IS to 20 degrees, with ice
for trimmings. On Tuesday we had our pewit
snow. Possibly we will get something better
before long. About the middle of June,
when we are almost suffocated, we will want
some of this weather.
Clarence Arbaugh, who was convicted by
the Circuit Court of Carroll County at the
November term of Court in 1898, for assault
and larceny and carrying concealed weapons
and assault and battery and sentenced to 10
years in the Maryland penitentiary, was par
doned by Governor Warield on Tuesday.
Through the intercession of his only sister
Governor War6eld decided to grant the par
don. The sister appeared before the Cover,
nor at Annapolis on the last pardon court day
aud made pathetic appeal for his release.
The case was advertised in last weeks ADvo.
CATE.
The Wolf Company. one of the largest
manufacturing concerns of Chambersburg,
Monday passed into the hands of receiver.
An order that bankruptcy proceedings be
taken was signed by Judge Archibald in the
United States Court at Scranton, and Attor-
ney Walter K. Sharpe, of Chambersburg, was
appointed receiver for the company. The
Wolf Company has been engaged at Cham
bersburg since 1885, making Touring mill
machinery, etc., giving employment to several
hundred skilled workmen. One of the rea-
sons given for the failure is that large tracts
of woodland purchased in the South did not
turn out as the company expected. The
Wolf Co. installed all the milling machinery
in the Roberts, Roop & Co. mill, this city.
A few minutes after O'Clock Monday
evening al alarm of fire was sounded for the
Western Maryland Railroad depot, which
narrowly escaped destruction. The fire orig
mated in the cellar under the steps, where
wood was stored, in some unknown way and
destroyed the stairway leading to the room
above. When the fire was first discovered ii
could have been subdued with bucket oil
water, but on learning that tank containing
oil was on fire, it was deemed best to call on
the fire company to suppress the flames. A
few minutes before the water was turned ON
the fire the oil tank exploded, throwing the
oil all over the cellar, which was converted
into roaring furnace afterward. The water
was turned in and the fire put out in few
minutes.
The Sykesvile Athletic Club has just com
pleted its grounds, and grandstand will be
erected at once. The Sykesville Athletic
Club hopes to have much stronger team this
year than last, as they have secured the ser
vinao of sayaral pau plavers In its infancy