The Democratic advocate., 1907-01-25
Mrs. Thomas Turtle. East Main street. who

morning to preside on the bench a, the Janu
airy term of the Anne Arundel Circuit Court,
Annapolis.
The working hours for the laborers at the
Western Maryland Railroad shops al Union
Bridge have been reduced to from 10 to 9
hours "A day.
The section hands of the Western Maryland
Railroad were cut down to from 8 to hours
for day and from seven men to three last
week. Prosperity(?).
The Western Maryland Railroads earnings
for the week ending January IA. 1907, was
$101, ,809.65, increase of SIG, 592. "a over
the same period in 1906.
The rattle that WAS to have taken place at
the armory by the First Regiment Band for a
suit of clothes and overcoat, has been post.
poned until next Friday night, February l.
Don't forget the illustrated lecture at the
Western Maryland College tonight that will
be held in Alumni Hall by DR.. Curtis Lee
Laws, of Baltimore. He will lecture on Hol-
land and the Rhine.
Mr.. Clarence w. Zepp, of near Carrolton,
sold his farm of so acres, situated on the
Reisterstown turnpike, to Charles +. Bell,
near Westminster, through W. Frank Thorn
as, real estate agent
Miss Marie Senseney, of Union Bridge,
weekly meeting Of the Lend a Hand Club of
Mount Washington, in the red room at the
Belvedere Hotel, Baltimore.
There will he special meeting of the 10y
al Temperance Legion on Saturday, January
26, at o'clock, at Carroll Hall. The mothers
of the children Of the Legion, the w. {. L.
U. and all friends are invited.
Mr.. John Q. Barlow, chief engineer of the
Western Maryland Railroad, met all the en-
gineers who have been working in the vicinity
of Waynesburg Uniontown and Meyersdale
at Uniontown, Pa, paid them and discharged
them from further duties.
The Westminster Fertilizer Company, sue
cessor to Charles Shaefer, bought on Tuesday
from G. G. Gorsuch, the fertilizer building
aud ground, on Green street, this city. The
sale also includes the joint OF switches and
roadways connected with the grounds.
Quite number of people from this city
and county attended the Academy of Music,
Baltimore, last week to see Hr. +. 5. Willard.
one of the greatest actors that performs in this
country, and were delighted. The Academy
is one of the leading play houses in the East.
Prof James B. Noble. principal of the
High School at Hampstead, has accepted the
offer OF principaIship at the High School at
Trappe Talbot county, Md. Mr.. Lester
Reindollar, of Taneytown, "A graduate Of West
ern Maryland College, has been appointed by
the trustees 10 fill the vacancy made by Prof.
Mobiles resignation.
Miss Elizabeth Sterling, daughter of Mrs.
Henry j. Farber, of Baltimore, formerly of
this city, was photographed on the society page
of the Baltimore American on Sunday last.
She made her debut at the first german given
by the Bachelors Cotillion Club recently i'll
that city, and is greatly admired by society
folks.
Engine COL, the largest locomotive that
ever passed over the Western Maryland Rail
road hauled load of coal through this city on
Tuesday night. It was monstrous piece of
iron and is so high up that the headlight is
set down piece below the boiler 1t is one
of the first delivered of 25 which was order
some time ago.
Mr.. Ii. F. H. Baughman, who has resigned
from the Baltimore city delivery department
of the postoffice to accept an appointment In
the statistical department fthe Customs Ser.
vice, was Friday presented II gold fountain
pen by the men in the department in which
he worked. Mr. Baughman is graduate of
the Western Maryland College, and honor
man of the class of 1885.
The Blue Mountain House and 25 acres of
land adjoining, situated near Pen. Mar, were
sold at public sale at Hagerstown on Tuesday
afternoon by James A. Gary and Christian
Devres, surviving trustees of the Blue Ridge
Hotel Company, under mortgage for $50, 900.
The property was knocked down to h. A.
McComas, of Hagerstown; A. M. Buslck, OF
Baltimore, and Charles S. Lane, of Hagers-
town.
A slight fire occurred in the grocery store
of Harry Gosnell corner of Main and Court
streets, last Sunday afternoon. The cause of
Hbnr lar hnln
burned through the floor directly in front of
the stove door. If the alarm had been delayed
fifteen minutes later there would have been
serious fire, as the fire was dropping down
into the cellar along side of a full coal oil
tank. The fire alarm was given, but the fire
was subdued before the 6remen arrived.
George w. Bowers of near Bloom, slaugh
tered the following porkers during the winter,
commencing December 1906, and ending
January 1897. The weights follows
First bulchering- 2l0, pa, 224, 2O8, 200,
200 and 224; second butchering-2l2 ZIG,
22S, 2O4, 100, 164, 146 and 800; third butch
ering-26O, 2S4, 2S2, 260, 226, 27O, 25s and
23O; fourth butchering-294, 27S, 266, 276.
all I, 722 lbs, averaging 249 lbs. He also
killed beef weighing 1876 lbs.
The Association of Western Maryland Rail.
with about 40 charter members on Tuesday.
The meeting was held at Hotel Baldwin. The
following officers were elected: President, DIR.
Daniel Z. Dunott, Baltimore, chief surgeon
of the Western Maryland; vice presidents.
Drs. j. Mcpherson Scott, Hagerstown, and
E. II. Parsons Piedmont; secretary treasurer,
Dr. Joseph T. Herring, Westminster. The
meeting was followed by banquet, at which
Dr. Dnnott was toastmaster. Those present
from this county besides the officers were DIR.
w. Durbin Brown, and j. N. Kalbaugh, su-
perintendent of motive power, Union Bridge.
On the 7th instant George 2. Thurman,
cattle dealer at Greenmount, purchased
ticket at Hampstead for Baltimore, and since
that time all trace of him has been lost. He
has a family and when he left home he said he
would return in the evening. His mysterious
disappearance is causing his family and
friends much anxiety. Mr.. Thurman is a son
of Mrs. Elizabeth w. Thurman, of Manches-
ter, and the late Edward Thurman, a former
sheriff of Carroll county. He is about 54
years old and has been dealing in cattle for a
long time. 1t is reported that his business
| affairs have recently been troubling him, but
he is in ill health also.
Marshall Washington, colored, of New
Windsor district. was found dead on Sunday
last at Hawks Hill, two miles west of New
WlnuSor, lying dionS renee Ill uoiu'
Washington was last seen at Marshall Hart
socks, where he left on Wednesday evening
in company with a colored mau by the name
of johnson, with a jug of hard cider. 1t is
supposed that Washington was intoxicated
and could not navigate any further and laid
down beside the fence to sober up, where he
fell asleep in the snow, which covered him,
thus preventing his body from being discov-
cred until Sunday morning, when he was
found, the snow having disappeared. Justice
West, of New Windsor, decided coroner's
inquest was unnecessary.
Information has been received in this city
of the accidental death on Sunday at Pitts
burg, Pa, of Andrew Ebaugh, a native of
Hampstead. Mr. Ebaugh was a conductor
on ,he Pennsylvania railroad, and was run
over by car and crushed. He was upward
of 60 years old and leaves widow and one
daughter. He was a son OF the late Joseph
Ehangh. at one time sheriff of this county and
later an inspector of construction in Balti.