The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1907-02-15
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Springfield Hospital, Sykesville, on February
10.
A cow belonging to Mr. Charles Forman,
near this city, was found lying dead in its stall
on Saturday morning.
Mr.. John Myers, farmer living in Bach.
mans Valley, while hauling wheat to this city
with a team ofhorses on Thursday one of them
dropped dead.
The Maryland Agricultural College base
ball team, College Park, Md, is scheduled to
play the Western Maryland College in this
city on May Is.
A correspondent in renewing his subscrip-
ton this week from New Freedom, Pa, says
II cannot do without the good old Carroll
county Democrat paper"
Rev. Fl. P. Sanders, who has resigned as
pastor of Taneytown and Piney Creek Pres
byterian Churches, left there last Monday for
his new field of labor in Iowa.
Mr.. Albert Feeser, of Taneytown, who was
hurt recently in a runaway accident, near Lit
tlestown, and is at the home of Mr.. Ezra
Shoemaker, is improving rapidly.
Mr.. Newton Cullson, of Arcadia, who was
recently appointed to a position in the Inter
nal Revenue Service, in Baltimore, took up
the duties of the Office last week.
Mr.. Greenbury R. Sappington, of Freder.
lex county, has purchased the farm of 100
acres belonging to Mrs. Ordella r. Dorsey,
of near Unionvile, for So, 400.
Mr.. John M. Roberts, we'll known lawyer of
this city, had an operation performed for a
lump on his jaw that had been annoying him,
at a hospital in Baltimore, this week.
Mr.. James P. Wordsworth, of Woodbine,
from 20 cows shipped in January 1850 gallons
of milk Mr.. Molesworth takes a great inter-
est in his cows, and is carefully grading them
up as pail-fllers.
The second annual meeting of the Liberty,
Woodsboro and townsville Horse Company
was held Saturday last at Simpson s store, at
Libertytown, and was largely attended, nearly
every member being present.
Mr.. Lester w. Armacost. of Thurmont,
formerly of this city, and son of w. l.. Arma-
cost, Park avenue, has been appointed agent
for the Mutual Fire Insurance Company OF
Carroll County for Frederick county.
While helping TO repair the ice pillow Oil The
Rockdale Powder Co.'S. dam last week, at
Hoffmanville, where Mr.. Newman, of York,
is filling the large icehouse, w. Scott Lndwick
had the misfortune to receive an ugly wound
in one of his legs.
Mrs. Caroline C. Long, of Hampstead,
slipped on the ice on February l and in fall
ing to the ground broke her left arm just
above the wrist. DR.. r. f. Richards adj sted
the fracture and while suffering some pain,
she is doing AS well as could be expected.
Mr.. Augustus Humbert, the genial and
efficient steward of the Carroll County Home,
treated number of the inmates to Il sled ride
during the recent snow. The kind act was
greatly appreciated by those who were able to
take the ride.
The NJ. E. Church, at townsville, has been
newly painted, beautifully papered and deco
rated by Mr.. G. j. Nicodemus. 1t will be
reopened for religious services Sunday, Feb
ruary "a, services at 1890 a. m. DR.. j. T.
Heisse will be in attendance and will preach.
Commissions were issued at the office of the
Adiutaut General on Friday last to John W.
Weigle, captain of Company H, First Regi-
ment, stationed at Westminster, and William
n. Frizzell, second lieutenant. Captain
Weigle takes the place of Capt. Claude L.
Smith, who signed.
Owing to the new rate law which prohibits
the granting of rebates or commissions to So
cieties on the sale of excursion tickets the
Western Maryland Railroad Company will
not book any excursions for societies during
the coming season nor give any rebate or COM
mission on tickets.
ii tIlt llOuSt COlutlttS WIN 'IF '''uL'V VII
the proposed increase salary bill for free de-
livery mail carriers and the new salary limit
becomes law by the signature of President
Roosevelt, three of the Westminster carriers
will receive $1,000 year. They are Charles
Mackley, Adam Gernand and Abraham Will
liams.
The first through train from Charlesiown,
w. Va, to Cumberland, arrived there Satur
l 10, az ~
Pilsen'' company. The train ran as a special
and came over the Coal and Coke railroad,
owned by ex Senator Henry G. Davis, and
the Western Maryland railroad. The Coal
and Coke and Western Maryland railroad put
Washington and Baltimore AT least 100 miles
nearer Charleston.
Mr.. j. Q. Barlow, chief engineer of the
Western Maryland Railroad. has moved to
Baltimore from Cumberland, and opened his
headquarters in the Contlnental Building,
where the company has its general offices.
The assistant engineers will also be located in
Baltimore instead of Cumberland. The
change is said to be due to the fact that the
surveys in connection with the link to be
built between Wheeling and Cumberland have
been completed.
Albert Grimes, who was arrested recently
on the charge of being implicated in the post
office robbery at Sykesvile, on January IA,
was released Saturday by United States Com
missioner Rogers, who decided that there was
not sufficient evidence against him to warrant
his detention. Grimes, his father. Frank
Grimes, and James Dolan, both of whom
were arrested in connection with the same
case. were given hearing last week aud AL
bert Grimes was held for the action of the
Federal grand jury.
The executive committee of the Cumber
land Valley Volunteer Firemen's Association
has announced that there will be no tiremens
celebration this year, the towns which were
asked to entertain the firemen decided that
they are not prepared to do so. There will
be business meeting of the Association in
Chambersburg. May 8, 9 and 10, but there
will be no parade or contests. The last one
was held in Chambersburg, Pa. in May, 1906,
iii which our company took part.
In Union Bridge ON January g. while the
mercury was down to 16 below zero, the fire
bell sounded the alarm, many people hurried
from their dwellings, but were unable to locate
the scene of conhagration. In short time it
was asceriained that the cause of tho
alarm was the explosion of the large
kitchen range in the Union Bridge Hotel
One of the cooks was standing by the range
at the time of the explosion, and was struck
on one of her limbs by piece of the broken
range, and her hair was set on fire by the fly
ing Goals, which were scattered all over the
kitchen. The fire was extinguished before
much damage was done.
Mrs. Martha Shane Fowler, widow of the
late John Fowler, of Unionvile, a basket
maker who died several years ago, was found
dead in her bed in her home, lonely
habitation in the woods about three miles
south of this village, on February 2, and
it is reported that she died of hunger,
cold and neglect. Her little boy Of 8
years, who was with her at the time, re-
ported to a neighbor of his mothers death.
Mrs. Fowler was the oldest daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ferdinand Shane. well known in
this section, and was about 40 years old. She
is survived by her two children, her mother