The Democratic advocate., 1907-04-26
LOCAL BREVITIES.

LOCAL BREvITIES.
Mr. Harry F. Cover & Son shipped severa
,rInads of cattle this week from this station.
The CORPORATION is cleaning up the rubbish
from the alleys that has accumulated there
since last year.
number of our citizens who planted cab
haze plants the first part of April, claim they
are all frozen.
The concrete crossings ordered to be laied
hv the Mayor and Council last January have
been finished.
Cantain P. II. Irwin is having concrste
pavement laid in front of his residence, East
Main street.
Mrs Nelson Mitten, East Main street, had
her residence painted this week. Llppy and
CasselI were the artists.
Nessrs. Theo. Englar and Ezra c. Brown,
Role Grove Square, are having concrete
nayements laid in front of their residences.
This citv was crowded full of automobiles
On sunday last. No less than nine passed
down Liberty street on their way to Baltl-
more.
Smith Yingling Co., Gamers. are quarry.
inc, stone back of their cannery preparatory to
Imilding new factory, that has been under
consideration by them for some time.
Mr. VIM. II. Cape, of Easlview, has sold
his home farm, containing $50 acres, TO his
san George Ii. Caple, who resides there. Mr..
C,nle will continue to make his home at the
old homestead, near Eastvlew.
Mr. William L. Amos, conductor of the
F,rmers' Institute, whose serious illness has
Laen before noted is now in New York City
undpr special treatment, having already made
substantial progress towards complete restora-
ton to health.
Mr. F. A. Hidey has sent three pieces of
furniture to the jamestown Exposition. This
furniture was manufactured in the Manual
Training Department of the Westminster High
school. and will go toward furnishing room
in the Maryland building.
On Sunday last an excursion over the West
ern MARYLAND Railroad from Elkins, w. Va.
passed through this city on its way to Baltl-
more about noon. The excursion lett Elklns
about II u. m.. Saturday night, and consisted
of seven coaches.
The Haeerstown Mail under date of April
10 says:-"It is understood that the w. NJ.
will sell all of their engines of the 300 class
and replace them with larger ones, the size of
The 500 class. The former are found to be
100 light for the service"
Mr.. Elmer E. Yinging, son of Mr.. Paul
lmgllng. OF Liberty street., Is lpitIldil WI 'hC
Fred. Frick Clock Co., Waynesboro, Pa, and
is at the present time taking measurements
for the fixtures in the Cecil National Bank at
Port Deposit, Md, for which the company has
the contract
The Western Maryland College Base Ball
Club seems to have struck their gait. On Sat
urday they defeated the University of Mary.
Iand of Baltimore, by score of to 4. The
score stood to when Western Maryland
went to the bat in its half of the ninth inning
The pitching of Havenstrike for Western
MARYLAND College was the leading feature.
This was the fourth straight victory for the
Western Maryland College.
A select dance was held at the Armory on
Green street, on last Friday night by the mem
hers of Company H. A number of the guests,
not used to dancing on a waxed floor, cut
some awful figures and performed stunts that
would have put the greatest acrobat performer
in the world out of business. The affair was
a pronounced success, and all seemed to he In
n Joyous mood after some fearful Jols, when
all was over in the wee sma hours OF the
morning.
In razing an old house at New Windsor,
upon the site of which fine dwelling is to be
erected the laborers found a human skull.
In excavating for the foundation of the new
structure they also found portions of two hu
man skeletons buried in the cellar. While the
presence of these gruesome relics on the prem.
ises is something of a mystery, 1t is supposed
by most persons that it may be accounted tor
by the fact that the house was formerly occu-
pied at different times by two physicians, one
ur both of whom may have been making re-
searches into the anatomy of the human body.
The Hampstead Enterprise of April 10 says:
The party who asked the Mason Il Dixon
Mining Co. to meet them in Manchester on
April l6 to offer them an outlet for their ore
from the Bachman Valley Mines, did not turn
up and no definite arrangements were made.
The offer was to build to the w. NJ. h. K.
via Manchester. This route would give the
Mining Company fine outlet for their ore at
comparatively small cost and would be di
rect communication with the county seat from
Manchester. Was he gold brick man?
Mr. Eli H. j. Houck, who is alleged to have
shot Mr. George Miles last week at Monktou,
was released from Towson Jail Saturday by
Justice Herbert on 900 bail furnished by
Lewis Troyer and Harvey Sutton. The re.
lease of Mr.. Houck was secured by his coun-
sci, Attorneys John Grason apd John Mays
Little. They brought the matter before Judge
Burke and presented letter from DIR. L. Ross
Payne of Corbett, in which he stated that Mr..
Niles CODulllOu was SOOl anu He ulu Hot COlI'
Sider him in immediate danger. The Judge
then ordered Mr.. Houck' release.
A number of citizens of Frizellburg and
vicinity appeared before Judge Thomas on
Monday to protest against the granting of
liquor license to Mr.. John A Hippel, who
conducts a saloon on the outskirts of the viii
lage fFrizellburg. After hearing the Witnesses
summoned on both sides Judge Thomas
decided to uphold the protest and refused Mr..
lippel his license. Jacob Jenkins, of Elders.
burg, who was also an applicant for liquor
license, withdrew his application after being
notified of several protests being filed against
him.
A bill of complaint was filed in the Circuit
Court at Towson on Wednesday by Mr.. Fred
erick H. Gemmil against his wife, Mrs. Lucy
j. Gemmill, asking the court to award the Gus
tody of their infant child to him unless his
wife will take up her abode in home apart
from her mother and sister. The bill is a mar
rative of alleged mother-in-law troubles. The
sister in law also figures prominently. 1t is
stated that Mr.. and Mrs. Gemmil were mar.
ried in 1905, and through the inducements of
the BRIDES relatives they went to live with her
sister, Miss Daisy NJ. Winterode, and mother,
Mrs. Barbara j. Winterode, at Reisterstown.
Raymond C. Norwood, 1S years old, let,
ternan IN the employ OF tne Nortnern Centrti
Railroad, was struck and instantly killed by
locomotive hauling the Annex train south
bound, for Bayview Junction, at 10 clock,
last Friday morning. Young Norwood was
dispatched with a railroad order from the
trainmaster at Union Station, and was crossing
the tracks at the eastern end of the passenger
train shed when he stepped right in front of
the Annex train. The pilot of the locomotive
struck him and threw him in the middle OF
the track, and before the momentum of the
engine could be stopped two cars had passed
over his body.
While attending meeting of the Ladies'
Aid Society of her church, at the home of
Rev. Mr.. Goodwin, of Gyndon, on Thursday
afternoon of last week. Mrs. Emmie F. Mich
olson, wife of Mr.. Fl. Q. Nicholson, of Refs
aersown, was stricken with spopexy and died
"lIhout regaining consciousness. Mrs. Mich.
Olson was the daughter and the last surviving
member of the family of the late Rev. David
Feelemyer, of Ellicott City, and was 66 years
OF age. Her husband is editor and publisher
fho NJ III D.. H..