The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1907-03-22
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvITIES.
is Palm Sunday.

90 degrees.
A thunder gust passed over this city be-
tween and 10 p. m. Tuesday. The rain
came down in torrents.
DR.. Harry Gardner, of this city, will open
e., office in the room next to the Firemen's
Building, in 81. 81. Harbaughs residence.
Messrs. Bond u Parke, attorneys, were
engaged in the Howard County Circuit Court
the first of the week in defending the B. & o.
R. R. in damage suit.
The County Commissioners on Monday
received and filed the road petition of Lewis
r. Geise and 81 others of the fifth district,
and passed IA number of bills also.
Mrs. Edward Shriver, daughter of Geo. A.
Miller, deputy clerk of the Court, moved to
Baltimore this week, where she will make her
lnure home. She will reside at 164l Monroe
street.
Clarence H. Forrest, secretary of the Mer
chants and Manufacturers Association, of
Baltimore is a defaulter to the sum of nearly
$4,000. Mr., Forrest was formerly of this
county.
DR.. Gordon T. Atkinson, Comptroller of
The State Treasury, announces the quarterly
distribution ,of the ree-school fund for the
quarter of March Is to June Is. CarrolPs
portion is $8,450.60.
The Western Maryland College base ball
club is scheduled to play the Maryland Agri
cultural College team on May IS and Rock
Hill College club on June l. Both games to
take place in this city.
Harvey E. Murray, of Hampstead. entered
suit against the Western Maryland Railroad
Company in the Circuit Court of Carroll
County this week for damages received by
train.
Sterling Grumbine, son of Frank Grum
biue of the West End, while coasting down
Geiman's Hill on bicycle on Saturday, was
accidentally thrown off, fracturing his left col.
larbone. DR.. M. l.. Bott adjusted the frac-
ture.
Mr.. John T. Horner and family of Ration,
New Mexico, have returned to this county to
make their future home. He purchased small
farm on the Baltimore and Reisterstown turn.
pike about two miles from this city. He is a
son of Charles A. Horner.
Mrs. John Shade, of Stonersville, had her
left leg amputated at the knee last Friday at
ST. Luke's Hospital, Baltimore. DR.. Louis
X. Woodward, this city, took the patient to
the hospital and performed the operation.
She is reported as improving.
The case of William Eyler. of near Emmits-
burg, convicted of murder in the first degree
IN the Adams county, PA. y Circuit Court for
killing Howard Miller in Gettysburg in May
last, was taken up by the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, on Monday.
Mr. William E. Warner, the well known
auctioneer of Myers district, wishes to inform
the public that he was the one who obtained the
$l7O5O for horse at Mr.. Wildasin's sale and
not S. H. Crawford, as reported in Sunny
Side Items recently. MIR. Warner had charge
of the sale and Mr.. Crawford was his assist
ant.
The remains of Mr.. Samuel Flater, mem
Der of Salem Lodge, l. o. o. F., and brother
of William Flater, Sandyville, who died and
was buried near Texas, Baltimore county, on
July oath, will be disinterred Tuesday next,
26th instant, and the same evening reinterred
in the family lot in the cemetery at Pleasant
Grove Church, Sandyville. Mr.. James M.
Stoner undertaken.
Some people seem to have the impression
that Charles and Annie Crumbacker, of New
Windsor, have not been divorced. The
records of the Circuit Court show, however.
that Mrs. Crumbacker was granted decree
of absolute divorce from her husband last
September the Court authorizing her TO as
sumo her maiden name of Woods. The decree
was passed by the late Chief Judge |. Thomas
Jones.
While rescuing his wife and child from their
burning home at 3 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing Wesley W. Amspacher, a farmer, of near
Glenrock, was severely burned, and is now in
serious condition. The fire originated from
overheated stove, and before the family
awoke the stairway was filled with smoke and
developed in flames. Lifting the child in his
arms and closely followed by his wife the
farmer fought his way down the stairway to
place of safety. The home was destroyed.
A bill in equity was filed Monday in the
Circuit Court at Towson by the Western Mary
land Railroad against Alva c. Garner. The
complainant claims that it leased property
at Owings Mills, at ground rent of $3.50 per
year, with the privilege of purchasing it for
5000 from the late Milton Painter, and the
defendant, who is the present owner of the
reversion in fee of the property, refuses, 1t IS
alleged, to sell it in accordance with SAID
agreement, and the court is asked to enforce
said sale.
Mr.. Howard Lorentz, of Hoods Mill, was
awakened March H. by unseemy noises IN
his house. Seeming burglars, in stealthy move.
ments he started to locate the trouble. In
stead of finding bold man, with mask over
has face, he discovered that the racket was
caused by battle royal between a weasel and
very large rat. The combatants paid no at
tentlon to Mr.. Lorentz, and kept at 1t In a
hammer and tongs way, until stove poker
lad them low. To get o crack at the rodents,
1t was necessary for Mrs. Lorentz to light
lamp, and get on a chair, to enable her hus-
hatld to get fair show, in which it turned out
" be three cornered fight.
John C.. Spencer, one of our prominent
b ucksters, took the opportunity to VISIT
hi brothers two weeks ago. He went 10
brother
Ho ess'a f. Spencer, who lives there. Early
last Friday morning he took his wife and vent
TO 'ashngton to visit another brother, Rev.
II. G.. Spencer, who lives at Congress Heights,
d. c., also his youngest brother, Albert w.
spencer, who is attending the Spencerlan
Business College, Washington. They returned
Sunday night R,uch pleased with their trip
Edward ID. Maise go years old, was struck
by fret ghttrainaate Friday night, near Wood
bine, and Instantly killed. Mr.. Maisel was
visiting friends .st Woodbine aud is supposed
to have missed the last passenger train ana
started to walk ito his home, near Mount
Airy, when he met his fate. his body was
discovered by railroad men, who notified the
authorities. After aud inquest his body was
brought to Mount Airy and placed in the care
of Undertaken l.. P. Lewis, who prepared it
for burial One brother and one sister sur
vive him.
The following article on the location of the
Exposition grounds of jamestown published
in the Baltimore Sun of March 10 will be OF
great interest to our readers jamestown, the
first permanent English settlementin America
according to the Century Dictionary. occupied
the site of the old Spanish settlement OF San
Miguel, founded in 1926, but soon abandoned.
The English colonists arrived May ID. 1907.
lin September, 1875, the town was almost com.
Pletely destroyed by Nathaniel Bacon, and
@ntil 1898. when IL was supplanted by Will
samsburg, it was the capital of Virginia. The
ste was originally peninsula, but is now a
ssaat island about 81 miles from Norfolk.
Nothing remains but the ruins of the church
tower and few tombs, and the inhabitants
number about is. The grounds Of the Ex-
position are not on jamestown Island, but
front on Hampton Roads near Norfolk.