The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1907-09-20
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

& 7O5. The farm contains PIP acres.
concrete gutter is being laid by Harry X.
and Frank T. Shaffer, Pennsylvania avenue.
Mr. Edward Hof' is doing the work.
MIR. Charles H. Lantz, butcher, East Main
street. has a sunhower which measures %
inches in diameter. Who can beat 1t?
Mr.. John Frick. of near Smallwood, had
the misfortune to lose valuable horse on last
Friday in this city from ruptnred bowels. tie
fell dead on Main street, near Ralph.
The Littlestown Silk Mill was sold recently
to the people who have been running ii tor
about year, w. r. Thomas, Jr., OF Gaia.
sauoua, and Charles Lott, of Allentown.
The Frank A. Robbins Circus arrived in
this civ this morning about g. 30 o clock. The
show para pharnalia was mt once unloaded and
taken To the show lot on John street extended.
chicken egg of immense proportions is IN
the uossession of Mrs. j. David Crowl, near
tins city, and is quite q curiosity. The egg is
ginches around long ways and I inches the
other.
Mr., Flavius T. Sullivan, Manchester, has
sold the Washington Hotel to George Rabeh-
stein and son, Hanover, Pa, formerly of
Melrose The new managers took charge
last week.
Mr.. Charles Lppy, of the firm of Babylon
Il lippy Co., this city, purchased the house
and lot of Mrs Mary Matthias, sold on Satnr.
day last by George w. Brown, agent. The
price was $2705.
The Christian Endeavor Society of Grace
Lutheran Church will give a measuring social
in the lecture room of the church Thursday
evening. September % The public is cor.
daily invited to attend.
Hattie Thurman, daughter of Mr.. Charles
Fuhrman near this city. fell on the board.
walk at the West End schoolhouse Tuesday
morning and broke her ankle. DIR. 5. l..
Baer adjusted the fracture.
The Day of Atonement, or Yom kippur,
was celebrated on Wednesday last From
the beginning Of the days celebration until
the end the Jews keep an absolute fast and do
not take even IA drink OF water.
Luella, the 9.year old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo P. Wentz of near Manchester. who
was seriously wounded in shooting accident
recently by bullet from a revolver penetrat'
ing her right lung is improving.
Defenders Day was celebrated in New
Windsor with parade and other amuSements.
In the afternoon an exciting game OF baseball
was played in which the home team was de.
feated by Il score of | to by IA club from
Baltimore.
The School Board of Carroll County APP
pointed Edwin S. Shriver. this city, to Il
scholarship at Charlotte Hall; Mongle u.
AIgire, Hampstead, and Edna l4arue Myers,
of Medford scholarships TO the Western Mary
land College.
The Western Maryland Railroad has given
orders that all signs placed on the exterior ct
box cars, descriptive ofthe contents or other
wise, must be removed. When cars bringing
any such signs arrive in the yards the signs
are immediately removed.
large bank barn on the farm of Buchanan
Dixon, near Urbana, was destroyed by fire at
noon Friday with its contents, consisting OF
| 900 bushels of wheat hay and some farming
implements. An overheated bearing on II
threshing machine set fire to some straw.
At the second days session of the annual
meeting of the Presbytery of Maryland held
Wednesday at Owings' Mills Presbyterian
Church, an adjourned business meeting WAS
held in the morning. Mr.. Edwin NJ Alexan-
der, OF this city, was examined and assigned
to the Western Maryland College to take Il
preparatory course for the ministry.
The A. McGinnis Company, distllers of
the McGinnis rye whisky. at Carrollion, has
opened local offices at 5ll American Build.
ing, Baltimore. The distllery has just been
rebuilt and enlarged to a capacity of 10000
barrels year. and with improved facilities
for storage. The offices here are to take care
of the local business.
At a meeting of the congregations of Tan
eytown and Piney Creek Presbyterian
Churches it was decided to present unani
nous call to Rev. r. H. Whi,esde, of Mount
Airy. N. j. Mr.. Whilesde is graduate of
the University of Edinburg, Scotland, and
has been in this country only three years. He
If tho Snaci.l nraacharS during the
summer in connection with a Christian con
ference. and he attracted large numbers of
the Scotch and Iiish people to hear him.
Mr.. Linwood Stephens, musical director of
Union Bridge, has just completed contract
for seven years engagement to furnish or
chestra music for the Royal Skating Rink at
Pittsburg. which is owned and managed by
G. b. Hollenberry. The engagement opens
on October LIST. The musicians are as follows :
Linwood Stephens, director; Tracey Barr,
cornei; Henry Blair. clarionet; l.. D. Penn,
baritone, John F. Yinger, French horn, and
II. Lee Hanschew, traps
A colored man, who gave his name as JAS
Farce and address of 907 McDonough street,
Baltimore. was arrested Sunday by Officer
Henry Kerner, of the Northeastern Police
district, on suspicion of being Al. Carter, the
negro who murdered in cold blood Mr.. Thos.
M. Rhinehart, white man, at Dorsey Run,
April 7. A reward of 81 1850 has been offered
by the father of the murdered man, Mr.. VIM.
Rhinehart, for the capture of Carter.
On Tuesday morning last. while descending
from the hurricane deck TO the middle deck
of the steamer Ticonderoga, on Lake Cham.
plain, Mr.. Charles E. Stewart, of this city,
missed his footing and fell, sustaining dislo.
Gated shoulder and compound fracture OF the
humerus. He was taken to the Mary Fletcher
hospital, Burlington VT, where ne was cared
for by DR.. Hawiey, and is reported as resting
comfortably. The healing process will proba-
bly, be long, as the bones were crushed to-
gether at the shoulder in way to effect the
arteries and nerves. Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart
were the guests of President l.. S. Loree and
Vice. President C. S. Sims. of the Delaware
g. Hudson r. R., who we're on tour of in.
spection of that system. Mr.. Stewart will
make the Journey home in special car, and
possibly will stop at Baltimore hospital for a
few days, en- route, though he may come di.
rectly to his own home.
Traffic arrangements have been entered
into by the Western Maryland Railroad with
the Norfolk and Western and the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroads, which will permit the
former to run daily car of freight heBal-
timore into territory of West Virginia to
which the service heretofore has been very
unsatisfactory. Merchants have complained
that it has taken from 10 to Is days to get a
car of goods through from this city to Charles.
ton, for instance, whereas Cincinnati could
deliver freight to that section within "a hours.
The result was to give that city big advan-
tage over Baltimore merchants. The com
plaints were taken up with the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad by the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association and the informa.
ton was received that the Western Maryland
was about to conclude arrangements for the
delivery of daily car to the Chesapeake and
Ohio.
Democrats, if your neighbor
has moved from one district TO