The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-03-20
Our Jail at the present time has ten

Our jail at the present time has ten
occupants.
Tops, marbles and baseball-sure
harbingers of spring.
st. Patrick's day was not so bad
cloudy up to o'clock and then sun
shine.
Fishermen will do we'll to remem.
Der that it is against the law to catch
bass between April LIST and June 18th.
Bradstreet's says it is cheaper to live
now than it has been at any time in
the last three years. We may be
happy yet.
o. D Gilbert has begun excavation
for a large and handsome dwelling
on his farm near this city. j. Ditman
& Son are the contractors.
A slight fire occurred last Saturday
in the yards of the Citizens Lumber
Company, Green street, near the rail-
road. Little damage was done.
The spring term Of the Carroll
county schools will close on Friday,
March 81. Association Day will be
Friday April 10. Teachers are re-
quested to assemble promptly in the
Westminster High School auditorium
at 10 o'clock on the latter day.
Western Maryland Railroad 4 per
cent. general mortgage bonds sold on
Wednesday in New York at 651s. Soon
after the receiver was appointed bonds
of this company sold as low as 48.
Since the bonds have been steadily adj
vancing.
Wednesday night the Republicans
of Westminster held a meeting and
formed an organization for work in
the coming campaign. H. Peyton Cor
such was eslected chairman and Ivan
l.. Huff, secretary. Another meeting
will be held Monday hight.
The property occupied by N. 1. Cor
such & Son Company, advertised in
the Advocate, was offered at public
sale on Wednesday by Joseph D.
Brooks, trustee, but was withdrawn
because of the inadequacy of the bid.
1t will be sold at private sale.
Superintendent Simpson this week
mailed to each of the teachers in Car
roll county circular letter bearing
upon the Importance of observing
is directed to the program outlined
in the Maryland Teasners' Year Book
as furnishing suggestions for the
proper celebration OF the day.
In the case of Mrs. John Rowe, of
Ringgold, Washington county, who
brought suit against the Western
Maryland Railroad Company for dam
ages for killing her husband at Mid
vale Station, and who was awarded
verdict for $S,835.75 by the court
at Chambersburg last fall, the petition
to advance the case to the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania was dismissed
and the judgment of the lower court
stands.
The death of United States Senator
William Pinkney Whyte has given this
city the distinction of having among
it's residents the oldest elective ex-
State Officer in Maryland, in date of
election. The man is William l.. w.
Seabrook, editor of the American Sem
tinel, who was elected Commissioner
of the Land Office in 1857, and who
was then only "a years old. giving him
the distinction of being the youngest
man ever elected to a State Office in
Maryland.
The work on the bell tower on
Stonesifer's school house, in Westmin
ster district, which mas been in OPP
Grafton for some time, but was inter-
fered with by bad weather, was fin
ished last week. The tower shows
the ability of the mechanics, Frank
Menchey and Clinton Thomas, it being
one of the finest in the county. The
teacher, Miss L. Miraud Nusbaum with
the financial assistance of her pa
irons, has been able to place a $50
pound bell in the tower.
An extension of the receivership of
Mr.. B. F. Bush over all the property
of the Western Maryland Railroad
Company was granted by Judge Nor
ris in the United States Circuit Court
Tuesday. This extension was made
on petition of the Bowling Green
Trust Company Of New York after 1t
had obtained a judgment by confession
against the Railroad Company for
S32599. The first receivership order
covered the general lien and CONVEX
tible mortgage of the Railroad.
The taste for chocolates is not con-
fined exclusively to sweet sixteen.
Three hoboes broke into a freight car
at the depot Tuesday morning, stole
a box of chocolate and carried 1t to
an unoccupied building near by. Be-
fore they had time TO do ample JUS
tice" to the feast, they were discover
ed by our Westminster Sleuths, and
chased four or five miles into the
country. Every able-bodied man in
Bachman's Valley joined in the chase,
but, strange to say, the sweet-toothed
Williams escaped. At one time they
were penned in the barracks on Jere-
miah Geiman's farm, but while the
besigers guarded all the known exits,
the culprits dug out through the silo
and went ION their way" Loss sus-
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