The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-04-03
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Buffalo Bills Wild West Show will
be in York on Friday, May %.
The corporation officials are having
the mud on Main street removed.
John T. Cassell bought the Mrs
McCollum property, West Main street
for $4,000.
Easter Sunday falls this year on the
10th of April-nearly three weeks
later than last year.
This story of the production of an
odorless onion is of absorbing interest
to lots of Westminster girls.
For the year 1907 the poultry pro-
ducts of the country exceeded in value
it is said, the whole of the hay crop.
B. F. Shrievr Co. bought the Jere-
miah Shaeffer farm, $50 acres, on the
Sullivan road, near Westminster, fol
$4,000
Baseball has been introduced among
the outdoor games at Notre Dame Con-
vent, a well-known school for girls
near Baltimore.
George w. Albaugh bought the John
T. Orndorff warehouse and mill prop
erty, now occupied by N. 1. Gorsuch
Sons Co., for $4,000.
William Butler, salesman for Doyle
& Magee, West Main street. sold five
buggies, surrey and set of harness
in four days for the above firm.
John H. Stem, of Winfield, and John
Rinehart, of Mt Airy, must be placed
on the roll with our oldest subscribers
They have been reading the Advocate
forty years.
A festival will be held in Friend
ship schoolhouse on Saturday after
noon and night, April 18th. Proceeds
for necessary school purposes. Every
body invited.
The record of the county clerks Of
flee for the month Vt March was as
follows: Deeds, 101; certificate of in
corporation, bills of sale, Z; mar
riage license issued 26.
The county commissioners transfer
red number of properties in districts
IL and 8 during their session on Tues
day and Wednesday of this week.
Next week they will take up districts
4, 5 and 6.
DR.. w. ]. Selby has removed his
dental parlors to SO E. Main street,
formerly occupied by DR.. John Ma
thias. Dr. Matthias has removed his
Office to 105 E. Main street, formerly
occupied by DR.. Selby.
The electric railway from Baltimore
to Washington was opened for travel
last week. The fare for the single trip
is IS cents and for the round trip $1.25.
The Baltimore terminus is at Balti-
more and Liberty streets.
Frank Armacost, salesman for the
Merchants Grocery Company has taken
the position vacated by Edgar Caple,
and Charles Everhart has accepted
the position as salesman which was
made vacant by Mr-Armaenst------
Poverty socials are the latest. me
guests wear their poorest clotnes' anu an.
fines are imposed Tor the least e'i-
dences of aff1uence in the Apparel
good many of us would be eligible lor
attendance upon these functions.
Oklahoma has passed law imposing
a fine for eavesdropping over tele-
nbone These Oklahoma solons nave
tackled about everything, with the pos
chic execution of the number OF Vlslls
the stork shall be allowed to make.
Oavid 7. Roop, son of Thomas Roop'
Of This CITY, left Wednesday morning
for surrey, North Dakota. Inc posi-
tion with H. T. Petry vacated by MI
Room has been taken by j. Lee FLICK A
niger and his sister, Miss Salile' Is
keening house for Mr.. Petry.
# begins to look as though the CT
chs. with it's clowns, its scantily-a
ed bareback riders and trapeZisls :,, "m ,,s
it's pink lemonade, Will not NC W. W.. of
this season to gladden. the hearts y,
our Youngsters and 10 give pup 9
chance to ''see the animals.
On Wednesday the workmen ensas
ed in tearing down the old cnurcn q.
Iineboro took out the CONVERSIONS
which was put there in 1898. IL con,
tanned some interesting papers ana
nnr,her of coins. A new church pulid-
mo 10 tn he erected on the site OF Tie
old one.
Rudolph Diffenbach, after hnlsnlhs
course at the Biltmore Forest
school, North Carolina, RECEIVING ene
dearee of Bachelor of Forestry, mas
been appointed to a position IN tne
Government service, ana is at present
in Washington, preparing to take the
field for active WORK.
On Sunday afternoon Mrs. George
Weaver, of Patapsco, was SO seVerely
burned that she had to be taken to the
Jobns Hopkins Hospital. A can con-
tanning coal oil was upset on the kltcn-
on floor. and in some way the oil was
fenited. In trying to ext1ngulsh the
flames. Mrs. Weaver's clothing caugnt
fire and she was painfully burned
ahout the face and body. DR.. Sellers
rendered immediate aid.
An extra large peach crop in YORK
county this year is predicted by Danlei
HiIdebrand, of Voc, an extensive grow.
or He says, after an examination VI
MANY orchards, he finds that tnere die
double the number of buds on the Trees
that there were last year at tllis LINZ.
The recent war against the pan 'u o,s
scale. he says, has greatly lmpfoVeu .4a
orchards and only heavy laIe iio'''
could prevent big crop.
Iobn r. Edwards, OF Westminster
voc tbis week awarded scholarship
tn one of the universities OF Atnens'
araooe Mr.. Edwards, with a NUMBER
~ others took the examination at me l.,
Johns Hopkins. where he is pupL
and carried off the prize. Mr.EdWaruss
is a graduate of Western Maryland
College. is a hard student,and deserves
ali the honors that may come 10 HILL
He expects to be away one year.
The western Maryland expects 10
roeta Pen Mar Park very attractive
during the coming summer ana new
on,,,cement features will be introduces,
the principal novelty talked OF Deihs 3
commodious skating rink, WneIe q
saries of polo games between Mary,anu
4 and Pennsylvania teams Will pc play
"a The summer schedule Will Jake
oesaot ahout June Is and large noun
tain and excursion business Is
pected.
Edwin Gould, brother OF George =;
Gould head of all the Gould rahro I1a
1;nee was in Baltimore this week. nc
dan;ed the rumors that BaitimoIe
would be abandoned IN the pu III rna.
nm of the great Wabash system W
son of the Western Maryland leIe r;tv
shin He said the Monuments G .,.,s
would eventually become the teIn n;o.,
of the road after the western eACe ns..Ia
70 Pittsburg was completed. MI. uouiu
snent q day at Gettysburg.
The Westminster Fire Company &C
canted the invitation from the rl1s.
bnrr Fire Company on Wegnesua sue,
nscht to attend the Maryland osa =,
Eiramen.s Convention held IN June -
that town. and elected the loiioWlhs