The Democratic advocate., 1909-03-26
It's your move.
Farmers sales are about over.

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Thursday.
March winds and April showers
bring May flowers.
Some Of the material for the fire-
alarm system arrived on Tuesday.
Doyle & Magee will give away 5000
caps this spring to all desiring one.
Large numbers Of cattle are being
shipped to Baltimore, fine stock bring
+ ing Sc a hundred pounds.
Sheriff Townshend reports that his
hotel Is filling up. And such fine
weather outside. Queer taste.
The Maryland Telephone Company
has a force OF men busily engaged in
renewing their lines in the rural dis
tricts. The company has decided to
discontinue the county lines.
Comptroller Herring announces the
quarterly distribution OF the State
school tax. Carroll county's portion
is $S,450.60 Only 4 counties In the
State get larger sum than this.
John e. Crout, Baltimore, son Of
the late John Il. Crout, has been
awarded the privileges at Pen Mar
Park heretofore awarded his father,
by the Western Maryland Railroad
Company.
The Odd Fellows are at sea on the
opera proposition IN their hall The
architects explained a dlficlty that
the Odd Fellows wanted 10 overcome.
which cannot be remedied They will
possibly build an opera house In the
rear Of the hall.
Lancaster ministers have Joined
an association to fight the secret so
cieties. They say these organizations
are relics OF a barbarous age, when
men were denied the right OF free
speech and open meetings, and that
such societies have no places In mod
ern civilization.
The big horse sale last week of H.
A. Smith, Hanover, advertised in the
Advocate. amounted 10 S13.646.50
There were az horses sold at an as-
erage OF sl47. and 25 mules, which
averaged S12s.50 each One pair Of
fine gray horses weighing 2sGS pounds
were knocked down to the Union Fire
Co, Of York. at s465.
ohHuS ftit anu FNtAVsrU BAhtUhA
teams will play game Of baseball on
the Westminster grounds. on John |
street, Saturday afternoon. at 2 y. m. !
These two teams have been rivals for |
some years and a good game can be |
expected. Several players who desire /
TO become members Of the westmin- |
ster team viii play on both teams.
The Advocate will run column |
under the head OF Announcement"
In which any person who desires q /
nomination for one OF the Offices TO /
be allied by the election next fall may /
announce his candidacy These cards l
will be published from the time Of In /
sertion up 10 the date OF the prifnariea /
and fee OF Si.00 will be charged for /
same. Come early and secure front |
seat
The entertainment which was given |
at Wlsner'g schooihouse on Thurs /
day evening, March IS. will be repro |
duced AZ the l. O. M hall, In Union !
Mills, on Saturday evening, March "a. /
IL the weather should be incEemeni ]
on the above date, "a will then be held !
on Tuesday evening, March 30. Music |
will be furnished by the Union Mills
Orchestra. Door viii open promptly /
at 7 y. m,
Mrs. Mary L. Herring. widow OF /
Granville Herring. OF this county. |
has sold her farm OF 165 acres. near /
Sandyville, to John A. Strong, pro-
prietor of the Calyerton Dairy. OF /
Baltimore. The consideration ls sup /
posed TO have been about $4,000. 4
The sale was made through Charles |
II. Woods. attorney. Si4 Equitable /
building. Baltimore, formerly OF |
Westminster.
An automobile run has been sched- /
uled to go through Gettysburg May 3. I.
consisting OF the Harrisburg Motor |
Club. containing about 35 cars. They /
will run by way OF Harper's Ferry /
and Frederick. the last checking sta |
tlon being In front OF the White House /
at Washington. On the second day |
they will return TO Harrisburg via 1
Baltimore. Westminster, Hanover,
York and Lancaster
The REGISTER brass factory ia reg |
ular beehive Of Industry these DAYS. |
Six more men were put on last week, |
and there are now about 80 EMPLOYEES
at work Frank Power starts out ON |
the road with q case OF samples next |
week, and II he Is as succeasful in /
getting orders for brass goods as he /
wa getting votes for Bryan and Tai |
bot last fall, the factory will have 10 /
was getting votes for Bryan and Tai |
double force after he has been out a
few days.
The annual raid that IL made on the |
railroad depot at New Windsor By /
thieves occurred on Thursday night I
OF last week. The thieves did not /
gain entrance into the ticket office, but |
entered the waiting room, where they |
tore a 9. & r. telephone on Of the wall
and took chewing gum slot machine /
and carried them some distance from |
the station and tore them open TO Sc
cure what money they contained. The
telephone was found in the stream OF 1
water opposite the station.
While Miss Madeleine Gilbert was
out riding Saturday afternoon her
horse stumbled and fell, throwing the
young lady TO the ground and spraln-
ing her right ankle Miss Gilbert
WAS assisted into the Advocate Office,
and was shortly afterward taken
home In a carriage. She has since
been confined to the house. and Is
getting around with the aid of
crutches. The horse which Miss GIL
bert was riding had its leg broken in
the stable Monday night by a kick
from another horse, and had to be
shot.
Bradley Mann, Of Finksburg. writes
us that he caught coons on S sue
cessiye nights. Two OF these were
largest ever caught IN Carroll county L