The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-03-11

We were visited by another snow
yesterday which melted as fast as i
fell.
Mr. William IT. Geiman, near thi;
CITY, had hi plows running on Satur
day last.
The next attraction our advertisers
VIII present to our readers will BIZ
their spring opening.
Mr.. ID. r. Bittinger, Of Hanover. Pa.
was IN this city on Saturday and at.
tended the Grange meeting.
The bill introduced BY Senator
Beasman in the Senate to amend the
charter of Manchester was favorabIy
reported on Friday.
MIR. John III. Martin, Of Baltimore
mas purchased the A. P BerWage1
farm, near Tannery, and will move on
i the property about April LIST.
The bill to amend the charter Of
Union Bridge, introduced in the House
by Mr.. Stoner, was favorably reported
ana engrossed for third reading.
The Advocate received from Mr.. w.
A Shaw, UniontoWn, Md, The Houston
| (Texas) Daily Post this week. Mr..
Shaw is touring through the South.
The Western Maryland College base
ball club is scheduled to play the Mt.
st. Mary's club on April 80 at Emmits-
| burg, and Mt. St. Mary's in this city on
May p.
1t is not possible that either Hag-
erstown, Frederick or Winchester will
have base ball team this coming
season. Not a professional team at
any rate.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Hesson
requiring Industrial insurance COM
panies to take out licenses was order
ed engrOssed for a third reading on
Wednesday.
Mr.. John Shank has taken the Lawn
dale school, which was vacate the first
of March by Miss Grace Baseman
Miss Baseman was transferred at her
own request to Paramount which is a
larger school.
The sixth grade of the Westminster
high school was dismissed for a few
days yesterday morning by Principal
Geo. F. Morelock as a precaution
against scarlet fever, which one of its
scholars is ill with.
The first rehearsal for Miss Bob
White will be given at the residence
of DR.. Lewis x. Woodward, West Main
street, on Tuesday, March ID, at 7.30
p. m. The play is to be given in ben
eft of the Westminster orchestra.
1t has been rumored in this city
that the Knapp Labelling Machine
Plant, on Chase street, has been sold
to some financiers in New York city.
A representative of the Knapp Works
was interviewed, but he stated that he
was not at liberty to say anything on
the subject.
Mr.. VIM. B. Smitten, of Westmins-
ter, who is i'm the lightning rod bus
mess, appreciates that now is the time
for the rods to be examined and new
ones put on the buildings before the
thunderstorm season of the summer
begins. He can be seen everyday be-
hind his fast horse attending to bust
ness.
The Westminster base ball club last
year was very successful, except of
an Indebtedness of about $100. This
debt could be wiped out, says DR..
Myers, the treasurer of the club, if the
subscriptions which he has upon his
the parties who owe this money will
not allow the directors of the club
responsible for this debt.
One hundred and seventy-five dol
lars damage was the verdict of the
jury Saturday in the case of Mrs.
Amanda G. Harbaugn, of Hagerstown,
Md, who brought suit for $4,000
damages against Jacob Bovey and his
daughter, Miss Katie Bovey, for the
alleged alienation of her husbands af-
fections. The jury at the same time
exonorated Miss Bovy's father from
blame.
SiXty-two men who were engaged in
clearing the Canadian Pacific track in
Rogers Pass, ID. c., at the summit of
the Selkirk Range were entombed by
an avalanche early March 5 and all
are probably dead. The men were
working in clearing away a small
slide that had come down early in the
evening. They were working ro-
tary engine over it when an immense
mass came down and carried some of
them to their death in the canyon be-
low.
Thomas Collier Plat, former United
States Senator from New York, died
at his home in New York Sunday aged
rs years. He was leader of the Re
publican party in his State for over a
quarter of a century and was charac-
terized as the Easy Boss" He was
the colleague Of Senator Conkling and
for a long time welded a national
prestige in the Republican party. He
pushed Theodore Roosevelt to the
front and nominated him for Vice
President on the ticket with Mckinley
at Philadelphia.
Andrew NJ Warner, West Main St.,
left at the Advocate an issue Of the
Carroll County Democrat, of April
"a, 1851. Josiah T. H. Bingham was
the editor and proprietor at that time.
In this issue advertising was more
extensive and at present. Some
of advertisers were Hayden & Baum
gardner, VIM. P. Maulsby, Joseph M.
Parke, Abner Neal, T.. y. CrOut, Dan
iel l.. Hoover, attorneys at law; mer-
chants-H. L. Norris, Jesse Ref
snider, &C. Dentist-Geo. A. Fouke
and VIM. Tell Zollickoffer. The mar
| ket price OF whisky was "a cents a
gallon.
When DR.. Joshua W. Herring; the
Comptroller of the Treasury, entered
his Office at Annapolis, Tuesday morn