The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-04-08
UNIONTOWN DISTRICT.

Mrs. Hannah Dutterer, of Wood
side, spent last week near Denn1ngs.
The Progressive Brethren Confer
ence for Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Virginia, will convene ON the 18th OF
May, in the Linwood Church.
Mrs. Annie CARRIER, of New Windsor,
moved last week to Uniontown and
will make her home in the future with
her brother, George Selby.
About thirty friends from New
Windsor, Linwood, Clear Ridge and
Uniontown surprised Mrs. James
Cover with kitchen Shower" on her
birthday, Friday evening, April list.
Edward Formwalt, one of our mer-
chants, was in Baltimore this week,
purchasing spring and summer goods.
Mrs. Alice Zile and Mrs. Linnie
DuvalI, OF Warfieldsburg, visited at
Edward Boards, Clear Ridge, on Sun
day.
Mrs. Sallie Morelock, Of Westmins-
ter, is visiting at Mrs. Martha Sing
ers; James Schweigart was also a
visitor there this week.
About fifty people attended the
moving of William Eckenrode and his
father, George Eckenrode, who moved
to the farm of Ex-County Commits
sioner Daniel s. Diehl on Friday,
and sixty attended the moving of
Tax Collector Ezra Caylor, who
moved from Postum Hollow to the
home he purchased of Mrs. Alice
Brough i'm Uniontown.
Evangelist John Warden, OF Har-
risburg, is a visitor this week at the
Lutheran parsonage while conduct
ing services each evening at Winters
Church.
Rev. Mr.. Murray and sons, Sher-
man and Ross, visited his daughter,
Miss Arminta, who is being treated
for her eyes at the Presbyterian hos
pital in Baltimore, on her birthday,
On Saturday.
Miss Elizabeth Sittig, of Baltimore,
is spending a short vacation at the
home of her father, Charles Sittig,
near Uniontown.
Mrs. James Waltz, of Clear Ridge,
who has been on the sick list nearly
all winter, is slowly improving.
Mrs. Amanda Herring, of Westmins-
ter, il visiting her sister, Mrs. Benton
Flater, near Uniontown.
Arthur F. Sittig went to Baltimore
on Wednesday to seek employment.
IlCN. VI. y. IT'LL, pdSIOl vi IhO ~uCIA-
odist Protestant Church, Uniontown,
pipe Creek ChargeD is attending the
Maryland Annual Conference, which
is in session at Broadway Church,
Baltimore.
Aprops of the large hats now worn
by ladies. On the garnet of the cen
tury-old Hyder house, Uniontown, Md,
is a BandboX, twenty-five inches in
diameter and sixteen inches high.
1T is covered with canary yellow
paper, with figures Is inches high OF
a shepherdess and swain, both dress
ed in rose color faced with green.
She, with a crook, adorned with a
bow of ribbon, lamb by her side. The
Bandbox is at least over sixty years
old, probably much older. Also In
the same house is fan, made i'm 1870
at the death of President Harrison
The fan is oblong, white on one side,
blue on the reverse. The handle l. bam-
boo. The figures are raised. In the
center is log cabin and barrels OF
cider. CThe Wings took as their bat
tle-cry, the s1ur Of their opponents,
that Harrison lived in log cabin and
drank hard cider.) The motto Is,
ITO log cabin frugality, we owe our
independence" The base is a lamb
with a willow tree and the figure Of a
woman weeping. Also, in the same
house there il a programme of a
School Exhibition, held on March
"a, 1888, in the old school house with
the door facing the east, that stood on
the site OF the present old school
house, used as a warehouse by E.
Formwalt. Those taking part were /:
John Cookson, Edward, Alfred and
Fletcher Zollickohe1, William Martin,
Frank Williams, John and Oliver Cox
David Rinehart, Jacob Christ, John F.
Hyder, John McCreary, Mary Hyder.
Alfred Shriner, Sarah Smith, Peter
Kephart, Edgar Curry, c. Appler, J.
Haines, E. kellar and T. Banks.