The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-03-29
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Farmers are beginning to get busy
Now ID the time to clean up the
alleys and vacant lots.
Mr.. Charles L. Thomson has sold
the stock and fixtures of the First
National Restaurant It'd Mr. Harry C-
Albaugh, OF Baltimore, who will take
charge on April J..
An interesting address by Hon. Os-
car w. Underwood, of Alabama, on
the subject OF Good Roads By Govern
ment Building, Is published in this
issue OF The Advocate, and is well
worth reading.
Owing to heavy freight traffic over
the W. M. Railway the local freight
train which was To pass through this
city about 2.30 O'Clock Friday after
noon, did not reach here until $50
Saturday morning.
Two Western Maryland freight
trains met in hear-On collision near
Gettysburg, at 12.45 a. m, on Thurs
day Of last week. Heavy fog was the
cause of the wreck, as neither en-
gineer could see more than 80 feet a
head "a him
The following officers were elected
at the reorganization Of st. Benja-
minis Lutheran Sunday school: Pres
ident, Geo. T.. Marker; superintendent,
VIM r.. Starner; assistant Superinten-
dent, John q. Miller; secretary, Glenn
Miller; treasurer, Jacob ID. Starner.
Train No 4, known as the 4.15 p.
m, train to Baltimore, was delayed
several hours last Friday by the ten
der Of the engine jumping the track.
The accident happened between De
tour and Rocky Ridge. The track
was damaged for several hundred
feet.
William Shaffer near Pleasant Val
ley, reports one of the best sales in
that district, this spring. Cows aver
aged $50 apiece; a horse was bid to
$192 The sale was advertised in the
Advocate, and the bills we're printed
at this Office. John Reaver was the
auctioneer.
Mr. Harry C. Blizzard has sold his
home farm and will build this sum-
mer on his 14 acre farm near the
State road Preparations for build
ing are already being made. Mr..
Blizzard and family will live in Mr.
Ezra Coppersmith's house until the
new residence is completed
There was good deal Of excitement
here Saturday noon, when the !-hcrae
team of Edward Freyman, of Bloom,
ran away on East Main street. The
only damage done was to the wagon
ur Mr Joseph Devilbiss. The horses
ran into III, smashing the back wheels,
fell down and were caught
Mr.. T. Moale Ireland, formerly from
Carroll county, and now cashier Of
the First National Bank, of Stoyes-
town, Pa, ID having The Advocate
sent to his new home, for he says he
must keep in touch with his friends
and with the affairs of Carroll. He is
son of Mr.. and Mrs. T M. Ireland,
of Finksburg
Capt w. s. Drach, Of New Windsor,
and junior vice-commander of the De-
partment Of Maryland, Grand Army
of the Republic, il i'll at the Mary
land General Hospital. MIR. Drach
has been in bad health for some time.
He is a member of the Grand Army
Club. Mr.. w. E. Chenoweth, another
member of the club, who has been
all for several months, has been taken
to the Maryland General Hospital for
treatment.
The closing session of the Washing
ton Conference (colored) was held at Eb-
enezer Methodist Episcopal Church,
Monday night, following the anniver-
sary Of the Board Of Foreign Missions.
The principal speakers we're Rev.W.W.
Lucas, of Ne. idl&n, Miss, and A. B.
Leonard, d. D., the missionary secre-
tary from New York. Bishop Anderson
addressed the Conference and read out
the following appointments for Car
roll county: G. d. Young, New Wind
sor; L. A. Carter, Sykesville, and G.
II. Arnold, this city.
The case Of the Western Maryland
Railroad Company against Adams
county, in the equity courts of that
county, at Gettysburg, Pa, which is a
bill asking for an injunction restrain
in the county from proceeding
against the railroad for any raise In
passenger rates was referred by
Judge Swope to Judge Sadler, of Cum
berland county for a decree. The lat
ter judge has filed his opinion grant
in the injunction This means that,
if the railroad company 80 desires, it
can increase it's rates from two to
three cents a mile.
BY will Of Henry G. Luttgerding,
the well-known miller of North
Branch, filed Tuesday for probate in
the Office of Register of Wills at Tow
son, he bequeaths his interest in the
Carroll County Telephone Company,
and his stock in the Star Milk Cooler
Company, of New Jersey, to hi broth
er-in-laW, Charles w Melville, Sykes
vile, Md His stock in the National
Howard Band is given to his sister,
Mrs. Carrie E. Kershaw. a certificate
of stock In the Pikesville National
Bank he bequeahs to his niece, Mary
Lee Melville, Sykesville, Md. One
third of the residue of the estate goes
to his sister, Mrs. Mary R Lee, and
ST. il given to another sister, Miss
Margaret q. Luttgerding. The re-
mainder Of the estate il given to his
three other sisters, Miss Jennie Lutt-
gerding, Mrs Sadie H Melville, Sykes
vile, Md, and Mrs. Carrie f. Kershaw.
Charles wv. Melville and Albert r..
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