Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-07-21
Iatxl Menls.
The oats crop is excellent.


The cool wave reached us on Sunday
morning and the change was most deli
cious one.
Ho! for the Circus Another grand
hierarchal jamboree will exhibit in Fred
erick on Aug. 9th.
To make fashionable sunshade; take a
variegated slap jack, perch it on q mint
stick and 60 out in the sun under it.
VIM. j. Black, Esq, is engaged In max.
ing out the new assessment of our borough
taxable property. This assessment is made
anew every five years.
When children do manly things their
parents feel pride, but when men do child
ish things their children may correct them.
1t is the child's turn then.
Messrs Boylan and Gilbert, contractors
on the Monocacy aud Ur0ana Turnpike,
advertise for 100 able-bodied hands and
will pay 81, 25 per day for good men
New Mackerel at
Nav Soft. STOCKSDALE'S,
Rev. w. G. Wire will preach a harvest
sermon on Sunday morning next at 10
o'clock. The theme being fruitful one
bis hearers may expect to be ed fed.
1t is proposed that in the event Of Presi-
dent Gartield's recovery, there shall be
day set apart to be observed as a season /"
thanksgiving and praise for his recovery
Impaired organic functions restored and
nervous debility cured by Browns Iron
Bitters.
A cheap trip down the bay TO Tolchos,
ter Beach is advertised in our columns this
week. Those who enjoy boat riding
should profit by this excellent opportunity
The VuNey Register enters on its Thirty
eighth year with feeling of satisfaction
with i,selfand all mankind. We believe
the feeling is mutual between it and its
readers.
A small piece of paper or linen mos
tened with turpentine and put into the
wardrobe OF drawers for single day at
time, two or three times a year, is said to
be preventative against moths
PERsoNAIn-Dr. Z X. Foreman, former
" of this place, now Of Litticstown, Pa,
paid us an angel visit on Saturday last.
His family has spent several weeks here
and returned with him Oh Saturday hast.
Browns Iron Bilters permanently re-
store weak nerves, exhausted vitality etc.
Lost vitality. weakness, nervous dlsor-
'dcrs, etc, cured by Browns Iron Rittcrs.
There will Nc very heavy crop po'a-
tns in the mountain this seaSon. We
heard q man remark last week. that II II
ra;ncd within week, potatoes would rot
be worth ten cents hushel and it raincd
within the time. Wen see.
Through an oversight on our part we
announced last week rs the sum to h" paid
the contractor for the erection of the new
school house IN oar town, $2131 The
amount is H"&31 or $S03 less than the
bid to erect the one of he same size, style
and finish in MidLetown.
NoTIcE TO HoUsEKEErERs.- The I'm
dcrsigned VIII sell through the streets of
Mcchanics,own at fair prices, Strawberries,
Fish, Watcrfeions, CantalcrTs, Cabbage
4 tl,r t,hl .li ia,
Your patronage is solicited
June st. SAMMY u. HAHN
The most ordinary woman is able TO
squeeze nineteen hours solid work into
Monday and yet Of all DAYS it is decidedly
the worst in which to make any such at
tempt If single, she has Il beau the night
previous, if married she lies awake think
ing of the time she had beau.
Charles Rcmsburg fDrmcr.y a clerk with
! DR.. NJ L. Lcatherman, left for his home
at Walkersville last week, where he will
remain until August lst., when he will en-
ter the employ of Mess. Croft Il Conlyn,
druggists, of Baltimore and will attend Tire
College Of Pharmacy in that city.
Women that have been given up by,
their dearest friends as beyond hep, have
been permanently cured by the use of Lyd-
ia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 1t
is positive cure for all female complaints.
Send to Mrs. Lydia f, Pinkhanl, 2@@3j
Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass. tor pam,
phlets. July i4'2t
TOURNAMENT AND DANCE.--The third
annual Tournament and Picnic Will be
held near Mottcrs Station, y. r. Il, on
Saturday August 9th. There will be
dancing and other amusemcnts and ten
riders will compete in tourney for two
prizes, first, Il saddle, second, a bride. See
posters.
The light seen by our citizens on
Wednesday evening last, during the storm,
was reflection of burning barn that
was fired by the lightning. The barn is
on farm about two miles from Littles-
town Pa, and barn built on the same
foundation was burned ten years ago by
the same agency.
We are informed that there is a hitch II
the matter of the transfer to the County
School authorities of the land purchased
or bargained for, for school purposes,