Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-12-01

1894 pounds, the other 4O0} H. T. Har.
baugh was the head butcher-we mean he
sat at the head of the table.
Our section boss, who has not got
very good eye for the weight Of hogs will
please pass his COW over 10 N. +. Shener
for further keeping.
A subscriber of the CLARION would Ike
to have recipe to cause his neighoors 10
subscribe for the paper, SO that when lie
needed his for reference it would be at
home. TACK.
On Friday aud Saturday last, the mill
wrigbts that left town last spring and sum-
mer, returned. Those under Mr.. 9. j.
Carmnck were engaged in building -four
ing mill of the patent roller process at
Mannheim, Lancaster Co. Pa, and those
who left to work under Mr.. Jos Damuth
were engaged on mills of a similar kind at
several points III Ohio. There were ten
from oul town, all of whom have returned
except Charles and Albert Foreman, who
will return in several weeks. Those who
were in Ono will 60 to Detroit, Michigan
January lat, t. work on a new mill that
will also be of tue Roller Process, with a
capaci v Of six hundred barrels in twenty
four hours
The Insurance business has been an Ell
Dorado, n fountain IF life to many of our
old and infirm citizens. While quite a
number of the uninsured have been called
from time INTO eternity. those who have
had thousands of dollarr hanging upon
their life seemed to recognize the worth OF
lite at last and have been rejuvenated,
bought blonde wigs. had their whlskers
died, had spiral springs placed In their
boot heels, have spruced up and are anx-
ious to take out policy on the hypochon.
driacal lives of some that hold policies ON
theirs.
One might almost imagine that the
time of Ovids Mctamorphoses had re-
turned.
|
ance companies has ordered us to dscon
tinue the publication Of his card. He says
that II man " no receives nothing has no
business to advertise himself as a receiver
and MS he is receiving nothing. he desires
us to discontinue his card. His logic is
good the logic of events is equally good
and truly inexorablc We saw and stated
it plainly from the beginning tina, the poiut
a, las, reached by this community must
come and it did come
No one has picket up Mt Etua with n
pair OF sugar tongues nor dipped the Mo-
nocacy dry with teaspoon, neither have
we many citizens still willing TO bet a
twindlcr on his own game al while We
depore the loss sustained by many and
svmpahizc with the Rcceiver in the empt-
mess Of his title, yet we are mean enough
and we know it is mean, to say 1--WE told
YOU So
FAVORABLE MnNrIoN In a column
and onc-lalf mention OF the New Mill ut
Mannheim and the Gradual Reduction sys-
tenn. the Lancaster Daily New Era speaks
most tavorablv Of the work and workmen
under our townslnan, Mr.. G. j. CarmaCk,
under whose sole supsry ision the mill was
built. II SAYS :-"rhursday marked u new
era in the history Of the fourishing Dor
ough Of Mannheim, for then for the first
time the large, new Touring mill of Messrs
Ely, Stchman Il Co., which will make
-four by what is known rs the general re-
duc,ion system instead OF the old fashioned
burr stones, which are as set to be found
in nearly every mill In the state" After
full description Of the mill and machin
cry, the Neu Era says 1T was con-
structed under the supervision of Mr.. G.
J. Carmack, Of Mechanicstown, Md, who
gave his personal attention to all the de.
! tails, and has produced most creditable
and satisfactory piece of work"
When we first entered upon the duties
/ vi cutting S'h''Ay "SpoPs't wv N"'NN
that i, might he hut dull, proay work.
/ without anything to liven one mp, except
an occasional passage at arms with some
other newspaper man. We knew, nor
imagined nothing of the possibilities of an
editors private corresponce, that springs
up With individuals, who desire, or do not
desire, to have their names publicly men
toned; Of the damage it is possible for an
obscure country n. wspaper to do, inno-
Gently enough perhaps, TO men who oc.
cupy such position in the business world,
that to make the most trivial error in re-
gard to them or their business is made to
serve as basis of the severest criticism
| All tn, Sc things tend to add to the life
and pleasures Of the station and is vaua.
BILE adjunct in the matter of educating ones
! self IN tina, far from exact science, anthro-
pology. We find it a profitable study, to
compare those who will have their name
III the paper at any price, with those who
are conspicuously careful of the public
use of their name. There are those too,
whom it is impossible to move, either to