Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1883-04-05
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Address, THE CLARION.
Mechanicstown. Md
SERh CoRN.-Mr. w. r. Young will
furnish Sweet Corn Seed to all parties this
season at very favorable price.
THEY FOUGHT 1T ovRR.-On Thuraday
last, we listened. to series Of interesting
episodes Of the war US related in our Office
by Mr.. Joe. Messner and Mr.. Ike Portncr
They were certainly hard fighters and .
recital Of. their hair .brendlh escapes and
daring adventures certainly made an hour
or two pass in the Office, as though Time
itself were on forced retreat. Come again.
boys. It almost makes us wish the "cruel
war WAS (no,) over" and that We bud .
square hold Of the commissariat
DEATH OF DAVID L. WLLHlpE On
Saturday night last after brief illness Of
fur days. David l.. Willh,de well known
and respec ted ci,iarn of this place died At
his residence on the eastern oontipes Of the
town
The carse of his death was typhoid
pneumonia and,from the first his case was
hopeless, the disease having ass,l,Nedl at
once its most aggravated form The de-.
ceased is an old resident of the town. tie
son Of David Willhile, has always been \
quiet. upright, industrious citizen, house
carpenter bv trade and at the time of hin
dcath had gathered n family Of small enid
drcn about him His remains we've place.l
IN the Cemetery on Monday last
HEAVY SLEET. The hthvies, sleet TINT
has been seen tor wears formed on the
mountain west of us OF Friday night hist.
| The telegraph Wir,s through the mountain
were heavily laden, the ice forming I Of
All inch in diameter on the wire, while MI
merous long icices were pendant from
them, The weigh, became SO grea, il,
one. place that the poles were thrown
dpwn, this happening vt II place where
lhe wires crossed the track OF the railroad
W,d the morning train was delayed while
the wires could he lined high enough to
Nlow the train to pass The Getz roa',
through the mountain WAS almost impas
'Ible a. the slcet had borne the trees down
into !lr. road. J.! remained several days
before melting, tho face Of our mountain
remaining white. while here in town there
WAS not particle Of lcet
Brga;ns. Bargains" Still closing ont
stock ut reduced prices to make room for
Spring Gnods ut ROOTS.
m 1921
March didn't ,Xactly 90 ont roaring or
in any other particular particularly hon,
Ike, bHt il certainly has no apologies to
mn ke to the Trainer vt the old a1agC. II
could not we'll havr made more disagree
able exit. And THAT reminds us. that we
we've promised bad weather until Easter
Y hen iin,ne'lia,elv Spring in all of its cthc
rial mldncs. mis- ht be expected. Wcnev
rr did see Just what kAslcr had to do
with the weather and Mu faith in hat frs
,ivul NJ Il permanent stopper ot wntrv
weather has received M aldi,ona
strengthening lhi, season. "ould it not
ie well f,r those who are accustomed tn
place reliance upon, especially the nova
bic, teasts or holidays Il. weather guilest"
give the matter just sufficient thought tn
make plain to them now nnreasonn bic and
! illogical il is to assume that the weather
and the natural laws governing it, lpvc
Taught to do, sr are in the least possible
manner controlled bv the date nfn church
or state festival. Those vii" locate the
advent Of spring ut Easter, or claim that
Spying comes early or late Ms Il Impnsn'
that Easter comes early or late. should in
order to be convinced of the utter non
sense of such imaginings, only recall the
fact that ms we explained some weeks ny !
owing to the Procession of the Eqnposvs
eleven days change was maize nj opc
stroke and that So far as Easter or any 9th
er holiday is concerned, 1t has long since
been lost as n precise date and that the days
Of the year and the seasons are only kept
IN consonance bv an arbitrary addition OF
fav each fourth and another each four
hundredth year.
A FINE HOTEL At PENNAR -Work
mas been begun On large and handsome
hotel near Pcnmnr, on the Blue Ridge
Mountains. About $40 900 or more CAPT
>tal has been hut into the enterprise, AND
/. the Blue Ridge Hotel Company Willie or
ganizcd, among those interested being
, Messrs. Samuel NJ Shoemaker, Francis 7
King. Alexander Ricman, A 8. Abcll and
d. J. Foley. Plans for the building have
been prepared by Archi,eeht E. F Bald
win, and James 9. Humbird, of Cumbcr'
land, is the superintendent of construct ion
the work not having been put out at con
tract Workmcn are now engaged on the
foundation for the building, the site I"
which is Just ba Il u mile along the noun
tain side from Pepmar Park. and within a
stones throw of the railroad, There vii
be carriage road and pathway from the
hotel to High Rock and PenmaI The