Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-08-07
New Advertisements.
The Girl ! left behind me.
McKcliip's Cholera Medicine,
Administrators Notice.
Seek "Cheap William"
Alex. McComas-Guns.

SICKNESS PREvAILING.- had just
been able to congratulate ourselves, as a
community, upon the disappearance Of scar
let fever and the return to the usual good
health experienced in this locality, when a
dyscntcric epidemic made its appearance
and we are again called upon to report the
health Of the community as being extremely
bad
The complaint strikes al ages and we
have the deaths Of several aged persons and
several children 10 report The disease is
violent in It's attack and in every instance
makes a stubborn fight against treatmcnt.--
Last week Mr. Henry Black and Mrs. Mag
dalcne Dephy died the former at an advan-
ced age, while c'li!l Of Mr.. Nicholas Kcll
er and one of Mr.. Charles Baketels, also
were victims of the disease.
On Sunday last child of William l., and
Ida Armacost, aged about one year died in
Gracham and on Monday there were two
deaths IN our to,gR, both children, little
daughter of William and Ida Fraley and
llltiC udNSItIi VI w lilluil ~ anu az ~ >'h
ner. Several adults have been seriously i'll,
and there are several other children in a
very precsr,ous condition at the time we go
to press Mrs. William ilctterly died of the
same disease in this place on Wednesday; she
leaves husbS inland five small children.
WHIT Is EXrEcTED,-You can sit down
and talk to any good citizen" if you pub
fish a country newspaper, and he will tell
you just what you ought to do. He will cx-
plain to you your duty to keep fully before
the people the advantages, beauty, energy
and generally ahrcast-ofthe-w orldness of
lishtd; he will explain to you how you
should allow no opportunity to pass where
by YOU may be able to better the circumstan-
ccs of every one by attracting enterprises
and enterprising people to the town. he
will advise you against mentioning it, should
there be an immoral element or u means of
attaining TO wickedneRs in our midst he
will positively insist upon it that unf.vor-
able climatic or sanitary conditions shall
never be mentioned and should an epidemic
prevail he woull have you say nothing that
would tend to keep strangers from town; it
would inurc business" you know, and if a
newspaper man should suggest that possibly
some lines of goods were being held at too
high figures it would be outrageous and yet,
should he happen to be ia the general mer
chandisc business himself and have FIVE hun
dred dodgers printed at the office he would
expect free puff" stating, that he was sell
ing goods as low as the lowest, if not little
lower; in a word, we are expected to say ev-
erything favorable, nothing unfavorable a
portion "for pay" a portion free we are not
recognized as necessity, but rs a magnti
cent convenience and are given to under
stannd that advertising does not really pay,
but that "thcy feel like patronzing us"
Now, we understand all this, much better
probably than we are given credit and as we
have taken occasion to mention in the past
prefer giving the worth Of money to those
who spend it with us, to accepting it as q
gift.
We do not assume that the country towns
would be walled in" should their newspa
pers leave them; but we do say that a town
whose business only justifcs an occasional
charitable sft to the printer is in danger of
being walled in and as the printer would
naturally be the first one to discover its inn
pending doom, b. might Pc escape in
time.