Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1885-07-23
New potatoes are scarce.
All This is something like summer.

ALI This is something like summer.
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Mr.. w. A. Lynn is building up fine trade
in flour and feed at his new store on Easiest.
The Chronicle went to Pcnmar for the first
time on the 14th inst. 1t took iced tea and
the photographer took it and its patrons
took great pleasure in reading its graphic
account of the trip.
One of the most common complaints OF
children is worms and rs they often suffer Il
long time before it is known, parents should
watch carefully for the symptoms and give
DR.. Fahrncy's Infallblc Worm Syrup.
EPISCOPAL SERVICES on Sunday August
end at 10 o'clock u. M, in room over Justice
Whites office by Rev VIM. l., Braddock,
who has been appointed by Bishop Parct to
serve the Mission for thirty days.
AN EXCELLENT BO0K.--WG take great
pleasure in recommending the American
Dictionary for which our town is now being
canyasScl. II is rich in reliable information
and particularly cheap. Buy it by all means
il YOU are not the posscsor ola dictionary.
| A TALL TAIE.-Whcn the Westminster
.4drocate does lay itself out to disrupt the
truth, it just blows the old thing To pieces
We don't see how they GOT the ink to work
on the "Champion Binder" item, a reprint of
which appears elsewhere on this page.
READY BINDER are IN receipt Of an
excellent little rontrivance for binding
newspapers. music etc, from MIR. Henry Wei
Ter, agent for their sale, Gracrlam, Md -
They are invaluable for the purposes above
named and are very cheap. He also takes
orders for rubber stamps
Moy NrAIN FIREs.--Thc mountain west of
this place was ON fire for n week or more and
considerable good timber damaged. On Fri
day last an cmployc of the w. Md. railroad
company was arrested upon the charge of
having deliberately fired the mountain and
refused to outcn it, but the evidence was
very properly deemed to be worthless and
the party was discharged Fires have also
been raging on the mountain near Icniz'
mill and near Mt. ST. Mary'S College, while
on the west side of thc mountain in the To-
cality of Mdllctown the damage done has
| been Of great extent.
| TIE Westminster baseball club made trip
through Pennsylvania arriving at home last
| week. While away, ten games werrpayed,
! of which seven were defeats. After having
had the starch taken out of it to the extent
noted above, ii is possible that they would
arrange to plav more unnssllming clubs and
we would he highly grntificd 10 learn that a
game had been arranged for them at this
place. Last season our club defeated the
/ l'niontown club twice, and each time they
were assisted by four players of the present
| Westminster club.
How many Of oul readers are aware of the
fact that the absence ot seed in the first crop
of clover is attributable to the fact that there
are comparatively speaking no humble bees
at the time of the growth of the blossom yet
il is to that fact that the absence of seed in
the early summer growth Of clover is charge
able: the humble bee carries the pollen down
into the blossom thus tertlIizinT 1t. The
growth of red clover was failure in Aus
trala until humble bees were imported into
tina, country. II our farmers would domcs
tra,c the humble bee and keep it in the
house during tn" winter, the first as well as
the second crop of clover would bear seed.
Some one try il; it would serve double
purpose rs book agents could he allowed to
avail, YOU in the apiary.
CoMMrNIC ATED
\ monstrosity, in the shap" of a fish was
caught in Little Pipe Creek on Monday
morning last. 1t was certainly Il novelty
and Il surprise to see such a pondcrons fish
! in these waters. BY actual measurement It
was 30 inches long II inches in circumfcr-
cncc and weighed y pounds. This monster
WAS caught by Mr. Hiram Few residing
near Mi,ldlcbury. The scales Of fish were
fully As large as silver quarter. Old Walon-
| ties are divided in opinion, some claiming
| it to he salmon and others tia! is a German
carp. Mr.: Few is delighted over his catch
although we are inclined to believe that
there are ! ut "frw' of these fish in Lit
tie Pipe Creek y