Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1885-07-09
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Everybody says money ia tight; y wish It
would do y littie better and get gloriously
drunk, one might then slip up ON 1t una
wares; rs it is, it seems to be well able to
keep out Of our way.
LABOR AND CAPtTAL.-If your system is
not in good condition, you lose time for labor
and lost labor is lost capital, therefore give
yourself strength and vigor by using Health
Rcs;urrr.
Harvest is about at an end. We have been
told that not fifty dollars will come to this
town this season as harvest wages. Irvine
hinocrs and short crops has lessencd tho de-
mand for labor, very materially this summer.
While there have been many and decided
in our town this summer,
there will not be SO large an amount OF
building done as last year Our streets have
increased very much in appearance but not
in extent.
BASE B>l.L.--On Wednesday afternoon
the Mcchanicstown Club met the
crack Frederick club ON the grounds i'll this
place. We 60 to press few hours too soon
to give an accout OF the game it will APP
pear next week.
We are accustomed to the view of desert
c,l streets and when we went to Frederick
City on Thursday last our vision was not
refreshed by the sight of anything novel in
that line: mail stages and baby wagons sat
upsn about all the wheels that we saw turn
ing
Mr.. Washington l.. Shater a former resi-
dent of this place, a salesman in the whole
sale house of Daniel Miller & Co. in Bnll-
more, has been i'll during several weeks at
his home in the city. His sister Miss Ara
,ninta is with him acting in the capacity OF
nurse.
The patronage Of The two Live Stock in
surancc companies has been worth an adj
vance of $500 per year in the salary of the
postmaster. Formerly it was
81 800 and is now 81 600, due, as we have
said, almost wholly to the large quantity vi
matter mailed Ivy the Mutual and Reliance
The canning factories here have been
working fuil force and have about iinlrlnd
their first packing At DR.. thaS. Billings
lea's factory ,0O0 bushels of peas and 100
bushels of cherries were received, and l25
han,;s cmplpvrd B. F. Shrivcr Il Co. I'm.
rlovcl 200 hands and canned 5000 bushels
of peas and l50 bushels OF cherries in West
and at their fac tory ut Union NILS
Weather the crop Of peas amounts to only
about one half tlls average The marrow
fats are not yet in market. Westminster
Sentinel
several wheat fields are reported to us in
" Mich the number Of acres exceeds the mum
ter Of dozens of shcaycs Of wheat. SOM"
farmers have cut the crop with moving ma
dimes and have rak,l up tine wheat with
horacrakcs there is one licld adjoining this
town that viii not be touched by harvrstc!N
yet there are some really good fields If
" heat in the district and we arc informed that
Tie average given by lis last week, - bush
rls per acre, will fall below rather than rise
above those figures The grass crop has not
been heavy ole and there is reason to be
iryc that the oa, crop will not reach al av-
cragc yield, Corn is still doing finely.
While other towns are organizing com.
rAnicS to manufacture soap ink, step iaddcrs
and novelties Of various kinds thus giving
employment and inducing circulation of
money, VIC are content to do practically
nothing. There is an inapprccahly small
amount Of anything used here HAT is not
sen; here and little or nothing sold here that
is not used here. Saving cur cigar factories
and the post and rail business, at a low est
n ate three. iUUrths of the money actually
handled here is sent away from the town TO
purchase its supplies. 1t is Il matter of sim
pie arithmetic to discover whether or not our
town is gaining or losing in general wealth.
1t IL u question worth considering. citizens.
ANOTHER ONO PIoSEnR GONE.- George
Brown, native of Frederick county, died
III the 20!h Of June, at the residence of his
SON. David W. Blown, in Liberty township
Seneca county, OHIO, of old age and general
debility, aged nearly SO years. He was born
in this county on March 10, 1903 The Tit
lin Advertiser says OF him: I'm 1884 he
came to Seneca county, making the entire
tourney on horseback, and purchased so
acres of land on which he made his home.
In 1885 he moved his family consisting Of
his wife and four children to Tifln, and in
The spring of SO he purchased Il lease on
Old Lloyd Norris farm. In the spring Of
40 moved on the land purchased in "a and
to clear mp the farm, which at-
Ter great deal of hard work he accomplish
I'd, making it one of the best in the town
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