Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-10-07
1ddit0naL L0cuh.

1dditnnal L0caks.
Mr. J. w. n. Glds is home on y visit to
friends here.
Read Pollcy's new adv. tShcritf's Sale.
This is the place to get your sweet potatoes.
New Advertisements
Bus. LoraI-Grand Opcniny--M. G. Cramcr.
Republican Campaign Club Meeting,
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
Shcritf's Sale.
We acknowledge receipt Of season ticket
rnl itling us to admission to the Frederick
Fair. We publish elsewhere in this issue a
number Of items bearing upon the different
features Of that exhibition. For the cour.
tcsv extended us we return our thanks and
shall feel it our duty To forward the interests
of our home society to the full value of the
favor thus shown MS.
FRoST During the latter DAYS of last
wcch Il decidedly cool wave rolled dow n up
on us from the North west Frost was
formed on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
nights and the tcndcrcr forms of vegetation
were killed. The mercury f,ll probably six
ty degrees in twcn,y-f)ur hours, counting
the heat at midday in the sun to the temper
allure that produced frost at night.
The PUBLIC School FUND-In the quar-.
tcrly distribution Of public school tax to
white and colorcd schools of the state Fred.
crick county receives for white schools So.
9sG23 colorcd $50 o.; Carroll. white S.
2'9 %, colorcd 1921 IS Washington white
$j,343,l9, colorcd, S35o,2G.
The State Normal School receives S2,G2j
and the Colorcd Normal School $500.
The Womcns Home and Foreign Mission
airy Society of the Maryland Synod Luther
IN Church began its fourth annual conycn.
ton in Trinity Lutheran church, IIagcrs.
town on Tuesday afternoon. Nrs.W G.. Wire
and Mrs. Rnpp, delegates and the following
interested visitors attended from this town;
Mrs. w. a. Valentine, Mrs John Jones,
Mrs, VIM. SIX, Mrs Van. b. Osrr, Mrs J.
a. NcGulgan Mrs. VI. \. Dodge and Mrs,
Mary Wilhcrow.
The BATTLE OF GETTYsBUHG.-This
world famous panorama will he on eXhihi-
ton on the IIagcrstown Fair ground during
the fair, beginning on the 10Th of October
and lasting four days. The work is pro-
n"uncrd so lilc-liic as to deceive persons
into believing that many Of the scenes are
enacted by living bcings and genuine nipple,
menis of war, and that the real battle is in
progress. Visitors to the lIagcrstown Fair
will have an opportunity of seeing a work
that has not heretofore been ON exhibition
outside Of the large cities !
The lIop.-Thc inauguration Hop at the
new Town Hall to night promises to he an
immense alta r, !, is not the purpose Of the
Manager that it shall be a public dance and
he has sent ont invitations 10 those he de.
sircs shall attend. 1t will be Il well conduct
ed and thoroughly gcntccl affair; n first
class Italian Orchestra has been secured and
those of our young people who have taste
for terp sichoIcan pleasures VIII find this an
opportunity of winch to avail themselves
viii not only be Il pleasure, but one OF I'M
questioned proprcty.
MEETING OF THE BOARD OF C.. & C.-The
regular monthly meeting of the Board of
Chaatics and Corrections was held at Mon.
tcvuc Hospital, Monday. Only the usual
routine business was transacted. The SUI
pcrntcndrnt, Mr. George W. Strasbcrgcr,
submitted his monthly report, showing the
number of inmates in the Hospital to be as
follows: County inmates, (whle) 1G males,
53 females, (colorc,D 33 males, % females,
transient, 5 males, 8 females, tramps, males
Total, 204. OF the number Frederick county
furnishes So males and 50 females. Among
the counties represented are Cecil, Alcgany,
Charles, Garrett, IIartord Montgomery,
Prince Georges, st. IAary's and Washing
ton -EIantiner.
Silly CRoAKINGs,-Bc not deceived by
the idle talk Of those who predict severe
winter from thick corn-husks and such like |
indications on which they base their judy |
mcnt. The thickness of the hllsks simply |
denotes the vigorous and healthy growth of
the corn, and cannot have regard to the
weather. "Thc wind hlowcth where it list
eth, and We hear the sound thereof, but know |
not whence it cometh or whittier 1t goeth,'
is the language of TIE scriptures and teaches
us to meet the changes of nature as they oc
cur with an humble trust in the Good Prov
idcncc that rules over all. SO for all pro-
phcsyings and dismal suggestions refer to
the same high authority, and learn their
vanity, and how utterly without foundation
they a4c.-lHrontcA,