Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-08-31

oferes his services to the people OF
Mcchancstown and vicinity.
OFFICE:
In room formerly occupied by Birely
& Osler, one door west of Bank Build
ing.
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Local Items.
A suntowcr eighteen feet high with thir
tysrven flowers on it. is the latest lusuS na.
<urae The Frederick Mems is responsible
for the statement
SIRIUS, the dog star, resigned on Monday
last, lu, he has never been crowned king
here; dog days monopolizc every date known
to the IIaser,town Almanack. Sic 'cm,
rigc?
a knife has been recently manufactured
two corkscrcws--Nears Too expensive
probably; an ordinary wire nail serves to re-
lease the Jmtown bcverage.-ED CLARION
H. S. Iasscl, of Unontown, has been
awarded free trip to the Worlds Fair by
a Baltimore Shoe firm for guessing the near.
est number ofpaid admissions to lnc Worlds
Fair on August Is, his guess was 121,3ol,
and the number who paid admission fees
that day were 12l ,3S4
Its the fad now for girls to present each
other With pncushions filled with their own
combings Ners. When the average Me.
rhanics'own pincushion gets combcd, the
product is utilized rs "A deterrent mncadam
on the road usually paved with good nicn
!ons.-ED CLARION,
REI1Glors NoTIcE.-Eldc, Geo. $, Harp
Of Elcrton, Md, will preach in the German
Baptist Church at Mechanlcs,own on Friday
evening, September ls', at $50 o'rlo k,
Thanksgiving seryi es will be held on ~a,ur
day, September End at 10 O'Clock a, NJ.
Meeting at night and continued oyer Sunday.
d II. SAVIOR.
The project of forming a new election dis
'lict out of parts of Middctown and Peters
Vile districts, with Burkitlsvllc as the poll
me- place, is again being discussed,
A number Of young men in the vicinity OF
;'NrH,,svilc, who own fast horses, have
formed al association and will construct Il
hr'f~mllr track to develop promising young
luM'y REGISTER.
From present indications it looks very
much as if the building of the Electric Rail
road from Frederick to MGdlclown, under
the present management, Is Goin" TO prove a
future.
In view ol,nis, allow me to- suggest that
the citizens Of Middleton ana vicinity %
to work and organ IL company for the
huillng of an Electric Railroad from Mid
dlctown to FrvIrrcl o, TO HrUnswck. y !"
-"p.ogless' in valley R'pi,try.
The postal script VIII soon take the place
ni the postal note now in use. The p"sta.
note costs thrcv cents and carries any amount
ny to five dollars, while in script, calling
for amounts from one cent 10 three dollars,
has been prepared from which, on payment
of one cent, the amount OF money t. be sent
hy mail to any par, of the United States may
hr torn of the same as an express order.
There will be no writing on it OF any KIND
hv tn, postmaster, the sender en- orslng the
check draft The Government guarantees
It's safe transportation.
CuMMU%IC ATED.
A MrRRIE PIQuE NIQUE.-Mrs. Jones
and Ms. Cormnck, with their interesting
and lively crowd Of summer soiourners and
a few friends from town, Toasted at Cola
Spnng on Tuesday, p. m The menu Wa,
as follows
First coursc-Eyerythlng necessary 10 Il
melons and ram. 1t will sutfi 'c TO say that
despite the raging elements, we did not have
u dry time and :hc party returned in Jolly
good spirits (non alcoholic)
Carroll County has debt of $1,000 and
an account OF $25 900 uncoilecttd taxes
We should be very much pleased to publish a
like statement for Frederick County.
There is no, II man. woman or child in this
county that can recall having seen a state
men, of the actual condition of the coun'y's
finances; we have repeatedly called attention
10 the fact that such IL thing rs Il statement
of taxes due and unpaid has not been pub
lisncd to our certain knowledge since 1873
We know that a tax levy of about quarter
of million dollars Is laid each year; we kno"
further that every year there are uncol]ectct
and uncolIc"table taxes and yet there is ~
accounting for s..ch loss on each levy; II
deficit brought forward cash accounting MOI
account balnncing
If banks or corporations that laudi" $3.50,
coo annually undertook to ignore those in
lrrrst,d. in the matter OF exact aud final &C.
counting, they would get mo the hands o
the court before YOU could say "Jack Robin
son and yet the taxpayers OF ths count!
are compelled, without even a pttensc o
balancing of accounts, to believe that yea
after year, the tax levy exactly meets the re
quirrmruts that the county treasury is ney
err short, never fash or if short or flush how
short or flush
Let Us for once know Just how the count
finances stand how much cash there is OF
hand how much dl" the treasury from GOO
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