Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-03-30

Next week the matter Of tho two Higl
School journals will secure a place In thes
columns.
Our mud ronds having been freed from
frost are rapidly becoming solid and passabl.
bsarable.
Some excellent THINKER land will be sold Of
Saturday, April LIST, by ". N. Wilhide, Agen
for Henry Wilhide, q, Deerfleld (Lantz
See adv. and bills.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad Comp~
ny has purchased land with the object O
double tracking their road from Harrisburg
to Hsgerstown.
Witherow will make good all that he nd
vertises this week. You will be able to saw
some money on your purchases, not only OF
one or two items hut the same low price
exist all through his stock.
ADDITIONAL MEETINGS. -Beginning will
the meeting on the second Monday evening
In April, Acacia Lodge, No. 1856, A. F. & A
NJ. Of this place will, probably until th
summer vacation, meet weekly instead o
semi monthly as in the past.
THE PRIZE EssAY.-We are in receipt o
one essay IN the contest 70. the Sewing
Machine the date for the receipt Of thes
essays approaches and we sincerely trus
that others may be received. Should WI
however receive but one more. the prize vii
be awarded.
Ministers are warned against couple wht
are now on the road with a new and clever
swindle. They-a man and woman-ge
married, and presenting counterfeit bill t.
the preacher. tell him to take out fee Of s!
and receiving the balance in good money
depart for another town.
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Mrs. Richard II. Hold. a daughter in Law
Of President John Hood of the Western
Maryland Railroad, died on the 18TH inst. a
her home in st Louis, Mo. She was the sec
ond daughter Of OK County Commissioner
John T. Ridgely, of Howard County, nnt
was married year ngo last February.
George Leslie, Shtperdstown, says thu
Reyister, caught a fine large sbad in the Pc
somac river at Dam NJ. 4, white fishing Will
net. A few years ago number of shac
were placed in the Potomac River at Cum
berland, and it is supposed that this specimen
Is one that escaped the voracious bass and
grew to juicy shad hood.
If men now az days wer" rated BY the pre-
ponderance of their inte'lccts instead Of the
size of their bank accounts, the list of prom
iuent citizens would sadly decrease --Fred'k
Nsus.
["Misery loves company" We are moi
wholly lnconsoahle since We find that there
are other publishers IN the county, lacking
great wcal,h.-Ep. CLARION
According to the statements of the five
National Banks of Frederick, for the quarter
just closed, the money on individual deposi,
subject to check aggregates $2Ol5,l1017
To this must be added &559. $40 81 in the
Fredericktown Sayings Institution and
t104, 1921 in the Franklin Savings Bank
which makes grand total Of $3.50 San
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BIO FREIGHT BUpINEss.-Sunday was an
other busy day for The Western Maryland
Railroad. From early in the morning un
Ill about midnight oyer four hundred freight
cars from Cherry Run passed through
Chambersburg en- route TO Sh'ppenshurg.
There were 20 trains and % locomotives en-
gagged in the work, two Of the trains being
double headers.
SocIAL.-We would remind our people oil
the Social to he held at the home Of Miss
Clara Valentine on the evening Of Easter
Monday, April 3rd. 1t isgiven in the utter
ests If the Young Peoples Mission Band Of
st. Johns Lutheran church. and we nope to
see all our friends present. Ice cream and
cake will be served and few selections IN
music and reading rendered. Every one is
most cordially invited.
n ltANh uIC ubt yct III pOb
session of the "needful" for All Fools Day
That is, our friends have not as yet re
sponded to our call for funds IS we hat
reason to expect and big rent account fol
Saturday next looms up its ugly front, DER
topping any sum for which check on ou
bankers would be honored. Come alopl
lively a day or two vet intervenes and WI
arc the most ardently hopeful somebody tina
you yer knew.
!Iactlne will be exhibited In the Town Hal
On Saturday evening, April LIST. 1t is no
only one Of the greatest scientific wonder
=! the age, but its productions furnish mos
charming entertainment. The entertain
'nent will be given by students OF Pennsyl
7ania College. 1t will require about TIVE
l.ours to complete the program. The rate
ofadnission will be twenty cents TT adult
aud ten cents for children.
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He Won TIE KIss.-At "shlndig" as
party ia called in Frederick county, Mis-
Matilda Lilywell and her lover. Reubel
Sparkle, entered into an agreement that tn
one which should eat the larger number o
Maryland biscuits should claim from tn
other forfeit. Sparkle openly declared tina
should he gain the victory u kiss would b.
his reward, but toss If the head Of ih
country beauty warned him that his triumph
Mould not he tightly won.
30, allowed on,y spring water or cider t.
Faoisten the FEAST, the pair began. One af'e
another Of the deica,e compounds of tn
oeauty's mother disappeared until thirty