Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-01-18


Considerable anxiety exists among Sontl
Mountain fruit.growcrs because of thu
mild weather of the past few weeks, rs tn,
peach buds are abnormally developed and r
danger Of being frozen by cold snap which
may come along.
Among the three, Brunswick, .Boonshoro
electric railway connection with Midd!etowr
Valley, one Of them almost certainly vii
secure the persimmon this year. Who's 90
the longest pole?
The Luray caverns were sold recently at
public auction to Stephen Green. Martin
Lane, Lev, q Condor and H Il. Dixon o
B,ltlmore, for $40 100, the inn site cottage
and twenty acres were bought for 81 $50 by
the .mc parties.
No Ice YET. The brict stay of freezing
weather last week has once more dampeC
the hopes of oar local lccmcn Sunday las
was warm enough to have come in April nl
MAY and the thin ice, formed ON Thursday
and Friday disappeared.
Some of our citizens, think that the
mortgage debt resting upon the Town Hal
should bc provided for BY Il furihur issue o
bonds, to ran long time and consequent,
with lgh, burden Of sinking fund apprc
priation each year. They would sell at {
handsome premium.
STOLE A BlBlE.-During Christmas wetl
some person stole Bible, bound with Rus
| Holman, in this place A Billie seems to be
y strange thing to steal as = person who j!
too poor to buy B be- could easily rcceiy,
one by merely asking frrit H,l the pc. son
who took the VOID of God tom the store
asked for it, MIR, Holman would have cheer
fully presented il 10 him, fine been financial
" unable to purchase 1t. Ii is to be HOPED
that the thief will carefully study the book
m practice its teachings -ChrOn,cle.
STORE BURSED.-Last Thursday at mid
night a store aud MI its contents at Walkers
vile was brrncd The stock belonged tt
Mr Elmer G. Wachter and The building wal
the property of Mr.. B. l Jamison. The los
on the stock is estimated at $500 snd on TIT
building about e. 600. The entire loss i
covered by insurance, The properly wa
situated along the rail read and the fire ha(
made such headway wien first discovered
that nothing WAS sayed except bench from
the front porch, The building was occupied
by Mr.. Wachter for a store room and par
was occupied by another person for barbc,
shop.-Bannev.
Owing to q scarcity Of cross.ties, work
upon the South Mountain Electric railwa,
has been practically suspended for the pas
two weeks, but the necessary ties have now
been engaged, and the work of laying TIT
rails and ties will hcgln at an early date
when large force of men Will be put t
work and the road bed completed as soon a
practicable.
| Tie necessary machinery for running TIT
electric power of the road Is now in keedys
vile 1t will be brought here tins week
and the work Of placing it IN position WI
! h" commenced as soon as the building vii
permit.
The foundation for both powcrhOuse ant
! tern inal station have been completed. =
Boons1oro 7imes
AN OLD CHunCH. About the year l7Gt
Francis Winter, one of the earliest settler
in the neighborhood of what is now New
Windsor, received an application from Ger
man colonsts near Lancaster, Pa, for lane
| for farming purposes and for the prospcctic,
erection there of Lutheran Church of III,
Augsburg Confession. Family after fsmil,
arrived and took up land in this vicinity
then part Of Frederick county, says th'
Westminster Advocate. In 1772 10!
church was erected for house ofp,ayer, bu
was not organized as church until Jan LIST
| 1888, under the pastoral care of the kcI
Johann Daniel Shrocter, when the ecclesas
tical discipline IF the church was submitted
and adopted by the congregation and OF
NAV 81, 1854, the first officers of the church
were elected md installed. They were; Ed
rrs; Franc,s Winter, Henry Craul dcacons
Jacob Haln,z and George Spangler pastor
Johann Daniel Schroeder. The old log chucl
becoming inadequate for the increase in pop
ulalioD, it was resolved by the congregation
to build new and more commodious edific
which was accomplished in the year 1917
St. Lukes Courch, as it is now called. ha
at present l1o COMMITMENTS and is undo
the pastoral care of the Rev. George w
Baughman
The original book Of records is well pre-
served and most interesting on account OF it
antiquity.