Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-01-25
A cold wave! Now for ice.

The question of a High License for Fred
erick county will be before the presen Leg
islature. What do the people want ?-CStizsn
Colonel -. C. Wluebrenncr las been cleo
ted prcsi,lcn, Of the Farmers and Mechanics
National Bunk Of Frederick to succeed
Colonel Charles f. Trail, resigned, Charles
Baynard Trail, exconsul at Marseilles, has
been made vice president.
A p,otrac.ed meeting will l9gin in the U
B. church in this place this Thursday even
ing at Z O'Clock. !,
Tue fourth quarterly meeting will occur
Saturday next, January eth at 2p. IN. and
continue oyer Sunday the ash.
Thrown FROM A HoRsE.-On Saturday
evening last our esteemed friend Mr.. Uriah
Warreuf.is was thrown from his horse when
on his way home from town. He suffered
severe coututions about tho head and
eprsiued his wrist. His horse stumbled.
II IL said ongo,d authority that tho defen-
dants in the celebrated Hoffman Seathrist
road case vii! carry it to the Court OF
Appeals There 10 something more than
mere justice and right at the bottom Of all
this litigation. aud the sooner it is defnitsly
deci led the better for all parties concerned. -
Citisex.
Assn evidence Of the mild winter Of 1895
a, mark it IN your note books that n0rnin 4
glories were IN bloom the first week in Janu'
ary at New Wi"d+or, there was almost A
total failure of the Ice crop, and In the mid
die Of January lies were still! on the wing,
end snakes were occasionally observed out
Of their holes.
Westr,nster is the cheapest lighted town
per lamp. Of any gss lighted town In the
United States. The cost Is $3.50 per lamp,
twenty nights a month. from twilight ia
midnight. The uext lowest place l, town
in the coal regions Of Pennsylvania, where
the Cost Is @l6 90 per lamp. Westminster
has about ~ street lsmps-Adsoco.e.
DID Nor Advertise. few days ago a
citizen cut into pound Of butter which he
had purchased at a grocery whosr proprietor
does not advertise and found therein .
small tin box. which contained piece OF
paper hearing the following, written in a
neat feminine hand:
Il am girl Of 10 years, good looking and
an exccllen. housekceper. Should this be
found by some unmarried Christian gentle.
man, will he pleas write t. the follow ns
address" etc.
The fndcr being y bachelor decided 10
unravel the affair and succeeded only to
destroy the romance. The girl who had
written the note had died many years ago,
leaving 40 aged husband and grown family.
JUST ~ IT ls.-One Of our citizens oyer
heard conversation between two Baltimore
City business men one an entire st ranger to
our town, the following Of which is the sub
stance.
They were speaking of a place at which 80
spend the summer, when this place, It's pres
cnt and proposed new name came into the
conversation. The stranger 10 the town
SAID this: 1T two of my friends were telling
me where they intended to spend the sum
mcr and felt like being with one or Inc other
of them and one should say i an, going to
Mechanicstown, the other. 4 am going 10
Thurmon,,' and not know anything about
the two places, would certainly. decide u
go to Thurmont"
That is the way strangers look at il and
as it has been confessed on MI hands that
another influx of strangers is essential to
rapid progress IN the future. as markedly
has been the history Of the past, II may be
well to weight the worth of just such opin
ions as the one given above.