Catoctin clarion., 1895-07-11

casion.
The School Teachers have been in session
during Yesterday and today at the Blue
Mountain House. Pres. Dutrow and Ex.
aminer Boblitz of this county Board have
been in attendance.
We haye new weather forecaster, Prof.
Willis Moore. vice Harrington resigned by
request. Prof. Moore has grown up with
the Weather Bureau and is doing well thus
far, IN the matter of prognosticating.
Few medicines have held their ground so
successfully as Ayers Cherry Pectoral. Dur.
ing the past fifty years 1t has been the most
popular of all cough cures and the demand
for 1t today is greater than ever before.
prompt to act and sure to cure.
Frederick city firemen stand charged with
having done more damage with water than
the fire they were pretending to fight, while
In reality rival companies were fighting each
other. 1t Is probable that the municipality
will be called upon to pay the damage.
Gilbert makes at least two kinds Of ice
cream for his great Saturday evening trade.
Vanilla and chocolate are his regular flayors
and fruit each in It's season. He usually has
frozen custard once or twice week. His
strawberry cream was delicious, he promises
to excel 1t, however, when peach time comes.
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Cooper, and if not copper, then gold or
zinc" is what mineral prospector, OF Bal.
timore" says lie hidden 10 the mountain TO
the west of us. In our Judgment it is gold,
for during the past twenty years quite sum
has been sunk" prospecting in our noun
tains. If the entire amount can be discoverd,
all accumulated at one point the lucky finder
will be fairly rich.
TANGLED. THE rains and widestorms that
came just rs the wheat was ready to cut,
made harvesting sad festival. The wheat
was not only down and badly tangled, but
in many instances has been over.aOwn and
the straw was muddy aud the grain wet.
The corn fields have been seriously fur.
rowed by the rains, q heavy percentage Of
the soil having been carried of.
BAsEBALL.-Emmltsburg came down here
several weeks ago and defeated our boys at
baseball; on the Fourth the two clubs met on
the Mt. st. Marys College grounds and our
club was again beaten. They will play again
during the summer. Scores Of 80 to 80 and
Is to 16 do not lead one to believe that either
club plays very good ball, but that they are
very evenly matched is apparent and they
&c I lots of fun out Of 1t.
At the first anniversary of the Kings
Daughters Society of the Creagerstown Re.
formed church on Sunday evening last, Miss
Eff1e s. Baker of Thurmont sang solo and
Mr.. G. D. Shaffer, alec Of Thurmont, made
an address Miss Baker has rich voice and
her singing always attracts much attention.
We are told that Mr.. ShafFer, who is taking
course in the Lancaster Theological Semin
ary, gives promise of being a strong and ef-
fective speaker.
New CIDER MILL.-Mr A. 8. Zentz has
purchased new cider mill; the apples will
be seduced to pulp by steam power and an
hydraulic press will extract the cider. The
great force exerted by the hydraulic press
will pr oduce from 10 to Is per cent more
cider than the more common form of presses
and the capacity Of the press is very great.
The Messrs Zentz will he busy men this sea.
son. They report large acreage of sorghum
all growing finely.
WATER COMPANY ELECTIoN July
end the Mechanicstown Water Company
held it's annual election of officers and direc-
tors, resulting as follows: Pres. Van B.
Osler; Vice Pres. COL j. r. Rouzer Treas
urer Geo. w. stocksdale Secretary and
Supt. s. NJ. Birely; Additional directors
Chas c. Waters and NV 10y A dividend of
six per cent, clear of all taxes, was declared
and made payable at the Office of the Secre.
tary on and after July 18th.
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PHOTOGRAPHY king the leading pho.
tographer OF Hagerstown and whose work
we know to be Of the very best. has rented
Mr.. M. J. Albaugh,s room and will visit
Thurmont on or about July 18th and regular
ly thereafter. There is considerable
amount of Mr. Kings work in Thurmont
and we can assure our people that it is higher
class work than has ever been done by any
photographer located here 1t is fair to as
sumo that the work that he does here will be
as we'll and carefully done as that executed
at his home gallery. On Monday next he
expects to arrive.
Frederick's Sesqui Centennial will, from
present promise, be observed on the date of
its sesqui millennial. They don't seem 10
be able to make il go; it IS more than prob
able question Of expense and if such be the
case there should be little wonder. Frederick
ls very poor town; few have more than q
competence, none are saving any money
and all Of them have 10 pound out hard.
earned living. 1t is not like IL would be II
they had two or three very rich men. worth
say ten to twenty thousand apiece, who
could subscribe literally from the handsome
! income from their large investment. La
WHAT'S THAT?-"But a question of $10
600 to determine whether or not the railway
will be built" This is the statement that
we read and it concerns the Middletown
Valley and Frederick City electric railway.
"The projectors look upon the building Of