Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-07-04
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To The BentztOwn Bard.


Oh. the Bard of Bentztown,
Which, I'll give you some advice;
When next you feel poetical,
And want to do things nice;
Don't 60 into the woodland
A.loafing round the trees.
To listen to the "vcsper bird"
Or to the 'buzzng bees"
Don't try to feed your darling"
On "wayes Of golden wheat"
Or "silver sheayes of morning"
If you really want to treat,
Just trot her out some evening
Meath the bright electric beam,
And fill your little darling full
OfDutrow's cold ice cream.
And if the corset stands the strain,
And she's not afraid to die,
Fill up her yawning facial gulf
With chunks o your favorlte pie.
rive have violated our rules in the publca.
ton Of the above, as it came to us on pos
tai card with no signature.
If that anonymous poet gets lis into trouble
withBentzfoltownger only his anonymously
will save him from the wreaking of our ven
gence and our wreak when intcnselywrought
has been known to rattle mighty men go
to ED. CLARION.
NOTES OF THE SToRM.-The great rain
and thunder storm of Wednesday evening of
last week did some damage in this section.
The lightning struck in more than q dozen
places within two miles Of this place. The
most serious damage was the burning of Mr..
G.. l. Creager's barn and the destruction of
some of the timbers in Mr.. Joshua Martins
barn at Graceham. This barn was burned
last summer by a lightning stroke and we
are told had been struck once before that.
Mr. Alfred Weller's dwelling south oftown
was struck and chimney and u part of the
cornice damaged Mrs. Emma X. Rouzer's
barn north of town was struck and mum.
Der o! trees in this vicinity.
A bolt entered MIR. James Layman' dwell
ing south east of town and knocked the
hammers off of loaded double barrel gun,
without exploding the charge.
The wind broke a number of limbs from
shade trees and north of town, hail did some
damage to the corn. Rouzer's Branch is the
only stream that was unusually high this
stream washed away bridge and a lot Of
fence at Mr.. Simon Lohr's and carried the
newly.broken stone from several hundred
feet Of turnpike into MIR. Geo. w. Stocks
dale's lot
The rain within half.mile oftown was of
the cloud burst order but neither Owens nor
Hunting creek was high In town cellars
were flooded and drains choked, 80 that on
Friday the Fire Department came in handy
to wash with one of their heaviest streams,
the sand and mud from the side drains and
eewers.
A pond north of town overflowcd and as
1t was pretty well stocked with sun fish,
thousands of them were found the next day
in adjoining fields, which led some to belieYe
there had been a shower of fish.
MORE OF IT.-On Sunday evening another
heavy rainfall occurred, sending a volume of
water into our streets that our drainage sys.
TEN wholly failed to carry off and the streams.
particularly our local. Rouzer's Branch, be-
came raging floods.
1t had been showery during the entire az
ternoon and about 430 O clock heavy down
pour began, lasting probably forty.five min.
utes, during which time at least three inches
of water fell.
There were several light electrical dis
charges and no wind Corn fields were badly
washed and all low places became ponds
where the water remained long enough to
ruin the crop. It came in the midst of har.
vest and occasioned delay and some loss.
The heavy fall did not cover wide extent of
country to the north and east of us as the
Monocacy River while swollen and muddy
was not hank full at any time.