Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-03-19
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The ndricksOn-Frederlck
The w. NJ. railroad company kept its snow
plows at work on Wednesday and Thursday
last and despite the high winds kept the
track clear, SO that every train came through
on time, or within few minutes oft. They
probably saved hundreds of dollars worth Of
shoveling in addition to keeping all traffic IN
good shape.
House BURNED-Mr. Henry Patterson
who with his daughter was arrested for an
attack on Green, sold his property in Wigvile
to Mr.. Frank Hesson of this place and re-
moved therefrom recently. He left the prop.
erty in the morning and 1t was burned that
night, 1t was insured for 500 in the Gran
gers Mutual Of Middletown.
Will some one kindly explain where the
north wind has heaped itself up; the wind
has been blowing from that section to such
an extent during the past six weeks that 1t
puzzles us when we endeaver to evolve some
satisfactory solution Of the problem to what
use is it all being put to the south of us and
and how do the seal white bear and Eskimo
manage to get along without it.
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PREDICTION VERIFIED stated last
week as we went to press there was promise
of the biggest snowfall Of the season. 1t
came to the depth of about eleven inches.
Again on Sunday there came another of
foot making total of nearly two feet on
the eleventh and fifteenth days of March,
probably three times as much as had fallen
here previously during the entire winter.
UNsEAsoNABLE.-D spite the fact that
there was two feet or more of snow our PEG
pie have not used sleighs;we have an idea that
under exactly similar conditions during the
Holidays, everybody that Travelled would
have secuted the idea of using buggy
Sleighing is out OF season, SO the people don't
sleigh.
THE above held good until Tuesday when
everybody went a .slelghing
Mr.. Frank Stevens of Creagerstown has
rented one of Mr.. Aaron Bixler's Wakefield
Valley farms and will take possession on the
first of April. MIR. Stevens is an excellent
farmer and he goes on splendid farm OF two
hundred acres that has been rented for a
number of years for $1,000 per year cash
We shall be gratited to learn of his success
and we can predict that with safety.
A POTATO WORTH MENTIONING
EARLY Favorite," brought out by w L
McLay, of Geneva N. Y, has made a great
record tor '95, 7a0 bushels per acre. Fifteen
separate yields, scattered over fourteen coun
ties and seven states, average asa bushels pei
acre. These are reported by farmers and not
fancy experimenters. We understand that
the seed of this enormous yieider can be had
at a reasonable price from MIR. McKoy
Mr.. S. NJ Birely sent nearly eleven hun
drcd dollars worth of pulp wood to MI. L
S. G atfeter, Spring Grove, Pa. last month:
This money is paid out to owners of noun
tain land between this place and Smithsburg
principally They in turn pay out large
percentage of the money tor labor and the
W. NJ. r. r. secures handsome freight bll
in addition. 1t is utilizing some of the tim
Der in our mountain that hitherto grew up
and died on the stump; the pine, we refer to
INTO A STREAM.-A dog frightened TIT
horse attached to sleigh that Miss Sweeney
of near Mt. St. Marys was driving along the
turnpike south of Thurmont on Friday last
The horse became unmanageable and ran of
the road into the stream, Hunting Greek
where i, stopped. Being unable to cross OF
to turn around the occupants got out on al
island and young man waded into tn,
stream and led the horse around and out, II
doing which the sleigh was overturned ane
Miss s. was compelled to ride home in very
damp sleigh
Come to think Of it, there is very little
practically no occasion why we should 10,
awake o'nights endeavoring to devise new
projects. Look around our town and com
munity and you will find few idle people
and those who are engaged are proftably, a
least satisfactorily employed. 1t is simply
fact that the community has not been calle'
upon to maintain any one IN charity Thu
winter which proves that all are self support
ing. While in other sections we hear of a
many as nine Thousand loaves of bread giyel
away during the winter by one person, not
necessitous case was reported here. We ar
manufacturers or producers only in SINAI
way, but all engaged in that line have beel
employed throughout the winter. Our mer
chants are doing thriving and satisfaction
business and the same may be said of all ii
the vicinity; Graceham, Franklin Mills, ete
While we are not piling things up so exten
sively that there is any danger of an unset
tied equilibrium, owing to the displacement
of the centre of gravity, yet matters in thi
quarter section do not justify the engage
ment of calamity bowler; not by any means
on the contrary, the reverse
Pitchers Castorla.