Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-12-10
Local Items.

CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
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Mebbe weuns amt busy: try to get four OF
five people together some evening
New Advertisements
Ford's.
Trnstees' Sale-..Real and Personal
New Millinery Goods. Mrs. K. Firor.
The Model-Hendrickso
Ray. W. z. Wire, pastor of the Lutheran
church In Littlestown, Pa, visited friends in
Thurmont this week.
STEADY Work -Canvassing may be &C.
cured by addressing the Standard Specially
Company, Thurmont.
Mr.. Howard Palmer of Wolfsville was
thrown from the saddle horse Of runaway
team on Tuesday last and received injuries
that proved fatal.
Weather signs are ut variance; according
to come the winter will be very cold; others
afflrm that 1t will be unusually warm; still
others are non. committal.
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How would il do to 60 over the streets at
this season as well as in the spring and gather
up the loosened macadams A rolling stone
gets in the way OF sleigh runners too.
SOMEWHAT BETTER Mr.. Henry W. Ben
nett was extremely i'll at times during the
past week. While his condition il more
favorable, he is not yet out of danger.
The cold weather of last week has been
followed by another period of unreasonable
warmth. The range of the thermometer
within week approaches fifty degrees. If
this thing keeps up there will be corner in
the squills and quiuine market.
Donations to the Fair are being reported.
We will have successful Fair if everybody
WORKS hard to secure that result. You can
not plant Fair in thimbleful of good In
tentions, fertilize it with hope and grow a
prize. winner: they are built, not grown and
you will need do some planning and ham.
mering. -
EXHIBITION RUN For the benefit Of the
Town Hall Fair, Guardian Hose Company
has offered to give an exhibition on Christ
mas afternoon. 1t will answer an alarm of
FIRE, make the run and attack one or more
sham fires. The work to be done will be
strictly under the direction of the proper
officers and will give some idea of the extent
TO which the company is under discipline.
NAME IT-According to the Thurmoat
correspondent of the Frederick Citizen. our
newly and splendidly macadamized thor
oughfare has been known all these many
years as Cow Lane
BY the Great Horn Spoon, this nomencla-
ture must undergo revision!
We're nothing if not big; let's know it as
the Apples Boulevard: Avenue or Driveway
Is commonplace.
A NEW DIsTRIcT.-We learn that the
next General Assembly of Maryland will be
asked to erect a new election district in
Frederick County. We are not acquainted
with the lines of the proposed new district
but 1t will be formed by parts of Mechanics
town, Emmitsburg and Creagerstown dis
tricts and will lie along the Monocacy, TO the
east and northeast of Mechanicstown Dis
trict. We have been told that 1t ia desired
by many that it's name shall be Monocacy
District.
Two more weeks and Christmas will be
here. Now is the time and in these columns
can be found the space to devote to the ad-
vertisement of Holiday Goods. They will be
here a. usual and those who advertise always
sell their wares If advertising in The CLAIR.
ION did not pay, such shrewd people al
Pierce, Cheney, Chamberlain, and Castoria
would not pay US year after year for our
space as those named have done, some Of
them for five, more of them for ten and one
Of them, Cheney, for twelve years without a
break. They pay Us our rates, too, or they
wouldn't get the space.