Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-05-27
local CORRESPONDENCE.

In the last issue, May 2lst, of The Citizen
notice the following: ut will be crafty
ing for our friends along the Emmtsburg
road to learn how they have been spoken of
by gentleman who recently stopped over
in Frederick on his way to Washington from
an extended drive throughout Pennsylva-
MIA. Without hesitation he stated that the
best kept country homes he had ever seen,
big and little, @as on his way from Emmits
burg to Frederick AT Mcchanicstown he
walked through the Main street and found
mon and women busy whtewashing and
cleaning up The windows were filled with
flowers and altogether he was impressed
with the cleanliness of our little sister town
in the mountains
Believing rs we do that our works in this
particular merits favorable consideration, it
is Of course gratifying to us to be spoken of
in this way, and are glad there are those
whose unprecedented minds. good taste and
judgment enables them to encourage us
with their outspoken appreciation OF our ef
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role the women play IN this direction it
must be remembered that they shrink not
from the brush or pail nor any other agency
by or through which they can adorn and
beautify their homes without and within.
Furthermore it has been my pleasure to
notice that some of our fairest young ladies
rise with the lark, break fast with the sun and
before that planet is two yards high IN the
heavens they are seen with father or brother
seated not in an elegant surrey, but in a
wagon with perhaps dislocated spring, a
few loose braces and one or two webbing
wheels, speeding merrily in the direction of
the farm distant one, two or three miles out,
where, too, they find becoming and profit
able employment for the willing hand aud
contented mind. Above all We folks of the
"little sister town in the mountains and Of
the country adjacent thereto know nothing
of unbecoming pride, vanity VI stuck-up ed.
ness.
Mr. A. s. Zentz and wife are sojourning
with relatives in the state of Indiana.
Mrs Flora Harbaugh Of Waynesboro, Pa,
visited relatives here during the past week.
Does any one know why fence in front
of either the Lutheran or Methodist church,
of this town, is u necessity?
The fence surrounding the U. B. Cemetery
has been thoroughly whitewashed during
the past ten days.
How precious to the memory OF those OF
US who are nearing the three score peg in
life, the days when the white ally and the
chcckered marbles the rabbits and wild
pigeons In "Roddy's bottom" and the suck.
ers in "Weler's deep hole" were of greater
interest to our eye and mind than now is the
giant seesaw being built for the Tennessee
Exposition, or the "Ivin's syndicate build
ing" now in course of construction on Park
Row, New York City, Occupying ground
area of $4,000 square feet and in height &c
stories or 1886 feet from the side walk to the
bottom of the flag staff" l might yet add
that the first stone course upon which this
gigantic structure rests, is laid 81 feet in
below the sidewalk, upon piles which extend
20 feet deeper still, and with all, the marbles
rabbits and suckers, as we remember them
seem to come greatest in our mind.