Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-09-08

Bids are being advertised for, for lumber
needed to repair the Sells Ford bridge which
spans Monocacy river near Four Points. 1t
will require about 10000 feet OF flooring.
The season of Gulf storms Is here; already
one has visited our southern coast doing
great damage at and near Savannah. Others
may be expected at any time during the
next thirty to forty days.
Miss NJ. Beth Firor has been advanced to
the post OF first assistant in our public
schools; Miss Grace Henshaw is promoted
to second and Miss Mary Landers has been
assigned to third, the place formerly filled by
Miss Henshaw.
A MoTTo.-An exchange says let your
motto be: Lie, Steal, Drink and Swear"
When you lie. let it be dcwn 10 pleasant
dreams. When you steal, let it be away
from immoral associates. When you drink,
let it be nothing but pure, cold water. When
you swear, swear that you will patronize
your home paper, pay your subscription and
not send your jobwork away from home.
| MADE SAFE-Elevators have now been
rendered safe in case of fall by means of
air cushions. It's rather hard to believe, but
they say that in test in New York recently
in which an elevator was allowed to drop
twenty stories, the fall Of 800 feet did not
break eggs lying on q marble slab in the
middle of the car nor spill water from
glass.
Miss Fannie, daughter of MIR. John Ian
ders; formerly first assistant teacher in our
public schools, left on Monday last for
Boston, where che will take special course
of study in the New England Conservatory
of Music
Miss Landers has an exceptionally fine
voice and decided talent; she has had some
training by several excellent teachers ard is
well equipped for entrance upon the higher
studies. We shall be gratified to learn of
her rapid advancement and ultimate success.
Our local improvements of water and
electric lights inauguratcd by l.. II. Dieman
DR.. John Burlington and Nathan G. Bale
are now established on firm basis, by the
introduction of new and vastly superior
machinery, as much greater power was re-
quired. The undertaking of this work
required great energy and pluck, both of
which were exhibited in high degree by
the gentlemen mentioned, and they deserve
and will receive the thanks OF the commmu.
nifty. 1t is fortunate to find such energetic
and business like members in community
that has been asleep for so many years.-New
Windsor Items in Adoocate
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The summer now ending has been one OF
the llvelicst known to Thurmont in recent
years. Our home people have had the pleas.
ure of welcoming and entertaining a host of
friends and relatives from distant points, the
old and young coming together socially,
forming large picnic and card parties, while
MUSCLES and impromptu parlor entertain
ments have claimed evening after evening
for the entertainment Of visitors Trips to
the mountains and evening drives about the
country, straw and baud wagon rides, tennis
games and Tournaments, dancing at homes
and in the Town Hall, sccas, and ncdcn-
tai meeting in numbers sufficient to coEsti-
tute parties have conspired to tread one
pleasure upon the heels of another thro'out
the summer. The many pleasant people
numbered among our summer boardcr pop.
ulation have, by their lbcrality, knowledge
of how and soclabiity added largely to these
pleasures, the several hotels and cottages
eight or ten in number, having during the
entire season been comfortably filled with
guests largely to be accr,d ted with gaiete du
cour. We will all feel better and be better
for the summers pleasures
USE, NOT ABUsE.-A local newspaper Is,
at least should be, subject to the beck and
call of every business interest in the circle of
its constituency; it should never hesitate
when advocancv of an interest, old or new y,
offers: it should permit and expect those
interested to ask for notice in due season and
of reasonable extent: it should view these
matters as due by viitue of its privilege to
exist in the community through the direct
and legitimate support given it in its several
departments of advertising, jobaud subsc,ip
ton and the local paper that grudgngly &C
cords these rights to its constituency, mis-,
judges its privileges and loses its chief, yes,
its single claim to recognition, either by
home people in the matter of support. or by
the outside reading public, in the matter of
acceptance of the paper MS the Representative
moutbpiece of its people.
Accepting the above the course to be
pursued by papers constituency is plain
one, viz: never hesitate to call upon it where
proper subject for public notice comes
into your business do not feel that you are
asking q favor, for you are only claiming a
privilege if not right.
Now, as to the other side of the question;
remember that such an account should be
kept constantly CURRENT that the acceptance
of all that your local paper Is able to give in
tie line of free favorable notice, put you
upon your honor to spend your money with
the publisher, so long rs his work suits you
and his prices permit: remember, further,
that even then the publisher gives you value