Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-03-31

furniture.
On Friday. April /, 1898, Frederick J
Nelson and Vincent Sebold, trustees will
sell valuable real estate in Thurmont. Set
ady.
Nackley Brothers moved their confection
cry into their new quarters, Mr.. J. W. Cree
gers new building, this week. 1t is conf
modulus, we'll lighted and fully equipped
room.
The growing wheat give bright promise;
it came out of the winter looking somewhat
unpromising, but the exceptional weather
during this month has forced 1t to stool
splendidly and when the real season OF
growth arrives, there will be an excellent
stand or the ground.
A union church was dedicated at Rnggold
Washington county, last Sunday. The build
ing is owned by six congregations; Lutheran
Reformed, Mennonite. Progressive, Conserv
alive and Old Line Dunkards. The trustees
consist of seven persons, one from each con
gregatiOn and one from outside.
The Cumberland Valley railroad is testing
a colossal locomotive of the Pennsylvania
railroad. 1t is engine No 1860 and has u
inch driving wheels. The enginemen say
they can run it from Harrisburg to Hagers.
town, seventy-tour miles, in sixty minutes il
no stops are made
At meeting of the Key Monument Asso-
citation at Frederick last Monday evening, i,
was decided to erect the handsome Monu
ment in the central flower bed in the large
plat facing the entrance to Mt. Olivet Gem.
etery and extending westward from the
entrance way to the Mausolcum in the rear
The foundation will be laid in April and a
space will be left for the corner stone, which
will be laid with local ceremonies by the Key
Monument Association on Flag Day, june
June IA, 1893. The unwilling ceremonies
will occur on Tuesday, August 9th.
HIS Fitzgerald, Of Baltimore, who since
1866 has been appearing at the medical col
leges all over the country, giving exhibitions
of tho wonderful control he has over his body,
appeared at the Valley House. this place,
last Tuesday afternoon, and demonstrated
his remarkable ability before DR.. E. l.. beck
ley, DR.. o. s. Everhart, and party of their
invited friends. Fitzgerald dislocated the
bones Of his body at will, produced fracture,
and did many other wonderful things. He
dislocated his hip with perfect ease, and pro.
duced one of the worst fractures of the leg.
Articles of Incorporation of the Gap
land Telephone Company were filed at
the Clerks offics Of this county on the 18th
inst. The incorporates are John ID. Ahalt,
Hamilton w. Shafer, George c, Huffer, Geo.
S. Huffer and T b. Biser. The principal
Office of the company is to be located at
Ahalt's dlstillery The object Of the com
pany is to carry on the telephone business,
to build own, manufacture, buy and sell and
operate telephone and and telegraph line
in the State of Maryland Valky Register
sc1RNcE-In the brilliant flight of the
Meteor the very process which gives 1t its
glow, is the cause of its disinteeraton and
death. Thus passes the incipiency of THE
CLARION into its existence, wearing itself
out in the struggle to shne.-Guids
If properly translated into the vernacular,
the sentiment expressed in the latter SEN
tence OF the above would probably be real
fetching, if not sublme.-ED CLARIoN.]
NEEDED - The incorporators of THE
GUIDE at a special meeting held several days
ago, decided that it would be beneficial to
their business interests, for each to subscribe
an amount for the purpose of establishing
an Editors Educational Fund" They de-
sire that their Editor secure q +" Journalistic
education" at THE CAssELL KINDERGAR.
TEN" so as to enable him meet his dlstin
gushed and learned contemporary on the
level, and part with him on the square,
GUIDE.
THE Kindergarten" idea Is all right: it
being training supplementary to the nur,
sery and preparatory to the school, the bus-
ness managers of Tho Guide are to be com
plimented upon the system devised for the
evolution of an editor. The only obstacle
In the way of our acceptance of the task is
that the class will be so very small.-ED
CLARIoN.]
Tho Guide regrets that its readers do not
have an opportunity to enjoy the roasting
it is receiving" Now, the very palpable
fact is, that it very carefully abstrains from
permitting them that enjoyment. Why'
IF the editorial combat continues, we pro-
pose to enlarge THE GUIDE."-Guide. A
very diff1dent young man was once invited
to the table at a house where he had called
at an inopportune time. The lady of the
house apologized for her table and the young
man thinking to make her feel comfortable
said: "Oh, it's good enough, what there is of
it," then thinking to better it, said: "And
there is plenty of il, such as it is" Moral:
When one "makes mess" of q thing, the
further it is carried the worse it gets ED.
CLARION.
Who Comes Here?
A halfcolumn suff1ced to demonstrate two
things: first, that The Gutds has more than
one contributor to its editorial columns and
second, that it is possible to bring about such
a vivid contrast between ignorance and in