Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-06-23

Decidedly cool weather has prevailed here
since the middle of last week.
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There Is some grass in this section, Of
which It is tho intention to make hay and II
is time that were done as it Is growing less
rather than more valuable.
Trinity Reformed Sunday School will rem.
der It's Children's Day service on Sunday
evening next at eight o'clock, p. m. All are
cordially invited.
The summer boarders are arriving; mine
host of the Hotel Thurmont has a happy
smile on his face; case why-he has already
q goodly number with him and more, up 10
thirty, yet to come.
Any one wishing to purchase q bicycle
should call on Mr.. John J. O'Toolc. He is
selling the Rambler wheel, and information
not secured through advertisements in this
paper will be cheerfully furnished by Mr..
O'Toole. His warerooms are located on
Boundary Ave-, near G.. W. stocksdales
warehouse.
HraH SCHOOL CoMMENcEAENT.-Tomor-
row, Friday, evening Thurmou! High School
commencement exercises will be held in
Town Hall. It will be Of the usual wide
interest aud will certainly be largely attend
ed There are nine members IN the gradua.
ting class, as follows Nellie r. Bennett, J.
Lucretia Casscll, Nellie B. Freeze, John L.
Croft, Bertha NJ. sigmund, Lila II. Cover, ],
Carl Damuth, Helen n. Landers, Mary X.
Wesche.
NEW WAR SoNG.-We are in receipt Of o
copy of "They are goin' to March 10 Cuba
under Major General Lee" a war song;
words by Folger KcKinsey, music by Prof.
Geo. Ed. Smith. The lines are catchy and
will rank with many by writer's Of songs
that have established regulations as ballad.
lists. The music has martial jingle that
should render the song very popular. We
shall be more than gratided to learn that
our two good friends, McKinsey and Smith,
have produced something that became 4
leading war song.
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A GLOOMY OUTLOOK w ashington county
farmers arc much discouraged over the out.
look for good crop Of wheat. Reports from
different sections indicate that the ravages
of the Hessian fly have greatly affected the
crop. Many fields of growing grain, which
several weeks ago gave promise of splendid
Yields, have been almost totally destroyed
in some instances, and in others so affected
that half the crop first expected will be q
good return. In addition to the fly, the
wheat is suffering from cheat and milk
weeyil. In many fields the rust has appeared
and this will hasten the plant to ripcn, and
thus produce wheat of al inferior quality -
Boonsboro Times.
HELD THE TRAIN.-A train load of COW.
boy soldiers held B. & o. train at Grafton
the other day about three hours on account
of not being provided with sleeper. They
came from the west in foreign car, and at
Parkersburg they had TO ride in coach on
account of the sleeper being too large for the
tunnels of the Parkersburg branch. They
were informed that they would be supplied
at Grafton with another sleeper, but when
the town was reached there was none there.
The boys were not tn be bluffcd In this man
ner, and seven OF them got on the engine and
would not let the engineer move the train
until the right kind Of a car was attached to
the train. The result was their orders were
obeyed.
A short letter, dated Hong Kong, May S,
was received from Clarence Rouzer, Of the
Raleigh, by his father here.
1t says: At sos .. M, May l, the ball
opened at Manila The Spanish flagship
Castillo firing first, and we firing away for
four hours. 1t was one continuous roar. 1t
was terrible warm and not bit Of a breeze,
the sun being roasting. In one ship there
were over 400 men and only 81 lived TO tell
the tale. The Spanish on shore were 50
confident of winning the battle that they
invited all their friends into the forts to see
the spanish ships blow the Yankee tubs out
of the water, but it didn't take them long 10
change their minds. Besides the $50 killed
on the ships, stray shells killed over 600 on
shore, a regular slaughtering match.-Aaa.
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DEATH or HARRY G. RooT.-The sudden
and accidental death of Harry c. Root at the
Excelsior Factory fire en- Saturday morning
last Was sad in the extreme and cast gloom
over our town, deeper and more heartfelt
than any happening here for years Struck
down in the prime Of his young manhood
and while engaged in the performance of an
unse.fsh duty, by an accident that little
forethought on the part Of the many present
might have averted, renders his death the
more distressing to all OF his many friends
That the tall iron stack must fall, seems to
have occurred to no one present, when, as
it turned out, in that alone lay all the real
danger. He with several Others were max
ing strenuous efforts to cxtinguish the fire in
the interior of the small Office, building dc.
tached and distant about fifteen feet from
the factory and in which Mr.. Nv. Creeger's
books containing the accounts Of his lime,
lumber and other business were kept. They