Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-04-21

VOLUME XVIII. With this issue tn
CLARION cutters upon its twenty eighth veal
Mr.. M. J. Albaugh has improved his /
Main. ST., residence by placing large pore
in front.
Sunday last was summer day: the thel
mometer nearly reached 80 degrees in I'll
shade.
The Masonic Fair Melted $40 to $685.
there yet remains few articles to be d
posed of, but the above figures will cove
the result.
HANDSOME Gertrude Grimes dwel
ing Oh Carroll street, when completed, wi
be the handsomest bit OF architecture
Thurmont.
Hicks announces vernal equinox on III
10Th of April. Joshua got the sun to stan
still, but Hicks has moved the earth bac
twenty four days in its annual clrcu
about the sun. 'Rah for Hicks.
They're la-awfn' at us: cause the taxes al
now up to the limit allowed by law and til
Legislature has jut adjourned.
Well: they can yet please us by using lint
stone on the streets.
NEW ENaINE.-A new fifty h. p. engin
is being put in place at the Crcscite Exce'so
Works. The capacity will he exactl
doubled as soon as the additional power
ready.
Messrs Lewis d. Kelly and e. l.. ROOF
Jointly, have purchased CARLOAD of Obi
stoneware. Their reselling has been so sue
cessful that they could readily dispose of tn
entire lot and have none left for themselves
EIEcTRrCITY.-If some Yankee geniu
does not invent dirigible thunder bolt, 1
event of war with Spain, then We will cor
clude that the limit of electrical knowlcdg
has been reached.
The annual excursion of the Union Bridg
Concert Band to Baltimore will take plac
on Thursday, May l2th, starting from High
field. The band will accompany the excur
sionists and give concert upon their arriva
at Hilcn station.
The primary department of the Publ
School, Miss Mary Landers, teacher. gave a
entertainment in the school house yesterda.
afternoon before large audience. The lit
tie children performed their parts In yer.
creditabe manner.-Ch Chronicle.
SECOND FIDDLE.-One year ago Nat!Ona
League Baseball usurped the Big Dspla.,
Heading privilege in the daily press, but thi
year II plays second fiddle. The bigges
baseball crank in Thurmont reads the We
news first.
The CRoPs-Wheat is looking as well a
could be wished. Preparation of ground TO
corn is IS forward as usual Peaches, pear
and cherries are in bloom and seem to hav
survived the frost. Gardens are forward
but the grass fields do not look 80 well.
PEnsoNAL.-Mrs. d. G. Hsmmett has beef
visiting in Baltimore City during the pas
week
Mrs. John Landcrs spent last week will
friends in Emmitsburs.
Miss Mary Weaver, Of Greencastle, Penn
is the guest OF Mrs. VIM, 10y.
In reporting the result Of the Corporation
election last week, we noted the reelection
of three members Of the outgoing board
From til S it might be inferred that the Ell
tire board were candidates for reelection ant
that two of them were defeated. Such WIS
not the case; but the three elected wer
candidates.
The following county appointments wer
made by the Seventeenth annual session q
the MARYLAND Conference Of the Methods
Protestant church, in Baltimore, last Tues
day: Frederick, G. F. Earring; Jefferson ant
Buckeystown. w. NJ. Strayer; Lewistowr
II. E. Nelson; Liberty, w. j. Floyd New
Market, s. F. Cassen.
A Hancock girl recently spent week Wis
iting family residing in this county. Agai
at home, she reported having jolly tint
She was kicked by calf, bitten by pig
run over by colt, fell out of a tree and dis
covered specimen of FIRST class butter b.
fooling around too near goat whose nam
| is William Soon as she gets out of bed sh
wants to 60 again.-Idn.
Resolutions OH the Death OF NJ
Abram y. Zentz.
FREDERICK MD April Is, 1893.
| WHEREAS, BY another dispensation OF tn
allwise Providence, who 30 often works i
ways to us inscrutable, Mr.. Abram S Zent;
member of this Board. has been called i
the midst of his usefulness from lis earthl
labors to his eternal reward
Resoloed By the County Commissioners
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