Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1899-05-25
The face of the mountain lie badly disfg
ured az a result of the recent fires.

The face of the mountain is badly disfg
ured as result Of the recent fires.
Linemen of the Frederick County Tele
graph and Telephone Co. have planted tele
phone polls between New Midway and LIZ
diesburg and wires will be strung at once
Next week poles will be planted between
Jefferson, Petersvllle and on to Brunswick
President James e. Walker stated this morn
ing that in little while complete circul
fthe county towns will be completed-Nescs
James w. Koontz sued DR.. joseph L. Jar
ODE, of smithsburg, for $4,000 damages
Last summer wagon ran over Mr.. Koontz
MASKING and dlslocating one of his hips. HI
claims that Dr. Jarobe set his leg crooked
which has made him cripple. The cast
came up in court at tIagerstown last Mon
day. The jury awarded Koontz verdict q
$3.50. Mr.. Keontz is native Of Burkittsvillt
this county
A young man told colored attendent In
in Annapolis saloon, that when lie. died he
would send back bird to indicate his where
abouts. The young man died recently and
frequently since his death a cat bird has
flown into the saloon, remaining until driven
out. The negro Is terribly afraid of the bird.
The question is, does the cat bird indicate
that the young man is feline comfortable, OF
that cat astrophe has over taken hmp
Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith
has stopped his work long enough to prepare
for the May Cosmopolitan paper on Great
Problems in Organization" for the series
which the Cosmd poHtan IS now giving. 1t
would be difficult to overestimate the iDpor.
tahoe of these articles. which IRE making
clear in ways never before attempted the
principles which underlie all organization
beginning with that Of each mans daily life
and extending up to the greatest institutions
of modern times,
Old Mr.. John Fox ofthis county has found
another young girl willing to become his
wife.
The Ne.cs of Monday says they are living
happily together and that Mrs. Fox is very
much pleased to be ian old mans darling in.
stead Of a young mans slave" while the
Sun of Tuesday has most sensational letter
from Frederick saying that Mrs. Fox had
gene off with another man.
1t seems to us that Mr.. Tox's vagarics in
the matrimonial line warrant jury de luna
etc.
Mr.. Frank Ryan, Of Carroll, is the most
sought man by tax collectors perhaps in the
State. His land lies in four codnties, though
his residence is IN Carroll. Part Of his prop.
erty il IN Carroll, part in Frederick, part in
Montgomery and part In Howard. On his
property is PARIS Spring, which is the point
where the four counties join. He can put
one foot in Frederick county and one in
Montgomery, then bend down with one hand
in Carroll and the other In Howard and
drink water from spring the centre of which
Is where the four counties unite.-Adcdcate.
PROVIDE AGAINST IT-When the C. & P.
telephone company strung their wires thro'
our town, our shade trees were sadly disfig.
ured by the linesmen, who assumed TO have
the right to cut limbs and tops from the trees
regardless of the shape in which it left them.
There is now possibility Of another line
coming this way and we suggest that our
corporate authorities consider the matter in
advance. Other incorporated towns admit
telegraph, telephone and electric light and
railroad companies, only upon well defined
agreement or contract; the character of such
a contract is best shown in ordinances re-
Gently enacted in several nearby towns, a
copy of which can be obtained at this Office