Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1899-07-06

New Advertisements.
Notice to Taxpayers.
Notice to Builders and Contractors.
We have no 4th. of July accidents to re-
port.
The after-harvest hay crop is now being
made.
Mr.. Chas Rouzer, U. S. N, is home on a
furlough.
The corn is not large for the time OF year,
but it is strong and healthy and is now grow
ing rapidly,
Last week witnessed the last OF school
commandments and the summer vacation is
really with us.
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Mrs. Margaret Grouse and Miss Margaret
Rouzer left Thurmont last week on an ex-
tended trip to Ohio.
They may bring up the Hodgson story
about Schey as often as they please, butthey
cant bring up Cervera's ships.-Phiadel-
phia Times.
The sale of personal property at Catoctin
Furnaces advertised for July 9th, will not
take place as the property has been sold at
private sale.
Chas. G. Waters, Attorney, will not be at
his 1hlrmont office on next Wednesday,
July 12lh, on account Of trip which will
extend oyer that period.
There are between 100 and $50 cases OF
dphtheria at Sparrows Point, subero of
Baltimore city, and the malady is on the
increase, says the Baltimore World.
In about one more month we will all
plunge into the hot cauldron ofpoltics. The
number that are willing to serve their coun
try is growing as the weeks 60 by.
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The Ladies Aid Society of the Lutheran
Church Of Creagerstown will hold "rloon-
light festival" at the home of Mrs, Allen
Fisher on Saturday evening, July q.
Thurmont on last Saturday evening had
the appearance of mass meeting times, yet
the occasion was simply that of people here
for business and pleasure-principally bust
ness.
The wheat crop in this valley, which ls
now being gathered, it is thought will not be
much over one half an average crop, and a
great deal of it of inferior quality Valley
Register.
In TIME.-Ga:dens and the grass WAS be-
ginning te show the effects of the hot and
dry weather that has prevailed for the past
ten days. when on Wednesday last several
heavy showers put things about right again.
We have heard of no challenges either in
baseball or tennis; these pastlmes may mo-
nopolize attention later. We have good
grounds here for both games and fairly good
players. There has been little or no
playing, however.
The National Council of the JUNIOR Order
United American Mechanics, voted, at its
annual session held last week in Minneapolis
to change the name of the organization to
the Order of Americans. Tie change will
be submitted to all state councils for appro.
val.
Lieut.. Geo F. Landers and wife, of the |
West Point Military Academy, after spend
ing about week with Mr.. Landers's parents |
in Thurmont, left last week for the Unver.
sity of Virginia, where he will take a special
course in chemistry this summer. Lieut..
Landers teaches that branch at West Point
1t is agreed that the wheat crop in this |
section will be at least a half crop; should |
he yield be good in proportion to the straw
it may prove to DC better than
half crop. Mrs. +. X. Rouzcr has threshcd |
over six hundred bushels; full |
,rop would have been about one thousand |
bushels.
This will be an all day Basket and Cotllon
Picnic, and is held with one object in view
Pleasure. 1t will also be the last hide
Day in the Nineteenth Century,
which makes the day one of more than ordi,
lary interest," Chronicle.
[Got one more Independence Day in the
9th Century, Ed
The wheat crop OF the United States this
ear is estimated to be about one hundred
md twenty million bushels less than last
ears. This would be bad outlook for the
american farmer but there is shortage of
he crop in all the wheat exporting countries
% an increased price will in some manner, if
lol wholly compensate for lack of yield
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1t is reported that 10 foot vein of coal
las been struck a, Cherry Run, IA miles west
If here. Now, to our knowledge every two
n three years for the last twenty, it is re.
,o,tcd that coal has been found at Cherry
Run, and there it ends. The find has never
'ct amounted to anything more than a heavy
oss to the prospectOrs, but we hope the re-
ported find may prove bonanza VIII
amsport Letder.
In speaking of the shortage Of the pea crop
Trough Maryland this season, State Entom.
,logist W. G. johnson said that it was due
o a louise that made its appearance for the
irst time in this State and in Delaware, ut
= probable" he said, that the larva of that
,est has lain dormant for centuries For