Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-20
HAGERSTOWN NEWS GRIST
GROWING CROPS AND FRUIT IN
JURED BY DROUTH.
Good Showing Of c. and o. Canal
Memorial to the Late Robert
Rennert.

HAGERSTOWN. Md, July 10, 1900.
| The intensely hot weather and the lack
| of rain at Hagerstown and vicinity for
over three weeks are having telling effect
on growing vegetation. Vegetables are
scarce in the markets, and the prices of all
country products have been advanced The
| corn crop is suffering severely, and the
| farmers say that If rain does not soon
come the crop will be short one. In the
! evenings of these excessively hot days the
leaves are rolled up though they had
been made into cigars, and the whole stalk
| has a wilted appearance. The fruit. too,
is suffering. Peaches are not developing
perfectly, and many are already turning
red. The pasture is SO short that the sup
| ply of country butter has almost ceased,
while the creameries are greatly affected
and unable to meet the demand made upon
them.
Business done at the collectors office of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
at Williamsport during June aggregated a
tonnage of 10, JSS. IL; receipts, 2,674.34. This
Is gain over the corresponding month of
last year in coal tonnage of 506.09 tons.
and miscellaneous tonnage of 055 tons, and
in receipts of S27S. 49,
St Roberts Chapel, erected by Mrs. Rob-
ert Rennert of Baltimore at Buena Vista
as a memorial to her deceased husband.
was dedicated yesterday in the presence of
a large number of the cottagers and guests
of the mountain resorts of the Blue Ridge.
Ri. Rev. Bishop j. w. Shanahan and Rev
Father Halftermeyer officiated at the cere-
monies.
A gentleman in position to know states
that the control of the N. and w. by the
Pennsylvania railroad may prove a big
thing for HagerStOwn, which may be made
one of the southern terminals of the Penn
sylvania. A large purchase of property
here recently by the Cumberland Valley
Railroad Company, which is a part of the
4 ~ Nrly lY,tg frfx- L.
statement
Rev. X. Otis Spessard, native of Lei
tersburg. this county, pastor of the Re
formed Church at Union Bridge, has re-
ceived and accepted call to the pastorate
of the church of that denomination at
Mifl1inburg, Pa, to which place he will
remove August 1.
Intelligence has been received here of
the death at Pinar del Rio barracks, Cuba
on July 2. of jeremiah W. Cleary, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Cleary, living near
Greencastle
Prof. George C. Pearson late examiner of
accompanied by DIR. f. T. Bishop and
| daughters. Misses Marcia and Minnie. has
sailed for Bremen for G, tour of Europe
w. G.. Harm of Waynesboro' has lust re-
ceived from Germany $1,000 as his interest
in his mothers estate, while Mrs. Abraham
Sister of Shepherdstown has been notified
of her inheritance eff 5000 by the death of
her aunt Mrs. Caroline Mark of Illinois
Tie large frame addition to the Surbridgc
works, on South Potomac street, this city,
was blown down by the fierce wind of
| Tuesday and shattered into kindling wood.
1t was a two-story building 60 by 80 feet.
used for the nickel department of 8. NJ.
Schindels merceiizing plant, which occu-
pies the main brick building. The hands
had just quit work for the day, fortunately,
thus escaping harm.
Mr.. Claude Mcdonald of Washington has
Joined the Shippensburg Camping Club,
which has pitched its tent along the Poto-
mac river near Williamsport
The latest arrivals of Washngtonians at
and near Hagerstown are Miss Victoria
Forth, Mr.. Percy McGraw Misses Ger
trudc and Louise Higgins, Miss Jennie Nc
| CatEron, Mr.. Frank r. Emmert of the
metropolitan police, Mr.. Charles H. Cad
w;.lader, Mr.. ]. Ross Calhoun, Mr. Guy H.
johnson, Mrs Sarah Vernon. Miss Estella
Perry and Miss Grace E. Gardener.