Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1903-05-21
Local Correspondence.


have leaped into fame, world renowned, and
that the Chronicle will share in the good
fortune no one hereabouts doubts.
II clip the toes of my chickens every year
when plant corn near my buildings" said
a farmer recently. All farmers do not do
that. Seriously think the matter oyer; there
are other toes.
Nelson Freshour's condition remains
about the same. His brother Jackson of
Walkersvlle visited him last Sunday.
The health of Miss Lula Gall is steadily
improving.
Wife has gone off to the Cox homestead,
near Union Bridge, there to remain for a
while with our excellent friend Miss Kate
Fisher.
The continued drouth and the baked and
wretchedly hard condition of the soil this
season has so distracted the farmers that they
know not what they are doing. 1t was with
difficulty that the oats crop was gotten IN
and for the corn crop every known method
has been adopted to put the ground in order
to receive the seed with wholly unsstisfac.
tory results.
Now listen. Send dollar and the name
of your distant friend to the Clarion and
through it tidings of interest will be trans
mitted to HIM every week III the year with.
out further cost to either of you. Could any
better reward come to one through the in
vestment of q single dollarY
,Whitcwash brush In full swing
Rain badly needed, drouth pinchirg.
Hcreabouts many bushels OF corn have
been committed to the dust within the past
ten days.
Mis-. Golden Croft recently arrived here
from her home in Nebraska, and will spend
the summer with her mother, Mrs Cecilia
Stansbury, at Franklin Mills. Mr. Croft will
join his wife here early in July.
After weeks visit with relatives here,
Mrs. Frank f. Herring left for Union Bridge.
where she will stop for while with friends,
and before going to her home in Wilmington,
Del, will visit relatives at Westminster
Finksburg and Baltimore.
After all the seesa wing we've done in the
past regarding the outlook tor fruit crop,
the fact remains that of peaches, cherries and
plums, there will not be fourth of crop,
and for berries the prospects are equally dis
couraging. For apples the promise is more
cheering.
MI VIM. w. Grove and family of Harris
~.
Mrs. Groves parents.
Chas. Baxter has had his dwelling repant-
ed by the Messrs Mackley. The colors ap'
piled were selected by Mrs. Baxter and to
obtain the most beautiful and attractive, a
more fortunate combination would indeed
be hard to conceive. Also, Charley has
nearly completed neat and firm concrete
walks throughout the yard of his home, which
is certainly most desirable one.
And the potato bugs are here too.
In the cellar of the house of Mr.. G W..
Stocksdale, moles are burrowing to an alarm
ing extent. 30 powerful and determined
have these pernicious borers become that
hard clay floors have no terror tor them and
to encounter firm brick pavement seems to
strike them as an oasis IN the desert.
Mr.. James A. Michigan will this summer
remodel his dwelling and otherwise improve
and beautify his home.
"On one tree in my orchard burned FIVE
caterpillar nests" said nearby homeholder,
land when applied the torch they dropped
to the ground like young garter snakes" !
notice the caterpillar's are here in abundance
and in size immense.
MIR. VIM. H. Hartman was recent guest
at the home of Mr., jeremiah Dutrow.
The entertainment given by the Juniors
Of the Lutheran church on Friday night was
a success as to audience, a well rendered pro-
gram and delightful weather.
Rev. W. E. Daugherty, U B. minister and
former pastor of Thurmont Circuit, and his
wife will visit friends here during the latter
part of this week and on Saturday and Sun.
day the Rev. will preside at Quarterly Con-
ference meeting to be held at Deerheld
church. 1t Is expected that he will preach
in the church here Sunday night
The recent fire on Wolfrock slope burned
the entire length of the spur and about three.
fourths of tile distance from the peak to the
farm lands below. j. w. Creeger, G. A.
Damuth, ]. w Baltzell, Mrs. Jos. E. Martin,
Graceham, ]. T. Collifiower and VIM and
Leonard Flohr are among those who sus-
tanned damage.
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