Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-05-26
MARYLAND STATE NEWS
Condensed Late Dispatches Boiled Down
for Rapid Reading.


meet, August 10, y, I8 and 49,:
Tuesday - Southern Maryland
ho"ses, trot or pace, free-for-a all, horses
bred and owned in Southern Mary
land prior to January |, 1904, $I.5o
2:3S trot, $3.50; mile heats, running
two in three, $3.50
Wedncsday--2:2o trot, $500; 2:2e
pace, $500; hali-mlc heats, running,
two in three, $l5o; thrce-quartcr-mle
dash, $I25.
pace. 5000; three-quarter-I heats,
running, two in three, $3.50; one-mile
DASH $I5o
Friday - Southern Maryland 800
class, to horses owned and bred in
Southern Maryland prior to January
+, 1904, $Ioo; $40 trot, $3.50; 800
pace, $500; hali-mile heats, running,
two in three, $3.50.
The purses amount to over $1,000,
At recent meeting Of the mayor
and council OF Kenslngton, Mcssrs,
William NJ. Terrell Albert 5. Galley
and George W. Hyatt were appointed
town assessors. At the recent ses'
sion OF the legislature a law was ell.
acted providing tor reasscssment
of the property OF the town, and the
selection OF the gentlemen named was
he first step toward carrying out the
requirements OF the law, 1t IS claimed
mat some property is assessed entire
ly too high, some too low, while other
property has been overlooked ell
urcly.
Mts' Mary y i.'N'I, ,i,l,, ThU hrsi'
washington - E1nl'' q MI, I"''.9 9o,,l,,
ness man ol EaNIGs t!"'s, .N.tnrly
dcced'ed' u'cu' "se9 nt.S En,Ln,a ~ -
ller hlo'hcI' MIS- -t''''~ ,':IL.n'' ,"'
IIcaF 9pr'ls' anu ''NC N''''0'N'
vlvc.
The pike from kcnalngto,i TO Nhea,
ton, a distance OF one mllc to cost
that district $4,000 Is 10 be punt l','s
summer under drcclIon ct lhc niSh'
ways division OF the Maryland Nco'
logical Survey. ne survey IS 10 pe
made by Prof. a. \. Johnston, Wnu
will have entire charge. ana inooc'
pike is to be made ot It. Inc ous'
nes, men and citizens OF kcnsington
have been wanting the road tor some
years to connect with the SeVGhtE
street pike at W he"'oh' ana II .h 2.ll is .neis
thcy hope to diNc'l SONY VI .nC l'"N'
llat is now gong to dH'''''s''"'
An insect which is doing great
damapc to the peach crop has beer
found in Frederick county, where il
has Already wrought great havoc to
The blossoms, thus destroying the bud
The work of the insect has been dis
,.nvcrrd IN the vicinity OF Rocky
Springs. and the crops OF several
peach growers in that section have
already bees considerably damaged
The insect cats a hole in the side Of
,hc blossom. The nature OF the dam
ace done differ, from anything be-
lore observed by the peach growers,
and they arc much alarmed. Specl'
mems Of the injured blossoms were
sent to the state cntomologlst, who
altar examining them, wrote stating
that he had never before observed
similar damage to peach blossom;
and that he was unable to name the
,nsrct NV which it was done. The
STATE enionolopist will visit Rocky
Snr;,,. fnr The nurnose of making
1n ;nsnart;n, and determining, if pos.
s;h,r thc naturr oi the insect.
rrh,.,,. ~ 1o,r;rs d,cd ,t his resi-.
"""''' ! - >, ,''>,,. ,,root L,stnn ate,
ue"fT, ;,. %" '''H[ "n S'yes esk '"i'J a. Brah:
J;srasn Nr Irnkjn, was a son q
the late Dr' EuWoIn JtIn'''S ,rndratrf @',h
porn porn Nay MAJ g. ,on 10Y iioh scIooI an,'
from the f'aSl"l' i''s' ,,.nrnd ths
'nlned'a'e.y '"trr"'vsn tr'',;nr nartnersh;r
drug business lorlils a 1"i.;ms p"L ;mI' IL IL
with MS l, orotnSr, Eum", u, Il ''"'i omn 81 tht
was rcprsSe,'.a'NV '.'IN, ,r,,, :" v, rosncctcd
families OF this country. In 1000 he
was elected town commissioner o.
Easton. Two wears later he was made
1rcsidcnt oi the board lie married
kiss Elizabeth Causey. daughter OF