Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1913-01-16
THURSDAY, JANUARY is, 1918.
jeffersonvi||e, O., lettings.
A Story of How Members OF a
6. A. r. Post Got In The Wrong
Funeral Procession.

IL never ptU oih'e ~ P'"''
somewhere, is the apology | come be-
fore the CLARION readers with, fol
this letter follows so closely upon tho
one in last weeks issue that ! hear
some declaring the ink is hardly
dry on his last letter." but Just pos
scss your reason in patience, and
will explain all to your laughahl" sat
isfaction.
But first, what about the rain!
Ask the people along the bottoms OF
the Ohio river from Marietta to Gin
cinnatti. What Il story of horrors
and distress they could tell you. II
rained practically over all southern
Ohio every day last week, and floods
prevailed along all our rivers, but tn"
climax was reached when on Thurs
day evening it began raining hard
and kept it up until midnight Satur-
day. If you could stand ON a spur
of the Alleghani's near Pittsburg and
SCI. the Allegheny and Mon"ngah'Ia
rivers, you would see sights Come
on over to GAINESVILLE and Sc" the
Washington, then travel to Ports
mouth and SEQ tn" Sci otto an | Ohi",
the latter hring receiver for all the
above rivers, and you see sights that
make stout hearts ache All lowland>
flooded and the Inhabitants living in
srcond-Story rooms or tlecilg with
their stock to adjacent hill. The
loss amounts to thousands of dollars.
to say nothing Of the suffering and
Inconvenience experienced.
But it was not the rain that start
ed to write about. have good
true story for my old &. 4. Il. friends
that they must hear, and of course
all other readers of the CLARION can
join in the glad refrain and laugh.
Only three old comrades are barred
from joining in the glad refrain, and
in difference to their early piety when
members of old Co. ID, 9th Md. , they
are excused, viz, Elk postmaster J.
Henry Cover, Mayor VIM. J. Freeze,
of Thurmont, and Capt Ell. Hrffnrr
of Washington, ID. {. And now for
the story.
On January 2nd, Conn AIDE Simon
Vanfelt of John NJ. Bell post, rrsid-
ing five miles south of Washington
{. H., Ohio, died. Post Command
cr Riley Jacobs called special Post
meeting, and said, Comrades, one
of our Post members, Comradc VAN
felt has passed to the great beyond.
His funeral will be held Mt his home
on Saturday $50 a. m. As lit is win
ter and WE are all ageing, will not
ask the Post to 60 to his home to at
tend the funeral, but will detail an
escort of II Comrades to Join them
selves to the funeral procession as it
passes through town, and they will
go rs an escort to the cemetery one
mile east of town"
The detail was made and the Com.
radcs decided to meet and remain at
Memorial Hall until the procession
came along. Memorial Hall is I'd
fl ,or room on Court street over which
the funeral procession was to come,
undertaken Albert McCory being in
charge.
Undertaken Elmer Klevcr also had
a funeral the same day and hour and
it was also to come down Court street
and go to the same cemetery.
The detail waiting for the Nanfclt
funeral up in Memorial Hall would
frequently 60 to the front window
and look west tn see if the McCory
funeral was coming At last one of
the boys said, why, the funeral is
passing now," and hurrying, six Of
them who had on their overcoats left
the Hall and half q block ahead lined
up three on each side of the hcarS..
The driver Of the hcarsc looked around
and said boys, aren't you mistak-
cn?" Comrade Busic pertly replied,
i guess we know our business. "
The driver said not another word.
Now, the funeral Mr.. Klevcr had
was that of colorcd woman. Mr..
Klever with the colored parson was
ahead in his buggy. The parson