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
GA. r. Post Got In The Wrong
Funeral Procession.

1t never rains but that it pours,
somewhere, is the apology ! come be-
fore the CLARION readers with, for
this letter follows so closely upon the
one in last weeks issue that hear
some declaring 1.-THE ink is hardly
dry on his last letter." but Just pos
scss your reason in patience, and ]
will explain all to your laughable sat
isfaction.
But first, what about the rain?
Ask the people along the bottoms OF
the Ohio river from Marietta to Gin
cinnatt. What a story of horrors
and distress they could tel you. 1t
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 Allcghanirs near Pittshurg and
see the Allegheny and Monongahrla
rivers, you would see sights Come
on over to GAINESVILLE and see the
Washington, then travel to Ports
mouth and see thu Scinto AMI Ohin,
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
Joss amounts to thousands Of dollars.
to say nothing of the suffering and
inconvcniences experienced!
But it was not the rain that start
ed to write about. ! have a good,
true story for my old &. A. r. 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. d, 9th Nd, they
are excused, viz, postmaster J.
Henry Cover, Mayor VIM. J. Freeze.
of Thurmont, and Capt. Ell. Hrffnrr
of Washington, d. {. And now for
the story.
On January 2nd, Comrade Simon
Vanfelt of John NJ. Bell post, resid-
ing FIVE miles south of Washington
{. H., Ohio, died. Post Command
cr Riley Jacobs called a 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 at his home
on Saturday 9.3Oa. m. Asst 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
90 rs an escort to the cemetery one
mile east of town.
The detail was made and the Com
rades 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 90 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 to 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 a block ahead lined
up three on each side of the hears..
The driver of the hearse looked around
and said boys, aren't you mistak-
en?" Comrade Busic pertly replied,
j 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