The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-08-19
CLOCK STRIKES 500
Owner And Wife Highly PertuEbed
And Fear Disaster. Clock Running
43 Years.

This little old world is filled with
people who have faith in omens and
signs of the times. Many have seen
and heard and waited for the yet I'M
known verdict" Saturday morning
Mr.. George NJ. Green, an aged, highly
respectable and prosperous farmer
living in Garrett County, several miles
from Moscow, arrived in Homecoming
very much excited about a little hap
pening of Friday night.
Mr.. Green and his good wife were
seated at the supper table when the old
eight day clock commenced striking the
hour of seven. One, two. three. four,
five, six, seven. eight, nine-gosh al
mighty, " yelled Mr. Green. and breath
less and IN fear Of what might happen,
the couple sat with open mouths and
awestricken countenances while the
clock doomed out the hour number 800. ,
torty-three years ago MIR. Green
came to Lonaconlng and at the store of
| Hornekamp Bros, purchased an eight
day clock. They had some at eight dol
lars and some at nine dollars. but Mr..
Green purchased the eight dollar-eight
day one. All this was forty-three years
ago. He took the clock home and on
the mantle IN the Green dining room it
has licked and locked without ceasing
all the years; neither has 1t in all that
time been accused of ''horseplay" or
'bull-frogging. 1t has always be-
haved like good clock should.
At seven O. clock on the night in ques-
ton when it suddenly rang out so many
times in succession, in the minds of the
Greens, it loudly told the tale of disaster
to the Green family. Just when the
blow will fall, or IN what manner. is
the verdict vet unknown"
Giving strength to his belief in the
language spoken by the clock Mr..
Green relates the following incident. A
number of years ago a clock that he
had in the house, which had not been in
use for years, one day awoke the
echoes of the dead by booming out the
hour OF one. The Greens knew some
thing was about to happen and Just
three later an uncle, David Green, was
killed by threshing machine at the
Shaw farm near Moscow.
When Mr.. Green boarded the early
morning train at Moscow last Saturday,
the conductor "Dooley" Thomas, lis
tened to Mr.. Green's story of the clock
that struck 500 on the brink of the
crack of doom, and straightaway advis-
ed Mr.. Green to have a public record
made of the occurrence. During the
/ journey to Homecoming Mr.. Green was
IN constant fear of the train being
wrecked. The striking clock meant
disaster to him and he lost no time
upon his arrival in Homecoming in getting
to the office of the Advocate where he
poured out his story.
Before Mr. Green left home he took
a good look at the fatal clock and it
was running along as if nothing had
happened. One queer and mysterious
thing IN connection with the striking of
500 was that the spring that forces the
hammer into activity did not need wind
ing after its unusual run. The unseen
hand. not the hand of the clock, had
been at work, and now the Greens are
waiting for the blow to fall. Years
ago one stroke of the clock resulted in
one death; what is to happen after the
five hundred strokes is terrible to even
think about. Homecoming Advocate.