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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-02-11
Asking For Good Road.
Citizens Petition Commissioner
TO Build Nearly Two Miles.


At meeting of the citizens of Thur
mont held in Town Hall on Tuesday even
of last week, the purpose of which was
to consider making improvements on the
road between Thurmont and Graceham,
the suggestion was made by Mr.. l.. r.
Waesche that the citizens of Thurmont
and Graceham and immediate vicinity,
petition the County Commissioners to
build the road under the Shoemaker Road
Law, the said commissioners having a
few days previous announced that they
would begin building such roads in the
county.
All present thought the suggestion a
good one and steps were taken to see
what could be done.
Another meeting was called for Friday
evening. At this meeting hundred or
more substantial citizens of the two
towns met. Mr.. J. C. Pyle of Graceham
was elected chairman, and Mr.. VIM. O.
Wertenbaker secretary. The matter
of building the road was fully discu ssed,
and committees from Graceha m and
Thurmont to solicit funds sufficient to
meet the demands of the law so far as
the portion of the expense borne by local
property owners was concerned were ap-
pointed.
The idea advanced first was to ask that
the road be built between the two towns,
but the Graceham people insisted that
the road be built from the corporate linn
it's of Thurmont to the railroad crossing
east of Graceham on the Rocky Ridge
road, distance of one and seven-eighth
miles, and this was adopted.
At meeting held Monday evening, the
committees reported that 81, 200 had been
pledged by local people. 1t was then de-
cided to present the petition to the COM
mssioners on Tuesday.
Members of the two committees and
large delegation appeared before the
commissioners Tuesday afternoon, Mr..
Chas. c. Waters acting as spokesman
.or the delegation, and presented facts
why this piece of road should be built,
the principal reason being that the road
is travelled more than any other piece of
county road of like length and is in bad
condition.
AS to the cost of building this road,
the price will be very low one, because
of the fact that little, if any, grading is
necessary between Thurmont and Grace
ham, and material for the bed is conven-
lent of access and free of cost other than
hauling.
No answer was given by the commits
sioners, but to many it seems favorable
action will be taken and the road order
ed built.
The Shoemaker Law provides that the
State pay fifty, the county forty and
abutting property owners ten per cent
of the cost of building such roads.
Among those in the delegation were:
Sen. John p. T. Matthias, Chas. c. Wa
tiers, A. H. Etzler, Major Geo. c. Castle,
Keefer Brandenburg, l.. R. Waesche,
M. L. Creager, Peter N. Hammak er,
Geo. E. Wilhide, DR.. E. C. Kefauver,
Jas. H. Firor, Chas M. Mackley all of
Thurmont; Messrs Cornelius Fisher, John
T. Colifower, Chas. Layman, J. C. Pyle
Chas. Boiler, Bruce Dotterer, Allen D.
Hoover, VIM. J. Martin, Sam'l STAN
baugh, James M. Smith Harlan Green,
John Bentzell, Chas. Krise, John Shook,
Alonzo Buhrman, John T. JOY, of Grace
ham and vicinity
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-02-11
Owls Organize.

The Order of Owls organized at Thur
mont Wednesday evening of last week.
After class was introduced into the
mysteries of Owldom, the election of
officers was held, resulting as follows:
President, DR.. E. C. Kefauver; vice
president, DR.. Geo Zinkhan; invocator,
VIM. Eaton; secretary, James O'Connor;
trea surer, Ernest Powell; warden, How
ard Speak; sentinel, Chas. w. Eyler;
picket, Edward Freeze; trustees, M. L..
Creager, David G. Zentz, Frank Dotterer;
physician, DR.. E. C. Kefauver.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-02-11
Anti-SalOOn Lecture.

On Sunday evening last Hon. j. Bibbs
Mills, attorney for the Anti-Saloon League
of Maryland. gave very interesting lee
ture in the United Brethren church, this
place. Mr.. Mills is quite conversant with
the liquor problem and along with solid
facts was witty and held the attention of
his audience. In naming the states Ari
IONA, Colorado. Oregon, and Washington
along with others which recently voted
the saloon out of business, he said: "Now
take the first letters of the above states
and it spells, cow, and she went dry.
He also said that Thurmont was "dry"
town, but it looked very suspicious when
in passing along the street he saw beer
sign similar to those in Baltimore posted
on building.
Mr.. Mills returned to Baltimore Mon"
day morning.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-02-11
Will Remodel Church.
Work To Begin At Once.

On Monday evening of this week the
trustees and members of the United
Brethren church of this place held meet
ing to consider plans for the remodeling
of the church.
This is the oldest church in Thurmont
and while repaired a number of times, 1t
does not meet the requirements OF the
congregation. The membership has in
creased materially the past several years
and the Sunday School numbers about
It's teachers and scholars. 1t is found
difficult to handle the school in the church
as it now is, and the improvements made
will be to relieve this congestion.
At this meeting 1t was decided to build
in the front of the church room 1885
feet for the accommodation of the pri-
mary department and the Mems Bible
class. A bellfry room 13xl3 feet will be
added on the southeast corner of the
building. Under this new portion Of the
building the heating plant will be in
stalled.
A new hardwood floor will be put down
and new pews purchased There will be
a large centre isle and an isle on either
side of the room. The style of the pulpit
and choir loft will remain about the
same. No carpet will be used on the
floor except around the pulpit, choir loft
and isles.
1t is planned to 60 to work at once;
stone for the walls will all be hauled and
other material secured before any thing
is done to the present walls of the church
The improvements probably will cost
$500.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-02-11
FORD's GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

FORD'S GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
Week of February 18th, the distin-
guished English actor. Cyril Maude, and
his London playhouse company in the in
ternationally successful comedy drama,
GRUMPY,
the greatest and most artistic success in
the history of the stage.
Mr.. Cyril Maude, for years one of Eng
lands leading character actors, comes
week of February 18th, appearing for
the first time in Baltimore in his exquisite
portrayal of Grumpy" the comedy"
drama by Horace Hodges and T. Wigney
Percyval, which ran all last season in
New York, with phenomenal success; so
successful that the original plan of a few
weeks was heightened to season, and
will this year include all the larger
American cities.
The play is detective melodrama, in
which Mr.. Maude plays the part of a
grouchy lawyer. The theft of a diamond
of great value in his own house rouses
old detective instincts and he ferrets out
the criminal in four engaging acts to the
delight of mystifed audience. Through
it all, Mr.. Maude makes the aged detec-
tive thoroughly lovable and strikingly
Individual character.
He is supported by a cast which is head
ed by Miss Elsie Mackay, one of the most
beautiful young women on the English
tage, who at the age of twenty finds
.erself for the first time leading woman.
datinees-W ednesday and Saturday.
Admission Is and so cents
Evenings SOC. rs cents and 81 100
Week February 22nd, Annette Keller.
an in the new musical comedy, "The
odel Girl; company of 80.
Advertisement
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How to Prevent Bilious Attacks.

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Local Items.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

Trinity Reformed Church-Rev. +. f.
Heimer, pastor.
Sunday, Feb'y ID, 1915:
Sunday School $50 a. m.
Foreign Missionary Service 1879 a. m.
C. E. Society $50 p. m.
Evening service Z 80 o'clock. Subject
1.-THE Pleasure and Value of Books
Catechetical Class Saturday 2.3O p. m.
Services at Apples Sunday 2.9O p. m.
Church Of the Brethren.
Sunday, Feb'y l4th:
Sunday School at $50 a. m.
At 10. 80 Peace Program will be rem
dered by the school.
Evening service 1880 O'Clock.
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Colds and CrOup i'm Children.

Colds and Group i'm Children.
Many people rely upon Chamberlain's
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and Group, and it never disappoints them.
Mrs. E. H. Thomas, Logansport, Ind,
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-02-11
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New Advertisements.

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Business Locals.

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STATE OF MARYLAND, 90
COUNTY OF FREDERICK, '''
|, Stanley R. Damuth, Cashier of the
above named institution, do solemnly
swear that the above statement is true to
the best of my knowledge and belief.
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Subscribed and Sworn to before me
this 18th day of January 1915.
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-02-11

Inc GTOSilOl VIII case WIiCH has az
tracted attention throughout the county
was settled Monday. The estate of Miss
Annie V. erosion was valued at $25, 900
and the will left by her did not suit many
of her relatives.
Under the terms of the agreement the
erosion heirs, Frank, George and Mere
dith erosion and Mrs. Harriet V. Carey.
receive $ll, 900 in cash to be paid out of
the estate. All the costs and expenses
incident to the litigation are also to be
paid out of the estate including the fee
or compensation for the expert witness,
which is not to exceed 500.
The commissions of the executor, Har-
ry E. Carly, are also to be paid out of
the estate and also all debts proved
against the estate of the late Annie V.
Groshon, the testatrix. The collateral
inheritance tax of five per cent Is not to
be deducted from the $ll, 900.
1t is said that the costs of the case will
amount to about 81, 500; under the terms
of the agreement the expert witnesses
will receive 500; the executors commits
sons will amount to about $4,000; the
debts proved against the estate in the
Orphans Court amount to about 81, 100.
Under the terms of the will of Miss
Groshon, Mrs Carey and George and
Meredith erosion receive $1,000 to be
divided among them, and Frank Davis
erosion was to get $1,000. However,
the collateral inheritance tax Of S per
cent was to be deducted from this.
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REPORT
OF

THE CONDITION OF THE THURMONT
BANK, AT THURMoNT, IN THE STATE
OF MARYLAND, AT THE CLOSE
OF BUSINESS.
DECEMBER 81, 1914.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-02-11
Circuit Court News.

The appeal case of Mrs. Edna Karn
against George S. Huffer, which was the
last case on the appeal docket at this
term, and which was tried last Wednes-
day afternoon, was decided in favor of
the appellant, Mrs. Karn, when mon
pros" was entered. The appellee, Mr..
Huffer, had been given a judgment for
$l4.6l by Magistrate Snuff, of Emmits-
burg. Mrs. Karn's attorneys, Reno S.
Harp and H. S. FELTON,, raised the quest
ion that Mrs. Harms husband was liable
for her necessaries and that the suit
should have been against him and not his
wife. A prayer was offered asking the
Court to instruct the jury that there was
no legally sufficient evidence to entitle
the appellee to recover and also that the
husband was responsible for the wife's
necessaries, and therefore the verdict Of
the jury must be for the appellant. AL
bert S. Brown was attorney for the ap-
pellee.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-24
True Living in Days
of Present
BY Charlie, R. Hobart. Kansas City. Mo.

win you later but you mistaken Any future larger oppor
unity gained only by truly living the days of the present
Think Use matter allow it corrode
neerdowel Solve problems make your
plans and then don't be too lazy apply them It's job to find
niche your work like will like
but the money there it. The law of remuneration
takes of that life occupation 1t be happy
the of part the stage of life There
undersuy your place It's for alone do the acting and
all the while.
Consciously live making the most of every hour Desire
mentally and spiritually Mediate the through
your recreaons physical and mental Your life will become
psded the pleasures which conscience allows postponed till
Soon ambition will make its
and then forever goody the mind and its happiness Its
you sphere life resulting human
machines bearings of the
oil Of wholesoued living.
of souls the markets of the worlds
of tamaster ambition for worldly
and gain What price for closed mind and chained
SOUL will the humanity be opened the worldwide swh
has misery throughout the centuries
imprison keyes house of slavery?
your fully Be free Why should what the distorted vision
of the world counts gain hold you back?
Should give way custom and form?
Should the best of lives because of what
people will say?
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-24
BE ON GUARD.

abiding citizens
of political
losing reverence
majority which
kepth democratic
majority proved here
dpove the fact The
political
political opposed to cpasc
fight capital Wherever they
Socialists with their ideas OF throwing
capital will be needed as eac
nothing for there VIII
both
confined to ndusaism but TO
their
purpose why
special
welfare majority OF e
of
that
become at
us be on Guard
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-24
COMMISSIONER INSECTS lNTREPlDlry.

hth
the people or
appointing Glenn Du
feels WITHIN the
commissioners in hr
commissioner
strange 10 us
of individuals
their
which,
municipal
rcue deslon
distractions
sinister motive undery
the
failed
which
accredited with
terrible DEATH the
Police oNei his
his the Commissioner
underlne unfit unworthy
help endorsing
allowing
all his
this others that Alexander Nisbet
he
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-24
lMore" # ailuresat 40"
Than Ever Before
people will say?
BY C. o. REED. Tene H.uie. Ind.

forty than before refer particularly to
out employment for months and who
idle before for than week or two in each year.
found necessary to hunt another job in
will the hrches resulting from
predicament when industrial condi
ions at their best.
have of middle in the last few months who were
fault Of their and who would have been
glad accept mental position it possible to get one In
day employers calling for the Youth
world for turning out good
DAYS work. gets attention when applying
situation regardless his ability experience The aborer that
worthy of his hire in this generation must be able to produce abu
dainty "cg whee of the industrial
wherein have made good after forty years
comparative failures but they few and most
of them prisoners in their respective lines OF endeavor
chance has failure at forty?
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-24
THE LID is ON IN DENVER.


midnight
regulating
the City Hail.
will
Police
all the laws
will community
worthless
prohibited
to
without who
o
othe
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-24
Dreaded r at as
Carrier of Disease
By PHILIP HALLER. New York

rather nded affair that not only valuable stock
but also domestic description should be sacrificed whereas
nothing the which has been known for
a disease carrier of the deepest dye
Nothing is definitely known to how the hooandmouth disease
spread will appear quite
line the line perfectly Alone
if it did exist and because perhaps OF the disease curriers' mgh
among number the orders slaughter not only vau
able stock but also to kill domestic pets
compulsory that all and
all farms the districts where
Che disease has appeared destroyed Immediately and the
and of amin thoroughly disnfected.
drastic adopted by the authorize
cod be in MANY valuable and the lives of
spared
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-24
Mother Can Largely
Prevent Diseases
By F. c. Andersen. Philadelphia. Pa.

Them has about except
daily to the rules of cleanliness.
Doctor Hygiene word, keeping Clean 1t is one OF
appest these that the best aids science
humbes home But cleanliness does not
merely washing downright fashion
through surroundings 1t clean clean food
clothing things handle with its delft and busy fingers
bottom that youngster will lind
imaginable his peck OF dirt 1t no longer
sign of genius a child make mud pies in the gutter
children PALE weak and aing
seeing with bright daisies and brm
ming mhevous laughter They have limbs clean
their The scientists who have
of dread plaques by sanitation tell what is good
for continent is good for the household
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-24

What chance of success
has a man after he reaches
the age of forty?
In the last few months
any observant person who
has come in contact with
the "down-and-outs" has
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-24

Prepare to live by all
means, but for heavens
sake do not forget to live.
You will never have a bet
ter chance than you possess
at this moment. You may
think a larger opportunity
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-24

To stamp out a disease
either contagious or infec-
tious to mankind or stock,
l agree that no. expense OF
value should be spared in
order to arrive at a result
without any loss of time.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-24

The mother is the real
doctor of the family. This
does not mean she can cure
diseases or should try her
hand at doing so. 1t does
mean, however, that she
can very largely prevent
The daily Alaskan., 1915-12-22
OPEN
 VAST FIELDS

London, Dec. IA tribute to the work of the Germans in China has just been sent out by the Brit ish government.
 1t is part of Q report from Con- sul V. L. Savage of Changsha, cap itaI of the province of Human, To German traders, men of tact and persistence, he said, is chiefly due the fact that the Chinese native traders are becoming more toler- ant of foreign commercial methods aud merchandise. New firms, who enter interior China," he adds. twill no longer have to break through the opposition oT their old-estab- Iished connections among the Chi uesG, and institute new and rnpop- uIlr methods. The building up of trade connections in China is just now much easier than in any oth- CT country"
 Credit is also due the Germans for opening up the mining fields of China to foreigners. Consul Savage says:
 Native prejudices, vested in- terests and the greed and power of the Chinese gentry have, no doubt, raised great difficulties in the past in the way of successful eX- pI9itation by the Europeans of the vast mineral wealth of China. In thai respect the province of Human, which had great mineral resources, was one of the wors' to deal with. Yet these same difficulties have been overcome, in some measure, and the export of certain ores and metals IS now a principal feature of the trade of Changsha. But to whose effort is this due? The ans wer is to those of German firms. British enterprise has had Drac- tilllIy nothing to do with it."
The daily Alaskan., 1915-12-22
BRITAIES TERMS F0R PEACE
 ---A SEM.-0FF.G.AL STATEMENT

Italy must get Trentino ard Italian Irredenta.
 The Turkish Empire must be dismembered and Serbia restored with Bosnia, Herzegovina and a full indemnity from Austria.
 The whole German fleet is to be surrendered, sunk, or divided among the Allies. All .Zeppelins must be destroyed.
 The German colonies will go to the nations who conquered them.
 The statement ends by saying that if Greece and Rumania con- sider Greek Irredenta and Tran sylvania not worth fighting for they will never receive them, as nations unfit by their cowardice to risk their life for enslaved breth- Ten are unfit to rule them.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-12-22

from everyone in that part of Alas ka.
 Last summer, according to adYices which have just been received here, native wandered into the mission at St. Johns in the wilderness, in an awful condition. He was suffer- ing from smallpox. The frightful toll of this dread disease is too well known to need commen'. An eDi- demic of smallpox would have prac- tically wiped out the Indian settle ments along the Royukuk river.
 Deaconess Mills isolated the pa tient. Then she sent to Fort Yukon' the nearest mission hospital, for vaccine. Travelling up and down the river with a lot of bichloride an1 vaccine she made the natives wash all their clothes in boiling wa- ter in which had been dropped bichlOrlde tablet, and tEen she vac- clnated every indian on the hoyu- kuk river.
 So excellent Yas the work of this lone woman that the one case that wandered into the mission was the only case that was heard of. An epi- demic was avioded, The patient got well.
 DeacOness Mills did wonderful work. Had she not acted as she did it is probable that the disease would have spread. An epidemic would have resulted, and many might have perished.
 It Is acts of this kind that make those who question the sincerity of those good women who are deYoting their lives to the education of the Alaskan natives think, and it is acts of this kind that bring to the missions in this nOrtheriI country as' sistance from the great Outside CordoYa Times.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-12-22

London, Dec. 22-A semi-official statement of Britain's final inten- tions regarding the war is contained in an article in a recent issue ot the London Daily Chronicle by Hon, G. k. Masterman.
 He says Belgium must receive complete independence with a full indemnity and restoration of all ruined cities and industries.
 France must get Alsace-LoTaine' and indemnity for damage done A new natural boundary must be created for Germany on the Rhine.
 Denmark must get Schle5wig which is purely Danish.
 German, Austrian and Russian Polanl must be united under the Czar or King appointed by him.