The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-09-16

postmaster a n d ~ ~ S
former druggist NS
Mr. Muse, of Bal Ss m
timore, was the ~ ~
present druggist;
L. Tabler, of
Montgomery County, was the butch
er, and ]. Grice, Sharpsburg farm
er, was a resident of the village,
Mr. Grice's youngest son, Clyde,
was drowned in a slough, there. The
child was six years old He and
companion had gone boating in
duck boat. The mother, who was
Miss Alice Morgan, of st. James,
this county, was very much pros
trated by the news of the drowning
of the child
Continuing, Mr. Middlekauff
wrote: Il spent the winter at the
N. Myers ranch, in Suffer County.
This is one of the best ranches, if
not the best ranch, in northern Cal
ifornia. This ranch is owned by the
following Washington County men:
N. Myers, f. Poffenberger, H. Miller,
S. c. Myers Denner and Luther
Poffenberger. They are engaged in
sheep raising, principally. They
have about 5000 ewes and over 1000
lambs. Their net income last year
was $4,000 L. Poffenberger is
foreman and E. Poffenberger, man
ager.
sc. Poffenberger's only child and
daughter was married last October
and lives in the city of Napa, Calf
Her husband and father publish the
Napa Register
IS. NJ Hoffman, uncle of the Hoff-
man brothers, Hagerstown, lives in
Suffer county, near the Myers ranch.
His son, Harvey, is a successful
ranchman. There are many Mary
land people in this region, namely:
Boyer Bros, sons of the late S. w.
Boyer; John Hart, H. Poffenberger,
brother of H. A. Poffenberger, Ha-
gerstown; Will Mumma, the Millers
and many others About every 9TH
er man you meet in this region is a
Maryland man and nearly all of
them have prospered in this State.
Il noticed in the last Globe an
item, Bad Luck. Now there is
some mistake about this statement.
There has not been any frost to in
jure the fruit; in fact, the fruit crop
is one of the best for many years.
Many people are working in the
canning factories. The grain and
hay crops are good. had ride of
IL miles to Woodland and / never
saw finer looking crops. The hay
crop is immense. l am now preach
ing for the Christian Church where
/ am located and at Kirksville. We
are getting some warm weather.
The mercury was 100 degrees in
Woodland on Sunday"
How does the following story
sound, with the thermometer regis
tering round the nineties nearly all
summer? 1t appeared in a local
paper some years ago and was
brought to my attention by Mr.. Har-
ry Shipley, So Broadway.
Blizzard of 1899-During the ia
nous blizzard of 1899 in Hagers-
town, another local resident recalls
the terrific snowstorm and how he
helped to get the mail through the
drifts. E. H. Zeigler, who was at
that time B. & O. agent in this rity,
writes:
81 read with interest what one
local resident said about the blizzard
in February, 1899, giving tempera-
lures and interesting facts. l well
recall this cold spell of weather,
which broke all records. 1t showed
more than a day and our Baltimore
train upon returning to this city
could get only as far as Breatheds,
where it was held up during the
night by snow drifts.
The next morning started after
the mail in a sleigh with a driver.
The roads were so very badly
drifted that in order to get through
we used fields where some of the
snow had blown off and in coming
to fences we had to partly destroy
them in order to continue.
when we arrived at Roxbury
we stopped at farm house to get
warm. The family had blankets