The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-01
HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS

By THE OLD LAMPLIGHTER


Sterling Smith and his friends got
drunk and went on the warpath.
Entering a store of the town they
found Oakley. Smith had his right
hand in his bosom on a pistol. Oak
ley demanded of Smith why he was
following him, when the latter be-
gan to draw his pistol. Oakley told
him to deSist and also drew his
pistol, and fired. Smith fell dead
with a bullet in his heart. Thinking
it was the intention of Smiths
crowd to murder him, Oakley seized
shotgun loaded with buckshot, step
ped out on the platform, saw Henry
Smith and Newt Osborne hurrying
to McGuire's store where they had
number of guns. Oakley stopped
them and was slightly wounded by
shot from MCGUIRE. Newt Osborne
also fired at Oakley and the latter
returned the fire and Osborne fell
dead with bullet below the heart.
Henry Smith shot at Oakley who
replied by shooting Smith in the
head and breast, Smith dying soon
after AT this point in the battle the
12-year-old son of Oakley appeared
and shot Mcclure with a shot gun,
wounding him in the arm and
shoulders. The Smith party then
withdrew, vanquished by one man
and a boy. Oakley received several
slight wounds. The whis.key men in
the affray left the country, although
at the time the story was written
they were being searched for. Oak
| ley surrendered and an examining
| trial was set. But more trouble was
ahead for it was reported Osborne
was raising a crowd to avenge his
brothers death. The friends of Oak
ley were on guard. The story ends
thus: Osborn is a desperate man.
During the war he was a Confederate
soldier, his father was killed in the
! Union Home Guards, and since the
war Osborne has tracked them down
and he is credited with having slain
Is of them. The friends of Oakley
are on guard and further trouble is
anticipated"
So things went in some parts of
the country following the Civil War.
An article published in 1888 stated
that L. R. Voris, chemist, N. Jona-
than street, was congratulating him
self over being alive. When he open
ed his laboratory one Saturday
morning he discovered that some
time during the night bullet from
a 80 calibre revolver had crashed
through a front window of his office
and passed directly over the chair
at his desk, narrowly missing large
bottle of concentrated acid, struck
cupboard and fell to the floor. Po-
lice said that the bullet followed a
level course across the street to the
laboratory, located on the second
floor of the Thomas building OF N.
Jonathan street. Mr.. Voris demon
Strated to the authorities that had
he been sitting at his desk at the
time, the bullet would have struck
him in the head. He also pointed
out that had the bullet shattered the
bottle of acid considerable damage
would have resulted. 1t was not as
certained from whence the bullet
came or whether it was a deliber-
ate attempt on the life of Mr.. Voris
OF the carless handling of firearms.
At the 135th anniversary of the
birth of Edgar Allan Poe, observed
at the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville, by the Jefferson
Society, which Poe served as secre-
tary, DR.. James Southal Wilson,
Poe's professor of English, told of
the poets student days there in 1926.
DR.. Wilson said Poe was a good stu
dent. AS a young man of II he en-
rolled in the school of ancient lang
uages and of modern languages. At
the end of the year his teacher re-
corded that he ''excelled in senior
Latin and in senior Franch."
1909
In 1909 a newspaper article said
that many more people had begun
to ride. 1t had reference to the adj
vent of the Model T Ford automobile
Mass production had arrived and
Ford's new model had reached the
100000 mark. 1t was described as
simple in design.
1910 - 1911
A dispatch from San Diego, Cal.
announced that Glenn Curtis had sue
cessfully flown his hydroplane,
which took off and landed in water
This was the starting of amphibious
transportation. Also an inventor
proved the efficiency of the airplane