The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-22

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near ones, too, because distances
have been much lessened in the
past few years with our modern
methods of transportation, the tele-
phone and airplane.
Quincy Township is noted for it's
natural beauty and has much of a
historical nature There is the old
Mont Alto Furnace and the place
where a fine park has been located,
the scene in bygone days of many
picnics. Sunday Schools from Hag-
erstown used to go to Mont Alto, as
well, possibly, as other organiza-
tions. An old pipe line from the west
to the seaboard passes through that
section, with booster pump to help
over the mountain to the east. The
State of Pennsylvania has provided
fine forestry reservation. A bab-
bling brook courses down through
the village. Here's where you smell
the pine forests.
The United Brethren Church has
a fine orphanage and home at
Quincy. The superintendent, Alvin
c. Wertsch, reports that the year
1914 has been one of the best and
most successful financial years in the
history of the Home. Children and
old people from time to time are
taken care of at the institution,
which in 1914, according to the an
nual report, gave the orphanage SO
girls and 70 boys. Harry Newcomer,
this city is the faithful and efficient
treasurer.
The Snow Hill Society,"" or the
'Nunnery," as it was commonly
known, located on the banks of the
Antietam, about two miles north of
Waynesboro, and just before you
reach the Village of Quincy, going
north, in years past was an interest
ing place The founders of this place,
which may be called a cloister, were
Seventh Day Baptists and are de-
cribed as having been law abiding
and thrifty. A sign along the main
highway tells that this cloister is
located just north of the highway.
Today it is a white building and long
since abandoned as a place of wor-
ship. This religious sect used to hold
love feasts, which were attended by
many persons. The public was fed
free. John H Jacobs, 81 Wayside
avenue, who recently moved to this
city from his farm along the Letters
burg pike, remembers that his par
ents used to load the family in a
two-horse spring wagon, and to-
gether with the hired man, maid and
everybody connected with the home,
drive to the old meeting house to
love feaSts. The inside of the old
meeting house was described as very
interesting, with its primitive read
ing desk and oaken benches.
There is story told of this sect
(although not officially confrmed)
that in accordance with a belief of
the sect members of the cloister re-
manned up on one occasion ore
whole night looking for the Second
Coming and the end of time
Now some interesting data about
that famous Mason and Dixon Line.
between Hagerstown and the section
about which we have been referring
There two men, Mason and Dixon,
must have done a good job, for the
line remains today between Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland, as originally
drawn. Modern instruments have
failed to make even a slight change
In it. These men went into the yir-
gin forest just southwest of Phila-
delphia and finished the prodigious
task in about four years. They had
their difficulties with the Indians
About 233 miles west of the Della
ware the Iroquois told them to halt
and get out A few arrows were shot
in the trees near their heads as a
matter of emphasis. Their achieve
ments are described as one of the
most important boundaries in the
history of the Western Hemisphere.
There had been many bitter dis
putes about the boundary between
Maryland and Pennsylvania, which
led to the hiring of these men to run
the line. One of the most prominent
of these feudS was the one which
led to the arrest of Thomas Cresap,
who was accused of killing a Penn
sylvanian, when the Pennsylvanians
arrived to take him to prison, Cresap
resisted. The house was fired but
his family and friends rushed out in
time to save themselves. The place.
now the home of j. Fornev Young