The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-02-15

snow"
Don't tell me you did not have to
memorize this poem for recitation,
as well as the one which begun
thus:
1.-THE lark is up to meet the sun,
The bee is on the wing;
The ant, its labor has begun,
The woods with music ring"
Fifty-seven years ago, it was
recorded in history written at that
time, Hagerstown had no less than
II churches. Denominations were:
Lutheran, Reformed, Protestant
Episcopal, Roman Catholic, Presby-
terrain, Methodist Episcopal, United
Brethren, Christian, Evangelical,
Dunkers or Dunkards and Baptists.
The Methodist church had just been
completed at a very large cost st.
Johns Episcopal Church was de-
scribed as a most beautiful struc-
ture. The door was striking, being
modelled after the doors of Litchfeld
Cathedral, England.
There were three large public
school buildings in Hagerstown, with
a capacity of 1000 pupils-the Male
High School, the Female High
School and the Antietam Grammar
School. The College of st. James
Grammar School, a few miles from
Hagerstown, was conducted by
Henry Onderdonk and a corps of
able assistants Its site is Fountain
Rock, the old immortal seat of Cen
eral Ringgold, of Washington's staff,
named from an immense spring
which gushes out of the rocks in the
college grounds Gin sufficient volume
to run a water mill"
OF the stores of the town it was
said: "The stores of Hagerstown are
well conducted and persons can shop
here with as much advantage as re-
CARDS prices as in the cities. 1t is
but seldom that any of our people
have to go from home for what they
want. Exceptional facilities for dis
tributing merchandise from Hagers-
town, together with the comparative
low cost of operating the business,
pointed out Hagerstown as an OK
cellent place for wholesale houses.
Three large establishments are al
ready in successful operation"
The deposits in the banks at that
time ran up to nearly million dol
lars.
The largest mandatory in the
town, employing considerable
number of hands, was the Hagers-
town Steam Engine Works. 1t manu-
featured engines and boilers, grain
separators, clover hullers, grain
drills, etc.
1t had capital stock of $4,000.
The Hagerstown Iron Works manu-
featured saw mills, etc, and also
did a general repairing business.
The Antietam Paper Mill, located
on the Antietam. 1t was large mill
and it's output was said to be great
There were two large fertilizer
mills here.
The annual tax levy made on June
8, 1886, was as follows: For special
Bonded debt and inter
est, 7c; special Improvement bonds,
Sc; water, &c and drainage fund and
interest, &c; total of 15c. For gene
raj purposes, lie and mills; police,
&c and 5 mills; grades and street
cleaning, &c; fire purposes, &c; codifi
cation of ordinance and printing, 1c;
salaries, 1c and 212 mills; street
lighting, l mill; elections, mill;
stationery, l mill; repairing town
property, 1c and 7 1/3 mills, and
court house and Jail expenses, 1c.
The total levy was 45c In this levy,
the special item of &c for drainage
fund and interest was levied to pro-
vide for the payment of interest on
$4,000, or as much thereof as might
be needed to improve the drainage
as it existed at that time, or used in
any way.