The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-12-14
Horse and Buggy Days
BY oLDTnMER

10 years, was presented with a hand
some silver water pitcher and COB
let, the presentation being made by
j. l.. Bike.
Charles w. Plummer, Wilbur c.
Plummer, Samuel B. Plummer, and
]. Edward Plummer, members of
Shiloh Junior c. E. Society, placed
flags on graves of soldiers buried in
the u. B. graveyard at Fiddlersbug.
The names of the dead were: John
Plummer grandfather of the four
boys, who served in the war of 1872,
and Alex H. Cook and P. j. Cloves,
the last two named having served
in the Civil War.
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Now to wind up this weeks col
umn, here are some interesting items
from the May 81, 1900 issue of The
Weekly Globe:
Cut worms are doing much dam
age to corn and vegetables. They
cut rs cabbage and 80 tomato plants
in two nights for Walter Davis,
Charlton. J. Kieffer Funk, school
teacher, Chewsville, went to Nor
folk to view the sun eclipse.
Policeman "Biggy' Peltz handed
in his resignation. He does not know
in what he will engage. "A young
man at the Methodist festival on
Saturday night, ate nine 10-cent
ice cream, a lot of cake, and more
cream before he left.
Alpheus Beall bought some prize
winning Plymouth Rocks. A
Postal Telegraph office will be open
ed at Hancock :. A young man of
near Wi1liamsport has to go so far
to see his girl that he has to feed
his horse along the road before he
gets there. . Harry Donaldson, a
native of Smithsburg, has been elect
ed a councilman in Roanoke.
Washington county farmers are
urged by a Baltimore firm to go in
to the sugar beat industry. One
hundred persons accompanied an eX-
cursion to Baltimore on Sunday. :.
Rauth Bros, are digging out the
foundation for their new store, West
Washington street. They expect to
have the new building ready for oc-
cupancy by August /.
A neighboring debating society in
nerving itself up to wrestle with
the question: when a woman and
mouse meet, which is the more
frightened?". John Grosh, Charl
ton, is reported to have smoked Is
cigars daily for three months. They
injured his health and he has to
quit for two weeks. About 300
mine props belonging to R. E. Tan
ney, piled up on the canal bank at
Hancock, rolled into the canal.
Congressman Pearre secured for
Miss Annie Richie, this city, posi-
ton in the Census Bureau at Wash
ington. 4. j. c. Strock, Cearfoss,
fed eight steers during the season,
that gained an average of 474 pounds
apiece. The whole interior of
Traver's Hotel, townsville, has been
papered. :. Henry Davis has a
force of men cutting off piece of
woodland on the DR.. John Grimes
farm.
o. Moser is saving out barn on
the Eckstine farm at Halfway. F.. :.
William Wolford will have the large
barn on the Bridges farm at Lap
pans completed in two weeks.
At the Atlantic City meeting of
the Methodist Protestant General
Conference, an amendment to the
Discipline was adopted, declaring
against the use of tobacco by min
listers.
! w. H. Weigand, Leitersburg, was
chosen by the Morrell Literary So
ciety as one of the contestants for
the gold medal in the debating con-
test at the Maryland Agricultural
College. =. S. S. Claire expects to
open his new store, Public Square,
in about a month. He will call it
''The Diamond Drug Store"
What is known as the "Big Room"
in Carlsbad caverns is over one and