The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-09-21
HORSE AND
BUGGY DAYS

! found a brief note on local news
while the rest of the paper was
filed with items from outside the
State and community, given in great
detail. In fact, this was quite large
paper, with every page filed with
the smallest of print, making it, all
told, an extremely lengthy report on
!, the news, but only small section on
local news, as follows, for the State
of Maryland:
ALFRED Stout, colored, will be
hanged at Elkton, Md, today for the
murder of George Dittmar-A public
Schoolhouse at Friendship, Caroline
County, was destroyed by fire -
James Harris, of Chestertown, drove
a horse and sleigh on the ice from
Howell's Point to Havre de Grace
Walter S. King, eighty-three years
OF age, was accidentally killed by a
tree falling on him in Calvert Coun-
ty-Two horses suffering from gland
ers were killed in Howard County
and buried in quick-lime-The wife
of Rev. DR.. H. f. Johnson, formerly
of Baltimore, died in Richmond
It is thought that the prospect for
peaches is very poor in Worcester
County Communications with
Chincoteague Island is still blocked
by the ice, and the people are in a
very bad plight for food and fuel
Mile Dickerson, an aged and blind
colored woman, was burned to death
in Snow Hill"
Now / am wondering why such
items as some of the above are pass
ed over with just half dozen words,
while similar occurrences elsewhere
are given lengthy discussions. Why
should not news of local happenings
be as interesting as those far away?
Here is an interesting note taken
from the same paper, quoted from
the New York Tribune:
1.-THE annual battle is raging be-
tween Philadelphia and Baltimore
touching the best way of cooking
terrapin. BY the way, has anyone
ever hit upon poor way of serving
up that lovely reptile?"
Then the Baltimore paper answer
ed with this:
ut is very true that the word
poor" seems inappropriate in con-
nection with animals that cost sew
enty-five to ninety dollars a dozen,
and are rapidly becoming as expen-
sive as race horses. But it is de-
cidedly the opinion of people in Bal
timore and down on the Sho' that
the word poor" is too mild to apply
to the Philadelphia method of pre-
pairing the diamond-back. To put
spices and cream and flour into ter
rapin stew is a blunder which
amounts to crime, and should be
so designated in the statutes. The
Marylander will be disposed to take
some offense at the Tribune for call
ing the Diamond-back reptile. He
may have been originally a reptile,
but when he gets up to $75 dozen
he is entitled to be called by his full
name, "malacoclemmys palustris."
In connection with the history of
one of our most interesting towns, I
historically speaking -Williamsport
we find some interesting details in
the life of a State Senator, Joseph /
Henry Farrow. He was born near
Hagerstown in 1881, one of the nine
teen children of Nathaniel Farrow, a
cooper, and his wife, formerly Mary
Mccall. |
The father of this large family
died while some of the children, in {
Guiding Joseph, were quite young.
This necessitated the early work, and 4
the attention to the providing end Of
life that taught them to be indus
trious. This also worked hardship Y
on his schooling, as Joseph Farrow v
attended school actually less than
one year. i
But Joseph was of real ambition,
as were many of the great leaders
early in this Country, and after many
a days hard work he studied on his d
own, for half the night. At the age F
of fourteen he was employed as a v
'tow-boy' on the Chesapeake and v
Ohio Canal. We are told also that e
he worked in his fathers cooper
shop, and that from the age of six g
teen to nineteen he piled the adj
continually" Now I am just Won n
dering if you all know what cooper O
shop was. The correct use of the "
word :'cooper'' means a maker of il
barrels and TASKS, but I am also r,
if there was not other a
and uses of the word.
Then we are told that Mr.. Farrow, N
as young man, took a job as clerk