REMEMBERING WHEN

John King explained the advantages and disadvantages of a Civil War officer's hat to history students at Tayamentasachta in September 1981. King and local teacher-historian Ted Alexander provided the briefing on the Civil War.

100 Years Ago

September 13, 1906

The Shenandoah Pants Co., of Martinsburg, W. Va., the largest clothing manufacturing concern in West Virginia, of which Charles W. Bert, formerly of town, is manager, has decided to establish a branch factory in Greencastle, on a lot at the corner of Jefferson and Franklin streets.

The county commissioners have prepared the annual list of all taxes collected in this county for the past year and have forwarded it to the secretary of internal affairs at Harrisburg.

The Hagerstown & Northern Railway Co. has sold the Hartman farm near Shady Grove, recently purchased from William Hartman, to Ira Gearhart, on private terms.

In order to secure the best of order about his establishment in the future Tobacconist J. H. Eachus has secured the services of a special policeman who in full uniform now keeps guard day and night in front of the Eachus store.

Contractor Shank has set the large plate glass windows in the new Hostetter store building.

There will be no postponement of the dedication of the four Pennsylvania monuments at Antietam on Sept. 17. The monuments only arrived at Antietam on Saturday, but they will be in place by the 17th.

The Hagerstown & Northern trolley line is almost completed now and the work on stringing the copper feed wires from the powerhouse in Hagerstown has been begun. To string the 10 miles with wire will require 33,000 pounds of wire. The company has, it is claimed, had much trouble in securing men to work on the line and to this is attributed the slowness with which construction work has gone forward.

The Greencastle public schools opened for the winter term Monday with the largest enrollment of pupils on record. - a total of 317.

The Antrim Township election districts will not be changed from the present system, the commissioners appointed by Judge Gillan having decided on Monday that the present division was the best and most generally satisfactory which could be made.

Judge Gillan has appointed S. Z. Hawbaker, Hiram L. Byers and C. M. Ricker viewers to report on the necessity of a new road in Antrim Township leading from the Williamsport Pike at the lands of John P. Hale and John H. Grove to the Worleytown Road at the lands of J.A. Hoffman, a petition for which was presented Monday.

The Receivers of the Blue Mountain House have had a portion of the land between the hotel and Pen Mar Park laid off into building lots and will sell them for cottage sites. Fortyfive large lots have been plotted.

75 Years Ago

September 17, 1931

Greencastle friends of C. K. White, Republican candidate for nomination as director of the poor, were gratified to see him win the nomination at Tuesday's primary, with H. Rush Hafer as his running mate. In polling a total of 5,187 votes, Mr. White not only won his nomination, but also established himself as a leading vote getter on the Republican ticket.

Luther H. Leiter, chairman of the present board of county commissioners, and Ira E. Gearhart, prominent Antrim farmer, were winners Tuesday in the fight for the Republican nomination as commissioner.

Top vote getters in local races included: E. P. Wine (267 votes for school director), Roy W. Stover (383 votes for councilman), Charles W. Bert Jr. (253 votes for assessor).

Lively interest in the county and local contests was manifested by Antrim Township voters, who turned out in a way unusual for a primary election.

With a special anniversary sale in progress, in which the Greencastle store is cooperating, Jacob E. Trimmer, prominent Carlisle merchant, is celebrating this week the completion of a successful quartercentury in business. The Greencastle store was opened in 1924 in the large corner room in the Ziegler building Center Square, and has enjoyed an increasing patronage. It is now under the management of S. F. Lesher, East Baltimore Street.

L. R. Bennett of State College has been assigned as assistant to Farm Agent J. H. Knode.

More than 40 members and officers of the Rescue Hose Company met in their room in the council hall and listened to instructive addresses by fire chiefs Martin Quinn of Martinsburg and Frank Soule of Coatesville.

50 Years Ago

September 13, 1956

A survey of the 1956 graduates of the Greencastle High School indicates that 21 members of the class are continuing their education in college, nursing schools, business colleges or technical training institutions. This represents 26 percent of the graduates who are in schools for advanced education.

The canvass of Greencastle and Antrim for blood donors for the 10th visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile is now underway with the unit set to be in Greencastle Wednesday, Sept. 19.

Adult education courses will begin in Greencastle for the third year during the week of Oct. 1 and will continue through April 9. All courses are free to any resident of Greencastle or Antrim over 16 years of age and not enrolled in the day school. There is a $5 registration fee.

The group of North End residents who lodged a petition with the borough council on Sept. 3 opposing the location of a large American Stores Abattoir in Greencastle set a meeting for Sept. 18.

The Rev. Francis E. Reinberger, professor of Practical Theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, will deliver the message at a service of rededication of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Greencastle on Sept. 16. Extensive repairs and redecoration have been done by Roth Brothers, York, during the summer months. A tile ceiling, texture painted walls, neutral carpet, hanging of a dossal curtain in the chancel and tile floors in the hallways, stairways and narthex complete the

improvements.

Reservations for the Greencastle

Antrim Women's Club tour to the Masland Carpet Plant in Carlisle were due.

Forty members of the Melotone Orchestra, their parents and friends, attended a picnic at Col. Spring Park.

Rudolf M. Wertime of Greencastle, former district attorney of Franklin County, has been appointed chairman of Chambersburg's 1956 Community Chest campaign.

The Maryland Public Service Commission ordered a reduction in rates for approximately 12,000 Washington County customers of Hagerstown's municipal water plant. It ordered the city to refund to consumers the excess charges since last Nov. 1.

The Rev. E. K. Stipe of Hallam, Pa., former pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Greencastle, has accepted a position as head of the department of philosophy at Ashland College, Ashland, Ohio, has assumed his new duties.

A crowd estimated at approximately 5,000 attended the county-wide Republican rally held at Benedict's Woods, near Quincy, and heard addresses by various candidates, including Congressman Richard M. Simpson.

The Harry D. Zeigler Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, was host at the buffet lunch Sept. 6 to the VFW entry in the Little League.

Outstanding grandstand attractions - with no grandstand admission charge - and the first use of a new household arts exhibition hall will be featured during the 101st Great Hagerstown Fair, Sept. 17 to 22.

Members of eight fire companies cooperated in hooking up a line of hose over a mile long during "Operation Marion."

More than 250 young people of Greencastle and Antrim attended the dance at the King Playground Friday. This was the final dance for the summer at the playground as Canteen activities will move to the school auditorium in early October.

The Greencastle Ministerium Association will sponsor the annual Hymn Sing on Sunday, Sept. 30 in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Greencastle.

25 Years Ago

September 17, 1981

A rash of Social Security check thefts occurred in Greencastle Antrim during the first week of September, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

A group of GreencastleAntrim School District history students were treated to a unique history lesson at the Tayamentasachta Environmental Studies Center from Ted Alexander and John King, who worked as rangers at Harper's Ferry Historical Park during the summer.

The annual Grove Manufacturing Co. employee picnic was attended by approximately 8,400 persons Saturday at Hersheypark with nearly perfect weather.

Nine bands were scheduled to compete during the upcoming Autumn Festival on Kaley Field, sponsored by the Greencastle Antrim Band Boosters.

Greencastle-Antrim School District will be participating in

Wave II of the new Pennsylvania Department of Education Long Range Planning for School Improvement. The district is requesting help from community members interested in working on the project.

The Shippensburg Greyhounds blanked the Greencastle Antrim Blue Devil football team, 54-0.

Fall term classes began at Penn State Mont Alto with numbers approaching last year's record with 857.

Akers TV is sponsoring a softball tournament which organizers

say is the largest ever held in Greencastle-Antrim with more than 50 teams from the tri-state area registered.

Harvest of Pennsylvania fruit and vegetable crops was in full swing.

Rice's Meat Market, 13551 Ridge Road, Waynesboro, will reopen Sept. 24. The market closed earlier this year.

The chairman of the Republican national Committee, Richard Richards will be the featured speaker at Franklin County's 26th annual GOP "corn soup" rally.