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REMEMBERING WHEN
July 25, 1907 Reports showed that there are 11,000 children of school age living in Franklin County. The annual Lutheran reunion is in progress at Pen-Mar Park. As usual a tremendous crowd of people is in attendance. After Upton area farmer David Hussong's horses became ill with pink eye, neighbors responded by harvesting his wheat crop. Auctioneer John W. Singer had one of the largest sales, as to the number of articles sold, in selling the personal items of George W. Brumbaugh. West Baltimore Street, the square and South Carlisle Street were filled with people to view the Great Glidden Tour that included 61 cars. Cumberland Valley work trains are running into town as far as the north side of West Baltimore Street over the new belt line, a temporary track having been laid from the B. S. Fleming farm at the north end of town, where it connects with the present main tracks, over the belt line as far as Baltimore Street.
Beginning with this evening the Pentecost Band will conduct a series of evangelistic services in a tent which has been erected on South Jefferson Street. A new floor has been laid in the Elliott dry goods store in the Brown Building, Center Square. 75 Years Ago July 28, 1932 Announcement was made today by the Old Home Week Committee that Judge Watson R. Davison of Chambersburg has accepted the invitation to make the address at the union memorial service in Cedar Hill Cemetery during the opening of the 11th Triennial Old Home Week.
G.A. Raffensperger of Gettysburg, field agent of the bureau of animal industry, was in Greencastle making a check-up of unlicensed dogs. Directors of the Waynesboro Hospital, elected Miss Eleanor C. Faubel of Kauffman, as superintendent of the hospital, succeeding the late Miss Anna M. Laughlin. With $5,000 of county money pledged to the project by the Franklin County Commissioners, Messrs. Ira E. Gearhart, Ross S. Gordon and Luther H. Leiter, the Chambersburg Borough Council, in special session awarded a bid for installing a toilet deluxe in the basement of the courthouse. Fully 3,000 people gathered at Red Bridge Park to celebrate the George Washington Bicentennial and the 157th anniversary of the establishment of the postal system of the United States. Greencastle Town Council and the C. G. & W. Street Railway Company have reached an agreement with reference to the removal of the trolley company's tracks on East Baltimore Street. 50 Years Ago July 25, 1957 Preliminary plans for the proposed new junior-senior joint high school of Greencastle and Antrim Township have been forwarded to the authority by Edmund George Good Jr., architect of Harrisburg, and may be examined by interested persons in the home economics room of the present school building on South Washington Street. Utility companies, including the Manufacturers Light and Heat Company, have begun relocation of their lines along Pennsylvania Route 16 between Shady Grove and Greencastle. A gentle rain which began Tuesday morning and continued throughout the day brought relief to this area from the season's dryest and hottest weather. With the mercury at the 100 degree mark on Sunday and Monday, gardens and field crops were showing signs of severe damage and a few more days of such weather would have ruined much of the corn. The Franklin County Commissioners appointed 12 special election registrars, six recommended by the Republican and six by the Democrats. The intersection of West Baltimore Street and U.S. Route 11 continues to be a site of many accidents. Directors of the Enoch Brown Park and Monument Association will hold the annual meeting at the home of G. Fred Ziegler. The Greencastle Sportsmen's Association will hold three ox roasts next month. The Women's Club of Greeencastle-Antrim will hold a "Flowerama" in September. Some 1,200 residents of the Lower Cumberland Valley area plan to take advantage of an excursion train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad for a day of fun-in-the-sun at American's finest seashore resort, Atlantic City, N. J. 25 Years Ago July 28, 1982 Antrim Township will not halt or reverse the process being used to collect delinquent sewer connection and rental fees. Greencastle Little League officially opened its new concession stand July 16, but still needs donations to pay for it. The new stand replaces the building which was destroyed by fire in May. The fire was believed to be arson. A train jumped a Western Maryland Railway line near Wingerton Elevator blocking Leitersburg Pike and State Line Road for almost 12 hours. Greencastle police issued 10 citations while using excessive speed preventer (ESP) equipment on South Antrim Way Saturday. Speeds of those cited ranged from 48 to 63 mph. Recent accidents and complaints prompted police to choose South Antrim Way for ESP surveillance. Bicentennial plans had some relaxing events planned for August in Greencastle. Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania has asked the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to approve a general rate increase which would raise average residential bills by $5.05 a month. Franklin County is part of the Mason Dixon Erosion Control Project being submitted to Washington as a special 10- year program by U. S. Soil Conservation Service. Milk production is Pennsylvania during June 1982 totaled 793 million pounds, up 3 percent from a year earlier, according to Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service. The American Cancer Society fund-raising campaign in Greencastle successfully raised $3,700. Approximately 8,700 employees and family members attended the Grove Manufacturing Co. family outing at Hagerstown Fairgrounds July 24. The annual pet show was held at the Jerome R. King Playground. |
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