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McDonald, president cf Storer College, at Harper's Ferry, deliverew a very interesting address at the banquet in the Shenandoah Hotel at Martinsburg, June 21, which we believe tells the story of "The Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia" better than we can do. Here is a part of his address: accelerated- W the solons, who went from state capitol to state capitol on frequent junkets. For under the soothing influences of genrous feasts and flowing bowls, misunderstanding disappeared, unhurried disputations ceased and from beneath the mahogany, small boundary questions were soon gone with the wind. "No mountains stir the emotions like our eastern mountain wall, the&fer tfiede frem the prevalent bigotry of the established church. To recite these facts is neither to praise the ones, nor to condemn the other. It is merely te chronicle events of another type and, period. * Washington's Activities '"This is the land of the first pnMte actvities of the Father of Our Country. A* a boy engineer, mature beyond his teen years, he came with "Lord Fairfax, to survey in part the almost uncounted acres of his lordship. This panhandle -is a part of the area Washington represented in old Williamsburg, when for the first time he sophy in the thinldngof the western world. The history of this nation cannot be penned properly and omit therefrom the events* centering in that strange man, as he reacted upon this nation. Here 4ere the scenes of his activities; here he paid the penalty for deeds, not tp be explained by human reason. "Therewith may enter another interesting reflection, that two of the three trials for treason in American history have been tried in this judicial circuit, at Charlels Town; the trial of John Brown and the more recent Miners trial. The third the trial, that of Blue Ridge. Over them poured streams of settlers, who were, to sieze ' H Ti A1RMEW OF MARTINSBURG,-WEST VIRGINIA Airplane view of Martinsburg, West Virginia, showing in the center, Interwoven Mills, largest manufacturers of men's seamless hlaf hose in the world. , . A trout stream runs right through Eastern Panhandle tite main street of Sheperdstown and. "Boundaries of political units are tile college campus. The editors were strange things and meaty with sugqoite skeptical when told that rainbow gestions. Among nations they appear trout are caught in this small, swift and disappear with every changing sat as a member of a lAw making j Aaron Burr, was held in Richmond, body. This is the land through which, with John Marshall sitting in judgment. "Into this "area came, or through this area passed, most of the great leaders of the Civil War. Lee, Jackson, Longstreet, Jeb Stuart, Ewell, Early, Joe Johnston for the Confederates; Grant, Sheridan, Banks, McClellan, Bumside, Meade and others for the Federals. Every road was tramped, every mountain pass heard echoing bugles, every ford was crossed, to the scattered pioneers, so frequent-] every town was awakened by tramply harassed and slain by Indian hire- ing hosts. Here 'glory guards in lings. Near here he passed to honor- silent founds the bivouac of the dead.' able defeat at Ft, Necessity aijdjto thoj "Here were established the ftrst free beginning of a military career that public schools in the state, here Shep- Was to end at Yorktown. In the fer-|herd College for white students and tility of these lands he saw clearly, Storer College for colored students, great possibilities, and -ito it came j exemplify the Sound interest of all brothers and collateral relatives, the people in education, as a sure the foundation upon which to build a con' he passed and repassed, when as young diplomat, scarcely turned twenty, he carried from the Virginia colonial capitol the epochmaking message fa the French commander near Erie, demanding that the rights of the colony of Virginia should be respected. And like a beaded rosary by his intuitive military skill were planted a long string of forts across this western area, to become cities of refuge felXTY YEA86 A<K> brothers and •whose descendants are among most highly esteemed and respectable Of our citizens. t . At Harpers Ferry he established stitutional form of government. * "Here rich valleys and fertile hill sides, here, ample tain fall and abunthe second great armory and arsenal of | dant streams; here, where good roads our common country. And while the abound and markets are near at hand; Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, for engin-jhere, where dwell a contented and hoseering reasons was located just across pitable people, there is found abun the river in Maryland, its upper reaches, had they been constructed ac dant living. "Here at apple blossom time, there The pickle factory at this place is now doing an immense business, taking in from ten to fifteen hundred bushels of cucumbers per day. The preparations for building an addition to the ice house for Shedd & Co., in this village, is progressing favorably, and will be pushed to completion in time to secure the crop of ice the coming winter. The first frost of the season on Tuesday night. John Wightman, of Chenoa, 111., with a party of friends, iscamping at the lakes. Sam. Cary, the great Greenback orator, will |ie at Woodstock on Thursday of this week. The meeting-will be held at 2 o'clock. FIFTY YEARS AGO 1 cording to the tentative plans of j is more floral beauty and fragrance Washington, Pres. of the Company, by than in Normandy. And after the fall a series of locks, dams and tunnels, j harvesting of uncounted barrels of the would have been included in what we' finest apples grown in the east, the may call this general area. I world comes to our packing plants to; "It is interesting to note some of make purchases. Here dairy herds and the military leaders, who have lived (sheep browsing in pastures green, add within the area. Gates, the blustering | to the natural beauty of the land and leader at Saratoga, whose laurels so the joy of passer by. "Here, as now, golden harvests repay the industry of the farmer in gensoon faded, after his early southern engagement at Camden, S. C„ lived nea* here. At 'Travelers Rest,' near at^rous measure. Here great limestone hand, erratic, ambitious and unscrup- j operations and a variety of modest inulous Charles Lee, cashiered after j dustries are served by native labor, Monmouth, lived. With his utter lack, generally, and the avowed desire and of respect for deity can be judged, j practices between employer and emwhen one recalls that from his great ployee is to deal, justly and fairly pack of hounds, he chose twelve fav- with alL orites and named them for the twelvp | "And so you have come to this and save the United States the great apostles. And in his will he decreed generous land of romance and story midland area of the Northwest Ter-[that n0 Presbyterian or Anabaptist and song. You have had glimpses of ritory, the gift of what was then the Preacher was to speak ?ve? J.18 grfVf; a Pe°Ple» whose state motto, 'Moun Old Dominion to national expansion!nor was he to be buried within a half (uineers ate always Free,' finds exand later greatness. Back and forth mile. of any Christian meeting house., pression in their independent but char- w . stream, but the natives proved this flood of invasion and conquest. Not .over these same Blue Ridge mountains!®® *s huried in an o d rc i ab e thinking. That you may go 18 V1 „age' on . e. nes ° nex before their as between nations alone, do these have pasesd and repassed more armed, cemetery, Philadealphia. Strange was your several ways to the remote places week* 80 we »r« informed. The residence of Ed Saylorj three miles southwest of this village, with its entire contents, was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday night last, Mr. Saylor and family having barely time to get out with what few things they could grab. / Burglars broke into the drug store of J. A. Story on Thursday night last, ransacked the safe, which was unlocked, and one of the money draws, but .were only rewarded by a few mutilated coins. Heimer's Hall was packed to its utmost capacity on Tuesday evening, the first rally of the campaign in this village. C. P. Barnes, Esq., and Frank Spitzer, Esq., of Woodstock,6 the two ablest young Republican orators in the Northwest, were present, and for two hours and a half presented the question of the day in so plain a manner "that he who runs might read!" FORTY YEARS AGO Miss Del fa Welsh, of this village, and James Callahan, of Chicago, will be married at St. Patrick's church, in Another stop was made at the Rum-(of our own commonwealths. Who has •By Monument This was erected on not thrilled over the exploits of 'The the banks of the Potomac river in hon- Green Mountain Boys?' as they typi-, otl.WUU) AUU(f UC1UIC, - --, a • a or of James Rumsey, whom they claim fied the contest between New York and.the white man came, proud Indian, °f ;^rmy' W^ki 1 fact by landing some -- ... .,«««= umm , , . , , , - eyes. Shepherdstown claims to be the teresting political phenomena appear, [men in more American wars, than,^8* fft^e pl®ced his grave at no^f * eommon country, from this center eldest town in West Virginia. 1 They have been marked in the history have passed over any other mountain Krea^ distance from that of the nestor. where imperishable pages of national range in all this broad land I of the Revolution, Benjamin Franklin, history were written, carrying mem- "And if within the numerous paral-l "At Charles Town lived Gen. Wm.lories, which shall be a joy to cherish, lei valleys of our section, long before! P; Craighill, one time engineer ^in chief (« ^the sincere hope of your Inends "We, yrho stay, shall frequently and happily recall your gracious presence, render at Yorktown. Time fails to!your visit all too short. mention more. Men of public affairs "As you shall go with the conscioussprang from this soil. Here were (ness of having trodden fields of marborn Newton D. Baker, the brilliant | tial glory, we shall stay with the en- Sec. of War, during the World War. larged and deepened conviction, that Governor, now Senator Byrd of Vir- after all 1 7 '--rf vvmwvww *'VT. * MIIU.VUV utw uiau pivuu 1UUUIK1 «as the inventor of the steamboat, he Vermont in a boundary struggle? Who [tribes dwelt and resisted the inroads Remonstrating the use of a steam en- has not wondered at the circular boun- of warriors from the north, they thus CACAPON MOUNTAIN VIEW * V; among other things the noble Federal monument commemorating the surginia, was born here. Here lived Hon. Chas. J. Faulker, one time minister to France and his illustrious son, former U. S. Senator, Charles James Faulker, Jr. Of members of Congress, one only may be mentioned, the college president, the creative statesman, William L. Wilson. He it was who established the rural free delivery mail system, which was first begun at Charles Town, an epoch-making beginning of larger life for rural folks. "Here lived and worked, misunderstood and sometimes derided, our greatest inventive genius before Edison, the one man whose invention of the steamboat, was to revolutionize the transportation methods of the world, James Rumsey. Belated but merited honor was done this man last year at the sesquicentennial of his invention. Wlhile today at Sir Johr.^ Run, where Rumsey probably first, rather privately demonstrated his Ideas, fitting exercises were held in honor of this man. Long before Fulton by aid of Chancellor Livingston's money, made success out of the Claremont, this man, James Rumsey, in the sparsely settled and little known area, now known as this Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, had shown to an interested group of influential men and women the possibilities of apply The Pen is mightier than the sword." Beds Once Four-Sided Up to about 400 A. D. almost all bells were four-sided just like the bells used to keep straying cows within ear range. Bells have been used as signals, for warnings, in religious ceremonies and as protection against evil spirits, but bells as musical instruments are comparatively recent. Brickbat a Half Brick tn masonry work a brickbat 4i the term applied to half a brick and is used wherever proper fitting of brickwork requires its use. The term is also applied to insulating material of the fill type when held in a definite form or bat by means of sheets of paper in order to facilitate its application. Meaning of Name Enid The name Enid is of Celtic-Latin origin and means "the soul, or spirit." In Tennyson's "Idyls of the King" Enid was the wife of the knight, Geraint, and a model of beauty and virtue. Steamboat. "The official records of the patent office leave small doubt that the honor "Of being the real inventor belongs to James Rumsey. Later historians are approaching this moot question with 'open minds and agreeing to the facts, lleference has been made to the great gine in propelling a boat, years before'dary of northern Delaware; the odd figuratively foretold the day when armory and arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Robert Fulton attempted i t . They d®wn jutting of Alabama, or the up' say Rumsey's boat was shown in ac- jutting of Minnesota? The 'Ohiotion on the Potomac river at Shop-J Michigan War,** which retained Toledo herdstown in the presence of hundreds for Ohio and gave Michigan the Up- WORKMAN INJURED Joseph Boyer of Crystal Lake, fifty years old, is in a critical condition at Ing steam to navigation. This was in j Sherman hospital, Elgin, suffering 1787, long years before Fulton. With from fracture of several ribs, a crushsome diffidence I note the unhappy, ing injury to his chest and internal infact that in statuary hall, of the na-1 juries sustained when he was hit by a tion's capitol building, Robert Fulton broken beam while at work at the is represented as the inventor of the American Terra Cotta Co. plant at Dr. O. J. Howard, an old and highly respected citizen of this village for many years, but who has lived with his son, R. A. Howard, at Elgin, for the past year, is now at his daughter's, Mrs. Simeon Kennedy, in this village, and is in a very feeble condition. We notice by a Minnesota paper that Jas. Revor, a former resident of McHenry, has been nominated by a Populist convention for sheriff of Beltrami county, that state. Miss Deborah Cooper arrived on Saturday, and Miss Jessie Baldwin and Miss Francis Osborne on Sunday. All resumed their respective places in our public school on Monday. THIRTY YEARS AGO James H. Brower, Elgin's candidate for Governor on the Socialistic ticket, was in McHenry Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of last week, speaking at the McHenry House hall each night. Wm. Stoffel has become the possessor of the implement business formerly conducted by the late Jacob Bonslett. M. L. Van Natta caught an elegant string of pickerel in the Fox last Sunday. The string lacked only one of being an even dozen. The many McHenry friends of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bennett, former McHenry residents, now of 1045 Farquier street, St. Paul, Minn., will be pleased to know that they are enjoying fairly good health. TWENTY YEARS AGO This view from West Virginia Route 9, three miles west of Berkeley Springs, is rated by authorities as one of the finest in the United States. In the foreground are seen the tracks of the mainline of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Potomac River. On the opposite side of the river is Maryland, and the bed of the old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the tracks of the Western Maryland Railroad may be seen. The village in the, distance is Great Cacapon, West Virginia. Terra Cotta Tuesday morning. of people in 1786. (per Peninsula, is one of the curious A building on the campus at Storer facts of state history. College at Harper's Ferry, known as| "And not less interesting was the . » "John Brown's Fort," was originally. boundary contention between Marythe fire engine house of the town on land and the Virginias, as to who conthe grounds of the former TJ. S. arsen- (trols the Pototnac; begun in provincial i: al there, in which John Brown and days and settled less than a dozen others in a titanic struggle were to I, John Brawn test their faiths by an arbitrament of j "On this occasion one may be paiarms, in this area, whose every acre.doned, if he briefly refers to one, infelt the martial tread. separably connected therewith in public "One may well recall that 200 years thinking. Whatever divergent opinago this very land was Virginia's' ions men have of John Brown and his cradle of religious liberty. In these | followers, on that night of Oct. 16, western wilds, the hounded Quakers 1859, they set into motion, by their sought peace; here the Lollard-like' descent upon that quiet town, a long Baptists, lowly esteemed, first found and sanguinary train of events, which Products From Cotton From 3% to 9% yards of cloth, depending on the type, can be made from a single pound of raw cotton. Other cotton products include explosives, photographic films, celluloid. One of the world's oldest crops (about 3,200 years), it has been raised in the United States since 1664. Chas. Givens has given up his position with the Wilbur Lumber company in this village and for the pr4bent will enjoy a much needed rest. St. Mary's parochial school building underwent several improvements during the vacation period, among them being the installation of electric lights. Loads of grain find their way into the village daily now and the buyers here are kept extremely busy in taking care of all that comes in. Winfield Woodburn, express agent of Akron, Ohio, made a weekend visit with, his parents here recently. Use of Glass Fiber As far back as the Fourteenth century, the Venetians produced glass fiber. In 1892 an American glass company manufactured a w«|/v4owj, tovtcmcu, itaov ivuiiu onu oaii^uuiaiy wam vj. ctwkoi «1d r_es_ s _o f s.ilk_ f ab r,ic in t_e rwo-ve n _w ith . . . , , , . - place; here the persecuted Presbyter-' freed not one, but two races, and in- Strands of glass thread, ana euubtt* followers took refuge when hard years ago. Nor was the settlement ians found asylum, with the others,-- stituted a new order of political philo- " at Columbian exposition. Cbarult the, 9MUCK5fM0THM EVER HAPPENS APOUMO UERE ANV MOREL fTLAimC OCEQll pinjk Mem * Sk; - v rV"v 5 ThnncUy, September 8,1881 Try Oar EnNriii Scissor Razor Wave wWi Shswpee and Hairdress $1.5* STOMPANATO'S i Beauty and Reducing Salon f Phone 641 Woodstock. TH. \ , Dr. C. Keller OPTOMETRIST :: If now permanently located in McHenry at his sammer home on Riverside Drive. Forty-six years experience testing eyes and making glasses. 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