100 Years Ago This Month

September 1922

September 7

Arrangements For Woodsboro Thurmont Frey

The Frederick County baseball league is busy making preparation for the series between the Woodsboro and Thurmont teams, which will decide the championship in the amateur circuits. Their regular season ended with each team tied for first place with 12 victories and two defeats.

The series will begin at Woodsboro Saturday afternoon; the decision to start in Woodsboro was based upon the flip of a coin. The second game will be played in Thurmont and the third game, if necessary, will be played on neutral ground.

Autoist Injured By Train

Russell Eichelberger, proprietor of the Valley Grange in Woodsboro, sustained a severe scalp wound, together with bruises in an accident at the Pennsylvania railroad crossing yesterday afternoon. He was in a truck and was about to cross the railway at the Pennsylvania station in Woodsboro. A building close to the railroad which shut off his view prevented him from seeing the passenger train, which was approaching him on the tracks.

Eichelberger made every effort to get across ahead of the train, but his left rear wheel caught against one of the rails, stopping the machine. The train struck the machine throwing him out. His truck was dragged for about 50 feet and turned over on the track two or three times. The truck’s body was badly splintered, but the engine and wheels were not damage

September 14

Woodsboro Wins First Game Of Series, Thurmont Second

What is the largest crowd is it ever turned out to witness a ball game in any town in western Maryland, the Woodsboro baseball team defeated the Thurmont nine in the first game of the series of three games to decide which team shall receive the pennant of the Frederick County league. The game was played at Woodsboro last Saturday afternoon and the score was 8 to 4 in favor of Woodsboro.

The attendance at the game is claimed to have been about 2,000, made up of people from the two towns, A\as well as residence of surrounding towns. Both teams played fastball until the eighth inning when Woodsboro, by a batting rally, put over three runs and thoroughly whooped the Thurmont boys.

Thurmont however, won the second game beating Woodsboro 4 to 3 before a crowd of 2,000 people at the ballpark in Thurmont. The Thurmont boys realized the situation, and ‘went over and got them’. The Woodsboro team also realized the situation, but was not quite equal to the task.

Auto Burned

Last Saturday night the automobile belonging to Mrs. Ladimir Schmidt, mysteriously caught fire while standing in the garage. The blaze was discovered by a member of the family who noticed a light in the garage. In going to the building it was found that the machine was ablaze. It was pushed out of the building and in a short time was consumed. Rumor is that the blaze may have started from a leak in Mr. Schmidt’s still, that at the time, was running full out. Thankfully, the still was not damaged and continued to run.

Mail Receptacles Urge

With view of improving carrier service in Walkersville, the postmaster has been on a campaign to have residents provide mail receptacles in their doors. The post office stipulate that it be either a door slot or a mail box in which the carrier may place mail in. The Post Master has given residents four months for installation of these receptacles.

Under the present system it is necessary for the carrier to deliver the mail personally to some member of the household. The delay in waiting until the carrier’s summon is answered prevents anything like a prompt delivery of mail. When the summons of the carrier is not answered mail is either slipped under the door, in a window or carried back to the office for future delivery.

Under the plan, the postmaster believes that mail service can be handled much more satisfactorily. He said that carriers lose much time in waiting on doors steps for patrons to answer a summons. While the order is not mandatory the department said in the future it would cut off home delivery of mail to those who fail to comply with the request.

Drove Tractor With Horse Lines

Wilbur Saylor, of Woodsboro, attracted considerable attention Saturday driving a motor tractor with a pair of lines. He was seated on another machine in the rear with the lines attached to the steering wheel of the tractor in front. He had excellent control over the tractor and was probably the first person who ever drove a motor machine over the streets of the town with a pair of lines instead of being at the wheel of the machine.

September 21

Woodsboro Wins Championship

The Woodsboro baseball team won the championship of Frederick County last Saturday by thoroughly trouncing Thurmont 17 to 8. It must have been a strange championship game as Woodsboro had 11 errors, 17 base hits, and eight men to reach first base on errors. Thurmont had 10 errors, 11 base hits and nine to reach first base on errors. Sounds to us like a "Bloomer Girl" game.

Electrocution

The death of Mr. Arbaugh, of Walkersville, from taking hold of a live electrical light wire, while engaged in repairs to a building, should be a warning to everybody. The fact is, somebody ought to write up an authoritarian article on the subject, for a publication of wide circulation. With telephone and electric wires intermingling, and the general lack of information as to the danger of live wires, such warning information should be made compulsory by law.

Big Capture Of Moonshine

The biggest moonshine capture ever made in Frederick was made last Friday on a farm near Woodsboro. Revenue agents found a still in the barn with a 500 gallon/ day capacity along with a quantity of the distilled product, including a 55 gallon keg of whiskey and a car with 114 quarts in bottles.

In the middle of the woods they came upon a swamp in which was a monster still of 1,000 gallon capacity. A huge quantity of mash, which the agent said could produce 15,000 gallons, and 700 1/2 gallon glass jars were among the items found.

September 28

Mission Pageant Staged

A pageant entitled The Search For The Light, or Man’s Quest for God, was presented Sunday evening at the Woodsboro Opera House, under the direction of the Missionary Society of the Lutheran Church of Woodsboro. About 100 persons took part in the affair that depicted various nations and their heathen idols. Elaborate costumes add charm and realism to the production.

This is the second venture of this nature in Woodsboro, about a year ago a similar event was stage which proved so successful that a repetition was decided upon this year. However this year’s event was much larger than that of last year, in which about 50 people took part.

Mr. Frost Visits

Mr. Jack Frost, who for a number of years has been a regular visitor to this place, arrived here on Tuesday. He is still the same old joker as in the past. He says he likes the area pretty well, so he thought he would just drop in on to see if we were prepared for winter. He doesn’t expect to make a very long stay on this trip, but will come again later in the fall.

Took Eggs To Pay For Auto He Bought

Sentence was suspended in the case of Roger Annan, a 19-year-old youth of Woodsboro who was indicted by the grand jury for the larceny of eggs, for which he pleaded guilty.

On the stand Annan told the court that he had been working on the farm of Harvey Werking along the Creagerstown Park. He was receiving $35 a month. He had saved up about $190 to buy a machine. With the consent of his father, he purchased a small touring car, paying down $190. He was to pay $30 a month as installments on the machine. He made several payments and then became in arrears. To get the money to catch upon on the installments, he stole several cases of eggs, each case being of the value of $6.60 the entire cost of his theft was $46.20.

He further stated that he has been working for Mr. Werking until the latter had been reimbursed for this loss. His father testified that this was the first trouble that Roger had been in. When he was asked whether he had given his consent for a son to buy a car, he admitted that he had, and, further added that afterwards he paid the installments on the machine. Mr. Cutshall of Woodsboro testified to the previous good behavior of the boy and stated that he was a regular employee all the time.

In announcing the sentence would be suspended, the court said that it was always willing to suspend sentences in case were the circumstances warranted, but added that if of the accused ever gotten any kind of trouble he could be brought before the court and that sentence applied.

Weather

The dryness of last week is now another week dryer, with water becoming more scarce and everything suffering from want of a soaking rain. The drought is becoming serious. The ground is dry to considerable depth; pastures are suffering and the sowing of wheat delayed. In places, water is getting low in streams and wells.