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Hovermale complex, which stood across from the

present Fire Hall. Hemp butchered his own meat at the family farm on the Jefferson side of Steiner's Hill. Lloyd E. Roelke once worked for the Beatty meatshop and at one time for the YMCA. Later, learning that Mr. Hemp wanted to sell out, Mr. Roelke and Leonard Weedy bought the busines in the early 1920's. After a while, Mr. Weedy sold his share to Mr. Roelke, who ran a grocery store for many years in the Cincotta building. · Leonard Weedy came from England at age 17. Both he and his son, Ralph, were meat cutters. Around 1930 orearlier,according to Ralph's daughter, Anna Betty Weedy, her father worked for a while at Mr. Bill Wenner's store. Father and son operated a meat and grocery shop at about 42 West Potomac Street, having bought out Keedy Shaff's meat shop. This was adjacent to the J. J. Newberry dime store. Levi Lucas and John Fleetwood had a meat shop in the frame storeroom at the west end of the Kaplan building. They obtained their meat from the abattoir in Frederick. Later Mr. Roelke and Pete Dixon operated a grocery-meat market for numerous years, after Pete was fuloughed on the railroad. When the partnership dissolved in 1943, Mr. Roelke bought out Mr. Pres Orrison's grocery store in the three-story brick building next to the Reformed Church on the south side of the 100 block of West Potomac Street. Lloyd Roelke operated from there until retirement in 1956. Lloyd's son, Bill, bought his father's business in 1956, operating in the same location two years. In 1958 he moved to the Cincotta Building (now AntiquesN' Ole Stuff), where he continued in business until 1977, when he retired. At one time the Weedy men were meat cutters at the Acme Market for a several-year period. Ralph became meat cutter at Quality Food Market, "On the Square" at One East Potomac Street. Quality Market was owned by L. B. Darr, and the abattoir furnished the meat sold here. Ed Darr was another meat cutter at Darr's market, as was also John Hemp, of Burkittsville. Paul Harrison filled this position at the New York Hill markets. Junior Moler was the meat cutter at his own store at 207 East Potomac Street. Bill Wenner was a merchant most of his adult life. His store was called a meat market, but he also had a general grocery store on the southwest corner of West Potomac Street and Virginia Avenue. He operated another market on Wenner's Hill at the corner of North Maple Avenue and "G" Street.

Another meat cutter during the- 1940's was Billie F. Carter, who worked first for White's Market, which was located at 111 West Potomac Street. He continued his career out of town.

KOSHER MEAT IN BRUNSWICK Mr. Werntz' store sold groceries and meats. Since he served in the absence of a rabbi in Brunswick, he did Kosher killing of fowl for the Jewish families of the town. Bill Beatty's meat shop, across from the YMCA on East Potomac Street and adjacent to Werntz' grocery, handled all sorts of meat for the general public, but also handled Kosher meats for the Jewish families of Brunswick. This shop had a separate cutting block and knives for the Kosher meat. Earlene Barger Lucas also recalls that her mother, Lennie (Mrs. Joseph) Barger, who raised chickens at New Addition, penned the fowl the appropriate length of time required for the rabbi to prepare Kosher fowl.

BUTCHER vs MEAT CUTTER To distinguish between the person who slaughters the animal, leaving large cuts of meat, and the one operating in the meat department or shop to prepare the exact cut for the customer, the terms butcher and "meatcutter" respectively are being used in this account. When the meat arrives at a meat shop from the abattoir, the "meat cutter" prepares the exact pieces requested by the customer. In reality, the term "butcher is just as often used for the man in the store as is the other term. When the Acme and A&P chain stores reached Brunswick, and ever since, the local butchers" had no connection with those stores. S

- Bill Roelke - Dutch Burns - Anna Betty Weedy - Chisel Hahn

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BRUNSWICK MILL The local mill was the center of farm economy before 1820. By the mid-1830's, canal and railroad service brought new marketing alternatives to local farmers. Except in Frederick Town, farming was the principal occupation of the county consistently from 1790 to 1840. As with many other early settle-

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