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WORDWORKS

BRUNSWICK HOUSE

Word works is a publications business operated by Diane Ell.is at 21 Tenth A venue. She started it in the Lovettsville area in 1982 and moved the business to Brunswick in 1986. Using computers, she produces typesetting for newsletters, books, brochures, stationery, advertisements and other printed materials for area businesses and organizations. The owner has helped many community groups with publicity efforts. As early as 1983, Wordworks was using computers and a telephone modem to send and receive typed communications. A network of home-based computer typists and artists assist Wordworks. In recent years, much of its type is set on a laser printer. This stress on high technology has proved very compatible with Wordwork's commitment to remain small and home-based, and to continue working closely with the local community.

The long-awaited apartment complex for senior citizens was officially dedicated on Monday, March 24, 1980. The project was begun several years earlier and was almost abandoned because of faulty construction difficulties, etc., but it was finally completed and the 52 unit apartment complex, which is federally subsidized, .Vas built by the National Corporation of Housing Partnerships (NCHP). The apartments are either one bedroom or efficiencies; all are unfurnished but are fully equipped with a stove and refrigerator. All have emergency cords in the bedroom and bathroom. Five apartments arc equipped for the handicapped. Instead of an elevator, a ramp system allows access to both floors. There is a recreation room on both floors. Brunswick House,atl lO0PeachOrchard Drive, was Brunswick's first, and very much needed complex of its kind.

S - Diane Ellis W -BRH

S - Noel Shewbridge W -BLC

YARDLEY HOTEL

Do You Remember?

Jt was first named The Yardley, and Walt Ambrose bought it from Howard Marvin Jones in 1921 and managed it until after his wife died in 1927. A February 18, 1924, issue of The Frederick NewsPost states that the hotel was sold at public auction for $15,975. Howard Marvin Jones had bought it again, and intended to make a fine hotel with a quality dining room. Mr. Jones renamed it The Potomac Hotel. His dining room plans did not materialize. During the depression years of the 1930' s, the "hotel" became a transient facility, and after that it became Brunswick's Post Office on the main floor, with the upstairs rooms being made into apartments. While the "hotel" no longer exists, many Brunswick old timers remember it well.

The annual revue when the talented amateurs would perform? Connie Michael would sing and T. A. Sigafoose would have his talented dog Dixie jump through hoops and push the special tiny doll baby carriage that Mr. Sigafoose had made? Football games in the field across Potomac Street from City Park where Bus Miller and others officiated and spectators watched from REAL grandstands? The old jitney with a single passenger coach and one baggage car that went to Hagerstown in the morning, was back around 1:00, when it left for Fredrick and returned, with riders having about two and a half hours to shop in each place?

S - Marg Jones Smith

W - MMM -B LC

That every morning Austin Orrison, of Orrison' s grocery, would come to their customers' houses, with bread in case it was needed, take an order for the day, and return in the afternoon with the order?

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