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After Myers' departure, C&P serviced Brunswick from the central office at Frederick. Customers could also deal with the business office in Frederick, until that office closed. Now, the nearest office is at Hagerstown. The crash of a training plane and a small Viscount passenger plane in 1958 presented a challenge to manager Don Myers and installer-repairman Gladhill. The plane crashed between two telephone lines. By laying the telephone lines on the ground, Myers and Gladhill enabled newspaper and television crews inundating the area to report to their stations. The dead bodies were removed to Feete's Funeral Home, where Myers and Gladhill also installed lines for American Airlines. Reference: John H. Cromwell, The C. and P. Story, Service in Action/Maryland, Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland, 1981, pp. 75, 81, 120. S -Al Boyer - Don Myers - William Gladhill W-MMM

THE BRUNSWICK HERALD Brunswick's first weekly newspaper, the BRUNSWICK HERALD AND LOUDOUN COUNTY ADVERTISER, owned and edited by E. C. Shafer, first appeared in June 1890. It was a full-size double sheet of newsprint, providing four pages. Issues dated November 9, 1906 and April 17, 1908 disclose a front page divided equally between advertising and copyrighted feature articles on general topics. All news seems to have been of a local naturewho visited town on a particular date, even to mention the subscriber who visited the newspaper office to renew his subscription. Under the heading of "Business Cards," doctors, dentists, lawyers, and others advertised. The extensive train schedule appeared in great detail, and local and county government officials were listed, as well as churches and lodges. Ads frequently end with "yours truly" and the name of the business. Ordinances enacted by the town council were given verbatim. Of interest is the note in some advertisements that the particular business establishment had "both phones - C and P and Maryland." The annual subscription price for this paper was one dollar.

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S - Copies of THE BRUNSWICK HERALD W-WHH

BRUNSWICK NEWSPAPERS Almost as long as there has been a Brunswick, there has been a local newspaper. Its starting date is one exception. THE BRUNSWICK HERALD published Vol. I No. 1 on March 6, 1891, almost a year after the incorporation, April 8, 1890. Fortunately, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, has bound copies of the HERALD. Since they are accessible through the Maryland Room, on the upper floor, they are somewhat protected. Some isolated copies are carefully held in the Brunswick Museum, and some individuals have a few. The editor, Edward C. Shafer, published it until 1912, when someone from the FREDERICK NEWS continued until the last issue was printed January 17, 1914. Shafer was an uncle of Louise Nicodemus Porter, who resides in the house that the Shafers lived in on North Virginia A venue. Many still living remember Mr. Shafer's widow, Miss Eva, who continued her husband's insurance business until her death in 1970. Knowing someone who knew so intimately her aunt and uncle seems to eliminate the years between now and the beginning of Brunswick; Louise cananswermanyofourquestionsaboutthiscouple. It's almost like having been there. The first copy of the HERALD was printed at the FREDERICK NEWS plant. After about a year the HERALD established its own plant in Brunswick. A partnership formed in 1891 between E. C. Unger, formerly connected with the FREDERICK DAILY NEWS, and Edward Shafer started the HERALD. In 1894, Shafer purchased Unger's interest and became sole editor and proprietor. The HERALD "became one of the leading journals of the county," according to its short-term successor newspaper, THE TIMES. The HERALD began in old Berlin, south of the westbound track, moving to its new building at the comer of South Delaware Avenue and Walnut Street in 1906. It was a folksy paper and old fashioned, having limited local news and much copied material, like fiction, usable information, oddities, and jokes. Many ads were on the front page. One of the most surprising types of article was a statement from a local hotel boasting of the places his guests of the week came from: Martinsburg, Frederick, Charles Town, and other nearby places. There was a fair amount of editorializing.