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to their animals. They "herded" the hogs across the

railroad tracks to the site of the butchering at the appropriate time. Such was life during the depression era. Eventually restrictions were placed on keeping such animals within town limits. Ordinance 187, passed on December 12, 1944, established distances hog pens (100 feet) and chicken houses (40 feet) should be from inhabited dwellings. This became effective January 15, 1945. On September 13, 1966, Ordinance 269 replaced the earlier law, and hogs and hog pens were eliminated from within city limits; a $100 fine or ten days in jail was the penalty for violation.

stores had a huge ring that two horses could be hooked to. Also, there were a couple of horse heads in town for "parking" horses. As the hitching post was fading out, hucksters used a heavy iron weight at the end of a rope attached to their wagon; at a stop, they quickly dropped the weight. At least one huckster used none of the foregoing methods. When he took his wares from the wagon, the well-behaved horse would immediately walk on to the next stop and wait there for his driver, repeating this pattern all along the route. Dutch recalls a driver on East C Street off Maple Avenue. He would say "All right," and the horse would go to the bottom of C Street, turn around, and start back to his owner.

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Before automobiles and parking meters, what did one do with the horses he rode to town or around town to get to work? There were stables in the alley more recently called Mooseheart Drive, next to the Moose Club. Pappy Allgire kept his horses there, each in its own stall. The Catletts had quarters for their horses behind their home in the 500 block of West Potomac Street. Harry took a team to bottom land east of the Potomac River Bridge where he worked the family farm. H. N. Werntz kept his horse behind his store at 101 East Potomac Street, across the alley, in Dr. West's carriage house, where Dr. Hedges also stabled his horse. Behind the high school (1913-1928) on Fourth A venue there were four or five stables for horses at the spot where the auditorium of the 1928-1965 school stood. The Flooks and Staleys brought their horses to school. After the fire of 1928 the stables were not rebuilt.

Salty herring and fried potatoes for breakfast is a vivid memory for Dutch Burns. The heads were cut off the fish and they were gutted, then preserved in brine in wooden buckets with a wire handle. Storekeepers bought the fish in the buckets, which were set on the pavement and sold singly. To eat them, the fish were fried hard; people ate bones and all. With coffee, this was a standard breakfast for many older folks. S - Dutch Burns W-MMM

HORSES There are still people around who recall when horses were used to pull ice wagons and other vehicles. But do you remember the hitching posts and do any remain today? Dutch Bums' thoughts go back to about 1918, when he was six years old. One horse "holder" he recalls was a (wooden?) rail in front of Bill Harrington's grandfather's, between the Cincotta building and the buildings east of it and another in front of Dutch Harmon's cigar factory located at 9 West Potomac Street (Longerbeam's today). Some hitching posts were the size of water pipes, two in the ground with a crossbar between for the reins to be tied to. Some of the holders were iron rings in trees. The large tree that used to beinfrontofWerntz' two

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SLEDDING IN BRUNSWICK I used to think "A" Street was the only place to sled ride in Brunswick. What crowds gathered there as soon as the snow built up an inch or two!

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