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CHARLES H. "CHARLIE"

THORNTON, C.P.A.

of Frederick, had an office in the Horine building on the Square Comer. More recently, William Sauser, who moved to Brunswick from the Washington area in 1976, has been practicing law here since 1978. He is now at 310 West Potomac Street. Julie Blair arrived in 1983,and worked from the second floor office at 318 West Potomac Street. From 1984 until 1986, her home at 517 Brunswick Street served as her office, then in November of the latter year she became a partner of Bill Sauser's law firm.

Charlie Thornton studied two years at Frederick Community College and two years at the University of Maryland after completing his public schooling in Brunswick. He has practiced his profession since 1979, first in Frederick, then in Washington, D. C., before opening private practice in May of 1984 in the Horine building, Brunswick. In January of 1990 he moved to his present location, 326 West Potomac Street.

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Do You Know ... That the Peoples National Bank acquired land for their bank fronting 27 feet on West Potomac Street and 33 feet deep from Berlin Lot 23 in 1909. In 1923 they expanded east with two 25-foot parcels from Lot 46 to their original plot; they disposed of the easternmost to Sam Cincotta in 1925. Today Kings Pizza occupies that land. That Alfred T. "Bets" Mills, who operated a confectionery store and whose wife, Annie Spillman Mills, of Martinsburg, taught at Brunswick High School, bought 11 North Virginia Avenue in 1933. That in 1914 four county high schools were to be abolished: Adamstown, Jefferson, Myersville, and Walkersville. Brunswick was to remain with Thurmont and Middletown, ali accredited high schools, according to the BRUNSWICK TIMES of that year. That in one day on Sunday, August 30, 1914, in less than seven hours actual working time the huge turntable at the round house was repaired and a new pivot put in place. That the turntable is 80 feet long and weighs 50 tons. (1914 stats). That the contract for the new high school was dated December 13, 1911. That on March 9, 1910, instructor Roger Harley was notified that the Frederick County Teachers Association was granted permission to meet as a county association. That the front of the YMCA faced the railroad tracks, NOT Potomac Street; the latter was the BACK of the "Y." That the local freight yards were so large that they could run four trains at one time. That the trackmen's "gandy cat" was different from a "speeder" in that the latter had a motor.

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