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The Pennsylvania Telephone Com- pany. Instituted in 1882.
The Pennsylvania Telephone Company has an exchange in full operation established in Waynesboro in connection with the Chesapeake and Potomac Company, of Mary- land. It was operated as a separate exchange for several years, when, with the building of the line from Carlisle to Waynesboro, via Chambersburg, connection was made with Harrisburg. Officers: A. R. Shellenberger, presi- dent ; I. J. Lerch, general superintendent ; M. H. Buehler, general manager ; J. H. Crosman, Jr., secretary and treas- urer : L. H. Kinnard, Jr., superintendent ; W. J. C. Jacobs, local manager.
Board of Trade. Instituted Feb. 28, 1896.
The Waynesboro Board of Trade. Managers: J. R. Ruthrauff. J. H. Stoner, I. E. Yost, J. M. Wolff, Val. Smith, Dr. A. H. Strickler, Simon Wiener, J. H. Dear- dorff, J. J. Oller. D. M. Good, Reuben Shover, H. E. Hoke, W. T. Omwake, H. J. Mentzer, J. B. Long. Of- ficers: J. R. Ruthrauff. president ; J. J. Oller, first vice- president ; I. E. Yost, second vice-president ; D. M. Good, third vice-president; J. H. Stoner, fourth vice- president : J. B. Long, secretary : W. T. Omwake, treas- urer. Standing committees: first, finance, publication and statistics: second, municipal affairs and legislation ; third, transportation and commerce; fourth, manufact- ures and real estate. The vice-presidents in their order are the chairmen of the committees.
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The Waynesboro Lodge, 1. O. O. F., No. 219. The CHAPTER VII. present membership is one hundred and fifty-seven, and ('ivie societies. total enrollment to date, four hundred and thirty-four. Officers: E. B. Fahrney, noble grand: G. F. Bender, Lodge, I. O. O. F., The Waynesboro No. 219, Instituted Feb. 16, 1847. vice grand: W. I. Bikle and R. Shover, secretaries; Alf. N. Russell, treasurer ; H. H. Leidig, Reuben Shover, S. B. Gilbert, trustees; W. I. Bikle, representative to Grand Lodge. Amount paid in benefits during the past ten years, five thousand six hundred and seventy-three dollars and twenty-five cents. Benefits paid in the last year, eight hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty cents. Meets Tuesday evenings at Odd Fellows' Hall, East Main street.
The Widow's Friend Encampment, I. O. O. F., No. 71. Officers: Robert Catrow, first presiding officer: S. B. Gilbert, present presiding officer: D. B. Russell, first scribe ; Alf. N. Russell, present scribe: J. W. Geyer, H. P .: J. D. Delaplaine, S. W. ; John L. Geist, J. W. ; D. N. Stephey, treasurer. The admitted membership since or- ganization is eighty-one, and present membership twenty- three. Meets in I. O. O. F. Hall on the second and fourth Friday evenings of each month.
The Uncas Tribe, 101, Red Men. Officers : G. F. Lidy, first presiding officer: C. G. Rowe, sachem: W. T. Bals- ley, S. Sagaman : H. L. Miner : J. Sagaman : J. W. Corbett, prophet ; E. J. Greenawalt, chief recorder : W. A. Han- stine, keeper, wampum ; J. W. Shaffer, guard, wigwam ; D. C. Shank, guard, forest. Present membership, seventy- eight, and number enrolled since organization, three hundred and eleven. Amount paid in sick benefits during the last year, one hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-five cents. Charter members: G. F. Lidy, William A. Price, William Hanstine, J. B. Russell, F. Forthman, D. J. Rhea, C. H. Dickle, J. Woolard, G. B. Beaver, C. N. Beaver, G. G. Pilkington, J. L. Weagley, L. C. Rhea, W. I. Bikle, H. Detrow. J. B. French, A. A. French.
The Widow's Friend Eneamp- ment, I. O. O. F., No. 71. Instituted May 17, 1848. Reinstituted April 11, 1884.
The Uncas Tribe, 101, Red Men. Instituted May 11, 1869.
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The George Wash- ington Lodge, No. 487, Knights of
Pythias. Instituted March 7, 1883.
The George Washington Lodge, No. 487, Knights of Pythias. Present membership, one hundred and eight. and total enrollment to date, two hundred and three, num- ber of members deceased since organization, seven. The first presiding officer was Simon Weiner, and the first secretary was A. D. Morganthall. Officers: J. E. Stout, chancellor. commander; Charles Waynant, vice-chan- cellor ; J. F. Reininger, prelate ; J. R. Hoffman, master of work: D. B. Royer, keeper of records and seal; J. H. Bowers, master of finance; C. B. Clayton, master of ex- chequer : William T. Balsley, master at arms; John N. Seltzer, inside guard; B. M. Kauffman, outside guard. Paid benefits last year of two hundred dollars. Meets every Thursday evening at Odd Fellows' Hall, east Main street. Charter members: James P. Lowell, George B. Beaver, Simon Weiner, William A. Price, Daniel F. Krug, Jacob Weiner, Daniel Johnston, A. D. Morganthall, Jacob H. Brown, D. W. Burns, J. C. Hess.
The Waynesboro Council, No. 993, Royal Arcanum. Instituted Aug. 11, 1SS6.
The Waynesboro Council, No. 993, Royal Arcanum. Present membership, forty-eight, and enrollment to date, seventy-five. Paid in benefits to date, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, and in the past year, seventy-five dol- lars. Officers: I. E. Yost, regent : A. D. Morganthall, vice-regent : Clayton Philips, orator; S. H. Brown, past regent ; G. Howard Kuhn, secretary; H. G. Bonebrake, collector ; A. H. Rossman, treasurer : B. R. Barlup, chap- lain : D. W. Bear, guide ; W. H. Brown, Jr. warden : Jacob S. Funk, sentry.
The Waynesboro Castle, No. 327, Knights of the Golden Eagle. Instituted Sept. 20, 1889.
The Waynesboro Castle, No. 327, Knights of the Gold- en Eagle. Present membership, eighty-five, and enroll- ment to date, one hundred and eighty-seven. Benefits paid to date, two thousand three hundred and five dollars. Benefits paid during past year, two hundred and seventy- four dollars. Officers: George Heefner, past chief ;
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Aaron Wagner, noble chief; Frank C. Durban, vice- CHAPTER VII. chief ; Adam W. Raby, high priest ; B. F. Weyant, ven- erable hermit; H. S. Fisher, master of records; C. HI. Koons, keeper of exchequer; John Dysert, Sir herald ; W. S. Bahner, worthy bard; A. H. Bear, worthy cham- berlain : Jacob Weigle, ensign ; H. C. Fox, esquire ; Garry E. Brewer, first guardsman; J. L. Weagley, second guardsman ; C. E. Hicks, J. A. Rowe, Reuben Shover, Trustees. Meets at Wolff Block each Friday evening.
The Acacia Lodge, No. 586, F. and A. M. Present The Acacia Lodge, membership, fifty-six, and enrollment to date, sixty-five. No. 586, F. and A. m. Instituted May 22, 1891. Number of members deceased since organization, two. The first presiding officer was Samuel R. Frantz, and the first secretary, J. H. Stoner. Officers: Charles B. Clay- ton, worthy master; Joseph Frantz, senior warden; C. C. Mckown, junior warden; D. F. Beaver, treasurer ; S. C. Plank, secretary. Meets third Friday of each month in Wolff Block, east Main street. Charter members were: Samuel R. Frantz, Samuel C. Plank, Jacob H. Stoner, George G. Shively, Thomas B. Smith, William Wallace, P. N. S. Brumbaugh, Lewis Cantner, Simon Weiner, John L. McCaskey, James P. Wolff, Albert J. Harbaugh, Ferdinand Forthman, David F. Beaver, David C. Shank, Jeremiah F. Zullinger, William E. Angle, John C. Criswell, Edgar W. Washabaugh, Charles C. Burges- ser, Edgar Penney, Thomas S. Cunningham, Abraham O. Frick.
The Waynesboro Council, No. 760, Jr. O. U. A. M. enrollment to date, three hundred and forty-three, number of members deceased since organization, six. The first presiding officer was J. W. Fowler, and the first secretary, F. K. Henninger. Benefits paid to date, three thousand three hundred and ten dollars and thirty-eight cents. Benefits paid during the past year, four hundred and
The Waynesboro Council, No. 760, Jr. O. U. A. M. Instituted Dec. 1S, 1891.
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CHAPTER VIL. twelve dollars and fifty cents. Officers: B. C. Wolfkill, councillor : E. E. Conrad, vice-councillor ; H. L. Miner, re- cording secretary; S. P. Ambrose, assistant recording secretary: George Tschudy, financial secretary: A. W. - Raby, treasurer ; D. Oglesbee, conductor; Percy Robin- son, warden: Ray Zimmerman, inside sentinel: Edward Coffman, outside sentinel : John A. Baker. Jr., past coun- cillor ; S. P. Ambrose, Jacob Shetter, J. B. Hess, trustees ; W. E. Bretzler, representative to State Council; George Tschudy. alternate: D. W. Berlin, chaplain. Charter members: T. S. Nevin, H. McCleary, J. W. Fowler. 1. Baker, C. M. Funk. A. S. Gonder, W. E. Bretzler. W. E. Washabaugh, J. M. Ditslear, J. B. Gossert. J. F. Furney, F. K. Henninger, C. W. Spielman, F. M. Conrad, C. R. Hanstine, William D. Furney. Meets in Wolff Block on Tuesday evenings.
The Waynesboro Conclave, No. 217. Improved Order o Heptasophs. Insti- tuted Feb. 22, 1892.
The Waynesboro Conclave, No. 217, Improved Order of Heptasophs. Present membership, fifty-four, and en- rollment to date, sixty-three. The first presiding officer was S. C. Plank, and the first secretary, S. A. Clevenger. Officers: Dr. Joseph Frantz, presiding officer : S. A. Cle- venger, secretary ; Alf. N. Russell, financier ; L. C. Rhea, treasurer. Benefits paid, three thousand dollars. Char- ter members: Joseph Frantz, John B. Russell, T. B. Smith, J. F. Nitterhouse. John W. Lowman, I. E. Yost, S. C. Plank. P. N. Brumbaugh, H. C. Criswell. J. H. Gonder, Alf. N. Russell, S. A. Clevenger. L. C. Rhea, B. H. Fore- man. Dr. A. H. Strickler. A. D. Morganthall. D. B. Snive- ly. I. F. Delaplaine. S. R. Frantz. John B. Lowry, Dr. I. N. Snively, James B. Raby, J. E. Sanders, John A. Weagly, C. F. Martin, C. W. Needy. John B. Sellers, M. S. Kunkle. Meets first and third Thursday evenings of each month at Odd Fellows' Hall, East Main street.
The Peerless Aid Society. Instituted June 11, 1892.
The Peerless Aid Society, a beneficial association among the employees of The Geiser Manufacturing Com-
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pany. Present membership, two hundred and forty, and enrollment to date, three hundred and twenty. Officers : L. P. Thompson. president ; F. B. Hershey, vice-presi- dent : J. C. Hicks, secretary; H. L. Stoner, assistant sec- retary : J. J. Oller, treasurer. Paid in benefits to date, five thousand three hundred and ten dollars. Paid in benefits during the past year, nine hundred and ten dollars. Meets monthly at office of The Geiser Manufacturing Company.
The Lady Wayne Rebekah Lodge, No. 16. Present membership, forty-two. Officers: Mrs. Lucy Morgan- thall. noble grand; Mrs. Susan Stover, vice-grand: Mrs. Alf. N. Russell, secretary; Miss Florence Richardson, treasurer. Meets first and third Mondays of each month in I. O. O. F. Hall, East Main street.
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The Lady Wayne Rebekah Lodge, No. 15. Instituted July 31, 1893.
The Blue Mountain Commandery, No. 76, Knights of the Golden Eagle. Present membership, twenty-three. and enrollment to date, forty-one. Officers: J. A. Rowe, grand chevalier: J. H. Morganthall, valiant command- er; B. F. Weyant, officer of the guard; J. J. Clohecy. captain of the troop; A. A. Wagner, knight herald; W. I. Bikle, knight preceptor; H. S. Fisher, knight histo- rian ; C. E. Hicks, knight almoner: H. S. Fisher, knight precentor; I. Greenwald, knight ensign; T. B. Moatz. knight armorer; J. E. Harbaugh, garrison guard; J. H. Dysert, advance guard; F. C. Durben, first knight of honor; J. L. Weagley, second knight of honor: W. I. Bikle, J. L. Weagley, trustees. Meets at Yost Hall first and third Monday evenings of each month.
The Uncas Council, No. 100. D. of P. Present member- The Uncas Council, ship, fifty-two, and enrollment since organization, sixty- No. 100, D. of P. Instituted Jan. 31, 1898. four, number of members deceased since organization, one. The first presiding officer was Mrs. Mary A. Hop- wood, and the present presiding officer, Mrs. Harry E. (10)
The Blue Mountain Commandery, No. 76, Knights of the Golden Eagle. In- stituted Dec. 24, 1894.
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Stouffer. The first secretary was Mrs. Charles G. Rowe. and the present secretary, Mrs. M. J. Settle.
The Washington Camp, No. 661. P. O. S. of A. In-
1898.
The Washington Camp. No. 661, P. O. S. of A. Pres- ituted March 14, ent membership, one hundred and eighteen. Officers : C. H. Williams, president : C. H. Grath, vice-president ; J. W. Moore, recording secretary; E. C. Arnold, finan- cial secretary; John H. Grath, treasurer; C. H. Miller, master of finance : Daniel Berlin, chaplain : W. E. Cantner, assistant secretary : H. McCorney, inspector : J. N. Ander- son. guard; L. S. Johnston, John Aulter, W. E. Cantner, trustees : L. S. Johnston, representative to State Council. Benefits paid during the past year, sixteen dollars. Meets Thursday evenings at Yost Hall, West Main street.
The Blue Mountain Temple, Ladies of the Golden Eagle. Instituted Aug. 14, 1899.
The Blue Mountain Temple, Ladies of the Golden Eagle. Present membership, thirty-three, and enrollment since organization, thirty-three. Officers: Mrs. Jennie Rowe. past templar: Mrs. Kate Beard, noble templar ; Miss Mary Martz, vice-templar; Mrs. Belle Ryder, prophetess : Mrs. Ella B. Wagner, priestess: Miss Susie Shorb, guardian of the records; Mrs. Ethel French, guardian of finance; Mrs. Sudie Fisher, guardian of exchequer : Miss Bertha Newman, marshal of cere- monies: Miss Myra Hopwood, guardian of music; Mrs. Gertie Reary, guardian of inner portal; B. F. Weyant. guardian of outer portal: Mrs. Mary Hopwood, Mrs. Bird Weyant. Mrs. Mattie Stoos, trustees. Meets at Yost Hall each Tuesday evening.
The Public Read- ing Room Associa- tion. Instituted in 1893.
The Public Reading Room Association. Officers and committees: D. Singer Geiser, president : Miss Flo M. Richardson, secretary ; B. C. Kadel. treasurer : J. R. Ruth- rauff. B. C. Kadel, committee on finance: George M. Spangler, Misses Margaret Fahnestock and Flo M. Rich- ardson, committee on literature: Walter Mentzer, Mrs.
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Mary Corbett and Miss Anna Hershey, committee on CHAPTER VII. library and rooms. Public reading room and library in Shively Block, Center Square.
The fire department of Waynesboro, while not very ex- tensive, is well organized and proficient. Among the firemen are to be found some of the best representative citizens of the town, and, as is frequently the case else- where, so in Waynesboro, the firemen constitute a most potent and important factor of citizenship.
The first fire company of which there appears to be mention was the "Washington Engine Company." It was in existence upwards of fifty years ago, but no records of it have been found.
There are two existing companies of firemen. The Me- chanics' Steam Fire Engine Company has been in exist- ence some twenty years. The first officers of the company were, Samuel Frantz, president ; John D. Frederic, vice- president : Joseph Walters, treasurer ; J. C. West, secre- tary : E. P. Grove, assistant secretary. The present officers of the company are: David Thompson, president ; J. H. Miller, vice-president : J. B. Wallace, treasurer; E. Z. Gonder, secretary; R. B. Haffner, assistant secretary. Investigating committee, J. F. Johnston, J. H. Miller. J. S. Stoops. Directors, H. C. Funk, J. B. Wallace, J. H. Miller, E. Z. Gonder, J. S. Stoops, Robert Watson, W. G. Henneberger, J. F. Johnston, M. L. Gift, R. B. Haffner, David Thompson, J. M. Funk. M. L. Gift, first engi- neer ; E. Z. Gonder, second engineer; R. B. Haffner, third engineer. J. S. Stoops, first firemen; Edward Kauffman, second firemen; Alfred McCarty, third fire- man.
The other protective organization in Waynesboro is the "Always There Hook and Ladder Company," which is likewise constituted of a representative class of citizenship. and does its full share of work whenever an emergency
Fire companies.
The Mechanics' Steam Fire Engine Company. 1879.
A. T. H. and L. Company. 1880.
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CHAPTER VII. arises. It was organized with about thirty members and the following officers: Jacob F. Reininger, president : William I. Bikle, vice-president: John D. Foltz, treas- urer: Cyrus M. Foltz. secretary. The present officers are: William J. Hawman, president : William M. Grove, vice-president : William E. Fisher, treasurer; David B. Zook. secretary. It has now about one hundred mem- bers.
Their quarters.
These two fire companies both had their quarters in the townhall. but they have now removed into the new fire- men's building which has been lately erected and com- pleted on South Potomac avenue. This building fur- nishes them with most commodious quarters, and is a credit to the town.
The town hall and academy of music. 1881.
The townhall. in which the firemen formerly had their quarters, was erected by the town some years ago. It serves not only as a townhouse, but is used as well, as an academy of music; the auditorium being a convenient place for the use of entertainments of all kinds. Previous to the erection of this building. the old building on the square was used for town purposes.
Railroad facilities. 1838.
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Although the question of railroad accommodations for Waynesboro was agitated as many as sixty years ago, yet the town remained without railroad facilities until a com- paratively late period.
This early agitation related to that enterprise well known in history as the Thaddeus Stevens "Tape Worm." This railroad was projected whilst the "Great Commoner" was a representative in the State Legislature of the county of Adams, wherein lay his large iron lands and iron works. It was the ambition of Stevens to extend the great public works of the State and bring his property into the market by building a railroad through the section connecting the
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Pennsylvania public works with the Baltimore and Ohio CHAPTER VII. railroad. It was an ambitious, but an impracticable scheme, and, after it had cost the State upwards of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, it was wholly and ut- terly abandoned. Owing to its greed for the consump- tion of State funds and its many curvings through mount- ain and glade to reach its destination, it became popularly known as the Thaddeus Stevens "Tape Worm Railroad."
By special act of Legislature, Waynesboro was made a point on this railroad, the "Gettysburg Railroad," as its incorporated name was. The Legislature of Pennsylvania, however, preferring the more feasible route and plan of the Cumberland Valley railroad, gave the finishing stroke to the Gettysburg and Waynesboro road by refusing it further State aid, and by extending such aid to its rival. So Waynesboro was left to wait the event of time, and it was not until the building of the Mont Alto railroad that its hope of railroad accommodation grew into certainty.
The Mont Alto railroad was first completed from a point near Scotland, on the Cumberland Valley main line, to Mont Alto. It was opened for business that year for about ten miles of its length. Some six years later it was extended eighteen miles to Waynesboro, and furnished the first railroad outlet from that town.
The original idea of Stevens of connecting the Pennsyl- vania railroads with the Baltimore and Ohio through the gap in the South Mountain was, as before stated, an im- practicable one as a whole, but not so far as using the gap as a railway entrance. Long years afterwards it was util- ized by the building of the Baltimore and Cumberland Val- ley railroad, which connected with the Western Maryland railroad system at a point on the west slope of the Blue Ridge. This line gave Waynesboro further railroad facilities, and connected the town more directly with Chambersburg, and gave it an outlet through the old-time pass in the mountain to Baltimore.
Act of Assembly, 1836. P. L., p. 850.
Mont Alto railroad company. 1872.
Šīs.
Baltimore and Cumberland Valley railroad.
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IN WAR TIMES .- Part I.
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Historical epochs marked by war.
WHEN OUR FOREFATHERS FOUGHT FOR HOME AND COUNTRY. 1 T is true of every nation, whether of the old world or of the new, that the principal epochs of its history have been marked by wars. It has been natural. therefore, and. perhaps. has proved an easier task for the historian to make his periods of recountal co-incident with and largely dependent for interest upon the periods of organized strife. 1
Other factors.
The result of this tendency is apparent in a marked de- gree in the published narratives, both local and general. which present the story of the past in American settle- ments, and particularly in Pennsylvania. Thus, through "the pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war" un- due ambiton has been made virtue, and the agents and factors in the equally important problems relating to the advance of civilization and arising in times of peace have been sometimes ingloriously forgotten, and concerning the results of activity in the premises history is mute.
A partial departure from custom.
In the undertaking in hand, the writer here avows it to have been his purpose from the outset to depart some- what widely from the beaten path of the past. and not to give undue prominence to the periods of warfare and their incidents which seem to have chiefly engaged the atten- tion of writers earlier interested in the work of compiling the history of the Cumberland Valley. Whilst this deter- mination will be adhered to, it will. nevertheless, be neces- sary to give some account, concise as possible, of the periods of warfare which befell, and in which the people of the Cumberland Valley were at all times interested. and in which many were engaged.
INDIAN OUT- RAGES AND SET- TLERS' DEFENSE.
During the period covering a full score of years, when the Indian warriors roamed at will among the defenseless
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frontier settlements, marking their paths with fire and CHAPTER VIII. blood, while the western border of the then Cumberland county was terribly scourged. the southern and southeast- ern portions of the county were by no means exempt from their share of suffering.
There are many and romantic traditions of the sad ex- periences of the settlers at the hands of this treacherous and blood-thirsty foe. Men, women and children were butchered in cold blood, and. worse, were carried into hopeless captivity, and made to endure cruelties and tor- tures, at the mere recital of which the mind revolts. The narratives of some of these experiences, gathered from authentic sources, are as prolific of horrible detail as the chronicle of barbaric peoples before the dawn of civiliza- tion, and speak to us in awesome language of the fearful sacrifices which our forebears were compelled to make before it was possible for this beautiful valley "to blossom and bloom like the rose," and to be fit for enjoyment in the peace and happiness of the present day.
The causes which brought about the in- flamed condition of the savage mind within the . borders of Pennsylvania, and the inert and selfish policy which at the outset temporized with the dan- ger and by daily inaction fostered the rapidly grow- ing evil, are themes full of interest, but having no place in this narrative. In the individual and or- ganized efforts which were made to defend against AT PEACE. and punish these treach- eries, the settlers of the . Cumberland Valley acquitted
Sacrifices of the past.
Loudon's Narrative. Pritz's Border Life.
An evil fostered by inertness.
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themselves like men, at times with little or no assistance from the Government.
The story of local outrages.
To localize the story of these Indian outrages and fit the tale to the particular section of the valley which now claims attention is not to be thought of. but so far as vague and uncertain traditions and the suggestions of written narrative will furnish facts concerning one or two local happenings, they will be given.
1755. 1763-1764.
The particular periods when the Cumberland Valley. in common with the other frontier settlements, suffered most from Indian outrages were just after the defeat of General Braddock, and immediately succeeding the out- break of the so-called Pontiac war.
In the Waynesboro locality.
As has been before stated, the Waynesboro locality, al- beit the South Mountain furnished safe hiding-places for the savage. did not so frequently suffer from their mur- derous incursions as the more exposed parts of the valley to the westward and northward, yet the recorded reports, meager as they are, and the personal narratives of mur- ders and outrages committed during the terrible years which measured up the decade following Braddock's de- feat, refer to this locality in entries like the following :
Recorded outrages.
1756, Aug. 27. July 9, 1757.
"The Indians took one person from the South Moun- tain."
"Trooper Wilson's son killed at Antietam creek."
Loudon's Narrative.
"I presume this," says the narrator, John McCullough, "tohave been the man that I mentioned Ben Dickson shot, and shaked his scalp at his father when he was creeping up to shoot a deer." The narrator's complete story of this oc- currence is as follows: "I have often heard Mus-sooh- whese, or Ben Dickson, relate that he had been around murdering, but was not satisfied with what he had done. because one white man had outrun him and made his escape, notwithstanding he had shot at him when he was jumping over a fence not more than four or five steps
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