20 years ago - Along with the usual agendas and sign-in sheets, Saturday’s Recycling Forum at Hillcrest Elementary School had an unusual greeting for visitors: boxes and bags of recyclable glass, aluminum and newspapers. The message was clear. Recycling is easy, says the Sierra Club.

50 years ago - A $5,000 planning fund for new dormitories has been requested from the State Planning Department by the Maryland School for the Deaf, it was announced at the semi-annual meeting of the Board of Visitors Thursday. Governor J. Millard Tawes, took the occasion yesterday to also make his first visit to the school since his inauguration.

All advance preparations for handling Christmas mail have been made, Postmaster James A. Grove of the local Post Office said today. An extra building for handling all incoming parcel post packages has been secured and report notices have been issued to extra employees hired to handle the Christmas mail.

100 years ago - Thursday morning about 11.45 the ten-year-old son of Mrs. Helen Hardagan, Harry Francis Hardagan, was the victim of a fatal accident on Frederick street, Emmitsburg, opposite the home of Mr. George V. Lingg. The lad tried to get on the “lazy board” of a heavy four-horse wagon driven by John C. Eyler, and in his efforts slipped under the wheel and was so seriously hurt that he died fifteen minutes later.

Two large hogs which disappeared from the pen of Buck Fraley, at Catoctin Furnace, were found at the bottom of a shaft on the Furnace property, covered with three or four feet of ground.