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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_63-0016 Enlarge and print image (5M) |
| January 10, 1920—Page 8 THE JEFFERSONIAN, TOWSON, MARYLAND. LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE SWEET AIR. Mr. Jacob Reuter left last Sunday for Connecticut, where he will spend several months with his brother, Mr. John Reuter. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jackson, cf Washington, D. C, spent several days the p£.s; week with their respective; paints. Mr. Carl Koerner left last Tuesday for the University Hospital, Baltimore, where he will submit to an operacion for stomach trouble. At the annual election of the Sweet Air Building and Loan Association, Mr. Lcuis Hilgartner was elected a director in place of Mr. C. Howard Marshall, who declined to serve. At the meeting of the Community Improvement Association on Wednesday evening, the following officers \v-u*e elected for the coming year: President, Mr. G. Seiler; vice-president, William H. Burk; secretary, Thomas Burk; treasurer, Eugene Pocock. Mrs. Robert D. Mosner and daughter, Henrietta, have returned to their ,'iome in Govans, after spending the holidays at the home of her father, Mr. J. C. Burk. It is sincerely hoped that the new Road Supervisor of our district will give- more attention to the roads in this vicinity than his predecessor. -----------O----------- CEDAR GROVE. At the sale of the personal effects of Mrs. Emily Mays on Saturday last, good prices were obtained. The old homestead is now vacant, Miss Georgia Mays having moved to Baltimore. Most of the people of this section, who ar,e fortunate enough to own an ice house have filled them with a fine quality of ice. Those who have not done so would be wise to "make hay while the sun shines." The weather .is one of the uncertain things of this earthly life. Ice is not merely a luxury, but is absolutely necessary in some cases and ofttimes is hard to cb'ain in rural sections. Mr. A. Bernard Foster snent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. J. D. Beck-ley and family, of Falls road. Master Vernon Foster, who has been quite ill. is recovering under the oai?e of Dr. Hyde. Mr. Wesley Royston is visiting his daug-hter, Mrs. Addison Foster. -----------0----------- HARRISONVILLE. The following officers were elected at Ward's Sunday school: Superintendent. Albert Ferrell; assistant. George Berry; treasurer. William Mielke. The Roslyn Sunshine Society met at the home of Mrs. Henry Clagett, of Randallstown. on Thursday and elected officers for the year. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Davies. of Ten Hills, entertained at dinner Mr. Walter O'Dell and family, Mr. C. Herbert Bower and family. Miss Florence O'Dell, Miss A. Lue O'Dell. of Holbrook, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur O'Dell and sons, of Randallstown. Mr. Louis Romoses. of Baltimore, and Mr. Luke and Mr. Berryman, of Baltimore, saner several selections at Ward's M. E. Chapel on Sunday last. -----------O-----------' SHANE. The Ladies' Aid Society met at the home of Mrs. T. M. McGinnis on Wednesday night. Mrs. Mary A. Edie is spending some time with her daughter, Mrs. Harry Kinhart, of York. Mr. S. S. Cooper is very ill at this writing. Mr. Owen Trout and family are spending some time with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Trout. The farmers of this vicinity are busy filling their ice houses. Shane school opened last Monday after being closed for some time. -----------o----------- SHAMBURG. The Patrons' Club of Kidd's School held a regular meeting last Friday evening. .Sunday school at 2 o'clock tomorrow. Miss Mary Carr has returned to York, Pa., after having spent the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carr. Mr. and Mrs. Clay Wilhelm entertained at dinner last Sunday. Owing to the recent cold weather, ice is plentiful and the farmers are filling their icehouses. Mr. Harry McCullough has secured employment in Baltimore. -----------:---------------O-------------------------'¦ GLBJf ARM. Miss May Burton, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Schneider, of Fallston, for several weks, has returned to her home in Greenwood. A house party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Burton, on New Year's night, when they entertained quite a number of their friends. Miss Helen Mumma, of Fork, spent Wednesday of last week with Miss, Dorothy Chamings, of this place. ' Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Bauer and little son. Vernon, spent the Christmas holidays with friends in Glen Arm. I-----------0----------- RELAY. after spending the holidays with his sister, at La Rue, Pa. Miss Mollie Wells has returned to Baltimore, after spending a week with her parents. Mrs. Flora Baker and Mrs. G. H. Zouck spent several days last week in Baltimore. _i_-------O----------- NORTH BRANCH. Mr. John Scott and little daughter, Margaret, spent Christmas in Virginia. Mrs. J. Donthit and son, Robert, spent Sunday in Baltimore. Mrs. M. D. Scott visited Mrs. L. M. Koiner last Saturday. Mrs. John Williams was shopping in Baltimore last week. ------------O----------- SPARROWS POINT. An installation banquet was held last Wednesday night by Patapsco Lodge ot Masons, of Sparrows Point, in Casino Hall. Covers were laid for 160. Dr. W. A. Montell, of Baltimore, was the guest of honor and the orator. Joseph T. Blair was toastmaster. W. E. Underwood is worshipful master of the lodge. TOWSON AT A GLANCE The Relay Presbyterian Aid Society was entertained at the hime of Mrs. Monroe Mitchell, on Friday evening, January 2. The Relay M. E. Church and the Relay Presbyterian Church are holding a joint revival service for two weeks. The Memorial Fund Committee will hold a subscription card narty at the Relay Fire House on Friday evening next. Admission 50 cents. Tables reserved through Mrs. C. E. Johnson. Refreshments to be sold after the card party. -----------o----------- MOUNT ETNA. The _cold weather of the past week has been in favor of those putting away ice. No scarcity of icecream next summer. Mr. George Lawson has returned (Continued from Page 1.) —Judging from the number of youngsters with ice skates slung over their shoulders, "gliding" must have been excellent the fore part of this week. —Accommodations at the county-seat are very scarce. It is said that Hotel Towson could not promise quarters for a jury if "tied up" on a case over night. —A miscellaneous shower was given Miss Nellie Schuler, at the home of Miss Isabelle Dunphy, on Monday evening last, consisting of linens, pots, pans, dishes, etc. —The offices of the C. & P. Telephone Company, which have been maintained here for some years, will be removed to Baltimore city in the very near future. —"When it comes to going out on a strike the big clock in front of The Towson National Bank "gets the biscuit," for it has refused to "strike" for a couple of days. —County Agent J. F. Hudson, who has been confined to his home with a sprained back, "hobbled" to the Towson National Bank on Wednesday last to attend the directors meeting there. —At the Southern Hotel, Baltimore, on Tuesday evening last, a dinner was given former State's Attorney George Hartman by some of his friends, and at the same time he was presented with a gold watch. —Mr. Eldridge E. Henderson, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Mrs. Rosella Henderson Jones, of Washington, spent a few days in Towson to attend the funeral of their mother, Mrs. Mary L. Henderson. —Owing to the illness of one of the important witnesses, the trial of Isaiah Fountain, removed here from Talbott county, will not be tried as scheduled on Monday, but will be postponed indefinitely. —Reports reaching the office of Mr. James C. L. Anderson here, supervisor of the census for the Second Congressional District, show that Mr. John P. Gallagher, of Woodstock College, was the first enumerator to complete his work. —Rev. and Mrs. Richard G. Koontz were among those who attended the sixty-sixth anniversary of the birth ol Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. Benson, of Marble Hill, near Cockeysville, on Tuesday last. Mrs. Koontz is their daughter. —The Women's Christian Temperance Union will hold a prayer and praise meeting in Trinity Church here, on Friday evening next, at 8 o'clock. The function will be held in grateful acknowledgment of the victory for National Constitutional Prohibition. —The State of Maryland has purchased from Colonel and Mrs. Clinton L. Riggs, 15 acres of land in the Patapsco Valley, according to a deed filed in the Clerk's office here this week. The property will be used by the State Board of Forestry. —Death claimed one of our old and respected residents on Tuesday last, Mr. Henry Gerstmyer, aged 74 years. He is survived by his widow and three sons, Rev. Henry L. Gerstmyer, Elmer C. Gerstmyer, Robert B. Gerstmyer and two daughttrs, Mrs. Harry F. Phipps and Mrs. F. D. Dollenberg. —Patrolman Schmidt, in true hero style, rescued a negro, when his home caught fire one day last week and hadn't it been for the fact that he came into the "Jeff" office last Friday night dripping wet, and had to explain, no one would have been the wiser, for he was rather modest about the affair. —It is strange, that if some of the young men of the town must shoot The Towson National Bank Oldest and Strongest Bank in Baltimore County. The Bank on the Court House Square with the Big Town Clock Capital, $50,000 Surplus and Piofits, Over $100,000 Our Motto: STRENGTH-SECURITY--SERVICE A Good Bank To JDo Business With Our Monthly Balance of your bank book and check-in account will prove of the very greatest value to your business, regardless of the character of that business. Business men find that this service alone from a well-managed commercial bank is indispensable. It enables you to check up your receipts and expen-______________________________ ditures accurately. Officers DUANE H. RICE, President W. CLARENCE CRAUMER, ERNEST C. HATCH, Cashier Vice-President MARTIN R. SCHUSTER. Assistant Cat Mer Directors Duane H. Rice J. Frank Hudson Ernest C. Hatch Duncan S. Black Lewis M. Bacon Albert S. Cook Wilton Greenway N. Bosley Merryman, Jr Martin J. O'Hara Judge Frank I. Duncan John S. Biddison craps, that they do not go to some secluded spot and not make an exhibition of themselves in the vestibule of one of the stores on one of the most prominent corners. Although the thermometer registered nearly zero on Sunday lastv the "sport" continued uninterruptedly for hours. —Baltimore county now has a brand new State's Attorney, who made his advent into office with the new year, 1920, and it is H. Courtenay Jenifer. Mr. Jenifer took the oath of office in the Circuit Court here, before Judge Frank I. Duncan, and gave bond for $10,000. The trial of the criminal docket will begin on Monday next. —The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone is the latest public service corporation to be found suffering with raise-the-rate-itis, for it has petitioned the Public Service Commission to allow the rate maintained while the company was under government control to continue. Telephone service in Towson is. good, but when it comes to securing numbers through city exchanges, ye gods! don't it try one's patience. —When it comes to entertaining an orphan asylum—one house-wife at the county-seat, who resides in a "flat" should receive the distinguished service medal. One day this week a mother, seven children, grandmother, an aunt and her two children "piled into" the home of the lady in question and actually took possession. So great was the gathering that to change one's mind it was necessary to go out into the hall. —Captain William P. Cole, Jr., was toastmaster at the banquet of the Towson Lodge of Odd Fellows' held in the basement of the Towson M. P. Church on Thursday night last. The affair was to celebrate the 68th anniversary of the Lodge. Mr. James E. Dunphy, who celebrated at the same time his 50the year as an Odd Fellow, made an address, as did Judge Frank I. Duncan, State's Attorney H. C. Jenifer and Noble Grand of the Lodge, Charles W. Held. —Mr. Henry Gerstmyer, after a briet illness, passed away quietly and peacefully at his residence on East Joppa road, Towson, Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, it being his wife's birthday. He was in his 74th year. Mr. Gerstmyer moved to Towson twenty-seven years ago. He had been in the baking business for many years prior to his coming to Towson. The deceased was an Elder in the Lutheran Church of the Holy Comforter, of Govans. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock from his late residence, conducted by his own pastor, the Rev W. A. Wade. Interment was made in the family lot in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, his nephews acting as pallbearers. The floral designs were numerous. He is survived by his widow and the following children: Rev. H. L. Gerstmyer, of Newville, Pa.; Mrs. H. F. Phipps, Mrs. F. D. Dollenberg, Jr.. Robert B. and' Elmer C. Gerstmyer, of Towson; also by eleven grandchildren. Many of the radicals taken in the raids of the past few days will be concentrated" at Camp Upton, N. Y. "UNCLE JAKE" AIN'T MUCH (Continued from Page 1.) durn sure whether ter operate er blast, an' bein' in doubt called in Ol' Hickory Hardjaw, ther horse doctor, te„- help him out an' hie too, *f sech er thing could be done. Ye Godsl 'Tain't no use arguin', when er feller's out er luck, he's out, by heck, take fer instance, little Smithy what jerks soda water at ther Court Drug Store in Towsontown, when he ain't scrubbin' up ther floor an' push-in' ther broom, ther poor simp's got his mouth all harnessed up with gold bands an' silver wire, what some yap, got er shingle out that he's er dentist, but what's by reality, er black-smithy jammed an' rammed in, as er consequence, ther poor little critter's been 'xistin' off nothin' but soup fer er couple dozen weeks, an' come nigh 'bout losin' his life when he was takin' er bath ther other night, by makin' er misstep an' fallin' down ther waste pipe. Hadn't it been fer his brother Francis Chassis Smith, what's jest been kicked out o' ther Marines with er honorary discharge, he'd gone plum through ter ther river an' from there, ye gods! yer Uncle Jake don't know where. Holy Moses! Why them yaps, what's members er ther Fashion Plate Club in Towsontown persist in hangin' 'round one er ther elite drug stores, is er question what ain't so durn intricate fer yer Uncle Jake ter dig out, 'cause they's' er woman in ther case, an' er blonde at that, with bashful baby ways an' er fairly good looker. Ther ancient an' honorable "Bos" Hoffman an' ther 'steemed "Otts" German is goin' ter, 'cordin' ter reports flght er doodle fer ther said female woman's mit, ther 'fair will be staged in ther Court House Park at Towsontown, an' no bricks'will be erlowed, an' er 'course kickin' ain't goin' ter be in it neither, but ther yap what bites ther biggest chunk out er ther other's face '11 win, an' be 'warded ther "double cross." Caesar's Ghost! Yer Uncle Jake's jest stumbled on something in er crock what look's like whiskey, what smells like whiskey an' wait er minute, by golly day it is whiskey, nuff sed! No more gibberin' terday. 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All units are arranged so as to work in perfect harmony, and no part performs more than the function for which it was originally intended. This is the basic essential which has made the Maccar the super-truck of today. I B B B B B B B B S B B B B B B B B I e rsj^^JSLF^JSsjsjTSJsrsjsjsfSJSJSJSfSfsrsjsjsjis We Also Handle THE WESTCOTT, The Lighter Six, The Car With A Longer Life. MACCAR MOTOR TRUCK CO. JAMES RITTENHOUSE, Jr., Sales Mgr. 1010 W. North Avenue, Cor. Madison Avenue Phone, Madison 3639 BALTIMORE, MD. r=Jr=Jn= B B B B II B B B B B B B B B B B B I I 11 1 B B B B B B B 1 1 1 I 1 B s LEGISLATURE CONVENES (Continued from Page 1.) after which both houses adjourned until Tuesday next. Every indication points to the fact that John M. Dennis, of Lutherville, Baltimore county, will be elected State Treasurer. Mr. Dennis held the position prior to the Republican's getting control of the House and Senate, and made aa excellent record. The Baltimore L'ounty Delegation, headed by State Senator David G. Mcintosh, were among the first arrivals at "the ancient city on the Severn." There is no doubt but that a great many bills pertaining to local legislation for Baltimore county will be brought before the 1920 Legislature by the delegates from Maryland's greatest county, and when they are introduced as well as the disposition of them will be set forth in the columns of The Jeffer-sonian. THAT'S DIFFERENT. Weather Sharp—I don't believe we are going to have any more severe frosts this season. Actor—Have you been trying anything on the road lately? HUMANE PRECAUTION. "Why, did young Spifflins have such difficulty in getting an auto license?" "Because somebody told how he was going around boasting of being such a lady-killer." ACCURATE DEFINITION. "What's an exigency, pa?" "An exigency—oh, an exigency is one of those places in the theatres where they put a red light, to tell you where to go out." 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