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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_63-0085 Enlarge and print image (6M) |
| ONE OF THE LARGEST INDUSTRIES IN THE STATE IS LOCATED AT TOWSON, THE COUNTY-SEAT OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, IT IS THE PLANT OF THE BLACK & DECKER MANUFACTURING COMPAH?« IT WILL PAY YOU TO PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS THE JEFFERSONIAN if ITH THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE ft Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religions or political. —Jefferson. TOL. IX. No. 13 "It Covers The Community Like The Dew" TOWSON, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1920 MARYLAND JOURNAL. ESTABLISHED 18SB { CONSOLIDATED 1915 BALTIMORE CO. DEMOCRAT ESTAB. 18851 WITH THE JEFFERSONIAN. SURVEY PREPARED Superintendent 0! Schools Ootlioes What Is Needed lo New At the request of the Baltimore County School Board, Prof. Albert S. Cook, Superintendent of Schools, has prepared a survey of the most pressing needs for school buildings in the county, the estimated cost of which he Axes at from $500,000 to $700,000. During- the war very little was expended on school buildings but the .situation is now such that something must be done at once to meet it, if the children of the county are to receive the public education which is', their due. Last year the tax rate for school purposes in Baltimore county was 37 cents—34 cents for maintenance and 3 cents for school buildings. This year the School Board is asking for a levy of 65 cents—40 cents for maintenance and 25 cents for new buildings. While -this rate is in excess, of any other previously levied in the county, it would seem to be unavoidable in order to meet the pressing needs of the day—increased teachers' salaries and new buildings. In Washington county, the next to Baltimore in wealth and population, the tax levy at present for school purposes is 76 cents—11 oent^ more than the levy requested by the Baltimore County School Board for 1920—and other counties in the State have, on account of the abnormal conditions, been obliged to increase their levies for school purposes in order to keep up the standard of public education. Prof. Cook's survey of the situation is so clear and comprehensive, and the Subject is of such importance to the people of Baltimore county, that The Jeffersonian takes pleasure in publishing it herewith, in full: Towson, Md., January 19, 1920. •To the Board of Education of Baltimore I County. Towson, Maryland. GENTLEMEN: In accordance with your Instructions, I have made a survey of the most press-in1; needs for school buildings in the County, with the estimated minimum and maximum costs, and the report is attached hereto; costs are changing so rapidly, however, that the maximum estimate may be the minimum requirement before the buildings are underway. Owing to the war, no new substantial buildings were erected in the past four years in the present County limits. As you know, we have attempted to meet the situation, as have' most other municipalities, by erecting temporary annexes and portable buildings, which, at best, are a makeshift. By doing this, we have been able to house practically all of the children without placing them on part time; but this has merely postponed, and not solved the building problem. Its solution is now up. to the Cctltluaoi e councy. There are only two ways to secure the large sum of money needed, (500,-000.00 to $700,000.00): 1. By a large in-(Continued on Page 6, Col. 1.) NEW GAME PRESERVE State Game Warden Will Use 4000 Acres Of City Property At Locft Raven. The Baltimore City Water Board, which controls the city's property at Loch Raven, this county, gave permission on Wednesday last to State Game Warden LeCompte to use the Gunpowder watersheds property for the propagation of birds and game. There are about 4000 acres of land which the city owns at Loch Raven, which is ideal for the raising of game. An assistant game warden will be placed on the property and the entirety fenced in. Persons with fire arms or dogs will not be allowed on the premises, which will be known as The Loch Raven Government Game Preserve. NEW PRECINCT CREATED ----------------_g--------------------------------------- WILL RESIGN'AS ACTIVE HEAD OF INSTITUTION APRIL 1ST. Will Be Known As Third Precinct Of The Second Election District. A new election precinct was createfd for Baltimore county on Wednesday last by the Board of Election Supervisors and will be known as the Third Precinct of the Second District, and Granite was selected as the new polling place. For years the voters of this section have been going to Harrisonville to vote. The new precinct was taken from the First Precinct and will have 385 voters, while it will leave 339 in the First Precinct from which it was taken. REUNION Dr. Edward N. Brush, who has been the Superintendent of the Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital, South Towson, ever since its creation many years ago, will resign as the active head on. April 1st, at which time Dr. Ross Chapman, who is now associated with a hospital in Washington, will assume the super-intendency. Dr. Brush will remain in an advising capacity. CRIMINAL DOCKET MARCH 29 42 Cases To Be Tried During March Term Of The Circuit Court. The Criminal Docket for the March term of the Circuit Court of Baltimore County has been prepared by State's Attorney H. Courtenay Jenifer and contains 42 cases in all. The hearing of the cases will begin on March 29 and conclude on April 1. The Docket contains no murder case*. iHiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiuiiinniiiiiiiiiHOiiiiiuiiiininiimniit: I HOWDY DO j ijiiiiHiiiiiiBMiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiHiiiiaiiiiiiiiminiiiiiiiiiiiinimiiiiiiiitIi $750,000 THE AMOUNT City Will Pay County This Sum For Property Taken Over Under Annexation. Baltimore county will receive from Baltimore city $750,000 for the schools, fire houses, police stations, fire engines and other property taken over under the annexation act. The County Commissioners first asked $1,451,039.82 for the property, 36 pieces in all, they dropped to $1,273,442.66 when the city refused to consider the first figures and then offered it at $883,000. Mayor Broening and his city solicitor balked again, finally the city offered $728,000 and later raised the amount to $750,000. Conferences were held by the arbitrators, consisting of Judge James Mc-Trippe. President of the City Appeal Tax Court, Henry G. Shirley, representing Baltimore county and former City-Comptroller James F. Thrift. Under the terms of the annexation act the city is allowed to pay for the property in 10 annual installments. An appropriation of $150,000 is available. $100,000 having been set aside by the former administration and $50,000 by the Broening administration. I guess I'll join the navy And try a sailor to be, I think it'll make me a singer, It's so easy to reach high sea. Contributed by L. S., Owings Mills YJ3 GODS! GIVE THE PROOFREADER THE DEVIL! WHERE'S THE COMPOSITOR'S S? AlLentown Taction Corporation should iiave the necessary equipment to start weeping with the beginning of snowfall. —"Snatched" from the columns of an Allentown, Pa., newspaper. -----*— But, If So, How Could It Be Empty? « -.POSTAL. INSPECTOR BE- : : L.IEVES BANDIT ENTERED : : MAIL. CAR IN EMPTY SACK : —Headline "lamped" in a San Francisco 'newspaper. HELP .MIKE, I'M SEEING GREEN ELEPHANTS! The police after rounding up a lot of craps shooters in Des Moines, surrounded a chicken house, broke in and found two schools and three boys huddled in a corner, extremely frightened. —"Yanked" from a Des Moines, Iowa, newspaper. Some Shot! : SHOT THAT HITS WOMAN : SENDS NEGRO TO . : PENITENTIARY. —Headline "opticed" in a Newark, N. J., newspaper. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge; but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.—Proverbs xv: 7. CONCEAL THEIR AGE Fair Sex Hated To Give Age To Census Enumerators In County. While the complete tabulation of the recent census in Baltimore county has not as yet been figured up, Uncle Sam may and may not have some women's ages correct, for a great many of the enumerators made known the fact that they had considerable difficulty in ascertaining the ages of some«and judging from their appearances, some failed t'> give their correct age, as one put it "their looks were deceiving. One of the enumerators asked a certain woman who looked to be about 69 how old s/he was, the reply came back prompt and a bit sarcasticly that she was just 48 and not one day older. The mere man standing there with pad and pencil had sworn to gather only facts for the official archives of the' Census Bureau at Washington and his conscience would not permit him to put down the woman's age as she gave it. So he put the question again, explaining that the information was an important Government matter. "Forty-eight years old, and don't you dare put it down any other way," was, the uncompromising reply. The enumerator became stern. He warned the woman that all the prosecuting machinery of the Government might be turned to her pursuit and punishment for' endeavoring to appear younger in the official records than she was. His harangue had its effect. "Well," she said, "I'll tell you. I really am 66 years old, but-if you tell my correct age to that woman next door—the gossipy one to the right—I'll break this chair over your head." And she looked behind her into the hall pointing to a heavy combination chair and hallrack. "And your husband's age?" the census taker asked. The woman blushed. All signs of obstinacy had left her face. She started to speak, hesitated, started again, and in a voice hardly audible answered. "He's only 31 years old. That's why I don't want that woman next door to know how old I am." The enumerator put down the information and vanished. COR/?£SP0NJ>eNc£ jynnrBi&s Stc««/0N--£>F <% THE e@Be«ow Located in the greatest agricultural district of Baltimore County, The White Hall National Bank, like the Bank of Scotland, is a perpetual memorial to the thrifty residents of the community. We want those not numbered among our large army of depositors to enlist under the savings banner and let their money grow with The White Hall National Bank WHITE HALL, MD. RELAY. The Relay Educational Society held its regular meeting on Tuesday, March 16. The topic under discussion was the new school building. Miss Louise Crammack, of Dallas, Texas, has returned to her home after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Herold. Mrs. R. C .Clarke, who has been very ill, is improving. The Thursday afternoon Club met at the home of Mrs. Ross Hosmer, of St. Denis. -------------0------------- SHAMBLIRG. Uncle Jake Tells Of First Gathering Of The Ancient Order Of Nuts. Holy Moses! St. Patrick's Day was er gol durn good one an' jest as yer Uncle Jake sed, Ol' ,Poet Wilson ,er ther Onion-News 'ud come out, with ther first signs 0' spring, and ter prove what yer Uncle Jake sez is right, Ol' Brother Wilson sent ter ther Mayor's office at Gobbler's, Knob er piece er poetry ground out er o' meat grinder. How ther ancient an' honorable poet kin find time between stickin' type at ther Onion office is er problem tqo durn intricate fer yer Uncle Jake ter dig out, but notwithstandin' ther fact that he's got Uncle Jimmy Dunphy hollerin' at him all day, ther ancient an' honorable Keagy spittin' an' cussin' 'bout him, an' Paris Green Ruby articulatin' on one er them liner-type contrapshuns, he gits by with it some gol durn way an' how he kin git every line ter gee-horses with ther other, must er taken him er couple dozen years at er institute, ter master algebraical matter an' geometrical questions, not ter say ther other things what he had ter cram in his gol durn ol' nut. Why Ol' Poet Wilson don't write verses fer comic songs, is due ter ther fact that Towsontown is er durn long way from New York town an' that some er them yaps up there has overlooked Towson-town's poets' brains an' erbility. Yer Uncle Jake heard that Brother Wilson first learnt singsong poetry when he went ter Sunday school, er couple hundred dozen years ergo an' ther thing took jest like er good vaccination an' like it, stuck ter him until now an' bein's that his gol durn system is jest full er rhymes, he's got ter git it out some way an' when there ain't no other victim he grabs yer Uncle Jake. His latest humdinger is 'titled "Who Kicked Ther Cook?" an* yer she goes: Uncle Jake, do you live in this town? And on profiteering do you frown; Well, a man came here from Baltimore, And made lots of merchants very sore. He started up a fine little store, And people flocked there by the score; i looked for old Tin, To go in and buy a gteSZTiitg*steak. Uncle Jake may have money to burni And eating steak is not his turn, He likes the hind legs of a frog, Or the best cut of a hog. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 3.) iicjiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiifiiuiiiiniiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiicjiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiici FIFTY YEARS AGO. I IN BALTIMORE COUNTY niiiHiiiiiuniiiiuiiMiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiciniiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiicii (Prom Old County Newspapers.) The County Commissioners made an inspection of the roads in the lower end of the county on Tuesday last, with a view to rectifying some bad- conditions. BOUT TIME HE WAS COMING DOWN. L REPORT OUT Reads Engineer Covers In Oetal All Matters Pertaining To The County's Roads. - The annual report of William G. Su-cro, the Baltimore County Roads Engineer, has been submitted to the County Commissioners. report covers in detail all matte's pertaining to county roads and bridges for the calendar year 1919, and has been printed in. pamphlet form, with 61 pages In the "Concise Statement," to be found on page 5 of the pamphlet, it appears that there are 902.4 miles of county roads, and that during the year 1919 a total sum of $492,417.32 was expended for construction and maintenance, made up as follows: Labor..................$ 81,260,89 Material ................ 383,361,14 Miscellaneous .......... 27,795.29 Total...............$492,417.32 In a general statement appended t,o his report Mr. Sucro shows that during the year 1919, the county was relieved of the maintenance of 9 miles of roads, as follows: Paper Mill Road, 2.4 miles; Hanover Pike, 2 miles; York Road 2 (Continued on Page 8, Col. 4.) HERRING & MACKEREL At the lowest prices. M. A. SHEALY, Towsontown, Md. (Advertisement.) The Towsontown Volunteer Fire Brigade wag'ealled out Thursday night, for a fire „in the "bottom," which resulted in-no serious damage. We are glad to hear that there is to be a "Good Roads Meeting" held at Eklo this week, and hope that good results may be accomplished, for the roads in this section have never been in worse condition than at .present. Last Sunday our minister, Rev. J. H. Lehman, was obliged to leave his machine in a mud-hole at some distance from the church, and walk the rest of the way in order to fill his appointment. Sunday school at 2 o'clock next Sunday afternoon. Mr. Charles Carr is suffering with catarrh of the hand. The family of Mr. Harry Kelbaugh is ill with flu. Mr. Harry Tracey has moved to his new farm near Salem. (Continued on Page 2.) HEADQUARTERS AT TOWSON New Fire Alarm Equipment Will Be Placed In Engine House Here. After a complete survey for extending the fire alarm system of the county, Philip G. Priester, head of the Baltimore County Fire Department, reported to the County Commissioners this week as to the cost of connecting all engine houses up with the apparatus that will be installed in the Towson Engine House, which will include huge batteries, the necessary switchboard and appliances for recording all alarms. While the recommendations of the Fire Chief have not been made known, i it is stated that he feels the necessity i of additional Engine Houses, men and apparatus. A complete book of the war. The only, one published with illustrations. NASH & COMPANY, Boston, Mass. (Advertisement.) Tuesday was George Washington's birthday and the Court House officials and clerks took a holiday. Powers of the Porto Rican legislature to appropriate money for public purposes and to. increase the bonded debt of the island would be extended under a bill passed by the House and sent to the Senate. jj Subscription bills are attached to this Issue of The Jefferson Inn of all those who are In arrears and it is to he hoped they will not. be thrown into the lire and no attention paid to them, for if such is the case and the $1.50 due us is not received within seven days the names of all subscribers who have neglected to pay their subscription will be taken off our mailing lists and the account placed into the hands of a regular subscription collection agencies hands, who will proceed to collect as they see lit. The shortage of newsprint paper becomes more acute as each day rolls by, and if It wasn't for the fact that The Jeffersonian bought when it did, and that it has a supply on hand to last about one year, it would be in a rather delicate predicanient, but notwithstanding that it has a year's supply on hand, there must be no waste, therefore every paper which leaves our plant must be paid for. The Jeffersonian is not taking this step of persistency because it wants to, but simply because there is no other alternative. —The Board of Election Supervisors met on Wednesday lasyt. —Miss Addie May Flayhart is visiting relatives in York, Pa. —Miss Ada Parks is spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rutter. —Mr. Robert Parks has provided himself with a new Maxwell touring car. —A workman on the new ice plant here was severely injured one day this week. —Mrs. C. W. E. Treadwell left this week to join her husband in Norfolk, Virginia. —Father Philip H. Sheridan has provided himself with a new Oakland closed car. —Little Kenneth Guthrie, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Guthrie, Jr., is on the sick list. —On April 1st the fare on the Tow-son-Cockeysiville Electric Line will be 20 cents each way. —Mrs. Martin Schuster, wtio has been quite ill at her apartment in the Clar-Mar. is. convalescing. (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1.) SNAPSHOT OF NEWS Current Events lo Brief Paragraphs From Many Sections Bearing On Various Subjects. A landslide in the Panama Canal has closed the waterway to deep draught vessels. Ja.n Christian Smuts, the premier, was a successful candidate for the House of Assembly. Independent Socialists and Communists met at Manheim and decided to proclaim a Soviet government. The second Schleswig zone, including the important port of Feinsburg, voted to remain German. The Brazilian Goernment has conceded a credit of $25,000,000 to Italy for the purchase in Brazil of various food products. A general strike of all railway employees and all classes of labor in the Chinese Eastern Railway zone in Manchuria was reported. Other marine workers in New York are likely to join in the strike of the longshoremen, as they intend to stek increases in wages of 10 to 15 per cent. A questionnaire to be submitted to all candidates for the presidency was completed by the National Board of Farm Organizations. In an effort to stabilize the crude od market, important independent producing and refining interests in Western Pennsylvania have organized a corporation with a capital of $1,000,000. Eamonn De Valera, "President of the Irish Republic," reviewed New York's St. Patrick's day parade. Protestant friends of Irish freedom and turbanned Hindusi were in the line. Representatives from eleven states at a meeting in Chicago planned to organize a campaign in the Middle Western States for Hoover for the Republican presidential nomination. The hard coal miners and operators continued their conferences in New York, the operators pointing out the effect of fuel oil and coke competition on the market. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 4.) POLICE RUSH TO SCENE To Find Bandit At County Distillery A Peaceful Auto Truck Driver. Like a flash out of a gun, Marshal of Police Carroll Stansbury, of the County Department, was out of bed and into' his clothes late Monday night, an alarm which came.over the telephon*" announced that the Gwynnbrook Distillery, near Owings Mills, this county, had been raided, not only did the Marshal "beat it" to the scene of disturbance, but city and county police, intermingled with a few prohibition enforcement officers scampered to Owings Mills by the Ford, bicycle, taxicab and regular automobile route. The wild report which spread over the surrounding country like "wild fire" had it that the distillery was in possession of the "liquor hands," who after overpowering the watchman and a revenue officer, had made off with many barrels of "amber fluid," "joy water," "fire water," or whatever one may wish to term it, using motortrucks. One of the men who was overpowered was reported as giving the alarm and had reached a nearby telephone after a terrific struggle with the ''brigands." Marshal Stansbury received the first alarm, then the city police and then relayed to the pohibition enforcement branch of the Internal Revenue Department. When the "race for life" out the Reisterstown road, with Marshal Stansbury in the lead, giving his Dodge all the gas she'd take ,ended, they found a truck owned by Sabas Mankin, of Philadelphia, Pa., a wholesale druggist-whiskey, on which the tax had been paid Monday and which was to have been delivered to the driver earlier in the morning, but owing to the roads he was delayed and arrived at the distillery late at night. When the driver arrived, the watchman and the Internal Revenue man heard the chucking of his motor and peering through the win-dowsj saw the outline of a huge truck against the dark shadows of night and right away jumped at the conclusion that someone was bent on stealing a dozen or more barrels of whiskey. Stealthily they crept to the door with revolvers in hand and when the driver alighted and made his way to the office, he-was startled by the command of "hands up." One of the men held the Philadelphian at bay with a gun while the other ran a mile or so, to spread the alarm. The question is now being raised about the county, who the deuce was, the night watchman, the revenue officer, the truck driver, the county police, the city police or prohibition enforcement department. AGAIN FACE REVOLT ORGANIZATION FORMED Towson Heights Now Has Building-Association To Take Care Of Development. To cope with the great strides of building here, the Towson Heights Building Association was organized on Saturday evening last and held its first meeting in the offices of the Black & Decker Manufacturing Company. The new body was incorporated under the laws of Maryland and has a capitalization of $208,000. AVhile formed by employees of the Black & Decker Manufacturing Company, the association is not limited tb Black and Decker people only, but was organized for the sole purpose of becoming a benefit to Towson and vicinity generally. It offers a safe opportunity for investment and savings which will earn 6 per cent, per annum and will be an incentive to home building. The shares of the association will have a par value of $104, payable at the rate of 25 cents per share each week, or paid up shares may be purchased for $104 each. Old Guard Leaders Penrose-Hays Organization Congress Still Inert. (From the Washington Correspondent of The Jeffersonian.) It is apparent that the Republican Old Guard is threatened with a new Bull Moose uprising. Senators Borah and Johnson maneuvered the Lodge faction out of the advantageous position it held for months. The little band of party wreckers are busy undermining the Hays/ organization. The Borah-Johnson coterie is asking, "Who in the devil is Will H. Hays?" There are stormy days ahead for the Penrose-Hays ring. The Borahs and Johnsons are riding hard and will run over the Old Guard, if possible. The apprehension that Messrs. Penrose, Watson and others of the Hays faction felt over the early speaking tours of Mr. Johnson seems to have been well grounded. The Republican "irreconcilables" have collected the discordant elements of their party and the opponents of the treaty and are making a showing. Most of the woes of the Republican organization at this moment can be traced to the "stacking" of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee against the peace treaty. Democratic members of the House of Representatives commenced several weeks ago to call attention to the sorry record of the present Congress, which is controlled by a little group of Republicans under the leadership of Senator Penrose. It is understood that (Continued on Page 8, Col. 2.) larvland State Archives mdsa_sc3410_1_63-0085.jpg |