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ONE OF THE LARGEST INDUSTRIES IN THE STATE IS LOCATED AT TOWSON, THE COUNTY-SEAT OF BALTIMORE COUNT*. IT IS THE PLANT OF THE BLACK & DECKER MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
IT WILL PAY YOU TO
PATRONIZE OUR
ADVERTISERS
THE JEFFERSONIAN
Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political. —Jefferson.
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WITH THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE"
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VOL. IX. No. 14
'It Covers The Community Like The Dew"
TOWSON, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1920
MARYLAND JOURNAL ESTABLISHED 18SB { CONSOLIDATED 1915
BALTIMORE CO. DEMOCRAT ESTAB. 1MB I WITH THE JEFFERSONIAN.
NEW AMUSEMENT PARK
Located In Baltimore County And
Will Open On Decoration Day
May 30.
* There will be a new amusement re-
sort opened in Baltimore county on Decoration Day, May 30, which will be located on 20 acres of the 460 acre bav-front property owned by Mr. Harry B. Wolff, a prominent attorney of Baltimore, who is also interested in the new enterprise. The site is near Sparrows Point and was selected for its natural beauty and accessability to the citv of Baltimore, from which excursion boats will be run at intervals.
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of power we are going to ask for, will be the platform and the gifted gentlemen who are to give us the platform will not be able to convince the people against the records which will be made here. If we do not keep the promise made last fall the literary production of this prodigious committee on platform will not secure votes."
COUNTY'S QUOTA $10,000
People.Here Are Asked To Help
Feed Starving' Armenians In
The Near East.
A very interesting sjtory entitled "The Dollar With A Soul," may be found elsewhere in this issue of The Jeffersonian in an advertisement, appealing for contributions to the Near East Relief Campaign, and will be well worth anyone's time in reading it.
Baltimore county's quota is $10,000 and this means that the residents of this county are pledged to provide food for one year for 160 odd starving Armenians). This is a great and noble work and Baltimore county must not fail in this most momentous task.
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MAIL PLANE WRECKED
Crashes To Ground Near Baldwin,
Pilot Emerges With But Few
Scratches.
Residents in and around Baldwin, this county, were given the thril of their lives, when a giant aeroplane, which later proved to be one of Uncle Sam's Mail Planes 'which flies between Washington and Newark, N. J., fell in a field near that village.
The machine came down with such rapidity and such a crash that those who rushed to the scene expected to find the mangled body of the pilot under the wreckage, but when they got within a few yards of the wreckage they saw the "birdman" emerge with but a few scratches, while the aeroplane was badly damaged.
The accident occurred one afternoon the fore part of this week.
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.
LAW BREAKING OR LAW MAKING?
PINE THE COMPOSITOR OR THE LINOTYPE OPERATOR.
"Senator J. Henry Walters, president pro tem. of the Senate, takes up his work, confident that the upper branch of the Law Breaking Department of the State Government will do its share towards making |the state a Abetter place in which to live."
—"Snatched" from the columns of the Adirondack, N. Y. Enterprise.
Some Hu#sy!
FOR SALE — MODERN : HOUSE, ALSO HORSE AND : BUGGY, WITH SIX ROOMS. :
—"Ad. "lamped" in the columns of a Pennsylvania rural newspaper.
CLEANED OUT.
Judge—Have you anything to offer the Court before sentence is passed?
Prisoner—No, your honor; my attorney took my last dollar.
We Didn't Know They Built Them That Way.
: WANTED—SECOND FLOOR :
: APARTMENT, WITH GAR- !
: AGE IN THE REAR. *:
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—"Grabbed" from the columns of a Portland, Maine, newspaper.
Can a man take Are in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?—Proverbs vis 37.
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Bold Attempt To Secure Liquor At
Catoosville Home Checked By
Fire Apparatus' Arrival.
Following the smell of thousands of dollars worth of liquor, which it is alleged is stored in the cellar of the home of A. T. Carroza, Catonsville, this county, whisky hounds, thieves, or whatever one might wish to term them, wended their way to the Carroza home early Wednesday morning and with the aid of a motor truck and a large touring car they expected to make a "big haul."
It was about 2 A. M. when there was a rap at the door of the Carroza home, and the caretaker appeared at a second-story window in his night clothes. He perceived five men standing on the lawn in front of the residence and creeping to the rear of his room procured a "pump gun" and then asked the intruders what they wanted. One said in a low tone, "Come down and open the door or we'll break it in," whereupon the caretaker said they would have to break it in because he wasn't coming down. In the meantime his wife in her excitement went to the telephone and called the Catonsville Fire House, which brought the engine at full speed and the clanging of the gong frightened the culprits, who jumped into the touring car and made off. Going out the Frederick road to Edmondson avenue and in making the short turn there, the machine crashed into the railroad tracks and ties, ripping off a hind wheel. Soon after the arrival of the Fire Company, the police were notified and post-haste Marshal of the Baltimore County Department Stansbury was hitting "the high jumps" from his home at Pikesville to the scene. A patrol wagon load of "blue-coats" from Baltimore was at the same time speeding to the Carroza home.
Investigation showed that the truck with which the thieves hoped to carry off the "amber fluid" got stuck hub deep in the mud near the entrance of the Carroza property, with no license tags on it, and when the touring car was located disabled it bore a truck license. ¦ ' ---'
WARMING UP FOR THE PRELIMINARY BOUT.
NORTHERN LIGHTS VIVID
Display Thrilled Some, While
With Others It Was A Sight
Of Terror.
The grand display which appeared in the sky on Monday night last thrilled some, while with others it was a sight of terror. Some Baltimore countians thought it was a "flock" of aeroplanes flying with searchlights. One man in the "upper end" even went into the house and told his wife that it was going to rain because the sun was drawing water right then and it was aa dark as midnight. Reports have been current that wild excitement reigned in the negro settlements of the county and that the colored folks prayed as never before, because they thought the end of the world was near. The streaks of bluish, which mingled with crimson, comes but once a year and is known as the Northern Lights or the Aurora Borealis, but this season it was more brilliant than ever, caused as scientists say by unusual solar activity, evidenced by prominent spots on the sun. which when it comes into contact with the atmosphere of the earth cause* electrical disturbances. During the glow of the Northern Lights, telephone and telegraph service was se-iverely hampered, and in some sections of Baltimore county was entirely crippled.
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CAUSED EXCITEMENT
Ruarin' Boring lip Er Alice, Says
Uncle Jake, Put Gobbler's Knob
In An Uproar.
Ye Gods! See by ther papers that ther yap what tells us farmers how ter grow things an' how ter take tapeworms out er apples, ..pc prunes, wants more 'Pi'° kflM^ omm ists i o a t W^^^^^* on his difugilations. If yer Uncle Jake's right it's $2,000 'stead er $900 an' jest $1,10.0 increase an' ther question what 'rises, is whether it's worth it er not. Yer Uncle Jake ain't so durn sure, but 'pears ter him, yer can't learn farmin' out er books, but yer gotter git right back'on ther stomach er ol' mother earth an' dig ter git results. Them there County Commissioners, wants ter be
ecernomical an' yer Uncle Jake can't see
how sech er 'pro-
priation kin be
made with this yer
view in mind.
Caesar's Ghost!
'Tain't no use ar-
guin', poets er like
everybody else, get
ther "hook worm'"
when ther weather
gits nice, 'cause er
couple days has
gone by an' yer Uncle Jake ain't heerd
er word from Ol
Poet Wilson. Now
that ther crows is
comin' out ter git ;corn, an' ther catfish is jumpin' from
tree ter tree, an'
ther snails is be-
ginnin' ter come
out er ther ground,
seems ter yer Un-:cle Jake Sam
wouldn't have ei
gol durn bit er
trouble usln' ther
meat grinder ter
grind out er couple dozen verses er poultry, an if its 'cause his wife won't lend him ther meat grinder, he ought ter do like yer Uncle Jake does, bang her over ther dome with his fists.
Ho! Ho! Cleo! Ther Roarin' Bor-in' Up er Alice, what 'peared in ther firament over Gobbler's Knob, caused er great deal er 'citement an' kept Ol' Silas Dooflicker, ther Cheese er Per-lice an' hisj staff busy stoppin' them folks what wanted ter commit susin-side by jumpin' inter Mary-Ann's Creek an' layin' their necks on ther Jerkwater tracks. Ol' Hiram Jumpinjudas got so gol durn 'cited that he jumped from ther ground clean over his house an' Mrs. Rebecca Sloplight's next door, an' inter ther well er Ol' Peter Mac-gruder, an' hadn't it been fer ther quick action er young Jasper Slickum, Gobbler's Knob's champion long distance diver, what holds ther national an' international record fer stayin' in er bath tub er day an' er half with water up ter his) neck an' er sleep, Ol* Hiram would er been plum dead by now, but as it was both Hiram an' Jasper had ter be rescued, an' it was Pedro Madi-gaski, ther Knob's laziest man what did ther job. Pedro dug er slantin ditch ter ther bottom er tiler well an' then bored er hole in ther bottom an' let ther water run out. Yesterday yer Uncle Jake, as Mayor er Gobbler's Knob, presented Pedro with er cardboard medal engraved with fresh strawberries in commemoration an' condemnation er his gallantry.
DADDY DIDN'T FIGHT IN MEDAL WAR.
Little daughter was certainly glad to have her father back home after he had been in France for two years, working all the way from eight to twenty-four hours in a hospital, rendering valuable aid to the injured while hearing the hum of German "air cooties" high overhead.
Daddy noticed daughter giving him the once-over several times. Finally she seemed to have resolved the thing in her own mind. She was worried because daddy did not have any medals pinned to his coat. "Daddy," she lisped, "why didn't you fight in a war where they had medals?"
MEETING LIVELY
Taxpayers' League Holds "Stormy"
Session In Court House—New
Members Received.
The proceedings of the Taxpayers' League at the Court House Tuesday afternoon were enlivened somewhat by A. A. Piper, of the Towson bar, who propostd, in lui therance of the League's economy program, a Constitutional Amendment eliminating one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court. After calling attention to the fact that about one-half of the wealth and population of Baltimore county had recently been annexed to Baltimore city, and that the business of the Circuit Court had been cut down "possibly two-thirds" by prohibition, he declared that it would be a good plan for the Governor to elevate to the Chief Judgeship one of the two Associate Judges and not appoint anyone to fill the vacancy, saying that the latter would be about as "worthless as the fifth wheel to a wagon—only to walk around and draw his pay."
It Was the first time the idea had been suggested to the League, and the members present were at first apparently dubious about it, but after Mr. Piper had emphatically declared that "not a Judge or a lawyer at this bar will dispute the truthfulness of my statement," he was elected a member of the League's legislative committee and given plenary power to prepare and submit to the Legislature a bill which would give the voters in this judicial circuit an opportunity to pass upon the proposed amednment.
Ernest C. Hatch, a member of the Legislative Committee, reported that five bills, favored by the League, had been prepared and submitted to the Baltimore County Delegation at Annapolis, but that up to that time apparently nothing had been done toward enacting them into lawsi and he wanted the League to pass a resolution urging the adoption of these laws. This was done, after B. John Black had offered a resolution to that effect, and Secretary Price was instructed to "wire" the resolution to Senator Mcintosh and Chairman Given in order that no time would be lost. Mr. Hatch explained at some length the pains his committee had taken to secure the passage of the measlures favored by the League, and seemed to be somewhat disappointed over the results obtained. At this point Mr. Piper again jumped to his feet, and in his characteristically emphatic style declared: "You (meaning the legislative committee) don't amount to a 'continental darn' down there," saying that the County Defegation was "ruled and regulated by conditions we don't understand." He said further that the only way the League could accomplish anything would be to make itself "so powerful and strong that the Delegates! will be glad to come to it for its support."
Secretary Price read at length from The Jeffersonian of March 13, a resolution adopted by the Fifth Commissioner District Improvement Association, wherein members of the League were referred to as "disgruntled office seekers" and "men of no standing in the community," and he wanted the League to pass a resolution rebuking the Association for their "scurrilous" remarks and to say that they were unworthy of notice. The matter was dropped, however, after Mr. Piper had suggested that the League had outgrown its "swaddling clothes" and ought not to pay any attention to such side issues.
PRIZES FOB POSTER
Contest For School Children In
County Will Close On
March 31.
Baltimore county school children as well as those in other sections of the State are busily engaged drawing posters to be submitted in the contest, for which cash prizes of more than $100 will be offered by the War Loan Organization of this district for the most original poster emphasizing thrift.
The contest closes March 31, according to the rules sent school authorities here.
NEW SCHEME ADVANCED
"Save Money On Meat" Week
Will Commence In Maryland
On April 5.
"Save money on meat" is the latest scheme to be advanced, and throughout the State of Maryland it will be observed the week beginning April b.
Word has been received by The Jeffersonian from the Department of Justice that an effort will be made to reduce materially the prices of the cuts of beef, pork and lamb, during this week. On each day of "Save Money on Meat" week, some particular cut or cuts of the inexpensive variety will be featured and will be sold at a low price.
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A detachment of Union soldiers camped in Chew's woods near Towson-town, one night this week.
HARPER'S NEWSPAPER Published Weekly
With wood cuts of Battle Scenes and interesting ar-. tides (Advertisement.)
The March term of the Circuit Court convened here on Monday last. The trial docket is composed of but 6 cases.
FIRE WOOD FOR- SALE
Saw Mill now in woods near
Lutherville. (Advertisement.)
The County Sheriff in charge of the Jail in his report to the County Commissioners stated that he had three prisoners under his care.
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LONG GREEN.
There will be a card party and social held at St. Johns' Church here, on Tuesday evening, April 6, for the benefit of the parish.
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GLEN ARM.
There will be preaching at Waugh M. B. Church on Sunday at the usual hour by the pastor, Rev. E. H. Show-acre. He will also administer the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and at the close of the meeting will baptize the young son of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Schneider.
Mrs. Lucy Atwill, teacher of Greenwood public school, was| unable to teach for a short time this week on account of having some teeth extracted.
Miss Catherine Debaugh was the guest of Miss Ruth Burton on Sunday.
Among the teachers of this community who attended the Baltimore County Teachers' Meeting in Baltimore on Friday were Misses Emma Pearce, Eliza and Lucy Burton,, Marie Hartley, Bertha Jordan and Irene Bell.
Mrs. Charles Haile, of Towson, sfpent Sunday with her mother and friends of this place.
Misses May and Catherine Burton were guests of their sister, Mrs. John Schneider, on Sunday.
Mr. James Burton and Misses Eliza, Ruth and Lucy Burton spent Sunday with friends in Lutherville. -------------0-------------
RIDERWOOD.
The beautiful spring has at last arrived, but our sick list diminishes slowly.
Mrs. B. D. Williams is a patient at the Woman's Hospital of Maryland, Baltimore.
Mrs. L. R. Andrews, who has been very ill with grippe, is improving slowly.
Mrs. Earl Talbert and little son, who have been ill for some time, are out again.
Mrsl T. E. Wier, who has been ill for the past week, is able to be out again.
Would like to thank the young ladies of Hunts M. E. Church through the columns of your valuable paper, for the beautiful flowers distributed among the sick.
The Towson Fire Engine was called on Thursday to extinguish a brush fire on the property of Mr. William Lyon, which was endangering the house. ----------o----------
HEREFORD.
Sunday school next Sunday morning at 9.30 o'clock at both churches. Preaching at the Baptist Church at 7.30 P. M.
The Camp Fire Girls met on Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. John Kelly. A very pleasant evening was spent. The next meeting will be held at the home of Miss Helen Hicks.
Mr. Elijah Hale has moved his family to the home formerly owned by Mrs. Calder Little.
Mr. Harvey Armacost, who has been very sick, is) improving.
Mr. Harry Armacost and family are quite sick with flu.
Mr. Louis Ruhl has purchased the farm of Mr. E. G. Turnbaugh.
The grease nuisance caused by \ the ears of the United Railways \ standing in front of the Court \ House at Towson, is again, foe- ^ coming evident. A few years ago there was a complaint lodged with the Railways Company regarding; the drippings of grimy black grrease from the cars while laying-over at the terminus here, and after much agitation a truck ¦wended its -way to the county-seat regularly to spread sand» to eradicate the nuisance.. For some tlnfe, however, the United has been neglecting this and consequently the marble floors of the banks, the halls and offices of public buildings and carpets of our citizens' ho_mes have been disfigured by people carrying the filthy stuff on their feet.
The "feather bed lanes" between car tracks on the York road at Towson. are not only causlns motorists and drlVers discomfort by the breaking of springs and the puncturing of tires, but the damaging of derbies when the wearer's head is jammed through the top of a machine. These are only two matters, among many others, which an Improvement Association, if Towson had one, could help rectify.
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CONSIDERING PLANS
People OF Second District Wish To
Promote Development Of The!
Section Of County.
The people throughout the Second District of Baltimore county are now considering plans for further development of the District. The equipment of the Granite Quarries has been renewed; a new air compressor has been installed, while the purchase of a new locomotive by the Guilford and Water-ville Granite Company will render the shipping of stone easier. No work has been done in the quarries for over four months; as the bridge over the Patapsco serving to connect the quarries with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was washed away early in December. Attempts to repair the bridge were frustrated by the ice and floods. An attempt will be made to have the Railroad officials build a spur of track to the town of Granite. Such a spur, according to the .experts who have just finished their survey of the situation, will develop the granite industry to its highest point. Over 50 acres of undeveloped quarry land are now available in addition to the vast tracts already in use. Around one quarry alone of nine acres, which has been worked for over 70 years, the efficiency experts estimated there are over 600,-000 tons of stone quarried and ready for shipment as crushed stone. In addition to this there is an almost inexhaustible supply of the highest grade building stone. The Feldspar and Flint operators have promised to co-operate in this boom ,if the spur is built. The cost of hauling over the hills to the Wooodstock Station has deterred many, and according to the farmers in Baltimore county, this one feature alone has deterred them from using their timber lands, and also from shipping their produce into Baltimore by rail. The people of Granite seem determined that they shall no longer be handicapped by the lack of proper transportation facilities. The Granite producers, who have lost heavily through the closing down of the quarry, seem determined that they will no longer put their faith in a bridge, which has been annually swept away by the rising river.
—Mrs. J. Frank Hudson is confined to her home with illness.
—Mr. Frank I Wheeler has provided himself with a new Dodge touring car.
—On April 27th, Ladies' Night will be held by Mt. Moriah Lodge of Masons here.
-—Mrs. George H. Steiber will entertain the Towson Sewing Club on Monday evening' next.
—Mr. and Mrsi, Klingelhofer, of Alleghany avenue, spent a few days this week in New York.
—Mr. Walter Hammerstrom, of Terrace Dale, South Towson, has purchased a new Maxwell touring car.
—Dr. Louis Hergenrather has; discarded his faithful old "flivver" for a new Maxwell touring car.
—Charles J. Beckley, of the Sixth GTistrict, was appointed a constable by the County Commissioners this week.
—Miss Cornelia Gause resigned from her position today and will spend some time with relatives in Wilmington, Del.
—At a meeting last Saturday night of the Towson Heights Building Association, 1,117 running shares were subscribed in addition to 26 paid up ones.
—Miss Bessie Clunett, who formerly resided here, is spending the week-end at the home of Rev. and Mrs. S. F. Cassen.
—Mr. S. Duncan Black, of the Black & Decker Manufacturing Company here, has provided himself with a new "Twin-Six" Packard touring car.
—Mrs. Lewis W. Held has been quite ill at her home here, in fact so sick that Dr. Dan Jenifer was compelled to stay at her bed-side one entire night this week.
—The Towson W. C. T. U. met at the home of Mrs. James E. Green on Thursday evening last, at which time Mrs. Thomas, President of the Baltimore City W. C. T. U. spoke.
—Workmen have been busy this week in grading and laying a cement sidewalk on East Pennsylvania avenue to the plant of the Black & Decker Manufacturing Company.
—Miss Helen Ritter resumed her duties on Monday in the Advertising Department of the Blaek & Decker Manufacturing Company, after being confined to her home with illness.
—"Benny" Grant, a negro, was found wandering about Towson on Tuesday night lasit in a dazed condition and was taken to the Jail by a citizen. On Wednesday he was committed to the County Almshouse.
—Quite a crowd gather around an old time "faker" on the lot opposite Lee's store on Monday afternoon. The' crowd was so dense that It was not possible for the "Jeff's" representative to ascertain what was being "peddled."
—Miss Julia Cassen has severed her association with the Timekeeping Department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and will assume her new duties in the Sales Department of the Black & Decker Manufacturing Com-fany here on Monday next.
—At the corner of Washington and Pennsylvania avenues her, on Wednesday last a little child came mighty near being run over by a large automobile driven by one of our townsmen. Had it not been for the driver's quick action, a serious accident would have happened.
—The Court Drug Store here, has been sold by Dr. Charles P. Sohn, who has conducted it for Several years and who also operates a store in Baltimore city, to Mr. Walter Flayhart, who before entering the services of Uncle Sam during the war as a pharmacist and stationed at a naval seaplane base near Norfolk, wss associated with the Hergenrather Drug Company here.
—Prof. John E. Bahn, a retired educator, who has been residing in Washington and who died after an illness of a few days, was well known at Towson. He having served as a clerk in the Clerk's office here under the late William M. Isaac, who at that time was Clerk of the Court. Mr. Bahn taught in the schools of this county for a number of years, and was at one time professor of ancient and modern languages at Dickinson Seminary, Pa., and was principal of Academies at Stewartff-town, Gloverville and Hanover, Pa.
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