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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_63-0178 Enlarge and print image (6M) |
| June 26, i920—Page 6 THE JEFFERSONIAN, TOWSON, MARYLAND. Local Correspondence WHITE HALL. Transactions in real estate in White Hall in the past several months have been numerous and the amount involved in these transactions is over $80,000.00. Included in the. transfers are the Whitt Hall Paper Mill, purchased by New York interests, who are constructing- the plant and adding modern machinery, wwith changes and additions to the mill will involve several thousand dollars. Thomas C. Hunter spld his flour and feed mill and his general business to William N. Krout. ; ™ . The White Hall Farmers' Club and Improvement Association made- the following sales: To Thomas Elliott, a large residence; to John F. Wiley, a store building and residence, besides an additional lot; to T. Herbert Lytle, a residence: to T. W. Lytle, two acres! with a residence; to W. Evans Anderson, an unimproved two-acre lot; to Albert J. Day, a house and lot; to A. %,. Anderson, an unimproved lot; to John M. Wilson and Thomas E. Baker, each an unimproved lot. Andrew L. Anderson has sold to J. H. Seitz a residence and to C. LeRoy Nelspn several acres, improved by a store building, residence and other outbuildings. Thomas C. Hunter has sold to Millard F. Standiford a house and lot. Among the improvements are a new modern residence erected by W. Evans Anderson. ' T. Herbert Lytle is making extensive repairs to his residence. John F. Wiley is preparing to make a large extension to his store property A. L. Anderson will erect new buildings on his recently purchasted lot and Millard Standiford and John Seitz will make changes in their property by remodeling their houses and adding modern improvements. Thomas Peters is erecting a new bungalow and John T. Amos will build a new barn. Miss Genevieve Nelsjon is a member of the graduating class of the Towson High School and Miss Grace Moore and Miss Gladys Markline are among the graduates of the Sparks* Agricultural High School. ------------o------------ WARREN, PROFITEERING. The Children's Day service at Bosley M. E. Church Sunday was largely attended and most appreciated. Daniel O. Pearce, Superintendent, was in charge. Miss Anna Pearce was organist and Misis Winnie Bosley violinist. The recitations and songs were good. Rev. E. H. Showacre made an address. Thirty-six dollars was contributed towards the education fund. A card was receivved from Rev. Dr. T M. West, a member of the Quarterly Conference, regretting his/ absence from the conference. He is in Fey-ettsville, N. C, with his son. July 13 he will be 86 years old. Francis Ennis, youngest son of Mr. and Mrsi Wm. P. Ennis, had the misfortune last Saturday of fracturing his ankle while playing ball at Rux-ton. . _ .. The commencement exercises of tne Warren School were held at the Warren Club House Wednesday night. The graduates were Hilda Tawney, Cecelia Malduse, Katherine Pentzell, Sarah Skipper and Eva Keys. _----------o------------ . PARKTON. The ladies! of the M. E. Church will hold a strawberry festival on the church lawn on Saturday, July 3rd. All welcome. „,.,-, The M. P. Church held its Children's Day services on last Sunday evening, at which time the church was filled in spite of the rain. A very fine program was rendered. The ladies of Wiseburg Church will hold a strawberry festival this evening. If rainy it will be held on Monday evening. Thunder storms and showers are numerous at this time, delaying the farmers with their work. Miss Mildred arr recently visited her parents of this place. Mrsi. E. B. Hawkins visited her daughter, Mrs. John Antin during the past week. Messrs Roy S tiffler and Roland Fisher, of Baltimore, visited relatives here on Wednesday. Mrs. E. B. Keelen spent the week end in Baltimore. SUNNYBROOK. The Ladies' Aid Society of Fairview Church South will meet July 5 at the home of Mrs. Mary Meisner. Miss Mattie Wheeler is confined to her bed with a severe case of measles. Mrs. Louis Thomas and her children, Henrv and Mary, have returned home after' spending some time with her * mother. ¦ , Mr.' and Mrs. Guy Bryan spent last Sunday with Mrs. Bryan's mother, Mrs. Jennie Turnbaugh, of near Towson. Master Ross Wolf is> also on the sick list. The people of this community extend their sincere sympathy to Mrs. Frank Smith in the death of her mother. Mr. James Wheeler and son, George, spent last Sunday with the latter'a brothers, of this place. ------------o---------— SALEM. Sunday School Sunday morning at 9.30 o'clock; preaching at 7.30 P. M. Mrs. John Gill and daughter, Lillian, of Baltimore, attended the funeral of Mrs. Gill's niece, Miss Leonica Frank, of Beckleysville, on last Sunday and als)o spent several days with her sister, Mrs. Ada Boerner. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Armacost and family, spent Sunday in Baltimore with Mr. and Mrs. Hickman. The children are all Rejoicing to know the schools are to soon close. The Grave Run teachers) expect to treat the children with ice cream and cake, which all will enjoy. ------------o------------ EVNA. Sunday School at the U. B. Church on Sunday morning at 9.30 by the Rev. J. H. Lehman. . Mrs. Rachael Martin and Mr. Franklin Martin, visited in Baltimore on Sunday. Mr. Howard Buell has purchased a new Cleveland car from the agent, Mr. Keller, of Hampstead. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hoffman visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Armacost, of Hereford, on Sunday. Mrs. Mary Buell is visiting her son, Mr. Emory Buell and family. TEGAS. A lawn fete will be held at the Methodist Protestant Church tonight, for the benefit of the church. A lawn fete wiwll be held at St. Joseph's Catholic Church for the benefit of the church on July 2, 3 and 5. Come and have a good time. Towson Band will furnish the music. Mr. Patrick Caslin waws fortunate enough to get his machine back, which was stolen last Monday. | Wanted—Farms! | I All sizes. We have cash ( ¦ briers waiting. J THE BALTIMORE REALTY CO. ! 18 E. Lexington Street BALTIMORE, MD. Wanted—Country Stores! Business Strictly Confidential. Nobody wants to mix oil with his a(ugar, perhaps, and yet, unless the people of the United States are willing to consider the two together, they may miss the object lesson now being offered as to what the business system of the country is doing to them, and how profiteering business operates. For the bidding of middle factors in the sugar industry one against another to get possession of the available supply, is only the counterpart of what is going on with respect to oil. No intelligent user of ga\sjoline any longer believes there is any real competition among the dealers from whom he buys what he needs to keep his motor truck moving or his passenger car in continuous action. He knows that he may fill his tank's! under a red sign at one place and pay, perhaps, 33 cents per gallon, and under a white sign or a yellow sign somewhere else and pay, say, from 2 to 3 cents per gallon less. But he knows also, that this! differentiation is regularly maintained. If the higher price is increased^ the lower prices go up in proportion. He believes though he has to take this on faith, that if the higher price should ever be lowered, the other prices would come down in the same ratio. As to why there should be any difference in the prices, the ordinary motorist can give you no more idea than he can tell why the moon gleams like clear silver on some nights and looks like a ball of butter on others. Such competiton as exists in the handling of oil takes place long before the oil is ready for delivery in the form of gasoline to the people who consume it in their motor vehicles^ And sucjh competition as there is appears to be competition in buying, not in selling. The selling, only too obviously, is regulated. The competition in buying is evidently amongst the great middle factors in the business, who go through the form of bidding against one another for possession of the available oil. Of course this puts the producers in a position where the last thing in the world they feel like doing- is worrying. So far' they have wells that are giving up oil, a world that hasj none too much oil for what it considers its present and prospective needs must come to them for its supply. When the producers find that there is a rivalry amongst the would-be purchas-er$, and that each is apparently ready to outbid the other for what there is of the product, then the producers may sit back and wait for a lull in the bidding, confident that waiting will merely mean for them just so much, more of a bank balance when the checks come in. And there is no sign that the bidders are worrying, at least so far as their own advantage is concerned. They need have no hesitation in raising their bids, in order to get the oil, for they know that whatever they have to pay they can easily get back, with interest, when they dole their bulk purchases out to motorists at a gallon price. They have no need to worry, for they know the motorists must buy, if they are to continue to run their motors. In oil, as in stugar, the bidding of the middlemen against one .another to get possession of the supply is the only real competition. And it is the main reason for an artificially inflated price to consumers. The increase in price is occsjioned by such competition, while ordinarily regarded as good business practice, proves the artifice of the business system now tolerated. It proves, indeed that business" transactions in living necessities involve devices that allow a few to profit inordinately by their unnecessary handling of a commodity which the public feels that it must have. Probably there would be little popular objection to business practices? that involved only such handling and reworking that would be fairly requisite to fit the product for use and to deliver it to the public. And there would certainly be no objection on the part of the public to paying a price that would mean a fair recompense for the service so rendered. But there is popular objection on all sides to business practices, and a business system, that is now making the production and delivery Of all sorts of neces'sjary commodities merely the excuse for vast exploitation, and the piling up of riches, 'by the comparative few who can work their way into positions of control. And no wonder there is popular dissatisfaction with government agencies) shat seem to be operative to correct the injustice and the suffering it is involving only after the fact ana not before it. As Senator Capper told his colleagues in the Senate the other day, the present rage of exploitation is' not to be cured by I setting a few mouse-traps about the 'country, when the tracks of the animal that is causj-ing the trouble are as big as those of a bear. Retail profiteering is not the thing to go after. What must be corrected is the earlier stage of profiteering, namely, the bidding up of prices in the effort of the middleman element to get possession of the supply. Surely it is at that point that the government should become a factor in the proceedings. Presumably there is no need, at leabt for the present, that the government should actually buy and sell in order to get such things as oil and sugar from the producers to the consumers, without the taking of useless toll by a host of interveners. It would probably be enough to have the government brought into the business sufficiently to serve as a clearing house, or information center, to discover all that is) produced of a given commodity, with the price to consumers, and to make record of the disposal of it all, with the prices realized. Some such publicity with respect to the handling of these necessariesl seems imperative. If may mean a great expansion of government activity. Yet such expansion would still stop far short of state socialism. And it would be, after all, only the effort of the public to protect itslelf from the effect of allowing similar expansion to remain too long' unchecked by private^hands. BLAME MEXICAN "HOT STUFF" Pepper and Fiery Liquors May Have Something to Do With the Troubles Down There. Pepper is the source of Mexican revolutions, according to many people. Hot tamales, chili con carne, which means pepper with meat; chili rel-lenas, chili con queso, or pepper with cheese; all the other hot dishes that delight the Mexican palate, are supposed to incite these fiery Latin-Indian folk to actions that people of more sober mien would not contemplate. But the border citizens of this country place the greater blame on the liquid refreshments indulged In. by our neighbors to the south. Aguardiente, tequila, mescal, drinks that rouse stormy passions in the Latin and paralyze the senses of the Anglo-Saxon, are consumed in great quantities. Tequila, father of comets, sea serpents, misshapen giants, juggernauts and a thousand other monsters, is a white liquid brewed from "bear grass," a desert growing plant with clusters of thick, hard and watery daggerlike leaves with needle points. Mescal, a brew of cactus leaves, is its. companion drink, and, mixed, the very smell will put even a prohibition enforcement agent in a state of coma. Improving His Method. Atlas was watching the proceedings of the profiteers. "These modern fellows," he mused, "know a lot more about holding up the earth than was dreamed- of in my young days." LEGAIi NOTICES John Mays Little, Attorney-at-Law, \ Towson, Md. ORDER OP PUBLICATION JOHN MAYS LITTLE and MARIE C. LITTLE, His Wife, VS. EUGENE BITZER and ALICE BIT- ZER, his wife. JESSE L. BITZER and MARY BITZER, his wife, LEE BITZER and BELL BITZER, his wife, EFFIE LOCKWOOD and FRANK LOCKWO'OD, her husband, HELEN HANNA and CARROLL HANNA, her husband, CLARA GOLDSMITH and LOUIS GOLDSMITH, her husband, BIRDIE PREBLE and CHARLES PREBLE, 'her husband, and ANNIE MULLIN. 0*«*««*0>+ti>*«*+»««***«*«fr««*»*«+»««**»««****««*««***< IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY, IN EQUITY. The object of thrs bill is to obtain the sale of the hereinafter described real estate. The Bill recites that William Bitzer, Frances C. Bitzer, are the owners of a certain tract of land in the 4th District of Baltimore County, Md., William Bitzer having a two-thirds interest therein, and his wife the remainder; that your orator, John Mays Little, Eugene Bitzer, Lee Bitzer, Jesse L. Bitzer, Effie Lockwood, Helen Hnna, Clara Goldsmith, Berdie Preble and Annie Mullin, are owners asi tenants in common of 6 aeres of the aforesaid lot of ground; that the interest of William Bitzer was acquired by your orator by subsequent deed; that the defendants, Engene Bitzer, Jesse L. Bitzer, Lee Bitzer, Clara Goldsmith, Effie Lockwood, Annie Mullin, Helen Hanna, and Birdie Preble, each have a one-thirteenth interest in the aforesaid property, which they acquired asl heirs at law from their mother, Frances C. Bitzer, late of Baltimore County, deceased; that your orator has a twenty-two thirtieth interest in the aforesaid property, two of the children of Frances C Bitzer, namely Arthur G. C. Bitzer and Nellie Waggoner, having conveyed their interest unto the said John Mays Little; that the said real estate is not susceptible of partition without material loss or injury to the parties entitled to the interest therein, and in order to make division of said interest, it wll be necessary that the said real estate be sold and the proceeds thereof divided among the parties hereto according to their respective interests*: that he defendants are all adults, Birdie Preble, Chas. Preble and Annie Mullin, are residents of Somerville, Mass.; that your orator and his pre-decessor grantors have paid all taxes on s)aid property since December, 1906, and, that he should be allowed same proportionately out of the proceeds of the sale. In the prayers for relief, the Bill asks for sale of said property, so that the proceeds may be divided among the proper parties; according to their respective interest, and that they may have such other and further relief as their case may require. It is thereupon this 11th day of June, 1920. Ordered by the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, in Equity, that the Complainant, by causing a copy of this order to be inserted in some paper published in Baltimore County, Md., once in each of four sue-cessive weeks on or before the 5th day of July, 1920, giving notice to the said absent defendants, Birdie Preble, Chas. Preble, Annie Mullin, of the object and substance of this bill, and warning them to appear in this Court in person or by solicitor, On or before the 20th day of July, ' 1920, to sjhow cuase, if any tney have, why a decree ought not to be passed as prayed. WILLIAM P. COLE, Clerk. True Copy—Test: WILLIAM P. COLE, Clerk. 6-12-4t. Win. P. Cole, Jr., Attorney, Towson, Md* NOTICE TO CREDITORS. THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the subscriber has obtained from the Orphans' Court of Baltimore County Letters of Administration on1 the estate of LEWIS S. COLE, late of said county, deceased. All persona having claims against the said estate are hereby warned to exhibit the Same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, On or before the 8th day of December, 1920, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Those indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment. Given under my hand this 4th day of June, 1920. GERTRUDE T. COLE, Administratrix, 6-5-4t. Towson, Md. A DARING THIEF will steal the auto that offers the least resistance. Therefore, Mr. Auto Owner, why procrastinate ? Go to you dealertoday and buy protection. Why The "USA" Lock Because The Clamps around gear-shift lever IN NEUTRAL. Auto-Jack can start your motor but can't move the car off. Cross bar made of case hardened steel. Swings back against seat when not in use. Attached to front of seat with steel split-bolts, impossible to remove with screw-driver 3r "jimmy." USA cannot be sawed or filed. There is nothing to unscrew. It is operated inside the car. It cannot be left home. It securely locks your car. Made In Baltimore—Locks Everywhere. The "USA" Safety Lock sells for $6 all over the U. S. A. complete with Yale Lock and Steel Split-Bolts, ready to put on your car. Universal Safety Appliance Corps 1629 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore. Write us for circular. 1 to 5 Tons I ?:~x~:~:":~h.*<~:~^ lT=JT^T^T^r^r^T^T==^r=^T^r^r^T^r^T=JT=lT=lT=Jl TO MOTOR CAR USERS As an official Service Station of the U. S. Light & Heat Corporation producers of the famous Machine Pasted Plate Storage Battery, we are authorized to guarantee these batteries for fifteen months on an adjustment basis. Do not throw away your old battery. Bring it to us and we will repair it and guarantee the repairs for eight months on an adjustment basis. We repair and recharge all makes of storage batteries. YORK ROAD GARAGE York Road nr. Pennsylvania Ave. TOWSON, MARYLAND Means Transportation Economy 1 to 5 Tons A Size For FEDERAL Trucks have been made for ten years and everyone is still in service, even the First Federal, which is still owned and operated by its original purchaser, Every Business ther National p°p Corn Works at Lynn, Mass. Isn't this the kind of service you want from your haulage equipment T The Federal Motor and Sales Co. 803-5-7 LOW STREET BALTIMORE, MD. All Towson Shares Our Success MT[ Not only does our plant afford pleasant and healthful employment for ^J hundreds of Towsonites, but everyone in Towson is benefited by the jJ additional money that is brought to Towson. ^*[T This money comes from all over the United States, and from many ^J foreign countries as well. A considerable portion of it is spent in Jd Towson, contributing largely to the general prosperity. ^"|T This is money which is brought into Towson from outside, not merely ^J the circulation of money that is already here. THE BLACK & DECKER MFG. CO. "The Good Will Plant" Makers of Electric Air Compressors, Portable Electric Drills and Electric Valve Grinders General Offices and Factory TOWSON HEIGHTS, MARYLAND \\2^jsM&mmmmmmmmmmjmmmmmmm Commerce construction embraces more nationally known standard units than are found in any other truck. Here they are, CHECK THEM. Continental Red Seal Motor, Spi-cer Universal Joints, Torbensen rear axle with Timken Bearings, Zenith Carburetor, Detroit Gear Company'sTransmission, Wlllard Storage Battery, Detroit Steel Products Springs, Jacox Steering Gear, Our Own Specially Designed Cast Tank Radiator. TOW initial cost, economical operation, min--L-' imum up-keep expense, are factors not to be overlooked in the selection of a motor truck. The Commerce Truck represents a value not to be duplicated in its class — price, serviceability, dependability, reputation. An investigation of performance records in farm and commercial use will prove convincing arguments why Commerce Trucks merit consideration. Chassis Prices $1500 to $1895 F. O. B. Detroit, Mich. THE COMMERCE MOTOR CAR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN Ninth Yaar Manufacturer* Motor Truehi ^IIIIllllllllllllllllllllllittlllllllllltltlllilllllftlilllisllllffliliilllltillEtMiififeilllllllfiefliliillslillllllllllllllltlllllfllllllllff^ BRQCKWAY MOTOR CO., Charles and 20th Sts., BALTIMORE, MD.1 41 riT/^ T'D A /^T^DC exclusive agents for Baltimore jfl lll^./ 1 lVrYv^ 1 UIyO AND ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTIES. 8-16 H. P. and 15.30 H. P. 4-Cylinder. 10-20 H. P. Titan, 10-20 Mogul. .INTERNATIONAL, McCORMICK Mowers, Rakes, Binders. IRON AGE Potato Planter and Sprayers. Full Lines Garden and Field Seeds. Growers of "WISDOM" TOMATO Recognized by the leading truckers as being the best ever grown. For quality and quantity it is unexcelled. We are growers in a large way of all the leading varieties of 1 omato Seed as follows: Kelly's Red, "another one of our origination," Bonny Best, Chalk's Jewel, New Stone, Red Rock, Matchless, Greater Baltimore, etc. WISEMAN-DOWNS COMPANY, Inc. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, SEEDS, FERTILIZERS, GASOLINE ENGINES 34 E. PRATT STREET d Near Light Street! Baltimore, Md. ftr7^r^ir^^r7^rfcWrtiy^rr8vir^ HOME FRIENDLY SOCIETY INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE 1025 LINDEN AVENUE BALTIMORE 6-1-20 ir=Jr=^r=^r=Jr=^r=iit=Jr=Jr=Jr=Jr^ i I THE TIRE SHOP WE SERVE YOU RIGHT TO YOUR DELIGHT. 1-3-20 CHARLES STREET AT 20TH BALTIMORE MD. LARGEST TIRE STOCK and LARGEST REPAIR PLANT in the LARGEST CITY IN MARYLAND II a i i i il r^r=ai=ii=Ji=ai=^Mr=ii=ai==ii==iM |