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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0092 Enlarge and print image (6M) |
| ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT. THE "WITH THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE" VOL XII—No. 32. 'It Covers The Community Like The Dew' TOWSON, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1924. BALTIMORE COUNTY'S ONLY SUNDAY NEWSPAPER. Louisiana Has A New Law Which Fixes A Sentence Of "Life Imprisonment" At Fifteen Years—The Next Logical Step Is To Specify That A Sentence To Be Hanged Shall Be Carried Out By Giving A Sharp Slap On The Wrist "MAYOR" OF WHITE HALL BUCKS ROAD DEPARTMENT Members Of Village "Executive Council9' Take Law Into Own Hands, Ripping Down Barricade (ANCIENT AND HONORABLE RESIDENTS THREATEN TO CHUCK WATCHMAN IN FALLS DAVIS, DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE HAS HELD HALF DOZEN PUBLIC OFFICES, ALL OF WHICH SOUGHT HIM His Career Is Largely Due To The Approachableness That Draws Men To Confide In And Trust Him—His Life As Seen By Intimates. WILL PARTICIPATE IN COUNTY SEAT EVENT. "Tell us some of the outstanding and striking characteristics of Mr. Davis," demanded scores of newspaper reporters of scores of personal friends of the Democratic nominee, as soon as news of the New York convention's outcome had been flashed about the country. The intimate friends, the acquaintances of the "I knew him when" class, and nearly everybody else interviewed on the subject, did their best to supply the picturesque details and striking anecdotes which make up a lively newspaper story. Nevertheless, the general result seems to have been summed up pretty well by Prof. jS. T. Moreland, formerly Prtsident of Washington and Lee University, who was an instructor in physics when Mr. Davis was a student there. "John W. Davis was simply a normal young man," said Professor Moreland. "He was not continually creating disturbances and providing thrills for his classmates, nor was (Continued on Page 8—Col. 1) COOPTOWN REUNION AUG. 7TH. Cooptown reunion will be held on August 7th, with members of the eight churches on Old West Harford M. E. Circuit co-operating. Congressman Millard E. Tydings, Democratic candidate for re-election will deliver the charge to the knights at the Odd Fellows' tournament to be held at Towson on August 23rd. LONGEST IN 20 YEARS Protracted Drought Is Record Breaker According To Weatherman. lOW SON BARRISTER TO CROSS "SEA OF MATRIMONY." Invitations have been sent out by Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Burns, of Towson, to the wedding of their daughter, Mary Loretta to Mr. J. Howard Murray, one of the proini-r ent young members of the Towson bar. The ceremony will be performed at the Towson M. E. Church on August 12th by the pastor, Rev. Mark Depp. Baltimore county is experiencing the most protracted dry spell in the past 20 years, according to the weather man, the only exception being the drought which lasted from July 12 to August 6, in 1914. Although a steady rain fell in the Lake regions this week, there is no pr6spect in sight for a break here. Since July 8 when the drought be gan here only .06 of an inch of rain has * "en. Ju^P however, has been one of the most comfortable on record. TOURNAMENT AT GLEN ARM TODAY. The tournament under the auspices of Bethany Lodge of Odd Fellows will be held this afternoon (Saturday) at Glen Arm. COUNTY 'GAS" DEALERS TO HAVE CHECK UP PUT ON THEM Purpose Is To Set State Gasoline Tax—Receipts From Wholesalers And Sales To Consumer To Be Gauged By Inspectors. A survey to determine the source supply of gasoline stations in Baltimore county is soon to be made by the State Comptroller, with the purpose of fixing the State gasoline tax on all wholesalers doing business in this county. The survey is pursuant to an act of the last Legislature authorizing GIVES SUICIDE CERTIFICATE 'Wounds Of Roland S. Hoshall Of Parkton, Were Self Inflicted. Dr. John J. Morrissey, coroner of the Northern district, Baltimore city, issued a certificate of suicide in the death of Roland S. HosI 11. Hoshali, who lived a. Parkton, was found Monday in the Falls Station Postoffice with four bullet ^.vounds near his heart. He died a few hours later at the United States Marine Hospital. Members of his family advanced the theory that he may have been a victim of foul play. Funeral services were held at the home of his father, Jesse M. Hoshall, at Parkton. the use of a fund of not more than $2,500 to be taken from the gasoline* tax for this purpose. The Comptroller's Department will be assisted by State police, who are acquainted with all -filling stations throughout the State. There may be some gasoline dispensers who, through ignorance of the law rather than a desire to evade it are not complying with the tax requirements, the Comptroller explained. All wholesalers doing a gasoline, business here, according to the State Comptroller, are liable to the State tax of 2 cents. Distributors operating outside the State cannot be held liable but the first man or firm handling the gasoline after it is brought into the State must pay (Continued on Page 8—Col. 5) BUTLER PICNIC TO BE HELD AUGUST 7. The annual picnic of the Butler Improvement Association will be held on the afternoon of August 7. There will be a dance at night. The picnic will be held in a grove on the Falls Road. MRS. S. C. CRADOCK DEAD End Comes At Trentham—Was Widow Of Late Thomas Cradock. Mrs. Sallie Carroll Cradock died at her residence in Trentham. She was the widow of Thomas Cradock and the daughter of the late Gov. Thomas King Carroll and Mrs. Juliana Stevenson Carroll and a granddaughter of Dr. Henry Stevenson. Mrs. Cradock was born at Kingston Hall, Somerset county. She is survived by five children, Thomas Cradock, Arthur Cradock,, Miss Katherine Cfadock, Miss Juliana Stevenson Cradock and Miss Agnes Carroll Cradock. She was a member of Old St. Thomas' Church, Garrison Forest. 12 BUSHELS AVERAGE Nearly Entire Wheat Crop Of County Has Been Threshed. Nearly all of Baltimore county's wheat crop has been threshed out. By the middle of next week the season will be over. The average the county over will not exceed twelve bushels to the acre, declares several well informed farmers. The reports so far heard would bear this prediction out. The yields have a wide range, running from tf bushels to the acre to 36, but in different sections the yields vary. What is lacking in quality will be offset by the increase in price. Just what the standard" price for this year's crop will be cannot be stated at this time. One thing is quite sure it will be well over the price paid last year. Reports from Baltimore city state as follows: No. 2 red $1-36 3-4; No. 2 garlicky $1.31 3-4; No. 2 garlicky afloat, $1.32 1-2. (Continued on Page 8—Col. 5) TUMBLES FROM TREE Timonium Lad Fractures Arm While On Visit To Catons- ville Farm. Alfred W. Turnbaugh, 9 years old, fractured his right arm when he; fell 20 feet to the ground as a limb of an apple tree on the farm of James Hunter, North Bend, Frederick road, broke suddenly. He was taken to the office of Dr. Howard Jones, Frederick avenue, where his injuries were treated. He was later taken to his home at Timonium. NOW! AIN'T IT THE TRUTH? DAIRY FARM WORKER HELD ON THEFT CHARGE. Workmen on the dairy farm of Samuel M. Shoemaker, at Eccleston, Green Spring Valley, found when they returned to their quarters after milking the cows Clayton Col-liderring, a fellow-workman, had disappeared simultaneously with four suits of clothing and two handbags belonging to them. They requested his arrest, which followed later in the day on East Pratt street, Baltimore. RELAY GIRL ACCLAIMED Peabody Student Is Termed "Great Find" By Radio Director. Of hundreds of persons who presented themselves for a tryout at the municipal radio broadcasting station in New York city a Peabody student proved to have the best voice. She is Miss Helen Bourne, of Relay, who last season held the Peabody vocal scholarship No. 3 and in April gave a joint scholarship recital with Dur-ward Bowersox, violinist. Miss Bourne had gone to New York in the hope of getting an engagement in light opera. She joined the scores of other young women that flock to the radio station at every audition as in other years they flocked to the managers of the big musical shows and more recently to the Hollywood studios. But Policeman And Inspector Hiding Under Bridge Prevent Their Daring Feat—State's Attorney "Dishes Out" Lecture. White Hall, that ordinarily quiet little village nestling among the hills in the upper end of the county, was shocked to its utmost one night recently—in fact it was shocked to greater proportions than if it had been visited by an earthquake; and it was all due to the closing of the (Continued oa Page 8—Col. 6) Pirate Craft Held Up Schooner Pattie May Off Bay Shore. THRIFTY FOLKS HAVE $9,971,819.23 ON DEPOSIT IN VARIOUS COUNTY BANKS Figures Indicate That Less Money Is Being Spent In Securities In This Community—Financial Conditions Much Better. Baltimore county banks sho.v a very healthy increase in their deposits. The statements of the 13 banks in the county published during the past two weeks show that there is on deposit $9,971,819.23, and yet when it was proposed to start a bank in this county back in the 80's a great many persons expressed the opinion that it would be a failure. The deposits of the three Towson banks on June 30 last amounted to $3,280,960.73. These statements also show that the deposits of the county banks have increased in six months over a million dollars. And one encouraging feature of this increase is the savings departments in each of the banks have made substantial gains. One prominent banker attributes a part of the large increase in savings accounts to the fact that a great many people have become convinced that 4 per cent and security is much better than the uncertainty and danger that accompanies investments that promise a larger yield of interest. There is nothing that shows prosperity more clearly and more surely than savings accounts, so that we are warranted in saying that Qiir county is in a prosperous condition. The banks in Baltimore county are: National — Towson, Cockeysville, Second National, Parkton "and Pikes-ville; State Banks— Sparrows Point, Overlea, Baltimore County, Reis-terstown Savings, White Hall, Giyn-don, Sparks and Fowblesburg. The identity of the alleged pirate craft that held up the schooner Pattie May in the Chesapeake off Bay Shore remains a mystery as the Coast Guard cutter Apache and other Government vessels comb the lower bay for the ship. Confidence was expressed by Coast Guard officers here that a capture would be made within a few days. The Pattie May, a fishing craft, was held up as she was bound for* Norfolk. According to Capt. Ave Quinn, master of the schooner, one shot was fired over the bow of his vessel and another through the deckhouse from a small gun on the pirate craft. When the Pattie May hove to a search for liquor was made by men who posed as revenue agents. At the Norfolk Coast Guard Station it vas said that the vessel was a rum pirate and it is thought that she is bottled up in the bay. BARN DESTROYED AVIATOR GIVES BLOOD TO SAVE POLICEMAN. FREDERICK WOMAN GUEST OF COUNTY RELATIVE. Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter, of My Lady's Manor, has had as her guest her cousin, Mrs. Jennie Cramer, of Frederick. SUMMERFIELD WOMAN FALLS DOWN STEPS. Mrs. William T. Pearce, of Sum-merfield, had the misfortune to fall down a pair of stairs, badly injuring herself. Capt. M. M. Stryker, an Army aviator during the World War who was stationed at Camp Meade and had an airplane of his own at Logan Field, Dundalk, gave a quantity of his blood to save the life of a policeman shot by two men with a fiery cross near Ardmore, Pa., according to information received from Philadelphia, where the transfusion took place. Four men arrested in connection with the case admit being members of the Ku Klux Klan, the report stated. The policeman was Francis Roy, of the force of Lower Merion township, Pa., who was shot in the leg July 3. After amputating the policeman's leg, surgeons announced that his life could be saved only by a blood transfusion. J. WALTER TURNBAUGH ILL. Mr. J. Walter Turnbaugh, principal of the Butler Public School and a well known auctioneer is confined to his home by illness. OIL LAMP EXPLODES Three Engine Companies Battle Blaze Near Stevenson Station. Fire caused by the explosion of an oil lamp damaged the rear of a cottage on Margaret Meadows, the estate of G. Mason Janney, in the Green Spring Valley, near Stevenson. Mr. Janney, who occupies the cottage, is in New York. Three rooms over a dairy whtre the lamp exploded were wrecked beyond repair. The rest of the house and its furnishings were damaged by smoke and water. An employee of the estate was skimming milk when the explosion occurred. Hose laid to a stream a quarter of a mile away brought sufficient water to save the dwelling. The Pikesville, Owings Mills and Reisterstown fire departments responded to the alarm of fire. Fire Wrecks Structure On Property Of Charles E. Burton, At Baldwin. A barn on the property of Clarence E. Burton, at Baldwin, was struck by lightning during the storm on Thursday afternoon and was destroyed by fire. The loss is $8000, partially covered by insurance. Live stock in the building was rescued. The Towson fire engine was summoned. Crops were stored in the barn. VOLUMES OF NEW LAWS. Americans are a unit in agreeing that the country is being burdened to death with useless laws. No one denies that all department of national government have hundreds of unnecessary employes. No one could possibly doubt that taxation is exorbitant and mounting higher every day. Practically every candidate for public office denounces extravagance in government, demands early relief and pledges his services to a policy of reduction. Every election is a paper victory for the forces of economy and retrenchment. Yet, in spite of it all, the public sees each succeeding administration spend more money than its predecessor, create more offices and bureaus, enact more statutes (an average of 10,000 new laws annually), and lead the country deeper into the Wilderness of confusion and profligacy. ^X«»^X»>M«W^«>M«W«VV^ ACTIVITY REIGNS Through Met. Sanitary Dept County Is Undertaking Big Job. Great activity reigns in the offices of the Metropolitan Sanitary District in the Court House, at Towson, for Baltimore county is undertaking a program for providing sewers and a water supply for the thickly built-up section which, when completed, will be as thorough and extensive as the system of any modern community. The work of creating a Metropolitan Sanitary District in the various villages and towns adjacent to Baltimore city has been placed in the (Continued on Page 8—Col. 5) TAKES GLEN ARM STATION AGENT'S PLACE. While Mr. John Jacobs, station agent at Glen Arm enjoyed his annual vacation Mr. Robert Johnson "held down the job." BALTIMORE COUNTIANS SPEND NEARLY $200,000 FOR ICE CREAM Few Local Plants Do "Land Office" Business, While Big Manufacturers "Clean Up" As Folks Satisfy Their "Sweet Tooth". (By Nancy Hanks) Have you noticed how strong and healthy Baltimore countians as a whole are? This may be due, partially, to the good climate, but also our people know the part that a wholesome food plays in aiding one to acquire and keep good health. Baltimore countians are great lovers of ice cream, and the quantities in pints, quarts and gallons consumed here in a day, week and month would be astounding. While the few local plants do a land office business, the several big outside manufacturers that ship ice cream into our midst "clean up" during the summer months. Naturally, little ice cream is sold DEATH RATE LOWEST IN FOUR YEARS. Baltimore county's death rate last week was lower than that of any corresponding week since 1920, according to Dr. Josiah Bowen, County Health Officer, during the winter, the busiest season being from the latter part of May to the last of September. A canvass of all manufacturers shows that during this period Baltimore county consumes nearly $200,000 worth of the frozen stuff. BADLY CUT BY GLASS Bee Causes Man To Drive Auto Into Telegraph Pole. J. Page Hayden, 26 years old, was badly cut by glass from the windshield of his automobile when a bee alighted upon his lip, he said, and caused him to lose his hold on the steering wheel. The machine clashed into a telegraph pole on Washington Boulevard. Mr. Hayden, who was thrown from the car, was taken to St. Agnes' Hospital by motor-cycle patrolman Edward Harrison. After receiving treatment, Mr. Hayden was able to return to his home at 521 East Twenty-second street, Baltimore. County Police Are Searching For A Wild Looking Man Who Is Hiding In The Woods Near Parkton-As He Has "Been Seen To Make A RushFor A Tree When Anything Approaches, Hels Believed To Be An Escaped Pedestrian © Maryland State Archives mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0092.jpg |