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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0130 Enlarge and print image (6M) |
| ALL THE NEWS THAT'S PIT TO PRINT. THE JEFFERSONIAN "WITH THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE9' VOL. XII—No. 34. "It Covers The Community Like The Dew* TOWSON, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1924. BALTIMORE COUNTY'S ONLY SUNDAY NEWSPAPER, Two Russian Girls, Envious Of Another Girl's Expensive Clothes, Hacked Her To Death—In America They Would Have Been Content To Pick Her To Pieces GIGANTIC DEMONSTRATION AT COUNTY-SEAT, SEPT. 12TH Old Defenders' Day To Be Celebrated In Style That Will RivalHome-Coming Of Soldiers And Sailors AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION TO BE VOTED ON IN NOVEMBER, A MISCHIEVIOUS ONE Would Deprive Children Under 18 From Even Helping Perents On Farms—Measure Should Be ".Snowed Under"—Takes Matter Out Of Stale's Hands And Puts It In Congress. WHY ALL THE PUSS? i I 4 4 4 { 'i 1 4 4 4 t ? 4 4 I I T f The observance of September 12th as Deffense Day all over the country, seems to have aroused a hornets nest. This test day of our Military equipment, set for the date of the battle of St. Mihiel, will have very concrete results, and to Marylanders it will have even .more significance, being the anniversary of the Battle of North Point, when the citizen-soldiers of Baltimore City and Baltimore County, with nails as bullets, repulsed the British attack. Defense Day will show us just how we stand from a military standpoint, it will inspire citizens and soldiers with a new sense of patriotism, emphasize the unity of the nation, and give army officials a chance to see defects of all kinds. Hi fact, its similiarity to a fire drill has been noted, for we do not wait until a school is ablaze to show children how to act. Nothing like a menacing gesture to Europe or an increase of armaments was intended— it will be a patriotic holiday, with all citizens who wish joining in the parades. Nobody will be dragged from work— there is no hint of drafting. This is where the very obvious misunderstanding has come. The Defense Day idea is not necessarily brilliant, but if properly carried out, and co-operated in, the occasion can bring tremendous good. ?*? DEATH CLAIMS MY LADY'S MANOR RESIDENT. Mrs. Ella Royston Price, wife of Mr. R. Oliver Price, died at her My Lady's Manor home.. She was a daughter of the late Wesley and May Fuller Royston. The proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, giving Congress power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age, has finally passed both Houses of Congress. It now goes to the States for ratification. There is some danger in the proposed amendment. The rearing and care of children is not committed to the State, but to the parents by the law of God. This work is of too delicate a nature to be submitted to the definement of politics. It looks strongly toward socialism. No provision was made for it in the Constitution, and to introduce it now, when socialism is pressing to the front by every means and on every opportunity, is a very serious matter. Moreover, the question of training a child to work is too intricate a matter to be regulated by the State. If cruelty or injustice is in any way perpetrated on a child or minor, there is and should be a way for his civil defense. But to attempt to make a civil provision for inter- (Continued on Page 8—Col. 3) USE UNIQUE METHOD City Patrol Brings Prisoner To County For Exercise. Folks who travel some of the County roads are treated to a unique sight—that of prisoners exercising in the roadway. By order of Charles D. Gaither, Police Commissioner of Baltimore City, Edward Denhardt and others, whose revelations to the police resulted in the capture and conviction of four youths for the murder of Louis Cohen, jeweler, is brought to the country under police guard each day the weather permits and allowed to exercise in the open. TWO BATHERS HURT One Injured At Bay Shore, Other In Gunpowder River. Two men were treated for injuries received in diving. They are Ernest R. Kenney, 119 South Clinton street, and Donald G. Cook, of Hubbard, Ohio. Kenney's head struck a rock when he dived into the water at Bay Shore Park. He sustained a laceration of the scalp, and was taken to Mercy Hospital by an agent of the United Railways. Cook was similarly injured in diving from the Becket bridge over the Gunpowder river. He was taken to Homewood Hospital and treated for lacerations of the scalp. LAWN PETE AT BALDWIN AUGUST 23RD. On Saturday, August 23rd, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of Chestnut Grove Church, a lawn fete will be held on the lawn ©f Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Connelly's home at Baldwin. AUTO TRUCK WRECKED Machine Is Struck By Towson- Catonsville Car—Driver Badly Cut. A bakery truck owned by Drayer Brothers, Catonsville, was wrecked on the Frederick road and Wood-lawn avenue, Catonsville. William Drayer, operator of the machine, was cut on the head. BAD LUCK OF WALKING UNDER LADDERS HAS NO HORROR FOR TOWSON FOLKS York Road Affords Observation Of Importance Attached To Old Superstition As Seen From Workmen's Viewpoint. Towson people in general are not inclined to be superstitious. At least that is what workmen state who have been engaged en two or three new structures on the York Road, the county seat's "great white way," in which ladders inclined RIOT ON STEAMER Row On "General Lincoln" Causes Police To Make Arrests. An emergency call for police was \ sent out by the excursion steamship j General Lincoln, which plys between j Baltimore city and Bay Shore, when fighting broke out aboard the boat. Bernard J. White, 8 Valleyview avenue, Baltimore city, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and assault. Charges were preferred by Charles Jackson, an official of the company. The trouble occurred, officers of the boat said, when Jackson remonstrated with White for alleged misconduct on the dance floor. They came to blows, and others joined in. above the sidewalk offered the pedestrians the choice of walking underneath or going around. Everyone is familiar with the age-old adage that to walk underneath a ladder was "dead bad luck." So it may be supposed that those who do so flaunt such a pagan belief boldly in the face of public opinion and walk where it's most convenient. Women, the workmen told a representative of The Jeffersonian, are more prone to taking the long way around than men. Whether this is from fear of being struck by foreign objects or not wanting to encounter misfortune they were not prepared to say. (Continued on Page 8—Col. 5) JAMES \V. O'HARA ESTATE IS LEFT TO SISTER. By the will of James W. O'Hara, a retired merchant of Texas, which has been probated in the Orphans' Court at Towson, he bequeaths his estate absolutely to his sister, Miss Ella C. O'Hara, who is named as executrix of the will. • TRAIN HITS AUTO Four Save Lives By Leaping From Car At Dundalk Crossing. Leaping from a motortruck in the path of an onrushing train at the Dundalk grade crossing, a man and three children escaped injury as the vehicle was smashed to fragments. Elmer S. King, driver of the truck, of Baltimore city, was hurled some distance, sustaining a fractured skull and other injuries. The truck was "returning from delivering a load of feed below St. Helena and picked up the man and children. They started across the railroad tracks near the Maryland Swimming Club when King saw approaching from the east a passenger train loaded with workmen from Sparrows Point steel plant bound for Baltimore. King threw his machine into reverse, seeing he could not cross in time. Frank Riggs grabbed little Milton and jumped clear. So did Steve Kelley and Raymond Riggs. They were barely in time to escape the crash that reduced the truck to fragments and hurled King against the post. James Tagg!, engineer of! the train, had already reversed his engine. As soon as the train could be stopped it was backed up. The injured man and the others were taken to Union Station, where an ambulance was waiting to take King to the hospital. THE SALVATION ARMY. NEITHER DAVIS, COOLIDGE NOR LAFOLLETTE MAY GRACE WHITE HOUSE CHAIR BAND CONCERT, AIRPLANE-PARACHUTE JUMP Y OTHER FEATURES Pack Your Lunch, Hitch Up The Old Nag, Crank The Flivver, Pile The folks In And Make A Day Of It—For There'll Be Something Doing Every Minute. One hundred and twelve years ago September 12th, Old Defenders' Day, the Battle of North Point was waged on Baltimore county soil. To capture the Nation's capitol and inflict punishment upon the city of Baltimore from where so many (Continued on Page 4—Col. 3) HELPING WITH EXHIBITS. VILLAGE TO BE SOLD All Of Ashland Except Church And School To Go "Under Hammer." Unusual Political Situation Makes Possible A Final Presidential Choice By Senate Of Either Bryan Or Dawes—Outline Of Election Machinery's Workings. PLANS RETURN FROM IRELAND. Archbishop Curley, who has been visiting his mother in Athlone, Ireland, will return to Baltimore during the first week of September. Information regarding his plans received at the archepiscopal residence during the past week stated that he would sail on the Majestic about August 2 5th. AIDED BY WHITES Former Negro Slave, 74, Took Up Abode In Shack On Falls Road. J. Frank Smith, seventy-four, was a negro slave in St. Mary's county before the Civil War. The folks there knew him and liked him. So when Frank was taken to the police station at Pikesville because he liked the looks of a home at Bare Hills, on the Falls road, and decided to stay there awhile, white folks of St. Mary's county stood by him. The Baltimore County Police telephoned and talked to J. W. Dent, a business man of St. Mary's county. Mr. Dent asked the police to give Frank "the best of care," and declared he would send his own son to take Frank home if necessary. (From the Washington Correspondent of The Jeffersonian) Fancy a conservative newspaper publishing on its first page a story to the effect that neither Coolidge nor Davis nor La Follette will be elected President of the United States in November. At first glance such a statement might seem outside the realm of possibility, but the political situation is comple and thei DOG SUFFERING FROM BABBIES SHOT. A dog suffering from rabbies, the property of William Winters, of Spring Grove, was killed by Sergt. Poehlman, of the county police department. FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR MRS. MARY MARIK. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Marik, seventyotfe, widow of Leopold Marik of Putty Hill, who died at her home on Belair road, were held from her late home. FACES SERIOUS CHARGE Woodlawn Man Held On Complaint Of 15-Year-Old Girl. Henry B. Firl, thirty-two, of Woodlawn, a -carpenter, was arrested on charges preferred by a fifteen-year-old girl, and held in bond of $1000 when arraigned, before Justice H. C. Andreae at the Catonsville Police Station. He will be tried in the Circuit Court for Baltimore county. The arrest was made by Patrolmen Dennis Cavey and Joseph Thornton. ASST. SECRETARY OF LABOR TO SPEAK AT LONG GREEN. Hon. Theodore G. Ridgely, Asst. Secretary of Labor, of Washington, will be the speaker at the Long Green Reunion Picnic to be held on Waugh M. E. Church grounds today (Saturday). election machinery such that it does not require much imagination to foresee the possibility, if not the probability, of such a situation. Almost anything may happen in November. There are 531 votes in the Electoral College. The electoral college is composed of electors from each state, equal in number to the number of Senator anad Representatives to which the State is entitled. For example, New York State has two Senators and 43 Representatives. Therefore, New York has forty-five votes in the electoral college. The total membership of the electoral college equals the total membership of the Senate and House—531. In voting it will be remembered that the people vote for the electors of their States, these names appearing on the ballot, and not those of Coolidge or Davis or La Follette. The Constitution provides that a ( Continued on Page 4—Col. 3) The entire village of Ashland, excepting the church and public school will be sold "under the hammer" on Wednesday, September 17th, at 12 o'clock noon, according to an advertisement appearing elsewhere in this issue of The Jeffersonian. The mansion house, a large three-story brick structure with slate roof and all necessary outbuildings, and with 18 acres of ground is the prize, while 12 double brick and frame dwellings, 10 single dwellings, all in good condition and occupied, will be sold by the trustees pursuant to a decree of the Circuit Court in the proceedings instituted by Jennie M. Horner vs. Laura Bates et al. GUEST OF JACKSONVILLE FOLKS Mrs. Horace Gould, of Jacksonville, has had as her guest Miss Hat-tie Zinkhan, of Corbett. MRS. THOMAS JESSOP HOSTESS. COURT HOUSE TO HAVE ANNEX. Office space in the Towson Court House is so cramped that it will be necessary to provide additional space elsewhere, hence a portable one-story office building 26x72 feet will be placed in the very near future on the Chesapeaks Avenue side of the Court House Park at Baltimore avenue. SEEKS POLICE AID County Authorities Requested To Help Find Missing Youngsters. Police of Baltimore county have been asked to look for two boys who disappeared from their homes about the same time. John Stebbing, 1724 East Chase street, Baltimore city, reported that his son, Norman, 11 years old, was sent to the drug store and failed to return. It is the fourth time, he said, that the boy has been missing from home. Mrs. Anna Corkran, 1920 East Lanvale street, Baltimore city, reported that her son, Connor, 13 years old, has been missing several days. The Ladies' Aid Society of Chestnut Grove Church met at the home of Mrs. Thomas Jessop, Baldwin, on Tuesday last. EMORY GROVE CLOSES 10,000 Attend Last Day At Historic Old Camp. Emory Grove campmeeting closed on Sunday last. "The closing day was very successful," said the Rev. C. L. Hubbard, director of the meeting. More than 10,000 people attended the services. County Agricultural Agent Rohde, who is assisting farm organizations and Boys' Clubs prepare for Timon-ium Fair. PAYS WITH FOWL Negro Purchases Auto With Loot From Hen House. For the laast month the residents of Reisterstown had been loo.king for the negro in the woodpile. Three hundred of their chickens had disappeared mysteriously. That a negro was responsible they were convinced. But they couldn't conceive of a negro, no matter how fond he might be of fowl, being able to eat so many of the barnyard birds. Then Patrolman Clifford E. Sullivan learned that even if pigs is pigs, chickens on occasion might be money. He was told that a negro named Tom Johnson had given 30 chickens to a Reisterstown resident as first payment on an automobile. WASHINGTON WOMAN GUEST OF JACKSONVILLE FRIEND. Mrs. Leonard Link, of Jacksonville, has had as her guest Miss Louise Smid, of Washington. COUNTY WEATHER PROPHET SAYS THERE WILL BE FEW DOG DAYS Have Had Little Weather So Fart That Produces Dreaded Humid Days—Dog Madness Used To Be Frequent At This Season Dog days, the 40 hottest days of summer, when Sirius, the dog star, follows the sun in true doglike fashion are at hand. Genial Mr. Dance, bailiff in the Orphans' Court at Towson, and a weather prophet of no mean ability, says it is possible this section will not have typical dog-day weather this year. "Dog days are characterized by warm humid weather with little wind," said Mr. Dance. "We have not had any such weather so far this year, but it is early in the dog day calendar, a period supposed to run from the middle of July to late August, and it is probable we shall have real dog day temperature. I do not remember any summer in HARVEST FESTIVAL TO BEGIN AT WOODLAWN SEPT. 1ST. The annual carnival, or St. Agnes' Harvest Festival to be held at Woodlawn September 1st will be one of the biggest affairs ever "staged" in that community. The event will last all week, having as its rival the Timonium Fair. the past that has escaped the sultry influence of Sirius." But in spite of Mr. Dance there are persons who wish that some one would tell them when dog days begin. It is necessary, they say, that (Continued on Page 8—Col. 5) FOR WORLD RECORD Aviators At Bay Shore Event In October Promise Unique Performance. Efforts to break the world's record for seaplanes will be made over a straightaway course parallel to Bay Shore Park on the day following the Jacques Schneider internataional marine trophy race at the park. The Schneider race finals will be held October 25. The record for seaplanes of 177.6 miles an hour is held by the United States Navy. Plans for the races, which will last three days, have been completed aand preparation of Bay Shore Park and the courses will commence the latter part of this month. The Secretary Of The National Automobile Association Recently Checked Cars At A Crossing, And Found That The Most Popular Two-Passenger Machine Is The Pierce-Arrow And The Most Popular Seven-Passenger, The Ford |