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| ALL THE JEFFE I "WITH THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE" VOL. XII—NO. 49. 'It Covers The1 Community Like The Dew' TOWSON, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1924. BALTIMORE COUNTY'S PRO GRESSIVE NEWSPAPER. Tax Rate For 1925 Fixed By County Commissioners At One Dollar And Sixty-Four Cents Per Hundred The County Commissioners have fixed the tax rate for 1925 at $1.64—the levy includes an item of $70,000 to meet the first payment of the contemplated addition to the Court House at Towson, which will be started early in 1925. Had lit not been for this, the tax rate would have been lowered 4 cents instead of being increased 2 cents. LUTHERVILLE CROSSING, CENTRAL PLACE OF EXECUTION IN STATE FOR PENNSYLVANIA R. R. COMPANY With OF WOMAN TOWARD WHITE HOUSE, FEATURE OF RECENT ELECTION Women Governors In Texas And Wyoming, Politicians Are Wondering How Long Before Feminine Sex Roles Nation. *^:~>********************* 'HEY! BUDDIES!" The United States Government is trying to hand you the bonus voted you by Congress, but some three million of you appear to be so little interested that you have made no effort to send in your names to the War Department. Some of you may not want the bonus at all. If this is so, please notify Adjusted Compensation Branch, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D. C, so it can get his record in your cases straight. Those of you who do want the bonus have only to fill out a brief application form. The Adjutant General has asked 6,500 postmasters and 450 editors in the Third Corps Area to help him get in touch with you. If you want to take up directly the matter of the bonus, drop a line to Adjusted Compensation Branch, American Legion Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Organized Reserves, National Guard, or any Army Recruiting man. (By Nancy Hanks) Now that more than five million people, citizens of Texas and Wyoming, will be ruled by women Governors, many people are wondering. They are wondering if the election of two women as Governors of sovereign States is an indication of what may come in the future. They are asking themselves, "Will there, some day, be a woman President of these United States? Will a woman, by popular vote, some time (Continued on Page 8—Col. 1) CENSUS OF FARMS VICTIM OF HICCOUGHS Dr. Charles L. Mattfeldt In Serious Condition At Hospital. Dr. Charles L. Mattfeldt, county health officer for the First district, is in a serious condition at St. Agnes' Hospital from an attack of hiccoughs which started a week ago. Dr. Mattfeldt lives at 908 Frederick ave., Catonsville. Physicians at the hospital said they have applied a number of treatments in an effort to lessen the pain. Members of Dr. Mattfeldt's family said he had been suffering with a heavy cold and that the hiccoughs started as the result of it. Most Complete Ever Attempted By Dept. Of Commerce Be Launched Here. The farmers of Baltimore county may be interested to know that an agricultural census will be taken of every farm in this county within the next few months by the Bureau of the Census of the U. S. Department of Commerce. This work is being done in every State in the Union and will begin December 1 to continue until it is completed. It is the desire of those in charge, however, to finish this work by January 31 if possible. It will require the services of several enumerators to do this work in the entire county, which will be divided into enumeration districts. This census differs from that taken in 1920 in that it comprises only the agricultural activities on the farm, and therefore does not include both the agricultural and population statistics as reported in 19 20. In furnishing the enumerators with the type of infor- (Continued on Page 8—Col. 2) WORK PROGRESSING ON "UPPER END" ROAD. Work is progressing rapidly on the one-half mile of State road leading east from White Hall toward Harford county. MAKING OF XMAS WREATHES BRINGS NEAT SUM TO "LOWER END" FOLKS Holly Industry Started There Some Forty Years Ago-Scarcity Of Berries Halls Quantity Production. The holly business in the lower end of Baltimore county is now in full swing and will continue until about the twentieth of December, DIPHTHERIA WARNING If Children Show Signs Of Sore Throat, Physician Should Be Called In. Thirty cases of diphtheria with 2 deaths resulting in Baltimore county has caused Dr. Josiah Bowen, County Health Officer, to warn parents to immediately call in a physician if their children show signs, of a sore throat. Membraneous croup is practically the same as diphtheria and while people pay little attention to it, the results may be serious. and will put thousands of dollars in circulation. In localities where the wreathes are made it proves to be a profitable industry. During the day, the women make up the wreathes and at night they are reinforced by the children and the men, and when the hour for retiring comes a very attractive sum of money has been made. Dealers drive through the holly sections and buy the wreathes at the homes daily fecept Sundays. The most difficult E&rt of the work is (Continued on Page &s^-Col 3) $300 IN CASH AND JEWELRY TAKEN. Three hundred dollars in cash and jewelry was taken from the home of Mr. G. J. Weber at North Bend, when thieves entered his home, ransacking everything. Improvement Association Adopts Resolutions Calling Upon Grand Jury To Act MOVIE STUDIO PROPOSED DRUNK WITH POWER. GRAND-DAD DOOLEY IS EIfflEKUr APT WITH HIS Rabin Hand And William Tell Nat In It Resident, Who Becomes Expert In Teaching Youngsters. Falls Road Robin Hood was a pretty good shot with a bow and arrow. **> was William Tell. So is CI?* .< M. Dooley. "Grand dad" Dooley, who*a,t sixty-two is white-haired but vigorous, lives on the Falls Road, north of Mt. Washington. He took up the bow and arrow not as an antiquarian, but as a grandfather. Two small grandsons, Ferdinand and Fritz Stribel, live with their grandfather. Ferdinand and Fritz early reached that al fresco age when youngsters feel the need of weapons of defense in the great open spaces of their back yards. Being a resourceful grandfather, Dooley proved equal to their demands. He provided each of his grandsons with a bow and arrow in order that they should be adequate ly armed against the lions,'" tigers and elephants which, they understand, roam at will about Mount Washington. The funny thing about it is that while grandfather was fashioning (Continued on Page 4—Col. 5) SON KILLS FATHER MAN BADLY BURNED "Gas" He Was Pouring In Tractor Tank Ignites His Clothing. Thomas Lavalo, 44 years old, of near Hereford, is in a critical condition at the University Hospital, Baltimore city, as the result of burns received.when gasoline, which he poured into the tank of a running tractor, ignited and set fire to his clothing, police said. A helper said he neglected to turn off the motor before filling the tank, and sparks from the engine ignited the gasoline. SUPPER AT MT. CARMEL TONIGHT. An oyster supper under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of Mt. Carmel M. E. Church will be held in Heptasoph's Hall there tonight (Saturday). NEGOTIATIONS NOW UNDER WAY WITH NEW YORK FILM PRODUCING CONCERN TO TAKE OVER THE VILLAGE OF ASHLAND FOR STUDIO. PEOPLE HAVE NO SELFISH ATTITUDE IN MATTER, BUT THEY DO NOT TRUST RAILROAD OFFICIALS Mano Swartz, who purchased the entire village of Ashland at trustee's sale a few months ago, was in New York this week negotiating with a film producing company there for the sale of the town as a moving picture settlement. Mr. Swartz stated to a representative of The Jeffersonian that Ashland possessed every qualification for the taking of movies, for there was a lake near at hand, a railroad station, Colonial mansion, store and the ever important main street and at all times the necessary villages. If Killings At This Crossing Continaa It Will Find In Damage Cases Far More Expansive Than Gates And Watchman. Verdict LAROE BALLOT IN '26 Fall Coanty Ticket And Governorship To ha Voted On. For the next two years voters will have a rest from elections, but when the next election docs come, which will be in the fall of 1926, it will be epochal in size. Under the fewer (or quadrennial) elections amendment to the State Constitution all State and county officers will be elected every four years, and 1926 starts the ball rolling. More than this, the voters will not only have State and county officers to elect in 1926, but a United States Senator and the biennial batch of Congressmen. When the Baltimore county voter goes to the polls in 1926, hungry after the political fast of 1925, he will be given a ballot which in size and variety should compensate him for the one he failed to get the year before. The Baltimore county voter will be called upon to exercise his franchise with respect to the following: One United States Senator, one Governor, One Attorney General, one State Comptroller, Clerk of Court of Appeals, one representative for Congress, one State Senator, six delegates to the Legislature, Board of County Commissioners, Sheriff, Clerk of Court, Treasurer, State's Attorney and County Surveyor., There was a special meeting of the Lutherville Improvement Association on last Monday night which was well attended. The people of Lutherville are in dea dearnest that the Railway Company should either of its own motion give protection at this most dangerous crossing or be made to do it. Resolutions were adopted and sent to the Circuit Court asking that the matter be brought before the grand jury of the December term. This is no unusual demand that the people are making. It is not brought about by alarmists or theorists, but is a demand because this crossing has become a central execution place of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is so bad that the County Commissioners ordered a watchman and gates and the Sngineer of the Public Service Commission after investigation reported to the Commission that it was extremely dangerous and that the public should be pro-tectd by gates and a watchman. Yet repeated killings, findings of the County Commissioners or Public Service Commission do not move the (Continued on Page 8—Col. 4) \% RESOLUTION CONDEMNS % Y RAILROAD CROSSING CON- f X DITION AS NOTORIOUS. X t ------ $ *»* A resolution indorsing any *|* A movement which has as its % y object the installation of prop- y *t* er safeguards at the grade *j* .* crossing of the Pennsylvania X f V y I % I railroad at Lutherville, was y adopted by the Lion's Club of *i* Baltimore city at a recent * meeting. The resolution, which was adopted unanimously reads: "Resolved, that the danger ous condition of the grade *t* BONSAL GOES FREE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OBSERVED AT HUNT'S M. E. CHURCH. Sparks High School Student Puts End To Existence Protecting Mother. William J. Simms, a blacksmith at West Liberty, Seventh district, was instantly killed by his sixteen-year-old son, James Simms, a student of Sparks High School. The elder Simms, while drunk, attempted to beat his wife, who was preparing the evening meal. He grabbed his wife and thrusting her on the cook stove, was about to strike her with a stick of wood when a daughter summoned the brother, who seeing the danger to which his mother was subjected, (Continued on Page 8—Col. 2) The fiftieth anniversary of the building of the present Hunt's M. E. Church at Riderwood, and the dedication of the new Sunday School building was celebrated on Sunday at 11 A. M. Rev. John O. Spencer, president of Morgan College, preached. At night Rev. Don Colt, District Superintendent, preached. Celebration exercises continued during the week, the annual banquet of the Men's Bible Class being held on Monday night. Following. Marriage Annullment, Father Petitions Court To Release Him. An order for the release of Leigh Bonsai, Jr., from Springfield State, Hospital was signed by Judge Walter I. Dawkins in Circuit Court No. 2, Baltimore city, on the petition of Leigh Bonsai, Sr., father and committee of the young man. The elder Bonsai stated in the petition that his son had been offered an opportunity to work and the petitioner was eager that his son should avail himself of the opportunity. GLEN ARM PLANS CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT. A Christmas entertainment is being planned to take place in Glen Arm Hall n the evening of December 13th. to correct conditions, although £ frequently urged to do so; y ?'That this club is solidly X back of any movement which •*• has for its object the install- y % ation of proper safeguards at X «§? this crossing." ?** ?;? ?;? MAGICIAN TO GIVE ENTERTAINMENT AT NORMAL SCHOOL. Paul Fleming, the magician, will give an entertainment at the State Normal School on Friday evening, Dec. 5th, at 8 o'clock. PASSED OVER TOWSON ZR-3 Plainly Visible As It Soars Over Court House En-route To Washington. A va3t gray bulk soaring up in the clouds was viewed by many "as U soared over the Court House at Towson enroute to Washington, where Mrs. Coolidge, wife of the President, christened it. It was the ZR-3, the Navy's giant German-built Zeppelin, now the Los Angeles. WOMAN FOUND DEAD Mrs. M. A. Bailey of Catonsville Victim Of Heart Disease. Mrs. Mary Ann Bailey, 82 years old, daughter of the late Elias Parks, who was active in Baltimore county politics, was found dead in bed at her home in Catonsville. H. C. Andreae, coroner, said death was due to heart disease. Mrs. Bailey, who had made her home with her grandson, W. J. Kim-mel, 109 Oak Drive, Summit Park, J for the past several years, retired Tuesday night in good health, according to members of the family. JAMES /. LINDSAY DIES AT TOWSON HOME IN HIS SIXTY-FIFTH YEAR Served Two Terms In House Of Delegates And When But Twenty-Eight Was Elected State Senator. Former State Senator James J Lindsay died on Wednesday morning at his home in Towson, aged 65, of stomach trouble. He is survived by his widw, Mrs. Catherine Padian Lindsay; two daughters, Mrs. F. J. Green and Miss Anne Lindsay, and ne son, James J. Lindsay, Jr. The latter named is a member of the House of Delegates. Mr. Lindsay was born in Balti-city and moved at an early age to the Eleventh district of Baltimore county. He served two terms in the SUPPER AT TOWSON M. P. CHURCH DECEMBER 4TH. Maryland House of Delegates and at the age of 28 was elected State (Continued on Page 8—Col 5) FIRE DESTROYS BARN Under the auspices of the Men's Bible Class of the Towson M. P. Church a chicken patty supper will be held on Thursday evening, December 4th, from 6 to 8 o'clock. Structure On Place Of William Storm And Its Contents Destroyed. The barn of William Storm, on the Dover road at Chestnut Ridge, and a cornhouse were burned. A large amount of farm produce was destroyed. Horses and cows in the barn were rescuced. Some hogs perished in the flames. Towson and Pikesville Fire Companies were summoned, but owing to the bad condition of a road on the property could not reach the burning building. PATROLMAN KELLY CHASES SUSPICIOUS FIGURE LURKING IN DARK FROM REAR OF JEFFERSONIAN PLANT-IS SURPRISED WHEN CHAP IS CORNERED. The "Jeff's" bigger and better Community Christmas Tree and Realistic Garden has all been planned by Santa Claus and the genial old fellow is now a regular visitor at the county seat, making trips nightly, to speed up his work so that the kiddies will not be disappointed and the opening date of December 18th will be adhered to. Patrolman Kelly had the chase of his life the other night when, while patrolling his beat and sauntering up Chesapeake avenue, he observed a chunky figure dart here and there in the rear of The "Jeff" plant, and naturally gave chase, with the result that he was nigh about winded when he cornered Santa in the rear of the Court House, and the dear old fellow, being able to give an account of himself, proved to the "strong arm of the law" that his mission here in the "wee-sma'-hours" was perfectly legitimate. Lighting his old corn cob pipe and offering Patrolman Kelly a huge cigar, which he declined, Santa grabbed the patrolman's arm and invited him to inspect his work. So the two wended their way to The "Jeff" plant and upon being ushered in to where Santa labors when all Towson slumbers, the patrolman's eyes became as big as saucers, for before him were numerous little houses, and in fact everything to make up a real, righty garden. In a few minutes Patrolman Kelly found himself all alone, for Santa had vamoosed as mysteriously as he had come, and he too "dug out," making straight for the Towson Engine House, where he routed the fire laddies from their beds to tell them all about the wondrous things he had beheld, and you can bet he'll bejn opening date to view the finished product. |