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| July 27, 1997 | ||||||||
25 Years Ago Trailers For Flood Victims Provide Emergency Housing — Four 12 by 60 foot trailers were installed within the town limits of Union Bridge by the Office of Housing and Urban Development Friday as relief living quarters for local victims of Tropical storm Agnes and the consequent flood. Three of the brand new trailers are on the North Parking Lot, centrally located behind Yingling's Grocery store and Winebrener's Hardware on Main Street, and the fourth has been placed on the property of Mahlon Welch, near the lagoon. Mayor Richard Stultz said that although he was involved with HUD officials in the installation of the trailers, Councilman Thomas Winebrener and Sterling Wilson handled most of the details. "My special thanks go to Tom and Mr. Wilson for what they've done," he said. The Carroll Record, July 27, 1972.
50 Years Ago CAMERA CLUB OUTING SUCCESSFUL — Fortune smiled on the Westminster Camera Club Sunday, July 20th when the enthusiastic group of photographers was favored with a warm, sunny day for its first planned outing of the season. Thirteen people, loaded with every kind of equipment from Brownies to Graflexes and carrying all types of accessories from filters and flashbulbs to meters and monopods, left Westminster at one-thirty for two destinations of unusual interest. The first objective was Cramptons. This is where the first memorial was erected to War Correspondents and it bears the names of those adventurous scribes who reported the action in the War between the States. The gap is also the site of the much talked-about homes of the storied Townsend, one of those very correspondents, whose pen name was Gath and of whom much has been written. Democratic Advocate, July 25, 1947.
75 Years Ago INTERNATIONAL NO-MORE WAR DEMONSTRATION JULY 29 TO 30. — Ten nations of Europe and the United States will hold "No-more-war" demonstrations on July 20 to 30 the week's end proceeding the outbreak of the World War "to express the will of the people to end war forever." All groups interested in the world peace without regard to methods advocated for establishing it will take part. Plan For the United States — 1. A "bombardment for peace" in the form of messages to the President and Congress expressing the desire of the people to have this government follow up the Washington Conference with a further step toward world peace. Messages to be sent by mail, wire and radio. 2. The simultaneous posting of "No-More War" placards on the morning of July 29th. For the greatest effect, these placards should be put up during the night or early in the morning and appear everywhere in windows of homes, offices, on fences, trees, automobiles, street cars, and in as many unexpected places as possible. By order of the Women's Chrisitan Temperance Union. Democratic Advocate, July 28 1922.
100 Years Ago Manchester Item — During the past week we have had daily rains in this section which have very much interferred with the steam threshers that seem to have the right of way in town and country. Daily they have been passing to and fro upon the streets and over the different roads, much to the annoyance of the traveling public, as few horses will pass them without much trouble and many cannot be controlled even within seeing distance; yet they have come to stay, and seem to be a necessity, as many farmers employ them to thresh their grain which cannot be housed. We find but few farmers having barns large enough to hold the great crops they have been raising for some years and even on farms where there are extra sheds to store away hay and grain can be found stacks of both, furnishing the best evidence that farms are being improved and crops are greater thanin former years. The reports from those who have threshed are quite flattering as to quantity and quality. American Sentinel, July 24, 1897.