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| April 11, 1999 | ||||||||
25 Years Ago Advisory Group Endorses Concept Of Carroll County Community College—At a recent meeting of the Carroll County Adult Education Advisory Committee, the proposed Carroll County Community College was a subject for discussion. Consensus was that this committee strongly endorse the Community College concept and the need for this service for adults in Carroll County. Of concern was the fact that Carroll County, having the necessary population to support such a college, is the last eligible sub-division to receive the services. Other community colleges now receiving State support are actually receiving partial payment from Carroll County through taxes paid to the State. The Community Reporter, April 12, 1974.
50 Years Ago SUES FOR DAMAGES—The Blue Ridge Transportation Co., and Herbert L. Glaze, near Mt. Airy, are named defendants in the Sylvia and Ralph D. Browd suit for $15,000, entered through Charles O. Clemson, Westminster, the Frederick Co. Circuit Court at Frederick. Mrs. Browd says she was a passenger in a bus of the transportation company when it was involved in a collision west of Ridgeville on April 5, 1946. Glaze is described as the owner and driver of the vehicle which collided with the bus. Mrs. Browd asks $10,000 for her injuries, and her husband seeks $5,000 for the loss of his wife's services and companionship. Democratic Advocate, April 8, 1949.
75 Years Ago MR. MATHER ESCAPES INJURY, WHEN AUTO IS STRUCK BY FAST PASSENGER TRAIN NEAR SEAFORD - CAR NOT BADLY DAMAGED—Mr. George K. Mather, Willis street, made a narrow escape from injury, when a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train struck his car as he was crossing the track at Flowers Station, near Seaford, badly damaging his new Reo sedan. The place where the accident occurred, the railroad parallelled the drive way and is obscured for a distance by a large quantity of road machinery and material stored over the winter, as a new state road has recently been built. The locomotive struck the rear right corner of the body of the car, but did not make the slightest jar, and Mr. Mather kept on driving, and was not conscious that he had been struck until he looked back and saw to his amazement that the rear part of the car had been torn away. He was alone at the time and escaped without a scratch. .Democratic Advocate, April 11, 1924.
100 Years Ago The Postoffice on Wheels—The "Postoffice on Wheels," as the United States Mail Postal Wagon is commonly called, made its first trip last Monday and is making daily trips over the thirty miles of its route. The wagon has excited considerable interest in this city, and there were quite a number of persons present to see the start last Monday. The start had been announced for 7 o'clock, but it got off some twenty minutes earlier, and some persons were disappointed in seeing the start that will probably revolutionize the rural mail service of the whole country. In the wagon with Mr. Edwin W. Shriver, the postal clerk as well as originator of the scheme and designer of the wagon, was Mr. Horace G. Reese, substitute clerk. Following in another carriage were Postmaster Milton Schaeffer of Westminster, a press representative, Joseph H. Krichton, photographer, and Elias N. Davis, both of this city. Democratic Advocate, April 8, 1899.