25 Years Ago Site Is Chosen For New School—Carroll County Commissioner J. Norman Graham recently stated the county is ready to purchase a 50-acre tract of land in Eldersburg, if the Carroll County School Board is in accord, for building the proposed Southeast Area High School. The site is across from a large planned clothing warehouse, bounded by Maryland 32, Johnsville Road and Bartholow Road. This will be the county's fifth high school and is scheduled for completion in September of 1977. When the school is completed, attendance lines for the Westminster High School and South Carroll High School will be redrawn. School Board approval of this project is expected. The Community Reporter, May 10, 1974.

50 Years Ago Carroll County Bonds Draw Close Bidding—A banking group headed by Alex Brown & Sons was awarded $3,000,000 Carroll county (Md.) public school and road bonds at a net interest cost of 1.56 per cent. The bonds were put up for sale by the County Commissioners at Westminster. They are due May 1, 1951-65. Participating in the syndicate were the Mercantile Trust Company; Baker, Watts & Co.; Stein Bros. & Boyce; Kidder, Peabody & Co., and Braun Bosworth & Co. A close runner up in the bidding was a syndicate headed by Drexel & Co., which offered a net interest cost of 1.57 per cent. Associated in that group were the Baltimore firms of Mead. Miller & Co., John C. Legg & Co., and Robert Garrett & Sons. Next came the Bankers Trust Company group with a bid of 1.69 per cent. Several other bids were submitted. The $3,000,000 issue just sold by Carroll county constitutes its only bonded debt. Democratic Advocate, May 13, 1949.

75 Years Ago Mother's Day AT M. P. Church—Mother's Day services will be held in the Methodist Protestant Church by a sermon on "Mother's Victories," by the pastor, and appropriate music. In memory of mother or in honor of mother, if she still lives every one should attend service this Sunday and wear a white flower. Pin a white flower on her bosom, if you may, and a kiss on that dear old face and watch the glow come back to the faded cheeks as she smiles her appreciation. Keep the glow in her cheeks, and the youth, if she is still young. If she has gone Home, place a white flower on the little mound that marks her place in the Silent City and think of the times when your infant head was pillowed on her bosom, the fairest flower that her heart knew. If you are away from home, write her just such a letter as you would most appreciate from the one you love best in the world. She gets hungry to see you and just a line or two of honest love and reminiscence of what she has done for you will make her very glad. Democratic Advocate, May 9, 1924.