Showing posts with label History 1920s Westminster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History 1920s Westminster. Show all posts

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Historical Society of Carroll County Box Lunch Talk: Early Radio in Carroll County


TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Box Lunch Talk: Early Radio in Carroll County

With the introduction of commercial radio broadcasts in the 1920s, the world of home entertainment changed completely. Radio brought the world into the family living room.

Sam Brainerd discusses the types of radio sets people in the county were likely to own before 1930, the radio stations they listened to, and what programming was available.

Noon-1 p.m., American Legion, corner of Green & Sycamore Streets. Lunch is not available for purchase; participants are encouraged to bring a lunch. Beverages and dessert are provided. Admission is $2.00 for Historical Society of Carroll County members and $5.00 for non-members.

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Democratic Advocate, March 28, 1924: Carroll County Firemen Meet Here - Parade and Several Attractive Events Are On Program - Festival To Be Held

Democratic Advocate, March 28, 1924

Carroll County Firemen Meet Here - Parade and Several Attractive Events Are On Program - Festival To Be Held

At a meeting of the executive committee of the Westminster Fire Department held last Tuesday night, plans were considered for the arrangement of a program for the annual convention of the Carroll county Volunteer Firemen's Association to be held in Westminster on Thursday, May 15.

As this will be the first annual convention of this organization, the committee is making special efforts to provide an interesting program for the occasion.

On Thursday afternoon there will be a parade, and for the evening of the same day several events have been arranged in which prizes will be awarded.

The visiting firemen will be the guests of the Westminster Fire Department at dinner on Thursday at the firemen's building.

In connection with the convention, the Westminster Fire Department will hold an ice cream and strawberry festival which will be continued on Friday and Saturday nights. There will be music, dancing and other amusements each night.

Democratic Advocate, March 28, 1924.


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Monday, January 30, 2012

Basketball history from 1923, Carroll Regional Airport and recollections of the 1963 March on Washington and more in the Carroll Eagle







One of the most ambitious, and contentious, issues in Carroll County over the past decade came to a crash landing on Thursday, Jan. 26, as...

The morning of Aug. 28, 1963, was filled with apprehension for Alfred Whittaker as he traveled to the nation's capital for the Civil...

There's nothing like going out to a high school basketball game with the family to give you a break from cabin fever.

High school sports have always played an important role in Carroll County. Although one may have a lively discussion as to which sport is the favorite in the county, there can no doubt that basketball — and wrestling — provide a great respite from Carroll County's cold miserable winter weather.

Many years ago, the old Westminster Armory on Longwell Avenue was the site of many sporting events in the community, especially basketball.

On Jan. 26, 1923, the talk of the town was the basketball game that was to take place that evening against Frederick High School… http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0129-20120129,0,16981.story

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Knorr Brake Corporation on Wednesday, Jan. 18, broke ground on the company's new manufacturing facility in the Westminster Technology Park...

Authorities are trying to determine what caused a small plane crash that killed a Maryland man not far from a central Pennsylvania airport.






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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

DAYHOFF: All of Westminster got fired up over 'Defense Day' in 1924

DAYHOFF: All of Westminster got fired up over 'Defense Day' in 1924

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By Kevin Dayhoff 

Posted 9/12/10


On Sept. 12, 1924, Carroll County celebrated "Defense Day" in Westminster with singing, parades, a prettiest baby contest, speeches and a beauty contest, of which the prize was $25. (No one entered.)

Much of the day's festivities took place on the Hoffa football field at what was then Western Maryland College -- now McDaniel College.

And oh, by the way ... one of the highlights of the day featured shooting up the field with machine guns. (Maybe it was the machine guns that inhibited the county's most beautiful women from entering the beauty contest?)

More research is needed to understand what "Defense Day" was all about. We obviously no longer celebrate it.

On Aug. 4, 1924, a piece in Time magazine notes that: "The project of holding a National Defense Day on Sept. 12 has met considerable opposition from pacifist bodies. President (Calvin) Coolidge undertook last week to uphold the propriety of the proposed 'Day' in a letter to the National Council for the Prevention of War ..."


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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Even when Carroll County was dry, it really wasn't


Even when Carroll County was dry, it really wasn't

Kevin Dayhoff kdayhoff AT carr.org Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ 1/21/09

The Union Bridge Pilot carried a curious news story on Jan. 21, 1921, under the heading of "Local Items," about a gentleman "who had violated the Anti-Saloon League's ideals ..."

It seems that earlier in that week, this fellow "was found on the railroad tracks near town in the evening perfectly oblivious to the workings of the outside world, and particularly to the workings of a steam locomotive, one of which was due within a short time.

"When found he was lying crosswise of the track and, had not help reached him when it did, he would doubtless have continued to dwell in oblivion."

One can only imagine that he did not freeze to death because of the amount of "anti-freeze" in his system.

I thought of the Union Bridge Pilot article recently when the word "saloon" came up in a conversation with six artist friends. A group of us -- 20 artists in Carroll County -- have formed an art co-op called "Off Track Art."

After an organizational meeting, several of us adjourned to Wine Me Up, on East Main Street for pizza and conversation.

One of the conversations was about how to remember to spell words that are similar in sound; such as "desert" (as in the Sahara Desert) and "dessert" (as in ice cream and cake). I always recall that "dessert" has two s's -- as in "I'll have two desserts."

Another spelling rule that came up in the conversation was how to tell the difference in spelling "salon" and "saloon."

Of course, my mind drifted to the work of the "Anti-Saloon League" in Carroll County.

It was a national organization that existed from 1893 to 1933, and was quite active in Carroll County. As one can easily understand from the name, the Anti-Saloon League opposed the sale of alcohol and, by January 1919, had been successful in getting 75 percent of the states in our country to pass laws that prohibited the "sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors."

Locally, Mary Bostwick Shellman was noted as being determined to banish Westminster's 21 saloons, according to Nancy Warner's book, "Carroll County Maryland, A History 1837-1976."

Bear in mind that during this period, Westminster had approximately 3,000 citizens. That's about 140 persons per saloon.

Carroll County went "dry" in 1914. Six years later, on Jan. 29, 1920, prohibition took affect for the rest of the United States. The passage of the Volstead Act as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited alcohol use except for when it was used in religious ceremonies.

No information is available as I write as to how many folks gained a renewed interest in religion as a result of prohibition.

And one wonders how it is -- or where -- the gentleman in the 1921 Union Bridge Pilot article found his religious elixir.

I should mention that according to an account that appeared in the Pilot on July 8, 1921, four stills, a quantity of corn whiskey and 150 gallons of mash were seized by police officers at a local church.

Deacon Willie Brown, in whose room the distilling was being carried on, was arrested. Brown admitted in police court that he had been tempted by the devil.

No mention was made in the article as to how popular Communion services were at the "Church of the Holy Moonshiners."


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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Sunday Carroll Eagle column for August 24 2008: “Years ago, folks celebrated The Forks in Westminster” by Kevin Dayhoff

Sunday Carroll Eagle column for August 24 2008: “Years ago, folks celebrated The Forks in Westminster” by Kevin Dayhoff

Years ago, folks celebrated The Forks in Westminster

EAGLE ARCHIVE By Kevin Dayhoff Posted 8/24/08 (690 words)

The City of Westminster has recently been working to form a group to study the Pennsylvania Avenue of town.

In that context, it's interesting that back on Aug. 8, 1924, the editor of the now-defunct newspaper, The American Sentinel, wrote an article about the renaissance of the area on the west end of Westminster known as "The Forks."

The 1924 article was titled, "The Forks Regaining Its Old Prestige."

According to historian Jay Graybeal, who wrote a column about the article in 1999 for the Historical Society of Carroll County, it was the demolition of an old general store at the forks of Pennsylvania Avenue and West Main Street that so excited the editor.

"The old frame store and dwelling at The Forks ... has been razed by Mr. Roy Shipley, a recent purchaser," the article read. "The old building had quite a history and was one of the landmarks of this city."

An old photo in my collection reveals what must have been a large structure with an elegant fountain in the front. The sign above the front porch identifies the store as "Geo. R. Grumbine Groceries and Provisions."

Growing up in Westminster in the 1950s and '60s, and especially in this area of town, I recall Pennsylvania Avenue as an elegant and thriving mixed-use residential and business section of town. The Forks was generally considered the "center of town."

And it was a memorable, unifying force in the community. As late as the 1950s directions were still given that cited the location of store, such as "just up the street from where Grumbine's used to be ..."

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The west end of Westminster is rich with history and tradition. It was annexed by Westminster way back in 1825. At that time, that section was known as "Logsdon's Tavern" -- last of the original five towns that were ultimately consolidated into what we now know as Westminster.

Many who follow the happenings of Carroll County government may find it of interest that the Carroll County public information administrator, Vivian Laxton, is a descendent of the Logsdon family that helped form the foundation of what we now know as Westminster -- and whose roots pre-date before Carroll County was a county.

In 1825, what we know from history as Logsdon's Tavern was actually a part of Frederick County…

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The 1924 Sentinel article gives us a great deal of additional insight into the history of this area of Westminster, and the fact that parts of town were then still considered their own enclaves:

"For quite a number of years before the Civil War," the article notes, "Westminster was divided into three distinct settlements known as Dead End, The Forks, and Irishtown."

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