25 Years Ago
* Irvin Goodman, Carroll County Heart Fund chairman, announced at the recent kickoff meeting that the goal for the 1970 campaign would be $12,000. In his greeting to the area chairmen and volunteers gathered at the Heart Association office in Westminster, Goodman emphasized the need for funds to combat disease of the heart and blood vessels, which are responsible for more than half of all deaths in the United States each year. -- Community Reporter, Feb. 6, 1970.
50 Years Ago
* C. C. Walsh, president of the Carroll County Educational and Cooperative Farmers Union, with his legislative committee had a conference with U.S. Senators Millard E. Tydings and George Radcliffe, Congressman H. Streett Baldwin, 2nd Congressional District, in their offices in Washington on Tuesday. The interview was held chiefly in regard to the drafting of farm labor for military services. Both senators emphasized that the men on the farm are not exempted because they are farmers, but rather that they are soldiers of the soil to produce food on a full-time basis. -- Democratic Advocate, Feb. 2, 1945.
100 Years Ago
* Several persons in this city have received letters from friends asking them to send canceled postage stamps to Miss Edna Brown, of Kanesville, Ill., and asking further that each one sending such a letter write also to three friends preferring the same request. We haven't space for particulars of the story this week, but will publish an article from the New York World next week explaining how, within a short time, the post office of the little village of Kanesville has been overwhelmed with letters for Miss Brown, who has been receiving up to 17,000 such missives daily. -- American Sentinel, Feb. 2, 1895.