20-50-100 Years Ago -- March 6

Susan Guynn, The Frederick News-Post, Md.
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Mar. 6—SATURDAY

100 Years Ago

March 6, 1921

This date was a Sunday. The Frederick News-Post did not publish a Sunday edition at this time.

50 Years Ago

March 6, 1971

Thomas Johnson's Gary Gladhill is the only remaining Patriot left in the state wrestling tournament after his three teammates lost in quarterfinal matches last night. Gladhill will carry the Patriot banner into battle against Tim Stewart of Churchill High School after defeating Keith Serra of Bel Air in their quarterfinal match.

The Walkersville Lionettes captured the county basketball championship for the second year in a row while extending their winning streak to 25 games.

20 Years Ago

March 6, 2001

The 15-year-old boy arrested in Santee, Calif., Monday for shooting to death two people and wounding 13 others lived in Knoxville before moving to California. San Diego County District Attorney Paul Pfingst identified the shooter as Charles Andrew Williams and said he would be charged as an adult with murder, assault with a deadly weapon and gun possession after opening fire in a boys restroom at Santana High School, near San Diego.

Officials didn't discuss Monday whether the results of a long-awaited water study will influence their ban on consideration of all new construction. Thumbing through the report at the Town Council's monthly meeting, President R. Delaine Hobbs said, "We're about where we thought we were, but we had to know for sure."

SUNDAY

100 Years Ago

March 7, 1921

Three public sales were held in the county yesterday. Full reports have been received from only one, that of the personal property of John F. Cronise, Harmony Grove. Reports show that the bidding for old furniture and household effects at this sale was unusually spirited, and high prices were commanded by these articles. An old grandfather clock commanded the highest price and was sold for $330.

"Sleeping sickness," the malady that has puzzled physicians throughout the country, has developed in Frederick. The patient is Mrs. Marion Duvall, West Second street, who has been ill for about nine weeks. For weeks, Mrs. Duvall has been suffering from constant drowsiness and complaining of feeling sleepy.

Joseph Bowles, of Winchester, Va., 22 years old, was seriously injured about 5 o'clock Saturday when an automobile in which he and two friends were riding struck the left side of the bridge over Ballenger creek, on the Jefferson road, near Feagaville, and upset. The impact diverted the course of the machine some yards, and after turning over in the creek, the machine righted itself. Bowles was taken to the City Hospital, and an examination revealed that his back was broken.

50 Years Ago

March 7, 1971

This date was a Sunday. The Frederick News-Post did not publish a Sunday edition at this time.

20 Years Ago

March 7, 2001

Twenty-four hours after a former Knoxville boy allegedly opened fire on his California classmates, Brunswick educators struggled to understand how their "happy-go-lucky" honor roll student could be accused of shooting two boys to death. Monday's school shooting in Santee, Calif., which killed the two teens and wounded 13 others, is the worst since two young gunmen in Colorado put Columbine High School on the map almost two years ago.

The push to make city elections a nonpartisan affair has been abandoned for now, Frederick Alderman Joseph Baldi, the leading proponent of the change, said. The lack of public support for the initiative dissuaded him from continuing to champion the cause, he said.

An $11 million "miscommunication" may cost the Citizens Nursing Home board more than money. Kevin Quirk, chairman of the board of trustees for the county-operated nursing home, went before the Frederick County Commissioners to explain how the estimated cost of three proposed construction projects was $11 million too high.