After the social notes section of that week's "Ellicott City Times" there were tidbits from all over about women:

--"London has a new idea quite ahead of anything in America. It is a music hall for women. A woman manages it and her purpose is to furnish a place of amusement where girls of any age may go unchaperoned with perfect safety. There will be nothing in the vaudeville entertainments at this hall to offend the most refined taste. Men are not admitted.

-- In the recent address before the League of America Municipalities in the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, Dr. Cooke said, "If we give women a vote in municipal affairs we largely would be saved from the nomination of candidates of bad morals.Women will not vote for men of bad character, even if they are handsome.

--The champion mountain climber of the world now appears to be Mrs. Fanny Bullock-Workman of Massachusetts. She has reached the peak of a mountain 23,150 feet high in the New Kun Range of the Himalayas. Her husband, Dr. Workman, went with her nearly to the top, but the last part of the ascent she made alone, with a guide and a porter. The party suffered terribly from cold."

No kidding! "Suffered terribly," that must be one of the greatest understatements of the century. Glad the lady got some credit; her hubby will probably never live that one down! But what about the guide and the porter who also reached the summit, probably carrying lots more than she did? No mention of their names. (It wasn't until 1953 that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay would reach the top of Mt. Everest in that range. It stands at about 6,000 feet higher than Fanny's peak.)

75 Years Ago - FDIC is born

"Bank deposits to be insured after January 1st, 1934" was a headline in the "Times" that week. "On next January 1 your deposits in any bank that is deemed sound enough to stay open for business will be insured against loss by bank closings.

The insurance for the first six months, will be limited to $2,500 to each depositor. After July 1 of next year, deposits up to $10,000 will be fully insured and larger ones partially insured."

50 Years Ago - Draft increased

In the "Ellicott City Times" on July 30, 1958, there was an announcement that the draft would increase to 11,000 for the month of September.

"The Army will draft 11,000 in September or 1000 more than in each of the previous three months, the Defense Department announced this week.

A Pentagon spokesman said the slight increase was within normal limits and had nothing to do with the Middle East crisis.

The September call will bring to 2,863,430 the total number of men drafted since the Korean War started eight years ago."

Though there was a ceasefire and the fighting of the Korean War stopped in July 1953, only an armistice was signed, not a peace treaty.

Today, the total number of people in military service is not too much different than 50 years ago, although there are 1,500,000 in the active duty military and almost the same number, about 1,427,000, who make up reserve and guard units.

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