Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1909-09-09
| TO Make the Transfer Of Real Estate
Simpler.

TO Make the Transfer Of Real Estate
Simpler.
1t is promised that the effort to secure
the adoption of the so-called Torrens sys'
tenn OF land-title registration and rea
estate transfers in Maryland, which has
been made without success at previous
sessions of the General Assembly, will be
renewed when that body meets again at
Annapolis this winter. The proposed
change has many advocates, and the sys-
TEN which it is proposed to substitute
for the Anticipated one now in use in Ma
ryland grows in favor as it becomes bet
ter and more generally known. The
prospects are that the fight for it's adop-
ton at Annapolis this winter will be more
vigorous than at previous sessions. The
Real Estate Exchange of Baltimore city
recently appointed committee to act
with other advocates of the change at
Annapolis and this organizations back
ing will add considerable strength to the
movement.
The Torrens system is in use in other
States, and giving such satisfaction that
it is strange that it has not yet been
adoptedin Maryland, or would be strange,
if the strength of the interests opposing
it were not understood. The adoption OF
the system would do away with lot of
work in the way of searching titles and
whiting deeds, and with the profitable
business Of guaranteeing titles, in which
a number of corporations are engaged,
and everybody whose income would be
injuriously affected by the change is,
naturally, against it. The much larger
body of citizens who would be benefited
by the change, however, is likely to pre-
vail in the long run. The Torrens sys-
TEN, which, after proof of title to secure
certificate of ownership, would make
the transfer of a piece of real estate as
simple a matter as the transfer of bond
or stock certificate, and the borrowing
of money upon real estate as simple as
the negotiation of a loan upon either of
JIlS OlIlcI CluSStS vi SCSul ltiS', loo
vantages in the way Of simplicity, ease
and ineXpensiveness which must com
mend it to all persons not pecunially in
terested in the continuance of the old
system, and which seem certain to lead
to its adoption sooner or later in all of
the States. - Frederick Daily Netrs.
Explain White Cross Milk Process.
As was announced through the col
umns of this paper and otherwise,
meeting was held in Town Hall Thursday
evening last, at which time the White
Cross process of the concentration of
milk was explained and the company's
plans for the operation of the plant at
Frederick set forth.
Nearly every farmer in this district
and number from Rocky Ridge and
and Creagerstown were present and lis
tened attentively to the remarks by the
president of the Baltimore and Washing
ton White Cross Milk Company, Mr..
Cockrel Much information was i'm
parted to the farmers concerning the
business. 1t is believed that many farm
ers producing milk will ship their milk
to Frederick as soon as the company is
ready to receive it.
The meeting was called to order by
Mr.. c. C. Waters, who, with Messrs.
David Lowenstein, Charles Wertheimer
and DR.. Franklin Smith, accompanied
Mr.. Cockrell to Thurmont.
Sample bottles of concentrated milk
was brought along and many drank of it.
A meeting for the benefit of farmers
will be held in Lewistown on Friday of
this week.