Evening star., 1921-03-26
UPPER MARLBORO.

UPPER MARLBORO, March 2s
(SpeciaD.-On an assessable basis Of
$29.617.362. an increase of approx
mately $4.500.o00 over the last assess
ment, the tax rate for the coming
year will be fixed at $1.2S on each
800. This is decrease OF cents
from the 1920-21 rate. OF this amount.
for roads. Last year the rate for
schools was 66.6 cents. A total Of
$1S5.453 is levied for schools. which
Is a substantial reduction from the
estimates submitted by the county
board of education.
The commissioners disallowed all
increases for school teachers, this. it
is believed, being in Difference 70
what appeared to be a pronounced
sentiment against these increases
from the agricultural districts in the
lower section of the county. Provts-
ION was made for five additional
teachers. Two thousand dollars was
levied to continue the services of the
Red Cross county school nurse.
The commissioners anctioned bond
issue Of $35, 900 for the purchase OF a
site and the erection of an eight-room
school building in Hyattsville. A levy
of $2,406 was made for plumbing in
the East Hyattsville. Riverdale and
Bladensburg schools A new school,
to cost $4,000. will be built at Suit
land and a similar building will be
erected at Forestville. $4,000 being al
ready available for this building.
These will be constructed from money
raised by bond issue. A levy OF
S2,5oO was made for an addition TO
the Landover School and also $1,s00
for remodeling the Fairy Springs
School on the Bowie road between
Laurel and Bowie. A levy OF $!'Zoo
was made for a colored schooi In
Brentwood and $1,000 for an addition
to the Mccarthy (colored) School, near
I.andover in Kent district The sum
Of $500 for repairs to new school
buildings in the various sections OF
the county was levied.
IT is announced that owing to the
fact that the federal appropriation
failed of passage at the last session
of Congress. only $4,000 is aVaiaole
for the construction OF permanent
The state roads commission has re-
ceiyed bids for the construction OF
four miles of concrete road IN the
county. The aggregate OF the lowest
bid was $141.263, which. or course,
exceeded by. over $6S,000 the amount
of money available. At conference
between the state roads commission
and the commissioners OF Prince
Georges county. held in Baltimore
yesterday. the commission announced
its belief that it would be unfair to
ask the successful bidders on the the four our
miles at the figures bid. and an
nounced that the commission would
readvertise for two miles OF road,
one on the defense highway between
Bladensburg and Lanham- and one
mile OF Central avenue toward Hairs
station. Should federal aid pc ex-
tended at the extra session OF Con-
eress, bids for the construction OF an
additional mile on each of these roads
will be solicited and the work under
taken during, IL: cc-ning summer.
DR.. John E. Sansbury. former health
officer of Prince Georges county. and
an enthusiastic member of Forest
Lodge, I. o. Q. F.. of Forestviiie, his
home, has offered to donate twenty
acres on. the Baltimore
boulevard, in Forestville. fer the erec::
tion Of the proposed 100000 Maryiand
home for the aged and indigent Odd
Fellows and dependent orphans OF
the members Of the order.