The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-07-07

>Mr. Charles H. Whitaker, of Towson
who has been for several years q well known
officer, has established detective agency here
and is now ready for business. He is a care
full and reliable officer and has already worked
up several cases that rebound very much to
his credit.
According to popular belief dogs are
more subject to hydrophobia in hot weather
than at any other season of the year. 1t is
very alarming to be bitten by dog at any
time, but perhaps it would be well to observe
more care in this respect just now than at any
other time
THE Board of Managers of the Baltimore
County Agricultural Society met at the fair
grounds last Saturday afternoon and made
an inspection of the premises The buildings
and fences were found to be in fairly good
condition. Active preparations for the fair of
1900 are now in progress.
mfr. Edwin Higgins. of the Baltimore
bar delivered patriotic address at Glyndon
Park on the Fourth. His subject was 1.-THE
Life and Times of Francis Scott Key" The
celebration was held under the auspices of
Glyndon Cornet Band and the Temperance
Camp Meeting Association.
"A heavy rain storm visited sections of
the 9Th and 9TH districts of this county last
Wednesday afternoon. High wind accom-
panied the downpour, the two doing great
deal of damage, especially to the growing
corn. Wheat that had been cut and shocked
was blown about like chaf.
strangers coming to Towson at this sea-
| son OF the year are always most favorably i'm
pressed with the place. They don't hesitate to
say it is one of the prettiest towns they ever
saw. Besides being an attractive place it has
| many advantages, one of the most important
of which is its healthfulness.
| Those people who are going about now
with their hands and eyes in slings no doubt
wish there never had been such thing as the
| Declaration of Independence. But by the
next Fourth of July they will have forgotten
their woes and will be ready to whoop it up
again with the true American spirit
"a general meeting of the stockholders
of the Warren Manufacturing Company will
rem, Thursday. August I'd, for the purpose of
considering and acting upon proposition to
change the par value of the shares of the
stock from 81, 900 per share to 500 per share.
Mr.. William Stauffer, of the Sth district
this week threshed some corn.ground wheat
of the Ohio Fultz variety, that yielded 381
bushels to the acre. He also threshed few
loads of Rocky Mountain Fultz, the yield be.
| ing about the same as the first mentioned.
Samples of the grain can be seen at THE UNION
Office.
- Mr.. T. Dudley Riggs has sold to the
Northern Central Railway Company three
acres of land at Stevenson Station, Green
| Spring Valley, upon which the company will
erect large and modern passenger and freight
station. The ground not used for the building
will be beautified, making the place very at
| tractive.
MIR. Edward Kelly, of Ashland, on
| Tuesday received telegram from Butte, Mon
tana, announcing that his son, s. John Kelly.
his wife and their son, aged years, had been
in railroad wreck and that Mr.. and Mrs.
Kelly had been seriously injured and their son
killed. Mr. Kelly lives at Salt Lake City and
is telegraph operator.
ION Thursday last Baltimore detectives
arrested at Warren, in the 9Th district of this
county, young man named Harry Fowler
of Long Branch, N. j., who is charged with
causing the death of his infant child Fowler
had been hiding at Warren for several days be-
fore his arrest. He was we'll dressed and had
plenty of money with him.
- An application has been made for char
ter to establish private bank in Hampstead,
Carroll county, near the Baltimore county line.
Among those interested in the movement are
Messrs. Thomas j. Hunt, VIM. H. S. Algire,
H. s. Cooper and VIM. Henry Wheeler. The
capital stock will be $4,000 divided into 600
shares of the par value of $40 each.
THE UNION is indebted to Miss jamie NJ
Pindell, OF the New York City Training School
for Nurses, Blackwell's Island, N. Y, for a
copy of the first issue of the New York SIN,
dated September Sd, 1888 1t is very modest
little sheet, the size of the pages being s by 10
inches. From this small beginning grew one
of thegreatest newspapers in the United States.
"A number of public spirited citizens of
Cockeysville have inaugurated a movement
looking to the establishment of shoe factory
at that place. A capital of 5000 will be re-
quired and half of this is already within sight
At the meeting held a few days ago Mr.. H. e.
Bartleson presided and Mr.. William H. Buck
was secretary. Mr.. N. E. Offutt was chosen
attorney.
1.-The new Board of Managers of the Bal
timore county fair appears to be most ener-
getic and earnest set of gentlemen. They are
prompt in attendance at all the meetings and
are pushing things with zeal and intelligence
that does them great credit. The people will
find, if we are not very much mistaken, that
the affairs of the society have fallen into ex-
cellent hands.
mt. Washington had Fourth of July
fffleb6aIqRhd Fiat all dafs sfbf
the bar, delivered patriotic addresses at the
Casino; Mr.. Arthur w. Penniman read the
Declaration of Independence and patriotic
airs were sung. The display of fireworks was
elaborate and beautiful.
"a gentleman coming away from the
Court House few days ago saw land terra
pin scudding over the walk in front of him.
STOPPING he picked it up and on the under
shell read this inscription II came to Tow
son thirty years ago hoping to get an office.
I've fingered around on the quiet all this time
and ] haven't caught on yet. I'm Prohibit
zionist and I'm bound for home. This is no
place for me-"
IA well known gentleman living not far
from Towson, had his buggy very tastefuly
painted and thoroughly overhauled. Then he
hitched up his horse to take drive ard tied
him at the stable while he went to the house
for something. While he was away the horse
slipped his bride and then commenced play
ing circus around the large lawn. When the
gentleman returned and saw what had hap
pened he ordered his man to get the hay rake
and collect the remains of that buggy.
To Make Homes Beautiful.-To beautify
town or village or the open country is work
which is well worth the efforts of the people.
It has moral, an intellectual and financial
urskh hootr FIJI
roundings will fetch more money than the
same property would if surrounded by for
bidding scenes, ugly and neglected landscapes
and uncared for buildings. Every town de-
sires to attract citizens, to induce people of re-
finement to buy or rent property and reside
within its limits. People will not go to an ugly
or neglected town to live if they can find one
which is better cared for. Children raised in
beautiful homes have decided advantage over
those who spend their early years amid ugli-
ness. Therefore the improvement of the APP
pearance of community has an Importance
which it is difficult to overestimate. A few
years ago the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
adopted the policy of planting flowers at the
stations along the road. This example has
been followed by other companies, and most
of the railroad stations throughout the land
are now surrounded by beautiful gardens and
well-kept shade trees. This adds to the pleas
ure of travelling, as it is much more pleasant
| to see flowers from the car windows than to
look upon weeds and waste places. Every
dollar spent in this way has doubtless been re-
turned four-fold. 1t is good policy for a rail
road company to make the country through
which its road passes attractive for that in
duces people to settle along the line and every
family so coming adds to the revenues of the
company.-Bdltifnore Sun.
Experiments With Lime as Fertilizer.
Director Patterson, of the Maryland Exper
iment Station, having conducted many expert.
ments at that place with the different forms of
lime and also the quantities and methods of
applying the same, has found that the best
| yields can be obtained with lime in the form of
| a carbonate, the finely ground oyster shells
standing first and shell mari second. This
| was substantiated when stone lime was APP
piled as top dressing and given an opportu-
nifty to form carbonate by absorption of car
bonic acid from the atmosphere. 1t has been
noticed that pure magnesium lime, which is
claimed to be poisonous to the soil and crop,
gave the highest yield, and barium oxide,
| which is not plant food, produced very near
| ly as much increase in the yields as the cal
cium oxide, and more increase than either the
sulphate or phosphate of lime. This indicates
| that there was some effect produced on the soil