The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-08-18

McG1ll, on the east side OF Green Spring ave-
nue. in the Sd district, has been leased to Mr..
and Mrs. Christian Devries for period of ten
years. at an annual rental of 5000. The place
contains 120 acres and has good house on it.
> The season for the Maryland county
fairs is near at hand and Timonium is one of
the most important Of these. One day hav-
ing been set apart as Mckinley day" and an
other as Bryan day. it is thought the attend
ance will be unusually large on those occa-
siOns.
- This is season of the year when people
should be especially careful of their health.
There is more real danger in impure drinking
water than in anything humanity has to con-
tend with. Cleanliness is also a highly i'm
portant item when the matter of health is con-
sidered.
1.-THE William Jennings Bryan Anti.Tal-
bolt Democrat Club was organized in Canton
on Tuesday night, with Charles f. Smith as
president. The club announces that one of its
chief objects is to defeat Hon. j. Fred. G. Tai
bolt, Democratic nominee for Congress in the
Second district.
1.-THE great heat wave that continued with
us seven days. was dispelled about O'Clock
last Sunday night by the succession of thun-
der storms that visited us. Within an hour
the mercury dropped about 20 degrees. That
was a period of intense heat that will be
talked about for years to come
1.-The Bryan-StevensOn Democratic Club,
of the 4th district, held meeting on Saturday
night last at Glyndon, at which there was a
Joshua T. Whittle and John ]. Dyer. The
latter won. Paul Smithers was chosen Secre-
tary, and J. Smith Orrck, treasurer.
- Henry d. Teipe, 80 years of age, clerk
employed by the Baltimore and Jerusalem
Turnpike Company, was arrested on Wednes-
day upon the charge of collecting $500 of the
tolls of the company and appropriating the
same to bis own use. Teipe admitted the
charge and was committed for court.
--Mr. ]. l.. Fowble, of Cockeysville.
/ huil has
building a new residence for Mr.. Joseph NJ
Crowther, of Philopolis, to replace the one de-
stroyed by fire short time ago. The house
will be three stories high, contain eleven
rooms, and the cost will be about So, 800.
1.-The second quarterly meeting of Here
ford Circuit will be held at Hereford, Saturday
and Sunday. Angus 25th and Goth. Rev DR.. II.
! S. France, p. E., will preach on the morning
of both days. He will also address young
peoples rally on Saturday evening, to which
the young people of the circuit are invited
THE County Commissioners have refused
to ratify the report of the examiners recon-
mending the opening of the road leading from
| Thornton Mill road to the 17Mile House, in
the 9Th district, unless the property owners
along the line of the proposed road put up
more money to defray the expense of the same.
->The Sunday school of Hereford NJ. L.
Church, of which Mr.. G. Albert Mays is SUI
perintendent, will hold its annual picnic in
the school house grove at Hereford Saturday,
| August 18th, afternoon and evening. There
will be special music and addresses and Here
| ford Cornet Band will be present in the even
! ing.
. Mr. Fielder c. SlingIuff, a prominent
member of the bar, has taken the benefit of
| the United States bankruptcy law. His La
bilities are placed at S148,900, with assets
amounting to S51, 10000. His financial trouble
is due to the failure of his brother, Horace
Slingluff, who went under some time ago for a
large amount.
The rain that visited Towson last Sun
day evening was not general throughout the
county, some sections getting very little of it.
The high wind that accompanied the rain blew
many limbs from trees and did some other
damage, but nothing of q very serious nature.
There was also some hail here, but not enough
to hurt anything.
- The County Commissioners are having
the iron-hose tower at the TOwson engine
house reprinted Mr.. Benz. Chew is doing the
work. The engine house itself is badly in
need of paint and the building is too good and
substantial to allow it to suffer on this account.
1t ispoor economy not to keep the public build
ings in good repair.
- A four horse team, attached to an empty
hay wagon, belonging to MIR. Randolph Slade,
of the 4th district of this county, ran away on
Park avenue. Baltimore, on Tuesday last, and
created a great deal of excitement. The team
ran several squares before it was caught and
the noise it made was like that of cyclone.
No damage was done.
- During the progress of the serenade ten
dered Mr.. A. A. Blakeney at his home in
FrankIinvile last Monday night, a horse be-
longing to Mr.. VIM. Hotter got frightened at
the music and dashed madly into the crowd,
injuring several persons. Leila Holland, of
Baltimore, aged II years, who was visiting in
the village, had her collar bone broken.
1.-The annual tournament at Reisterstown,
given by Mr.. John w. Hiteshue, of Hiteshues
Hotel, took place Wednesday afternoon and
was well attended The professional fitting
29nstantine' queen. The chief marshal was
Mr.. c. s. Hobbs, and Mr.. Harry Z. Goodwin
was the orator.
"a colored camp,meeting, under the
auspices of Centennial NJ. Z. Church, Balti-
more, and the NJ. E. Churches of Chase's
Circuit, Baltimore county, will commence in
Raspe's Grove, Bear road Sunday August
10th and continue until Sunday, September I'd.
1t will be in charge of Rev. D, w. Hays, d. D.;
and Rev. Il. r. Riggs. Services will be held
week days as well as Sundays.
- On the 18th of last February farmer
named Joseph Shaeffer mysteriously dsap-
peared from his home near Marriotsville,
Howard county, since which time nothing
was heard of him. On the 10th inst, his bad
" decomposed remains were found in the Pa
tapsco river, about mile below his late home.
It is thought he may have been robbed and
then murdered and his body thrown into the
river.
> Don't forget the Timonium Fair two
weeks from next Tuesday. You want to get
hustle on you if you expect to be ready for
it, The grounds and buildings are being put
in proper order and, despite the long continued
! drought, there will be no scarcity of water.
The artesian well, which was supplied with
new engine last year, is working splendidly
and the supply from it is practically mex
| haustible.
- What THE UNION said last week about
some school trustees in this county selling
their votes struck responsive chord in the
heart of one Baltimore county gentleman who
expresses his views in letter published in to-
| DAVIS issue. 1t is worth reading and those
who give it attention will have their eyes still
further opened. The writer is entirely respon-
sble and would make no statement that he
| could not verify.
Those people who patronize the adver-
| Using columns of THE UNION nearly always
speak in the highest terms of the results at
tanned. A gentleman who advertised farm
for rent said this week that he bad more ap-
pilcants than he knew what to do with. An
other who advertised a lot of stock said he
disposed of it almost before the ink was dry
on the paper This is what a paper that
reaches the people will do.
- An aged lady of Towson is dreadfully
afraid of thunder and lightning and when
ever a storm occurs at night it is her custom to
get up, if she had retired, and sit it out" or
keep it company" On Wednesday night she
went to bed at her usual hour and notwith-
standing the fact that there was a successive of
storms during the night she did not know
thing about it until she got up the next morn
ing. Then the laugh was on her.
- Entries for the household department of
the coming county fair should be made to
the secretary at Towson, on or before Monday,
August 9th This will afford time before the
opening of the fair to have them properly en-
tered in the books, thus avoiding the rush that
always occurs at the grounds when the making
of entries is delayed until the day before the
| fair begins. If people would remember this
mpch trouble and many errors might be pre-
vented. -
1.-THE demands for extra copies of last
weeks issue of THE UNION was so great that
we could not fill them all, hence an obituary
notice of Miss Mary Helen Agnes Saxton,
which appeared in that issue, is repub-
lished this week in order that her relatives
may be supplied with all the copies of the pa
per they requested to have sent them. The
beautiful memorial lines were written by Miss
Marie L. Lilly cousin of Miss Saxton, whose
sudden and untimely death was such severe
shock to her large family connection.
= Rev. r. r: Riggs, pastor of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Churches of Chases Circuit,
North Baltimore district, is the pioneer teacher
of colored public schools in Baltimore county,
| he having been the first colored man appointed
| bv DIR Samuel Kepler who was then school