The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-09-01

Bethany Lodge Tournament-The an
nual tournament of Bethany Lodge of Ode
Fellows, of Glen Arm, was held in meadow
on the farm of Mr.. John V. Wilson, neal
Long Green Station, on Wednesday afternoon
last. The attendance was large and the affail
much enjoyed.
The officers were Eugene Pocock, chief mar
sinai James L. Norwood, assistant John Y
Wilson, NJ Billingsley and Frank X. Hooper
judges; Morris Green, Armour STREET. and
Henry Yellott, heralds II. c.. Sherman,
tlme-keeper; John d. Mumma, A. j. Shear
man and F. I. DeBaugh, committe in charge.
len knights contended for the prizes and
nonors and the successful ones in the first tilt
were Samuel E. Shepperd w. e. Ensor, Harry
stansburry and f. c. Duvall, in the order
named. Those who eresuccessful in the tilt
ing Tor the honors were K. G. IsennOck, f. e.
Ensor, Harry Stansburry and Edward knight,
in the order named. Miss Blanche Hall was
crowned queen; Miss Isabella Stansbury, first
maid; Miss E. T. Paulus second maid, and
Miss Laura Shroyer, third maid.
Hon. J. Fred. G. Talbot, Democratic nomi-
nee for Congress, delivered the charge to the
knights, and Mr.. Albert A. Blakeney Repub-
iican nominee for Congress, made the corona
tion address. Both gentlemen were cordially
received and proved to be the centres of at
A dance followed the tournament and was
much enjoyed by large number of young
people.
ANOTHER AT CEDAR GROVE.
A largely attended tournament was held at
,.Belleview,' the farm of Mr.. Jacob Elliott
Cedar Grove, 9th district, on Thursday after
noon. Twenty-seven knights contended for
the prizes and honors. the first three taking
the cash and the next four being accorded the
rightto name the queen and her maids. The
prize winners were: First-Charles e. How
ard second-J. w. c. Stick; third-Frank
Miller. Those winning the honors were DIR.
such and Stanley Gorsuch, in the order named.
They crowned Miss Ella Royston, of Butler,
queen !; Miss Jennie Elliott, of Mt Carmel,
first maid Miss Densey Mitchell, of Towson,
second maid. and Miss Carrie Payne, of Black
Horse, third maid. A dance followed the
coronation ceremonies.
The officers were: Chief marshal, Charles
M. Pearce I; assistants, s. Elmer Miller and
Elmer Jackson judges, Melchor Hoshall, DR..
J. H. Drach, Thomas j. Miller, T. Melville
Pearse and Joseph Armacost; time-keeper,
DR.. T Ross Payne. Hon. J. Fred G. Talbot
delivered the charge to the knights, and Mr..
Frank !. Duncan the coronation address.
Meeting of the School Board.-The school
Board he'd a meeting at Towson Wednesday,
President Thomas b. Todd, in the chair and
Prof. A. s. Cook, secretary. The members
present were Messrs. John s. Wilson, John
Arthur, Reister Russell, VIM. B. Krout and
Jdtu6S ID. IlIlbOr.
Mr.. George Medairy, of the Baltimore firm
of ]. H. Medairy & Co., to whom the contract
for furnishing school supplies was recently
awarded, asked permission TO supply the
schools with Sheldon's new vertical series of
copybooks, published by Butler, Sheldon &
which were compared with books now in use.
The teachers said those submitted by Mr.. Me.
dairy were the best.
After some discussion the Board agreed to let
Messrs Medairy supply the Sheldon books.
Mr.. Todd asked for the appointment of a
committee. to be composed of Examiner Cook
and Mr.. William NJ. Isaac, to make an exami-
nation of the books of the office, the condition
of the finances and the real cost of all the
books furnished during the last three years.
Mr.. Russell said that when the last Board of
which he was president, took charge of the
At Mr.. Russelps suggestion ex-Examiner
Ebaugh was added to the committee, the ex-
penses of which were limited to SIS.
The Board made the appointments of teach
ers for all the colored schools in the county,
forty in number
Messrs. Todd and Wilson spoke of their in
terview at the State Normal School with Pro-
fessor Hammel in regard to the establishment
of manual training school at Sparrow's Point
The committee in charge of the matter, con-
sisting of Messrs. Todd. Wilson and Russell,
were empowered to select teacher for the
school in question, if they deem best to do so,
subject to confirmation by the Board.
1t was ordered that one session a day be held
in the schools during September.
The resignation of Miss Margaret E. Baker
as assistant teacher of School q district 8, was
accepted, and Miss Charlotte s. Church was
appointed to fill the vacancy.
Mr.. Arthur presented the resignation of Miss
Ozella B. Kirk wood, assistant teacher ofSchool
1, district 7, which was accepted, and Miss
Anna P. Dalton was appointed in her place.
Mr.. Arthur reported that he had awarded
the contract to build the new school house at
Glen-Arm, to w. Frank Porter for 81 ,588.
Contracts between teachers and trustees were
confirmed as follows: Samuel R. Fox School
Z. district 10; Stella Brown, School q district