The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-08-04

| some sections of the county there has lately
been plenty of rain, while in others there hal
not been enough to admit of the ground being
| broken up.
-sAt the last meeting of the Young Men.
Literary and Debating Society of Towson the
following subject was discussed Resolved
| That the world owes more to its poets than tC
its novelists' Affirmative-J. 7. Phipps
negative-Charles w. Held. Decided in favor
| of the latter
%"Any pensioner, the victim of strong
drink and dissipated habits. who makes pub
lie nuisance of himself, may be investigated
by Uncle Sam and If found guilty is likely to
be dropped from the pension rolls" This is
the latest ruling of the department sent out to
pension agents.
ION Wednesday afternoon the County
Commissioners went to Gardenville to person
ally view the proposed extension of Frank
lin avenue, over which there has been such a
sharp contention between those interested pro
and con. 1t is likely the matter will be deter
mined next week.
- We have had pretty good sample of
the dog days" the past week. According to
the thermometer the weather was not very
warm, but the humidity in the atmosphere
made it disagreeable and oppressive and we do
not look for anything much better until theen
of the present month.
Since THE UNIONS subscription bills
were sent out with the first Issue last Deem
Der nearly one thousand subscriptions have
been paid at the office. We do not say it
boastfully. but we do not think there is an
other country newspaper in Maryland that
can make such showing.
THE United Milk Producers Association
has chartered special train on the Northern
Central Railway that will leave Parkton every
morning, ten minutes ahead of the regular
milk train, and carry only the milk of the as
ISOLATION, which, from that line alone, amounts
to nearly 1000 gallons daily.
1.-The County Commissioners this week
settled the claim of Mrs. Catharine Kite for
personal injuries alleged to have been sustained
by her on account of the bad condition of the
road leading from Warren to Phoenix. Her
attorney, Mr.. LabaD Sparks, wanted $500, but
finally agreed to accept $3.50.
Sebastian Halbg gardener for Mr.. James
f. McCabe, at Hopkins Hill, York road, was
fined $40 and costs for killing several chickens
avenue. He warned the owner to keep the
chickens off his employers premises and he
failed to do so. Then he shot them.
- Mr. Samuel H. DeHoff, secretary of the
Republican Executive Committee for Balti-
more county, was in Towson on Wednesday
arranging for the Second Congressional dis
trict convention, which will meet here next
Monday. The committee will provide lunch
con for all the delegates at Hotel Towson.
MIR. E. M. Gillet proprietor of Bacon
Hall Stock Farm, in the 9TH district of this
county. reports a number of sales of Here
v.
These went to Texas, North Carolina, Virginia
and different sections of Maryland. The pro-
duce of this farm is gaining wide reputation.
1.-The rural free delivery system estab-
lished a few days ago at Rossville, P, w. d
B. r. R., extends as far west as Fullerton, on
the Belair road. Several of THE UNIONS SUBJ
scribers at Fullerton have already had their
address changed to Rossville and it is likely
the Fullerton office will be abandoned entirely.
Tuesday was an unusually lively day in
Towson, large number of strangers being
present from nearly every section of the coun-
ty. Among the number were good many
farmers who are generally pleased with the re-
suits of this years harvest and also because
the late rains came in time 10 save the corn
crop.
- The annual reunion of the Sunday
schools of Long Green Circuit, M. E. Church.
will be held in Burton's Grove, Greenwood,
Wednesday next, August 8th, commencing at
10 A. NJ. There will be five schools in attend
ance and the exercises will continue through
out the day. A pleasant time is promised all
who attend.
MIR. H. A. PARIS Meadowvale Farm,
near Lutherville. will be largely represented at
the Timonium fair this year. The exhibits
will consist of Jersey and Guernsey cattle
Berkshire hogs and Plymouth Rock, Light
Brahmas and White Wyandotte chickens.
Mr.. Lewis E. Benedict is the present manager
at Meadowvale.
- George Washington was arrested in Bal
timore few days ago for striking woman,
and the same day Mary Washington was ar
rested in the same city upon the charge of cut
ting her son with a razor. All hands are COL
ored In these later days the Washington
family appears to be gaining some rather I'M
pleasant notoriety.
"a Baltimore paper publishes list of
twenty men who carry heavy life insurance,
Mr.. B. N Baker, of Catonsville, standing at
the head with $500, 900. Among the others
are Mr.. Alcaeus Hooper, $425, 600; Mr.; Henry
A. Parr $780, 900; Gen. Thomas ]. Shryock,
$50, 900; Hon. James A GARY. S150. O00: Mr.
counsel for Mrs. Lucinda Reeder,
have filed exceptions to the ratification of the
sale of the country place of the late Charles
f. Reeder, situated in the LIST district OF this
because of inadequacy of price. The
sold for $4,000 and this is said to be
less than one-third its real value.
- Messrs. Frank /. Duncan and Carvill ID.
Benson, counsel for John q. and Elijah john
son, have filed exceptions to the verdict OF the
condemnation jury for land taken for the use
Vile, Philadelphia road. The jury's verdict
was for $l3, 90833, which was thought by the
owners of the land to be inadequate.
- Alex. A. Croft who lately opened
tailoring establishment in Towson, fell while
getting off street car in Baltimore last Sun
day night and would no doubt have been killed
had not a man who saw the accident pulled
him away from the car Just before one of the
wheels reached his head. He learned lesson
that will prove valuable to him hereafter.
-At meeting of the stockholders of the
Warren Manufacturing Company, held at
Warren on Thursday, it was decided to reduce
the par value of the stock from 81 900 to 500
per share The affairs of the company are in
a highly prosperous condition ana extensive
Improvements will shortly be made that will
about double the steam power OF the mills.
THE large and complete canning estab-
lishment of w. H. Bevard Sons, near Belair,
which would have commenced operations in
few DAYS, was burned on Wednesday night
last, causing a loss of between five and six
thousand dollars. Insured in the Baltimore
and Hartford county companies. The fire is
believed to have been of incendiary origin.
THE American Bridge Company, OF
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, is putting up the steel
bridge for the BALTIC. q Lehigh Railroad over
the turnpike in Towson. The span will be 20
feet The men experienced great deal OF
trouble with the telegraph, telephone, electric
light and other wires attached to the bridge,
there being in all seven different lots of them.
1.-The Maryland Steeplechase Association
is arranging for q fall race meeting at Pimlico,
the spring meeting having proven so success
full. The committee in charge is composed of
the following gentlemen Messrs. VIM. M.
Manly, Charles F. McLane William 2. Riggs,
T. Dudley Riggs. f. H. NJ. Birckhead, Thomas
Deford ,Jr., Alfred Peasants and |. M. Parr, Jr.
There is now being built in the Wood
berry shops of The Robert Poole d Son Com
pany q sand wheel of enormous size to be used
in one of the Michigan copper mines. 1t will
be 65 feetin diameter. will have face of thirty
feet and will weigh more than 000, 900 pounds.
1t will be the largest wheel of the kind ever
manufactured in this country and it will take
about one year to build it.
MIR. William R. Hoff s patent chicken
coop started for Lincoln Nebraska, and has no
doubt beer received by Col. William Jennings
Bryan, who, it is hoped, may have great sue
cess with it. And this leads us to remark
that Mr.. Hoff is rather a sly dog. He has
managed to obtain for his patent coop large
line of first class advertising without spending
a cent for it. A man who can do that these
days is pretty smoUth pieco of goods Wo
hope the Bryan coop may be the means of SELL
ing hundreds for him.
There are good many things, of course,
that are hard to understand. and some that
are entirely beyond comprehension. Among
the latter is this How is it possible for
woman to drive about in the broiling sun
without anything on her head except the COW
ering nature has provided? If it is well to pro-
tect the brain against the rays of the sun such
procedure seems reckless to degree. Now,
with the average dude, it is different. He can
go bare-headed with the mercury at ITO in the
shade and no one feels the least apprehension
on his account.
- Last Saturday afternoon Mr.. William e.
Hooper, of Baltimore, came bounding up the
York road in his automobile and easily
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