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

| - Although q good deal OF rain has Taller
lately there are still some places in this coun
Of the hardness OF the ground. Many farmer
have finished blowing since the late rains ant
some have finished seeding.
Ion Tuesday last daughter of George
Harm, who lives near Putty Hill, Belair road
slipped on a piece CT watermelon rind ans
fell so heavily as to seriously injure herself
She was unconscious for several hours. DR.
l.. |. Whiteford attended her.
There are in Baltimore county mum
Der Of creditors of the Middle States Loan
Building and Construction Company, fol
| which the appointment of receivers is now be
ing asked Of the court at Hagerstown. which
is the headquarters of the company.
The exhibition Of antique furniture and
other curios at the Timonium Fair next week
| promises to be an interesting feature. Those
having articles in this line-and there are
thousands of them scattered over the county
should loan them for this exhibition.
ION Friday, August oath, Charles Z.
! Parkhurst, of Catonsville, drove horse and
dayton wagon to q sales stable in Baltimore
and left the team to be sold. This was done
and the money paid over to him. Since then
his relatives and friends have lost all trace of
him.
"A handsome pipe organ from the Moller
works, Hagerstown, Nd, has been placed in
the Chapel of the Holy Comforter, Lutherville.
The cost Of it was about 81 900. The work
Funkhouser, an experienced man in the bust
ness.
- Efforts are being made for the establish
ment Of public school at Timonium, 9Th dis
trict. 1t will be necessary to build house for
the purpose. there being none there suitable.
There are said to be eighty-one children of
school age in the immediate vicinity of the
village.
- Last Sunday was the hottest 26th day of
August in period of twenty-four years.
49, fra<x =.
shade and at some places in the county they
went up to 101. The month of August, 1900,
so far as heat is concerned was a record break
er all the way through.
80 Hoshall Memorial United Brethren
Church is about being established on Rayville
Circuit. of which Rev. NJ NJ. BURNER is pas
tor. Those who will be named as trustees are
Messrs. George w. Hoshall, Charles s. Kidd,
w. II. Kelbaugh, Charles NJ Still, T. T. Will
cox, +. f. Hoshall and John B. Kidd
~ The second annual reunion of the Belt
Parrish family was held on Emory Grove
campgrounds on Thursday. Between two and
three hundred people were present. 1t is said
there are about sixteen hundred members of
these families in Maryland. Baltimore coun-
ty was largely represented at this reunion.
THE Republican Executive Committee
OF Baltimore county met at the Union League
Club, Baltimore, on Thursday, to make the
preliminary arrangements for the campaign.
Mr.. A. A. Blakeney nominee for Congress,
was present and took an active part in the
proceedings, which lasted about two hours.
THE Democratic Executive Committee of
Baltimore county met at Towson on Tuesday
and made preliminary arrangements for the
coming campaign. Party headquarters will be
established at Towson and will be in charge of
the chairman, Mr.. VIM. p. Cole. A number
OF clubs will be organized throughout the
county.
MIR. A. A. Blakeney, Republican nomi-
nee for Congress in the Second district, will
open his campaign in this county with mass
meeting at Mt. Washington, Friday evening,
September 18th. Mr.. Barrett, who was min
lister to Siam during President Ceveland's
second administration, will be the principal
speaker.
->The BALTIC. & Lehigh Railroad has en-
countered scores of difficulties since it was
changed from narrow to standard-gauge
but 1t is gradually overcoming these and mat
tiers are now going along more smoothly. One
Of the chief troubles was that the road-bed
was not strong enough for the large Cotton
engines.
->Don't fail to read the new Baltimore
county road law which may be found on the
first page of The UNION today. 1t makes q
great many radical changes in the system of
road making and it will be well for the people
to know something about these when the
law goes into effect on the first day of next
December.
- Mr.. E. Cuttings Merryman, proprietor
exhibit at the County Fair next week his
famous thoroughbred mare kiss Ne Quick"
dam of 'Once More" Cares" and Harry
Harwood." She is now "a years old and
some of her greatest victories were won at Ii
monium track.
- Mr.. Joshua B. Todd, who has the con-
tract for putting the race track at Timonium
in condition this year. removed several hun
bred cart loads of weeds and grass from its
surface. Every fall the manure from the
stables is placed on the track and it is this that
makes this extraordinary growth, but the track
is benefited thereby.
- Politics will be lively at the Timonium
Fair next week and both the Republican and
Second district will have an opportunity. to
get in some fine work. 1t is an interesting fact
that Messrs. Talbot and Blakeney were born
at Lutherville, which pretty village is within
mile of the fair grounds
- What justice is there in bringing young
women out from Baltimore city to teach pub
lie schools in Baltimore county when there
are plenty of deserving and competent girls
here, graduates of the State Normal School,
who are persistently turned down when they
apply for positions in the schools? There must
be something radically wrong about this and
it ought to be corrected.
1.-THE twenty-five men of Troop A, Mary
land National Guard, who left August 18th,
for practice march to Capon Springs, W. Va.
returned to their barracks at Pikesville, on
Thursday afternoon. Both men and horses
were in excellent condition. The troopers
were delighted with their trip, they having
been handsomely treated all along the route.
Lieut.. C. Lyon Rogers was in command.
BY the will of Mrs. Margaret ]. Bennett,
who died at her home in Baltimore lately, the
Training School for Feeble-M Minded, near
Owings' Mills, in this county, will receive
legacy of $1,000. This is a most excellent in
stitution and the money is needed and will be
very acceptable. Mrs. Bennett was the widow
of Frank W. Bennett, who made large for
tune in the auctioneering business in Balti-
more.
-The Towson office of Mr.. Arthur P.
Shanklin, secretary of the Baltimore County
Agricultural Society, has been a very busy
place this week. A large number of entries
have been made in all the departments and
this will continue until the office is moved
to the fair grounds next Monday morning.
Justice Charles Brockmeyer, an experienced
man in the work, is arranging the books and
helping to make the entries.