The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-08-30

nights ago. The next morning he was found
in Lutherville, short distance from home
bearing evidence of having been ridden hard.
lit has been suggested that Santos-D u-
mont be requested to construct small airship
to use at the county Jail to intercept prisoners
who may wish to fly away by means of holes
in the roof while the warden is occupying his
time disengaging the hayseed from his flowing
locks.
THE new iron bridge spanning the Gun.
powder, on the Beair road. has been compile
ted and is open to travel. The structure has a
span of 127 feet and a width of IA feet The
width is thought by some to be insufficient and
big loads of hay may find some difficulty in
getting through.
1.-THE camp-meeting season has ended, al
though many of those who camped" at them
are still occupying their cottages or tents on
the grounds and will continue to enjoy the
beauties of the country until the chill of the
night air admonishes them that it is time 10
seek other quarters.
- Mr.. Arthur P. Shanklin, secretary of
the Baltimore County Agricultural Society, is
| a very busy man just now At such times the
hard-worked secretary is likely tothink that If
he received pay commensurate with the mag
nitude of his labors he'd be pulling down
about $3.50 an hour.
%Col. Robert Hough, the veteran presid-
ing Judge, will start the trotters and PAGERS at
Timonium next week, and MIR. Ernest Hall
will officiate in the same capacity for the rum
ners. Both gentlemen are known for their
| good work and nothing crooked is to be ex-
| pected when they direct.
| 1.-The annual tri-state encampment and
| farmers picnic at Williams Grove, Cumber-
land county, Pa, was held this week and. as
usual, drew large crowds. A good many Bal
timore countians always attend this affair and
| more would if the proper announcements were
made in the papers here.
"a meeting will be held in West Airing
ton, on Sunday, August 7th, at which con-
| gregation to be known as the Evangelical
! Lutheran Church of Our Savior will be organ
| lied. A lot has been secured on the corner of
| Garrison and Groveland avenues upon which
a church will soon be erected.
,->One arrest for barn. burning in Baltimore
county has been made and perhaps this show
of action on the part of the authorities will
have deterrent OBJECT upon others who may
feel inclined toindulge in this species of crime.
Severe punishment should be melted out to
! those found guilty of its preparation.
- The Democratic convention for the
Second Congressional district met at Havre-ce-
Grace on Thursday last, and the Republican
convention will meet at Westminster, Tuesday
next, September I'd. So far as is known there
will be no opposition to the denomination of
Hon. A. A. Blakeney, of Baltimore county.
IA man in Baltimore was fined IS and
costs few days ago for working horse with
sore shoulder. If the agents of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
kept closer watch there would be many more
such cases. Animals unfit to work are fire.
quently seen on the streets and on the roads
in the suburbs.
IA colored woman named Minta Will
liams died at her home in the 18th district of
this county, at the age of SO years. She had
been slave, but was freed by her master,
Charles Pettebone, August 10, 1920. She had
full possession of her faculties until a few
weeks before her death. Minta leaves a mum.
Der of descendants
ION Friday night of last week bob.tail
bay horse mysteriously disappeared from the
place of Mr.. William V. Elder, in the western
end of Green Spring Valley. On Tuesday of
this week the animal was found safe and sound
in the extreme southeastern section of the
county. He had evidently been ridden from
home and then turned loose.
"a young BaltimOrean named Charles G.
Sheehan, while rulings tandem bicycle on the
turnpike near Reisterstown, last Sunday, &C.
companied by his brother. was thrown off,
caused by the breaking of the machine, and
sustained injuries to his head that caused his
death abouttwo hours afterwards. The broth
er escaped with slight injuries.
Tomorrow-Sunday the last day of
August and the summer of 1902 is rapidly
nearing its end. Those who said it would be
a cool summer, because it is locust year."
have had their faith strengthened 1t has
been remarkable season because of our i'm
munity from long periods of heat, which have
not been uncommon in other years.
H6 duUudl uuduCldl statement OF LD6
Govanstown Land, Loan and Building Assoc-
alton shows its affairs to be in a very prosper
Gus condition. For nine successive years it has
paid 6 per cent. dividends. Mr.. Isaac H. Moss
is president of the association, and Mr.. James
6. Rodgers, secretrry. Among the directors
are several we'll known business men,
1.-The sale of the dairy stock of Ferdinand
Goebel which took place at Harvest Home,'
on Wilkens avenue, last Thursday, was one of
the best of the year and was largely attended
One pair of horses brought $410 pair of
mules S475, and the cows ranged from s33 to
500. the average being about $40 per head.
Slade q Risteau were the auctioneers.
->Mr. y. e. McClearv, proprietor of Lo-
Gust Vale Stock Farm, Towson, will show
team of six mules at the County Fair next
swipe the blue ribbon in walk. One vora-
cious reporter has said they will weigh 1000
pounds each, while another goes him 200 bet
ter and says they will weigh 1900 each.
->O On Thursday, 21st inst, the committee
that had charge of the West Hartford woods
meeting presented Rev. John Il Jeffries, Junior
pastor of Great Falls Circuit. with a set of
four volumes of "Vincent's Word Studies"
as a token of their appreciation of his services
as conductor of the choir, this being the third
year he has served so acceptably in that Ca
pacity.
> The young man named Randolph Wear
who was arrested in Baltimore upon the
charge of stealing two horses from the premises
of Messrs. Samuel and George Gosnell in the
I'd district, the night their barn was burned,
is now in jail here. John Green, the man that
Wear claimed gave him the horses to sell, and
who had been arrested, had no difficulty in
proving an alibi
THE prettiest girls in Maryland can be
seen every day next week at Timonium Fair
This is no vain boast. 1t is an actual fact that
has been proven by the experience of years.
And the girls are not only pretty but they
lolOk has 10 oh as ~NI 111 he
Just go there and see for yourself. If you are
bachelor contemplating matrimony you can't
afford to stay away. 4
-The stockholders of the Cockeysville Ma
tional Bank, at meeting held on Thursday,
appointed Messrs Joshua f. Cockev, William
H. Wight and A. Elzey Waters committee to
select site for a new bank, the present one
having become too small for the growing bus
mess of that institution. The new building
will be in all respects modern and will cost
between ten and twelve thousand dollars.
@Towson and the immediate vicinity en-
loved couple of fine showers last Sunday af-
ternoon, and some other sections of the coun-
ty were equally fortunate, while in others
there were not even signs of rain. The showers
came here from the Enthusiastically
very unusual--and slight fall Of hail &C.
companied one of them. The temperature
was delightfully."- cool through out the day.
mfr. Charles Brockmeyer will again be
the chief clerk in the main Office at the limo
mum Fair next week, and Mr.. NJ H. Wilson
will again occupy that position in the house
hold department. They are old time favorites
with exhibitors and while they are both good
looking they don't have to carry clubs to keep
the girls away. When it comes to county fair
work you can't hitch either of them wrong.
b THE County Commissioners did not hold
meeting this week. They were enjoying
slight respite from their labors and will recon-
vene next Tuesday to wrestle with their multi
farious duties. 1t has been said 1.-The lot of the
policeman is not happy one" Neither is
that of the County Commissioner. He gets
more abuse for less pay than any other official.
And still there are those who are seeking "the
job"
Fellows in Baltimore county who own
what they think are very fast nags should enter
them in the trot for county horses at limo
MUM on Saturday of next week. To hear
some of these jays talk one would think they
owned wind-splitters, but let them once get on
the track and hold watch over them and it
will be often found that they can't trot fast
enough to keep themselves warm even in Sep
TENDER.
- Benjamin w. Wilson, Jr., and William
Lockery, both of Forest Hill, Hartford county,
the boys arrested last week for tampering with
letter-boxes on rural free delivery route near