The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-08-08
baltimore County Fair Notes.-The

Baltimore County Fair Notes.-The
grounds and buildings at Timonium are in
better condition today than they have been
for years. All the buildings have been put in
repair, the household department has been re-
rooted and the new carriage house has been
| finished
This year the ladies will again have charge
of the officers tent on the bill. Mrs. S. NJ.
Shoemaker and Mrs George w. Yellott have
been selected to assist in entertaining.
The Society will open its office in Rich's
drug store Towson, on Monday, 18th of
August. c. & P. phone, 391 Lutherville, and
Maryland phone, Towson IS.
Entries for the stock departments close Au-
gust oath.
The premium lists are now out and copies
may be had by addressing the secretary, Mr.
James s. Nussear, Lutherville, Md. Copies
may also be had by calling at THE UNION
office.
One page of this years catalogue is occu-
pied by an excellent picture of President Alex
ander Mccormick, a face familiar to many
thousands of Baltimore county people. He
has been connected with the fair almost since
the organization of the society, and the greater
part of the time has had charge of the house
hold department, one of the most troublesome,
as it is one of the most attractive, features of
the fair.
Mr. Edward A. Cockey of Gwynnbrook, 4th
district, will again act as chief marshal of the
fair this year, and no more suitable man for
Iu0 pldC0 COulQ D6 IOuuu. Tue lleuIcuduL
marshal will be Mr.. John G. Cockey.
What promises to be feature of this years
fair will be a splendid display of agricultural
implements.
The board of managers will hold meeting
on the fair grounds, Saturday afternoon, Au-
gust 18th.
A ferris wheel will be an attraction at the
fair this year and this will serve to make the
giddy girls still giddier. What pity
A different band of music will play at the
fair every day.
The School Board Takes a Hand.-Mr.
James j. Lindsay counsel to the Board of
School Commissioners, has filed bill in the
frestrain the contamination of o sale of prop
erty from Edward L. Felgner to DIR. Edwin
Geer. The bill declares that DIR. Geer has pur-
chased from Mr.. Felgner the Slingluff proper
~ on the Resterstown road, some 300 yards
rom a county public school, and proposes to
erect thereon a sanatorium for the treatment
of inebriates and persons suffering from
nervous diseases.
Such sanatorium as the one proposed, the
bill says will ruin the usefulness of the school,
and the court is asked to prevent by injunction
the contamination of the sale and the erection
of the sanatorium. 1t declares that the pub
lie school has been there for 10 years that it
has been of great public service to the people
of both sexes in the neighborhood. and that it
would not be right Ito expose the children who
pravity which are bound to be noticed about
the sanatorium." 1t is stated that persons
suffering from delirium tremens "give forth
piercing yells terrifying to all within earshot,"
and that they are also apt to commit irrespon-
sible acts of violence while thus mentally dis
ordered that may prove dangerous both to
pupils and teachers at the school.
DIR. Geer, the bill declares, has announced
his intention of providing tennis courts, on
which his patients may disport themselves,
thus making public display of human de-
pravity at its very worst, besides proving an
eternal source OF terror "a and danger to the
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