The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-09-23

~-D IOo CO0Jrack IOf the improvement VI tue
Warren road. in the 9Th district, was not
awarded by the Highways Commissioners on
Thursday. The bidders are Mr.. James Blair.
the Hook & Ford Construction Company and
Messrs. Douglas & Gilmore.
- Politics appear to be unusually quiet in
Baltimore county just now, considering the
fact that there are three tickets in the field for
the local offices. Perhaps things in this line
will warm up when the weather gets cooler.
The election is only six weeks of.
mir John w. Hall has had the plans
prepared for handsome house that he Will
erect on the north side of Joppa road, West
Towson, on ground purchased from Mr. Arthur
L. Bosley. He will begin operations as soon
as certain alterations are made in the lot:
Judge William Byerly. of the Baltimore
county Orphans Court, while attending the
Hanover pa fair last week, was robbed of a
pocket-book and SIS in cash. The book was
found at the railroad station and returned to
the Judge this week by the officers of the COM
pany.
1.-The second quarterly meeting of Long
Green Circuit, announced in this paper last
week to be held at Union Church. September
22d and 23d. has been postponed until Septem-
Der Both and October 1st because fthe inability
of the Presiding Elder to be present on the first
named dates.
-In his charge to the grand jury last
Monday Chief Judge Fowler had something to
say about the alleged violations of the liquor
and gambling laws in this county. If the jury
is expected to investigate all the cases that will
be presented to it its ten-day session will have
to be extended.
-->Mr Charles NJ. Chicoat, of Butler, has
| growing in bis garden a stalk of PHILIPPINE
| corn, two grains of which were presented to
| him by a friend. 1t is like other corn except
| that every single grain is incased in husk or
| pod. Mr.. Chilcoat will show this corn at the
| Timonium fair next year.
I'VE want to hear something further about
| the man who expected a crop of 20 barrels of
corn to the acre this year. If be got but Is,
| (which is q large crcp) he should let us know
| it. Many well posted farmers say that when
| measuring up time comes there will be more
| lbs than IS and 20s to the acre.
| ION Sunday next, September oath. at IL
| A. NJ, the bell recently presented to Trinity
| Church, Long Green, by Mr.. w. s. g. Williams
will be rung for the first time, and Rev. Richard
| Nottingham will preach an appropriate SER
mon. Bishop Paret will visit this church on
Sunday, October LIST, at IL A. M.
->As the year advances and winter APP
proaches the price of coal is being pushed up
| by those who control the mines. They are
getting ready to pinch the poor. and will do it
again as they have often done before. When
the devil gets the Rockefellers and the coal
barons he'll have fun with them.
- The subject of building railroad from
Parkton, N. @. r. R., to Hoffmanville, in the
9th district is again being agitated. The route
proposed is over the line of the Parkton and
Manchester Railroad, part of which was graded
years ago. Should this road be built it will
, open up a rich agricultural section.
THE property known as Harris quarry,
situated on the east side of the Falls road, was
purchased at auction on Wednesday by Mr..
Walter B. Brooks, president of the Sanford q
Brooks Company for $4,000. 1t contains
about IL acres and is one of the largest and
finest quarry properties in the vicinity of Bal
timore
IA jumping contest has been arranged to
take place at the Gainesville Country Club, on
Saturday afternoon, September Both. There
are four classes and an extra one for the br0ncOs
owned by Green Spring Valley gentlemen who
gave them trial at Timonium. where, it was
thought, they did not cut much of figure as
timber-toppers
MIR. Chas. T. Bowen who rents the Tag
art farm at Rockland Falls road, this week lost
a horse and COW by DEATH the latter having
died from getting into a cornfield and overeat-
ing. A year or two ago Mr.. Bowen, who is a
dairyman, lost number of cows that were
killed because they had been bitten by sup
posed mad dog.
- 1t is claimed that the attendance at Pros
pect Park fair last week aggregated over $4,000
people in the five DAYS. A rain the first day
no doubt interfered somewhat, but upon the
whole the fair was undoubtedly successful and
the best the association has yet held. Pres;-
dent Brehm and his associate managers are to
be congratulated.
->The United Railways and Electric Com
pany has shown a commendable disposition to
put the lower end of the York road in proper
condition for travel, thus doing away with a
proposition on the part of the city authorities
to condemn the same. The company has
promised to put the road in good shape as
speedily as possible
"A very destructive worm has attacked
the apple orchards in some sections of the
upper end of Baltimore county and is doing
serious damage to the fruit by boring into it..
1t is said to be much more destructive than the
common apple worm. 1t is thought to be the
same pest that did so much damagein the New
England States several years ago.
- Mr.. Edward Rider of j., who farms the
Whorley place. near Sherwood, left at THE
UNION office this week lot of fine vegetables,
including sweet corn and tomatoes and
splendid field pumpkin that measures 81 inches
in circumference. Mr.. Rider is a son of the
late John G. Rider, who was in his lifetime a
successful farmer in that section of the county.
MIR. John Klohr, of the I'd district of
Baltimore county, took IL out of II rings
at the tournament of the Master Butchers
Association of Washington on Wednesday at
Benning race track. He won second money
(s25) and lost the championship of Maryland,
Virginia and the District of Columbia to Will
liam Heron, of Washington, who took IL
rings straight.
>Mr. G. Howard Stirling, agent for the
Rush Generator Company, who had the ordi
nsnce passed for lighting the town of Manches.
ter, Carroll county, with acetylene, is now in.
cooperating a company there to furnish the
light. Mr.. Strings company put the lights
in the Guild House at TOwson and they are
giving the greatest satisfaction, both in illumi-
nation and cost.
THE month of September, 1905, is MAX
ing a record in the way of horrible occurrences
that is rarely, if ever, equaled. The daily
papers have been filled with accounts of these
affairs, including steam and trolley car acct
dents, explosions, etc, the reading of the par
ticulars of which almost chlls the blood. The
loss of life in the last three weeks from these
causes has been appalling.
ION Saturday last Gen. John Gill, presi-
dent of the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Com
pany of Baltimore entertained large number
of the members of the Stock Exchange at Ken
wood, his country place near Gainesville.
Today Saturday Mr. T. Edward Hambleton
will entertain the Baltimore bankers and
brokers at his beautiful country place, Ham
bledune." near Luthervile.
- Mr.. Joseph W. Jenkins. Jr., has nearly
completed the work of changing the bed of
Lake avenue. at his beautiful country place
overlooking Mt. Washington. He obtained
permission from the High ways Commissioners
to make the changes, which have proven a
great benefit to the road. The cost of the road
was about $4,000, Mr.. Jenkins personally
meeting the entire expense.
"A man who said his name was Henry
Shoes, and who claimed to be LOT years old,
was picked up on the Frederick road few
nights ago and taken to Gainesville police sta
ton. He said he was born near the Gunpowder
river, in Baltimore county. and that he was
soldier in the War of 1912. where he was
wounded four times. It is just possible that
Henry was drawing the long bow.
THE efforts of the City Council of Bati-
more to have hospital for infectious diseases
established in Baltimore county is not likely
to prove successful. The County Commits
sioners filed formal protest against the pas
sage Of such an ordinance. The people of
Baltimore county are not pleased at the thought
of having such diseases as smallpox, cholera,
leprosy, etc.. brought to their very doors.
- AS one good result of the Corn Specials"
ever the railroads last spring it is now said that
the corn crop along the Western Maryland
Railroad will show an increase of 40 per cent,
while that along the Maryland & Pennsyl-
| vania will show an increase of % per cent. in
both field and sugar corn. This alone proves
| the wisdom of the corn movement inaugurated
| by Mr.. c. Bosley Littig and others. No doubt
next years results will be still better.
Boy Meets Shocking Death.-James A.
Reese, aged IL years, son of Mr.. and Mrs James
P. Reese, of Lutherville met shocking death
in that village last Saturday afternoon. He
was waiting beside the Northern Central Rail-
| uav for a aouth h0und freight train to mass