The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-09-16

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the York road.
- The September term of the Circuit Court
will begin next Monday, 18th instant.
- No chance for another holiday now until
Thanksgiving day. which will fall this year on
the 30th of November.
The bell has rung for the white shoes.
If there ever was fashion that was horribly
overdone II was this one.
- When you wish to communicate with
THE UNION use either the Maryland or G. q p.
phone. We have both in our Office.
- Governor Warfield on Thursday appoint
ed Grant Hare and Walter French additional
deputy game wardens for Baltimore county.
THE fund to purchase testimonial for
the cruiser Maryland has gone considerably
over "a 900. The amount required is 5000,
"a young lady in Tows0n is about to take
her first lessons in equestrianism. She will
adopt the divideds skirt and ride man fashion, .
- The mercury in TOwsOn on Thursday
morning registered so degrees at Z O'Clock.
This was drop of nearly 30 degrees within IL
hours.
- There is said to have been frost in some
sections of Baltimore county on Thursday
morning. but not enough to do any injury TO
vegetation.
- THE UNION job Office printed public sale
poster this week and among the endless variety
Of articles to be offered is "a violin upwards of
100 years old"
- The Baltimore baseball team is once
more at the head of the list, with Jersey City
very close second. The season of 1905 israpidly
drawing to close.
Two county fairs are in progress this week
Prospect Park, Baltimore, and the Hanover
fair The former will continue over today
Saturday 10th instant.
- Tuesday, September 18th, was a legal
holiday in Maryland made SO by proclama-
ton of the Governor The banks and all the
public offices were closed.
Superintendent Cook, of the Baltimore,
county schools, says that wherever the CONSOLE
&-datiOn of schools has been tried IN this county
il has worked satisfactorily.
THE Riggs road case--well, it looks like
we can see the other end of it now. But then
il don't do to be certain about anything. par
ticularIy the Riggs road case.
- The parOchial school at TowsOn, con-
Quoted by the Sisters of Charity, re-opened on
Monday last, the pupils first attending mass at
the Church of the Immaculate.
The public schools of Baltimore city
opened for the fall term on Wednesday and
nearly 10000 children entered their doors.
What grand and imposing army
->If you want to know anything about
STimonium weather" you must erply to DR..
A. g. McCurdy, TowsOn. He has taken out
patent on IL and reserves all rights.
- At TimOnium fair last week Mrs. Elisha
Parks took first premium on her bread made
of Sherwood" -four bought from the Jockeys
willie Milling and Supply Company.
"a new rural free delivery route will be
established at Loeb Raven. Baltimore county,
list of October next with William Pearce as
carrier and Emily Pearce, substitute.
- The enrolment of the public school at
Sparrow's Point for the fall term wasSpearly
$50 pupils Mr.. Joseph Blair is principal OF
the school and he has thirteen assistants. NJ
- The list of judges and clerks who will
serve at the election in Baltimore county on
the 7th of November next is published in the
advertising columns of THE UNION today
The dedication of the new Union Chapel
at Timonium, NJ G. R. R., announced for next
Sunday, has been postponed until Sunday,
October 1st services commencing at 2 30 P. NJ.
- Mr. James E. Ingram, Sr, has purchasde
from the Pope estate 35 acres of land on Park
Heights avenue. near Denmore Park, which he
will improve. Mr.. J. Leland Hanna made the
sale.
"A tournament will be held at Mr.. A. H.
Coles Parkville House, on the Hartford road,
on Wednesday September 9th. For particu-
lars see advertising columns of The UNION
today.
We have now passed the middle of Sep
TENDER and the fields are as fresh looking as
they were in The spring. The abundant rain
Of the summer has kept vegetation of all kinds
growing.
While fishing with hook and line off
Fort Howard few days ago Mr.. William
--Grasnn, of the Towson bar. caught rock that
weighed nearly pounds. 1t was splendid
specimen.
=. Looks like the Civic League is about to
make it warm for men who permit slot ma
chimes to be run on their premises and who
disregard the law prohibiting the sale of liquor
on Sunday.
IA full-grown fox may be seen at times
disporting himself about the streets of Towson
>aud making fun for the boys and the dogs.
Several henr0osts have suffered seriously on
account of his presence.
- Mr.. John Finney Wells won the nomi-
nation for Treasurer in the Democratic pri-
mary in Hartford county last Saturday beating
Mr.. VIM. J. Shanahan by only five votes.
There is talk of a contest.
>Messrs. Appegarth, Herman & Ref
snider, attorneys for George E. Hopper, have
entered suit in the Circuit Court here against
MerritieId. the horseman, claiming $1,000
damages for alleged assault.
%Mr. H. Carroll Brown. of Brookland-
wood. has purchased the residence of Mrs.
Robert Lehr, East Chase street, Baltimore,
and will make it his winter home. The price
is said to have been $4,000.
Dr. John Kensey Johns. who died at his
home near Easton. Md, on Thursday night
last, aged IS years, was at one time practicing
physician in Baltimore county. He was ma
tive of Frederick county, Md.
- E Schneider & Co. have secured the
contract for improving one mile of the Phila.
delphia road and also one mile OF U Donneil
street under the State aid act. The work must
be completed by December LIST.
- Walnut trees are already almost entirely
denuded of their leaves, while the foliage of
the horsechestnuts looks as sered as though we
had experienced heavy frosts. Most all other
trees are still green and fresh looking.
The members of the Manor Glen Race
Track Association will hold meeting at
Emory's school house, on Saturday evening.
September 10th, at s o'clock All interested
in the new track are invited to attend.
mon resident sportsmen who wish 70
shaOt in Baltimore county are notified by the'
State Game Warden to procure their licenses
before the beginning of the open season from
the Clerk of the Circuit Court at Towson
- The apple crop in Baltimore county this
year is generally abundant and much of it will
be made up into cider this being about the
only way the fruit can be used to any advan
tage Even in.this way the profit is small.
%Some of the new winter cars OF the
United Railways have arrived from the shops
and will be put into service as the old summer
ones are withdrawn. The thousands of patrons
of the company will appreciate the change.
- The tournament at the 8 Mile House,
Hartford road, will take place next Wednesday
afternoon and Proprietor Bauer will do his
best to make il successful affair. For particu
lars see advertising columns of The UNION
today.
- The mayor and council of Manchester,
Carroll county, have made contract with a
firm in Canandaigua, N. Y, to light the streets
of that town with acetylene gas. II is thought
that many residents of the town will also adopt
the light.
THE public schools of this county OBJ
served the 18th of September by reading the
history of the battle of North Point and sing
ing 1.-The Star Spangled Banner" It is well
to instill patriotic thoughts into the minds of
the young.
Although scores of automobiles travelled
the York turnpike last week we did not hear
of one driving accident on account of the pres.
Sence of them on that thoroughfare. Evidently
the horses must be becoming accustomed to
the machines.
-Mr. VIM NJ. Cooper, Wicomico county
farmer. has an alfalfa field, sown in August,
1904. that he has cut over six times this year,
securing good crop each time. He is warm
advocate of alfalfa and thinks farmers generally
should grow it..
Next Friday, September 22d, will be the
last day of the summer of 1905, and it has made
record that will go down in history as a most
remarkable one. In the matter of rain it has
been without parallel in q period of nearly
one hundred years.
few years ago chestnuts were abundant
in this section of Baltimore county, but they
are comparatively scarce now because SO many
of the trees have been cut down, and also
because of some blight that has attacked the
trees causing them to die. =,