The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-08-26

tions of the State at College Park. on Friday,
September LIST. The general meeting at the
college will take place on Saturday.
THE popular belief is that the dog days
end with the month Of August and that there
after the weather will be pleasant, but this does
not always follow. We have seen some of the
hottest weather of the year in September, but
nearly always the nights are cool.
The annual fall meeting OF the Shrews-
bury Trotting and Driving Association will
take place on the grounds at Shrewsbury today
Saturday. commencing at IL NJ. There are
four trofting races and one running race on
the card and fine sport is promised:
- Rev. ]. Luther Grimm. widely known
minister of the United Brethren Church, died
on Monday last at the home of his son-in-law
DIR. Harry c. Algire, Roland avenue, at an adj
vanced age. The remains were inferred in
Druid Rdgs Cemetery Gs on u;s5u Or DAY uo.
of Blenheim, 10th district was engaged in her
household duties on Wednesday her neck be-
came twisted in some manner and for time it
was thought to have been broken. DIR. John
s. Green was summoned and relieved her.
"a man advertised pair OF mules for sale
in THE UNION last week and before Saturday
was half gone two men called at the Office to
ascertain where the animals could be seen. If
you want to reach the people the best way to
do it is through the columns OF The UNION.
-The largest and best poultry show ever
seen at Timonium will be a leading feature of
this years fair. The accommodations hereto
| fore were exceedingly poor, but now the new
and modern building will house the exhibits
much better and show them off to greater adj
| vantage.
->Belleview Farm, the home of Mr.. Jacob
| Elliott in the 9Th district, was the scene of the
| sixth annual tournament on Wednesday after
noon and large crowd was in attendance.
| Twenty-one knights contended for the honors
| and prizes. Mr. Elliott is the Democratic nomi-
| nee for sheriff.
THE suburbs of Baltimore are just now
| infested with tramps and they have become q
| great nuisance to the residents. If the police
would get after them the trouble might be
| overcome. Very few trumps roam through
the country now. They like 10 hover near the
| towns and cities
The Republicans of Baltimore county
are quiet and orderly lot Of fellows. They
can hold convention in Towson and stranger
/ would not know that anything unusual was
going on. This is as it should be. Turmoil,
| confusion and ruffianism appear TO be at a dis
| count these days.
- The managers of the Baltimore county
fair contemplate establishing an automobile
| line between Towson and the fair grounds
during the coming fair. Such line would
not only be paying investment and great ac-
commodation but would also largely increase
the attendance at the fair.
THE Gospel services that have been in
progress nightly for the past month in a tent
on Delaware avenue, Towson, VIII close Sunday
night August 9th. The meetings have been
well attended, notwithstanding the wet weather
during the greater part of the time, and anum-
Der have professed conversion.
The Baltimore county fair will open one
week from next Tuesday and the entries for it
are coming in rapidly at the Office of the secre-
tary in Towson. Those who intend to make
entries in any of the departments should for
ward them promptly so that they may be
properly entered in the books.
->Several thousand people will attend the
great Sunday school rally to be held today
august 26th) at Forest Baptist Church. in
the 9Th district Thirty-six schools have been
invited and most of them will participate. It
will be a great day for that section of the
county and everybody will be there.
Chicken thieves have been doing lively
business lately along the Philadelphia, Balti-
more Washington Railroad in the neighbor.
hood OF Chase and Middle River, number of
people having suffered losses. Poultry to the
value Of over 500 has been spirited away and
the thieves left no trace OF themselves.
MIR. Allen Stevenson has been appointed
postmaster at Rider, N. c. r. R., vice Mr.. D.
M. Bryson, resigned. Mr.. Stevenson, who is
an extensive coal dealer at Rider, is an ex-
member of the House of Delegates. Mr.. Bry-
son had held the Office over twenty years and
retired because of other pressing duties.
1.-THE regular monthly meeting Of the
Junior Gunpowder Agricultural Club was held
last Saturday at the farm of Mr.. Charles 81.
Price, in the 9th district, with Mr.. Granville
Matthews as foreman. Mr.. E. E. Scott was
named as delegate to the farmers meeting at
the Maryland Agricultural College, Septem-
Der LIST.
->The biggest corn reported this week was
16 feet 81 inches. That is getting up to some
thing like the Hartford man talked about. By
the way, we are informed that the latter's big
stalk grew in garden and that special efforts
were made to urge its growth. So he don't
belong in the same class with the field corn
people.
- Secretary Nussear, of the Timonium fair,
earnestly requests those ladies who intend
making exhibits in the household department
at the coming fair to send their entries to him,
either at Towson or Lutherville or before Au-
gust 31st. The exhibits themselves should be
taken to the fair grounds on Monday, Septem-
Der 4th.
IA Towson man who lately made pleas
ure trip to Boston says that some of the most
important streets Of that city are 80 narrow
that an agile person can jump across them, and
he then added: 1.-The streets run around in a
circle and when you go out to walk the first
thing you know you meet yourself coming the
other way"
THE site for the new Methodist Episcopal
Church at Stevenson, Green Spring Valley, has
been changed, the last lot selected being on
much higher ground and commands beauti-
full view of the surrounding country. The new
church will be of stone. IS feet square, and will
cost about $4,000. 1t will be an appointment
of Hunts Circuit.
IA large delegation of citizens from Glyn-
don and ReisterstOwn, headed by Mr.. Harry
E. Goodwin, called on the County Commits
sioners on Tuesday and urged the appointment
of patrolman for those towns, which are en-
tirely without police protection. The services
of such an officer, the delegation said. was espe-
cially necessary on Saturdays.
- BY reference to the proceedings published
in today's issue of THE UNION it will be seen
that the members of the Senior Gunpowder
Agricultural Club have decided views on the
oyster question. They recognize the fact that
if something is not soon done for this great
Maryland industry not many years will elapse
before it will be entirely thing Of the past.
->Several fine games of baseball were played
in Baltimore county last Saturday. At Mt.
Washington the Sparrow Point team defeated
the team of the former place 4 too. At Cations
vile the Suburbans defeated the Country Club
team to 0. At Hamilton, Hartford road, the
home team defeated team from Roland Park,
Is to O. So it proved day of shutouts all
around.
THE gentlemen of Green Spring Valley
who bought the broncos brought in from the
far West, will have an opportunity TO show
their jumping qualities at the coming limo
mum fare. A special class has been opened
for them and they will be tried over six jumps
of 4 feet each, performance over the fences to
count so per cent. The prizes are S25, SIS
and SO.
-It would seem that the slot machine bust
ness in Baltimore county has been broken up.
at least temporarily. This is an Industry"
that has been thriving wonderfully and those
who claim to know assert that those who allow
them on their premises make big money out
of them. They say that one of these machines
will break bank if the bank sticks to it long
enough. That is you simply can't "beat'' it.
Some time before his death-just after
notable Democratic victory-a friend at Cham
bersburg, Pa, sent William H. Ruby, editor
of the Maryland Journal, very large tin roos-
ter, which he priced very highly. This week
this bird fell into the hands of Secretary Nus
scar, of the Timonium fair, and he proposes to
have it brilliantly painted and mounted on
top of the new poultry house on the fair
grounds.
Baltimore County is There.-A dispatch
from Bar Harbor, Me-, dated August 23d. says:
Baltimore carried off the honors at Bar Har-
Der Horse Show on the second day, winning
the blues in the two best classes of the day,
those for fourth hands for park use and for
horses to be shown before victoria. In the
first class VIM. f. Cochran, Jr., defeated Col.
Edward Morrell, of Philadelphia perhaps one
of the best horsemen in the country, handling
his team in magnificent style and showing off
the points of the four perfectly matched horses
to the best advantage. In the victoria class
Mr.. Cochran's Mineola, a handsome bay mare,