The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-05-20

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- Baltimore county roads are generally IN
very good condition just now, but the same
cannot be said of some Of the turnpikes. Inese
very rough and uneven roads are hard on yeni-
Giles and exceedingly aggravating to travellers
Toll roads should be kept in better condltion.
-In the medal contest held in the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in Waverly, on Friday
evening of last week Miss Margaret Matthews.
of Towson, received honorable mention, being
second to the winner of the prize. Miss
Matthews is a member of the Towson M. Il.
Church.
- The string Of carriage and saddle horses
Of Mrs. Elisha Dyer, Jr., OF New YORK, that
were wintered at her farm in Long Green VAL
ley, were shipped to Newport, r. /, on Thurs.
day. Mrs. Dyer is niece Of the late samuel
s. Patterson. from whom she inherited the
It was noticed that during the downpour
of rain and heavy thunder and sharp lightning
| last Sunday afternoon there was scarcely
enough wind to stir the boughs Of the trees.
This is something very uncommon because
| more or less wind always accompanies dis
turbances Of that kind.
IA correspondent writing from the 11th
| district says Look out for the thief in Ger
mantown, 18th district. He comes in broad
daylight when people are at work in the fields
/ He is so sly no one can catch him, Twice
! money has been taken from certain house
| within few months"
| - Despite the serious handicap of an in
sufficient water supply Towson will have some
| fine improvements to show before the end of
the present year. As last resort those who
| are building, or who contemplate doing so, can
| have aftesian wells bored, and no doubt this is
what some intend doing.
- Manager Hoblitzell of the Towson Ath-
letic Club, was very proud of the achievement
of his baseball team last Saturday when it
played the strong Woodbury. aggregation to
standstill-13 to 0. This Saturday afternoon
the Towsons will go to Lauraville for game
with the Athletic Club of that place.
- THE UNION is indebted to Mr.. James M.
Hendrix. superintendent. for copy Of the
ffty-fourth annual report of the Board Of
Managers of the House Of Refuge. The docu-
ment Is handsomely printed pamphlet of 81
pages, gotten up entirely by the boys of the
printing department of that institution.
THE congregation Of the Presbyterian,
the following officers for the ensuing year
President, Col. Walter s. franklin trustees,
VIM. H. Buck. Jr., Henry Dubbs. John g.
Glover G. T. Joyce, Daniel Dubbs, John F.
Hilgeman and DR.. George A. Thompson.
- The Postofice Department has accepted
the proposal of Mr.. Edward n. Bouton, presi-
dent of the Roland Park Company, to lease for
term of ten years quarters in Roland Park
for Station L. The station will be on the west
side of Roland avenue. between Upland and
Elmhurst roads. It will be open July LIST.
THE will of the late Charles W. Slagle.
ST., was admitted to probate at Towson this
week. It bequeaths S2l, 900 to charitable OBJ
sjects several servants are remembered with
snug legacies, and the remainder goes to the
widow. three sons and one daughter. The
sons are named as executors The estate Is q
very large one
-->Mr. James e. Green, Jr., formerly of the
Towson National Bank, has made application
to the Comptroller of the Currency at Wash
ington for authority to organize national
bank at York Haven, ten miles from York,
Pa, on the Northern Central Railway. Mr..
Green has been cashier of the First National
Bank of New Freedom since its organization.
1.-THE Evergreen Lawn, Land and Improve
nent Company has been incorporated, with q
capital stock of $4,000. This company will
develop the Wiessner property, about "A acres.
located on the northwest corner OF the Hartford
road and Hamilton avenue. Among the in
corporators are Mr.. Frederick w. Lipps, DIR.
George C. Wegefarth and Mr.. G. K. Watten-
scheidt.
late Caleb A. Wilson, of lower Long Green
Valley. which was stopped on account of q
caveat having been filed to the will of the de-
ceased, will take place on the premises, on
Friday, May 18th. A number of pieces of
antique furniture, old silverware, &C., will be
included in the sale, which is advertised in
THE UNION today.
Roughly printed cards are being sent
through the mail setting forth that gambling
is being carried on at certain places in Balti-
more county. If the author or authors OF
these anonymous missives are in earnest, and
are trying to do good, why don't they go before
the grand jury, now in session, and testify to
the facts as they give them? This would be
much more manly course.
MIR. Redmond G. Stewart and his game
horse Landslide was again successful in Green
Spring Valley last Saturday afternoon when
for the second time he won the Brooklandwood
Handicap Steeplechase, beating field of eleven
over very stiff four-mile course. 1t was
beautiful race and witnessed by large crowd.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Carroll Brown, of Brookland-
wood, entertained several hundred persons at
luncheon before the race took place.
Damage and Other Suits.-Mr. William
H. Lawrence, attorney for John Chester. has
filed a suit in the Circuit Court here against
John Hoffstetter and Annie Hoffstetter, claim
ing 5000 damages The plaintiff alleges that
the defendants wantonly assaulted him and
shot him in the leg
The County Commissioners have been sued
in the Circuit Court by the Federal Engineer
ing and Construction Company for $855.3S,
alleged to be due it for work performed in re-
dinen appears for the plaintiff.
Messrs. James Kelley and William s. Keech,
attorneys for John L. Wagner, on Thursday
entered two suits in the Circuit Court here
against Charles E. Thomas, claiming $1,000
damages in one suit and 81 900 damages in the
other. The suits were filed by titling and the
cause of action is not disclosed. Both the
plaintiff and defendant are residents of Tow
son, the former being florist and the latter
contractor and builder.
Mrs. Kate L. Hinder, of the 18th district, by
Mr.. W. Gill Smith, her attorney, has filed
bill in equity against Daniel ]. Fielding and
others. The plaintiff alleges that she pur-
chased some property in which the defendants
are interested and was entitled to get good.
valid contract for the same. The plaintiff
80 hate dor1h hoo arfoon til or
in the property, and asks the court to appoint
a trustee to convey to her good and valid deed.
Mrs. Anna Maria German. by her attorney,
Mr.. Addison E. Mulliken, filed bill in the
Circuit Court against Mrs. Catherine Y. Ger
man, asking that the defendant be required to
execute to her an absolute deed for four acres
of land which the plaintiff claims to have pur-
chased from the defendant and the late Theo-
dore German.
man j. F. G. Talbot takes luncheon every Sat-
urday afternoon at the Hotel Rennert with
five or six of his Baltimore county friends-all
of them good, strong Talbot Democrats. 1t is
the custom of Mr.. Talbot to enliven the feast
with a good story or two, in the telling of
which he is unexcelled. One of his latest was
told last week by way of illustrating the char
acteristics of prominent public man in
Maryland.
''fhis case happened" said Mr.. Talbot,
QOWu III y 1c4dc lOWu. 1ucEC was q law
suit in which typical Texas lawyer was on
one side. representing as defendants dozen or
more rough and ready Texas farmers. He.
himself was man of the people and plain as
an old shoe.
1.-The other side had engaged New York
lawyer. He was the first of the kind ever seen
in that town, and every time he came in to the
court room he created sensation. Immacul-
ately dressed from head to foot he would en-
ter the room and pass, with his head high in
the air, through the crowd of Texans to the
trial table. There he would remove his silk
hat and lay it carefully on the table. He
would peel off his kid gloves and place them
and his cane by the side of his hat, inhibition his
long frock coat, flick little dust off his patent
leather shoes and then bow in beautiful man.
ner to the Court.
AFTER he had gone through this performance
| two or three times, one burly old farmer who
sat near the Texas lawyer leaned across the
table and said in whisper loud enough to be
heard all over the room:
"'Say, Bill that thar is the most pompious
| and usurpious man ever seed 'n-Odd Tales,