The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-11-11

- William Johnson, colored. who had beer
an invalid for some years, died at his home OF
East Joppa road, Towson, on Monday last
He was native Of Towson and son Of thu
late Judy johnson. He bad several brothers
all of whom died before him.
->The work of improving the exterior o
Hunts NJ. e. Church. west Of Sherwood, By
penciliDg the walls, painting. etc, is now In
progress. This Is one of the Oldest churche.
in Baltimore county, and has been rebuilt
several times since it was first erected.
THE mule of Mr.. j. Best Miller, Of ths
7th district. that had leg broken in COLI
sion on the 3-Mile Hill. York road, on Friday
Of last week. and was afterwards killed, was
left lying beside the road for several days after
wards and presented most disgusting sight.
Some sportsmen who have been out after
partTidges declare that they are very scarce,
while others say that this is not 50 and assert
that the dogs cannot find the birds because
everything is still so green that the scent will
not clay" There may be something in this.
There was some odd voting among Demo
Gratis in Towson on Tuesday. Many Of them
did something they never did in their lives
before-split their tickets. Opposition to the
Poe amendment led them to do this, but they
won't be read out of their party because Of this
act.
->Some wise guy thought he'd tangle up
things little by suggesting that because there
are five Thursdays in this month that Thanks.
giving day should come on the 23d instead Of
the 3Oth Of the month. but the President set
tied the matter quickly by naming the latter
date.
this handsome new station of the North
ern Central Railway at Sherwood has been
completed and is now in charge of Mr.. ID. M.
Bryson, the popular agent at that point. The
old station house will be taken down and re-
moved to Sparks, to do duty as station house
there.
Several of THE UNIoNs subscribers paid
up this week because they said they did not
want to get bills in their papers on the I'd OF
December. The work of making out these
annual bills will be commenced next week,
our subscription lists having been newly tram
scribed.
- Mrs. Howard Gould, who passed through
Towson few days ago on an automobile tour
from New York to Annapolis, said the worst
roads she ever saw she encountered in Della
ware and Maryland. This is rather severe
reflection upon our State. Push on the good
roads movement.
- Mr.. John Steele Mathews, prosperous
farmer of Perryviile, Cecil county, died of
typhoid fever last Sunday, aged 3S years. He
leaves q widow and seven children. Deceased
was a son of Mr.. /. g. Mathews. of Sparrow's
Point, Baltimore county, and was highly
esteemed citizen.
- What was for, perhaps, more than GEN.
fury known as Stump's Mill-one of the land
marks of Green Spring Valley-has entirely
disappeared, nothing remaining OF the site but
q hole in the ground. 1t was brick structure
and in its active days ground grain for farmers
for scores of miles away.
THE walls of the new Methodist Episco.
pal Church near Stevenson Station, Green
Spring Valley, are going up rapidly and it is
likely the building will be under roof before
winter sets in. This will be an appointment
of Hunts Circuit, of which Rev. John II.
Brunges is the senior pastor.
- Flies are nuisance at any season of the
year. but the autumn fly has no equal for
pestiverousness. They can't be gotten rid of
in any ordinary way. but the sticky hy-paper
that was used in THE UNION Office this week
brought the answer most satisfactorily. II
these pests get after you Just try this scheme.
>The fall meeting of the Maryland Jockey
Club, which was commenced at Pimlico last
Saturday, will end on Tuesday next, l4th IN
staut. So far the attendance has not been
large, but the racing has furnished fine sport.
1t seems next to impossible to draw large
crowd to Pimlico, no matter how great the In.
ducements offered.
THE rabbits and birds had day of rest
on election day. thanks to the men who passed
the law prohibiting shooting on that day. 1t
is good law and should be enforced just the
same as it is on Sundays. gentleman who
called at The UNION Office this week said that
in some parts of Virginia there is fine of $3.50
for cunning on Sunday.
- The long promised new cars on the subur-
ban trolley lines have not yet materialized and
the companys regular patrons are growing
FESTIVE at the delay. Many of the old cars now
in use make about four times as much noise as
the ordinary farm wagon, and the way they
jar the passengers is q sight to see. Let US
have the new ones, please.
THE fine property of Mr.. Henry Imwold,
situated on the Joppa road mile west of Tow
son, and known as "Dulce Domum." will be
i Ill L. tI.<.N 6O1r On,
Wednesday. 18th instant. by MI. August Weber.
assignee. The place contains about A acres is
a most desirable property and worthy the at
tention of those seeking investment.
- In the last five or six years it is safe to
say that wealthy gentlemen have expended
several hundred Thousand dollars in erecting
fine residences for themselves in Green Spring
Valley. So many charming homes are rarely
seen in such a comparatively small scope OF
country. II is one of the most attractive Sec
tions of Maryland, and it is not surprising that
it has become such popular place of residence.
-. The vote in Baltimore county on Tues
and some try to explain this by saying that
large number of Democrats were lukewarm
and remained away from the polls. At one
precinct in Towson the registered vote is 575,
and 129 of these failed to show up. If the
same percentage of loss is found throughout
the county the list of stay-at- homes will have
been very large.
The next holiday is Thanksgiving day
November 30th. In his proclamation Presi-
dent Roosevelt suggests that 1.-The people gather
in their homes and places of worship and, in
rendering thanks unto the Most High for the
manifold blessings of the past year, consecrate
to life of cleanliness, honor and
wisdom, so that this nation may do its allotted
work on the earth in manner worthy OF those
who founded it and of those who preserved it."
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A Suggestion for Rural Teachers.-AD
authority on the subject writes as follows
I'm the district school perhaps the greatest
problem for the teachers is to keep the pupils
interested in the work of the school. The
whole thing seems so unnatural to the pupil,
to the boy in particular. The boy is right.
The life he is expected to lead is SO artificial and
unnatural as compared with his activities out
side of school hours that it is little wonder that
he grows restless and loses interest in the work
of the school, if indeed his interest in it is ever
awakened at all. The remedy for this condi.
ton of affairs is to be found in making the
conditions of school life more like those of the
home and of the community.
'sNow for the boy from the farm this much
needed change can be most easily and effective
ly brought about by the introduction of ele-
mentary agriculture as one of the subjects of
study in school. The boys interests In farm
ing operations have already been awakened at
home; and if the school will but utilize these
interests and show the relation of farming to
other industries, to trade and to progress in all
that makes for mans comfort, it will be quite
easy to interest him in such other subjects as
history, geography and arithmetic. These
subjects will come TO mean something to him
because he will see their relation to the farm
activities in which he is already interested.
Besides, the boys observations outside ofschool
have already introduced him to the elements
of many sciences; and instead of putting him
at work in school on subjects entirely foreign
to his education up to the time be entered,
these elements of knowledge should be made
the starting point of his school work."
An Injunction Against the Sale Of Land.
in the Circnit Court here on the Sd instant
an Injunction was filed by Col. John L. g. Lee,
attorney for Mr.. Elmer NJ. Whiteford, to re-
strain Mr.. George w. Yellott, president of the
Board of County Commissioners, from convey
ing 100 acres of land along the Gunpowder
falls, east of Loeb Raven. to Mr.. Stephen Cald-
well and 40 acres to the House of Refuge.
The 40 acres referred to is part of the property
on which the new cottage reformatory sys.
tenn is being established. Secretary Laup-
heimer said that the dispute between Messrs.
Whiteford and YelIott is an old one, but that
the position of the House of Refuge managers
is secure, as they have obtained clear title to
the property. Mr.. Whiteford alleges in his
bill that on July oath, 1908, Mr.. Yellott agreed
to sell him all the land for $780, he giving
bond in the sum of $500 but Mr. Yellott has,