The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-01


fewer loose stone to contend with. This be-
ing the case drivers will pay their toll less
grndgingly.
An aged colored woman named Rachel
Thomas, who lived on Rogers avenue, near
Park Heights avenue, died very suddenly from
heart disease last Saturday night. She was at
tackled while returning from Baltimore IN an
electric car.
1.-The Junior Gunpowder Agricultural Club
held its August meeting at the farm OF Mr..
Calvin d. Price, with Mr.. Joshua q. BOeley as
foreman. Verbal crop reports of the members
place the average yield of corn this year at IL
barrels to the acre.
->In THE UNION today Mr.. C. Bosley Littig
advertises two highly bred colts that will no
doubt attract much attention at the Timonium
Fair next week: One of them traces back to
thoroughbred in his day.
->Ge0rge Roberts, who lives on the North
Point road, has fallen into the clutches of the
United States authorities upon the charge OF
having in his possession property belonging to
Fort Howard, which is located near his home.
He was released on 81 900 bail.
maud" the favorite brood mare of Mr..
G. Frank Morgan, Of Dulany's Valley, lately
dropped her third colt in twenty-five and a-half
months. This interesting family will be on
exhibition at Timonium next week. They
were all sired by Admiral Kuser.
->The double track viaduct Of the electric
railway at Mt. Washington is about completed
and cars commenced running over it this week.
Making this structure double track will do
away with the former necessity of cars wait
ing for each other at either end.
-The public roads of this section of Mary
land have had hard time Of it this summer.
The heavy and frequent rains have left many
OF them in deplorable condition and it will
take much labor and money to get them In
anything like decent shape again.
- Baltimore county Jail now contains
white murderer in the person of George Eurice,
who shot and killed Mrs. Maud Niser, near
Walters. 18th district, on Wednesday of last
week. He also shot another woman at the
same time. but her wound was not serious.
->If you don't see all your sisters. your
cousins and your aunts at Timonium Fair
next week it will be because the mud will be
so deep on the county roads that they can't get
there. But then country people never stop for
muddy roads. If they did they wouldn't get
anywhere.
1.-THE annual tournament and all-day fes-
tival at the Confederate Soldiers Home Pixies
vile, will take place on Wednesday, Septem.
Der 18th. Mr.. Alonzo L. Miles will deliver the
charge to the knights and Mr.. A. s. Colds
borough the coronation address. The proceeds
of the affair go to the home.
"A group picture of nearly twenty men,
bers of Bethany Lodge. !. o. o. F.. of Glen
Arm, was published in the Sunday american
are shown in the group, among them that of
DR.. John s. Green, the well known physician
of that section of the county.
- Baltimore county cut a big figure at the
Bar Harbor Horse Show last week when the
fine horses of Mr.. William f. Cochran, Jr., of
Woodbrook, Charles street avenue captured
number of ribbons. They also won several
special prizes. Mr.. Cochran is always win
ner at the Elkridge Kennels shows.
"A man in Lyons, KAN, sent Mr.. Charles
E. Fendall, Towson's strawberry expert, a one
dollar note for one of his plants of the new
I'LL De- 4 Al
back, as he will not be ready to dispose of any
of the plants until next spring Looks like
Mr.. Fendall has q snap in this berry.
~ You cant't afford to miss the Timonium
Fair next week. 1t is the great annual reunion
Of Baltimore city and county people, and it is
BILE anticipations by many thousands of people.
If the weather is all right fully so, 200 people
should be seen there in the five days.
1.-THE Methodist Episcopal congregation,
established some time ago at Texas, N. G. r.
R., decided last Sunday to join Hunts Circuit,
pastor. Rev. R. Frank Caples, local minis
ter of the NJ. P. Church, has been preaching
regularly at Texas for several months.
->The machinery exhibit at Timonium
next week will be great. Many of the leading
concerns of the country will be represented
met with. Nearly every year produces some
thing new in this line and the novelties add
fresh interest to the display, without which no
fair would be complete.
- Mr.. VIM. H. Wight, of Kinloch Farm,
near Cockeysville, raised this season 1 ,206
bushels of wheat on AZ acres, a fraction over %
bushels to the acre, machine measure. Twenty
one acres of fallow ground yielded SO bushels
to the acre, and 81 acres of stalk ground yield
ed 2l3 bushels to the acre. The fallow ground
produced 30 tons of straw.
- Mr.. William E. Sparks, who is about
retiring from the farming and trucking bust
ness will sell all the stock. implements, ma
chinery, etc., ON his farm on the North Point
road, near the Monument House, on Wednes-
day, September 18th. The rale, which is adj
vertised i'll THE UNION today, will include
number of fine mules and horses.
- A couple from Washington came to Tow
son late last Saturday evening and through
the kindly Offices of Mr.. Charles E. Fendall,
they were able to secure marriage license.
Then they went to the parsonage of Calvary
Baptist Church and had the knot tied by Rev.
B. B. Abbtt. Evidently the fame of Towson
as matrimonial centre is spreading.
- Forest Baptist Sunday school, under
whose auspices the reunion was held last Satur-
day at Foreston, in the 9Th district of this
county, was organized in the spring OF 1847
with officers and teachers and 81 scholars.
At this time it has on the roll the names of $50
scholars and q teachers. In the fifty-nine
years of its existence it has had % superinten-
dents.
There will be no gambling at Timonium
Fair next week, the management having de-
cided to exclude everything of that kind from
the grounds. But there will be plenty of sharp
ers there notwithstanding, and the people want
to look out for these as well as for pickpockets.
The latter class follow large crowds every
where, and they cannot be excluded because
they are unknown.
- There was good deal of scrapping over
the baseball game played here between the
Towson and Pikesville teams last Saturday.
When playing the 9Th inning and the game
stood 8 to 6 in favor of Towson. the visitors
became angry at decision of the umpire and
left the field. Then the umpire gave the game
to Towson, to O. 1t was fine game and it
was unfortunate that it ended in a row.
- Baltimore's big Jubilee and Home-com-
ing Week will begin September 9th and con-
tinue the balance of the week. 1t will be the
biggest affair of the kind the city has ever seen
and many thousands of strangers will be at
tracted. 1t is expected that people from nearly
every State in the Union will attend. Every
body who takes pride in Maryland and in its
beautiful city should help to swell the throng.
1.-THE personal effects of the late Rev.
Thomas Wood will be sold at the parsonage of
Great Falls Circuit, at the second tollgate,
Hartford road, on Wednesday, September 9Th.
Mrs. Wood having renounced as executor, the
Orphans Court appointed her brother, Mr..
Charles W. Melville, administrator, and he
will make the sale. Mrs. Wood will also dis.
pOoC VI AauSh "a AcA PCASOhaA property ~ tAc
same time.
- The Protestant Episcopal Church at
Belair has been presented by Mr.. Richard Dali
lam and his sisters. Mrs. A. H. O'Brien and
Mrs. William B. Nelson. with a handsome
altar and communion table as a memorial to
their parents, Major William II. Dallam and
Mrs. Mary G. Dallam. The gift was designed,
carved and painted by the venerable Artist
PRIEST" Rev. J. A. 0ertel, of Virginia, who is
IS years of age.
THE officers of the Timonium Fair are to
be congratulated upon the outlook for this
years exhibition. 1t is confidently believed
that those going to Timonium next week will
see the most complete and interesting fair that
has ever been held by the society, and this
fact should be an incentive to everybody to
go. The financial end of the show is all i'm
portant and a big attendance every day is
necessary to meet the heavy expense and leave
balance in the treasury. All should cheer
fully help to this end.
The Same Man Tried His Game at Tow
son and Failed.-The Baltimore papers say
the police are looking for Hon. W. R. Alex
ander," patriarch of 70 and man of many
aliases, who has been swindling credulous
persons in that city at intervals for some time.
On August 22d Rev. Andrew f. Maczecki,
pastor of st. Athanaisus' Catholic Church,
Curtis Bay, received q telephone message
alleged tn he from the office of the Russian