The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-05-12

said the resignation has never been accepted
| by the Governor, and that strong efforts arr
being made to get Mr.. Yellott to withdraw i;
THE Epworth League OF Providence u
| E. Church will give missionary entertain
ment in the church on Sunday night. May
18th. Rev. DR.. Douglas GLASGOW will make
| an address. A collection will be taken for the
San Francisco relief fnnd. All will be wei
come.
- On Tuesday evening about seventy mem.
bers of Govanstown Chapter Epworth League
visited the Towson Chapter, and engaged
| in competitive spelling bee with fifteen on
each side, in which the Towson Leaguers were
successful Refreshments were served to all
present.
>Nothing new this week in connection
| with the Towson and Cockeysvile Electric
! Railway except the assurance that the line will
| surely be built. and that it will be in all re-
spects first class, including track and equip
| ment. These assurances are very comforting,
| 10 say the least.
- Building operations are slow in Towson
this spring due mainly to the fact that the water
| supply is short-tbat is there is not enough to
| supply new buildings. This is a condition of
affairs that the Baltimore County Water and
Electric Company should take prompt meas
| ures to remedy.
- Mr.. Harvey s. Writ, tenant on the Hay
fields Farm, near Cockeysville. with team of
5 horses and mules. pulled one of the biggest
loads of corn on Weis' scales in TowsOn on
Tuesday that was ever seen here. 1t contained
40 barrels and 100 pounds and weighed tons
and 100 pounds.
- There seems to be no longer any doubt
that Pimlico will be abandoned by the Mary
land Jockey Club as a race track. The new
track and grounds of the club will be estab-
lished at Halethorpe, miles from Baltimore.
on the B: & 0. Railroad, and within 30 minutes
! - Hamilton Conclave of Heptasophs. of
Hamilton, Hartford road, held progressive
euchre party on Thursday night Of last week
in charge of a committee composed Of Messrs.
John c. Murphy, Royal L. Phelps, T. f. NAL
lonee and Andrew Hochrein. Mr.. Bradley X.
Purdum was tally-keeper.
-sMr. E. Kinsey Asher. agent for the Penn
sylvania Railroad at Aberdeen, died ON the 4th
instant of typhoid fever at his home in Balti-
more He was so years of age and son of the
late w. H. Asher. The funeral took place on
Monday and the interment was at Orem's M.
E. Church, near Rossville.
THE UNION had expected to send out
with last weeks issue supplement containing
the general laws passed at the last session of
the Legislature, but owing to mistake we
were unable to do SO. The supplements go out
with this issue, however, and they should be
preserved for future reference.
- By the will of Miss Frances Agnes Abel,
of Baltimore Mrs. Martha Elliott Smith, wife
brook, Baltimore county, and three other lady
friends of the testator, receive each bequest
of S25,OOO Miss Abel made number of
church and charitable bequests.
Volunteer Fire Company No. l, of Relay,
18th district, filed certificate of incorporation
in the County Clerks Office this week. The
incorporators are J. Albert Burton, T. Parkin
Scott, Charles G. McCabe, Milton B. Smith,
Theodore A. Steeger, Richard e. Stapleton,
Henry j. Bender and George Bourne.
THE lawn fete held on Friday afternoon
and evening on the lawn of the Smedley House,
TO-, for ho n RlQhnn'a
of Trinity Church, was successful affair.
II was in charge of Misses Katharine John
Brown, Mary T. Yellott and Nora K. Bruff, as
sisted by other members of the Guild.
4 THE trolley cars that can be converted
from an open summer car to closed one in
minute or two are mighty nice things in the
event of heavy rain storm like that of last
Saturday afternoon. Had it not been for these
thousands of people would have been drench-
ed who escaped with almost dry buds.
THE greater part of Baltimore county en-
loved fine rains last Saturday and Sunday and
vegetation of all kinds was vastly benefited.
In some places the rain fell in such torrents as
to badly wash freshly planted corn fields.
The drought was getting to be serious matter
and was telling on the grain and grass fields.
MIR. William G. Painter, whose country
place, known as the Colonies. is situated near
Pikesville has purchased a handsome resi-
dence on Ridgewood road, Roland Park. Mr..
Dixon G. Walker, who will become a resident
of TOwson on the LIST of June, formerly owned
the Colonies, which, it is said, will now be for
sale.
1.-The Youngest child of Mr.. John Dressed,
of Hamilton Hartford road, that had been ex-
tremely i'll with whooping cough and pneu-
monia, has entirely recovered under the care
of DR.. Lingard l. Whiteford, of Fullerton.
His success in the case. to those familiar with
the facts, is thought to be little short of mar
velous.
ton held its annual banquet at Hotel Stafford,
in Baltimore, on Wednesday night, about sixty
mem bers and invited guests being present. In
the absence of the president, DR.. George Fl.
Hooking, DR.. Harry s. Jarrett, of Towson,
vice president of the association, was toast
master.
+ - Those people who speed automobiles on
1.-THE county roads without any regard to the
law limiting pace are likely to have some
trouble in the future unless they mend their
ways. The hearing before the County Com
missioners this week afforded an opportunity
to ventilate these reckless people and they got
Nit good and strong.
. Bayshore Park, the new summer resort
of the United Railways Company, situated on
the Chesapeake Bay at North Point, has been
leased by Mr.. NJ. ]. Fitzsimmons, who con-
ducts Rivervew Park, on the Patapsco. The
new resort is at the terminus of the extension
of the Sparrow's Point electric railway. It
will be ready to open about June 1st
MIR. August Fenneman, president of the
Electric Park and Exhibition Company, ar.
nounced on Wednesday that the property
known as Electric Park, at Arlington. had
been sold to Northern syndicate. He also
said that his company had disposed of the old
Halstead road house property, on Park Heights
avenue, to Mr.. William B. Chapman.
- Princeton owned and ridden by Mr.. W.
], H. Walters, Jr., of Catonsville, was the win
ner of the race for the Maryland Hunt Cup in
Green Spring Valley last Saturday afternoon.
Garry Owen. the game old cross country horse
owned by Mr.. J. Harry O. Donovan, was Sec
ond. This was the third time Princeton
came in winner of this annual event.
- The country was overTun with Maying
parties last Sunday-although the weather was
unpropitious-and llacs and other early spring
flowers. especially the dogwood, suffered i'll
consequence. In some instances vehicles were
loaded with the dogwood, which means that
many of the bushes were badly mutiated and
it will take them long time to recover.
- 1t has come to the knowledge of deputy
game wardens that some young men ard boys
are catching undarsized brook trout and this
laws them liable to fine of $40 and costs. The
law provides that no trout taken from the
streams shall be less than inches in length.
Many streams have been stocked within the
past two or three years and these should be
carefully watched.
THE Baltimore Annual Conference of the
African NJ. E. Church. in session at Havrede
Grace, made the following appointments for
Baltimore county. Long 0Ie6I OiTCult, a. "A.
Murray; Quaker Bottom Circuit, A. A. Hen
derson; Catonsville, John Porter; Jockeys
VILE, John W. Bowie Mt Gilboa P. Q. Bun
deck Randallstown, ]. r. Nelson Mt. VII
mans, l.. H. Stephens.
IL The County Commissioners on Tuesday
Fheard the charge brought against Special Off.
Ger Noah Walker by Mr.. Yates Pennington, of
shooting at his automobile on Park Heights
avenue with intent to puncture tire and thus
stop the machine, which was exceeding the
speed limit. Officer Walker proved that be
fired to attract the attention of another officer.
The Board exonerated him.
- Mr.. John G. Perkins, manager OF the
Towson Democrat and Journal has purchased
the house in which he lives, on North WASH
ington avenue, Towson, from Cardinal Glib
bons. This house was built by the late Adam
H. Krout, who sold it to the late w. Frank
Mitchell The last owner, before the property
fell into the hands Of the late Rev. Matthew
| O'Keefe, was the late Ephraim B. Almony.
1.-The heavy rain of last Saturday after.
noon put an end to many outdoor sports. but
it did not stop the big race in Green Spring
Valley. That went on just the same, and the
| fact that many of the spectators Of both sexes
were drenched to the skin did not seem to maj
| their pleasure in the least. And that's right
People who are afraid of little bit of rain are
too tender to enjoy outdoor sports of any kind
The brutal murder in Green Spring Val