The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-22


Tuesday, October Q, by p. H. Tuck. assignee, at
the Court House door, a farm of sol acres in
MesssnsoSa r. By Ross and
Charles Brockmeyer. trustees, on the prem
Hill Belair road also, the personal effects
of the late John L. Pfeifer.
y -. This week the County Commissioners
appointed Daniel Hoffman q constable for the
@s Today-saturday, September Odds the
last day of the summer of 1906. Autumn be-
gins tomorrow. 80
road known as the List property, sold at auc'
ton on Tuesday for 81, 500. -.
- Nearly IS, 600 children entered the public
schools of Baltimore city last Monday morn
ing What great American army
1.-The church oyster supper Is already De.
ginning to get to the front. 1t will harvest
many dollars before the season is over.
- essrs. +. Cox, Son q Co., proprietors
of Locust Vale Stock Farm, near Toweon, are
posting their property against wood thieves.
"A Baltimore trolley car conductor VINO
treated passenger in an ungentlemanly man
ner, was fined $25 and costs by police magls-
49, M. The last issue of THE UNION contained
TWENTY-FIVE separate and distinct new advertise
ments, representing variety OF business in
terests.
- Old Sol touched US up again this week
with very uncomfortable temperatures re-
minder of the dog days that made it 80 un-
Towson will have strong football team
N the field this fall and will play the first game
ION Saturday, October 9Th. Other games nave
v also been booked.
SQUIRRELS this week and the little fellows will
have warm time Of it from now until the
oath of December.
- With the heat and the dust combined the
weather In the last week or more has been very
nrIVpfl should SLOW
water as often as possible.
- The tomato crop in Hartford county this
year is immense and the canning factories are
unable 10 handle it, although some OF them
are running night and day.
IA Baltimore county physician wears out
two sets of rubber tires in year. For ordl-
mary driving a set of the best of these tires
should last four or more years.
- Hook. and line fishing in some OF Balti-
more county's rivers has been unusually hne
lately and large strings of beautiful white percn
and other fish have been taken.
THE Ladies' Aid Society of Hiss NJ. E.
Church will hold an oyster and meat supper
on the evenings of October I'd and I'd. Pro-
ceeds for the benefit of the society.
- Everybody comedies that the Baltimore
J16ilee was big success. Why not make it
Ian annual affair? That it will pay the city
we'll to do it there can be no doubt.
Some very large potatoes are being un.
earthed in this county. and also some large
stories about others. 1t would be well to have
tubers and the stories to correspond.
- owson was surrounded by thunder
storms on Thursday evening. accompanied in
some places by heavy showers, but scarcely
enough rain fell here to lay the dust.
- After the regular tournament at Bauer's
Park, Hartford road, next Wednesday after
ca h AfmIU on WIN rIII TUr N purse ezo.
- Mrs. Edward Penn, aged IS years, who
died suddenly at her home at Laurel: Md, on
Tuesday night, was the mother OF MRS. Kate
Sewell. of White Hall, Baltimore county.
lit is a curious fact, and yet true, says an
authority, that some of the most profitable
moments anyone engaged in dairying can
spend are in repeated washing OF the hands: :,
- Those people who predicted fall
drought" after the copious rains of June. July
and August, came very close to the mark as
there was no mistake about the dry" weather:
s>People living in the neighborhood OF
Electric Park have been much interested i'm
/, HE flights of Beachey and his airship. He ap-
/ parently navigates the air with the greatest OF
ease.
IA Talbot Democratic campaign club
has been organized at Cocksysy5lle; With p.l MI.
{ secretary, and Mr.. Martin w. Hyland, Treas
urer.
MIR. ]. Oliver Jones, who had been keeper
4 of the first toll gate ON the Frederick turnpike
west of Ellicott City, for forty years: has re-
signed. He had lived at the gate ffty-four
Col. D. G. Mcintosh, as receiver and
trustee. will sell on the premises, on Monday
next, oath instant, the Tuxedo and Em6ia
Parks water works, with all of their equip
ments.
-Mr. ]. T. Staines, who farms the Lever
ing place, lust south of Lutherville, raised this
season SO bushels of Golden Sheaf wheat to
the acre. The grain is of unusually fine
quality.
->The Baltimore baseball team had reached
second place in the Eastern League several
times but it can't stick there. 1t is now third
and will most likely remain there to the end
T of the season.
The Sunday school of the Presbyterian
Church at Ashland, N. G. R. R., held its an
nual picnic near the church last Saturday.
Mr.. William n. Buck. Jr., is superintendent
of the school.
have put stop to noisy straw rides, they hav-
ing been declared q nuisance. But in the
Z country many people are still annoyed at
night by them.
1.-The contract has been let for paving the
York road from North avenue to the northern
city limits with blocks to be laid on six-inch
concrete. The contract price is S159,9l3. Work
will begin at once.
>The Towson Guild baseball team. in
thinning game on the grounds here last Sat-
/lrday defeated the Bartlett & Hayward team
to 9 The Towsons are still at the head Of
the Suburban League.
-Col. Thomas Janney has sold two lots Of
ground near Stevenson Station, Green Spring
Wilson. upon which they will erect fine cot
tages for their own use.
Walter H. Kone was before Justice Herr
bert this week on the charge of shooting O.
squirrel on Sunday in violation of the law.
He was assessed IS and costs. Cunning on
Sunday is an expensive business.
THE negro who escaped from the Balti-
more city Jail is still at large and it looks like
the chances of recapturing him are growing
small by degrees and beautifully less. This is
even q worse case than Winder'S.
Mr.. Sam" GrasOn, son OF Mr.. William
Grason, was thrown from buggy in Towson
last Sunday afternoon and sustained some
painful cuts and bruises. The horse he was
driving frightened at an automobile.
IA 14year-old colored girl in Cecil county
has been sentenced to five years in the Peniten-
tiary for burning her employers barn. The
Judge said he would have been much more
severe except for the youth of the culprit.
- The ceremonies attending the reopening
of Govanstown Presbyterian Church will take
place on Sunday, September 23d, at $50 P. N.
The church has been greatly enlarged and I'M
proved and is now a very attractive edihce.
John T. Burns has been appointed post
master at Warren, Baltimore county, vice 8.
Cravings, resigned. Mr.. Rawlings, who
- has had charge of the company's store at that
place, will remove to Anne Arundel county.
THE Prospect Park and Racing Associa-
ton enjoyed very fine weather last week-iust
as good as Timonium-and that is saying .
whole heap. The fair was in all respects sue
->The Belair baseball team on Saturday
afternoon last defeated the Sparrow's Point,
on the grounds of the latter, to Q. The
BeIairians are now the champions Of Hartford,
having won the series with the Havre de Grace
team.
- The York county fair will begin this
year on Monday, October 1st and continue
until the 5th President Roosevelt will visit
the fair on Thursday and it is expected that an
immense concourse of people will be there TO
greet him. -,
Lids Woodlands" with Mr.. Bob
Taylor up, won about all the steeplechases al
Prospect Park Fair last week. She IS game
timbertopper and when Mr.. Charles ID. Hur-
kamp turned her out he knew he was sending
forth good one. -
->The contract has been let for building
the new mile track for the Maryland Jockey
Club at Halethorpe, on the B. d 0. Railroad,
in the 18th district Of this county. When this
track is completed PimIico track will be aban-
doned by the club.