The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-29

Monday, October q. by John n. duncan. aCtor.
ney, etc., at the Court House door. farm OF
SlS cores in Green q Spring vsllsy ..r,., .rn.-
tee. on the premises small farm near Her,
sford also at the same time, the personal
effects OF Margaret Hamilton. deceased
'ssnss.:e-.aiext Monday will be the first day OF
ys0cteber and the season of 1.-THE sere and yellow
leaf is near at hand.
- The contract calls for the completion OF
the new Towson High School buicing by the
1st Of December, 1906.
- The fall and winter schedule of the Md.
and Pa. Railroad is now in effect, Several
trains have been cancelled.
- The gentle showers of this week, il they
did no other good, put an end to the dust that
had become almost sitting:
~ The Governor on Thursday appointed
John w. Hynson an additional deputy game
warden for Baltimore county.
- People from Baltimore are making In
- ebout Towson for houses with view 10
40 permanent residents here.
ward Rutter, of Towson, has been
assistant superintendent at Upland
e Baltimore county aims. house
8Mr William N. Foster, 9th district
= farmer raised this season l.4OO Dusneis OF Green
Mountain potatoes on six acres OF ground.
> People are fortifying themselves against
prowing gunners by posting" their land with
muslin notices purchased at The UNION office.
->The mercury in Towson dropped con.
> biderabiy below so several mornings this week
THE York county fair will begin next
" Monday and continue up TO and including
Friday. President Roosevelt will visit the fair
/ on Thursday.
. - Last Sunday was the first day of autumn
and the weather was dslightful-a marked i'm
pr0vement upon what 1t had been for some
time previously.
\ "A harvest home and church gathering
y will be held at Ebenezer M. E. Church. Chase,
2,sss<lov 0efohQr 7fh. tn 1iCl general in.
vitation is extended.
So. -eA handsome residence to cost about
$4,000 will be erected in Roland Park for Mr.
William r. Moore, insurance broker. 1t will
be frame and contain fifteen rooms.
MIR. Lewis N. Bacon is among the Balti-
more county farmers who use corn harvester
to cut bis corn. he says be don't know how
he'd get along without the machine.
-SSome of the rural boxes one sees in
driving through the country are not much
/. cfeditto their owners. 1t seems a descent box
might be maintained at trifiing cost
1.-THE Ladies' Aid Society OF EbeDezer M.
E. Church will hold an oyster supper and fesli-
val in Chase Hall, on the evenings of October
oath and 25tb. commencing at O'Clock.
- The Ladies' Aid Society of Eutaw M. P.
Church; Hartford road, will hold bazaar and
oyster supper in Hamilton Hall, on Tuesday
and "Wednesday evenings, October I'd and Sd.
- A successful revival meeting in progress
ten days al Lakevew NJ Church. Dulany's
Valley, closed on Wednesday night. Rev.
Thomas E. Copes. of Towson, was in charge.
= - Veteran tournament riders will have an
opportunity to show their skill in fitting
= bout to take place al the Confederate Soldiers
home, PKesville this Saturday. afternoon.
49, - Beachey's air ship, that has been sailing
about Electric Park, has not yet been seen
fUnii -448NsoR. If the navigator wants TO try
his flying ability right why don't he come this
eThe savings department of the Towson
81 National Bank which has not yet been in
operation two months, has deposits amount
ing to nearly $1,000 This is a most f1attering
beginning.
= Fishing off Sparrow's Point is said to be
excellent Just now and many fine rock and
other fish are being taken with hook and line.
. A rock weighing 20 pounds was caught there
- Speaking about 1.-THE eternal fitness of
thingsn how does this strike you: A man
named Overcast is one of the incorporators OF
building and loan association just organized
E in Baltimore city.
Elmer link, of CockeysviIle, while play
: ing football at the public school few days
ego, had both bones of his left arm broken
between the wrist and elbow. He is son OF
Mr.. Conrad Zink.
Improvement Club of GOvanstown will be held
in Golden Eagle Hall, Tuesday evening, Octo-
Der I'd, at o'clock, when an election for off,
GERS will take place.
. ->The Grand Jury for the September term
paid visit to the Jail on Thursday and found
the prison in q condition that reflected credit
upon Warden Price. The jury adjourned t.
nally on Friday, 18th inst.
81 Frank Parks, who was shot in Balti-
more last week and for time thought to be
( fatally wounded, is recovering. He is native
of Baltimore county and son OF the late John
n. PARKS Of the Sth district.
- Some of the tenants of the new OHutt
Building In Towson expect to occupy their
quarters early in November. The building
will be fireproof and one of the most substan-
tial ever erected in the town.
L - While employed on the new Lutheran
Church in ReisterstOwn on Tuesday james
Ambrose and Wesley Bollinger fell from
scaffold and sustained some painful bruises
Dr. James Gore attended them.
pThe dry weather and the consequent I'm.
suitable condition of the ground has been
serious drawback to the farmers with their
work of seeding. 1t seems they must always
have something to contend with.
Negro purse snatchers are actively at
work in Baltimore and it would be well for
ladies to keep q lookout for them. fat look
- ing pocketbook, carried loosely in the hand is
great temptation to some people.
-->M Mrs. McLaren, wife OF Rev. james NC
Laren pastor of Hampton NJ. E. Church. was
almost instantly killed at O'Clock on Wednes-
day evening. by jumping or falling from troll
lev car on Mary land avenue bridge.
- The work of remodeling the building for
the new Second National Bank of Towson is
going forward rapidly and it is expected that it
will be ready for occupancy by November LIST,
when the bank will open for business.
This year the corn crop OF Baltimore
county ought to surpass all previous records:
II it were possible to ascertain the facts it would
be interesting to know just how much of this
cereal was produced in the county in 1905.
-pThe 1lth.district was well represented in
Towson this week, number of Its citizens havA
ing been brought here as witnesses against the
Hartford Turnpike Company, which has under
gone something of roast" in the last Few
days.
ION Monday last the Junior Order pre-
scented an American flag to the publicschool at
Cockeysvile, of which Mr.. Theodore Il. Crom.
iner is principal. Raymond Reckord made the
presentation address and the flag was received
By John Whitaker.
THE examiners appointed on the extern
sion of Glen avenue, Sd district, from Park
Heights avenue southwest to the intersection
of the Reisterstown road, have reported in
favor of the extension of the same. The WORK
-DThe health authorities Of Baltimore re-
ported 81 cases of typhoid fever in the city last
week and "a cases Of diphtheria, which was far
sin excess of the corresponding week OF 1900.
The same records appear to show that con.
sumption is decreasing.
>Some of the roads east of Towson are
lust now in fine condition and those who use
motor cars know it we'll. Taylor avenue, be-
ystV,een the old Hartford road and Cowpens ave-
'nue. has been newly stoned and rolled and is
now in prime condition:
-sThs extensive public sale of the s. N.
HYDE Company will be advertised in The
UNION next week: 1t will take place on the
company's farm in Long Green Valley, on
Tuesday, October 23d, and will be conducted
BIZ Slade & Risteau. auctioneers
- June July and August, 1906, were the
wettest months experienced in many years in
Maryland, and September bids fair to make .
record as the driest: The rainfall OF this month
has been almost distresslngly scant anu 'nere
is no time left to make up for 1t.
- Lizzie Hanneman, daughter OF Mr. VIM
Hanueman. Towson timer, was in runa-
way accident on the Joppa road last SUNDAY
afternoon, but escaped without serious injury
The horse she was driving became unmanage
able and threw her out of the buggy.
- Mr. Edward drummer, business manager
of the Baltimore Sum- who died suddenly on
Wednesday, married Miss Elizabeth Raven
Cromwell Plaskitt, daughter of the late John
PIaskitt, Of Lime Kiln Valley. east OF Towson
Heisarryiyed by two daughters and one son.