The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-10-20


For CoNGREss-SEC0ND DISTRICT,
ROBERT GARRETT,
OF BALTIMORE COUNTY.
Election Tuesday, November 6, 1906.
Mr. ROBERT GARRETT, Republican nominee
for Congress in the Second district, was active
~ engaged in canvassing in Hartford county
last week and it is said he met with much en-
enlargement. No meetings have yet been an
nounced for any section Of the district.
ATTENTION Is invited to the prospectus Of /
The Country Gentleman, which appears in the
advertising columns Of TEE UNION today. |
This is in all respects high class publication
and one that should go into the family Of every /
intelligent and progressive farmer in the coun-
try. It is eminently what it claims to bean
agricultural newspaper.
GEN. RICHARD THOMAS, the Oldest bank
cashier in Maryland and highly esteemed /
citizen OF Easton, died on Sunday last, in the
9lst year Of his age. He had been bank
cashier since August 10Th, 1S49. for many years
filling this office with the Easton National |
Bank. Gen. Thomas was born in Wye Neck. |
Queen Anne's county and was member of |
one of Maryland's Oldest families.
THE ANNUAL meeting of the Maryland State
Horticultural Society will be held in the Fifth |
Regiment Armory in Baltimore, on the 9th |
and 9Th Of December next. Extensive prepare
tionss are being made for this meeting and it |
promises to surpass all previous ones in the
number and excellence of the exhibits, which
will consist of fruits, flowers and vegetables
Of all kinds. Growers generally are urged to
lend helping hand.
THE MONUMENT to be erected in Baltimore in
memory of the Union soldiers who lost their
lives in the Civil War will be placed in the
triangle Immediately in front of the Mount
Royal avenue entrance to Druid Hill Park.
The last Legislature appropriated $4,000 to
build this monument. The site selected is
perhaps the best that could have been found
in the city. The Municipal Art Commission
has approved of the site.
Mr.. HEARST, the Democratic nominee for
Governor of New York, was announced to
speak at Elmira on the night of October 18th.
Later it was found that comic opera troupe
had been billed to play in the same town on
the same night. Fearing that the theatre
would draw the crowd the Hearst people went
to work and raised $500 to pay the manager of
the troupe to 'cut out" the Elmira perform
ance so that their candidate could have clear
field, which he did.
THE BUSINESS MEMS ASSOCIATION of Ellicott
City is arranging for grand combined poultry
and corn exhibit to be held in Hunts Hall, in
that place, Thursday and Friday, November
9Th and 9th, from 8 A. M. to 10 P. M. A large
number Of prizes have been offered, to all of !
WiiCn the merchants and business men of
Ellicott City have contributed literally. Mr..
Howard Struven, of Gainesville, Baltimore
county, will be one of the superintendent,
and Mr.. George O. Brown, Of Parkville, will
Judge the poultry.
THREE YEARS ago William E. Hammond, of
Wilmington, Del, while news agent on the
Pennsylvania Railroad running between Will
mington and Cape Charles, Va, did an act of
kindness for Mr.. s. c. Draper, who was taken
suddenly i'll on his train. After reaching Cape
Charles Mr.. Draper took the agents name and
address and said be would not forget him. He
died last week at the age of 20 years and when
his will was opened it was found that he had
left Hammond 5000. Mr.. Draper proved to
be a wealthy manufacturer of Coatesville, Pa.
DETAILS OF the great storm which lately
swept over the Gulf States were slow to come
in, owing to the complete collapse of telegraph
and railroad communication at the points
chiefly afflicted. More conservative estimates
now place the loss of life at Mobile at about
H. ~ 1oeo M hoY1f
81 900 600 while at Pensacola the property
loss is figured at SIS 600 900 and the loss of lifeat
thirty-three. At New Orleans thirteen lives
were lost. and throughout the South vast
damage was done to crops, almost beyond
calculation.
THE STEAMBOAT strike at Baltimore has
ended, the differences between the companies
and the men having been adjusted. While it
lasted great inconvenience and loss was caused
in those sections of the State that have only
water communication with Baltimore city.
Many hundreds of tons Of fertilizer were wait
ing on board the detained steamers and asst
was seed time with the farmers they were held
up with their work. Thousands of baskets CT
tomatoes rotted along the Maryland and Della
ware waterways because they could not be got
ten to market.
A DISPATCH from Los Angeles, CAL, says
''the Southern California Veterinary Associa-
ton has declared war on bewhiskered dairy
men. If it has its way caretakers, mixers
and milk deliverers in this county will have
to 90 clean shaven. In a paper which was
read before the association by L. W. Young,
city veterinarian, whiskers were denounced as
the favorite rendezvous and abiding place Of
germs. Legislation was demanded to force
those who handle food to dispense with the |
smicrobe.harb parks on the chin. Long
experience in making the rounds of the diaries
has taught DR.. Young, he declared that germs
thrive on farms where mixers wear whiskers."
A STATEMENT of the receipts and expendi-
lures of the postal service for the year ended
June 30th, 1906, has been given out by the
Postofice Department. It shows a reduction
of the annual deficit from S14, 572, 5S413 for
1905 to $40, SIC, 9494 for 19O6-over 81, 100000
or q .S3 per cent. The total receipts for 1906 |
were s167, 9S2, 1926, an increase over 1905 of |
s15,1O6, 197. S5, which is the greatest increase
for any year in the history of the service. The |
per cent of increase in receipts for 1906 is 985,
as compared with 6.42 for 1905. The total ex-
penditures during 1906 were s17S, 449, 1889, an
increase of s11, Csc, 6O9.66 over 1905. The per.
cent. of increase in expenditures is less than
for number of years and is smaller by one
third than the per cent. of increase during 1905.
"SAm' JONES, the widely known evangelist,
died suddenly of heart failure on sleeping
car of the Rock Island Railroad, near Perry,
Arka,,aas On Monday morning last For two
weeks be had been conducting revival services
at Oklahoma City and was on his way home
to Catersville, Ca. when death overlook him.
Samuel Porter Jones commenced his career as
a LAWYER but was obliged to abandon the pro-
fession on account of his dissipated habits.
Some time later he became converted and then
took up evangelistic work, in which he had
been very successful. Speaking of himself re-
GENTLY Mr.. Jones said "Wha.ever else have
heer have always endeavored to be earnest