The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-17

"a man whose business takes him
through the country nearly every Cay says he
has noticed that partridges are not nearly so
plentiful as they were ct this time last year.
He says the cheerful note Of the bobWhite Is
now rarely heard.
-sThe heavy electrical storms Of Friday OF
last week did considerable damage ir Baltimore
county and scarcely a section escaped. The
lightning struck In q number OF places ana
some property was destroyed. but no person
was seriously injured. =,
ALREADY people are beginning to avail
themselves Of the privilege TO write messages
on the face Of postal cards. The writing lex.
cept the address) must be on the left end OF
the card and not take up enough space TO in
terfere with the address.
-Mrs. Catherine Hardy Hammond died
at her home near Pikesville. on the 9Th inst,
ct an advanced age She was native OF How
ard county and the widow OF Charles l.. Ham
mond, who some years ago farmed the EPSON
estate adjoining Towson.
-Dr. A. M. Kelbach. who owns fine es-
tate near Woodensburg. has purchased Thorn
dale" the farm of the late Clotworthy BRINE,
about three miles from Taneytown, Carroll
county, for si2,575. The place contains 1851
acres and is well improved.
-Mr. T. @. Lnzey, one OF the Circuit
Court bailiffs, is still wearing coat that he
says is forty-four years old. All the materials
from which 1t was made were grown upon
the darfOrd county farm Where Mr. LluZey
lived in his boyhood days.
1.-The annual picnic for which the several
farmers clubs of the county will make ar
| rangements, will be held at Mt. Carmel, on
Saturday, September 18th. This will be an
sll-day affair and an attendance of several
thousand people is expected.
| - Miss Clara B. Fishpaw, who had been
teaching the public school at Western Run.
9Th district, has been appointed principal Of
the school at Warren, to succeed Mr.. Clay T.
Joyce, resigned. The Western Run school
will be consolidated with the one at Butler.
IA good crowd attended the tournament
at WolteTs Carney Hotel on Wednesday after
noon and the affair was much enjoyed. Nine
teen knights contended in the two classes for
| the honors and prizes. A number of Republi-
can and Democratic candidates were present.
The Belleview Progressive Association
of Baltimore county held its first picnic and
lawn fete at Klein's Park, Belair road, on
Monday. The attendance was large and 1t
was q successful affair. Mr.. Charles E. Lamb
din was chairman of the committee of arrange
ments.
Two worthless negroes had shooting
scrap in broad daylight in Towson on Monday
something very uncommon for this place
and, unfortunately, neither OF them was hit.
We wish these fellows were better marksmen.
Then the community might get rid OF some
of them.
THE committee offifteen ladies appointed
to assist in getting up the fair for the benefit
Of the Towson Volunteer Fire Company met
at the Guild House on Saturday night last
and organized by electing Mrs. Dixon @.
Walker, president. The committee is already
actively at work.
- dispatch from Lock Haven, Pa, dated
Thursday says J. NOVEL; Hawkins, of Balti-
more, won first average today at the third an
nual trap-shooting tournament OF the Lock
Haven Shooting Association, breaking 1872 out
of 100 clay. pigeons. ~. Squier, of Pittsburg,
was second with It's.
"a game of baseball between the married
and single men of Towson took place on the
grounds here on Monday afternoon and fur
nished amusement for a considerable crowd OF
spectators. Much to thesurprise ofmost people
the benedicts beat the bachelors by the APP
parently 'sporty" score of to 3.
1.-THE United Evangelical camp-meeting at
Rockdale, on the Liberty road, opened on
Friday and will continue eleven days. Bishop
morning and afternoon. A number Of promi-
nent ministers from distance will attend the
camp and take part in the services.
81 is estimated that 1000 people attended
the annual picnic held under the auspices of
the Norrisville Farmers Club at Fawn Grove,
on Wednesday last. Mr.. Milton E. Smith,
president Of the club, presided. MIR. William
l.. Amoss director of Farmers Institutes in
Maryland, was among those who spoke.
MIR. William e. Peerce, of Fertility
over 500 Barred Rock chicks 80 far this season.
Some Of his choicest specimens have been
prize winners at the Madison Square Garden
shows in New York and sold at high prices.
Mr.. Peerce will exhibit next month at Tt
mOnium.
"a number of little girls from Mrs. Fran
els T. Homer's Sunny Spot Home, on the Pot
Spring road, tramped to Towson on Tuesday
morning on their way to reach their homes
in Baltimore: They were stopped here and
taken back. 1t is said the children were home.
sick and wanted to get back to city scenes and
pastimes.
->Some people are still talking about the
time when the waters of Loeb Raven will
cover nearly the entire surface Of Dulany's
Valley. 1t is their belief that Baltimore city
must, sooner or later, acquire this land in order
to increase its water supply. 1t is said that
this is the only logical solution Of the city's
water problem.
despite the hot weather large crowd of
people attended the tournament and sale for
the benefit OF st. Stephens Church, near Brad4
shaw, 18th district, on Tuesday afternoon. The
affair was well managed by Rev. William M.
Clements, pastor of the church. A number of
candidates for office were present and there was
a good deal of fence building done.
MIR. William Hops, the new proprietor
of Notch Cliff Stock Farm, is making extensive
preparations for a fine exhibit of horses at the
coming Timonium Fair. He Is the owner of
some high class trotting stock that will be ex-
hibited in the show ring. Mr.. Hops is an en-
thusastic horseman and is anxious to do his
mite towards the success of the county fair.
- Mr.. Thomas V. Richardson, whose large
farm is near Phoenix, 10th district, raised this
season 1000 bushels of wheat, the yield being
something over 30 bushels to the acre. He
also raised 1000 bushels of barley and oats.
Mr.. Richardson is one of the most extensive
dairymen in the county and employs all the
most improved methods in the conduct OF his
business.
=, Pistols, razors and brass knuckles
figured in fight at the colored church near
Long Green, 18th district, few nights ago.
IA oh so ck-
for the display of such articles. The man
who thinks it necessary to arm himself before
going to church should be behind Jail bars
Some sharp justice needs to be administered
in that section of the county.
- Plans for the firemen's fair to be held in
the Towson Guild House the first week in
October are rapidly maturing and all are urged
to lend their assistance. The object is to raise
money to properly equip the Towson Volun-
teer Fire Company in order that it may do the
best work should its services become at any
time necessary. The people Of the town and
surrounding country should feel an interest in
this fair and give it their hearty support.
The Way to Reform Boys-The Loeb
Raven School.-The Gainesville Argus says
"Mr. Laupheimer, secretary of the Maryland
School for Boys, formerly known as the
House of Refuge, is perhaps entirely justified
in saying that the recent escape of few boys
from the school is no reason why it should be
prison as that from which it is to be removed.
The school is distinctly declared by law to be a
place for reform and not for punishment and
while courts may commit juvenile criminals
to it. they are admonished to have this fact in
view. 1t is fact. we believe, that the great
majority of the boys have committed no crime,
but are simply sent there because their parents
cannot manage them. In many cases. per-
haps, the parents are more to blame than
the boys.
THE House of Refuge near the Frederick
road, is surrounded by a high wall, the ten
dency Of which has doubtless been to SOW the
seed of crime in the minds of the prisoners.
The managers wisely determined to move the
boys from this forbidding place to large and
pleasant farm near Loeb Raven, Baltimore
county, where they will live in cottages and
have an opportunity to enjoy the conditions
that make childhood happy. They are. OF
course, to be taught to labor with their hands,
the farm will afford wholesome occupation and
there will be machine shops where manual
trades are taught. There are about $50 boys
in the school who will live in cottages scat
tered about the farm. They are to be taught
to look upon these cottages as their homes
ahn ~ ho