The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-08

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hail of Wednesday. The storm was especially
severe in that section Of the county, where the
business of truck farming Is extensively car
ried on.
- Maryland people going to the James
town Exposition will find The Kensington
House. Boulevard and Pocahontas avenue,
Norfolk. a pleasant and convenient place to
stop. The house is conducted by Mrs. g. ID.
B. Candles, who is well known in Baltimore
county.
For the first day of June last Saturday was
q day long to be remembered. In addition to
the heavy rain and high wind that prevailed
throughout the day the temperature was so
low as to make 1t extremely disagreeable to be
outdoors. Snow fell at some places in the
county.
has been incorporated by Messrs. Joseph 7.
Steinacker, NJ. J. Dunn, Il. II. Steinacker,
William E. Brown and Carville d. Benson,
with an authorized capital stock of $4,000.
The headquarters of the company is on the
Frederick road.
last Saturday afternoon only small number
of persons turned out at the farmers meeting
at Rayville, 9Th district. An address on hog
raising by q representative from the Agricul-
tural Department at Washington was listened
to with interest.
About fiffy ministers of the Protestant
Episcopal Church attended the meeting Of the
Clerical Association held at Trinity Church,
Towson, ON Monday afternoon. The subject
discussed was 1.-THE Ministry in Regard to
Church Unity" The Bishops Guild served
luncheon in the rectory.
Among the appointments made by the
Baltimore and Washington Conference Of the
Colored NJ. p. Church, which was held at Tow
son, were the following for Baltimore county
West Roland Park, B. Fl. Knight; Lutherville
@. T. Brooks; Towson, A. Baker; Baltimore
County Missionary, W. Il. Cure.
Mr. Isaac Jones' who lives on the Pot
Spring road, adjoining the farm of Mr.. VIM.
II. Todd. had bis buildings badly damaged by
the storm of Wednesday. A new wagon shed
housed in the shed were badly broken up. The
storm at that point was very severe.
MRS. N. Charles Burke, who owns the
vacant lot on Pennsylvania avenue, Towson,
Immediately east of the old Journal Building,
is having it laid of by Surveyor ]. Dickson
ODell, preparatory to erecting several houses
thereon The lot fronts 125 feet on Pennsyl-
vania avenue aud has depth of $50 feet.
-The alumnae of the public school at
Cockeysville will meet on Friday. June 2lst.
Mr.. Earle A. Kraft is president, and Miss Ella
ments is composed of Misses Gertrude Hub
bard, Katherine Logan, Hester M. Brooks,
Mary Hyland and Mr.. Palmer Frankenfield.
IA balloon sent up at Washington at 10
P. M. on Tuesday by the signal corps of the q.
s. Army, for experimental purposes, passed zee
and landed 8 miles northeast of Harrisburg at
545 p. NJ. It travelled the 140 miles in hours
and 81 minutes. The balloon carried three
men.
Louis Ewald, the blind boy lost his $685.
600 damage case against the Canton Iron and
Steel Company that was tried in the Circuit
Court here last week. 1t was claimed that he
lost his sight through an accident while in the
company's employ. Messrs. Elmer ]. Cook
and Samuel ]. Hartman were among those who
appeared for the company.
"A few days ago Mr.. Edward L.. Bartlett,
to decide wager, ran his automobile from Bal
timore to Westminster in l hour and min
utes, and made the return trip in hour and
minutes. The bet was that he could not 60 in
1 hour and Is minutes and return in hour and
minutes. Wonder where the county cops
were when he went down the road? ?"
THE annual meeting Of the State Volun-
teer Firemen's Association will be held three
days next week at Annapolis. commencing on
Wednesday. All the Baltimore county COM
panies will be well represented. and the Roland
Park Company will present the name of Capt.
B. q. Stanton for president of the association,
and it is hoped he will win the honor.
MIR. Harry Malcolm, of Towson, who is
an authority on birds, says the house martins
are dying on account Of the absence OF their
natural food supply, which consists of bugs,
gnats and flies. His idea is that the unseasona-
bic weather has kept the insects away. and that
the birds are actually dying of starvation. MIR.
Mslcolm has picked up number of dead ones
this week.
Methodist Episcopal churches in Balti-
more county have lately had the salaries of
their pastors increased as follows: Roland
Park, 81, 900 to 81, 200; Highland Avenue, 500
to $500: Catch, $500 to $525; Govanstown,
81, 100 to 81 200; Towson, S90Oto 81 600; Monk
ton, flor assistant pastor) $400 Arlington,
$1,000 to 81, 200; Park Heights, $500 to 500
Sexton Memorial, $500 to 500.
- Mr.. ThomasJ. Lea. manager of the Shep-
pard- Pratt Hospital farm, left at THE UNION
office on Thursday some samples of alfalfa.
alsike clover and timothy that show remarka-
BILE growths. The alfalfa and timothy are
over 3 feet in height, while the clover is over
2 feet. Mr. Lee also left sample of treefoil,
plant that is said to have come from Ireland
and is not so well known to our farmers.
THE late grand jury strongly recommend
ed the enlargement of the offices of the County
Commissioners and Treasurer. They said the
place is "a disgrace to civilization" etc. All
of which we are willing to admit, but we don't
think the recommendation will do any good at
this time. The jury also thought the present
force in the Treasurer's office is inadequate and
recommended the appointment ofan additional
clerk or accountant.
Case Decided in Favor Of the Late Mr..
Perky.-On Saturday last Chief Judge Burke
filed an opinion in the Circuit Court here dis
missing the petition. of Mr. Alexander Il. Rob-
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the International Trust Company, receiver,
against the Fillston Farm.
Mr. Robertson asked the court in his petition
to require the International Trust Company,
as receiver of the Filston Farm, to pay over to
him rent for the hotel property at Glencoe
which the late Henry D. Perky leased from
Mr. Robertson.
Mr. Perky leased this property in his own
name for three years, beginning June LIST, 1904.
He died in 1906. There was certain personal
property on the premises belonging to the Fill
ston Farm, and the International Trust COM
pany entered upon the place to take possession
of these goods, and they were Sold Two
months after the sale, which took place in
February last, Mr.. Robertson filed his petit
ton alleging that the Filston Farm was re-
sponsible for the rent until the termination Of
the lease, because Mr.. Perky was president and
almost sole owner of the Filston Farm.
The court held that Mr.. Robertson might
have distrained on the goods of the Flston
Farm prior to the sale, but that the Filston
Farm is in no way responsible for the pay
ment of the rent under the lease. That, says
the court, devolves upon the administrator of
Mr.. Perky. In concluding the opinion the
court says: ITO grant the relief prayed for
would, it seems to me, be an unwarrantable
extension of the remedy by distress" About
$500 was involved. Messrs. Cans & Haman
represented the trust company.
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The Get-Rich- Quick Scheme Got Left
This Time.-A letter from Belair says: IAN
interesting case in equity, by which several
Hartford county citizens have been relieved of
the payment of some s., 000 has just been de-
cided by Judge Duncan. The case is that of
Henry H. Downing, receiver, against Thomas
H. Robinson, William s. Forwood DR.. Mar
tin L. Jarrett, Edwin H. Webster, Frank B.
Macatee, ]. H. @. Watts and Charles A. Maca-
tee, which was decided by Judge Duncan in
favor Of the defendants, the bill being dis
missed because of fraud and other equitable
defenses. This was one of the novel schemes
of get-rich-quick, promoted some seventeen
years ago in Fort Royal, Va, which was then
doomed. Having laid off tillable land in town
lots and expended considerable money for the
| foundation of prospective ironworks and other
| industrial factories buyers were attracted to
the site, and after inspection, assembled at q
| given point. A signal was then given and
each would.be purchaser ran for the lot he de-
sired, the man first to arrive being awarded the
lot. To complete the game of chance, after
the first payment had been made in cash sub
sequent payments were to be made in the
stock of the company, which sold at varying
value. Later the whole scheme went up in
smoke and an effort was made to have the sew
eral defendantsin this case pay in about 81 900,
for which they were alleged to have been
obligated"