The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-10-05

| ty, has been re elected president of the Mary
land w. @. T. U.
returned from delightful driving trip through
Western Maryland.
Miss Blanche Cowley, whose home is near
Loeb Raven, has been visiting relatives in the
neigh borhood of Delta, Pa.
| Mrs. d. M. Matthews, OF Dulanys Valley,
has again taken house on West Preston street,
Baltimore for the fall and winter.
| Congressman Talbot, accompanied by his
nephew, Mr.. F. w. Cockey, attended the Prince
Georges county fair on Wednesday.
Mrs. Philip A. s. Franklin, OF New YORK,
accompanied by her children, is visiting her
sisters, the Misses Merryman, at their home
| near Cockeysville
Mr. Dixon Connolly, who purchased the
store property of Mr.. Samuel Watkins, at Bald
| win Station, Long Green Valley, took posses
| sion there on the 1st instant.
Mr. Edgar G. Miller, Jr., of the law firm
| of Miller & Bonsal, and president of the Title
| Guarantee and Trust Company, has returned
| from pleasure trip to Europe.
Mr., Samuel Watkins. who sold his store
property at Baldwin, Long Green Valley. ex-
poets to secure a position with the Interstate
| Commerce Commission at Washington.
Rev. H. Medley Price, of Cummins Memo
rial Reformed Episcopal Church, Baltimore,
has accepted the call to the pastorate OF the
Presbyterian Church at Ashland, N. Q. X. 4.
Col. Robert Hough started the light har-
! ness races at the Cumberland (Md) fair this
week He will perform the same duty at the
| York fair where he will also judge the horses:
Rev R. Bradley Jones has been transferred
from West River to Chestnut Ridge Circuit,
Baltimore county, to fill the vacancy caused by
| transferring Rev A. A. Bichell to Herndon, Va.
Mr.. Charles E. Weakley, Jr., of Morgan
town, w. Va, is visiting his former home,
near Sweet Air, Baltimore county. He is
| son of Mr.. Charles E. Weakley, a well known
| farmer.
Mr.. John Bosley, having sold bis stock
farm at Middlebnrg, VT, is now visiting rela'
tives in Maryland. Heis native OF Baltimore
| county and a son OF the late joshua M. bosley,
| of the 9Th district.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ober, Mr. Gustavus
| Ober, Jr., and Miss Maria Ober, who spent part
of the past summer at their country place west
| of Luthervile, this week reopened their town
| house on North Charles street.
Mr. William II. German has been elected
| a member of the vestry of st. Timothy's 2. II.
| Church, Gainesville, to succeed DR.. Q; q. w.
| Macgill, deceased. He is brother of the late
| u. S. Senator Arthur P German.
Mrs. Schmidt, widow of Christian Schmidt,
| and one of the oldest residents of Sunnybrook,
| 10th district has been very sick for some time.
DR.. ]. T. Payne is her physician and DIR. B. 7.
Bussey has been called in consultation.
Mr. John M. STREET., of Cumberland, has
been nominated for County Commissioner by
| the Democrats of Allegany county. de Is a
| native of Hartford and was at one time con-
nected with the old BALTIC. & Delta Railroad.
Mrs. William Denny, of Towson, who had
an operation performed at the Maryland Uni
versitv Hosp ital about two weeks ago, is pro-
| crossing steadily toward recovery and she Will
| be able to return to her home in week or two:
Mrs. Blake, formerly of Towson who had
been very sick at a hospital in chicago, has
recovered sufficiently to return to her home.
Her sister, Mrs. Robert NJ Taylor, of REGISTER
avenue, who is with her, expects to remain in
that city month.
Mr.. w. H. Riddle of Fork, who spent ten
weeks travelling in the Western States, has re-
turned. He was engaged in selling potato-dig-
gers and met with much success in those Sec
lions where potatoes are grown almost to the
exclusion of other crops.
Rev. Edward l.. Kemp, who had been rec
tor of Holy Evangelist P. e. Church, Canton
sermon there last Sunday. He has accepted
call to the assistant rectorship OF the Church OF
the Holy Innocents. Eden and Chase streets,
Baltimore.
Mr.. G. T. Currier, who sold bis store stock
at Ashland, N. G. r. R., to Mr.. Clarence Roys-
ton. This week removed to Baltimore for the
winter, Mr. Currer had been a resident of
that section of the county nearly fifteen years.
having been engaged in farming the greater
part of the time.
Mr.. John Sieber, who lately bought prop
erty on the Old Hartford road, north of Hamil-
ton, came to Towson on Tuesday to have his
voting residence transferred from Baltimore to
the Sd precinct of the 9th district. Mr.. Sieber,
who was formerly engaged in business in the
City, is in the internal revenue service.
" County Commissioner Yellott, who is q
near neighbor, went to the hospital in Balti-
more on Thursday morning to see Mr.. Frank
x. Hooper, of Glenarm, who met with such
serious motorcar accident on Tuesday night
| He found him resting comfortably and duly
Nthankful that his life had been spared.
" Judge William NJ. Dunn, of the Baltimore
| CITY Orphans Court was present at the open
ing of the 6remen's fair in the Towson Guild
House on Tuesday night and was guest OF
Mr.. James ]. Lindsay, where the Governor
| was received. The fat pocketbook of the Judge
suffered severe strain before he quit the fair.
Rev. Thomas Gorsuch, of Parkville, who
| was in Towson on Wednesday, is very enthu-
siastic over the prospects for the Republican
State ticket. He says be knows OF many NE
long Democrats who will vote for Mr.. Gather,
and also of others who will vote the entire local
Republican ticket for the first time in their
lives.
Mr.. John ]. Cooking, son of the late Thos.
Cooking, of Towson will be married on Thurs
dav. October 17th to Miss Lillian Estelle Kief-
fer, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen ?.
Kieffer. The ceremony will be performed at
McKendree NJ. Z. Church, Arlington, at 7.4o
P. NJ. The future home of the young couple
will be in PHILADELPHIA.
Mr.. Charles A. Benson, who had been very
sick for some weeks at his home in Baltimore,
is improving rapidly and is now able to take
some outdoor exercise. He is connected with
the house of Messrs. Griffith & Boyd. Mr.:
Benson was formerly we'll known resident OF
Fork and has scores of friends and acquain-
tances in Baltimore and Hartford counties.
MIR. Guy B. Croft, formerly OF Owings
Mills Baltimore county, is now engaged in the
practice of law at Spokane, Washington, ne
being the senior member of the firm of Croft
& Cromwell. A letter mailed by Mr.. Croft to
THE UNION at P. NJ, September oath, reached
its destination at $50 A. M, September 18th.
Considering the distance that is rapid travel.
ing. Mr.. Croft has just been elected president OF
the Southern Club, recently organized in Spo.
kane, which is largely inhabited by South
erners.
Among the Baltimore county people who
registered the past week at the Maryland Build
ing on the jamestown Exposition grounds were
the following: Mr.. and Mrs: John A. Sheri-
dan, of Chase Mr.. w. w. Tartar, of Cations
Vile; Mrs H. N. Craig, of Sparrow's Point;
Mrs. N. Bosley Merryman. of Cockeysville
Mrs. Thomas Elliott, of White Hall; Mrs:
William MEG. Mays and Mrs. r. Fristoe, OF
Phoenix Miss PAMELA Wilson and Miss La
vinia Piersol, of Sunny brook Messrs. Nicho-
las Philippi, Herman Koppelman, Henry Reu-
CERT and j. Edward Vogt, of Gardenville; Mr..
and Mrs. T. W. Stingey, of Sparrow's Point;
Miss Florence Arthur of Fork; Mrs: s. Eldred,
Of sparrow's Point; Mr.. William B. Graves $;
Reisterstown Messrs. John O'Rourke and
George Barnhart. of sparrow's Point.
| LIZ. " OOuONdn OA AyPhOAA'-
generally of typhoid fever and its causes DR..
| Charles O'Donovan, a well known Baltimore
physician, said few days ago:
1.-THE three sources are water, milk and food.
| Take the way in which other cities have crap
pied with the first source. We don't need to
20 as far as Munich, where the disease has
| been practically wiped out by filtering the
| water most carefully. or Vienna, where pure
water is brought from the mountains. Con-
| slider the situation in Philadelphia. By care
| fully filtering the Schuylkill, most polluted
stream, and the Delaware, somewhat less so,
| the typhoid there has been reduced until now
| the weekly cases number less than they do in
Baltimore, although Philadelphia is more than
| twice as large.
"The Gunpowder watershed. from which
Baltimore gets her supply, is always more or
| less contaminated. There are many villages
along the Gunpowder, and after every rain
| their refuse is washed into the Gunpowder:
| But probably the worst source is Towson. All
the sewage from that village is washed-into
| stream that flows directly into Lake Roland,
where the water supply is by no means so diff
| fuse as it is in the Gunpowder river.
"Milk is an excellent culture medium for
| typhoid germs, and most of the cases in the
| L IL IA se1~ onk nnre