The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-22

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was unveiled last Sunday without any specla
ceremonies. 1t has been heretofore fully de
scribed in THE UNION.
THE store of Messrs. Kelley & Bro, al
Overea, on the Belair road, was entered Dy .
thief at an early hour on Sunday morning las
and robbed of about $40 worth OF goods and
small amount of cash. The cash register wai
broken open, as were also the telephone tIlls
No clue to the thief.
The ''sate" went through in the Demo
cratic convention in Towson on Tuesday '.jus
as slick as grease" The names OF the men
who compose this ticket were published foul
weeks ago. It would seem thatin this advanced
age the work of the primary and convention
has been rendered entirely nugatOry.
>Redon Council, Jr. o. U. A. M, presen
ted an American flag to Franklin High School
Reisterstown, on Flag Day. Mr.. Harry E.
Goodwin, member of the bar, made the pre-.
sentation speech. Rev. W. Nick. Hammock
made the address of acceptance. Mr.. John 5.
Ensor, of the Towson bar, made patriotic
address.
IA number of those interested in slate
quarry properties at Delta have formed q COM
bination under the name of the United Peach
bottom Slate Company which will handle the
entire output of the quarries. Mr.. Stevenson
A. Williams, of Belair, is president of the new
concern and MIR. ]. Brooks Fink, secretary and
| treasurer.
4 THE Hamilton Volunteer Fire Company
lis about to make improvements that will aggre-
gate $4,000. The County Commissioners will
contribute $4,000 and the balance will be
raised by subscription. 1t is expected that
1 when these improvements are completed the
| rate of insurance there will be reduced from 3
to 10 per cent.
Mr. Samuel E. Armstrong. who died at
| the home of his daughter in Baltimore last
| Sunday, was native of Baltimore county and
a son of the late Daniel Armstrong. who was
once sheriff of Baltimore county. He at one
| time held position in the Baltimore Custom
House and was also in the internal revenue
| office under the late G. Irving Ditty.
- Garden Lodge ofOdd Fellows, of Garden
| vile, held memorial services last Sunday, Mr.
John B. Goodwin. secretary of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge. being among those who spoke.
The committee in charge of the services was
composed of Messrs H. H. Hofstetter, ST.,
John p. Grace. William ]. Biddison, j. A.
Hofstetter and William II. Hofstetter.
THE Towson baseball team did not go to
Frederick last Saturday because the team at
that place called off the game on account of
| the condition of its new grounds. The team
did go to Mount Airy, however, and played
snappy Ginning game at that place, resulting
in tel to 1. The visitors had to leave to
catch a train, hence the game was called
- Hiram Sorrell. colored, who died at his
| home in Baltimore on the 18th instant, aged
| GO years, was for forty years q waiter in the
| old Rose House, North Gay street, and was
known to hundreds Of Baltimore countians.
The greater part of the time he was head
waiter and was noted for his fine manners and
disposition to please his numerous customers.
"a sample box of the new strawberry,
called the "Fendall," was left at THE UNION
Office on Friday morning by the originator,
Mr.. Charles E. Fendall, of Towson. These
berries possess many excellent qualities besides
| their size, color and flavor, one of these being
| their extraordinary productiveness. In his
new berry Mr.. Fendall has a production that
does him much credit.
Arrangements are being made for the
bOlIsnn IF WINNING mQQfinO the
| Brooklandwood track, on Thursday, July 4th,
| under the auspices of the Green Spring Valley
Hunt Club. The committee in charge is COM
| posed of Messrs. George Brown, Jr., George w.
Ewing and A. B. Atkinson, with Mr.. Frank A.
| Bonsal as clerk of the course. The first event
| will be called at $50 P. NJ.
THE Furnace Farm, about two miles
| northeast of Towson, on the Dnlany's Valley
pike, is now being advertised in The UNION for
rent by its owner, Mr.. Ohio E. Ridgely. 1t
contains about $50 acres and is rated as a very
productive farm. Mr. Ridgely says that every
| tenant who has been on the place has made
enough there to buy farm for himself, and he
thinks this pretty good evidence of its pro.
ductiveness.
Mr.. Chas. R. Brown, who was the first R.
F. D. carrier at Towson, has been on his route
about three years and in that time has travelled
| over $1,000 miles. He has missed but few
days on account OF sickness or from other
| causes and he has used but one horse for all of
this work and the animal has lost fewer days
| from sickness than his driver. Mr.. R0wn
is an efficient officer and prompt in the
discharge of all his duties.
- Many old-time Democrats were conspicu-
Gus by their absence about the Court House
when the convention met here on Tuesday,
coming from the districts bordering on the
city-the ones that roll up the votes when cleo
ton day comes around. The ontlayiDg dis
tricts don't cut much figure in Democratic
! politics now except that they manage to pull
off, good Office every now and then. And
that's what they are after every time.
Stockholders Meeting-.Troney Line Do
ing Well.-The regular annual stockholders
meeting ofthe Baltimore and Belair Electric
Railway Company was held Monday last, at
| the companys office in Belair. There were
1896 shares of stock represented at the meeting
| The report of the treasurer Mr.. John D..
Worthington, was very gratifying, showing an
increase Of Is per cent. in the gross receipts for
| the year 1906 over those for the year 1905, and
still further increase for the first five months
of the year 1907 over the corresponding period
| of 1906, indicating a healthy growth in the
business of the first section, which should in
spire sufficient confidence toward building the
balance of the road from Carney to Belair.
| The amount of SIC, SO was applied during
the year to reducing the indebtedness which
the company was obliged to assume to COM
| plete construction of the first section. Atten-
ton was called to the fact that had sufficient
stock been taken to have avoided the making
| of these loans the company could have paid
regular dividends on its stock. The company
! has no bonds outstanding.
The report of General Manager ]. Alexis
Shriver urged an immediate extention of the
| road at least as far as VOTERS Hotel and Park
| "a number of subscriptions to stock to this
end having been promised and demonstrated
| that the earnings of the first section had SUBJ
| Stimulated the estimates in the report of Engin-
| UondovantQr and Hood and that if the
| line was completed through to Belair, or even
to Fork, that the earnings would be fully sutfi-
cient to justify the same.
The old board of directors, consisting of
Messrs s. A. Williams. Charles ]. Bonaparte,
George L. Van Bibber, ]. Alexis Shriver, John
NJ. Griffith, Thomas H. Robinson and o. A.
Kirkland, was elected for the ensuing year.
Upon adjournment of the stockholders meet
ing the new board organized by electing Mr..
S.A. Williams, Ipresident; Mr.. John d. Worth
ington, secretary and treasurer and Mr.. j.
Alexis Shriver, general manager.
Another Kind of Street-Car Hog.-A
correspondent writes as follows to the Balti.
more american: 81 wonder if those persons
who place their feet on the seats in front OF
them while riding on the cars of the United
Railways ever give thought to those who
might later be forced to take the seats where
their feet rested? am sure they do not, fol
if they did they would long ago have stopped
the bad habit. Within the past few weeks we
have had a great deal Of Indictment weather
and the streets were always in very bad condi-
ton. Imagine someone coming from the
street and placing his muddy shoes on the
bench in front of him. When their feet have
been removed the mud remains. A few min
utes later the car fills up and several persons
sit on the seat. When they get home, OF
wherever they are bound for, someone will say
to them: Where have you been? My, your
clothes are dirty. 1t is impossible for them to
remember how the dirt reached their clothing
and perhaps after it is removed stain will re-
main. Good clothing is often ruined in that
manner, and it is not very pleasant.
1.-THE conductors should use special efforts tc
see that the passengers keep their feet off of the
seat in front of them. 1t is a very nasty habit
and should be broken up. The street cars are
no lounging places, and passengers should re
member it,"
Public School Has Flag Raising.-A flag
raising under the auspices ofthe Woman's Re
lief Corps, No. "a, of Wilson Post, Grand Army
of the Republic, took place at Gardenvillt
public school, Friday afternoon, June 14th
About 40 members of the corps, as well as 23(
pupils of the school, were present. The exer
cises opened with prayer by Rev. J. Wynnt
Jones, of Highlandtown. The address was