The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31


IA large number of chickens have lately
died at Homestead, Hartford road, and some
people believe that the stuff being used by the
city health authorities to kill mosquitoes is
responsible for the trouble. DIR. Hill, generals
simo of the mosquito brigade, does not take
this view of it.
- A list OF the judges and clerks that will
serve at the election in Baltimore county next
November is published in the advertising
columns of THE UNION today. One new voting
precinct has been added since last year-in the
18th district. There are now forty-eight pre-
cincts in the county.
A - A large crowd attended the second tourna-
ment at Bauers Park, on the Hartford road, on
Wednesday afternoon and the affair passed on
successfully. Mr.. Arthur z. Shanklln, OF the
Towson bar. made both addresses. The 30 in
gold offered for the best equipped knight was
won by Mr.. ]. w. STREET..
->Old Home Week in Baltimore will begin
on Sunday, October 18th and continue to and
including the 10Th. If you have any relatives
or friends in distant states that you would like
to have specially invited just send their names
and addresses to the committee in the Fidelity
Building and invitations will be sent to them.
Tuscan Masonic Lodge of Govanstown.
which has been very prosperous, is arranging
to build fine hall for its own use. 1t will be
an ornate brick structure and will likely be
located on the west side of the York turnpike
opposite Woodbourne avenue. The lodge is
now making arrangements to bold fair to
raise money for the building fund.
- Contractor NJ. H. MerrymaD, of Towson,
has sued the building committee of the new
Methodist Episcopal Church at Stevenson.
Green Spring Valley, for S4,439.50, alleging
that amount to be still due for the erection OF
the church. which is an appointment of Hunts
Circuit. The Messrs. Tippett and Mr. W. s.
Bansemer are attorneys for the plaintiff.
-Mr. Charles H. Price, a well known 9Th
district farmer, went to Baltimore last Tues
day with a large load of hay. One of the
sxles of his wagon broke down on Gorsuch
avenue, Waverly, and he had to come all the
way back to Towson for another wagon to re-
load the hay. The result was he didn't get
back to his home until Thursday, with the
profits on the load greatly diminished.
->As soon as the county fair is over active
preparations will be begun for the fair for the
benefit of the Volunteer Fire Company of Tow
son. The citizens generally should interest
themselves in this undertaking because the OBJ
ject is one that should appeal to all of them.
A well equipped fire company is one of the best
things a town can have and we need one badly
here.
The Northern Central Railway Company
has refused to sell round trip tickets from Bal.
timore to the Timonium fair this year and will
charge at the rate of cents per mile. The dis
lance to Timonium being II miles would make
the round trip cost "A cents. With 70 cents
added for admission to the fair grounds would
make the cost SO cents, or IA cents more than
last year. The excursion trains will be run to
the fair grounds as heretofore.
->The Junior Gunpowder Agricultural Club
met last Saturday at the home of Mr.. Joshua
G. Bosley, near Philopolis 9Th district, with
Mr.. T. P. W. France as foreman. The tariff
charged by the Northern Central Railway for
transporting milk and cream was thought to
be excessive. The charge is cts. per gallon
on milk and cts. on cream. This IS thought
to be violation of the law and Mr.. Laban
Gporko uoq apnOinfa6 q lttpp m link infQ
the matter.
- State Senator John s. Biddison, Rev. ].
B. Manley and Messrs. John f. Nagengast, M.
G. Kenney and A. J. Parr called on Judge
Crothers at the Hotel Rennert in Baltimore
this week and arranged to have the Judge
make an address at st. Dominic's Church pic
mic at Hamilton, Hartford road, on Tuesday,
September 10th. This will be the first appear
ance of the Democratic nominee for Governor
in Baltimore county and it is expected that
large gathering will greet him.
Attorney-General Bonaparte's Wife,
Under this heading The Nea0 Century. published
in Washington, D; c., says. "a quiet, home.
Charles j. Bonaparte. They have beautiful
home in Baltimore, and occupy pretentious
suite in the Washington apartment house, but
it is only at the country seat, Bella Vista, ten
miles outside of Baltimore, that one can know
the gentle lady who bears such historic name
and occupies so gracefully a lofty position in
the official world at the National Capital. The
house is a big rambling affair, with hall 81
feet long and about 20 wide, stands on a knoll
overlooking the fertile valley watered by the
Long Green run and the Haystack run, and
commands magnificent view of the surround
ing country.
MRS. Bonaparte is fragile woman. intel
lectual, forceful and entertaining. Rather
above medium height, she has aslender figure,
with beautiful, waxlike hands, irong gray hair
and calm, blue eyes, which have the candid
gaze of a child.
belle Vista does not contain the interesting
Napoleon relics bequeathed to the Attorney
General through the will of his grandmother,
the famous Betty Patterson, the American
founder of the family. These are kept in the
Baltimore mansion and number, among others,
the bust of Napoleon's parents by Canova and
a bust of the great conqueror, done in marble
by Iselin, when he was still General Bona
parte.
of Nine. Bonaparte,' her granddaughter
law said," but those priceless jewels and laces
which have been attributed to me are entirely
fabulous. Ihave an exquisite watch and chain
which belonged to the Bonapartes and have
some fine black lace, but Nine. Bonapsrte,
whom l knew well and loved very dearly, left
all her jewels and especially valuable personal
possessions to the women of her blood.
"'They were all given by Mr.. Bonaparte to
his only niece, who is the only female descen-
dant of the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte
to Elizabeth Patterson, of Baltimore. She
was Caroline Bonaparte, daughter of Mr..
Bonaparte's elder brother, Jerome Bonaparte,
and is now Countess Adam Huitfeldt Won
Moltke, of Denmark. She, in turn, must d.
vide her Jewels and laces and velvets received
from the Bonaparte estate among her daugh-
tiers and never, on any consideration, among
the wives of her sons.'"
"Mrs Bonaparte has some dainty relics of
her august relative-in-law in the shape of love
ly India linen gowns, with embroidery as fine
as the needle could make and weaving of lace
insertion like spider webs"
The Growing Suburbs.-The Baltimore
american says: 1.-THE development of the su.
burban belt of Baltimore has been matter for
continual wonder during recent years, and the
progress all along the line, or rather all around
the circle has never been of more impressive
showing than during the present year. Many
large tracts of land just outside the city limits,
and some of them partially within the city
limits have been turned over TO development
companies. One of these companies is prepar-
ing to erect about 800 houses in the Windsor
Mills section in the near future. Other areas
of equal importance are being graded and laid
off into streets and avenues. Even the names
of the suburban towns is growing to numer-
ical magnitude that is bewildering to the old
time citizen who has failed to keep record of
the growth along the border since the passing
of the horse car era.
"a great proportion of the annual growth
which properly belongs to Baltimore is getting
outside the boundaries, and is, therefore not
accredited in any of the census reports. There
is no other American city of the Baltimore
class that is so circumscribed in area there be-
ing within boundary lines, as now fixed only
81 square miles. Washington claims to be
growing more rapidly in population than Bal
timore, and if this is so, it is undoubtedly be-
cause the National Capital has more than
twice as much room to grow in, there being
694 miles within the municipal boundaries of
Washington. This means that pretty much
all of the suburban growth is tabulated in the
census reports as belonging to Washington.
There is no city in North America that is out
growing its clothes so rapidly as Baltimore.
1t is high time something were being done
about it. The need for letting out the belt is
growing urgent"
Jurors for the September Term of Court.
On Tuesday Judge Duncan drew the jurors
for the September term of the Circuit Court,
which begins on the third Monday of the
month Following is the list the figures after
the names indicating the district the juror is
from:
William J. Siiver.... 1Patrick Mcguire. s
Patrick f. Doyle...... 1George Jessop. Jr.... 8
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