The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-05-11

| the baltlm0fe Hospital for crippled Cnliuren
! Admission Is cents.
The prospects for the extension of tn
trolley line from Towson to Lntherville AM
Timonium this year are not very encouraging
But we have not yet forgotten that this exten
sion was one Of the improvements promised b.
the company in 1907.
L THE sale Of Mr.. Harrison Riders liver,
Of the most successful of the season. the net re
| suit being about "a, 500. Slade q Risteau con
| Quoted the sale in q most satisfactory manner
The sale was for cash.
- Mr. Robert Garrett has presented hand
some suit of mission furniture to the new post
office building in Govanstown: Il was place.
superintendent Of the postal station, which i
an attractive building.
The Country Club of Baltimore county
new organization, was opened last Saturday
with formal reception at the club house. th,
old Numsen homestead on the corner Of Parl
Heights and Belvidere avenues. Mr.. Edward
NJ. Gill is the manager.
- William N. Henry, who keeps the saloor
on the Belair road known as "Berger's place, =
was granted license by Judge Duncan aftel
hearing a protest against him. The cour
warned the proprietor about the kind of hous'
he was expected to keep.
n THE fourteenth annual steeplechase fol
! the Maryland Hunt Cup will be run on Satur
day, May 18th, at P. M. The start and finish
will be on Mr.. Thomas Deford's place in Green
Spring Valley. Distance miles. There are
IL entries for this great race.
THE Towson baseball team played iti
first regular game last Saturday afternoon IN
their home grounds, with the Allnut Club oil
Baltimore, winning by score of to 8. The
team has some excellent material and will i'm
prove as the season advances.
THE Brooklandwood Handicap Steeple
chase will be run in Green Spring Valley, on
Saturday afternoon, May 18th. Before the
race Mr.. and Mrs. H. Carroll Brown will give
a luncheon on the lawn at Brooklandwood.
The race will start at o'clock.
%Phe first trolley car from Towson for
Baltimore now leaves here at 5.48 A. M, which
is just IL minutes earlier than formerly. The
Mr.. Dixon g. Walker, committee, was instru-
mental in securing this change.
I'VE are glad tosee that our farmers clubs
have taken up the question of taxing dogs in
the interest ofsheep husbandry. There should
be decided stand taken in this matter this
year and then next year we may be able to get
the Legislature to do something.
chesapeake Aerie, Fraternal Order of
Eagles held memorial service in Highland
Academy, Philadelphia road, last Sunday after
noon. The program included addresses, reci-
tations and music. County Commissioner H..
p. Mann was one of those who spoke.
MIR. ]. T. Peterson, carrier on r. f. D.:
last week, is very well pleased with the work
thus far and will like it better as he becomes
more familiar with the route. He is an ener-
getic young man and well qualified for the
work.
->Mr. W. Stewart DifEenderffer, of Green
Spring Valley, on Monday sold his thorough
bred 2year old chestnut FLY Profit to New
Yorker for 81 200. Profit ran in the 2-year-
old race at Pimlic0 last Saturday. but was I'M
placed owing to the fact that she was badly
ridden.
Mr. Louis 2. Hennighausen, of the well
known Baltimore law firm of Hennighausen q
Stein, has let to Mr.. William K. Burns the con-
tract for the erection of handsome frame cot
tage on the west side of Baltimore avenue, Tow
son, south of the residence of Mr.. John B.
LoDgnecker.
->Mr. j. Alexis Shriver's trolley line pro-
ject north and east'of Towson appears to have
gone glimmering. One of his many friends
facetiously remarked this week that he thought,
since the Governor had appointed Mr.. Shriver
on the Forestry Commission, that he had TIA
ken to the woods"
- Mr.. Thomas W. Offutt, president of the
Second National Bank of Towson, can defy all
the water companies now. He has established
his property and will have all the water he
needs and plenty to spare to help his neigh
bOrs out, should they need it.
President James j. Lindsay, of the Tow
son Improvement Association, in accordance
with a resolution passed at the last meeting,
sanitation: DR.. r. G. Massenburg, DR.. Harry
3. Jarrett and Messrs. John Grason, Dixon @.
Walker and Frank l. Wheeler.
- At the first quarterly conference of Tow
son NJ. E. Church, Rev. Thomas E. Copes,
pastor, held on Monday night last, the steward
and trustee boards were SO changed that they
are now composed of entirely different persons.
~ a Sim
making the total amount 81 900.
THE Relay Volunteer Fire Company, of
Relay, 18th district, had Governor Warfield as
its guest on Friday night of last week. The
Governor dined with Mr.. Charles W. s.. Banks
and later made an address in the Presbyterian
Church at Relay. Mr.. VIM Tyler Page made
the address welcoming the Governor.
q - On Saturday afternoon lastthe house of
Mr.. Walter Gray, florist living on Edmond
son avenue, near Catonsville, was entered and
robbed of gold and asilver watch and lot of
jewelry. 1t is supposed white man named
Hogan, who had been working on the place,
and who disappeared, committed the theft.
- "Beulah," the fine estate of the late
Joshua REGISTER, on REGISTER avenue south
east of Towson. will be sold at public sale at
the Court House door in Towson, on Tuesday
next, May 14th. 1t contains about 2S7 acres
and will be sold either as whole or in six lots.
This sale is worthy the attention of capitalists
ian enjoyable dance was given on Friday
night of last week in the hall of the Marble
Hill Fire Company. near Cockeysville, con-
Quoted by committee composed of Messrs. N.
Bosley Merryman, Jr., George Jessop, Jr., and
John Merryman. The chaperones we're Mrs.
N. B. Merryman, Mrs. George Jessop and Mrs.
H. E. Bartleson
VA waggish official who has been some
time in the Towson Court House and hopes to
stay much longer, was asked by one of bis
friends few days ago if he expected to die
there to which bic he h! replied Yes expect to
Court House yard" Nothing underhand
about that fellow.
-What will become of old EPSON Church
when the new Methodist Protestant Church is
erected in Towson? This is one of the land
marks of this section of the county-one of the
oldest buildings here--and it would be pity
to see 1t go TO ruin for lack OF use. Perhaps
something will turn up that will save the old
structure from decay.
MIR. William K. Lee who for several
years conducted the blacksmith shop at Du-
lany's Valley postoffice, has purchased the
Rhinehart property, on the Warren road, just
south OF the village OF Warren, and will here
after conduct business there. The location is
thought to be an excellent one. Mr.. Lee is a
son of Mr.. Alfred G. Lee, well known Du-
lany's Valley farmer
- Mr. Ferdinand Bernheimer, of Baltimore,
who was arrested on Park Heights avenue on
the charge of driving bis motor car beyond the
speed limit, occupies good deal of space in
the daily papers to explain matters, and finds
much fault with the county officers. Mr..
Bernheimer makes very poor out at an ex-
PLANTATION. He'll be more careful next time
how he drives his machine.
"a young and active farmer of the Park.
vile neighborhood found himself up against a
pretty stiff proposition when he came to Tow
son on Wednesday to pay his taxes under the
new levy. He paid S4,800 for his farm but
found by the tax books that the place was
assessed for something over s., 900 and he had
to pay taxes on that amount. He very prop
,erly said he couldn't see the justice in that.
THE Democratic Club, of the I'd district.
at its meeting this week. unanimously decided
to endorse Mr.. William ] Peach for the nomi-
nation for Register of WINS this year. He is
now holding the Office by appointment of the
Orphans Court as successor to DIR. Bolte, de-
ceased. The club also endorsed Mr.. J. Henry
Clagett for County Commissioner and Mr.. VIM.
E. Zimmerman for Judge of the Orphans
court.
\ THE Hamilton Improvement Associa.
ton, of Hamilton, Hartford road, has issued a
neat folder in which is attractively set forth
the many advantages of that section of the
county as a place of residence. Mr.. F. w
Glantz, secretary of the association, will be
glad to supplement this with any additional
information that may be desired. Hamilton
is only % minutes from the City Hall, with