The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-04-13


ing &c. A report was submitted TO the Boar
showing the good work the company has don
daring the past year.
- Many complaints are being made abou
the condition of Blue Ball avenue. which |
one of the main arteries leading to the Belsi
road. Ii would seem that the county has nc
performed its part Of the agreement 10 put Tn
road in proper shape.
- The Ladies' Aid Society of Towson NJ. Z
Church, of which Mrs. William b. krout
president, rendered reception at the parsonag
on Thursday eveningto Rev. Thomas e Copez
who was returned as pastor for another yea
by the late conference.
- The newly elected officers of Towsol
Lodge of Elks were formally installed on Wed
needay night. The names have already ap
peared in this paper. The lodge has larg
and constantly growing membership and
financially prosperous.
IA water famine has existed in Luther
vile several days this week and the resident
are highly indignant in consequence Tn
trouble was caused by the plant at Towsoi
being out of order in some way that has no
been explained satisfactorily.
! ->Clark Macdonald, big countrymap
whose home is at Maryland Line, Baltimor
the York baseball club to pitch for his team
this season. Macdonald is said to have plenty
of steam and many delusive curves.
1.-THE baseball team of the Gardenvill'
Athletic Club has been fully organized for thu
season of 1907, and its schedule of games hal
been nearly completed. Capt. Henry Nutt
will again look after the interests of the team
which will be nearly the same as last year.
Three gentlemen were tried before Judge
Duncan on Tuesday upon the charge o.
running their automobiles on Park Heights
avenue beyond the speed limit. They were all
acquitted after making explanations to ths
court. Mr.. T. Scott 0ffutt represented the &C
cused.
~ Miss Minnie Yearley, niece of Mr.. Alex
Yearley, who lives near Gainesville, had an ex.
citing encounter with supposed mad dog on
Tuesday morning while walking along pub
lie road. TheumbTella she carried she used as
means Of defense and With It managed to
beat the dog off.
4 THE list of liquor license applicants is
published on the first page of The UNION to-
day. These licenses will be issued unless cause
be shown in writing to the contrary, on or
before Monday next, April 18th. All licenses
must be taken from the Clerks office between
April 10Th and May I'd.
This week Judge Duncan 'salted" several
men for selling liquor without license and for
permitting gambling on their premises. The
fines ran from $50 to $500. and the court told
the men that the only thing that saved them
from going to Jail was the fact that they plead
guilty of the crimes charged.
The cabinet officers of the Junior Ep.
worth League of TOwsOn M. e. Church, OF
which Mr.. ]. Howard Flayhart is superinten-
dent, have planned pleasure trip to Washing
ton. to take place on Saturday, May 18th. They
have also arranged to pay visit to President
Roosevelt at IL NJ that day.
- Superintendent Albert s. Cook, of the
Baltimore county schools, is preparing the pro-
gram for the annual meeting OF the State teach
ers' Association, which will be held this year
at jamestown, Va, June 18th, 10th, 9th and
18th. The largest attendance in the history of
the association is looked for.
- The Riding and Driving Club, composed
of Baltimore society people, which has taken
the old Matthews house, in the western sub
urbs of Towson, will be formally opened to-
day-Saturday The club has a membership
of 100. Mrs. George Blackstone is president
and Miss Jean Clark, secretary.
Z - Mr.. D. II. Rice, proprietor of Valley View
Stock Farm, near Towson, has such great de-
mand for mules that he is almost unable to fill
his orders Last week he sold Is, and on Tues
day last, bad as the day was, he sold z. These
mules come from Missouri and it costs 1886 to
express carload from st. Louis to Luthervile.
1.-THE Methodist Episcopal Church at Co.
vanstown will shortly be enlarged by having a
Sunday school room attached to the rear of the
present pretty new edi6ce. Rev. Howard F.
Downs, who was returned by the late Confer
ence for his fifth year, built the church, which
has prospered greatly since he has been in
charge
- 1t is said that the railroad cutoff that the
B. & o, will build entirely across this county
from west to east will cost about S9.000.000 A
good bunch of this large sum will be spent in
our county and many people will derive bene-
fits from it. There may be many valid objec-
tons to the cutoff, but it will also have its adj.
vantages.
1.-The fine farm of the late John T. B. Par
lett, in lower Long Green Valley, will be sold
at public sale on Tuesday, April Both, by the
trustees, Messrs. q. Howard Isaac, w. Gill
Smith and Emanuel W. Herman. Itisamong
the most desirable properties in that section of
the county and no doubt the sale will attract
wide attention.
- Miss McCulloh, who conducts success
full school for young ladies at Glencoe, N. q.
r. R., is having an addition erected to her
school building. 1t will be two stories and
20 y-54 feet. and will cost S12. 900.
Contractor Sitter, of ParktoD, is doing the
work. A rapidly growing school has made the
necessary.
Estate Roads Engineer Crosby, travelling
in an automobile with several friends, got
stuck in the mud on one of the Green Spring
Valleys roads few days ago, and lift had not
been for Mr.. Norman Stumps mule team his
machine would likely be there yet. That ex-
perience don't speak very well for Baltimore
county's good roads" does it?
1.-THE ladies of EPSON M. P Church, Tow
son, had a disappointment on Wednesday.
They made preparations to give their pastor,
Rev. Herbert F. Wright, who was returned for
another year, a hearty reception at the par
sonage. Mr.. Wright failed to arrive, however,
so he missed mighty good supper, to say
nothing of the warm welcome that awaited
him.
= William n. Burch, better known as
Hatch" Burch, was asphyxiated by illumi-
mating gas in hotel in Baltimore few nights
ago and friend named Charles w. Taylor,
who was with him at the time, died from the
Ac kIa Late Uys~x
II. Burch. who at one time owned and lived
on farm near Belfast, in the 9Th district of
this county.
> The suit of the Misses Price, who are en-
deavoring to break the will of their late uncle,
William H. Goodwin, of Baltimore county,
was commenced in the Superior Court of Bal
timore on Thursday to which tribunal it was
removed from this county. Col. D. g. McIn-
tosh and Mr.. Vim. Cotton, represent the Misses
Price, while Mr.. John P. Poe is attorney for the
executor of the will.
- Wouldn't it be we'll for the authorities
to take hand and put an end to the holding
of colored "balls' in Towson They nearly
always turn out to be simply drunken orgies,
and the last one resulted in the shooting to
death of one man. These affairs are disgrace
to the town and are not countenanced by re-
spectacle colored people Better put an end to
them at once and for always.
1.-The old stone building that was latterly
Known as MlLc0elIS Will, near LOCI maven,
has been pulled down and the material is being
used in the erection of the barn on the farm Of
the Maryland School for Boys. This mill,
which was more than one hundred years old,
was built by the CAROLS, of Summerfield. Its
last tenant was Mr.. J. T. Fulker, who is now
engaged in business at Phoenix.
-The Towson Volunteer Fire Company
makes an earnest appeal to the citizens of the
town for contributions to properly equip the
company. which has Just been recognized. Il
is the wish Of those at the head of the company
to put il on first-cass basis in order that IL
may be able to do efficient work should neces-
sity arise. It is hoped that everyone will do
their part towards insuring the success of this
laudable enterprise.
THE people of Montgomery county, who
at first were violent kickers against it. are be-
coming very much pleased with the workings
of the Shoemaker road law. The price per
mile of road in that county under this law has
been found to be s., 400, half of which amount
the county pays while the State pays the other
half. Thus they are getting good roads at the
rate of Zoo a mile and they don't ask fol
anything better than this. They think it's 9
cinch.
REV. DR.. W. L. Mcdowell, presiding elder
of the East Baltimore District. which includes
all the NJ. E Churches in East Baltimore, q
larger part of Baltimore county and all of Har.
ford county, in his report to the annual confer
ence held at Cumberland, stated that all the
appointments had raised the entire amount fol
ministerial support, which includes the salarie;