The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-10-19

- The new st. James A. U. NJ. P. Church
on Jefferson avenue, Towson, will be dedicated
on Sunday next, October 10th, the services con-
tinuing throughout the day. The church is 9
credtable frame building and cost about 81, 800
- DR.. John Barron, formerly of Govans-
town. sued the United Railways Company for
IS 900 damages for alleged personal injuries
sustained by the premature starting of a car.
Thejury gave a verdict in favor OF the company
IA branch of the Catholic Benevolent
Legion was organized in the new Catholic
Church at Hamilton, Hartford road, last Sun
day night by Mr.. Peter Mulcahy, of Jockeys
vile, and other State officers, several of whom
made addresses.
Over 10000 people focked into Druid
Hill Park last Sunday afternoon to hear the
German singing societies render the national
airs and Maryland, My Maryland" 1t was
a musical treat to those who could get near
enough to hear.
->Mr. b. q. Mast of the 10th district, is
much pleased because be grew sunfower that
beat Mr.. Charles K. Fendalls by four inches.
1t was a monster and no mistake, but it didn't
beat the one grown by Mr.. George H. Wesley,
of Old Hartford road.
THE war on mosquitoes in Baltimore the
past summer is thought by the health authori-
ties to have been very effective, although the
results accomplished were not so good as hoped
for. The contest with the pest is to be contin-
ued with redoubled vigor.
THE fine Guernsey herd of Mr.. James
Mex. Merryman, of Grove Stock Farm, Falls
road, attracted much attention at the Hagers.
town fair this week and captured number of
prizes. The herd has been very successful
wherever exhibited this season.
- ld-Home Week was great success-no
doubt about that. Baltimore saw the biggest
crowds it ever entertained and everybody was
apparently happy. This homecoming cele-
bration will mark an important epoch in the
history of the Monumental City.
- The registration booksin Baltimore coun-
ty, after the revision of the lists by the regis
tration officers on Tuesday of this week, were
closed until next year. Ifyou were not regis
tered and failed to have your name placed on
the lists this month you cannot vote in No.
vember.
IA special meeting of the Towson I'M
provement Association will be held in the
Guild House, on Saturday evening. Octobsr
18th, at O'Clock, to elect delegates to the fed
Grafton of improvement associations to meet at
Hotel Junker, in Baltimore Monday night,
October 21st.
Samuel Taylor, of o. Donnell street, Can
ton, brakeman on the N. G. Railroad was
crushed to death between two freight cars at
Canton few days ago. Within month three
members of Taylor's family died, the last being
two of his children who were afflicted with
typhoid fever.
THE Maryland election will take place
two weeks from next Tuesday-November 9Th.
In addition to the large ticket to be voted the
electors will be called upon to vote for or
against the calling of a constitutional conven-
ton. This will make necessary an additional
mark on the ballot.
The Educational Club of Baltimore coun-
ty was addressed last Saturday by Mr.. Rufus
X. Wood, a member of the State Board of
Education, on agriculture in the County
Schools" The club already numbers nearly
IS members. All persons interested in educa-
ton are eligible to membership.
This has been an unusually dull week
in TOwsOn, all interests seeming to have CEN
tered in the Home Coming celebration in Bal
timOre. We are so near the city, with such
excellent facilities for reaching it, that we are
almost part of it and our interests are almost
identical with those of our neighbOrs.
William Harris, we'll known colored
man, died at a hospital in Baltimore on Mon
day last from typhoid pneumonia. Latterly
he had been employed handling horses for Mr..
r. Emory Warfield, of Pot Spring. He was
son of the late Nathan Harris, who was for
many years head coachman at Hampton.
President ]. j. Lindsay, of the Baltimore
County Volunteer Firemen's Association. has
announced the following as mem bers of the
executive committee: Frank /. Wheeler, of
Towson; I. Reese Arnold, of Glyndon j. II.
Albrecht, of Lauraville; Jacob II. Kraft, of
Pikesville, and Charles s. Banks, of Relay.
- OU6 DdlLlmOr6 paper SalU tQ6T6 were
from ten to fifteen thousand people at the Mt.
Carmel barbecue last Saturday, while another
said there were from five to six thousand.
Another authority said there were n---'--@-
thousand, and it is fact that some DEM,
were very much disappointed at the size OF the
crowd
= Mr.. Frederick Crowder, Jr., is another
Baltimore county dairyman who is about to
give up the business, in which he has been
largely engaged on Hamilton avenue, near the
Hartford road. He will sell all his stock and
fixtures on Wednesday, October Both. For
particulars see advertising columns of The
UNION today.
>If the Improvement Association of Tow
son never accomplishes another thing it will
deserve unstinted praise for having done so
much toward the improvement of the side
walks of the town. The work on these is still
progressing. The walk from the Smedley
House to the Nd. & Pa. Railroad Station has
been completed.
->Some fellows went up to the Mt. Carmel
barbecue last Saturday in an automobile and
it is said the presence of the machine in the
neighborhood scared the cows so badly that
many of them refused to give any milk. 1t is
said in the same connection that one farmers
wife who saw the same machine said it was
the first one she had seen.
Mr.. D. H. Rice, of Valley View Farm,
near Towson, whose home was burned some
months ago, has about completed a very COM
Portable bungalow and his family expects to
occupy it today. Since the fire they have been
living in tents. Mr.. Rice will at once begin
the rebuilding of his home, but he does not
expect to complete it before next spring.