The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-15
Monkton. N. @. R-Miss sallie cuddy

o Cuddy of Baltimore, recently deceased, and |
e the last member of her immediate family, is |
i'll at the residence of her nephew, Mr. Charles |
G Cuddy. near Wesley Chapel M. Il. Church.
s miss Sallie,n as she is Familiarity known, was
e paraIyzed few months ago and has since been
3 an invalid but has grown much worse recently.
| Mr.. George E. Shelley, who was indisposed
for few days, is out again.
The tournament at Manor Glen track last
proved very interesting. One city boy in the
country declared be only went to see the mule
race.
Miss Dora Bosley, Of Parkton, is the guest
of her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. t.
Bosley, of Churchhill. Md.
Rev Solomon German, of Mt. Washington,
visited number of his Monkton friends last
week.
Mr.. Elmer Shepperd, of Baltimore. was
guest of Messrs. Charles and Warner Pearce,
at their home on the Manor, for weekend
visit.
Rev. Mr.. Plummer, who has received call
from the vestry of ST. James Parish, occupied
the pulpit of st. James P. E. Church, on Sab
bath last.
Mr. W. Harrison Curtis. of Overlea, Belair
road. is q guest of his daughter, Mrs. G. How
ard Marshall, of Sweet Air, at present and on
Tuesday of this week visited some of his Manor
relatives. Mr.. Curtis has passed his three
score and ten milestone, but he is still genial
companion and is much interested in the fam
lily traditions of I'VE olden days" Herelatedt to
your correspondent some interesting reminis-
cences from his boyhood days that bad been
|
Curtis, of My Lady's Manor, over fifty odd
years ago. Mr.. Curtis said his grandfather
was boy IA years old at the time of the Revo-
lutionary War and at that time Baltimore city
was mere village and had no suitable build
ing to store the powder in and it was hauled
| out in carts and stored in st. James P. E.
Church, on the Manor, and kept there for one {
year. An armed guard was kept around the
! church to protect the powder stored there from ,
invasion. The vestry of the church objected ,
to their building being turned into powder (
magazine. Mr.. Curtis says his grandfather
was an eye witness to the storing of the pow !
der in the church and that he could vouch for
the authenticity of the story. No service was
held in the church while the powder remained
there.
Another story was in regard to the incon-
venience of the days preceding the Revolu- 6
tionary War in its infancy, that had come to
him from his grandfathers boyho memories
was that the staple crop of the colonists in this
| locality was tobacco and the market for the
| same was Joppa, distance from the Manor of
| over 20 miles; that when the tobacco was prop s
| erly cured the farmers or planters went into r
the woods and cut down an oak tree and hewed
| out hogheads and packed their tobacco in them 9
! and rolled them by hand to Joppa. He said i
| at that time there was no wagons; that the
| first conveyance was carts with shafts and Y
| later came rough wooden wheels for wagons. =
/ thought many of your readers would find
these stories Of the olden days interesting so {
pardon the space have taken in relating them /
+, The W. G. T. q. of Monkton held its month '
| ~ meeting at the residence of Mrs. Thomas
Kaufman, on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs.
| George P. Everhart, the county president, and \
| also president of Monkton Union, presided.
Mr.. Thomas Mem. Orr sails today from
New York for Liverpool on business trip
Mrs. Orr will join him later in England.
Mrs. Henry G. Hutchins left for Ocean City !
join her there on Saturday for few days. =
Mrs. Jacob M. Pearce has returned from I
Ocean City improved in health. 81. 5 5
called at the home of Mrs. Sarah Yoder, on
Thursday and Friday nights of last week to l
see her large night blooming cereus which had 7
IL blooms the first night and II the second. I
The plant is six years old and had about 40
buds, but on account of the dry weather num- :
Der fell off. The flowers were large and perfect.
Mrs. Yoder is very proud of her flowers and l
takes much interest in them. =
There was good attendance at the Epworth
League meeting at Wilson's Church last Sun. ,
day night. Mr.. Bowers was the leader. 1t is =
expected that Mr.. W. Richardson, of Balti- !
when the topic will be-: Religious InstTuc c. d
ton Social Necessity" A general invitation y y
is extended
Mrs. John Stiegler and children are spending
some time here with her mother, Mrs. Thomas
Carter. =
Miss Mamie Jenkins, who spent two weeks 2
here with the Misses Bowers, has returned to +
her home in Baltimore. !
Miss Mary Mccartney is spending some time Il
with Mrs @. E. Guyton, of Long Green Valley. =
Mrs Ensor, who had been visiting her daugh- a
ter Mrs. Charles S. Rampley, near this village, !,
has returned to her home. q
Mrs. Albert Dumler of Baltimore, is q guest Q
at the home of her mother, Mrs. U. g. Warfel, i
in Dulany's Valley. T
A party of young folks from Pennsylvania G
The bnnkard Brethren have commenced the Z
erection of their church in the valley, near this
place. Mr., W. Frank Porter, of Baldwin, has
the contract. =. b
Jacksonville and Sunnybrook, 10th Dis = =
trict-The showers of the past week were y
the ground continues very hard in most places },
too hard to pillow. Several culverts near =
Warren were damaged by late heavy rains.
Mrs. Sarah r. Green and Misses Ida Baldwin
Ocean Grove, N. ]. After spending some time \
there Miss Edith Green will visit Mrs Schmal- y
horst wife of Rev. VIM. l.. Schmalhorst, at e
her home near Philadelphia and later she g
will go to Atlantic City. .
Mr.. and Mrs Wesley A. Royston, Mrs.
William H. Smith, Mrs. John w. Smith, .
Misses Helen Shelley and Nellie Smith and
| Master Charles M. Smith were visitors to
| Summit Grove camp-meeting last week. They i
| were much impressed with the services and = :
especially pleased with the singing of the In
diana Quartet. .
| A large crowd was attracted to the Manor =.
| Glen tournament last Saturday afternoon, the !
| weather having been fine for outdoor sports. !
Rev. Mr.. Cummings preached an impressive :,
| sermon in Chestnut Grove Church last Sunday : :
morning. but the audience was not as large as !
usual owing to the inclement weather. There !
| will be preaching in this church on Sunday
next, August 10th, at IL AN.
Mr.. George Cook conducted the Young Peo-
Piles G. E. meeting at the above church last
Sunday evening and made an interesting adj
dress. Rev. Mr. Cummings also spoke. M.
Kinpsville. 18th District.-Miss Mary E.
| Holland and her friend, Miss Edith Cockey. of
| St. Georges, have returned from trip to New ,
| York.
visit to Miss Charlotte A. Hope of The Rocks,
Miss Lucy B. De Moss is visiting Mrs. VIM.
| Barton, of Sharon, Hartford county.
The tournament lot .ne DE, Denent u Oh 81.
| day afternoon next August 18TH The officers
will be Marshals, P. A. Fleury and Sheriff A.
T. STREET.; judges, J. G. Taliferro, Edwin A.
| Gorsuch Edward J. Bell and DR.. James F. H.
Gorsuch; timekeeper, Frank M. Gorsuch;
herads, Wylie G. De Moss and Charles Fitz.
patrick The coronation address will be de-
iivered by Mr.. T. Scott Offutt, of the Towson
bar Hon. ]. Fred c. Talbot has been invited
| to be present.
charge OF Mrs. s. P. Moore, Mrs. Jas. J. Hayes
NJ. Hotter, Eugenia and Frank Moore and
Elizabeth Miller; supper table, Mrs Michael
Stanton, assisted by Mesdames P. A. Fleury,
L. G. Quinlin, George Ely, Carey, Gallagher,
| Burke ana FITZPATRICK anu MISSES DTauley, |
Fitzpatrick, Quinlin, French, Gilbert, Bald
win, FIeury and Ely; fancy table, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Monmonier soft drinks, George
Ely ice.cream, Messrs VIM. H. Hotter and
James Kane. X.
Cockeysville, 9Th District.-Mr. William
| H, Wight, Of Kinloch Farm, did not grow as
much wheat per acre as he had hoped for,
owing to blight in the head. His yield per
acre was about "a bushels, and barley nearly 35
Jarrett Howard's yield per acre of wheat was a
little over a bushels. 1t is evidentthe general
average in the upper part of the county will be
under 20 bushels per acre.
Celery planting has kept many busy and
few have planted strawberry plants. Mr.. J. s.
Crowthers late corn is growing finely.
The Tuesday evening Epworth League ser,