The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-03

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MORE COUNTY UNION. If they fail to
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- Have you ordered your flying machine
yet-the fall style, we mean2
The next legal holiday in Maryland will
be election day-Tuesday, November 3d.
- Don't fail to get registered next Tuesday
ifyour name is not already on the books.
- The York fair will begin next Monday
and continue five days. Many Baltimore coun
ty people will attend.
->1t was said last week that the susque.
hanna river was lower at that time than it had
been before in hundred years.
"A number of aged residents of Baltimore
county have passed away within the last ten
days.
THE taxable basis of Baltimore city this
year is S675 ,162, 270-the largest in the history
of the city.
~ Some people said the downpour of last
Monday was the chestnut rain,' but why we
are unable to explain.
"a twin tomato raised this season by Mr..
b. John Black, well known I'd district far
mer, weighed three pounds.
- A snake IL inches in length was killed by
Assistant Keeper Leland in the Record Office
In the Court House on Tuesday.
- There was frost in some sections of Balti-
more county on Wednesday morning. but not
enough to do any damage to vegetation.
THE baseball season is over for this year
and now football will engross the attention of
our young athletes until Thanksgiving day.
"A stocking party" will be given Friday
evening, October 9th, in the Lee Building,
Towson, for the benefit of the new M. P.
Church.
The month of October, which was ush-
cred in on Thursday, is thought by many to
pc the most attractive of the year in this
latitude.
- Miss Ida Howard, daughter of Mr. Jar
rett Howard, of Western Run Valley, killed
large chicken hawk with a shotgun a few
days ago.
->"Gipsy" Smith, the English evangelist,
has been drawing immense crowds in Balti
more this week. He will remain in the city
another week.
"a straw hat and heavy winter overcoat
make decidedly incongruous combination,
but they were seen on the streets more than
once this week.
The Presidential election will take place
one month from next Tuesday. Up to this
time the campaign in Baltimore county has
been decidedly quiet.
= We enjoy ed touch of delightful autumn
weather this week and it proved great relief
after the disagreeable heat of the couple of
weeks that preceded it.
->Chicken thieves have lately been opera
ting extensively in and about Govanstown.
Well charged shotguns are the best things to
use in cases of this kind.
->See the statements ofthe Baltimore coun.
ty national banks published in the advertising
columns of THE UNION today. They all make
highly creditable showing.
Sipsy" smith is a most thoushtless
man. He doubtless is very good evangelist,
but when it comes to passing on such things as
women's headgear, he's way off.
The officers of the Second National Bank
of Towson have something to say to the pub
lie through the advertising columns of THE
UNION today. Don't fail to read it.
Many farmers were sowing wheat this
week, but most of them had finished before,
and some had grain up and growing finely.
The rain of this week was great help.
1.-The number of children enrolled in the
public schools of Baltimore city up to last Mon
day was SO, 309 There was an increase in nearly
ali the schools as compared with last year.
John Humphreys a colored man who was
well known in Towson, died in Sandy Bottom
a few days ago. To many John, who was
bootback, was better known as Brandy"
- Revival services will begin at Hunts M.
e. Church, Sherwood on Sunday, October 4th,
and will continue every night for two weeks
conducted by the pastor, Rev. Harry W Burgan.
"a bright colored woman, who was a
witness in case in the court at Belair on Tues
day, testified that although she is not 40 years
of age, she is the mother of IS living children.
MIR. n. ID. r. Allen, member of the bar
whose pretty home is on the Joppa road, just
west of Towson, calls the place "Joppallen,"
combination of the name of the road and its
-The Republican club at Highlandtown
now has membership of IS, and this number
is being increased at each meeting. Adolph
Kelm is the president and John Goldsmith,
secretary.
THE Roland Park Civic League has issued
the Roland Park Review, filled with matters of
interest to the people of that beautiful subur
ban town. 1t is a monthly of II pages in
magazine form.
Baltimore county real estate just now and there
seems to be growing demand for farm lands.
People must be finding out that there is money
in farming after all.
IA meeting of the Towson improvement
Association will be held in the offices of
Wheeler & Cole, Offutt Building, Monday even
ing, October 9th, at o'clock. Every member
is urged to be present.
An epidemic of typhoid fever has been
prevailing at Granite, I'd district, and it is
thought the disease was introduced there by
some granite cutters who had been working in
ouarres in the South.
- few days ago deed was filed in the
County Clerks office which was executed in
1926 and had never been placed on record. 1t
was necessary to have recorded in order to per.
feet title to the property.
IA game of football will be played at
Towson this Saturday. afternoon, at o'clock,
between the Alpha Athletic Club, of Baltimore,
and the Towson eleven on the vacant lot north
of the new High School Building.
John Eager Howard Council, Jr. o. U.
A. NJ. took in three new members at its meet
ing on Wednesday night. The membership is
now nearly 100 The meetings of the Council
are held in the Towson Guild Hall.
- The Waverly and Towson teams of the
Suburban League split even in the games they
played during the past baseball season: Each
won three and two were tied. The Waverly
team won the League championship.
- DR.. Harry S. Jarrett announces in THE
Union today that he has removed his office
from bis former residence on West Allegany
avenue, Towson, to the office of his father, DR..
+ H. Jarrett, on Washington avenue.
- White Hall is getting ready for its first
big fair during the present month, beginning
on the 14th. 1t will no doubt attract thousands
of strangers who never before saw that rich and
beautiful section of Baltimore county.
- Last week THE UNION bad the pleasure
of adding a number of new names to its mail
ing lists-in fact the paper enjoys a steady
growth in the way of new subscribers, and this
Is always encouraging to the publishers.
"A little son of Mr.. Charles T. Burns, of
Towson, fell from porch on Wednesday and
fractured a leg. DR.. J. H. Jarrett attended
him. This was the third time the child has
met with similar accidents, the result of falls.
- Looks like Baltimore county, game laws
are very badly mixed up, that is if Mr.. John
a. Nagengast's construction of them is correct
BETTER have no laws at all than such tumble
as appears from careful analyzatiou of them.
> The Grove Farm herd of Guernseys, that
met with so much success at the New York
State fair, was at Trenton this week and will
he shown at the Virginia State fair at Richmond
next week. They are winning straight along.
- The final game of the season between the
Waverly and Towson teams was played last
Saturday on the grounds of the former on the
York road, and was won by the Towsons-7 to
3. Several hundred people witnessed the game.
- Mrs. William II. Owens, of Woodlawn,
Baltimore county, owns a Guernsey COW that
she don't think can be beaten. She produces
enough cream to make Is lbs. of butter week,
besides furnishing the family with all the milk
required.
developed fancy for pigeons, has now about
IN "homersn that are the admiration of all
who see them. His stock has been carefully