The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-29


>Mr. w. Scott Lester who bought the A
W. Perrie property, on the north side of ALE
gany avenue. Towson, has greatly improves
the same and is now having an artesian vel
bored: Mr.. Lester is a clerk in the Baltimor
Postofice.
The trolley line from Baltimore to Hale
thorpe and EIkridge now in conrse of con
struction, will be in operation by Decembe
next. 1t is being built over a private right o
way and will be operated by the United Rail
ways Company.
MIR. William Hall, who died at his hom,
in Baltimore. on the 21st instant. at the age o.
90 years, was for many years engaged as
farm superintendent in Baltimore county. HI
was an EDglishman by birth and came to thi
country in 1S45.
=, Rev. A. 9. Ernst, having accepted cal
to Columbia, Pa, will preach his farewell ser
mon at St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran
Church, Parkvile on Sunday morning next
He will be succeeded after September LIST by
| Rev. Hahn Zumpt
- The State Roads Commission, at its meet
ing few days ago, decided to repair and give
coat of tar to what is known as the Valley
road, in Green Spring Valley, the understand
! ing being that the county shall then keep the
read in proper shape.
- Another party was taken over the Md
q Pa. Railroad on the 21st instant to witness
the workings of the individual unit car and
much satisfaction was expressed with it, The
company has not determined what it will do
with this new power.
- Robert Dunty was arrested few days
ago upon the charge of assaulting Capt e.
Herman, a we'll known citizen of Lutherville,
the trouble growing out of dispute over a
business matter. Dunty was held in $500 bail
to answer the charge.
- Attorney Joshua G. Bosley on Tuesday
filed bill in the Circuit Court here for Louisa
A. Bland and others against Harriet w. and
Louisa A. Bland, infants, asking for the sale
of the property of the late William B. Bland,
at Glencoe, and division of the proceeds.
THE regular meeting of the Loyal Tenn
perance Legion connected with the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of Towson, will
be held Sunday, August Both, at 2 30 P. NJ, in
the lecture-room of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. to which the public is cordially invited.
>H you want to see the Merry Widows
next week that will knock you crazy don't fail
to go to Timonium. We mean, of course, the
female headgear that is known by that name.
But the other kind will be there too, and. if
you want to be safe you must look out for
them.
Mr.. F. J. Werneth will next week run
public automobile line from Towson to the
Timonium Fair, and Mr.. J. VIM. Phipps will
also run stage line, and it is hoped their en-
terprise will be literally patronized. For par
ticulars see advertising columns of The UNION
today.
THE members of the Philadelphia Road
improvement Association, who selected Mr..
JONI heIQ 10 SuDSIlQtcQQ the WOTk OI STdQlQR
the six-mile hill on the Philadelphia road,
have presented him with handsome Morris
chair as mark of their appreciation of his
services.
>It has been thirty years since the first
fair was held on the grounds at Timonium and
most of those who were connected with the
management of it have passed to the great be-
yond. The changes that have taken place in
that comparatively short span of years is al
most inconceivable.
Prospect Park fair and races follow Timo-
MUM and will begin Tuesday, September 9Th.
full exhibition, and the management will not
relax any effort to make it 80. The grounds
are easy Of access by trolley line, with 5cent
fare from Baltimore.
- Mr.. Granville T. Currier, who was for
many years engaged in farming in the 9Th dis
trict of this county, was rendered unconscious
by escaping gas few days ago at his boarding
house on East Preston street, Baltimore. The
services of physician was required to restore
him to consciousness.
->Seven beautiful white swan lighted near
the dairy of Mr. Charles M. Chilcoat, on West.
ern run, during the great fire in Canada but
finding they were pursued by merciess gun
ners they made circuit of the place and then
took their departure in a southeasterly direc-
ton and were seen no more.
->Gen. Felix Agnus, while driving to his
home in Green Spring Valley few days ago,
was run down by an automobile driven by
chauffeur named Thomas James. Both Gen.
Agnus and bis coachman were thrown from
the carriage but fortunately neither was much
hurt. The horses broke away from the vehicle
and ran off,
AT o'clock on Tuesday morning the lob
department of The UNION Office received an
order from one of the TOwson banks for 900
postal cards. In less than l hour and 20
minutes from that time the cards were printed
and delivered at the bank. That was pretty
HcI vl,ok -
is capable of.
->Mr. Joseph T. Hopes, the well known
Hartford county breeder of Jersey cattle, is ar
ranging sale of 25 head of his cows to take
place at Timonium fair grounds some time in
October next. He has adopted this plan to re-
duce the size of bis herd. Mr.. Hopes was the
first man in Maryland to use the electric milk
ing machine.
to Towson on the Doth instant and were mar
ried by Rev. DIR. Massie, of Trinity p. E.
Church. The groom is 81 and the bride 49,
And still another couple-the groom from Bal
here on Wednesday and were married by Rev.
T. E. Copes, of the M. E. Church.
ION account of rain the game between the
Towson and Waverly Suburban League teams,
announced to take place at Oriole Park, on
Wednesday afternoon, was postponed until
Saturday. August 18th, at 400 P. NJ. The Ro-
land Park and Evergreen teams will play at
the Park the same afternoon at O'Clock.
Admission to both games 25 cents.
"a Towson man who had never been to
Timonium Fair started to go there last year in
one of the public conveyances. Before he had
gotten a mile from town the wagon broke
down and he had to walk back through the
dust. Now be says he don't want any more
fair in bis. In fact what he really does say
about fairs would look simply awful in print.
AT the meeting of the Towson Improve
ment Association on Monday the special COM
fnfc fOr hn Or
the Baltimore County Water and Electric Com
pany invited the association to visit and test
the capacity of the artesan wells that supply
Towson with water. An expert from the Bal
timorec city water department will direct the test.
THE members of Ebenezer M. E. Church
will hold their second annual harvest home
festival and dahlia show, under the auspices
of the Ladies' Aid Society in the large ware
house of R. Vincent, Jr. & Sons, at Convention,
B. 60. R. R., September I'D to 18th. Mr.. r.
A. Vincent is chairman of the committee and
Mr.. j. Newt League, secretary. Particulars
will be published hereafter.
- Mr.. Charles r. Brown, carrier on X. +.
D. Route No. 6, at Towson, drives a horse with
record" that's got the two-minute trotter
beat to standstill He has been on the job
four years and two months, has Travelled 27, 500
miles, has never been off his feed once, and
has only missed two or three days from
slight lameness. The horse is Is years old and
the length of his daily route is about % miles.
- Mr.. Charles b. Roberts, who was shot on
the boardwalk at Atlantic City on Wednesday
night, is well known in Baltimore county. In
summer be lives near Lutherville and is a reg
ular attendant at the Catholic Church of the
Immaculate, Towson. Mr.. Roberts. who is
well known in business and social circles, is
a son of the late Hon. Charles B. Roberts, Of
Westminster. His condition is thought to be
serious.
- People going from Baltimore to limo
MUM Fair next week will be put to some in
convenience because of being obliged to buy
| their admission tickets after they reach the
grounds. The railroad company sells only the
transportation ticket and here is where its
| shabby treatment of the society comes in
| But this can't stop the thousands from coming
from the city. They'd go to Timonium if they
| had to walk.
! Agricultural Implement Display at the
Fair.-There will be fine display of agricul
/ tural implements, machinery and vehicles al
| Timonium Fair next week and among the
firms represented will be the following:
s. L. Lamberd Company.
]. Manns & Company.
Griffith Il Turner Company.
International Harvester Company.
Weaver Manufacturing Company.