The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-11-07

->For more than 4s hours the Towson
patrons of the Baltimore County Water Com
pany were without drop of water from its
plant And no one has made any excuse in
palliation of this state Of things.
- The third quarterly conference Of Long
Green Circuit will be held at Fork NJ. K.
Church, on Monday, November 9th, at 2.30 P.
M. Rev DIR. Mcdowell will preach at Union
Church, on Sunday, 9Th, at 7.30 P. NJ.
There are fifty polling places in Baltimore
county and If there was any trouble or infrac-
tions of the law at any of them we have not
heard of it. This speaks well for our people,
who are as a rule, law abiding citizens.
Mr. GUS SteDzy is going to take lit
tie fight in bis combined ''aeroplane and hell
copter'' on Thanksgiving day. We don't like
that last name. Well, good bye Stenzy. We
don't expect to meet up with you again.
- In the matter of weather nothing could
have been finer than Tuesday. If you didn't
vote You couldn't blame it on this fruitful
source of conversation among millions of people
who don't know what else to talk about.
There was case OF smallpox at Luther,
vile, but the colored child who had it got well
before the health authorities knew anything
about it, 1t is said the child, which is two
wears oId contracted the disease in Virginia.
IA bazaar and supper for the benefit of the
Alert Volunteer Fire Company will be held at
Kelley's Hall, Belair road, commencing Tues
day, November 18th. Mr.. James ]. Lindsay,
of the Towson bar, will deliver an address the
first night.
- Mr. William 8. Fendall, who died at his
home in Towson, or Friday morning of last
week, was to have been best man at the Cockey-
Sothoron wedding thst is announced to take
place at Rock Spring Church, Hartford county,
on Wednesday next.
THE Elkridge hounds had a splendid run
on Tuesday morning, starting from Hampton
gate at 10 O'clock The day was beautiful and
all the conditions were favorable; They will
meet on Saturday. 7th, at the Smile House,
York road, at 9 A. NJ.
- One of Brysn's most ardent supporters
was Mr.. John 81. Harris, Towson business
man, who really believed that the Nebraskan
was a sure winner. As might be supposed, he
'sdied hard" Mr.. Harris has a son named
William Jennings Bryan.
- The bazaar held in the public school house
at Luthervie last Saturday night was very
successful affair and good sum was realized.
The money will be used by the village Inn
provement Association in the improvement of
the streets, sidewalks, etc.
- Com missions were received at the County
Clerks Office this week for the following addi-
tiona deputy game wardens for Baltimore
county: George e. Wright, of Towson, and +.
]. Jones, William Abbott, William f. Booth
and Charles H. Weilbrenner.
1.-The open season for partridges. pleas
ants and rabbits in Baltimore county will
begin Tuesday, November 10th, and continue
to and including December oath. By that
time there won't be many rabbits left and the
game bird family will be greatly reduced.
- Eleven saddle and driving horses that
had been used by Mrs. Elisha Dyer, Jr., and
family, at Newport, R. l.. during the past
summer, passed through Towson on Wednes
dav. on their way to Mrs. Dyer's farm in
upper Long Green Valley, where they will be
wintered.
- The driver of large motorcar passing
through Towson about $50 o'clock on Thurs
day evening, at high rate of speed, ran over
and killed fox terrier on one of the principal
streets One of these days it will be human
being that will meet this fate from these
murderers.
> Mr.. Sidney Waters of Woodbrook, has
purchased the Cochran farm, on the Jarretts-
vile pike, adjoining the Manor Glen estate of
Mrs Agnes Emory. 1t contains ITO acres.
Mr. Waters, who will take charge the first of
March, 1909, will make number of improve
ments on the property.
- What was known as the Edwards tract
of the Filston Farm property was sold by the
receivers on the 9th of October to the inter-
national Trust Company for S14, 500. The sale
includes the Manor house and other improve
ments, with 81 acres of land. Pattison &
Gahan conducted the sale.
THE residence of Mr.. G. Howard Stir
ling on West Allegany avenue, Towson, made
a narrow escape from destruction by fire last
Sunday night, the result of an overheated
kitchen range. The smoke awakened Mrs.
Stirling and Mr.. Stirling put out the blaze with
a couple of buckets of water.
SHERIFF Padgett, of Baltimore city, has
received letter from Mrs. ]. D. Pearce, of
Fairview. COL, thanking him for helping to
find her relatives, of whom she had lost trace.
The inquiry resulted in locating her father,
Walter Zepp. near Monkton, Baltimore county,
and her five brothers and sisters.
IA new windmill in course of erection on
the property of Mr.. Harry Klein, Just west of
Towson, was blown over by the high wind on
Wednesday and three men who were at work
on it made narrow escape with their lives.
They were all more or less injured. All the
men are residents of Baltimore city.
>All the Maryland mills of the CONSOLE
dated Cotton Duck Company are now running
on full time and additional hands have been
employed in some of them, the payrolls being
increased at least 25 per cent. The mills have
been receiving orders from an parts OF the
country indicating revival of business.
>It is reported that there are some deputy
game wardens in Baltimore county who are
persistent violators of the laws they are sworn
to uphold-that is they simply use their Off
cial position as a cloak and kill game out of
season whenever they please. If this be true
it is an outrage that should not be tolerated.
-Four more years of Republican rule at
Washington is now assured and the people of
the country should hold the party in power to
a strict accountability to the end that the anti
election promises are fully carried out. One of
the most important of these is tariff reform
and there should be no slip up along this line.
MRS Mary G. Warfield, who died at her
home in Baltimore last Sunday. was the widow
of John Warfield and the eldest daughter of
the late Ebenezer Stewart, of the 9th district of
Baltimore county. Mr.. W. W. @. Stewart, a
we'll known resident of Cockeysville,i is brother
of the deceased, and but four of family of IA
children survive
"a very enjoyable time was had at Pro-
prietor Bauer's Smile House. Hartford road. on
Monday afternoon when several hundred people
engaged in the novelty of a real ox-roast-that
is steer that had been specially fattened for
the occasion roasted whole. Incidentally there
was some speech making and a general jollifi.
cation. There was also dancing.
Paul Huber was convicted in the Circuit
Court on Thursday of selling liquor on Sunday.
He was fined 500 and costs. Ten other per-
sons indicted upon the same charge, plead
guilty and the same penalty was imposed in
each case. Judge Duncan notified the law
breakers that after this term of court fines for
the same offense would be higher.
-The water loan carried at the election in
Baltimore city on Tuesday and soon steps will
be taken to secure the land in Baltimore county
that will be required to increase the storage
capacity of the Gunpowder lake. To do this
several hundred acres of Dulany's Valley do
main will be necessary, to say nothing of the
large body of land north of it that will be
taken.
THE coon hunters of Baltimore county
are getting in their best work now and animals
weighing as much as 25 pounds have been cap
tured recently, says the Belair Agis We learn
that the fraternity around Loeb Raven has
been much strengthened by the famous dog
"Trueman, recently received from The Rocks,
this county. In one week he freed nine times
and assisted in killing eight coons and two
possums.
"a farmer in the neighborhood of Loeb
Raven, who called at THE UNION Office on
Wednesday to buy some trespass notices, said
that last year, during the hunting season, he
went out to drive off some gunners just as one
of them fred at a rabbit. He (the farmer) re-
ceived part of the charge in his leg and then
found that the gunners were friends of his. Oh
course the shooting was an accident and no ar
rests were made.
MIR. George Jessop of Cockeysvile, has
added an extra fine sample of his yellow corn
to the exhibit in the Towson drug store OF
Massenburg & Son. Other exhibitors are Mr.,
Thomas R Jenifer. of Loeb Raven, white and
yellow Mr.Sam'l E. Parks, of Oakland Farm,
yellow, and MIR. Philip A. DeBaugh, 18th dis.
trict, white. Judging from the numerous sam
Piles shown there the corn crop in this county
must be of very superior quality this season.
Some miscreant stretched q stout wire
across the Joppa road, near Towson, last Satur-
dav niOhf and marty IF ladios opd rop flor,o or,