The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-15

lantic City with his family and suffered
much that he was obliged TO return to bis hon
here for treatment.
I'VE heard complaints this week of tt
ground being too dry to pillow and this seen
strange considering the copious rains we hay
lately enjoyed. Rain fell here nearly ii
whole of last Saturday night and up unit
about Q O'Clock Sunday morning.
THE company of which Mr.. Daniel
Leonard is president last week commence
work on a large contract for constructing road
walks cutters, etc, at Eudowood Sanitoriun
near Towson. 1t is said about $12, 900 will
expended in these improvements.
-Summit Grove camp-meeting closed II
| very successful season last Monday. Their
/ were number of conversions during its pre-
| gress twelve of them on the last Sunday
large percentage Of the cottages have alread
| been rented for next years camp.
THE attention of some of THE UNION
| local correspondents is invited to the fact tha
we do not insert advertisements Of lost articles
| &c, in the local columns Of this paper. Sucl
matters must appear in the advertising column
and be paid for at the usual rates.
- George w. Easter, proprietor of Easter
Park, on the Belair road plead guilty befor
Justice Herbert, in Towson, on Tuesday last t
fined IS and costs. The offense was sellinI
soft drinks at bis place of business.
- Mr.. c.. w. Baker, of Aberdeen, has jus
refused an offer of 81, 500 for a sucking col
sired by his famous stallion Admiral Dewey
that died suddenly short time ago. The dan
of the youngster is Fantasy by Baron Wilkes
with record Of Eli as Swear old.
1.-Two weeks from next Tuesday the county
fair will begin at Timonium. On Monday
next, August 18th, Secretary Nussear will open
his office on the fair grounds and he will bt
there daily from s A. NJ. to P. NJ. Address all
communications to him at Luthervile
- It is said that the curves on the Md. 4
Pa. Railroad are too sharp for the individual
unit car that has been running over the line
for more than q week. Those who have rid
den in the car are much pleased with it. II
takes the curves at very slow rate of speed.
- - The iron lawn roller belonging 70 DR.. A.
G. McCurdy, of Towson. that was advertised in
THE UNION IS having been 'lost, strayed,
stolen or borrowed has turned up. 1t was
standing in the back yard of a well known resi-
dent only awaiting favorable opportunity to
be sent home.
School for the Blind, now located on North
avenue. Baltimore, to Overlea, on the Belair
road, should the North avenue property be sold
to the city for the polytechnic institute. The
Overlea location possesses many advantages for
such an institution.
annual tournament and all-day festival to be
held at the Confederate Soldiers Home, Pixies
vile, on Saturday. September 18th for the
benefit of the home. These affairs are always
largely attended and are looked forward to with
much interest and pleasure.
AT a meeting of the Towson Improve
ment Association on Monday night steps were
taken to look into the water supply of Towson
and see what can be done to right the matters
complained of at present. A committee was
appointed to employ an expert hydraulic en-
gineer with this end in view.
->Superintendent Sherman, of the Court
House Park, is very much annoyed by the
boys who enter the park at night and break up
the benches and do other damage to say moth
ing of thegreat racket they make. An effort
will be made to get the names of these fellows
with view to causing their arrest.
->In renting his subscription a resident
of an adjoining State writes us as follows:
Enclosed find check for one of your belated
'canaries,' and hope to attend to the next one
more promptly so that the mild irony concern
ing the fight of the yellow birds read occa-
sionally in The UNION may not seem appro-
pirate in my direction"
1.-The Dairy Farmers Company, that was
organized at Pittsburg last fall through the
efforts of Mr. D. f. Maroney, formerly of Bal
timore county, has been obliged to suspend
Mr.. Maroney was the heaviest stakeholder and
bis friends fear he has sustained heavy loss.
At first the company promised to be of great
benefit to the producers.
->Charles r. Brown, r. f. D. carrier on
Route 6, at Towson, is enjoying his Is day
vacation, and Robert Parks, bis substitute, 'is
serving the route Carrier Browns faithful
old horse is enjoying the respite from labor no
doubt more than his owner. He has missed
very few days from any cause during the long
time he has been on the job.
= William NJ. Bayne formerly of Baynes-
vile, near Towson, who died in Cleveland, o.,
two or three weeks ago from the results of an
automobile accident, had an accident policy on
his life for $1,000, which he took out last spring
just before coming to Baltimore to attend the
10, ~. .<~fk ~ u IL.
Bayne left widow but no children.
THE new Methodist Protestant Church
on West Allegany avenue, Towson, will be
ready for dedication about October 1st. 1t will
take the place of old EPSON Church, which
has been used as place Of warsh S ,nssrlF
congregation is still an unsolved problem.
- Mr.. Henry A. Brehm's string of trotting
horses, in charge of Frank Doble, have return
ed from a very successful trip through the Lake
Erie Circuit in Pennsylvania. These horses
will be seen in the Mary land and Virginia Cir.
cult this year. Trainer Doble is brother of
the noted Budd Doble, who has driven more
horses to fast marks than any other man in the
United States.
= Last week THE UNION had an interest
ing item about gold watch, lost in field in
the upper end of this county thirty years ago,
having been found and restored to its owner
in good condition. Since then we read of a
gold dollar that was lost in public road near
Hagerstown in 1857 by child five years old,
having been found by the identical person that
lost it fifty-one years before.
Several hundred people witnessed fine
exhibition of baseball playing at Towson last
Saturday afternoon when the home team met
the unbeaten Waverlys in a double-header.
1t required IA innings to decide the first game,
the visitors winning to 2. In the second
there was no result the teams tying in the 10th
innings to 3-when play had to be stopped
on account of darkness. Mr.. K. GrasOn George
umpired both games.
- Baltimore county's general health off.
Ger is having compliments showered upon him
from all quarters. In a report of the late
tournament at Fallston for the benefit of the
Protestant Episcopal Chapel at that place the
writer says 1.-THE charge to the knights was
made by DIR. ]. F. h Gorsuch, of Fork, in his
delightfully."- interesting and characteristic way
which not only held the close attention Of the
knights but that of the whole audience
Still Further Suburban Developments
The line of suburban developmentin the north
ern section is to be especially well cared for
along the Northern. Central Valley, and among
the new suburbs which have been started as
a result of the recently inspired interest in
suburban homes is Chestnut Hill, says the Bal
timore NelcS. This site is we'll situated for cot
tage homes, possessing view of Roland Park
and Cylburn on the south and all the way up
the valley to Towson on the north, while its
proximity to both steam and trolley car service
will put its residents in close touch with the
city and its activities.
Chestnut Hill is Just south of and adjoining
Mt. Washington. There is picturesque view
down the valley, where Jones Falls. flowing
between high hills, is crossed by the Belvidere
avenue bridge. On the western side runs
Green Spring avenue.
There is much development under way al
present at Chestnut Hill and much more is tC
be done this summer and in the fall. The
place is to be developed as high-class suburb
and the houses already erected are of fine con
struction.
A sewerage system has been partly laid or
the tract, and water is to be obtained from ar
eight-inch main of the Baltimore County Elec
trio Light and Water Company, which passes
through the property with six-inch lateral!
running off from the main pipe.
The roads were laid out in winding course:
after the landscape scheme devised by w. g
Stone. A boulevard passing through theprop
erty will connect Rogers and Bevidere avenues
From quarries on the property stone is to b.
furnished gratis to lot-owners for fences ant
sidewalks.
An Aged Man Appeals to the Law
Mr.. John J. Tim anus, attorney for Mr. james
Stanfeld an aged resident ofthe I'd district, OF
Tuesday filed bill in the Circuit Court her
for an Injunction against Mr.. and Mrs. William
J.. Bailey, of Jacksonville, restraining then
from assigning a mortgage. The bill alst
asks that an alleged agreement between Mr.