The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-09-05

Harrisonville, I'd Distrf ct.-Stranger:
visiting this district this week for the first
time will be apt to think that they have taken
the wrong turning and reached the city oil
Brotherly Love, for the fraternal orders are
having things their own way for few days
Oriental Court, Lincoln Council 100. Jr. o. U.
A. NJ, of Randallstown, after being forced by
unprOpitious weather to postpone its annual
outing. is disporting itself at Bay Shore today
"wednesday. Last evening Welcome Lodge,
lO!, knights of Pythias, of Randallstown, held
Initiation ceremonies in their lodge room in
Randallstown Hall and the second degree of
membership was conferred on twenty-five
candidates.
On Tuesday and Wednesday nights of this
week Mount Nebo Tabernacle, No. 81, of Moses,
lawn fete at the house of Annie Butler-a
member of the society-and flying horses are
named as a leading feature of the affair
On Monday next (Labor Day. the annual L.
y. .. +. picnic will be held at Granite, under
the auspices of Beulah Encampment, and will
doubtless draw large crowd, as this affair has
become feature of the amusements of the
late summer in this section, having been es-
tablished many years ago. The principal
attractions will be dancing and baseball. two
games Of the latter being on the days program
OF sports: In the morning the North Branch
Club will play the Granite team. In the af-
ternoon the contest will be between the Granite
and Harrisonville clubs.
Taking the events of the week in proper sue
cession l forgot to state that the North Branch
Baseball Club will hold picnic in Brady's
Grove, on Saturday September 9Th, and that
the Oakland Band will enliven the occasion.
OF course the residents of the district are
going to Timonium. A few solictous Marthas
will think that applebutter must be made this
week or ne0er, but these pessimists will be few.
Twenty.four public spirited residents of Har-
risonville and Holbrook have chartered bus
and are praying that the weather man will be
in good humor on Thursday.
And now to enumerate the birds of passage
who, belonging here, have flown elsewhere or,
belonging elsewhere, have flown here: Miss
Blanch Lynch, of Scott's Level, and Miss Cora
George, of Rockdale, are visiting in Calvert
county.
Mr.. Walter Oler, of Iowa, is guest of Mrs.
William Baker, of Holbrook.
Mrs. Stephen George, of Kansas, is visiting
Mrs. R. Pierce Choate, at the latter's home,
near Randallstown.
Mr. and Mrs William Davis and family. of
Washington, D. c., are the guests of Mr..
Davis parents, at Marriottsville
Miss Blanche Choate, of Randallstown, is
spending two weeks at Asbury Park.
Mrs. Lawrence Oursler, of Montgomery
county, is spending several weeks as the guest
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Kelley,
of Holbrook.
DR.. James Matthews. Of Baltimore, are guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. William E. Fite, at their home
in Randallstown.
Miss Marie L. Kemp who had been visiting
friends at Mt. Airy, has returned to her home
at Jacksonville.
Master Edward L. Glyder, who spent his va
cation in Jacksonville with Mr.. and Mrs.
George W .Stanfield, has returned to Baltimore.
His sister, Miss Matilda Glyder, is now sojourn-
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. Stanfield.
Messrs Michael J. Hanley, Albert L. Lutt-
gerding s. Henry Clagett, J. Adam Klohr and
B. Frank Upton, of this district, spent several
days last week attending Williams Grove Fair,
IL miles from Harrisburg, Pa.
Farmers of this district are digging potatoes
and comparing notes on the yield. All agee
that there is not even a half crop.
Mr. Daniel Sutch, overseer for Mr. Samuel
Messersmith, of Baltimore, on the latter's
large stock farm in this district, reports most
excellent yield of wheat, having threshed 1877
bushels from IL acres-an average of SO liz
bushels per acre.
Readers of the above batch of gossip may
infer that the mental power of the residents of
the I'd district is being concentrated on such
trivial matter as fairs, picnics, social matters,
crops etc. Such an inference is incorrect. The
leading question here, as elsewhere, is: What
do you think of the Roberts case? S.