The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-05

The first installment of the new series O.
Alaska Yukon Pacific cent stamps was re
ceived at Towson postoffice on Thursday.
They are about an inch square and are embel
lished with the head of William II. Seward.
- VIM. G. Blaney. a Md. and Pa. Railroad
engineer, was operated ON for appendicitis at 9
Baltimore hospital He left the hospital ir
about two weeks apparently well. but be had 6
relapse and was in aserious condition for some
time.
- The Fendall straw berries we're on sale in
Towson this week for the first time this season
and were in great demand Mr.. Fendall has
several varieties besides his favorite and will
dispose of thousands of boxes of them while
the season lasts.
al experienced farmer said this week
that the outlook for large wheat yield in
Baltimore county is not good owing to the
fact that many of the heads are not well filled.
He was unable to account for this condition OF
the growing grain.
= Monday, May 31st, was generally OBJ
served as Union Memorial Day and the graves
Of soldiers in hundreds OF cemeteries were
strewn with flowers This is beautiful GUS
tom that seems to be becoming more general
as the years roll by.
IA Towson man is about securing patent
for window shutter fastener that promises to
be the best of its class. With it shutters can
be opened and closed, or placed in any desired
position, without even opening the sash. That
ought to be winner.
1.-THE strawberry season is now about at its
height and beautiful berries could be had this
week at moderate prices. The church and
Sunday school festivals are now out after the
dollars and they'll get good bunch Of them
before the seasons over.
John Chapman, colored, was arrested on
Friday night of last week on the charge of at
tempting to assault Mrs. McKann, wife Of q
farmer near Glenarm, 18th district Chapman
ran away from the place and was fired upon
and wounded by Mr.. McKann.
Miss c. B. Gorsuch, of Long Green, ad.
verised in THE UNION of May 22d, driving
mare. ordering three insertions. On the I'd Of
June she wrote US as follows: Please do not
advertise my mare again as l sold her yester
day." No comment necessary.
%Last Sunday the automobiles kept some
of the streets in Towson in a constant cloud of
dust. They were flying through the town at
all hours and the day was an ideal one for the
sport. Nobody seemed to mind the machines
except the man with ''scary" horse.
THE graves of several Union soldiers in
rated last Sunday by Mr.. George W. Seipp,
who served in the First Maryland Regiment
during the Civil War and lost his left arm in
one of the battles in which he participated.
- Miss Edna Lee, of Singer, Hartford coun.
ty, had some turkey eggs sent her this spring
and in shipping two had the shells cracked.
The broken shells were patched with tissue
paper and the eggs were set. Last week q fine
brood of turkeys hatched including the patch
ed eggs.
+Mr. Joseph Clark Whitney, popular
young man of Green Spring Valley, died very
suddenly on Friday of last week of acute
Brights disease. He was the only child of
Mr.. and Mrs. JOS. Cushing Whitney and was
well known socially. He was 26 years of age
and unmarried.
THE annual horse show al The Kennels,
Charles street avenue, will take place today
T..w~ l. n
1t will be for saddle and hunting and jumping
classes only. No admission will be charged to
the show. Admission to the club house will
be by badge only.
Emory Grove camp-meeting will begin
this year on the 18th of August and continue
until the 22d. Rev. DIR. A. F. Campbell, pas
tor of West Baltimore Station NJ. =. Church.
will be in charge this year. During the past
year several additional cottages have been
erected on the grounds.
THE Sunday school of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, at Arlington, was
presented last Sunday morning by Mr.. Samuel
E. Pentz, superintendent, with large Ameri-
can flag. Mr.. Edwin Higgins, one of The
UNIONS contributors, made an address and
patriotic songs were sung.
NEARLY fifty girls dressed in white and
carrying banners formed the May procession
at the Church of the Immaculate, Towson,
last Sunday afternoon. The children sang
house to the church. Rev. Philip II. Sheri.
dan is pastor of the church.
->If you don't like the water furnished by
the Baltimore County Water Company you
can buy the product of the artesian wells as
supplied by the Aigburth Water Company. It
costs cts. per gallon or 6 gallons for Is cts.
This water will be delivered to residents of
Towson daily at these figures.
- Mr.. Samuel X. FendalI has been very
busy man for some weeks handling farm ma
chinery and every day some new implement or
other can be seen leaving his Towson head
quarters. He sold four binders within week.
Farmers appear to be getting in good shape
for their most active of all busy seasons.
1.-THE 4th of July-another legal holiday
falls this year on Sunday and no doubt this
will mean another two day holiday, either the
Saturday preceding or the Monday following
being linked with it. So many holidays have
rather depressing effect upon business.
We could get along very well with fewer of
them.
MANY of the Sunday schools will hold
their Children's day services on Sundays of the
present month. For most of these elaborate
programs are prepared and many weeks are
spent by the teachers and others in getting
ready for these affairs that afford so much
pleasure to the children, their parents and
friends.
1.-The "circus" performance at Mt. Wash.
ington closed on Tuesday night with an auc-
ton sale. Over 81, 900 will be cleared, which
will be devoted to children's playground to
be located at the Mt. Washington Club. Spe.
cial days will be set apart for use by the chill
dren of the Fresh Air Society, newsboys and
other children.
THE call for the Democratic primary, to
be held in this county on Saturday, June 26th.
is almost as long as the moral law. By order
of the committee it is published in the adver-
Using columns of The UNION today. The rub
will come when the time arrives to mark the
primary ballots. Then there will be confu-
sion worse COMPOUNDED.
MIR. Marshall H. Wilson, of Towson,
who returned few days ago from a several
months stay in Florida, brought home with
him number of curios that he is pleased to
show his friends He presented to THE UNION
a complete skeleton of a horseshoe crab that is
a most curious formation, nothing like it hav-
ing been seen here before.
Miss Harriet Chenoweth, who died at
her home, near Belair, on the I'd inst, and
Mrs. Susan E. Nichols, who died at her home
in Baltimore, on the Sd inst. were aunts of
Miss Camille Chenoweth, teacher in the
public school at Roland Park, and also aunts
of Miss Ernestine Chenoweth, an assistant
teacher in Towson High School.
>How would you like 10 take boating
trip through the great conduit that carries the
water from Loeb Raven to Lake Monticello
You might get an invitation from Chief Engi.
neer Quick, who will accompany the experts
through, but we don't think he'll be burdened
with requests. In many places this tunnel is
several hundred feet under ground.
>M Mr.. Jacob B. Wilhelm, one of the bail
ifs ofthe Circuit Court, on Tuesday evening saw
a young colored man pick up something near
where the trolley cars stop in Towson. He
thought it was lady's gold watch and as the
man said nothing about the find Mr.. Wilhelm
quietly followed up the matter until the man
gave up the watch to Patrolman German. 1t
is cheap affair and now awaits an owner.
-" Lady" the prolific brood mare of Mr.
G. Frank Morgan, proprietor of the Duany's
filly on the Sd instant. This mare is % years
old and has foaled 10 colts in the last thirteen
years. the last by his favorite stallion "Ad
miral Kuser." "Lady's" last performance oc
Cured on Mr.. Morgan's birthday and he is
therefore very proud of his new acquisition.
- Messrs. William II. Clagett and Charlie,
B. Bowen, who were awarded the contract fol
constructing II miles ofmacadam road directly
east from the Carroll county line, are now
engaged in the work. The road will be % feel
wide, macadam II feet and inches deep. The
contract price is $4,000. Mr.. Clagett says thu
people of that section of the county are de
lighted at the prospect of having an up to. dat
road.
- Patrons of the Northern Central Railway
are very indignant because of recent change,
made in the company's schedule. The loca
trains that heretofore went in to Calvert Sta
ton now discharge their passengers at Unior
Station, which means an extra fare to get dow
town. Once there is a trolley line on the Yorl
road between Cockeysville and Towson it will
make very little difference how the N. c. run
| its trains.
- Noticinp the sale of mart of 1.-THE Caves