The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-08-21
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THE annual Sunday school reunion at
Forest Baptist Church, 9th district, will be
held the latter part of next month. Congress
man Talbot and Judge Duncan are among
those who have been invited 10 make addresses.
- Saturday afternoon, August 2lst, the
Forest Park baseball team will come to Tow
son and try conclusions with the Highlanders.
good game may be expected. Saturday fol-
lowing (2Sth) the home team plays the
WaverIys
The Young Peoples Social Society Of
Ashland Presbyterian Church will give a straw
ride on Thursday evening, August 18th. Wag-
ons will leave the manse at 5 o'clock. There
will be charge of IS cts, which will include
ice-cream.
- Several farmers near Towson sold their
their wheat to Mr.. j. Il. Garrett proprietor Of
Rockland Roller Mill. at S1.10 and Sill per
bushel Others who shipped by rail from
Towson to the Canton elevators received 81 o.
and $1041
THE Board of Managers of Timonium
| fair has not yet completed arrangements for
the automobile line from Towson to the fair
grounds. Efforts are being made to secure
| autos, but no arrangements to this end have
yet been made.
- Mrs. Harry Greaser, Miss Susie Bayne
| and Miss Mary Bowen will have charge OF the
ice-cream sale to be held on the lot opposite
Lees store, Towson. Saturday, August 2lst, at
O'Clock, when the Sunday school scholars
| will be treated.
- If we get an automobile line from Tow
son to the Timonium fair our people ought to
make big showing there this year. Why not
get one of the big rubber-neck machines from
Baltmore9 They carry almost as many people
as trolley car.
- Mr.. George P. Cronise exhibited at THE
| UNION Office this week sample of Kelly's Red
tomatoes, grown in bis garden in Towson. that
were hard to beat. They were of fine size and
color, nearly perfect in shape and almost as
solid as an apple.
"A number of Baltimore county people
| were at Rehoboth Beach, Dell when the out
break of diphtheria and scarlet fever occurred
| there and they lost no time in getting away.
1t is said there were fully 20 cases Of the fever
and of diphtheria.
- The motorcycle that the County Com
| missioners purchased from Mr.. VIM. McCallis-
ter, of Baltimore, is said to have speed Of 60
miles an hour. It will be used BY the police
department to arrest motorcar drivers who ex-
coed the speed limit.
IA team of four this week hauled at one
| load from Mr. William II. Nights Kinl0ch
Farm, to Cockeysville Station, 240 bushels of
wheat, weighing over seven tons. The largest
! yield of wheat on Mr.. Wights farm this year
| was 81 bushels to the acre.
- Saturday, August 21st, will be Epworth
| League day at Emory Grove camp ground.
The services will be held under the auspices OF
the Junior League. The League of Towson M.
E. Church has chartered special trolley car
in order to attend in a body.
"A very successful tournament, for the
benefit of st. Marks Catholic Church, was
held at Fallston on Wednesday afternoon, the
attendance being large. The judges were Dr.
-Purnell F. Sappington and Messrs. William ID.
STREET. and d. ]. Shanahan.
- Extensive improvements are about to be
made to Govanstown NJ E. Church. These
will include the erection of Sunday school
room adjoining the church. and also new
parsonage. Rev. DR.. J. st. Clair Neal is the
present pastor of the church.
John Manager, who has a wife and four
children living at Roslyn, attempted to hang
himself in barn at Sudbrook Park on Tues
day John Parker, coIored, found him just in
time to cut the rope and save the mans life.
No cause assigned for the act.
THE new balcony on top of the club
house at Pimlico track will be used for the
first time when the coming meeting OF the
Maryland United Hunts is held there, begin
ming September 3D. A splendid view of the
entire course may be had from this elevation.
- Mr.. Harry G. Hindes, of the Baltimore
| Chamber of Commerce, exhibited on Wednes-
day Climber" tomato, grown in his garden
at Govanstown that weighed IL ounces and
measured IA inches in circumference. The
vine from which it was taken is IA feet high.
- Mr.. George W. Kurtz has, on account OF
| i'll health, resigned as agent of the N. O. Rail
way Company at Phoenix, and will be succeed
ed by Mr.. Howard Krout, who has been trans
| ferred from Chattolanee Station, Green Spring
| Valley. Mr.. r. A. Elliott succeeds Mr.. Krout.
| - Lucy Creigh is the name of the woman
who is believed to have been concerned in the
Stealing lately of several horses in Baltimore
city and county and also in adjoining counties.
| She and a companion, James Wheatley, have
| been arrested and are now in Jail in Baltimore.
- Plans are maturing for the farmers pic
mic to be held at Mt. Carmel, 9Th district, on
| Saturday, September 18th, under the auspices
of the several farmers clubs of the county.
Mr.. Upton H. Tarbert is chairman of the COM
mittee and Mr.. D. Fred. Shamberger, secretary
and treasurer.
THE Towson baseball team went to Cock
! eysville last Saturday afternoon and cleaned
up the farmers to the tune of to 2. It was
good game and large crowd enjoyed it.. The
| Tows0n team is in second place, with the
Maryland Swimming Club team in the lead.
Cockeysville still brings up the rear.
- The new station built at the terminus of
the Hartford road trolley line by the Evergreen
Lawn Company, has been completed and is
] credit to the company as we'll as to the -four :
Evergreen Lawn Building and Savings Asso
| citation ia located in the new building.
- Horses are arriving at Pimlico track
daily for the meeting of the United Hunts of
Maryland to begin there Thursday, September
I'd. The committee in charge is composed OF
Messrs. Murray Hanson, d. Sterett Cuttings,
! George Brown, Jr., w. Stewart Diffenderffer,
w. NJ. Manly and Redmond G. Stewart:
THE Timonium fair grounds will be in
fine condition for this years show. The build
new entrance gates on the York road side of
| the grounds will be appreciated by the public.
| A never-failing artesian well on the grounds
insures a supply of the finest water at all
times.
Three bids were this week received by
the State Roads Commission for improving the
Westport- Sweetzer's bridge road, in the 18th
district of Baltimore county, with stone ma
| cadam. They were NJ. A. Talbot S78, 146. SO !;
F. w. Steehle, S77, 100 go, and P. +. Redding-
| kOr, CIT Ola Thoco bids nolfido 2 d00 foot 0f
vitrifed brick pavement.
%The West Forest Park Company and the
Park Land Corporation, backed by the resi-
| dents, publish a notice in THE UNION warning
| the drivers of automobiles and motorcycles
not to exceed the speed limit Of six miles an
hour on the avenues in those places, they being
| private roads. They propose to prosecute all
who disregard the notice.
"A fire got started last Saturday night in
the dry grass in the cemetery attached to Mt.
Paran Presbyterian Church, in the I'd district,
and for a time created some excitement.
Neighbors gathered promptly and. after form
ing a bucket brigade, soon had the fire out.
This church is 100 years old and a cherished
landmark of the neighborhood.
IA gold watch and chain was stolen from
the residence of Mrs. Lowndes, West Joppa
road, Towson, few days ago. The watch was
being used on the front porch to keep the time
when medicine was 10 be administered to q
sick patient in the house and it suddenly dis
within doors for minnie or two. 1t has not
been recovered.
1.-THE first thing that some people do when
they get motorcar is to get a lot of toys, Cog
giles and other things to try to make them
selves look as ugly as possible. We never
could see the sense in people trying to make
themselves look like rights simply because
they are riding in an automobile. Heaven
knows many of them are ugly enough without
these additions.
%The White Hall Farmers Club and I'M
provement Association is actively engaged pre-
pairing for this years fair and the prospects for
it are excellent. The association succeeded so
we'll last year that the members are encouraged
to hope for much better results in 1909. White
Hall is coming to the front and the enter
prising citizens of that community deserve
much credit for what they are doing.
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Damage Suits Grow Out of a Closed
Bridge.-The closing of the bridge over
Gwynn's falls, on the Franklin road, by the
Baltimore city authorities more than two
years ago has resulted in the filing of four
suits sggregating claims of $25 ,0O0 in the City
Court by Messrs. Wells 81 Mccormick for eli
ents who declare that the closing of the road
has permanently injured their business.
Mr.. Wilhelm L. Allemand, part owner Of
the Maryland quarries, on the Franklin road,
who asks $40, 900 damages, says that prior to
the closing of the road, in 1907. he made con-
tracts for supplying stone. He said he de-
pended upon the road being open, and when