The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-19

~ Mr. Sam w. Pattison, of the well known
! Baltimore auctioneering firm of Pattison q
Gahan, raised some straw berries this season on
| his farm at H0wardville, Baltimore county,
that were hard to beat, and with more favora-
BILE weather they would have been still better.
- The contract for improving the road from
St. Ignatius Church to Forest Hill under State
aid has been awarded to Lancaster man for
500 674. The distance is two miles. The Com
mission is advertising for bids to improve two
miles of the Philadelphia road in Baltimore
county.
- Mr.. J. Adam Clagett, of the I'd district.
sent to THE UNION Office on Wednesday box
| of Orem strawberries that were remarkable for
size and color. He had two acres of these ber-
ries from which he has sold this season 400
crates at an average wholesale price of 10 cts.
per box.
- Some of those who went from here to
Belair in automobiles on Sunday, June 9Th,
say they made the run from that place to
Havre-de-Grace and return (32 miles) in little
over an hour. They assert that it is one of the
finest roads in Maryland and great credit to
Hartford county.
want to know how their money is expended
they can learn all the particulars by reading
the statement of expenses for the past fiscal
year published in THE UNION today. Ours is
rich and populous county and it costs big
money to run it 365 days
-eSt. John the Baptist's Day will be ap-
Sharon Masonic Lodge of Arlington. Baltimore
county. An interesting program will begin
in Sharon Temple at 3.15 P. NJ Mr.. William
F. Koch is master of the lodge and Mr.. Il.
Holiday Enrich, secretary.
THE final meeting for the season OF the
Mems Club of Timonium M. E. Church was
held on Friday night of last week. when ad-
dresses were made by the pastor, Rev. ID. NJ.
Dibble, and Judge Frank |. Duncan. Messrs.
Sam'l Ceilings, Charles W. Amos and Walter
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Why are people permitted to let their
horses and other stock run at large In Towson
and often ruin the lawns and shrubbery of their
neighbors? Surely those who suffer from this
cause should have some redress. And then
the dogs and the chickens are other nuisances
that should be dealt with in some manner.
Gen. Andrew G. Trippe, executor of Mrs.
Eudocia Stansbury, is advertising in The
UNION this week the Towson real estate and
leasehold property of the deceased. This is
we'll located property and worthy the atten-
ton Of investors and home-seekers. Mr..
James Nice. Trippe is attorney in the matter.
"a dispatch from Washington dated June
18th says: 1.-THE Comptroller of the Currency
has approved the application to organize the
First National Bank of Parkton, Md. The
capital of the new bank will be S25,0 600. The
officers are: John Mays Little, president;
George w. Carr, vice president, and Ernest
Group, cashier"
- Joseph J. Mueller, the cold blooded vii
lain who cruelty murdered his sweetheart at
Mt. Washington last March, plead guilty in
the Criminal Court of Baltimore last Tuesday
and Judge Stockbridge at once sentenced him
to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The
girls name was Regina Reed and both she and
her SLAYER were residents of Baltimore.
THE children who. are inmates of the
asylums in Baltimore city were given an au-
tomobile outing to Electric Park on Wednes-
day and among those who had cars in the
parade were the following from Baltimore
county: Major Frank W. Coale and Messrs
Francis T. Homer, L. B. Clemens, Frank K.
Hooper. Emil Funk and Arthur Stanley Gill.
This years fair of the White Hall Farm
ers' Club and improvement Association will
be held October 18th, 14th and 18th. The one
held last year was such marked success that
the association has been greatly encouraged
and the fair of 1909 will be on much more
pretentious scale. White Hall is forging ahead
and rapidly becoming one of the most i'm
portant business centres on the line of the
Northern Central Railway.
MIR. M. J. Cromwelps 3-year-old Tim
Pippin, with Mr.. bob" Taylor up, won the
Gentlemen's Cup at Gravesend, New York, last
Saturday. The Baltimore Neos says: "Balti-
more's favorite gentleman jockey showed his
good work in the saddle by outbreaking the
field and staying well in front all the way. The
horse was never extended, and easily beat
Footpad and Aster d. Or, that were held favor
lite and second choice, respectively"
MIR. Wilton Greenway and Mr.. Henry A.
Brehm, both well known breeders of standard
breds, about divided the honors at the Mary
land Colt Show last week. In the stallion
class Mr.. Brehm's Allie Wood was first and
Mr.Green ways Wiltondale close second. The
get of Wiltondale evidently made an excellent
impression with the judges for they carried off
many blue ribbons. The show was a highly
creditable one, but the weather operated very
much against it.
The Fresh Air Society will not have
tag day in Baltimore this year. Instead it will
have young ladies stationed in all the large
stores and business Offices on Tuesday, June
3d. ready to receive any contributions people
may wish to make. This is thought to be
better plan and free from the Objectionable
features of tagging. The Fresh Air Society is
engaged in a highly commendable work and
everybody should feel it duty as well as
pleasure to contribute to it.
1.-THE rain last Sunday afternoon inter-
ferred very much with the Odd Fellows me-
mortal services that were held in Prospect Hill
Cemetery, Towson. There was a large at
tendance and the program, partially carried
out in the cemetery, was completed in the hall.
The addresses were by Rev. John r. Edwards
and Mr.. VIM. Grason, of the Towson bar. A
company of Patriarchs Militant from Balti-
more in their brilliant uniforms, attracted
much attention. Burgoyne's Military Band
furnished music.