The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-24
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The Towson Athletic Association will
also organize a lacrosse team tthat will be
coached from time to time by members of the
Mount Washington Club This is most in
terestiDg and exciting game and is sure TO be-
come popular. Mt. Washington has very
strong team.
$Mr. James R. Hammett, who had been
in the employ OF the Pennsylvania K. K. Com
pany for thirty-five years, latterly as freight
conductor, was instantly killed while shifting
cars at Union Station on Tuesday. He was a
native of Baltimore county and is survived by
q widow and one son.
THE open summer cars were out for the
first time this season on some ofthe trolley lines
last Sunday and were patronized by crowds Of
/ people. The smoker always halls the appear
ance Of these cars gleefully. He can sit on
| any one of the three rear seats and puff away
to his hearts content.
The Assistant Teachers Association of
Baltimore county will give theatre party at
Ford's Opera House, Baltimore, on Monday
evening, May 10th, presumably to celebrate
their partial victory in securing small raise in
their salaries, for which they made such gall
liant and persistent fight.
- Towson is now getting on her spring
finery and pretty soon she'll look just too
| sweet for anything. There are few prettier
| towns in Maryland than this especially in
spring and summer. This fact is generally
admitted by strangers coming here, and then
| its healthfulness is proverbial.
- Bethany Lodge, I. o. o. F. will celebrate
the Goth anniversary of the order with appro-
pirate exercises at the hall at Glenafm, on
Friday evening, April Both. to which the public
is invited. The officers of the Grand Lodge
will be present and also Rev. NJ. L. Beall, who
will then take leave of the members.
IL. G. Cherbonnier, son Of Mr.. G. V. Cher
BONNER, of Timonium, and David Sellers Stir
ling, son of Mr.. g. Howard Stirling, ofTowson,
have been licensed by the National Steeple-
chase Association to ride as gentlemen" riders,
which is to distinguish them from professionals.
The latter is the youngest and lightest of his
class.
MIR. Samuel K. Fendall. who last fall
established an agency in TOwson for the sale
of agricultural implements, machinery, etc.,
has already built up large business and pro-
nouncement in The UNION today. Mr.. Fen.
dali is we'll known in this county and is in all
respects responsible business man.
IA conductor on the trolley line between
Baltimore. Annapolis and Washington was
arrested for knocking down" fares. He had
been employed in the same capacity in Vir-
ginin and it is said he sometimes "pinched" as
much as $45 q day of the company's cash.
Put him in the same class with Downs. Too
swift for the common run OF conductors.
Don't fail to bear in mind the fact that
il is no longer Station A, but Towson Post
office, the same as it was before the postal
authorities were attacked with the station"
idea. The same rule applies to all the other
LauraviIle, Gardenville, Canton, Catonsvile
Roland Park, etc. No more stations" re-
member
lit is a source of much qualification to
announce that the tuberculosis annex in this
town has been closed and the people who con-
Quoted it have disappeared. When another
property owner in Towson rents house for
similar purpose be or she should be promptly
indicted by the grand jury. A menace to pub
lie health should not be tolerated in any
community.
ION Friday of last week the members of
the Baltimore Water Board paid visit of in.
spection TO Loeb Raven and the greater part OF
the valley that will be covered by the proposed
Gunpowder storage lake. It was the first op-
portunity Messrs. Richard Bernard and Isaac
s. Field, the new members of the board, had
to make an inspection of that portion OF the
- Mr.. John Crowther will entertain the
Senior Gunpowder Agricultural Club at his
residence in Lutherville, on Saturday after
noon, April 24th Subject-"Are the condi.
tons and prices of the wheat market normal
or abnormal?" Mr.. Crowther who is presi-
dent Of the Towson National Bank, owns fine
farm near Cockeysville, to which he devotes
some of his spare time.
Nearly all the stock of the Towson Ath-
letic Association has been sold, showing that
the people have manifested great deal OF in
terest in this enterprise. The success OF the
association is already assured and Towson will
will prove good advertisement for the place
as well as pleasure to the people of the town
and surrounding country.
>The two hundred dollars reward offered
by the County Commissioners for the arrest
and conviction of the men who robbed the
residence of Mr.. Thomas V. Richardson, near
Phoenix, and ut the same time fired an out
house on bis premises, has thus far resulted in
nothing. It seems strange indeed why these
bold marauders cannot be apprehended. Per-
L &C. 1~u konx1 do a. fob, thnvr1
MIR. John s. Crowther mechanical en-
gineer employed by the Maryland Steel Com
pany at Sparrow's Point had his leg broken in
two places below the knee last Saturday, the
result of the breaking of casting the remov-
ing of which he was experimenting. Mr..
Crowther, who is a son OF Mr.. John 3. Crow
ther, we'll known 9Th district farmer, is
graduate of Lehigh University. Heis q years
OF age.
- Last week THE UNION printed highly
important communication from the Maryland
Experiment Station relative to the spraying
Of Usage orange hedges. Prof Symons says
that il our people want to save their fruit trees
they must either do this or destroy the hedges
entirely. Here is an authority that we cannot
afford to gainsay or dispute The Usage hedge
is positive menace to fruit trees, that is GER
tain. and we cannot have both unless the warn
ing is needed.
I'VE know of an instance where Balti-
more county Republican declined to take an
office to which he had been appointed because
the man he was to supercede was very old,
infrm and poor. That man wa 8 Caleb A.
Staines who died this week at the age of 81
years. He was rendered the position in 1896
of bailiff to the Orphans Court by the Repub-
lican judges, but when he learned of the cir
cumstances surrounding the man he was to
succeed, he promptly declined the job. Mr..
Staines was an earnest Republican and faith
ful member ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church.
MIR Charles E. Fendall, of Towson. con-
tinues to ship strawberry plants by mail and
express to almost every section Of the United
States and he has never had complaint. He
packs them very carefully in moss and they
never fail to arrive in good condition. He re-
ceived letter on Wednesday from the Oregon
Agricultural College saying that the plants
sent there by mail arrived in fine shape. Mr..
Fendall sent this week by express 1000 plants
to grower at Bangor, Michigan. The small.
est order Mr.. Fendall has received was for one
plant of the "FendalP' variety, and it came
from far Western State. 1t was duly filled.
Snake Stories Coming Ina Little Late,
But-Mr. Robert Frazier, of Mou Winans,
18th district had thrilling enco.l -er with
bIacksnake in the woods near Westport last