The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-11-06

- Services will be held in the Englist
language at st. Johns Lutheran Church, Park
Vile, Hartford road, on Sunday, November Z
at 2.30 p NJ. A general invitation is extended
- Ionic Masonic Lodge of Reisterstown
celebrated ladies night on Thursday evening oi
last week and entertained large number o
the friends of the members. Addresses were
made by Rev. +. g. Watson and Mr.. I. Reese
Arnold.
The monument to the Union Soldiers
and Sailors, located at the Mount Royal en-
trance to Druid Hill Park, will be unveiled on
Saturday afternoon, November 6, at O'Clock
Major John I Yellott of Towson will deliver
the Grafton.
- The Elkridge Hounds will meet today
Saturday at the first toll-gate on the Jarretts
vile pike, at 2.S0P. NJ. Monday. sth, the meet
will be at Loeb Raven, at ii A. M. ard We'd
nesday. 10th, at HiIlendale Gate. Hillen road
at 2.30 P. NJ.
MIR. Monroe Hutchins has sold the old
Hutchins homestead, near Wesley Chapel
Tenth district, to Mr.. Frank Benham, of
Charleston, W. Va, who will make his home
there. Mr. Hutchins is engaged in the hotel
business at Atlantic City.
The Halloween pranks were few in
Towson this year and we are glad to say
that no serious damage was reported. gen.
tleman who drove about 25 miles on Sunday
said the only evidence he saw of Halloween
was one fence across a road.
George NJ. Lamb, York road and Cuttings ave-
nue., is being developed in a very attractive
manner by the Cedarcroft Land Company.
Concrete drives and walks have been laid,
with suitable pipe drainage, etc.
Mr.. John G. Schmidt of Long Quarter
Farm, north of Towson, had crop of z, llO
bushels of wheat which he hauled here and
shipped direct by the Md. & Pa. Railroad to
the Canton elevators. Mr.. George n. Jessop
did the threshing for him and baled the straw.
- Through the efforts of the Westport
Improvement Association the residents of
Westport, Thirteenth district will shortly be
supplied with gas. The association has in
duced the Consolidated Gas Electric Light and
Power Company to extend its mains to that
suburb.
AN all-day meeting will be held at
Waugh Methodist Episcopal Church, near
Services will begin at $50 A. M. and continue
throughout the day and evening. The pastor,
Rev. F. A. Killmon, will be assisted by other
ministers.
MIR. John B. Miller, watchman at the
Court House, exhibited this week ripe straw
berry which was plucked on election day
from the garden of his brother at Upper Falls.
Straw wberries in September are not uncommon.
but they are very rare in this latitude in
November.
- The open season for partridges, pheas-
ants woodcock and rabbits in Baltimore coun-
ty will begin next Wednesday, November lO,
and continue until December "a, inclusive.
Prowling nonresident gunners who have
failed to take out license should be subjected
to arrest and fine.
The Junior Gunpowder Agricultural Club
met last Saturday at the home of Mr.. Laban
Sparks, near Philopolis, with Mr.. Granville
Matthews as foreman Prof B n. Crocheron,
principal of the new Agricultural High School,
who was among the guests, talked on the
selection of seeds.
- The improvements to the Thistle Mills
being made by the company that recently
purchased it, headed by Mr.. A. A. Blakeney,
are nearly finished and it is expected to have
it in running order within two months. An
entire new roof is being put on the silk mill
and new machinery will be installed.
- Last Sunday was almost like summer
day, the mercury going up to nearly 80 in the
shade. Many thousands of people were out
enioying the balmy atmosphere and the subur-
ban trolley lines did an immense business and
the company's treasure box must have been
bulging when the days work was over.
"A fine horse belonging to the Green
Spring Valley Hunt Club was badly hurt a few
days ago by being caught in barbwire fence
on the farm of Mr.. B. John Black, in the
Second district. The horse got loose from
where he had been tied and ran away. The
vehicle to which he was attached was wrecked.
AT Cockeysville precinct of the Eighth
district there were 492 votes cast-159 straight
Democratic, 80 Republicans spolt, and 242
split tickets. A number Of the ballots had but
few marks and some marks were opposite the
spaces with no names. 1t will be blessing
when we return to simple ballot similar to
that of 1885,
lon Saturday night last-presumably as
a Halloween pleasantry-some miscreant went
to the chicken house of Mr.. Charles Il. Price,
a well-known Eighth district farmer, and
wrung the heads from chickens, leaving the
lx,ir kho A
term in the penitentiary would be good thing
for brute like that.
At the last meeting of the Junior Gun
powder Agricultural Club protest was made
against any committee being appointed by
Governor Crothers to plan for farmers insti-
tutes, thus relieving Director William l..
Amoss of that duty. Mr.. Amoss was COM
mended by the members for the successful
institutes of the past.
- The Hagerstown almanac man was
around on election day and there was ready
sale for the beautiful book. 1t contains the
same fine illustrations that have graced its
pages for more than one hundred years and
will no doubt be doing duty at the end of
another century. Long live ~. Gruber's
Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack."
- Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Chicago's SUI
perintendent of schools, is believer in fresh
air as health builder and conserver, especially
in schoolrooms, which she thinks are gener-
clared that "the lack of forcefulness and
strength in the average American child is due
largely to lack of fresh air in the school-room !"
THE election in Hartford county also
furnished some surprises. For instance: The
defeat of Hon. William B. Baker for the State
Senate, and the defeat of Mr.. William s. For
wood for reelection as Clerk of the Circuit
Court. The latter seems to have been the
storm centre and bitter fight was made on
him. In both cases the majority was only
about 100.
IA Halloween festival and bazar was
given by the pupils of Willow Avenue public
school, assisted by the teachers, Friday evening
of last week. The proceeds are for the library
fund. A Halloween party was also given the
same evening at Sherwood school, which
proved financial success. The goblins and
witches were very entertaining to the large
audience present.
THURSDAY night about O'Clock large
powerful, light-sray automobile came bowling
up the York pike at terrific speed and swung
into Allegany avenue, Towson. Those persons
who saw it, but were fortunate enough to be
out of its way, remarked that it was travelling
like cyclone, After the car got Strengthened
out on Allegany avenue 1t appeared only to
hit the high points or ridges in the bed of the
road. The speed was nearer 60 miles an hour
than the regulation six miles.
Morris j., Arthur 6. and Howard G.
Mann, sons of Mr.. Charles H. Mann, door
keeper of the Press Gallery of the House OF
Representatives, Washington, who were regis
tered in the fourth precinct of the Ninth dis
trict, lost their votes this year. They were
sworn off the books because of non-residence
and Judge Van Bibber refused to order their
reinstatement when the matter was beard in
court. The young men, who are grandsOns oil
the late Col. Charles H. Mann of Towson, were
born in Washington and never lived here.
Mr.. George W. Goodwin won first honor
in the pool tournament which has been in pro-
gress at the Sheppard and Pratt Hospital,
Towson, for the last two weeks. Mr.. Good
win, who is a member of Glass A, won all
seven games in which he contested. The
games were for so points, and he scored $50 to
his opponents 1856. Four members of Glass A
are tied in the contest, two having won and
lost 2, and two won and lost 4. In Glass A
three games went by forfeit, and in Glass {
one game was forfeited. Mr. Charles A. Gable
refereed all the games.
1.-Two young men from Dublin, Hartford
county, went to Baltimore last Saturday and
bought small secondhand motorcar from 9
spent the night here at a hotel, intending tc
leave for home early the next morning. But
alas for the uncertainty of human hopes
When they tried to start the thing would NJ
'mote" worth cent and they worked anC
toiled over it for several hours. "Where are
you fellows going?" an onlooker ventured, and
the young man, reeking with grease and per
spiration, sententiously replied, with threat
ening scrowl on his face: ITO Dublin" Their
around there and walked away humming thai
sweet old tune: IF you get there before | do,
etc., etc
Remains of First Soldier Killed in the
Civil Wharf.-The arrangements for the ex
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