The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-09-25

- The steam sawmilI plant Of MIR. Georg
e. Silk of Towson, stationed in the woods Q
Mr.. Ohio E. Ridgely. near Lutherville. wa
partially destroyed by fire last Saturday night
causing loss of about 5000. The Towson En-
CINE Company saved the plant from entire de
| struction.
- Several Durglaries have lately been com
mitted at Mount Washington and it is said th
Jobs were done by professional cracksmen. Al
The losses were small. No arrests have beer
made. Captain Noah Walkers trained blood
hound was put on the trail of the men but di'
not find them.
- Now, what do you think of that? The.
are actually going to try willie" Downs agaiI
next week And that reminds US that Willie
said as soon as he got out of jail he'd tell al
about where the sixty seven thousand went
He's been out several months but he hasn'
said word yet.
- Mr.. Ira D. Lang, chairman Of the com
mittee in charge Of The recent block carniva
Of st. Philips Protestant Episcopal Church
Highlapdtown, desires to thank the public
through the columns of The Union News, fol
their hearty response and help in making the
carnival q success
- Rev. James f. Elliott, q student at Gro.
zier (Pa) Seminary, bas accepted a call tc
Govanstown Baptist Church and preached bis
first sermon as pastor last Sunday morning
Mr.. Elliott has been supplying Govanstown
Church during the summer. He will COM
pete his course at Crozier this year.
- The beautiful new Eutaw Methodist
Protestant Church, on Mayfield avenue, just
east of the Hartford road. will have its first re-
ligious service next Sunday afternoon in the
basement of the edi6ce, conducted by the pas
tor. Rev. w. l.. Judefind. The final service in
the old church was held last Sunday.
- Rev. Frederick Heightman was formally
installed as pastor of the new Grace Evangeli-
cal Church at Powellnaron, Belair road, last
Sunday. Several ministers took part in the
services and there was special music by the
choir The Ladies' Aid Society presented the
pastor with beautiful bouquet of roses.
>That was poor exhibition of baseball at
Oriole Park last Saturday afternoon between
the IntercIub All-Star team and the Suburbans,
and the large number of persons who went to
the park expecting to see two hot games were
disappointed. The All-Stars got away with
both and it appeared to be dead easy job for
thena.
"a number of subscribers to The Union
News at Govanstown and Waverly have been
making complaints to this Office because they
do not receive their papers regularly. In JUS
tice to the publishers we must repeat that the
fault is not with them. The postal authorities
are to blame, but we cannot locate the cause OF
the trouble.
Rural mail carriers have been instructed
to encourage as far as possible the use among
farmers of the, stamp book. These books con-
tain twelve two-cent stamps and they sell for
25 cents each, remain intact to an indefinite
time, and their use would save the carriers
much annoyance in making change when q
farmer wishes to buy stamp.
- The factory at Franklinville, Eleventh
district, that was sold several years ago by
Hon. A. A. Blakeney to the Cotton Duck
Trust and that had since been idle is now re-
suming operations and some forty looms are at
work. It has capacity for 200 looms. ALI the
machinery is new and of the latest inventions
for manufacturing fine article of duck.
->The season of "the sere and yellow leaf
is now at hand and the beautiful green foliage
of the trees will soon begin to change to the
more sombre shades. The idea prevails with
some that the frost is responsible for these
changes but this is a mistake. The leaves
would change color just the same If there was
no frost, the receding sap doing the work.
->The Sunday school of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, Arlington
avenue, east of the York road, will hold its
annual rally next Sunday afternoon COM
mencing at $50 o'clock. There will be ad-
Edward Higgins, Mr.. Harry W. Holmes and
Others and special musical programme is
being arranged
@Mr. N. H. Velie, who lost daughter
from typhoid fever early this summer and who
shortly thereafter moved from Towson to his
former home in New York, has suffered
further bereavement. His wife died last Sat-
urday and was buried on Monday, and another
daughter, twin sister Of the one who died at
Towson, is also said to be i'll, the malady in
each case being typhoid fever.
THE second annual amateur registered
target shooting tournament will be held at
Cockeysville on Monday next, September 81,
If fair, If not the next fair day, commencing at
IL A. NJ. The programme will include eight
events at Is and four at 20 targets. The tour
nament has been arranged by Mr.. Grason n.
Gent, president of the Maryland and District
of Columbia Field Trials Association.
IA bazaar and afternoon tea, also games
and other entertainments for children, will be
held on Friday, October g. from to P. NJ,
on the lawn of Mr.. John NJ. Nelson, Sher-
wood. N. c. Railway, for the benefit of the
building being erected at that place for the
Sunday school started recently under the aus
pices of Trinity Church. Towson. Trains
north and south will be met by conveyances
at Sherwood Station during the afternoon.
- Mr.. Daniel w. Myers, a Fourth-district
farmer who is a member of the present petit
jury, witnessed an unusual sight last Sunday.
It was nothing less than many hundred Of
chicken hawks sailing serenely over his Sec
tion of the county from east to west. He fired
into them but without bringing any of them
down. Mr. Myers said he did not think there
were so many hawks in the entire country.
The birds circled around like buzzards and ap-
peared in no hurry todepart, even after he had
fired at them.