The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-09-04

- The Baltimore County Teachers Insti
| tute will open next Monday, September 8, a
| the State Normal School building and con
tinue two weeks. 1t will be conducted on ths
summer school plan, with conferences, discus
| sions and written tests from time to time. Ar
exhibit of various kinds of work done in thu
schools will be held.
John FryfogIe of the Second distric
GLAZING to have raised the largest crop Of whea
in the county this year. which he Gays will
average 33 bushels to the acre. Mr.. Fryfogle'l
statement is borne out by Mr.. Henry Glagett
a well-known thresher Of the Second district
who says Mr.. Fryfogle has the best yield hs
has handled this season.
- Mr.. Douglas II. Powers of TowsOn, con.
nected with the Merchants and Miners Trans
portation Company and located at Philadel-
phia, is spending his vacation at Savannah
and in post card to a friend in Towson says
that much to his surprise he finds the weather
at that Southern city delightfully."- cool in COM
parison with Philadelphia.
- The third annual dahlia show and har-
vest home festival, to be held under the aus
pices of the Ladies' Aid Society OF Ebenezer
NJ. e. Church, will be held at Vincent estab-
lishment at Convention, September 28 to Octo-
Der /, inclusive. This will be an exhibition
worth travelling many miles to see as there is
nothing else like it in the country.
Mr. William K. Burns, builder of Tow
son. on Monday broke ground at Sherwood, n.
G. R. r. for frame cottage for Mr.. Howard L.
Rider, who has been renting cottage on the
property of Mr.. Harry A. Parr. Contractor
Burns has just completed extensive improve
ments at the Maryland College at Lutherville,
which have been in progress for over three
months.
- Saturday afternoon a reception was ten
dered Mr.. Clarence G. Cooper, the retiring
Lauravilie at the school building by the
Alumni Association. Mr.. Cooper was given q
handsome suit case, which was presented by
Mr.. Hubert Sack, chairman of the entertain
ment committee Refreshments were served
in the class rooms, which were decorated in
the schools colors-garnet and gold.
- 1t has been currently rumored this week
that Mr.. Thomas I. Boswell who already
owns large body of land in Long Green VAL
ley, has purchased from Mrs. Elisha Dyer, Jr.,
of New York, the Patterson farm, which ad-
joins his present holdings on the north. This
place contains 1886 acres and was once the home
ofthe late Samuel Smith Patterson, bachelor
uncle of Mrs. Dyer. The sale takes with IL all
the stock, crops, farm equipment, etc.
>Early Sunday morning northbound
freight train struck William Cuddy, who was
returning from Baltimore to his home at Blue
Mount Station, short distance north of White
Hall. track walker found Mr.. Cuddy lying
in an unconscious condition alongside the
track. A passing freight train was stopped
and the injured man placed on board and taken
to hospital in Baltimore. where he died on
Tuesday. His funeral took place at Wesley
Chapel on Thursday.
&C. W. E. Treadwell, 0. s. cooperative
weather observer at Towson, reports the max
imum temperature for August as SO degrees,
on the 9th. The minimum was 40 degrees,
but II degrees above freezing, on the I'D. The
mean temperature was 72.1 degrees. The rain
fall only i.O9 inches, while that of August,
1908, was 5.31 inches The normal precipita
ton from March 1 to September 1 is 2353
inches, and this year there is deficiency OF
395 inches. This deficiency would be more
marked except that there was surplus in the
early part of the season.
Charged with stealing watch from Cur
tbs E. Weikert, of Putty Hill, Tuesday of last
week, James Ritter, aged IL years, was arrested
by PatrOlman Bradfield at Laliraville on Satur-
day. Ritter was given hearing before Justice
Schone of Gardenville who committed him for
the action of the Circuit Court. Three addi-
tional charges were laid against Ritter-steai-
ing SIS from the keeper of the Eight-mile
House, at Carney, on the Hartford road; the
larceny of carpenter tools from Mr.. Joseph
Beltz, at Lauraville, and the stealing of gold
watch from Mr.. Vandelin Kulman of Carney.
Joseph Osborn began on Monday his
duties as remover of garbage at Roland Park.
The contract calls for the removal of ashes
twice a week, and garbage every day, except
ing Sunday and legal holidays. The contract
price is 50 400. Mr.. Osborn was appointed by
the Roland Park Company and the salary is
to be paid by it and the County Commission
ers. Under the contract, ashes and garbage are
to be kept separate in tin receptacles. The
ashes are disposed of to the Embla Park Com
pany, and James W. Shea of the Eight-mile
House has contracted for the garbage, which
he will feed to his hogs.
1.-Two Towson boys and city cousin ran
amuck on West Chesapeake avenue, Towson,
last Sunday afternoon and smashed every street
<-C Hs1kI~ Inw,k
Thomas w. Offutt of the Mount Washington
Electric Light and Power Company, which
owns the lamps, ascertained the identity Ofthe
boys and swore out warrants for them. They
were arrested and were given hearing before
Justice Joseph B. Herbert Tuesday morning.
The boys parents paid for the damage done
and promised them good threshings, and in
consideration of this Justice Herbert let the
culprits off with fines of 81 each and severe
reprimand.
- Garbage Remover J. William Phipps,
acting under instructions from Health Officer
R. G. Massenburg, has had force of men at
work the past week cleaning Towson's alleys
of the rank growth of weeds and shaping
up the cutters, until they present the appear
ance of a macadam roadway. The health Off
Ger saws the residents could greatly tighten his
labors if they would place their garbage and
offal in proper receptacles convenient for
handling, and that the only way to keep
their hearty cooperation. The large pipes
which DR.. Massenburg has had placed at the
various street corners have proven of great
benefit in keeping stray bits of paper from
floating about the streets.
Fire Record.-A field fire in the rear of the
home of Mrs. Harry Knots, on the Frederick
road. at noon Monday, gave the members of
the Catonsville Engine Company considerable
trouble before it was extinguished. The blaze
was caused by a colored boy in the employ of
Mrs. Knots burning rubbish in nearby field,
the flames from which spread quickly to the
dry grass and vegetation, causing it to burn
like tinder. About a-half acre was burned
over and some fencing destroyed. A number
of residents assisted in beating out the flames.
A large barrack containing wheat straw, on
the farm of ex-County Commissioner james
Rittenhouse, near Lansdowne, 18th district,
was destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon.
The Mount Winans fire department. was sum-
mOned by telephone and prevented the flames
from reaching large barn nearby, in which
several hundred bales of straw were stored.
The damage was small.
After this fire was extinguished, and while
the fire company was leaving, barn on the
farm of Mr.. Henry Doering. about half mile
distant, caught fire and the company proceeded
to the scene. Mr.. Doering's barn was fred by
a spark from passing locomotive. On ac-
count of the high wind and the high elevation
siderable difficulty in preventing the flames
from spreading to adjoining buildings. The
damage to the barn did not exceed 500.
Sunday Saloons Raided.-Five rumori-
ums, which come strictly under the survel-
ance of Marshal Gorsuch and his bluecoats,
we're raided on Sunday and evidence was COL
lected that the proprietors and their employees
were breaking the Sabbath day by the illegal
sale of booze and the conduct of gambling de-
vices. The first place raided was that of Vim
cent Sievick, on the Philadelphia and North
Point roads, where thigh old time" was had
before the raiders could convince the raided
that they had perfect right to the upper hand
in the proceedings attempted. Seven of the
occupants were placed under arrest, two others
were pulled on the charge of obstructing
the Marshal and his men in the performance
of their duty, and Frank Sieyick was charged
with working on Sunday. Those "pinched''
claimed that nothing was going on unusual
in fact, that they were as quiet as timid, new
boy at a Sunday school session. Marshal
Gorsuch claims to have heard different"
The 'outside guardian" at the place OF
Philip Doulong, Eastern avenue and Fifteenth
street, was caught mapping, and seven men
were arrested, also the proprietor. who was
charged with selling liquor on Sunday.
number OF persons were gathered around
a roulette wheel at Backus' Park, Back River,
and the two "financiers' in charge of the
wheel, William Forest and Jacob Schlutter,
were added to the roundup.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Sohn gave an entertain
York road near "Wiltondale" Tuesday evening
xrh;ob mo greatly oniovod hv fh0ea nresenf