Gardenville

Charles Howard Polley, a grocer in Northeast Baltimore for many years, died Saturday of complications of Alzheimer's disease. The Overlea resident was 82.Mr. Polley entered the grocery business in 1929 when he left parochial school at the age of 16 to help support his family. He retired in 1978, when he closed Polley's Foodstore on Asbury Avenue in Gardenville.He opened his first store during the 1930s on Belair Road, which he sold when he joined the Army during World War II.After being discharged with the rank of corporal, he opened a store at Madison and Milton avenues, which he operated until 1956 when he opened the Asbury Avenue store.

Sophie M. Young Appler, a retired bakery official who was active in church affairs, died Saturday of cancer at the home of her daughter in Pikesville. She was 88.The longtime Gardenville resident retired in 1971 after 44 years as accounts receivable manager for Schmidt Baking Co.After her retirement, she volunteered for several years at a day care center near Patterson Park.She was born and reared on Curley Street in East Baltimore. The family lived above the bakery that her German immigrant parents had established.

Julie L. Martin Smith, a homemaker and volunteer, died Tuesday of cancer at her home in Gardenville. She was 67.She spent her entire life at the Plainfield Avenue house where she was reared. She was known throughout her neighborhood for her kindness and concern for the elderly and neighbors."She would shovel snow and drive senior citizens to the store and their appointments," said a daughter, Sister Pat Smith, O.S.F., of Aston, Pa. "She knew everyone in Gardenville and was constantly doing for others.

It was late in the game, and neither team was gaining any ground. Then Gardenville Elementary School took a wrong turn at Kiev, and Hamilton Elementary surged to victory in the Indian Ocean.So went the final minutes yesterday in the second Baltimore Globetrotters competition, when 144 city fifth-graders proved they knew their way around the world.Unlike last week's National Geography Bee, the Globetrotters contest stresses map skills over memorization. If the students know where to look, they can easily find the answers in the 30 seconds allotted.

Last summer, when Tim Bayer's neighborhood library in Gardenville was only open three days a week because of money problems, the fifth-grader put on a backyard carnival that raised $42.Afterward, Tim wondered what to do with the cash.He decided to give it to branch No. 26 of the Enoch Pratt Free Library at 5427 Belair Road, a few blocks from his Antanna Avenue home.Last week, with his bike chained to the railing outside the Northeast Baltimore library, Tim sat in the children's department and explained his decision.

The owner of a Gardenville gun shop was shot and killed and another man seriously wounded today in a robbery committed by a gang of four men who stole at least 30 guns, city police said. Police have arrested three men in the robbery and were closing in on a fourth.Ed Scheuerman, owner of the Northeast Gun Shop at 4921 Belair Road, was pronounced dead at 12:27 p.m. at Francis Scott Key Medical Center. Police said he had been shot in the chest and wrist.The other man, a salesman whose identity was not known, was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.

Services for Theresa Cornelia Sachs Darney, a retired chocolate dipper who worked at candy factories around Baltimore, will be held at 11 a.m. today at the Lassahn Funeral Home, Belair Road in Overlea.Mrs. Darney, who spent most of her life in the Gardenville area, died in her sleep Tuesday.Born shortly after midnight Jan. 1, 1900, the former Theresa Cornelia Sachs was the first baby girl to be born in Baltimore that year.She attended public school No. 99 at North Avenue and Washington Street before leaving school in the seventh grade to work for the Guths Candy Factory on Lombard Street.