The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-10-13


erty, on the Hartford road, II miles from Bal
timOre.
Wednesday, November 7, by W. Gill Smith. at
torney, at the Court House door, the farm
known as the callahan property" near
Trinity Church, 18th district.
- Mr.. T. r. Price has been appointed post
master at Emory Grove. w. NJ. r. r.
- The new registration in Baltimore shows
119 9l7 voters-101, 1853 white and 49, 759 colored.
@The Chattolanee postoffice, in Green
Spring Valley has been discontinued for the
winter.
> Thanksgiving day will fall this year on
the Goth of November, the last Thursday OF
the month.
- There were frosts in some sections of the
county several mornings this week, but no Sc.
rious damage resulted
"a horse belonging to Stansbury's Tow
son livery stable dropped dead while being
driven on the road last Monday.
> Mr.. ]. M. Parr, Jr., of Meadowvale Farm,
near Sherwood exhibited at the York fair last
week fine lot of Jersey and Guernsey cattle.
- The public school at Shane, It'll district,
has been closed because Of the presence of
several cases of diphtheria in the neighbor-
hood.
- On Wednesday morning, October 10th,
thermometers in Towson registered as degrees
and fires and heavy clothing were an absolute
necessity.
"a coal oil stove in the home of DR.. ]. H.
Drach, at Butler, exploded few days ago and
set fire to the room, doing damage amounting
to about 5000.
THE ladies of Gatch's M. E. Church,
Belair road, will give an oyster supper on
Wednesday and Thursday evenings, October
18th and 18th.
- Mr.. NJ. B. Corkran is about to begin the
erection of three houses in Lutherville. Mr..
]. Edward Brown, the Cockeysville builder,
has the contract.
- The family of the late William s. Keech
has placed mural tablet to his memory in
Trinity P. K. Church, Towson. 1t is of brass
on Tennessee marble.
- Among the Presidential electors for
Maryland named by the Union Reform party
are Messrs. s. S. Kershaw and Chas. E. Kemp,
of Baltimore county.
Mr.. William ID. Merryman this week ex-
so,ssd me Hayneids nero OF Hereford cattle at
The Loyal Republican Club of the 18th
district has been organized at Canton, with
Reese Leyshon, president, and Richard Chris
tey, secretary and treasurer.
- Revival services will be in progress every
night next week in Calvary Baptist Church,
Towson. commencing at 7.30 o'clock. Preach
ing by Rev. w. H. Baylor, of Baltimore.
Mr.. VIM. d. Hamilton, of Govanstown,
grew this year over $50 bushels of Keifer pears.
Last year he had over 600 bushels on the same
trees and the fruit was of much better quality.
-Flickers are unusually abundant about
Towson this autumn and large numbers of
them have been shot this week Two men
SSix or seven fires have occurred in this
county within the past week and in not sim
gle instance has anyone been able to explain
their origin. This seems very strange, indeed.
THE proceedings of the last meeting of
the Senior Gunpowder Agricultural Club. held
Saturday, 9th inst, at the farm of Mr. Lewis
M. Bacon, will be published in THE UNION
next week.
Daniel Harding, contractor, is erecting
large stable for Major John /. YellOtt, on the
north side Of ChpcQ pQaRQ TomoOn fOr
the use of Cummings Baltimore and Towson
express line.
= The Postoffice Department has rented
two rooms in the residence of Mr.. John s.
Wilson, at Gainesville e, which will be used as
Postal Station G. The term of rental is for
five years at 5000 year.
1.-THE circus has come and gone and
good many Towson dollars have gone with
it that might have been employed to better
end. But the circus is one of the evils that it
appears, must be tolerated.
- The pretty new residence of Mr.. Howard
l.. Rider, opposite the old station building at
Riders N. G. r. R., is fast nearing completion.
Il is frame and in the Queen Ann style. W.
Lawrence Cranston is the builder.
The Epworth League rally in Towson
Nj. +. Church last Sunday was very pleasant
affair ard largely attended. There were inter-
esting exercises throughout the day and even
ing, including number of addresses.
>At the meeting of the Board of Mana
gers of the Baltimore County Agricultural So
ciety, held in Baltimore last Saturday, Treas
urer James 2. Reese reported that the net re-
ceipts of the late fair were about 81, 700.
1.-The annual fall jumping contest of the
Overland Hunt Club will take place at the
club house, Towson, on Saturday afternoon
next, October Goth, when the friends of the
members will be pleasantly entertained.
THE protracted services commemorative
the tenth anniversary of Calvary Baptist
Church. Towson, terminated on Sunday last
with sermon by the pastor, Rev. W. E.
Robertson, on the Possibilities of the Future"
- William Tunney, by Messrs. George
Whitelock and e. w. Herman, attorneys, has
sued the Roland Park Company for 5000 for
alleged damage to his property by erecting an
embankment that caused surface water to flow
over it.
Political matters are warming up at a
lively rate, now that the campaign is in full
swing. A large number of clubs have been
and are still being organized in this county,
the Republicans being especially active in this
respect
Tuesday, 9th inst was the last day of
registration in this county for the present year.
The registration officers will sit again on Tues
day next, 10th instant but this time for re-
vision only. No new names will be registered
that day.
1.-The great Hagerstown fair will begin next
Tuesday and continue four days Mr.. Joseph
Phipps, farm manager at Hampton, near Tow
son, will exhibit lot of his barred Plymouth
Rocks and, as usual, pull off, his share of
the prizes.
- Charles r. Pohle, a storekeeper at Garri-
son, on the Reisterstown road, has applied for
the benefit of the q. s. bankruptcy law,
through Mr.. John H. Dinneen, attorney. His
liabilities are placed at 1869 SO and nominal as
sets 81, 085.
-Dr. S. E. Lloyd, veterinary surgeon of
Towson, who lately bought the Bayne livery
stable property, on the Joppa road, in this
town, will take possession November LIST. He
will conduct livery stable in connection with
his profession.
"a Towson man, who always acts with
the Democrats in local matters, while with
party of friends on Tuesday, among them sew
eral Bryan men, offered to bet 500 to $50 that
Mckinley would carry Maryland, but there
were no takers.
- Rev. George G. Stokes and Messrs. VIM.
A. Cranston and H. B. L. Everding, trustees
of the public school at Govanstown, have asked
for the resignation of Mr.. John 7. Thompson,
principal of the public school there, to take eff
feet November 18th.
- Subscribers to THE UNION who change
their places of residence should when ordering
their addresses changed. give both the name of
the old and the new postoffice This will save
us much trouble and always insure prompt
delivery of the paper.
> Over ten thousand people attended the
Hartford county fair on Thursday and as many
as could listened to an address by Hon. A. E.
Stevenson, the Democratic nominee for the
vice Presidency, who received an ovation at
the hands of the people.