The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-08-11

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speak highly of the trip.
THE closing services of Summit Grow,
camp-meeting, which was unusually success
full this year, were held at 6 o'clock on Mon
day morning last The attendance on Sunday
was estimated at 5000. Nearly seventy per
sons professed conversion during the progress
of the camp.
- Messrs. Hill and Sappington, Republican
Election Supervisors, met at TOwsOn on Tues
day and qualified a number of their appoin
tees, after which they adjourned until Septem
Der 18th. The question about the legality OIL
their acts cannot be determined until the 18th
of September.
THE Towson Volunteer Fire Company
on Tuesday applied to the County Commits
sioners for an additional 500 feet of hose. In
view of the excellent service rendered by the
company at the lumber yard fire in this place
a few days before. the Board promptly gran
ted the request.
Thelcamp-meeting at Hebbville, in the
I'd district of this county, will commence on
Friday, August 18th, and will be under the di-
rection of the United Evangelical Church
The camp promises to be larger this year than
ever and there are already number of tents
| on the grounds.
- Hunts NJ. Z. Church, which received q
legacy of 81, 500 under the will of Mr.. Thomas
| Wright is one of the oldest churches in the
State and Francis Asbury frequently preached
there. The church is near Sherwood, N. G. r.
| r. 1t is said the money will be used to i'm
prove the church.
Thieves who steal the copper wire from
telephone poles operated successfully in How
ard county last week They are doubtless the
same gang who did the trick near Towson and
managed to elude arrest. Next thing they'll
get to stealing the poles and, perhaps, the holes
they are planted in
THE Baltimore County Electric Light
and Water Company is the one that is laying
the pipe line along the York road and it is
said this is to be extended all the way to Tow
son. This company has absorbed several of
the Baltimore county companies including
the Towson company.
- What is known as Adams "wind-split.
ting" or cigar shaped train, made the run on
the B. & 0. road between Philadelphia and
Baltimore, Tuesday last in one hour and
forty-one minutes, thus beating all previous
records. One part of the run was made at the
rate of 80 miles an hour.
-)Thornton Miffiin, aged Is years, was
drowned while bathing at Claiborne, Md,
last Sunday afternoon He was a son of Dr.
Robert H. Mifflin, of Baltimore, who is board
ing for the summer at Bradshaw, Baltimore
county, where the family received the sad in
telligence of the accident.
THE purchase by York syndicate of the
old paper mill property at Hoffmanville, in the
9th district, promises to be good thing for
that section of the county. The new owners
are erecting powder mill on the property,
which contains over 900 acres, and other in
THE Democrats of the Baltimore city
wards that are in the Second Congressional
district held their convention on Thursday
night and elected a solid delegation in favor of
the nomination of Hon. ]. Fred. G. Talbot.
The convention will meet in Havre-de- Grace
next Wednesday. 18th inst.
p Plans are being prepared by Architect
Jones for the new school house to be erected
at GIen-Arm, 11th district. 1t will be a one
story frame building, 40 by 60 feet and will
cost about $1,000. Mr.. John Arthur, of Fork,
School Commissioner for that district, will SUI
perintend the building of the house.
Those people who took their summer
vacations early and returned, now wish they
hadn't, they having been caught in weather
that only salamander could stand with any
degree of equanimity. By the way, if it be
true what the books say of the salamander
we'd rather be him than the ice man.
THE union services of the TOwson
churches will take place next Sunday night in
the Methodist Episcopal Church. The sermon
will be preached by Rev. A. T. Melvin, presi-
dent of the Maryland Conference of the NJ. P.
Church. The Young Peoples meeting will
be led by Mrs. Clarence w. McMaster.
THE Junior Gunpowder Agricultural
Club will hold its regular monthly meeting
this Saturday. afternoon, at the farm of Mr..
Granville Matthews, in the 8th district. The
to attend as it advisable for farmers to CO.
operate in business ?" will be discussed.
1.-THE Timonium fair will begin three
weeks from next Tuesday. This is the great
annual reunion in Baltimore county and
thousands of our people always look forward
to it with pleasure. The officers this year are
putting forth their best efforts to keep the fair
up to the mark and they will no doubt succeed.
> Fred. A. Groom, who was for number
of years engaged in the dairy business at Tow
son, filed petition on Monday for the benefit
of the U. S. bankruptcy law. His liabilities
ore Dlaped at 81 Adj 27 and his assets at $500
S,1 a. anu LIS ass "a 400 90
The August meeting of the Baltimore
County Medical Association will be held at the
10Th inst. commencing at z.5U r. n.
lauEch will convey members to the shore from
the railway terminus. A paper on Surgery
in Country Practice will be read by DIR. R. W.
Johnston.
THE cornerstone celebration of Sexton
NJ. E. Church, on the Washington road, 18th
district will take place Saturday, August 18th,
commencing at 5 P. NJ. There will be religi-
ons and Masonic services followed by lawn
fete, music and addresses. A general invita-
ton is extended. Rev. G. w. Hobbs is pastor
of the church.
1.-The new road" names are now in force
in Roland Park. The work of putting up the
signboards at the corners of all the thorough
fares has been completed. There are now no
avenues, but only roads and Flames" in
Roland Park, except that Roland and Wynd-
hurst avenues, being county roads, retain their
former names.
- Rev. Thos. Henderson, of Black Horse,
had rather disagreeable experience a few
days ago. He was milking a COW under
shed when, the animal being restless and
moving about, pushed the shed over and caught
herself and the minister beneath it. 1t took
some time to get them out, but fortunately
neither was hurt.
- Oliver Young, a well known TOwson
colored man, who was severely beaten near
Belair Market, in Baltimore, about two weeks
ago. has almost recovered. When he was first
taken to hospital in the city it was thought
be would die Oliver had considerable sum
of money on him and it is thought his assail-
ants intended to rob him.
MIR. Henry NJ. Walker has written let
ter to the County Commissioners very highly
commencing the Towson and Govanstown en-
CINE companies for their prompt response to
the alarm and their efficient service at the B.
Mile House fire. on the York road, Saturday
morning of last week. He says their good
work averted a large conhagration.
Those who believe that hot weather and
hvdrophobia go hand in hand are careful to
keep aloof from dogs-especially strange ones
about this time of the year. But there are
wavup authorities who declare that the heat
has nothing in the world to do with rabies in
the canine family. 1t would be well, however,
to be careful at all times and thus be on the
safe side.
->It is said to be by no means an uncom-
mon tnlng IOr PUBIC SCHOOL trustees I'D some
of the districts of this county to sell their
votes in the interest of one teacher or another,
prices ranging all the way from S25 to SIS per
vote. 1t will strike the average citizen that a
man who will engage in traffic of that kind is
scarcely the sort of person to make school
trustee Of
1.-The annual missionary festival of those
congregations of Baltimore and vicinity that
are connected with the German Evangelical
Synod of North America will be held in Gebb's
Park, Hartford road, next Sunday, August 18th,
commencing at 8 P. NJ. The ministers who
viii tske : part will be Rev. Hans Arlt, of ST..
Wilhelm Roeper, of Salem Lutheran Church,
Baltimore. r
"a tournament was held at Gambler
Heights Hotel, Carroll county, on the LIST inst,
which was attended by many Baltimore coun.
ty people and several knights from this county
contended for the honoTs and prizes. Miss
Lima Hobbs. of Jacksonville, was crowned
queen, and Miss Sadie Hobbs. of the same
place. first maid. Mr.. Harry E. Goodwin, of
the Baltimore county bar, was the orator, and
Mr.. c. s. Hobbs, chief marshal.
I'VE have frequently heard it said that
when there was plenty of rain in summer
mosquitoes were more numerous than in dry
seasons. The present summer has been an ex-
ceptionally dry one, yet these pests have been