The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-07-21
LOCAL ITEMS.
SALES ADVERTISED IN "THE UNION

Tuesday. July 81, by Ernest Hoen. Jr., attorney
on the premises, house and lot on Wood
bourne avenue, near the York road.
Tuesday, July 81, by Ernest Hoen, Jr., attorney
on the premises. a house and lot on Wood
bourne avenue, near the York road.
Tuesday, August 7, by Arthur M. Easter, attor
ney, on the premises. house and lot Oh
Woodbourne avenue, near the York road
Wednesday. August e. by d. q: Mcintosh. at
tOrney, at the Court House door. farm o
16ix acres, situated on the York turnpike a
TimOnium.
Monday. August Is. by John L. G. Lee, assignee
at the Court House door. 20 acres of sane
at the Court House door, 9-l0 acres of sane
land at Rosedale, Phia. road
Tuesday, August IA, at the Court House door
by James j. Lindsay, attorney, small farm
near Perry Hall, 18th district.
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- Wheat sold in Baltimore this week al
751 cents per bushel.
- On and after August LIST Wednesday will
be the market day for cattle at the Union
Stock Yards, Baltimore.
- The dog-poisoner has again been opera
ting in TowsnD hut his victims appear to
have been few this time.
- Baltimore was the hottest city in the
United States last Monday. That is very little
to its credit, but it's fact.
THE camp-meetings are now in full blast
and if they don't bring rain there is nothing
else in the world that will.
- Copies of the catalogue of the coming
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plying at The UNION office.
There were fine showers in some sections
of Baltimore county on Wednesday afternoon,
but not drop fell in Towson.
eTowson w. G. T. u. will hold its an
nual meeting in the Merryman Building,
Wednesday, July 25th, at 3 o'clock P. NJ.
- Owing to sickness Elder H. 9. Kerr will
not be able to fill his appointment at Black
Rock Baptist Church, on Sunday, July 22d.
- Daniel Harding, of Towson, has been
awarded the contract for making repairs to the
draw in Back River bridge. His bid was $3.50
Today-Saturday July 2lst-ends the
first month of the summer of 1900. Itpromises
to make record for itself in the way of heat
and lack of rain.
- Mr.. Alex Tarbert head gardener at the
Sheppard Asylum near Towson, was overcome
by the heat last Saturday. He was attended by
DR.. J. H. Jarrett.
- The Epworth League Chapters of Monk
ton Circuit will hold an all-day meeting at
Clynmalira Church, My Lady's Manor, on
Tuesday July 24th
- Attention is invited to another letter
from the United Milk Producers Association,
which is published in the advertising columns
of THE UNION today.
This promises to be great fruit year in
some parts of Maryland. There will be plenty
of peaches in Baltimore county and it is said
they will be very fine.
- There was glut in the potato market
as 60 cents barrel. Two weeks ago they were
worth 50 so per barrel
THE Sunday school of Ashland Prcsby-
terrain Church, Mr.. William H. Buck, Jr.,
superintendent, went on an excursion to Toll
chester Beach last Thursday.
THE union services of the TowsoD
churches will be held next Sunday night in
the M. E. Church. Preaching by Rev w. E.
Robertson, of the Baptist Church.
- At the meeting of the Democratic Board
of Election Supervisors on Monday last the
appointment of Mr.. Thomas J. Hunter as
clerk to the Board was confirmed.
THE very warm weather of the past
week has had killing effect upon business.
Next thing to nothing is doing because it is too
beastly hot for people to get around.
commence next Sunday: There will be lee
lures the first day by Col. George W. Balm and
others and music by the Daily Quartette
- Last Sunday Monday and Tuesday were
the hottest days of the summer up to that
time. At noon on Monday the mercury at
Towson registered 102 to 104 in the shade.
John Brazell, of Towson, who has been
sos.,e nu-.rasfv.l -Iss-
the season. He is a frst-class all-around
p 1.-THE ladies of Dover NJ. E. Church will
hold an icecream festival in the grove of the
church, Saturday, July 18th, commencing at
2P NJ, to which a general invitation IS ex-
tended.
- The cotton duck mill at Phoenix, N. G.
R. R.. which has been shut down for some
DAYS for repairs, will resume operations next
Wednesday. Mr.. w. L. Boyer is manager OF
the mill.
Thomas Francis Hook, of Mt. Wash.
ington, Jules Meredith, of Sparrow's Point, and
William Lee of Middle River, have each Sc,
cured a Government pension at the rate OF 80
per month.
THE drought is so severe in some sections
of MARYLAND that vegetation of all kinds has
been practically burned up. Here IN Baltl-
more county the want of rain is coming to be
q serious matter.
- Messrs. Edward l. and Joseph A. Clark,
attorneys for Laura V. Griffith, of Baltimore
county, have filed a bill for divorce from her
husband, Richard A. Griffith, to whom she
was married in 1895.
- The shirt-sleeve habit was largely in evil
dence in Towson the past week. Men not only
ride and drive without coats and vests, but
they go about their usual daily avocations in
the same breezy attire.
- Mount ST. Agnes College, Mt. Washing
ton, has been presented with telephone by
the Alumne Association of that institution.
Mrs. N. Charles Burke, OF Towson, is presi-
dent of the association.
The first Democratic campaign club in
Baltimore county was temporarily organized
atTowson on Wednesday night. Mr.: q; How
ard Isaac was chosen president, and Mr. Ar
thur p Shanklin, secretary.
Church will hold a lawn festival at the resi-
dence of the pastor, Rev. Charles Adey, in
Green Spring Valley, Wednesday and Thurs
day evenings, July 25th and 26th.
AS matter of economy the County
Commissioners are thinking oflighting Luther
Vile with electricity instead of gasoline lamps,
as at present. 1t is claimed that this would be
more satisfactory as well as cheaper.
THE dry, hot weather has been serious
drawback to farmers in the way OF destroying
H.. IL rNHT 40 VI
had their daily supply reduced to nearly one.
half because of the scarcity of grass.
Those people who predicted that, on &C,
count of the May eclipse of the sun, this would
be a ''cool' summer, missed the mark woe
fully. What reason they had for making any
such forecast we are at a loss to know.
THE first tournament of the season was
held near the village of Butler, on Wednesday
afternoon. The affair was announced to begin
at 2.3O p. NJ, but it was delayed about two
hours on account of heavy fall of rain.
Those people who were in the noun.
tains or at the seashore the past week have
reason to congratulate themselves. But from
all accounts it was hot almost everywhere and
it is doubtful if they escaped the torridness.
- On Fuesday and Wednesday afternoons
the County Commissioners heard more testi-
mony in the matter of the opening of Frank
lin avenue, at Gardenville Belair road, but no
decision in the matter has yet been announced.
The old-fashioned bush-meeting that has
been in progress several days this week at For
est Baptist Church, 9Th district. will be con-
tinued over Sunday next, when there will be
three understanding, afternoon and night.
There is published In the advertising
columns of THE UNION today the official list
of appointments of registration officers who
will also act as judges of election, made by
Messrs. Slade and Wise, Democratic Election
Supervisors.
- DR.. ]. j. Caldwell, of Baltimore, for
merly of Baltimore county has sued the
United Railways and Electric Company fol
$4,000 for alleged personal injuries sustained
by the premature starting of car from which
he was alighting.
1.-THE rural free delivery system at Ross
vile, p, w. & B. r. R., will begin next Mon
day, with one carrier. The length of the
route will be % miles area covered, 30l
square miles; houses on the route 49, popu
lation served, 525.
MIR. Arthur Chenowith, farm manager
for Mr.. JOHN Waters, of "Dumbarton," neal
Pikesville, had this season 40 acres in wheat
from which he has threshed and shipped ,50(
bushels. This indicates yield of about 2
bushels to the acre.
->The new transfer system now in use by
the United Railways appears to work satisfac
torily and is the best thing, no doubt. TIT
company has ever tried for its own protection
The transfer fiend has not the same opportu
nifiae ho fnrmarIv had