The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-06-30
->The School Board will hold q meeting
at TnRsnn ON Tuesday next July Sd.

1.-The pubic scnoois OF tne county CLOSED
Friday 10Th inst, for the summer holiday.
THE discount on county taxes paid in
July is per cent. Under the old law it was 3
- MARYLAND peaches commenced coming to
the Baltimore markets this week and sold at
- Those who drive bob-tailed horses should
wear fy nets on them. That would be hui
name thing to do.
day. the Orphans Court will meet at Towson
on Thursday instead.
IA fellow named Snowman lives in Bal
timore. He ought to be almost as happy as
the iceman these days.
Lewis d. Bubb has been commissioned
postmaster at Ruhl. The Office is located in
the 9th district Of this county.
ION Sunday morning last sixteen chill
dren of st. Anthony's parochial school, Gar
denviIle, made their first communion.
-Rev. Joseph B. Wilmington, of Waverly,
will preach in Pine Grove Church, near Loeb
Raven, Sunday, July LIST, at $3.50 P. NJ.
several enumerators in this county were
unable to complete their work by July 1st and
have asked for two weeks additional time.
Several persons were overcome with the
heat this week. Those who are obliged to ex-
pose themselves to the sun should be careful.
THE will of Harry Phipps, of Towson,
was admitted to probate in the Orphans Court
on Wednesday His property is bequeathed
to his wife.
The annual festival at NAYS Chapel,
Chestnut Ridge, will be held on the evenings
of Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 18th,
18th and 14th.
- MIR. Richard Cromwell has erected an
other fine barn on his farm on the Pot Spring
road to replace the one destroyed by fire about
two months ago.
> On Sunday morning last Cardinal Glib.
bons visited St. Marks Church, Gainesville,
and confirmed a class of sixty-three children
and three adults.
> Next Sunday will be the first day of July
and the beginning of the last half of the year
1900 The beginning of the twentieth CEN
fury is near at hand.
> Next Wednesday will occur the great
National holiday-the Fourth of July. 1t is a
legal holiday in Maryland and the banks and
public offices will be closed.
THE Maryland State Teachers Associa-
ton will hold its annual meeting next Tues
day. Wednesday and Thursday at Chautauqua
Beach. formerly Bay Ridge.
THE annual picnic of the Sunday school
of Hiss NJ. E. Church. Parkville, Hartford
road, will be held in the grove adjoining the
church, Wednesday, July 4th.
"a fete will be held on the lawn of st:
Joseph's Church, Texas, on the afternoons and
evenings of July 9Th and 9th, the proceeds to
be applied to church purposes.
- A blight has attacked the apple trees in
Howard county. The leaves and young fruit
are drying up on the branches and 1t is said
there will not be a third of crop.
THE little cricket, that is rarely seen, is
now being heard in the evenings with his Pc
culiar sounds Usually they do not put in an
appearance until along toward fall.
murder case that was tried here fhis Week
The remaining ten jurors were taiesmen,
1.-THE first green corn grown near Ihas Se;
18th district, was sold in Baltimore on the I'D
instant, by Mr.. John Edwards, commission
merchant 1t brought 20 cents per dozen.
IA man fell off York road car the other
day and the conductor asked him If he was
- l.. II Raf1of nrrny 10 INV n
first" he replied, and then proceeded on his
= Last Monday was an oppressively hot
dav, The mercury did not go above Sc, but
the humidity in the atmosphere made it day
to be remembered. 1t was particularly hard
on horses.
A wealthy Baltimore county gentleman
has presented his pastor with two round trip
tickets to Paris and the good man and his wife
are now making arrangements to ENJOY the
Exposition. IT,,
will provide plenty of fun for his friends and
patrons on the afternoon and evening OF July
4th. Music and fireworks will be among the
leading features
the Kinloch Poultry Yards, near Cockeysville,
has Matched over two thousand chicks this
year, nearly half of which have already been
sold for the table,
- Mr. Alex Y Dolfield. of Baltimore coun-
tV. IS QaHeQ as O1e Vi buc IllCOA pOidtOlo Va bhC
Altamont Land Company, which was organ
lied in Baltimore on Wednesday, with CAPT.
tai stock of $4,000.
- Wheat reached 90 cents in Baltimore
last Saturday, the highest in two years Since
then the price has declined somewhat. A 200
bushel lot of inferior quality, grown in Mary
land, sold on Tuesday at 81.
- The handsome new house of the Mary
land Boulevard Club, located on Park Heights
avenue, opposite Halstead's, has been compile
ted and is now occupied. 1t has broad veran-
das and is elegantly furnished.
%Towson will have no special celebration
on the Fourth. We are patriotic all night, but
our patriotism don't take the form OF spend
ing money to buy fireworks. We are willing
to let the other fellows do that.
-Among the attractions at Glyndon Park
camp-meeting this year will be the Silver
Lake Quartet and COL George w. Bayne, the
.silver.tongued orator of Kentucky" The
camp will begin on the 22d of July:
The Governor has appointed the follow
ing justices of the peacefor Baltimore county {:
Stephen p. Putney, I'd district vice .. E..
Fisher, failed to qualify George NJ ID. Nice,
18th district, to complete the number
- Children's Day services will be held at
Lake View NJ. Z. Church, Dulanys Valley,
Sunday, July 1st commencing at 3 P. NJ.
Talent from a distance will assist in the in
teresting program that has been prepared.
- County Commissioner Slade is authority
for the statement that at this time last year
Tile COuuJy WIS pay iutCACob Oh oOOAb WV
600 of loans from the banks. Just now there
are no outstanding obligations of this kind.
THE BALTIC. Il Ohio Railroad Company is
making preparations to build siding on its
PhiIadeIpnfa DIVISION the entire Instance pc
tween Rossville and Poplar stations. A site
has also been selected for new tower at Poplar
1.-THE sacrament of the Lords supper will
be administered at Chestnut Grove Church,
near Sweet Air, Sunday, July LIST, at II A. NJ.
Preparatory service on Saturday, at 8 P. NJ.
Meeting of the session Immediately after the
latter.
- Robert C. Fishpaw, of Phoenix, and
John Wheeler, of Catonsville, have each Sc
cured Government pension at the rate OF 50
per month The pension of John II. Thomas,
of Rayville, has been increased to Sl4 per
month.
"A week last Friday the work of broad
gauging the BALTIC. & Lehigh Railroad was
completed from Baltimore to Baldwin Station,
in Long Green Valley. It is expected that all
Of the standard track will be laid by the mid
die of July.
VERY little if any wheat is standing
in Baltimore county today. The harvest
with MS is at least two weeks earlier than 1t
was twenty or thirty years ago. Some ascribe
this to the use of fertilizers in producing the
wheat crop.
THE store of D. ]. Kinhart & Co., at Ma
donna, Hartford county, was. with its contents,
DESTROYED by fire about IL o'clock on Monday
night last The explosion of coal oil lamp
was the cause. The loss is said to be covered
by insurance.
- Mr.. Emil Funk, who has conducted Co.
vanstown Hotel for the past six years, has
purchased the property from Mr.. A.D. Clemens,
Jr, for 5000 He will at once begin to make
a number of improvements, including bowl
ing alleys, etc.
THE busy fly is now enjoying his sum-
mer outing He may be of vast benefit to the
health of the people, but fewer of him would,
perhaps, answer the purpose just as well. A
man who don't swear has not the slightest
show in fly time.
Prof Charles Etchberger, of Washing
ton, has lately been giving swimming lessons
to a number of young people at what was for
merly the dam to Mr.. G. Frank Morgan MILL
in Dulany's Valley. Some of his pupils are
making rapid progress.
1.-The great little steeplechase mare Once
More started in a race at the Harlem track,
Chicago, few days ago, but ran unplaced
She belongs to Mr.. E. Cuttings Merryman, of
"Gerar," near Cockeysville, and is now in the
stable Of Mr.. Mart Jordan.