The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-09-22


- Eggs sold in Towson this week at IS
cents per dozen and it is thought they will go
still higher.
There was a small advance in the price
of wheat and corn this week and the tendency
is still upward.
- The County Commissioners this week
appointed Joseph Temper, Jr.. constable for
- Heavy clothing and fires were comforta-
sDie early this week. Less than week before
cold storage would have been preferable
1.-The pink carnation has been selected as
the Republican badge in the present compaign.
II is President Mckinley g fayorite flower.
-. - The next legal holiday in Maryland will
be Tuesday, November 9th, upon which day
the great Presidential battle will be fought.
- Nearly q inches of rain fell last Satur-
day afternoon and night. 1t was the heaviest
downpour experienced here in long time.
sOver seventy thousand children entered
the Baltimore city schools last Monday. What
a splendid army of young Americans that Isl
THE fall meeting of the Maryland Stee-
plechase Association will take place at Pim-
leo course, October Both and November LIST
and 3d.
- Don't forget the all-day rally at Towson
NJ. L. Church next Sunday. The full program
for this occasion was published in THE UNION
last week.
MIR. Thomas NJ. Wilkinson, we'll
known Hartford county Gamer, died at his
home. near Fountain Green, on Tuesday last,
aBeu 10 years.
- West Virginia chestnuts sold in Balti-
more this week at $12 bushel. BY the time
the crop ripens here they will not bring the
quarter of that.
- Next Sunday will be the first day OF
autumn, when the sun will cross the equinoctial
line. On that day the sun will rise at 5.56 and
set minutes after 6.
Il - Many farmers will not SOW their wheat
until next month. They believe that the
early sown grain is liable to be attacked by
the fly and other pests.
- The Lend-a-Hand Club, of Mt. WASH
ington, has sent six barrels of supplies. con-
sisting mainly of clothing, to the stricken peo-
pie of Galveston, Texas.
There were slight frosts in some sections
OF Baltimore county last Wednesday morning,
but not enough to do any damage.
- There was slight fall of snow in Cecil
rain. That isn's doing half bad for the 18th
of September, and in Maryland, too.
- Theodore Eckhardt, who at one time
conducted florist and nursery business at
Ruxton, N. G. r. R., on Tuesday received his
first naturalization papers at Towson.
- Mr.. Howard Nelson, successful farmer
of Ny Ladys Manor, raised this season 381
bushels of prime wheat to the acre. He used
lime and South Carolina rock on the land.
County Commissioners this week
talked about using automobiles instead of
horses to draw the fire engines. 1t is ques-
tionable if they would answer the purpose.
- DIR. Frank r. Rich is about to begin the
erection of a residence for himself on the
south side of Pennsylvania avenue, west of the
home Of Major John /. Yellott, in Towson.---
, = The tennis tournament held under the
auspices of the Lntherville Athletic Club
closed on Tuesday afternoon. Harold b. Vim
cent was the winner, beating Ernest c. Hatch
- Mr.. George +. Miller, the well known
purchaser of w0odleaves, has bought from the
Small family of York, 612 acres of land in the