The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-06-16


Friday. June q. by Carroll t. Bond, assignee
or the premises residence property at Nor
handle Heights, Roland avenue.
Monday. June Is, by Marcus Ritgert, assignee
on the premises, Meningitis road house
Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street.
Monday, June 25th by John L. g.. Lee. on the
premises, residence property at Normandie
Heights, Roland avenue;
Monday, June Is, by VIM. p. Lyons, on the prem
Uses, Charles street avenue. adjoining the
Kennels property, tract of land.
Saturday June Goth. by VIM. P.Lyons, attorney
on It the premises. improved property on
Charles street avenue, north OF Merryman'
Monday. July 2, by VIM P. Lyons. assignee. on
the premises three tracts Of land on the
west side OF Charles street avenue, south OF
TUESDAY. July 3, by NJ. G. Greer, trustee. on the
premises, fine country seat on Wilkins ave-
nue. also. two unimproved lots In Millington
-sThere were several fine showers this
week, but the drought has not yet been broken.
-sThursday next, June 21st, will be, ac-
cording to the almanac, the first day of sum-
"e- It Is said there win be plenty of peaches
this year. In fact fruit of every kind promises
Two weeks from Friday, 18th instant,
the public schools of this county will close for
the summer vacation.
- There was q still further advance in the
price of wheat this week, the highest point
reached having been 70 cents.
- Dairy thieves have been operating in
the neighborh0od OF COckeysville and are car
rying off both milk and butter.
> And now it is the automobile that has
taken to running away and playing smash
generally. After all it's safest to walk.
Two people were killed in Baltimore last
Saturday by electric cars, a man and woman.
Carelessness was the cause in both instances.
->It will cost Baltimore county S165 for
the care of the smallpox patients sent from
Sparrow's Point at the Baltimore quarantine
hospital.
->The Baltimore City Water Board has ap.
pointed G. Louis Cross, prOtrolman OF the
watershed. He was formerly resident OF
Govanstown.
Pa, will preach at Geist's Meeting House, near
Shawan, Sunday. June 18th, at 1870 A. NJ.
Public invited.
- The annual picnic of the Sunday school
of Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Gardenville,
will be held in Raspes Grove, Belair road.
Thursday, July 18th.
THE store kept by Mr. Henry Lapp,
near Black Horse, was struck by lightning on
Monday night last and burned, together with
nearly all its contents.
- Cases of prostration by the heat are al
ready being reported. People who are obliged
to expose themselves to the hot sun should
use proper precautions.
- The National Steeplechase and Hunt As
ISOLATION has passed an order that hereafter no
horses shall wear blinkers or blinders in stee-
plechases and hurdle races.
- Next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day will be of exactly the same length and
the longest days of the year. The sun will
rise at 4.40 A. NJ. and set at 1885 M.
- A man in Baltimore has 6fteen-thou-
sand-dollar damage suit on bis hands because
his dog bit another mans boy. 1t is likely to
prove an expensive affair before it is settled.
->The County Commissioners organized
on Wednesday as a local Board of Health.
electing Mr.. Knox, president. DR.. I. Ross
Payne, OF Corbett, it secretary of the Board.
- The report, of the last meeting Of the
Senior Gunpowder Agricultural Club, held
Saturday. 10th inst, at the farm of Mr.. John
Bond. will be published in THE UNION next
week.
- Messrs. William Schluderberg, Frank
Kraft, J. Edward Ray, ]. Fred. Wiessner and
John K. Maasch have incorporated the I'm
provement Association of Highlandtown and
Vicinity.
IA frog six inches long was found in
q milk can in Baltimore on Thursday. The
milk was from the country and had been
"a Government pension was this week
granted to Allen Green, OF Gainesville, at the
rate of So per month. The pension OF John
Deitx, of Brooklandville, has been increased to
&c per month.
While in Baltimore last Saturday Mrs.
r. r. Boarman, of Towson, lost her gold
watch. She advertised it and it was returned
to her by Mr.. NJ. ]. Welsh, of Mt. Washing
ton, the finder.
Day service at Jessop NJ. E. Church last Sun
day little daughter of Mr.. Joseph M. Crow
ther fell from the back of pew and broke her
arm near the wrist.
THE camp meeting season is not far OF
and if we don't have rain at any other time
we can't miss it then. But we never could see
the affinity between Jupiter Pluvius and the
average camp-meeting.
MIR. James Kelley, counsel for Mary E.
Heyde, has applied to the court for an injunc-
ton to restrain William Ensor and s. Frances
Tucker from maintaining fence across Turner
avenue, at Parkton, 7th district.
- Belle Boyd, the famous Confederate spy,
died at Kilbourne, Wis, on Tuesday, aged
81 years She was educated at Mt. Washing
ton. Baltimore county, and for some time after
the Civil War lived in Baltimore.
- At the grounds of the Baltimore Shoot
ing Association on Thursday. DR.. Z. q. OAR
ling of Lauraville, was the winner of the day
in the third contest for the challenge cup.
His score was AZ out Of a possible so.
- Wheat is rapidly showing the .yellowish
few days. The crop promises to be an excel
lent one and, with prospect of better prices,
the farmers should feel much encouraged.
Thirty odd miles of 70-pound rails have
been distributed along the BALTIC. q Lehigh
Railroad and about six miles of the standard.
work will be completed some time in July.
- Mrs. Nelson Cooper will offer her Tow
son property at public sale on Tuesday next
June 10Th, at IL NJ, on the premises. The lo
is eligibly located and has on it a large rough
cast house, long used as store and boardint
house.
The annual fete at the Confederate Sol
diers' Home, Pikesville will take place today
Saturday. June 16th,) from to 10 P. NJ. undel
the auspices of the lady visitors, who should
receive liberal patronage for so worthy al
object.
The rain of Friday afternoon of las
week was not general throughout the county
In some places there were copious showers
while in others there was none whatever. Th'
thunder and lightning were unusually severe
in places.
IA 9th district census enumerator found
one Bohemian family that could not speak
q work of English. The father knew q
little German and with the assistance Of q
German neighbor, the census man made up
his report.
die not human being could live on the earth
for the insects upon which the birds liv'
would increase so enormously as to destroy al
vegetation. Never lose an opportunity to pro
tect the birds.
1.-THE first car of the BALTIC. & Lehisl
Railroad to go over foreign road was sent tC
Washington few days ago with load Of
slate from the Slate Ridge quarries. OF course
it was new broad gauge car, loaded at NORTH
Avenue depot.
"a good many flags were seen on Flat
Day, Thursday, June 18th, but the display
was BY no means as general as it should have
been. The children especially should b
taught to remember this day as we'll as all pa
triotic holidays
lin High School. Reisterstown, will be held a
Glyndon Park, Friday evening, June 22d, at
O'Clock. Judge N. Charles Burke, Of Towson
will deliver the address. Seats are free and tn
public is invited.
- County Commissioner Taylor wants tn
Board to appropriate 81 900 to employ detec
tives to ferret out and prosecute the violator
of the gambling and Sunday lquor-sellin
laws. He does not think they can be reaches
in any other way.
THE petit jurors summoned to the Ma
term of the Circuit Court have had an exceed
ineIv lean Job. The term has been on abou
three weeks and they have made less than
dozen days. The criminal docket will b
taken mp next Monday.
- Mrs. Thomas, of Walbrook, who ha
taken the Smedley House, Towson, for tn
summer. moved into the house on Saturday
"a instant and gave it up again within week
What reason she had for making this suddel
change has not transpired.
-Mr. w. Lawrence Cranston, OF Govans
town, is the contractor who erected the nev
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