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

SALES ADVERTISED IN 1.-THE UNION

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SALES ADVERTISED IN "THE UNION"
Monday, August ID. by John L. G. Lee, assignee
at the Court House door, 20 acres of sand
land at Rosedale, Phia. road.
Monday August 10, by John L. G.. Lee, attorney,
at the Court House door, 9-10 acres of sand
land at Rosedale, Phia. road.
Tuesday, August IA, at the Court House door,
by James J. Lindsay, attorney, small farm
near Perry Hall. 1lth district.
Monday, August 20, by Wm p. Lyons, attorney,
on the premises, a tract of land on Merry
mans lane and the BALTIC. & Lehigh Z. r..
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farm of Is acres, with improvements, near
the Belair road. l4th district.
torney, on the premises. q small farm near
the White House. 9Th district.
Thursday, August 30, by Anna M. f. ID. Clay,
owner. on the premises, farm of 81 acres,
near Hebbville, I'd district.
Saturday, September ], by James ii. Smith. trus-
tee, on the premises, a house and lot on Cold
Tuesday. Sept. 4, by W. Gill Smith, attorney, at
the Court a aSS aoHg 1 hsFm Of sO0ut %
Ills said the dog days end on the 22d of
August. During their continuance We are
getting it hot and strong
- The Overland Hunt Club, the headquar-
tiers of which is at Towson, now has a MEM
bership of nearly seventy.
->The regular camp-meeting at Emory
Grove, Western Maryland Railroad, will open
next Monday, 18th instant.
- Charles Popp, of Loeb Raven, through
carelessness, shot himself in the left thigh it'll
pistol last Saturday night.
1.-THE rural free delivery system is about
to be established by the Postoffice Department
at Dickeyville, Baltimore county
- In some fields where farmers were plow-
ing in this county last week the earth turned
up was almost as dry as that upon the surface.
THE ladies of Dover NJ. e. Church will
hold an icecream festival in the grove at the
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evening.
~ The product of the cider press will soon
be popular beverage with many, but apples
are not plentiful, due to the long confined dry
weather.
- The State Board of Tax Appeals on
Tuesday reduced the assessment on the stock
of the Sherwood Distilling Company to 81 900
per share.
- The second quarterly conference of Bal
timore Circuit. NJ. P. Church, will be held at
EPSON Church, Towson, Saturday, August
18th, at2 PIN.
- The Governor has appointed Mr.. Edward
M. Kuechler, of Providence, northeast of Tow
son, an additional deputy game warden for
Baltimore county.
> Mr.. Beale 4. Howard of NV Lady's Man.
or, raised this year over 5000 bushels of wheat
What has been threshed of the crop averaged
30bushels to the acre.
%The recent strike of the electrical work.
ers in Baltimore cost the company and the
men engaged in it over S100,0 And not
particle of good resulted.
- Rev. Thomas L. Pattison, curate of
Emmanuel P. E. Church, Baltimore, will
preach at ST. Johns Church. Kingsville, Sun
day morning, August 10Th.
1.-The 'shirtwaist man" has met with
very little encouragement. The real male
miss Nancy never did cut much of figure
either in society or business.
lit looks like there is possibility of a
water famine in some sections of Baltimore
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low and many wells are failing.
- Old residents say that Tuesday night
was the hottest they ever experienced in Tow
son. This place was no exception to the rule,
as it was simply ..sizzlng" everywhere.
- Mr.. David Young, of Worthington Val
ley, who is member of Camp a. Patriotic
Sons of America, has been instrumental in or
ganzing Camp of that order at Glyndon.
IAN intense heat wave. with the prevail
ing winds from the north and west, is some
thing very unusual in this latitude but that is
what we have been experiencing this week.
already been some deaths. No section appears
to have immunity from this much dreaded
- A pretty village IKE Lulnervnie snousa
not tolerate hog-pens within its boundaries.
A complaint was made to the County Com
missioners this week about the existence of
one there.
>The Lutheran Sunday school at Glen
Arm will hold its annual picnic in the grove
near that place, on Wednesday, August 18th,
commencing at P. NJ. A general invitation
is extended.
- Unless we have good deal more rain in
this county very soon the farmers are going to
experience some trouble with their seeding.
The summer of 1900 is keeping up its record
for heat and dryness.
- Mr.. A. A. Blakeney, of the franklin
vile Mills, says the Little Gunpowder falls,
from which the mills draw their supply Of
water is lower Just now than it has been in a
period of twenty-three years.
iamin F. Combs of Woodbury., were painful
~ hurt in a runaway accident a short distance
north of Cockeysville on Tuesday. They
were removed to their homes
For the second time this summer Balti-
more was on Tuesday the hottest city in the
registered 100 in the shade. In Towson, at the
same hour it was 80 in the shade.
THE picnic and festival at Jessop NJ. E.
Church, Sth district will be continued Satur-
day afternoon and evening August 18th.
general invitation is extended. Mr.. Lewis NJ.
Bacon is superintendent of the school,
-Building operations are active in and
around Gainesville. Several fine residences
are now under way and others are to follow.
That is a rapidly improving section and is adj
ding greatly to the county's basis of taxation.
IA fine hotel will be erected at Howard
Park, on the line of the Gwynn Oak electric
line west of the Liberty road. 1t will be lao
by 10 feet, three stories, and contain 1O8
rooms. Inc plans are now DeluR pIepdTcu.
THE fine steel bridge built by the BALTIC.
& Lehigh Railroad Company over the turn
pike in Towson is now about completed. 1t is
said the entire broad-gauging of the line will
be finished and ready for use by the 18th inst.
1.-THE Willow Mill property, on Western
run, Sth district formerly owned by the late
Thomas II. Matthews, has been purchased by
Mr. Robert s. Proctor, of Virginia. who is
now in possession. The price paid was $4,000.
"a few days ago barn on the property
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on the Dover road, was burned. Mr.. John
Kerchner tenant on the place, lost two mules.
The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary
origin.
IA Baltimore county truck farmer sold
in Baltimore last Saturday, fifty-five baskets of
tomatoes for $50. A basket holds about three
pecks. This is an unusually high price and is
due to the short crop on account of the dry
weather.
The Hartford canners-and there are
many of them-will be greatly inconveni-
enced because of the scarcity of help. Not
and sweet corn fields are said to be in fairly
good condition.
- The School Board will meet in Baltimore
today to again take up the question of the
book contract. Two Baltimore houses are
competing and they each have three votes.
How the matter is to be settled is extremely
problematical.
- Some of The UNIONS local correspon-
dents will persist in sending their letters SO
that they do not reach us until Friday morn
ing That is too late to give them attention
and if they don't see them in print they will
know the reason.
- While returning from market last Sat-
urday night Mrs. John Marx. of Fullerton,
Belair road, was thrown from her wagon and
had rib broken, beside sustaining other in
juries. Her horse took fright at an electric
car and ran away
THE County Commissioners advertise
in The UNION for sealed proposals for the con-
struction of road from point on the Ridge
road to Bucks school house, on the Philadel-
phia road. in the 14th district Bids will be
opened August 10Th.
THAT was a very orderly convention that
met in Towson on Monday and it did its work
promptly, intelligently and well. The day was
an intensely hot one, but that did not seem to
check the ardor of the delegates, who appeared
entirely equal to the occasion.
->The Sunday school of st. Johns NJ. E.
Church, Iiutherville, held its annual picnic in
Druid Hill Park on Wednesday. This church
has lately been renovated and much improved
at an outlay of six or seven hundred dollars.
Rev. ID. A. Martin is the pastor.
- In one dav RECENTLY several suits aggre-