The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-07-07

- During the mO0L1S Vi July anu Angus
the County Clerks office will close on Satur
days at P. NJ.
- Baltmoreans have subscribed nearl,
5000 for the famine stricken people Of India
Good for Baltimore.
THE last year of the nineteenth century
is now on the home stretch and its finish" i
almost within sight.
lone hundred and ten bushels of barle,
on II acres is what Mr.. H. v. Shipley, an ST.
district farmer. raised this season.
THE big mpmeeting at Wesley Grove
on the B. & o. Railroad, will begin Friday
July 9th, and close August 10th.
The mercury. dropped to nearly 60 las
Saturday and Sunday, a fall of about 30 de
grees within space Of twelve hours.
on s esn g Here school g ss sfbbe e
money and. departed with smiling faces.
-sMr. Joshua Harvey, an old citizen oil
Reisterstown. was overcome by the heat few
days ago. His condition is not serious.
-SSome of the broad-gauge rolling stock
for the BALTIC. & Lehigh Railroad has arrived
at North Avenue Station and is now in service
1.-The latest fad is for ladies and gentle
men to drive without hats, but the fashion
does not appear to take with the bald head
fellows.
ton about 1870 O'Clock on Friday night of last
week, could be seen distinctly for many miles
north of that place.
>Kennedy G. Brown, of Baltimore coun.
~, is taking the Pasteur treatment at the Bal
timore City Hospital. He was bitten by dog
on the 28th OF June.
>The dog days commenced, according to
the almanac, on the 9Th of July and will con
tinue until about September LIST, or during the
reign of the Dog star.
-sBy the distribution of the State public
school fund, made by the Comptroller on the
I'd instant, the schools of Baltimore county
will receive $2,435.84
- Driving is. more popular this summer
than we ever knew it before. Nearly every
body drives and the bicycle is becoming almost
as scarce as hen teeth.
->It required over five hundred gallons OF
ice-cream to fill the Fourth of July orders OF
Mr.. T. M. Corcoran, of Butler. His cream is
said to be of superior quality.
1.-The growing corn is now doing splen-
didly, much of it being already too big to
work. There is no farm crop more beautiful
than field of growing corn.
- Gardenville Council, Catholic Benevo-
lent Legion, was instituted at st. Anthony's
Church, Belair road, last Sunday morning A
large number were in attendance.
1.-The real estate, plant, rights, franchises,
mains. &C., of the Towson Water Company
have been purchased by the Baltimore County
Water and Electric Company for $21, 900.
- Ex-School Commissioner John F. Clark
has been presented with handsome silver
fruit dish by the teachers in the Sd, 9th and
18th districts who had served under him.
Gambrill's Mills Ellicott City, on Monday at
IS cents per bushel. 1t was from the farm of
Mr.. Theodor g. Lurman, in the 1st district
- Last Sunday little son of Mr.. w. Gill
Smith, of the Towson bar, fell from a cherry
tree and struck on paling fence, one of the
pales catching him under the arm and making
an ugly wound.
Now that the wheat has all been cut we
are expecting to hear of the unusually big
crops that some of our farmer friends have
threshed. We hope they will not be disap-
pointed in the yield.
Postmaster Warfeld, of Baltimore city,
has established new postal station at Hamil-
ton avenue and the Hartford road, with Frank
c: Purdum in charge. 1t will be known as
Hamilton Station"
some of a tRem q haTs passed t6s4 cfecf @
if they have their friends haven't taken the
trouble to let us know.
1.-THE results of celebrating the Fourth in
Baltimore are thus summarized: Four persons
killed, thirty injured, eighteen fires and $50,
600 worth of property destroyed. 1t comes
high, but we must have it.
MRS. Cockey was painfully burned at
ago. by the explosion of coal oil stove. She
is the wife of Mr.. Charles Cockey, ticket agent
at Mt ROYAL Station, Baltimore.
IA few days ago Mr.. Amos Tarbert, of
Providence, found land terrapin on the
under shell of which was inscribed the initials
been put there forty-five years ago.
MIR. Asa B. Gardiner, Jr., manager of
the Fiston Farm Company, had 800 acres in
wheat this season and the yield will be from
IS to 80 bushels to the acre. He had 24O acres
in grass and the crop is fairly good.
- Wednesday and Thursday last were the
hottest DAYS of the summer up to that time,
thermometers in Towson registering from So
to 9S degrees. The humidity in the atmos-
phere made it extremely oppressive.
80 r,lxy -,
son when people sat in their houses with the
doors and windows shut and themselves done
upin shawls and overcOats. We simply men,
ton this as contrast to last Wednesday.
81 In his annual report to Cardinal Gibbons
Rev. NJ. OKeefe, of Towson, who is superin-
diocese of Baltimore, shows that there are
over 49, 900 pupils attending those schools
THE lately organized Volunteer Fire Com
pany at Marble Hill, 9Th district, has secured
hose. ladders and other apparatus at an outlay
of about $500. Mr.. George Jessop was the
prime mover in this commendable enterprise
- The weather on the Fourth was simply
scorching, but it did not appear to check the
patriotism Of the people, nor did it keep those
at home who had previously planned for out
ings in the country. Thousands thus spent
the day.
->The Sunday school of Lake View NJ
4. Church, Dulany's Valley, celebrated Chill
drens Day last Sunday. A carefully prepared
program was much enjoyed by large audi
ence. Mr.. Alfred G. Lee is superintendent of
the school.
"a Baltimore county school teacher who
devotes some of his spare time to a snug little
truck farm, sowed this season 40 pounds of
seed for onion sets. At the seed stores and
picking establishments these bring from 81
$3.50 per bushel.
Joseph Goeller, who was convicted Of
permitting gambling on his premises at Back
River bridge, on the Eastern avenue road, was
fined $50 and costs. Dan Homberg and John
Cummings, convicted of gambling, were each
fined $50 and costs.
>Mr. John B. Miles, q we'll known farmer
of the 9Th district, fell from load of hay last
Saturday and was painfully hurt. A few days
before he had eight cattle killed by lightning,
thus verifying the old saying that misfortunes
49, There There was Was no special celebration IN
Towson on the Fourth. Many private houses
and business places displayed flags, and al
night there were q number Of pryotechnic dis
plays. Fortunately there were no accidents
worthy of mention.
-S.rhe contract has been awarded for a
handsome new building for the Canton Ma
tional Bank. 1t will be two stories and built
Of light brick, with granite base. The main
banking room will be Sc feet deep and contain
steel cage and vault.
THE old-time Fourth of July is q thing oil
the past. Ofcourse the day is still celebrated
but not with the same vim that characterized
il thirty OF forty years ago, when the reading
of the Declaration of Independence and fervid
oratory were the chief features.
THE Belt-Parrish family will hold it,
second annual reunion on Emory Grove camp
ground, Thursday, August 30th. There are
several hundred members of these famile:
scattered over Maryland and special efforts are
to be made to have them all present.
IA responsible dealer advertised in TIKI
UNION for 20 gallons of milk daily at some sta
ton along the line of the BALTIC. & Lehigh Rail
road, and did not receive single reply. The
inference would be that the producers are very
well Satisfied with what they are doing.
THE all-day shoot Of the Parkton Cur
Club on the Fourth was in all respects success
full Nineteen marksmen faced the traps and
the best work of the day was done by Kroh
who broke al targets out of possible 155
Bosom was second with score of SO out OF los
ION Friday night of last week fire de
stroyed the fertilizer factory Of Griffith 4
Boyd and the works of the Ellicott Machine
Company, in Canton. causing loss OF about
100000. The county engines responded tc
the alarm, bnt they were of very little service
>Capt. Joseph w. Shirley, of Troop A
with small squad of his men, marched from
Pikesville to Belair last Saturday afternoon
and returned on Sunday. 1t was practict
march and others will follow during the sum
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