The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-07-19


leasehold property corner Dillon and Fourth
streets, Canton.
Tuesday, August 10, by Jonn r. Gontrum, atIor'
and lot in Lauraviile, Hartford road.
Tuesday, August 10, by John F. Centrum, at
acres sCr Of land and improvements, on the Bel
Tuesday, August 10, by Daniel E. Lynch, exec
utor at the Court House door, a small farm
near Fork, 18th district.
-s"Any fool can point out fault; only a
wise man can correct it."
- The School Board will hold meeting at
Towson, on Wednesday next. 23d instant.
-SThe notice for service in Trinity Church,
Towson, at s A. NJ, Sunday, July Goth, is re-
called.
>Mr. William T. Flavin, justice of the
peace for the Sth district has rendered his reslg-
nation to the Governor.
- The Baltimore and Reisterstown Turn
nike Company has declared semi-annual
dividend of II per cent.
- Miss Julia A. Reckord has been appoin-
ted postmaster at Reckord, Baltimore county,
vice Walter p. Reckord, resigned
- Mr.. @. C. West, master of the Overland
Hunt Club. won several prizes at the horse
show held at Manassas, Va, this week.
- Edward Chenoweth, manager OF Rider 8
livery stable in Towson, was painfully hurt
few days ago by being kicked by horse
- Clarence II. Breese, OF GwynnDrook,
Baltimore county, has been appointed copy
list in the Interior Department at Washington.
- Democratic primaries have been called
in this county for Saturday, August I'd. They
will be held under the new primary election
law.
Three small frame houses in the village
of Huntsville, 18th district, owned and occq-
pied by colored people, were burned on Wed
nesday last.
Work of putting up the iron structure
for the bridge over the Northern Central Rail-
I'D 0Or1 mo QQH on
Wednesday.
The Young Peoples Union of Calvary
Baptist Church, Towson, held lawn fete at
the church on Monday evening, which was
largely attended.
- BENJAMIN f. Hause, Jr., confined in
Jail here upon the charge of setting fire to the
hotel at Frankintown, LIST district, has been
released on 81, 900 bail.
- Peaches are now arriving in Baltimore
daily in large quantities. They are coming
from the Chester river section where the crop
is said to be unusually fine.
- The roll of $17 in notes found on the
Joppa road, near the Beair road, by Towson
boy, and advertised in THE UNION last week,
has not yet found an owner;
- A General invitation is extended to the
lawn party to be held at the rectory of st Johns
Church, Worthington Valley Friday and Sat-
urday evenings, July 18th and 10th.
- The fall term of the public schools of
this county will not begin until the annual
Teachers Institute is held, which will bring
the time to Monday. September 18th:
1.-The County Commissioners this week
decided to offer reward of $50 for the arrest
and conviction of the person or persons who
have been turning in false fire alarms.
- Tuesday, 10Th instant, was st. Swlthln s
day, and there were local showers, but it does
not necessarily follow that there will be rain
for forty successive days after that date.
- The Ladies' Aid Society of Perry Hall
NJ. E. Church South will hold its annual pic
mic and supper in the church grove, Wednes-
day, July 23d, beginning at 6 O'Clock P. NJ,
- few days ago nine polecats were killed
in the carriage house of State Senator VIM; b:
Peter, at Ellicott City. The Senator said it
wasn't a very good day for polecats either.
Two attractive cottages on the Reisters-
pieted Tor Messrs. James Ellison and William
Amos. Mr.. William Yeatman is the builder.
- Amanda Hannah widow, of Reisters-
town. has secureda pension at the rate of SO
per month. Robert N. Weller, of SCOTS Lev
ell, has had his pension increased to $40 per
month.
> Several persons came to Towson on We'd
nesday under the impression that the School
Board would meet that day. They were dis
appointed as the Board will not meet until the
23d inst.
->Mr. Charles E. Weakley, we'll known
farmer and dairyman near Sweet Air, 10th dis
trict, had two fingers cut from his left hand a
a binder.
->It will be we'll to remember that in ac-
cOrdance with law passed at the last session
of the Legislature, the County Clerks Office at
Towson closes the year around on Saturdays
at P M.
>THE UNION had pleasant remembrance
this week from Mr.. d. F. Maroney, vice-pTesi-
dent of The Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern
Railroad Company, whose office is at st.
Mary's, Pa.
- The First Regiment, NJ. N. g., will go
into camp at Belair, on Saturday, August I'd,
and remain there until the 9th. Col Charles
B. MCLEAN, of Towson, is lieutenant-colonel
of this regiment.
- The Sunday school of Trinity Church,
Towson, went on an excursion to Colchester
on Tuesday, going from here to Baltimore by
trolley car Mr.. Osborne |. Yellott is superin-
tendent of the school.
- Messrs Clarence w. McMaster and Will
liam S. Dunphy have been elected members of
the board of trustees of Epson NJ. P. Church.
Towson, succeeding Dr. Grafton M. Bosley and
Joseph B. Mitchell, deceased.
THE first month of summer will end
next Monday, 21st instant. Those people who
predicted that it would be cool one for several
reasons, including the presence of the 17-year
locusts appear to have missed it.
- Fire broke out in the woods on the prop
erty of Mr.. John T. Ensor, in Mt Washing
ton, on Thursday afternoon and burned for
nearly an hour before it could be checked.
No serious damage was done, however.
>Dr. r. Percy Smith and wife, of Balti-
more, formerly of Sunnybrook have sued
John Guthrie, 10th district farmer, for $500
damages for alleged failure to properly care
for certain stock belonging to plaintiffs.
p Mr.. John lyric, the Cockeysville marble
worker. this week made contract with the
Misses Stevenson for the erection of eight
stones and marble corner posts i'll their burial
lot in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Towson.
- Henry Aisquith, once. prominent
member of the bar and States Attorney Of
Anne Arundel county, died in Spring Grove
Insane Asylum, near Gainesville, a few days
ago. Iii health caused him to lose his mind.
- The Volunteer Firemen's Association is
making arrangements to hold lawn fete in
Mr.. Patrick's grove, West Arlington, on Mon
day, August 4th Mr.. Noah Walker is captain
of the company and takes an active interest in
its affairs.
- Mr.. William Byerly, well known
farmer and business man of the 4th district,
hauled from Misplace to Arcadia Station, with
his 6horse team, q few days ago, 40 barrels OF
corn. 1t was the heaviest load ever weighed
at Arcadia.
- The idea that "fndins is keepins" is an
erroneous one. When any article is found
the first and only thought of the finder should
be to restore it to its rightful owner. Totry to
conceal it, or appropriate it to his own use, is
not honest.
IA large number of citizens have signed
a petition against the free mail delivery route
west from Cockeysville and the adjustment of
Oregon and Shawan postoffices. 1t is asserted
that the service under the old plan was far
more satisfactory.
"A woman in Cumberland, Nd, was on
Tuesday fined 81 and costs for cruelty to
chicken. 1t was proven that she caught and
whipped the fowl, which had gotten into her
garden, and broke some of its feathers. She
appealed the case.
1.-The following have been elected officers
of the Lutheran Mission just established at
West Arlington President, Chas. F. Wachter !;
secretary, George H. Lare; treasurer, Charles
E. Keedy. Rev. Herbert A. Hartman preach
ed there last Sunday.
1.-The estate of Mrs. Mary J. Parlett,
widow of John T. B. Parlett. who died with
out q will, was this week administered upon
by Mr. Frederick Smith, her eldest brother,
and Mr.. w. Gill Smith, her nephew. Mrs.
Parlett had no children. Il.
THE Southern Methodist campmeeting
at Wesley Grove, on the Washington Branch
of the B. & o. Railroad, will begin on Friday,
July 25th and continue until August 9Th.
This will be the thirtieth year the camp has
been held on those grounds.
Several members of gang of Highland
town men who call themselves the Suicide
Club" were arrested few days ago for disturb
ing the peace and resisting arrest Any COM