The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-21
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Towson this week, but when farmers are busl
everything is pretty slack here.
-Children's day services will be held a
Lakeview NJ. E. Church, Dulany's Valley, Sun
day, June 10Th, commencing at P. NJ.
- Children's day will be observed at Mays
Chapel, Chestnut Ridge, Sunday, June 22d, thu
exercises commencing promptly at P. NJ.
THE Towson baseball team, on thei
grounds here last Saturday afternoon, defeated
the Chesapeake Club of Baltimore, Is toe.
-Chiidren's day services will be held a
Pine Grove Union Church, near Loeb Raven
on Sunday, June I'D, commencing at P. NJ.
- Gasoline was the cause of another death
this week an s. year-oId daughter of Mr.. Thos
Gillen, of Highlandtown, being the victim.
Two beautiful marble statues from
Rome, for the interior of the new St..FTancis
Catholic Church. Towson have arrived here.
The examinations for teachers certif
Gates and scholarships in the State Normal
School will take place June 18th, 18th and 9th
- Eugene Burke, son of Deputy Sheriff
Burke, of Loeb Raven, had one OF his feel
badly cut few days ago while playing with
an axe.
- Baltimore county now has "pet stock
farm, where dogs and other pets are boarded
during the summer. 1t is located on the Har-
ford road.
- The Pen-Mar season opened on Thurs.
day and the Western Maryland Railroad haul.
ed several thousand people to that popular ex-
- Another couple from Baltimore. came
to Towson on Thursday and launched their
bark on the matrimonial sea. Rev. NJ
O'Keefe tied the knot.
->The Board of Election Supervisors will
hold another meeting at Towson, on Tuesday
! next, oath instant at 10 A. NJ. for the transac-
ton of important business.
- Clarence R. Lidard, of Canton, plead
guilty in the U. s. District Court to the charge
or selling oleomargarine and Judge Morris
fined him $50. which he paid.
- 1t is said that York county. farmers were
Obliged to throw away thousands of eggs be-
cause of the offensive odor and taste on ac-
count of the hens eating locusts.
- Frederick Tuckson, employed as farm
hand by Mr.. Granville Matthews, of the 8th
district, fell from a load of hay on Monday
and fractured several of his ribs.
Summit Grove camp meeting, on the
Northern Central Railway, will begin this
wear ON the 18th of July and end August 10th.
Rev. E. L. Hubbard will be in charge.
->The report of the meeting of the Senior
Gunpowder Agricultural Club, held last Satur-
day at the Bellefeld Farm of Mr.. John Bond,
will be published in THE UNION next week.
- By quarterly distribution of the State
public school tax, made by Comptroller Her
ing on the 10th inst, Baltimore county white
schools will receive S16,08990, and colored
schools 81, 604.42. tt4
ION Thursday night the new electric
lights in Gainesville were used for the first
time and gave entire satisfaction. The light is
furnished by the Baltimore County Water and
Electric Company.
81 - The locusts are rapidly disappearing and
+ the.unpleasant noise made by them is growing
, fainter and fainter. 1t is said second crop,
of smaller size and not so numerous, will ar
rive about July LIST.
I - Mrs Samuel Chew, of Philadelphia, is
erecting frame house on her farm, east of
Towson, to take the place of the one destroyed
! by fire several months ago. Mr.. William X.
Burns is the contractor.
- The 30 acres of unimproved land lately
advertised by Mr. Stanley Slade was sold to
/ Mr.. John Z. Tinker, whose farm it adjoins
The tract lies half mile south of Woodens-
burg, in the 4th district.
- Hay harvest has been in progress in Bal
!timore county this week, but the crop in most
places is very light, some fields being scarcely
worth cutting. But the growth of weeds is
something extraordinary. &
(! - Upon the request of delegation OF citi
zens from Mt. Washington the County Com
+ missioners this week agreed to appoint gar
bage collector for that village for the three
summer months at $40 per month.
II "a little son of DR.. Howard A. Kelly, OIL
: Baltimore, whose summer home is near Belair
5 had his right leg so badly broken on Thursday
by being caught in q carriage wheel, that 1t il
feared amputation will be necessary.
- Frank Jones and John johnson, the col
ored men who robbed and murdered Hebrew
peddier named Radetsky, in March last were
] hanged in, the Jail yard at Ellicott City, at
o'clock on'Friday morning, 10th inst.
> 1t is said that bass fishing in the Susque
hanna river is spoiled by the locusts. While
bass are plentiful the fish so gorge themselves
upon the insects that drop into the water that
baited hooks lose all attraction for them.
THE Volunteer Fire Company of Ham
ilton, Hartford road will hold picnic in Bel
a.. Del hat 1lao ffar
noon next, June 10Th, when the cornerstone
for the new building of the company will be
laid.
- The electrical storm of Friday night OF
last week was the most severe experienced in
some sections of this county in long time
There were some narrow escapes on account
of the pranks of the lightning, but no one was
hurt.
- Three weddings in Towson in one day
was the record of last Wednesday. Other
things may be dull, but the matrimonial mar.
ket is simply booming Our ministers are al
ways ready and willing. Let the good work
go on.
The statement of expenses of Balti.
more county for the past fiscal year consumes
much of THE UNIONS space this week. 1t is
an important publication to the taxpayers and
no doubt hundreds of them will peruse it with
interest ~
- The steady rain of several hours dura.
ton last Monday was the first one of the kind
experienced in this county in many weeks and
the good il did is simply incaleulable. It also
brought with it temporary relief from the in
tense heat. 4 ~.
IA man who draws a pension of $50 q
year from the county actually felt able, on this
munificent sum, to take himself wife. This
fact is chronicled in order to boom the matri.
monial market. No excuse for staying single
any longer now. -- ~
- The original capacity of Loeb Raven is
said to have been 100000 gallons, but this
has been reduced almost one-half by the wash.
ing in of sand and mud. The big dredge now
at work there will take out fully 100000
yards of this stuff
ss-->Mr. Richard Hentschel, the well known
-Horsernan, was thrown from his driving cart
on the track at the Gentlemen's Driving Park,
on Wednesday, and had one of his legs badly
sprained. He was taken to his home on Park
Heights avenue.
= Messrs. w. Gill Smith and VIM. s.
Keech, who occupy adjoining law offices in
Smedley Row, have greatly improved the APP
pearance of their apartments with new and
bright floor coverings and other additions that
add to their comfort.
- DR.. Thomas r. Barber, we'll known
physician of Granite, I'd district, was thrown
from his buggy in front of the wheels of 8
passing wagon, caused by his horse shying, an0
had leg broken by the wheel passing over it.
The DR.. is IS years of age.
- Mr.. John S. Ensor and Mr.. Omer f. Her
Shey, both OF MT. w washington, tleu IN the
finals at4he Towson Tennis Clubs tournament
on Saturday afternoon last. At the conclusion
of the playing the ladies of the club served re-
freshments on the lawn.
~ Mr.. Robert NJ. Taylor, who is extensive
ly engaged in the dairy business at Mount
Prospect farm, on the Hillen road, has rented
the large farm of Mr.. Joshua REGISTER, on
REGISTER avenue, and will conduct it in con-
nection with his own farm.
"a play entitled ''Dr. Bakers Great In
vention'" will be given in the public school
building, Towson on Wednesday, June 18th,
at P. M, by the members of the Junior Aux.
ilary of Trinity Church. Refreshments will
be sold after the performance.
1.-The reopening of the postoffice at Bos-
ley, four miles northwest of Towson, still
hangs fire and the people of that section, who
have been put to so much inconvenience be-
cause of the close of the office, are beginning
to feelindignant at the delay.
"A wen known Baltimore business man
who is renting place in Baltimore county
this summer for the first time, says it cost
him nearly $18 to harvest a hay crop that did
not amount to more than ton and a-half. He
saws farming pays-the other fellow.
= The people of Orangeville, on the Phila
delphia road, are clamoriDg for electric rail
way accommodations and it is thought likely
that the United Railways Company will ex-
tend its Preston street line east TO Eleventh