The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-10-18

John i. 1ellOtt. trustees, on the premises
hotel property, known as the 7-Mile House
Reisterstown road.
Monday, October ~, by VIM. NJ. Isaac. X. H.
Boarman, Thomas J; Hunter and q. Howard
Isaac, trustees, on the premises. farm IN
the 9Th district.
Wednesday November 4. by W Gill Smith, Frank
l. Duncan. James j. Lindsay, Elmer J. Cook,
Noah E. Offutt, trustees, at the Court House,
Tuesday, November II. by Noah Z. Offutt; as.
signee, at the Court House, house ana lot
on the York road, near Texas.
The School Board will hold meeting at
its Office in Towson, on Wednesday next, Oc-
tober ed.
Thanksgiving is but little over a month
off. 1t will fall this year on Thursday, No
vember 9th.
> Some Baltimore county farmers have
not yet finished seeding, the weather being the
cause of the unusual delay.
- Bethany Lodge of Odd Fellows, OF Glen
Arm will hold an oyster supper in the hall,
ON Saturday, November LIST.
The United States District Court has
granted discharge in bankruptcy to William
L. Brooks, of Baltimore county.
"a copy of the ticket to be voted in this
county on Tuesday, November 4th will be
published in THE UNION next week.
1.-THE total eclipse of the moon on Thurs
day night was on time as promised, and many
remained up later than usual to see it.
Registration for the present year has
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on the books you cannot vote next month.
- Gruber's "Hagerstown Town and Coun-
try Almanack" for 1903 is now on tap sure
sign that the year 1902 is rapidly nearing its
end.
Mr. Clarence c. West, master of the
Overland Hunt Club, won lumber of blue
ribbons at the Richmond Horse Show this
week.
@Rev. Elias Hershey will preach and con-
duct communion service at Geists meeting
house, near Shawan, Sunday, October 10Th, at
10 o'clock A. NJ.
-Mr. A. Frank Black, Govanstown
builder, had his right leg broken below the
knee On Wednesday by part of an old wall
falling upon him.
- Elder II. C. Ker, of Middletown, n Y,
will preach at Black Rock Baptist Church,
Butler, next Sunday morning, and at Warren
Church, at P. M.
IAN electric car crossing Back river bridge
about o'clock on Thursday morning. struck
and killed large malard duck that attemp-
ted to fly across in front of it.
1.-The congregation of the Presbyterian
Church at Mt Washington is taking steps to
install a water motor to pump the organ ne
cessity that has long been felt
THE Hagerstown fair drew many Balti-
more county visitors this week. Next week
is Frederick turn and that will end the Mary
land county fairs for this year.
THE ladies of EPSON M. p. Church,
Towson, will hold a fair and oyster supper in
the hall over the engine house, on the evenings
of November 18th, 18th and 18th.
Those who are shooting rabbits now
ought to know that they are not fit eat at this
season. If they have no respect for the law
they ought to consider the other matter.
>Gray Rock, owned by Mr.. John Rush
STREET., of Taylor, and ridden by Mr.. Robert
M. Taylor. of Towson, won the jumping con-
test at the Richmond Horse Show on Thursday.
People have been talking about the coal
ri 10 md tho 6afI hau hoaa
full of it, for five months. Now that it is
apparently about ended let us give the subject
a rest.
->The fall meeting of the Maryland Stee-
pechase Association will be held at Pimlico
track, November 4th, 9th and Sth. Mr.. Will
liam p. Riggs is chairman OF the race COM
mittee.
THE baseball team of the Powhatan
Country Club has disbanded for this year.
During the season they played 43 games, win
ming 80 of them, which is an unusually good
showing.
-If the International Telephone Compa-
nv, lust Incorporated will give the neople post
age rates for sending messages 1T Will I'LL the
proverbial long felt want" Success to the
enterprise.
-s0n Sunday evening next Rev. William
S. Simms, pastor of Jones Memorial M. P
Church, will deliver a temperance sermon at
Gatch's NJ. E. Church, on the Beair road.
Public invited.
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rousing barbecue to be held at Foreston, 9Th
district, on Saturday next, October 25th. Two
steers will be roasted, and the meeting will be
an all-day affair.
>Trespass notices. warning off providers
of all kind, have been in great demand at THE
UNION office and large numbers of them have
been sold. Landowners appear determined to
assert their rights.
-In view of the increased interest in the
special meeting at Hiss NJ. E. Church, Great
Falls Circuit, it will be continued another
week. The meeting announced for Providence
will be postponed
Republicans claim to have made large
gains in some of the districts Of this county at
this year s registration. Active work was done
in some precincts to gel outthose who had not
previously registered.
1.-The odor from burning bituminous coal
is now strongly in evidence in Towson, espe-
cially in the early mornings. People are
learning how to handle the coal and few COM
plants are heard about it.
- Upon invitation of Towson Lodge, l. O.
0. F., number of members of Wildey and
Independence Lodges of Baltimore, visited the
former Lodge on Thursday night and were en-
tertained at Towson Hotel.
1.-THE County Commissioners have passed
an order fixing the speed limit on Park Heights
avenue at ten miles an hour. Complaints had
been made to the Board about fast and reckless
driving on that thoroughfare.
MI. II. Ii AlfluBSIOut vi anu
a party of friends will go to the Republican
mass meeting at Kings, on the Jarrettsville
pike Saturday night, October 18th, to do some
roofing for Mr.. William Tyler Page.
THE commissions of the following Balt-
more county deputy game wardens have been
revoked by order of State Game Warden
Averitt: Christian Hesse, Andrew Selling,
Frank Wells and Benjamin Locker.
- With temperature of 40 degrees, as we
experienced on Wednesday morning, with a
frost that whitened the earth, we are sadly re-
minded that the strike is still on and that hard
coal is selling at from SIS to S25 per ton.
"A Republican mass-meeting will be held
at Kings, on the Jarrettsville pike, on Satur-
day night, October 18th. Mr. William Tyler
Page, the nominee for Congress in the Second
district, and other speakers will be present.
An epidemic of black measles has been
prevailing among the pupils of public school
No. l, at Govanstown, but there have been no
fatal cases. A rigid quarantine has been en-
forced and the spread of the disease checked.
->lt is said that number OF the foreigners
who were naturalized at Towson lately were
fraudulently registered in the Third Congress
sional district. Some of these men are neither
able to speak nor understand the English Ian
guage
1.-The deputy game wardens should keep
their eyes open just now. That the law is be-
ing violated daily there can be no doubt and
an example should be made of those who do it.
Birds and rabbits are said to be abundant in
this county.
- Filston Farm. Glencoe. Baltimore coun-
ty, made fine exhibit of Jersey cattle and
Berkshire hogs at the Hagerstown fair this
week and won number of prizes. The ex-
hibit was in charge of Mr.. E. NJ. Gillet, clerk
of the farm.
"A successful oyster supper and bazaar
was held several nights this week at Lauraville
Hall, by the ladies of Hamilton Presbyterian
Church, of which Rev. l. c. Yeakel is pastor.
Proceeds will be applied to liquidating the
church debt.
- Clarence McAboy, until recently resi-
dent of DELLA LIST district, was killed in a rail-
road accident near Martinsburg W. Va, on
Tuesday. He leaves family, his wife being
a daughter of Joseph Hoff, who lives near
Ellicott City.
Reports from some sections of the coun-
ty indicate that many public roads were much
damaged by the late very heavy rains. Some
districts have none of their road fund left to
make repairs and this leaves them in an espe-
cally bad plight
Mr. Redmond c.. Stewart who lately
purchased a tract of land, near Pikesville,
from Mr.. William B. Graves, will at once be-
gin the erection of residence and other build
ings thereon. Mr.. Stewart will be married
early next month.
"a few days ago while Miss Minnie Glass,