The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-05-03

Tuesday May TO- by Henry strothmeyer, agent,
on the premises farm S Sq the
Tuesday, May 81, by William Gorsuch, trustee,
at the Court House, country residence at
Unionville 10 the 18th district
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The Maryland Company has twenty
three phones in and about Towson.
When you want to communicate with
THE UNION use the Maryland phone and call
Q, l2l, Towson.
- Messrs George B. and Henry Dubbs, 9Th
district farmers have lately lost five horses
from disease that affected the lungs.
->In the Orphans. Court this week letters
of administration on the estate of Lena Hart
man were granted to August Hartman.
The showers of the early part of this
week were of vast benefit to vegetation of all
kinds, the ground having become very dry on
top.
tractors has been dissolved by mutual consent.
Mr.. James r. McCabe will continue the bust
ness.
IA woods fire on the farm of Mr.. Crit
fifth Gent. of Shawan, 9Th district, on Saturday
last, did considerable damage before it could be
checked.
"a license was issued in Washington on
Tuesday for the marriage of Oscar Fendley
and Jane Cadman, both of Sparrow's Point,
Baltimore county.
- Locusts are making their appearance in
Baltimore county. Scientists say they will
be more numerous this year than they were
seventeen years ago.
EsIt is said that Mr.. D. H. Rice, proprietor
of Valley View Stock Farm, near Towson.
lately sold pair of bay coach horses for the
round sum of 81 600.
THE discount on all county taxes paid
prior to the LIST day of June, 1902, is per cent.
The discount on State taxes paid in the months
of May, June, July and August is per cent.
- The oyster supper given last month by
the ladies of Mays Chapel, Chestnut Ridge,
Uqffnd S101 04 TT the fruqtQee' f1On
and will be applied to the church building
fund.
- Several additional local laws passed at
the last session of the Legislature are published
in the advertising columns of THE UNION to-
day. They should be carefully read by every
body.
- II has been noticed that the streams in
this county are fusher now than they have
been for a year or two. The heavy rains of
the past three months are said to be the cause
of this.
- County Treasurer Cochran gives notice
that he will be ready to receive taxes under the
new levy at his officein Towson, Monday, May
9th, and at his Baltimore office every Saturday
after that date.
- County Commissioners Knox, Slade and
Yellott inspected some of the roads in the
upper end of the Sd district on Thursday and
were the guests of Mr. Samuel NJ. Shoemaker,
of Burnside"
1.-The Christian Endeavor societies of
Chestnut Grove, Grace, Poplar, Phoenix and
Ashland churches are arranging for a rally to
be held at Grace Church, Chestnut Ridge,
Friday, May 23d.
circus in Baltimore on Monday afternoon and
evening and that at night fully 5000 were
turned away because there was not room for
them under the canvas.
->Tbe steady growth of The UNIONS mail
lists keeps up, the names OF new subscribers
being added every week. In view of the fact
that no special effort is being made in this di-
rection it is very gratifying.
- Why is it that the Maryland Telephone
Company does not extend its line to Jockeys
vile? A number of business men there are
anxious for the service and no doubt the field
would prove profitable one.
"A man who thinks he knows says the
electric railway line on the Hartford road may
beextended as far as Parkville within a year
or two. but that the company will not build it
any further on that thoroughfare.
"a large number of strangers came here
on Tuesday to attend the second annual spring
sale of the Locust Vale Stock Farm and no
doubt there would have been many more had
the weather been more favorable
- Bishop Paret will visit Trinity p. E.
Church, Towson, next Sunday morning, and
Sherwood Church, Cockeysville, in the after
noon. Last Sunday the Bishop confirmed
class at st. Timothy's, Gainesville.
->The fiscal year of 1923 commenced in
this county on Thursday last May LIST, and
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THE UNION to day. As already stated the tax
rate is cts lower than it was last year.
->Towson was well represented at the cir
Gus on Monday and Tuesday and it was no.
ticed that in one instance, at least, it required
the combined efforts of three able bodied per-
sons to take one small child to the show.
THE following residents of Baltimore
county have been granted soldiers pensions
Melchor j. Armacost, of Brooklandville, Sc
per month John H. Frederick, Highland
Q.
Among the important local laws now be-
ing published in THE UNION is the one which
adds additional sections to the primary cleo
ton law. Every man interested in public af-
fairs should familiarize himself with this law.
- Hundreds of acres of corn have been
planted in Baltimore county in the last ten
days and if the price of this staple keeps up to
anything near what it has been for some time
past, the crop will mean big money to the
farmers.
the Circuit Court was finally discharged on
Wednesday. The May term of court-the
jurors for which were drawn this week-com-
mences on the third Monday of the month
the 10TH
Work on the new parsonage for McKen-
dree M. E. Church, Arlington, has been COM
menced. 1t will be a stone and frame build
ing, with all modern Improvements, and will
cost about So, $780, Rev. E. H. Lamar is pastor
of the church.
MI A1CAOCAb a. a LuDTOSe, WHO WIS ldt6-
ly appointed agent for the Md. & Pa. Railroad
at Glen Arm, has engaged in the grain, -four,
feed, seed and fertilizer business there. He is
q son of Mr.. John T. Ambrose, of Jenkins,
Long Green Valley.
The suicide of a colored person is very
unusual occurrence and the one that occurred
near Towson this week caused great deal of
comment, especially so as no possible cause
can be assigned why the young man should
have taken his life.
->Towson gudgeon fishermen have opened
their campaign and we may now look out for
stories of an ornate character. The first party
that went down from here caught forty-three
dozen and two. What they counted the two
for has not been stated.
$And still they come. Some OF the blue
bills sent out with the first issue OF The UNION
last December continue to find their way back.
They are not coming in fiocks, to be sure, but
there are enough of them to keep us constant
ly reminded of their color.
->Since there is some protection for birds
by law the feathered songsters are becoming
much more numerous than heretofore. Red
birds have nests in Towson this spring and
some have already Matched their first brood.
Robins also have nests in the town.
The Thorn Cottage at the Maryland
Training School for the Feeble Minded near
Owings' Mills, was somewhat damaged by
hre about o'clock on Saturday morning last.
The twenty-five children that were occupying
1t were gotten out safely by the officials.