The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-06-28

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erty on the Reisterstown road in Arlington
Monday July 81, by w. Ashbie Hawkins. solici
tor, at the Court House door. one acre o
land and improvements in the I'd district.
- The Towson Athletic Club realized ne
profit of $50 from the lawn fete held a fev
nights ago.
- The blacksmith shop of Mr.. Henry Kern
at Golden Ring on the Philadelphia road, wa
burned on Tuesday last.
- A soldiers pension of 81 per month ha
been granted to Joseph Punte, deceased o
Rossville. Baltimore county.
- Elder ]. A. Ashburn, of North Carolina
will preach in Black Rock Baptist Church
Sunday, June 29th, at the usual hour.
- 1t is singular fact, and one that ha:
been much commented upon, that high wind:
have followed every rain of the past spring.
- Rev. r. Heber Murphy, rector of st
Johns Church, will conduct services at Free
land, n. G. r. R., Sunday, June 10Th. at IL Al
-NexS Tuesday will be the first day oil
July The discount on county taxes paid that
month is per cent. OnState taxes 5 per cent
- The fourth annual race meet of the Pa
tapsco Hunt Club will take place atsthe Ken
nels, on Friday. July 4th. on the new half.mile
track.
=All the public schools of the county
closed on Friday, 9th inst, for the summer
holiday. They will not reopen until Sep
=, - The National Bank of Cockeysville has
declared a semi annual dividend of q per cent
on its capital stock, payable on or after July
5th, 1902.
= The closing exercises of the Jr. Epworth
League of Towson M e. Church will take
place Sunday June Goth, at P. NJ. Public
cordially1invited.
-sTowson rarely experiences a duller week
than this one has been. There have been COM
paratively few visitors and business has been
dull in consequence. s
THE tax tate in Hartford coun ty for the
present year has been fixed at 85 cents on the
800. The rate in Carroll county is 40 cents
the lowest in the State.
- Mr.. William II. Lawrence, attorney for
Joseph g. Brown, has entered suit for $4,000
damages against John Coder for false arrest
and malicious prosecution.
- The mercury again dropped below so de-
grees this week and the wind was unpleasant-
" cold. There were heavy frosts in some Sec
tons of Western Maryland.
THE longest day of the year 1902 has
passed and the days are now growing shorter,
but the charge will be so slight for some time
as to be almost imperceptible.
- James T. Milling has been appointed
road commissioner for the 18th district, vice
Edward j.. Hermann, who resigned because
the com pepsatien was too small
- A car load of new wheat from South
Carolina was sold in Baltimore on Wednesday
OF 80 cents per bushel. 1t is very unusual for
grain from that State to be sold here.
- Fourth of July explosives are doing duty
this year more than a week ahead of time.
They are not the safest things that young
America can find to amuse itself with.
- Wednesday afternoon the County Com
missioners went to Mt. Washington to make
an inspection regarding the various improve
ments that are contemplated in that village.
- Another couple from Baltimore procured
a licence and were married at Towson on
ThnRsday Rev. W. e. Robertson, pastor of
the Baptist Church, performed the ceremony.
4 - 1t will be unlawful to fish for brook
trout insthe streams of Baltimore county on
and after next Tuesday, July 1st.s The open
months for this sport are March, April, May
and June
"a lawn fete for the benefit of st. Joseph
Church. Texas, will be held on the lawn adj
joining the church, Friday and Saturday July
4h and 5th. Apleasant is promised all
u hO attend - - Xxx
B $50 far as cutting IS concerned the wheat
harvest in Baltimore countyiis practically
over. When threshing begins THE UNION will
thank its friends for reports of how the crop is
sicSJ6hn Mays Little has retired from
the pffncipalship of Roland Park school, He
wilfbe succeeded there by Mrs. Laura P. Todd,
who has been principal of the school at Mt.
Washington. sgs
n - Of course it is not just "the Ito
use fynets on horses in the present 'strenu-
ous' times, but all the same humane people
Who drive bob.tailed horses should see the
necessity of doing. so. s."
1.-THE Board of Election Supervisors met
az Towson on Tuesday and appointed the reg
istration. officers for the current year. Their
names are published in the advertising columns
of THE UNION today.
The last Sunday of each month is mis-
sionary day, on Hereford Circuit of the M. e.
Church. There are seven churches on the cir
'clit--Herefer Bosley,. Jessop, Epworth, Mt.
Carmel, Falls Road and Dover.
John Spencer, the colored man who
robbed two houses in Green Spring Valley a
short time ago, plead guilty in the Circuit
Court here ON Monday and was sentenced to
the penitentiary for four years.
- More Baltimore county postoffices are
marked to go on account of the extension of
the free delivery system. Soon many of the
old familiar names of places will rarely be
heard and this is to be deplored.
THE officers Of the Pikesville Athletic
Club are as follows: President, John Dee
vice-president, William Chenoweth secretary,
Lester Watts treasurer, James Salter mana
ger and captain, Clarence Crusey.
- During the thunder storm of last Satur-
day afternoon lightning struck the roof of the
house of Mr.. Joseph Shockney, on Garrison
avenue, West Arlington, and ripped off some
of the shingles. No fire resulted.
- Walter p. Reckord, having resigned as
postmaster at Reckord, Baltimore county, j.
A. Reckerd has been appointed as his success
sor. The Office is located on the Hartford turn
pike at the Little Gunpowder falls.
1.-The new barn on the farm of ex-Sheriff
VIM. H. Todd, on the Pot Spring road, built
toreplace the one destroyed by fire about two
months ago. is almost completed. The cause
OF the fire has never been ascertained
IL don't follow that because man drives
an automobile, hired, perhaps, at the rate of
81 per hour, that he owns the earth. There
are.still 4. few people left on top Of the ground
besides himself and J.. Pierpont Morgan.
4 - The City Water Board has accepted the
new dredging plant at Loeb Raven. In the
first trial it developed a capacity 40 per cent.
greater than the contract called for. 1t will
take two years to complete the work of dredg-
ing the lake. 40
- Charles Steffe, alias Charles Wilson, has
been lodged in Jail at Towson upon the charge
of stealing horse, valued at $50, from Mrs.
Caroline g. Gardner, of Gainesville. When
arrested in Baltimore he was trying to sell the
horse for $50.
ws-y> CQmpaintsrw made to the County
Commissioners this week that Lee Bosley, the
garbage remover for Towson, was not perform
ing his duties satisfactorily. The Board direc-
ted Sanitary Officer Rich to see that the work
is done better.
The patriotic people of Govanstown are
planning for big celebration on the Fourth.
Among other entertainments will be base ball
games in the morning and afternoon with WIS.,
iting teams and the first and second teams of
the Y. NJ. @. A.
- Complaint was this week lodged with
the County Commissioners by B. H. Bailey
whos officer James Kleeman, of Pixies
Eines.Fith handling him. roughly while plac-
ing him under arrest. The matter was referred
to Chief STREET..
"A fire occurred in the stockroom of the
mills at Della, LIST district, on Friday night of
last week and the large structure would have
been destroyed except for the prompt action of
the mill hands, who used chemical extinguish-
ers and water freely.
- Theeorn crop in this section of Mary
land is making excellent progress Just now and
the outlook for it could not be better. 1t was
not injured by the spring drought, the mois-
ture deep down in the earth having tided it
over that critical period.
- B.. f. Hause, Jr., charged with setting
, fifelto the Franklintown Hotel, in the LIST dis
trict, had preliminary hearing before Justice
Herbert, at Towson, on Wednesday, In de-
fault of $1,000 bail he was committed for the
action of the grand jury.
- pbllie Ehmanu, aged II years, daughter
of Mr.. Charles K. Ehmann, Contractor, fell
.ffohl a cherry tree on the Woodbourne estate,
on Woodbourne avenue, a few days ago, but
escaped serious injury. She was unconscious
for several hours after theaccident.
"a family in Towson came very near
having serious fire few nights ago by one of
its members throwing match, that was sup
posed to have burned out, into waste basket.