The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-08-23

VI
Tuesday, August 26, by John l. Yellott and John
H. Richardson. trustees, on the premises,
valuable business and trucking property adj
Thursday, August 20, by Ferdinand Goebel, at
Harvest Home Dairy, Wilkens avenue, fifty
Tuesday, Sept. 2, by Joshua G. Bosley. attorney,
at the Court House door, farm of 100 acres
near Parkton, 18th district.
Tuesday, September 2, by Thomas Chew Wor-
Ellington, Jr. at the Court House door, farm
of 143 acres near Owings' Mills;
Tuesday, Sept z BY Leigh I Bonsai, assignee on
old York road in Waverly.
Wednesday, Sept. TO- by John r. Centrum, at
torney, at the Court House door, small truck
farm near Rosedale. 14th district.
->Mr Emory G. Shipley, postmaster at
Texas, N. C. r. R., has resigned.
The Board of County Commissioners
will not hold a meeting next week.
THE second month of summer ended
last Thursday 21st instant, and autumn will
soon be with US.
West were received at Locust Vale Stock Farm,
Towson. this week.
Send your name and address on postal
to THE UNION, Towson, and receive cata-
logue Of the coming Timonium fair.
THE corporate existence of the Hartford
National Bank of Belair has been extended by
the U S. Treasury Department to August 10Th,
1922.
Springs and streams in this county are
very low and some have failed entirely, caus-
ing no little trouble to secure supply OF
water.
50 company has been organized at Ca
louisville for the purpose of building Ma
sonic ball in that place. The capital stock is
$500.
MIR. Harry Shipley, of Granite I'd dis
trict, was seriously hurt on Thursday in run
away accident. He was attended by his father,
Dr. Shipley.
There is no discount on county taxes
paid in September. AT the expiration of that
month interest is charged from the time the
levy was made.
schools will begin on Monday, September 18th.
That will be "blue Monday for good many
thousands of children.
The Baltimore County Water and Elec-
trio Company has contracted to furnish the
county jail with 400 gallons of water day at
the rate of S24 year.
"a colored camp-meeting is now in pro.
eress at Loeb Raven and will continue over
three Sundays. The pavilion is used in which
to conduct the meeting
mo wonder the prisoners want to get
away from the Towson jail. Thirst is the
cause of the trouble. Both wells at that in
stitution have gone dry.
1.-The great annual reunion of Baltimore
city and county people will take place at Ii
monium, September I'd to 9Th, inclusive. Are
you getting ready for it?
"A young man named Fake is struggling
to become a member of the York county bar.
The popularity of bis name should be no i'm
pediment to his aspirations.
SOLDIERS pensions have been granted to
the following residents of Baltimore county:
Robert Davis, Randallstown, $40 per month
Elizabeth Wood, Glen Morris, So.
This was another week in which wide
range of the thermometer was experienced
and many say that the sudden and violent
changes are not conducive to health.
Tho Wnnana Auxiliary of Trinity
Church, Long Green, will give supper at the
rectory Saturday, August 23d, from to IL P.
NJ. Proceeds for the benefit of the church.
MIR. George W. White has commenced
the erection of handsome cottage for himself
on Mary avenue, Hamilton, Hartford road, near
the home of his father, Mr.. William White.
- Republican primary meetings will be
held in all the districts of this county on Fri
day next, August 10Th, at the places designa-
ted in the advertising columns of The UNION
today
- While fishing from the steamship pier at
Sparrow's Point on Tuesday Mr.. Charles
Roeder hooked and landed a rockfsh that
weighed Is lbs. 1t measured. % inches in
length.
"a number of ladies, wives of the man
ayers, will have charge of the officers tent at
Timonium fair this year and will look after
the proper entertainment of the guests of the
society.
Several citizens of Towson went before
the County Commissioners this week and
made complaint about certain alleys and gut
tiers in the town, alleging their unsanitary
condition, etc.
$Persons who may have business with
the County Clerks Office should bear in mind
the fact that it closes every Saturday at P M.
To remember this may be the means of saving
much trouble.
sit is said that the organ used at the color
ed camp-meeting that was in progress several
weeks at Govanstown was the first instrument
of the kind used in the First Methodist Church
of Baltimore city.
154 acres of land in the western end of Green
Spring Valley, from Mr.. William B. Graves,
and will improve it with fine residence and
other buildings shortly.
-The Rockdale camp-meeting of the Re-
formed Evangelical Church is now in progress,
1t is on the Liberty road and can be reached
by conveyances from the terminus of the
Gwynn Oak line of cars.
While driving in buggy in Baltimore
on Tuesday Mr.. William Coney, of Roland
Park, came in collision with a street car. The
buggy was upset and he was thrown out, es-
Gaping with slight injuries.
-The concert in the Court House on
Thursday evening next, 28tn inst, promises to
be a musical treat. The proceeds will be used
for worthy object and for this reason the
patronage should be liberal.
sit is expected that the new Wesley
Chapel, in the 10th district, will be ready for
dedication next month. 1t is one of appoint
ments on Monkton Circuit, the former church
having been destroyed by fire.
"A fair quality of peaches sold from
huckster wagons in Towson this week at so
cents a peck. Peaches at 1920 per bushel at
this season of the year must leave an exceed
ingly handsome profit for somebody.
Joseph Edward Watson, aged 63 years,
an inmate of the Confederate Soldiers Home.
Pikesville, died on the 10th inst. He served
through the entire Civil War. part of the time
under the command of Gen. X. e. Lee.
Some authorities say that the dog days
do not end until the 9Th of September, while
others assert that the 10Th of August is the
time. We have had no special reason to COM
plain about the dog day weather this year.
~ More complaints about bad roads and
unsafe bridges were made to the County Com
missioners this week. Is it possible the road
commissioners cannot see these defects and
remedy them without so much circumlocution?
There will be no trouble to find the at
tractive lad" of Messrs. Holland & O'Neal,
proprietors of the Willow Min, which appears
in TIE UNION today This Is a reliable firm
and they stand ready to verify everything they
say.
->Mr John Arthur, the we'll known bull
der at Fork, is arranging for fine display of
carriages at Timonium fair this year. He is
one of the oldest exhibitors in his line at the
fair and never fails to capture a number of
prizes.
IA T0WSOn young lady VINO Is visiting IN
the neighborhood of Warrenton, Va, writes
home that people in that country are wild on
the subject of horses, and adds that several
owners propose to exhibit at Timonium fair
this year.
MIR. Henry james has had handsome
house erected on the Rolling road, near Cations
vile. at a cost of $4,000. Contractor Henry
A. Nagle was the builder. Mr.. Nagle also has
the contract for the new school building at
Dickeyville.
THE saying that "all signs fail in dry
weather" applies with much force to the
weather man lately. His forecast was for
rain a number of days in succession, but old
Jupiter Pluvius proved to be as delusive as he
sometimes can be.
->Some Towson people were not scared
about the tidal wave that was predicted would
sweep Atlantic City from the map last Mon
day They went down to that popular resort
that day and found everything going on
swimingly. so to speak.
The horse of Mr.. Charles B. Roberts that
was stolen August 18th from pasture field on
the farm of Mrs. James Sloan, west of Luth-
vile has been recovered at West Chester, Pa.
Harry Webb, who had possession of the horse,
is now in Jail at that place.
1.-The mercury in TOWsOn early last Sun