The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-06-06

hoppe MERGER. trustees, on the premises,
seven lots of ground and improvements at
Marble Hill, 9Th district.
Tuesday, June 16, by VIM. J. Garrett, attorney,
etc, on the premises, leasehold property
No. 9O2 N. Clinton street and No. 62l East
avenue, Highlandtown.
Wednesday, June II, by G.. A. Klinefelter, on the
Reisterstown turnpike, near Hannah More
Academy, Jersey and grade cattle. horses,
mules, hogs, poultry growing crops, machi-
=. merry; implements; etc;
Wednesday, June 81, by Gill & Preston, on the
premises. estate known at The Caves, in the
4th district, containing about l600 acres.
subdivided into 81 tracts from 10 to 30 acres
Tuesday, June 80, by Alfonso Won wyszecki as
signee at the Court House door, a mill prop
erty in Franklintown, 1st district.
- Emory Grove camp-meeting will begin
this year on Thursday, July 2Sd;
THE Fourth of July is the next legal
holiday. 1t falls this year on Saturday.
- Orville s. Gosnell has been commission
ed postmaster at Granite, Baltimore county.
1.-THE discount on county taxes paid this
month is II per cent. On State Taxes per
cent.
- Services were held in Towson Jail last
Sunday afternoon by the Y. NJ. G. A. of Go
vanstown.
- Building material continues to advance
in price and this is having bad effect upon
building operations.
- Farmers say the wheat crop will be light
on account of the smallness of the heads.
The straw will also be short.
- Bishop Curtis confirmed class of eighty
children at st. Mary's Catholic Church, CO.
vanstown, on Tuesday night.
MIR. Howard Poe, of Texas, N. G. r. R..
q few DAYS ago caught brook trout that
measured Is inches in length.
->Towson w @. T. U. will hold meeting
in the Merryman Building, Wednesday after
noon June 10th, at 80 o'clock.
-sThe annual sale at Locust Vale Stock
Farm on Wednesday attracted large number
of people and made things lively in Towson
- A big Christian Endeavor rally will be
held at Phoenix, N. g. r. R.. on Friday June
18th, with sessions morning, afternoon and
night.
- The grading for the improvement of the
Joppa road at Towson was finished on Thurs
day and the first course of stone is now being
put on.
> Allen B. Carter, of Sparrow's Point. Bal
timore county, has been appointed special la
borer at League Island Navy Yard, Phia-
>Mr. Edgar H. Bankard, of Baltimore,
has sold his county residence at Subbrook
Park. W. NJ R. R., to Mr.. Harry A. stebbins
for 81, 500.
- mad dog created considerable excite
ment in Govanstown last Sunday afternoon.
Before being killed he bit a cow and several
other dogs.
- Another runaway couple from Balti-
more was married in Towson on Thursday
Rev. w. E. Robertson, of the Baptist Church,
tying the knot.
- man in New York State was poisoned
from eating strawberries and the physicians
say he will die. A strawberry is very inno-
cent thing, but
Club will bold its regular meeting this (Satur-
day. afternoon at the farm of Mr.. John Bond
Western Run Valley.
- The contract for painting bridges in the
Sth and 10th districts has been awarded by the
County Commissioners to H. G. Miller and J.
H Hitter, of Sweet Air.
- George W. Seipp, crier of the Circuit
Court for Baltimore county, has had his PEN
sion increased to $40 per month. He lost his
left arm in the Civil War.
THE Towsop baseball team on Saturday
afternoon last defeated the team of the Oxford
Athletic Club, IL to 7. The Towsons new uni
forms will be ready next week.
- Miss Mamie Foard who committed sui
eide in Baltimore on Wednesday, by swallow
ing carbolic acid, was buried at Waugh M e.
Church, Greenwood, on Friday.
MIR. Daniel Dubbs, of the 9Th district,
tTsn tfgo hv The anihfzs sTayed
from pasture field onto the track.
- Children's day will be observed next
Sunday, June 7th. at Jessop and Mt. Carmel
appointments of Hereford Circuit, the first at
2.30 P. NJ and the latter at $50 NJ.
- Fine strawberries sold in the markets
last Saturday night at cents box. There
was glut of berries and people were glad to
get rid of them at almost any price.
MIR. ]. George Mann, whose shops are
on the Hartford road near Halls Spring, has
been awarded the contract to build q patrol
wagon for the Canton station house at $3.50.
- Mrs. Rowe, wife of Mr.. Charles NJ.
Rowe of Cockeysville, was successfully oper-
ated upon for a tumor at the Maryland Uni
yersitv Hospital in Baltimore few days ago.
THE aid society of st. Peters Lutheran
Church, near Perry Hall, Belair road, will
hold a strawberry festival on Wednesday even
ing, June 10th. Proceeds for benefit of the
MIR. Zephanah Poteet, of the 9Th dis
trict has obtained permission froeh the Coun-
tv Commissioners to construct telephone
line on the Warren road form Cockeysville to
his home.
r. Rich, sanitary officer, the colored public
school at Towson was closed on Tuesday on
account of the presence of scarlet fever among
the pupils.
"A personal item suggested to some of
the Baltimore papers MT: James JobDerson
is spending few days in Jail at Towson. He
will be oct as soon as somebody pays his fine
and COSTS"
- Impure drinking water is said to be the
cause of the Outbreak of typhoid fever at
Tuxedo Park 9th district. The health au-
thorties have taken steps to check the spread
of the disease:
Vegetation, since the recent rains has
made splendid progress and the outlook now is
much more encouraging to farmers Corn is
0OlOR we'll anu buC 81 ass ueluS are IudkluS u
better showing.
- Whit Monday, although not a general
holiday is observed by many as though it
was. This is particularly true of the Southern
colored people, who like to hold fast to old
customs and traditions.
- Capt. Richard Edward Smith Stapleton,
we'll known passenger conductor on the B. &
o. Railroad, died of appendicitis at his home
at Relay, Baltimore County, on Friday OF last
week. He leaves farnily
"a 3-yearold daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John C. Wilson, of lower Long Green Valley,
while playing with shepherd dog few days
ago, was bitten in the face. The dog, that APP
parently had fits was afterwards killed.
THE first tournament of the season,
under the auspices OF the Church of the Holy
Family, will be hello in Brady's Grove, on the
Liberty road, on Thursday next June 18th.
1t will be in charge of Mr.. G. s. Hobbs.
There was fairly good attendance at
the spring race meet of the Green Spring Val
ley Hunt Club at Pimlico, on Saturday after
noon last. There were seven races on the card
and all of them We're run OFF 5s.cccsefrlly
-Messrs. Edward e. and Frank Burns
sons of the late John Burns. of Towson, will
continue the undertaking business so long
conducted by their father. The firm name
will remain the SANCTION Burns Sons.
lat the first quarterly meeting OF Great
Falls Circuit held al Camp Chapel last Mon
day, the salary of the senior pastor, Rev. f. K.
Isaac, was increased to $500 year, and that OF
the Junior pastor, Rev. George L. Jones, to $3.50.
The ladies ofSt. Pauls Lutheran Church.
Arcadia, 4th district, will hold bazaar on the
18th, 18th and 18th of June, afternoons and
evenings. Proceeds to be used for church i'm
provements. generalinvitation is extended.
Reports of mad dogs are becoming nu-
merous in the county. People should be on
the lookout for CANNES that act suspiciously.
In fact it would be we'll to be on ones guard
against all dogs more especially strange ones.
1.-THE beautiful 5-year-old mare Society
Girl. owned by Mr.. William II. West, died a
few DAYS ago from collie. She was a prize win
ner at the late Baltimore horse show and it is
said her owner had agreed to sell her for 50 500.
Prof. Ford will appear at the hall in
Sweet Air, Friday evening, June 18th, at
O'clock, under the auspices of the Woman S
Mite Society of Trinity Church, Long Green.
Wit, humor and pathos. Dom fail to hear
THE pocketbook lost by Mr.. Joshua
Fowble, of Butler, and advertised in The
Union last week, has not yet been restored to
its owner, He says he knows the person who
found it, but to prove it on him is another
matter.
Builder Philip Watts has been awarded
the contracts for the erection OF an admins.
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