The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-07-18

Monday. July 20, by William ]. Garrett, attor
ney, on the premises, the leasehold propert,
and improvements. known as No. 81 EaS
avenue. HiGhlandtown.
Monday. July N, by Edward L. Ward, assignee
on the premises, house and lot on the Fred
erick turnpike. near Ellic0tt City.
Monday, July 27, by @. Ross Mace and John T
Scheu, trustees, on the premises, real estate
in the 18th district, at Poplar Station.
the Court House door, farm of 80 acres neal
Bosey's Church. 9Th district.
tee' at the hotel in CockeysyiIe. a tract CT OF 81
99H acres of land formerly belonging tt
Lewis Audoun.
Wednesday, July 90, by John Schmidt, at Blen
helm. 10th district, cows, wagons, farm i'm
plements. household furniture, etc.
Tuesday August I, by John IN, Grason, trustee, al
lintown, LIST district.
Nov the festive watermelon is enjoying
its season of popularity.
1.-The lawn fete held lately for the benefit
of st. Joseph's Catholic Church, Texas, N C.
r. R., netted $3.50
The first month of summer will end
next Tuesday. The year 1908 is on the down
grade and its end is almost in sight
- Busy times among the farmers makes
dull times in Towson as comparatively few
strangers get here from the country.
THE peculiar sound OF the katydid is
now heard. These insects never put in an APP
pearance until just after wheat harvest
weather this week, with temperature of 60,
or SO degrees lower than few days before.
- During the prevalence of the electrical
storm last Sunday the telephone in Mr.. Har-
rison Riders Towson livery stable was burned
out.
IA young Towson man who returned on
Tuesday from few days tour of the North,
had exactly four cents in his pocket when he
reached home.
1.-The Board of Managers of the Baltimore
County Agricultural Society will hold special
meeting on the fair grounds this Saturday.
afternoon at o'clock
1.-THE Towson baseball team played fine
game at Beair on Thursday afternoon and
won in good style-9 to 5. Battery for Tow
son, Green and Phipps.
- Rev. DR.. @. W. Baldwin will paeach at
McKendree NJ. E. Church, Arlington. on SUM-
day morning next, and Rev. l.. B. Wilson, p.
E., in the evening.
- Democratic candidates were numerous
in Towson on Tuesday. Their party's COM
mittee met here that day and they were on
hand to look after their fences.
- Mr. Samuel A. Parks, OF EPSON Farm,
near Towson, had COW killed by lightning
during the storm of last Sunday. The animal
was standing under tree at the time.
->Over five and a-half inches of rain fell
in the vicinity of Baltimore the first thirteen
days in July. This is record breaker for the
month in the matter of precipitation.
IAN ice-cream festival and fair for the
benefit of Mantua public school will be held
in the old Grange Hail. at that place. Friday
and Saturday nights, July Path and 25th.
- Mr.. William Trout of Stewartstown, has
leased from the Deer Creek Driving Associa-
ton the half mile track at Gorsuch Mills, 9TH
district. and will put it in condition for racing
Over four inches of rain fell in the vi
cinity of Baltimore last Sunday. The storm
at Towson-0r rather succession of storms
was the most severe experienced here in long
time.
- Last Sunday was the seventh since
Whitsuntide and rain fell on every one of
them. Someone said if it rained on Whit
Sunday it would rain seven successive Sundays
thereafter.
IT price paid by Mr.. Robert N. Sloan
for the FernwOod property, in Green Spring
Valley the sale of which was reported in The
UNION last week, was S37, 500. The place con.
tains 81 acres.
~ Mt. Washington is to be supplied with
additional fire apparatus and thirty water
plugs will ill. be put up; The young men Of the
fire company.
80 Mr.. Charles Brockmeyer has been APP
pointed by the court committee to take charge
of the person and property of f. Joseph Bauer,
who has been declared by jury to be of
unsound mind.
THE Baltimore county plum tree will get
a mighty shake this year and many hands are
waiting to grab the fruit And there will be
heart-burnings.
- William Kelly, aged 10 years. son of
Mr. ]. Talbot Kelly, of Texas, 8th district,
was kicked by horse few days ago and had
three of his ribs broken. DR.. Thomas O..
Bussey attended him.
Next week the order of Elks will hold
high carnival in Baltimore. The big parade
will take place on Wednesday and it will be
the most unique affair of the kind ever seen
in the Monumental City.
-. H. g 10 stnuw
ment at Belair were about as mean as the
weather could make them. AT first it was the
intense heat and then it was the rain that lit
orally soaked everything.
- Beginning with next Sunday and con.
tinuing through July and August, the Epworth
League of Towson NJ. e. Church will combine
with the evening preaching in service of one
hour, beginning at o'clock.
- Miss Della Brown, daughter of Mr.
Samuel Brown, of Towson, was painfully
burned on the hands and arms last Monday by
the flames from gasoline stove. Her hair
and eyebrows were also singed.
In some parts of the country they have
found use for the English sparrow. They
are catching him in nets and selling him to
sportsmen to shoot from traps. Why don't
some one here adopt this idea?
- Wednesday, July 18th, was st. Swithins
fell on that day there would be drouth of
forty days duration. In this part of Mary
land there was no rain that day.
summit Grove camp-meeting will begin
on Friday next 24th inst Rev. DIR. E. l..
Hubbard, of Washington will have charge
of the religious services. He will be assisted
by Evangelist Joseph H. Smith.
MIR. T. Edward Hambleton, of Ham
bledune,n near Lutherville, expects to thresh
1000 bushels of wheat from 95 acres of land
Mr.. Albert Ober, whose place adjoins that of
Mr.. Hambleton, threshed 675 bushels from &c
acres
- And still they come. Another couple
from Baltimore came to Towson on Monday
and launched their barque OH the matrimonial
sea. Rev. ]. L. Straughn, of the M. P. Church
kindly saw them off and gave them his best
wishes.
lit is said that at some places in Balti
more county it grew so dark about noon on
Sunday last that the firehys made their ap.
pearance in great numbers, but they disappear.
ed quickly as soon as the rain commenced
falling.
IA tournament for the benefit of St.
Stephens Catholic Church will be held neal
Upper Falls, 18th district, on Wednesday
August 18th. Mr.. Paul A. Fleury will b.
chief marshal, and Mr.. Frank I. Duncan
orator.
> Ellcott City, part Of which is in Balti
more county, is to have q modern banking
house at the expenditure of large sum OF
money. The National Bank at that place, al
though comparatively new, is meeting with
much success.
- Nathan Newman, who conducted cloth
ing store in Towson, while preparing to re
move to Baltimore on Tuesday, fell and
broke three of his ribs. DIR. ]. Royston Green
attended him. Later he was taken to hos
pital in the city.
"A gentleman who lives near Towson ha:
driving horse that is perfectly fearless Of
everything except an automobile and these
ugly things almost brighten the life out Of him
The owner says he never expects the horse tC
get used to them.
flames Murphy, Of Texas, Sth district,
was struck by the engine of an express train al
that place on Sunday night last and sustained
injuries that caused his death in few hours
He was q years of age and the sole support O
q widowed mother.
1.-THE Baltimore daily newspapers are get
ting locations in Baltimore county terribly
mixed and pretty soon the people won't know
exactly where they do live. And then the wa,
they juggle with the names of people is some
thing simply awful.
- Much of the Baltimore county whea
crop has been threshed and it is safe to say
that the yield is not half what it would hav
been in a favorable season. Those who get
yield of Is bushels to the acre may conside
themselves fortunate.
-There is talk of having the name OF &c
vanstown changed to Govane. The postot1c
there is now known as GOvanS. 1t wou