The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-13


Thursday. August Is. BY Frank Cypull, at the
the Intersection OF the York turnpike and
warren road. near Cockeysville, work and
driving horses, colts. cattle, hogs, farm In
,r.ss1sils, furniture, ETC..
Mo1qsy, August 20, by George A. Smith and
Ta psper on a rDi
- menu Ia n, rhlandtOwn, 18th district.
Iuesoay, A t 90. by Thomas B. Catch, trus-
lana on hazei" aod avenue, near Raspeburg
Monday: September mi s; by Charles F. Harley. as,
79acree; near Perry. tall, 18th district.
Tuesday, september ., ~ John Grason and
10 acres Of land on the oid Frederick road
near Franklintown.
James e. ItR BY Charles
premises. acres Of land on the corner OF
Pimlico road and Calvert avenue. near the
Gentlemen's Driving Park
->September wheat sold in New York this
week at 81. 07 per bushel.
- The Lnuraviile Hall and Land Company
has installed an electric plant to light its hall
at Hamilton, Hartford road.
->Ifan abundance Of blossoms can be taken
as an indication the chestnut crop should be
uncommonly large this year.
->The dedication of the new Catch M. E.
Church at Raspeburg, Belair road, will take
place on Sunday, August 2lst:
IA property was sold under the hammer
at the Court House door on Tuesday for -, 700
that once cost its owner S13, 900.
eThe Baltimore County Fair will begin
three weeks from next Tuesday and active
preparations for it are now in progress.
The camp-meeting season is nearly over.
Upon the whole these gatherings have had no
reason to complain of the weather this year.
1.-The Sunday school Of Phoenix M. e.
Church will hold its annual picnic in q grove
near that village, on Saturday, August 18th.
The annual fair at st. Johns Church,
Long Green Valley. will be continued ON Tues
day and Thursday evenings, August 10th and
18th.
Mr.. Frank H. Zouck, Of the 4th district,
raised this season $50 bushels of oats on Is
acres of land. an average Of 81 bushels to the
acre.
- Some farmers cay that Baltimore county
Will have the biggest crop OF corn tbs iaii than
like It. =
- The Sunday school OF Ashland Presby-
terrain Church, Rev. Richard Lee Walton, pas
tor went on its annual excursion to COLCHESTER
on Tuesday last.
"a temperance meeting will be held in the
tent opposite the Lee Ruildine. Towson. this
Saturday evening, at o'clock, to which men
are especially invited.
Friday, September 9th, will Is Children's
day at the coming Baltimore County Fair,
when children under IL years Of age will be
admitted to the grounds free Of charge:
scented at the st: Louis fair during the last two
weeks, and no doubt many more will go as the
cooler weather of autumn comes along.
- Cabbage sold in Baltimore this week at
80 cents per 100 heads. The man who grows
cabbage at that price and manages to keep out
of the poor-house must be slick article.
AT Long Green last Saturday afternoon
the Woodbrook baseball team was vanquished
by the Long Green team to 3. It was fine
game and much enjoyed by a good crowd.
- Telephone communication has been
opened between Cockeysville and Butler by
way Of the Western Run turnpike, the distance
between the two points being about seven
miles.
IA different band of music will play each
day at the coming Timonium Fair. Those Sc
lected are the Hereford, Long Green, TowsoE,
Sparrow's Point and Warren, in the order
named.
- Mr.. G. Bohn Slingluff, who raises big
things on bis farm on Chestnut Ridge, exhibit
ted in Towson this week q cucumber that
measured IA inches in length and weighed 30
ounces.
the taxpayers OF Baltimore county over $1,000
aud the end is not yet. By the time the ac-
cused is tried again the expense will be greatly
- Mr.. John Neidhardt has just completed
for Mr.. Samuel Sindall . fine cottage on Ham,
ilton avenue near the Hartford road. The in
terror woodwork is Of natural finish, with hard
->The mercury dropped to go degrees in
Towson on Tuesday morning and the feeling
in the atmosphere was decidedly fall-like.
Less than forty-eight hours before the record
"a mortgage for $500, 900 from the Belair
Electric Railway Company to the International
Trust Company of Maryland, trustee, was filed
for record in the County Clerks office at Tow
son on Tuesday.
- Mr.. Henry M. Walker, who formerly
lived on the York road, north of Govanstown,
has purchased the property known as Cedar
croft at Catonsville, and will make his home
there in the future.
Rev. Albert r. Walker, of Vienna, Va,
will preach at Trinity Church, Long Green,
on Sunday morning, August 14th, at II O'Clock.
It Is possible that Mr.. Walker may receive q
call to Trinity Church.
- Attention is invited to the advertisement
of Mr.. g. Howard Stirling, which appears in
this issue of TIE UNION. In the matter OF
lighting and heating he has something that
should interest the public,
Troop A, Maryland National Guard.
whose headquarters is at Pikesville, will take
part in the military manouvers at Manassas,
Va, early in September. Nearly 50, 900 troops
will compose that encampment.
Especial Officer Thomas J. Hughes, OF
Gainesville, claims to have grown tomato
this season that weighed two pounds. He had
they are of the Ponder0se variety.
AFTER q most successful season Summit
Grove camp-meeting closed on Monday last.
The attendance was large throughout and there
were many conversions. The managers of the
camp are much pleased at results.
Mr.. Peter Tremper, of Putty Hill, Belair
road, asked the County Commissioners to APP
point Herman Meyers special officer for that
place. His request was complied with, Mr..
Tremper to pay the officers salary.
-%The general announcement OF the Balti-
more County Fair appears in this weeks issue
his Office in Towson on Monday, August 22d,
in the drug store Of DR.. Hergenrather.
THE annual camp-meeting of the United
Evangelical Church at Rockdale I'd district,
commenced ON Friday, August 18th, and will
continue until the 21st. Most Of those camp
ing on the grounds come from Baltimore.
efforts are now being made to have q
rural free delivery route established at Bald
win, Long Green Valley, and Mr.. Joseph Hertz.
Ter is recommended for carrier. The length Of
the proposed route will be about 20 miles.
AT the clay target shoot at Duck Farm,
AlsntSwn Pa on WedHssdsy Mr. 5;s NOVEL; vn
He broke 201 out of 210 targets, making runs
of IL and So The wind was unfavorable.
- Mr.. Samuel w. Lippincott, of Arlington,
Sd district, has written letter to the County
Commissioners endorsing the proposition to
put tax on dogs as means OF reducing the
number Of worthless CANNES in this county.
-At revival meetings held lately on Balti-
more Circuit, which is composed Of Methodist
churches in the western section Of this county,
over two hundred persons professed CONVEX
sion. Rev. John Edwards is the senior pastor.
Tom Clark, Mr.. George Browns well
known steeplechaser, died few days ago from
an attack of collie. Mr.. Redmond G. Stewart
brought this horse to Baltimore county. He
was twice the winner of the Maryland Hunt
Cup.
year than Il was last, and some say this is due
to the unusually severe weather of last winter
Several residents of Towson who had many
bushels of this fruit last season have none this
year.
chanics is making arrangements for another
big demonstration at Gwynn Oak Park on Mon
day, September 18th. Last year the order
claims to have attracted $1,000 people to the
THE Patapsco Hunt Club is arranging fol
a race meet to take place at Pimlico track
Saturday and Monday, September Sd and 9th
II IL expected that the Elkridge and Green
Spring Valley clubs will join in with the Pa
@This week the United Railways and
Electric Company, through the courtesy o.
Mr.. William A. House, second vice-presidenl
and general manager, had the grass and weeds
0,yod fron, aoma of its tracks in the streets