The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-07-30


Thursday, August Ii, by Albert Bates, on the
premises at the corner of B0wley's lane and
Franklin avenue, 18th district, horses, cows.
brood sows and pigs, farm utensils, house,
hold furniture, etc.
THE Timonium fair is only month off.
Are you getting ready for it 2 You can't be
Gin the swim unless you are.
- Many of tine county roads have suffered
from recent heavy rains, but this is something
we may always look for in summer.
- And now the tournament season is on
and.many country people appear to find much
pleasure in that source OF amusement.
->The camp-meeting season is now on.
Look out for frequent and copious showers
that generally come along about this time.
-STowson was treated to another deluge Of
rain on Tuesday afternoon while some other
sections of the county had very little If any
- Mr.. Joshua Cofiel, Of the 4th district, got
ahead of the rain and has already threshed his
oat crop. the yield showing 40 bushels to the
acre.
pointed Dr. E. w. Heyde, sanitary officer for
the 9TH district, vice DR.. Thomas Q. Baldwin
- Today-July 3Oth--is 81 minutes shorter
than was the first day Of the month. The sun
rises at @ minutes after to-day ana sets az 10
minutes after 7.
BY the distribution of the State free
school book fund made by the Comptroller on
the 18th instant, Baltimore county schools will
- A party of Towson fishermen, composed
of fathers, sons and Others went on their
eighteenth consecutive excursion to Cape May
Point on Thursday.
- Next Monday will be the first day Of
August and the summer of 1904 is on the down
grade. So far as the weather Is concerned It
has treated MS very well.
=, The Towson baseball team will go to
Betterton, Md, today Saturday to play the
team at that place. Last year the Towsons
shut out the Bettertons.
"a Baltimore grocery house sends man
out in an automobile to take orders from resi-
dents of Towson and vicinity and then sends
wagon out to deliver the goods.
- The discount on county taxes paid next
month (August) will be one-half OF one per
cent. There is no discount after August. The
August discount on State taxes is per cent
- Some sections Of the upper end of Balti-
more county were visited by hail storm on
Tuesday afternoon that did considerable dam
age to the growing corn and other vegetation.
The middle of this week found many
acres of grass still standing in this county, the
frequent rains having interferred with the cut
ting This will necessarily make much spoiled
hay.
thunder storms in July seems to have been
fully verified. We never remember so many.
and it looks like they intend to keep it up to
the end.
> Mr.. Henry L. Bowen this week removed
into his pretty new cottage on the south side OF
Linden terrace, east of the York road. The To-
cation is excellent and the house little gem of
its class.
THE Postoffice Department has awarded
the contract to Henry Trapp of Blenheim, for
carrying the daily mail between that place and
Cuttings, on the Maryland and Pennsylvania
Railroad.
- Emory Shipley, son of Mr.. Emory G.
Shipley, of Texas, was kicked by horse on
Tuesday, while playingin the yard at his home,
and seriously hurt. He was attended by DR..
MI. BENJAMIN F. Deford, who owns
the Boyce mansion on the Joppa road west of
Towson, has purchased from the trustees OF
the Boyce estate about 16 acres additional, for
which he paid $l6,52O.
Some of the up-c0unty farmers are claim
ing extra large yields of wheat this year, con.
sidering the fact that the season was not
favorable one. Crops Of 30 bushels to the acre
are not unusual, if reports be true.
- Democratic campaign elgh has -h l.ss,
organized at Govanstown, 9th district. with
Mr.. Hugh J. Gallagher, president, and Mr..
Harry IT, German, secretary. The club ex-
poets to have a banner flying shortly.
- Walter Miller, son Of Station Agent
Miller at Monkton. N. G. r, r., had his left
ankle fractured on Saturday last by horse he
was riding rearing and falling upon him. DIR.
J. T. PAYNE, of Corbett attended him.
Sol d. G. Mcintosh, counsel for the Bal
timore and Belair Electric Railway, has en-
500. that being the amount of subscription
to two shares Of the stock of the railway COM
pany. - g. pa.nor5,s
Church, Gorsuch avenue, Waverly, VIII De
held at barley Park, Hartford road, on Wednes-
day, August Sd. Tickets % cents Children
free. Rev. P. II. Lenaghan is pastor OF the
Sunnybrook Cornet Band will give
concert at the Valley HOTEL Dulany's valley
Cat
III o'clock P. M. Mr.. Thomas Brown, proprie.
tor of the hotel, extends cordial invitation
to the public. n,.. o.,..u.s
of feeling badly and asked her mother Tor some
medicine. She gave her dose of carbolic acid,
supposing it to be blackberry brandy, and she
was dead in little while. Such carelessness
is almost criminal.
THE Republican convention for the Sec
ond Congressional district (Which includes Bal
timore county, will meet at Aberdeen, Hartford
county, next Tuesday. 1t looks as though Mr..
Robert Garrett, of this county, would be nomi-
mated by reclamation.
- supplemental agreement has been filed
between the Baltimore and Belalr Electric
Railway and the Baltimore and Hartford Turn
pike Company by which the railway secures
the right of way to lay its tracks from Hamil-
ton to one mile north of Carney.
->The Junior Gunpowder Agricultural
Club will hold its regular monthly meeting To-
E. Scott in Western Run Valley. The main
question for discussion will be: How can we
economic in saving our cr0psr'
"A marble column 25 feet long, feet
inches at the base and weighing l6 tons Is ABOUT
being completed at the Beaver Dam Marble
Works, near Cockeysville. 1t will be used in
the Art Gallery at Buffalo. N. Y. The cost Of
this immense stone is about $4,000.
Some of The UNIONS pink slips" that
went out with the first issue OF the paper IN the
- .hor loot wa
to the Office this week. 1t took them long
time to make the return trip, but they got here
lust the same. Better late than never.
The Sunday school of st. Johns Luth-
eran Church, Blenheim. 10th district, will hold
its annual picnic on Wednesday, August 80,
opposite the public school house at Blenheim.
Long Green Cornet Band will be present at
night. The public is cordially invited.
Mrs. Hannah Ellen Patterson, wife Of
Mr. Amentis T. Patterson, formerly Of Balti-
more county, died at her home at Emmorton,
Hartford county, on Tuesday last, after long
illness. She is survived by her husband four
daughters and one son-Mr. e. Stanley Patter-
son.
his residence situated on Bosley avenue, in
the western section of Towson, by erecting an
addition to the dwelling and painting the same
in bright coors. These Improvements en-
nance the attractiveness Of that part OF the
-Towson NJ. E. Sunday school held its
annual picnic at Druid Hill Park on Tuesday,
going and returning by the trolley line. tire.
quired three of the big open cars to transport
this large school, of which Mr.. James Il.
Dunphy has been superintendent nearly thirty
years.
-Mr. Harry A. Orrick has sold his pretty
summer home near Chattolanee Springs, Green
Spring Valley. to Mr.. Allan McLane, of Balti-
more. The place is being occupied this sum-
mer by Mr.. and Mrs. Moncure Robinson. The
location is one of the most beautiful in that
section.
= Beginning Sunday. August It'll, gospel
service will be held each evening in tent to
be erected on the vacant lot in front of THE
UNION office, to be conducted by Revs. J. L.
Straughn and John R. Edwards, pastors of the
Methodist churches of Towson. The meeting
will be continued two weeks.
- Messrs. Grason & Bacon, attorneys for q
number of petitioners, have filed protest al
Towson against the granting of q license Ia
John Noppenberger to sell liquor at the 17-Mile
House on the York turnpike. Numerous at
tennis have been made to secure license for
this house, but all have failed.