The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-07-09
LOCAL ITEMS.

SALES ADVERTISED IN "THE UNION
Monday. July 1s: BY Harry z. Mann, attorney,
&C., at the Court House door. q country seat
Mond az, July Is, on the premises, by Mrs. G
Hoffman, two tracts of land in Back River
district.
-sIt was five months on Thursday since
the great fire in Baltimore.
- The Hartford National Bank of BelaiI
has declared q semi-annual dividend Of PEI
cent, clear Of taxes.
AN old resident said that the rain in
ToWson on Thursday was the heaviest expert.
enced here since the great food Of 1888.
- Hicks prediction of thunder storms in
July appears to be coming out all right.
Nearly every day brings one or more Of them.
-DThe County Commissioners, who adj
iourned over for one week to attend the St.
Louis Exposition, will be in session next week
as usual.
bod On ha.<i . b.lance Of k451 ,954.21. The
disbursements for the month of June amounted
to $74, 2l4.49.
-sThe Sunday school Of Towson M. E..
Church, Mr.. James Il. Dunphy, superinten-
dent, will bold its annual picnic in Druid Hill
Park on Tuesday, July 10Th.
ION Friday night, LIST instant, the Grand
Officers of the Grand Lodge of Maryland, /.
o. o. f., instituted Highland Lodge, at High
land Academy, Highlandtown.
This week completes the publication Of
the county's statement Of expenses in The
UNION. Hereafter we will be able to devote
our usual space to reading matter.
THE School Board, having broken the ice
some time ago, this week elected another wo-
man school trustee. Let the good work go
on and thereby benefit the schools.
- Rev. John X. Edwards, the pastor,
preached a patriotic sermon in the NJ. E.
Church here on Sunday night last, which was
much appreciated by large audience.
Corn is now doing finely aud all the in
dications point to big crop. In many fields
the growth has lately been so rapid that the
corn is already beyond the working size.
The plant Of the Baltimore Veneer Com
pany, located in Highlandtown, was totally
destroyed by fire last Monday night, causing
heavy loss. The insurance amounted 10 $780,
Co.,
- John NJ. Tarbert the rural free delivery
carrier at Philopolis, Baltimore county, has
travelled his route for two years without miss
ing day or meeting with an accident of any
kind.
- Messrs. Boarman & Lindsay, attorneys
for Samuel r. Harrison, have docketed q suit
in the Circuit Court here against Johannes w.
Ullrich, claiming $4,000 damages for alleged
Islander.
- Another couple from Baltimore came to
Towson on Saturday last and were married by
Rev. ]. L. Straughn, pastor Of the NJ. P. Church.
II was the second matrimonial venture of both
the bride and groom.
THE catalogue for the Baltimore county
fair of 1904 has been issued and copies of it
may be had by applying at this office. The
fair begins this year on the 9th of September
and continues five days.
1.-The mercury again got above 80 early
this week and the humidity in the atmosphere
made the heat oppressive. Heavy thunder
storms on Tuesday afternoon and evening re-
lieved matters somewhat.
Another exhibition of the Gibralter Fire
Paint-a wonderful combination of ingredients
that will resist the hottest fre-will be given
near Tracey's Hotel. Towson. Monday night,
July 18th, at 7.30 o'clock.
Church, Towson, spent Wednesday last in
Druid Hill Park, going and returning by
trolley car. Mr.. s. Howard Merryman is SUI
perintendent of the school.
- DR.. Harry 8. Jarrett, of Towson, had bis
right hand painfully injured on the Fourth by
he was holding. His father, DR.. James H.
jarrett. dressed the wound.
town. was damaged BY IRE 4 to the extent Of
about $500 on Monday morning last. A piece
of the wrapper of cannon cracker fell on the
roof and ignited the shingles.
The Lauraville Hall and Land Company
is now installing an electric plant in the hall
IN III,
be an improvement that will be much appre-
ciated by those who use the hall.
- No one in Towson appears to have seen
the meteor that passed across the western sky
early last Sunday night. If anyone did see it
they must have taken it for an early beginning
of the Fourth Of July celebration.
- The officers of Towson Lodge OF Odd
Fellows were installed on Thursday night, the
ceremonies being followed by banquet. Rev.
John r. Edwards, pastor OF Towson M. II.
Church, is chief officer of the lodge.
- We are now at the beginning OF the
period that almanacmakers call "dog days."
q season when there is more humidity in the
atmosphere than usual, and which, in conse-
uuence is more unpleasant for man and beast.
All the resorts about Baltimore were
crowded with people on the Fourth. but there
were very few accidents of any kind. It is
said that during the day and evening there
were fully forty thousand people at River View
- The heavy rains of this week will make
work for the road supervisors and cause the
expenditure of much extra money. 1t is said
many of the roads have been badly washed
and Il will take some time to get them in shape
- The Sunday schools of the Monkton Cir
cult, NJ E. Church, will hold their annual re-
union in Guthries woods, near Clynmalira
Church, on Wednesday, July 9th. Schools
of other denominations will be invited to par
ticipate.
-DThe Fourth passed very quietly in Tow
son, and the discharge of fireworks during the
day and evening was all that caused it to differ
from other days. The weather was charming
and this aided largely in contributing to the
pleasures of the day.
finely located building lots on the south side
of the Joppa road, just west OF Towson. will
open wide avenue through them and have
the same macadamized. He does not contem-
plate building this year.
THE board Of managers of the Baltimore
County Agricultural Society held its regular
monthly meeting in Baltimore last Saturday.
All the reports regarding the coming fair are
said to be most encouraging and very sue
cessful exhibition is expected.
Wheat harvest-so far as cutting the
grain is concerned-is about over in Baltimore
glad il some of our friends would let US know
how the crop is turning out. Many predict
that 1t will be unusually light.
- Building operations are now quite brisk
in the burnt district of Baltimore and in the
course of few months the city will have
begun to assume some of its old.time lines:
Building lots are changing hands daily and
contracts are being let for new structures.
-->All the summer hotels and boarding
houses are now in full blast, but the weather
has not yet been hot enough to please the pro-
prietors. When Old Sol begins to put on steam
IN earnest tQeu tQ6 ACcOi " Oe6lh W
up and their proprietors wear smiling faces.
MIR. G. o. Wilson has had the plans pre-.
pared for handsome cottage that he will erect
on his EmbIa Park property, west of Charles
street avenue. It will contain thirteen rooms,
exclusive of bathroom, halls and lobbies, and
will cost between six and eight thousand dol
lars.
>The residence of Mr.. Robert White, near
Catonsville was destroyed by fire last Satur'
day afternoon, causing loss of about S5,OOO'
The fire started in the kitchen from an un'
known cause Mrs. White, who was SICK IN
bed, had to be carried from the burning
building. -
"a COW belonging to Mr.. William J;
Slower. of Phoenix, N. @. r. R., was drowned
on Tuesday by becoming entangled in the rope
nv which she was tethered on the bank of 6
stream and falling into the water in such way
as to have her head held under until she wa;
strangled.
Charles r. Brown, a former employee o.
THE UNION, who is the rural carrier on the new
route extending east from Towson, is perform
ing good service and giving satisfaction to the
neopie on the route, which is about q miles il
length and, for the most part, covers thickly
settled territory.
- A brilliant meteor was seen in the west
ern section of this county on Sunday nigh
last. It's course being from the southwest to th'
northwest. The heavens were brilliantly illu
minated. especially in the neighborhood o
Pikesvilie. and some thought it fell to the eartl