The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-04

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at the Court House door. Holly Neck Fari
and Fishing Shore. in Back River Neck.
Monday. June 20, by X. Fl. Bussey. attorney Q
d dns AFsm near White Hail, 4. 9. Z. 4.
Wednesday, JUNG 20, by +. w. Feldner and Y. l
Wattenscheidt, trustees, on the premises,
country home on the Frederick road nee
the corner of Beechfield avenue.
- Harry D. Cross, of Towson, has been al
pointed constable for the 9th district.
The furnishings of the County, Con
missioners' Office have been improved by tn
addition of fine new clock.
THE craze for tan shoes appears to b
greater this season than ever before, and thi
is especially true with ladies.
The Sunday school of New Market M
z. Church will hold its Children's day servic
>"Dfck," favorite setter dog belongin
to Col. d. 9. Mcintosh, of Towson, died Oh
Monday night at the age of 10 years.
THE 277th meeting of the Presbytery o
Baltimore will be held in the Presbyterian
Church at Govanstown, on Thursday, June 21st
- Miss Mollie George has sold Jay Bird
the horse that took first prize in the green hun
ter class at the late Baltimore horse show, To-
$500.
- Baltimore county farmers are still rush
ing their hay to market and the prices arr
keeping up, which must be most encouraging
to them.
- The rains of this week were much need.
all kinds was beginning to show the want o.
moisture.
The Sunday school of Phoenix M. E
Church will hold strawberry festival on Sat
urday evening, June 4th, to which a general
invitation is extended.
THE taxable basis of the 18th district
this year is Sill 8l9. ia and that of the 9th dis
trict $11, 500, 100. These are thetwo wealthiesi
districts in the county.
- William H. Gott has been appointed
postmaster at Garrison, Baltimore county;
The Office is located on the ReisterstowA road
south of Owings' Mills.
THE regular monthly meeting Of the
Neighborhood Improvement Club of Govans-
town will be held in Golden Eagle Hall, Tues
day, June 7th, ats Pm
- More robins than usual are nesting about
Towson this year and it is noticed that the
birds have become much more tame since they
are protected by the law.
"a carrier pigeon that was, apparently,
overcome with fatigue, was caught at the Hos
pital for Consumptives, on the Hillen road
near Towson, on Tuesday.
MIR. William S. Keech, of the Towson
bar, has sold his bay driving mare to MIR. J..
Proctor Brady, who has taken cottage at Sud.
brook Park for the summer.
"A number of colored families have late
ly moved away from Sparrow's Point and will
locate in Iowa. 1t is said they don't like the
Maryland Jim Crov" law.
will observe Children's day on Sunday, June
9th, at P. NJ, and EPSON Church, Towson, in
the evening of the same day.
THE Airing Brook property, embracing
about 200 acres and located along the Liberty
road, was offered at auction on Tuesday and
withdrawn on bid of 1925, 900.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Grace Evan.
gelical Lutheran Church, Lauravile and Ham
ilton, will hold its annual strawberry festival
in Hamilton Hall, June 7th and 8th
The Sunday school of st. Johns Luth-
eran Church, Parkville Hartford road, will
hold its annual ChiIdren's day service on Sun
day, June 18th, commencing at 7.30PM.
THE report of the last meeting of the
Senior Gunpowder Agricultural Club held
May 28th, at the farm of Mr. James B. Ensor,
will be published in THE UNION next week.
->Corn appears to be growing finely and
s9sh % hsz sh ssTsSaf been worked Two or
- what so rare as a day in June" The
poet who wrote that is dead. If he had been
here this week when that month was ushered
in he would have had reason to change his
mind.
- The contract has been let for the erection
of the Guild House on the south side of Penn
sylvania avenue, near the Court House, Tow
son. Builder M. Fl. Merryman was the lowest
bidder.
- zone shot from small revolver entirely
OF Baltimore city. 1t was sad and terrible
affair and one that called forth universal SYM
patty.
MIR. William H. Gill has sold his coun-
try place on the Frederick road, near Cations.
ville to Mr.. Thomas +. McHugh, of Baltimore,
for $4,000. The place contains acres and is
well improved.
"a few days ago Mr.. Frank Gartling, of
Chestnut Ridge, killed black snake that
measured IL feet 2 inches in length. Why
didn't he stretch it to the even II feet and let
her go at that
ufacturing Company in Belair was sold at pub
lie sale by the receivers on Tuesday. The Peo-
pies National Bank of Delta became the pur-
chaser at 5000.
- new hotel and modern Office building
are two of the things that are being talked
about for Towson. Let us have both of them
the sooner the better. Both are sure to
prove paying ventures.
- Country people pay very little attention
to Decoration Day as holiday, although it
was almost like Sunday in Towson. A num-
Der of graves in the cemeteries about the town
were strewn with flowers.
The Rockland Athletic Club will hold
lawn fete at Rockland Station, Green Spring
Branch R. R., on Thursday and Friday even
ings, June 9th and 10th. +. w. Williams is
chairman of the committee.
- Mr.. Richard Mullineaux, who has held
the position for years, has again been appoin-
ted by the County Commissioners special of.
ficer for Gwynn Oak Park. His salary is paid
by the United Railways Company.
- The last day of May brought an un-
precedented rush to the county tax Office and
Treasurer Mays and his clerks had rather more
to do than was comfortable. The discount on
county bills this month is II per cent.
- Within a few days two attempts have
been made to set fire to the summer home of
ex-Gov. William Pinkney Whyte, at Ruxton,
N. G. r. r. Fortunately both were discovered
in time to avert serious conhagration.
"A class of twenty-seven boys and girls
Give of them colored) made their first COM
munion last Sunday morning at st. Marks
Catholic Church, Catonsville, the pastor, Rev.
]. E. Dunn, conducting the ceremonies.
1.-THE property of the Nitsch Brick Com
pany, located on the Washington road, 18th
district, was sold at auction on Tuesday by the
receivers. Messrs Edward L. Ward and George
Although Monday last was legal holt
day County Treasurer Mays kept his effice
open and by so doing accommodated many
who came here 10 pay their taxes, entirely
overlooking the fact that the day was holt
day.
"a year before the electric railway was
built on the Belair road land fronting on that
could have been bought for 500
an acre. Now some of this land divided into
building lots, sells at the rate of over $1,000
an acre.
1.-THE weather bureau says that the wealth
or of the past month was about the normal
and that therefore there was nothing remarka-
BILE about it. But we experienced very few
really hot days and most of the nights were
very cool.
- Ripple, Mr.. Upton S. Brady's promising
FLY, fell in a steeplechase at Pimlico last Sat-
urday and rolled completely over her colored
jockey; injuring him to such an extent that he
had to be sent to hospital. The mare was
not hurt.
- Old DeGarnett, Mr.. Robert NJ Taylor's
horse ridden by Mr.. Nicholas, won two steeple-
chases at the spring meeting of the Green
Spring Valley Hunt Club at Pimlico. This
horse was formerly owned by the late Harry
Birckhead.
- After this week part of the reading mat
ter in THE UNION will be set by linotype
which is the name of the wonderful type-set-
ting maching now coming into general use.
Heretofore all of this work has been done by
hand in the Office.
->The beautiful custom of strewing the
graves of the dead with flowers was generally
observed last Monday and few burial places
were overlooked. The soldier dead were espe-
cialy remembered, the day having been crea-
ted especially for them.
->Some Baltimore county people have al
ready gone to the Worlds Fair and others are
planning to do so. The railroad rates are very
reasonable and this will no doubt be an oPPor-