The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-07-22

AZ pleasant HILL 4th district.
Tuesday, August !, by Charles Herzog. attorney
on the premises. q commOdious dwelling anc
lot Of ground at Tuxedo Park. Orb district.
Thursday. August 8. By George II. Meise and L
b. Meise, surviving executors. ETC., on the
premises, q truck farm OF 2i@ acres neal
Fullerton, 14th district.
Tuesday. August 8, by James ]. Lindsay. attor-
ney. at the Court House, farm Of 20 acres
on the Hartford road, near Greenwood.
O-
-, COPIES of the premium list for the com
ing Timonium fair may be bad by personally
applying at THE UEIoN office. =.
- It is said that Mr.. Philip T. Hartman will
be the new postmaster Of Ellicott City. He is
backed by Congressman Mudd.
- Tuesday last was the hottest day in Bal
ttmore in three years. The mercury at the
weather bureau reached 9S degrees.
- The hottest weather of the summer was
experienced in TOwson early this week. Ihe
mefcdry here registered So degrees:
- Last Saturday was St. Swithin's day and
IL didn't rain According to the ancient belief
it will not rain again for forty days.
- Oats harvest was in full swing this week
and the crop promises we'll. The weather was
all that could be desired for such work.
- The T0Wson baseball team is scheduled
to play game this Saturday. afternoon with
the Suburbans, on Park Heights avenue.
- The highest record made by the mercury
in THE UNION Office was on the "a o. July,
1901, when it registered Sc degrees at 2 P. n:
Shore, on Bear creek, was drowned on Wednes-
day. He was go years old and leaves family:
- The Alert Volunteer Fire Company, OF
the Belair road, will hold a picnic in Raspes
Grove at Raspeburg, on Tuesday next, July
18th.
- Mr.. Milton Dance one of the Oldest resi-
dents of DuIanys Valley, was kicked on the
arm by horse on Thursday last and painfully
hurt.
>The County Commissioners have ap-
pointed Robert Nelson, constable for the 10th
district. He qualified and filed his bond on
- By the distribution of the State school
book fund made by the Comptroller on the 10th
inst, Baltimore county schools will receive
S11, 324.16.
- Last Saturday was the first in eleven
days that it did not rain in Baltimore county.
More than 6 inches of rain fell here in the first
Is days of July.
- That perenniel nuisance the fellow who
always asks, us it hot enough for you = was
around this week. There ought to be law TO
suppress such people.
- The cornerstone for the new Eks' Home
in Towson will he laid on Tuesday afternoon
next. Baltimore Lodge of the order will partici-
pate in the ceremony.
- The John A. Sheridan Company has
been awarded the contract to erect an addition
to an apartment house on Hamilton Ierrace
Baltimore, for $4,000.
The Sunday school OF Trinity P. e.
Church. Towson, went on its annual picnic to
Gwynn Oak Park on Thursday, going and re-
turning by trolley car.
There appears to be a growing feelng
among the people that toll roads should be
abolished. These distractions to travel appear
to be relic of past ages.
>It looks as though any loss the farmers
have sustained on their wheat will be made up
by their corn crop. The prospect for corn in
this county was never better.
A sofo ,.k fu,4r, AL Nv NJ q
Bosley, of Towson, died on Saturday night
last The other babe has also been very i'll and
it was thought it could not recover.
"a Baltimore police justice this week
fined young white man 800 and costs for
cruelty beating horse over the head. He was
unable to pay the fine and had to go to Jail.
- Republican primary meetings will be
held in Baltimore county early in August
The date will be fixed after the meeting of the
State Central Committee on the 18th instant.
gy-> The board Of managers ofthe Timonium
fair held q meeting on Tuesday afternoon on
the fair grounds. Only routine business was
transacted. The grounds are in fine condition.
AT the conclusion of the business session
of John Eager Howard Council, Jr Q. o. A..
NJ, of Towson, on Wednesday evening the
members enjoyed watermelon feast at the
hall
"A twilight service will be held on the
lawn at Union NJ e. Church. Long Green
Circuit, Sunday. July 23d, commencing at 7
o'clock, conducted by the pastor, Rev. M. l..
Beall
IA 18th district man was arrested in Bal
timore on Wednesday on the charge of not
having proper license on bis wagon. He got
off without fine by exhibiting a receipt for
the same.
The tent meeting to be held by the con-
gregation of Towson M. E. Church will COM
meDce on Sunday, July Both, on vacant lot
on Delaware avenue, one square east of the
Yord road
- A freight wreck occurred at Bentley
Springs N. q. r. R., on Tuesday last in which
q number of empty cars were smashed. No
one was injured. Both tracks were blocked for
some hours.
Mr.. G. E. Thomas, contractor and builder,
has the foundation ready for another cottage
on bis property at Terrace Dale, South Towson.
He already has quite little village of his own
at that place.
--Mr. John Cowan, the we'll known con-
tractor and builder of Pikesville, has been
awarded the contract for the erection of large
addition to the country house of Gen. Clinton
L. Riggs, near Gainesville.
The Wabrook and Belair baseball team
had lively tussle at the former place on Wed.
nesday afternoon and the Walbrooks came off
victorious-3 to 2. These are among the best
amateur teams in the State.
"a number of attractive residences are
now in course of erection on Park Heights
avenue and that section of the county is inn
tages as place of residence.
- When you tell would be land buyers that
they can't purchase an acre of ground in some
sections about Towson for less than $500 and
from that to 81. 900 an acre they look at you in
great surprise, but it's fact.
There is some trouble over the Shoe
maker Road Law in Prince Georges county
because the money to be expended under it
will 90 into section of the county that pays
the smallest part of the taxes.
>Dr VIM. Kennedy Carroll died at Arrow,
COL, on Thursday last aged "a years. He was
anative of Maryland and son of the late David
Carroll, of Woodbury.. Deceased was an uncle
of Mayor Timanus of Baltimore.
THE old Sudbrook House in Pikesville,
once a popular summer resort, is closed this
season. Many years ago il was conducted as a
hotel or road house, but latterly 1t has been
used as a summer boarding house.
- Look out for your horses when the mer-
curry gets around 80. Drive carefully and
water frequently. A little care and attention
will save these faithful animals from much
suffering during the heated term."
THE public roads are getting into some
sort of shape again after the damage done by
the heavy food of two weeks ago. 1t will be
some time, however, before they are in as good
shape as they were before that deluge.
- Mr.. John Cromwell died at bis home in
Baltimore on Thursday from the effects Of in
iuries sustained in the street car wreck at High
1andtown several weeks ago. He was 80 years
old and native of Baltimore county.
I've Deestrck Skule' lately held under
the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society oil
Jessop NJ. E. Church, north of Cockeysville
netted about $50. The entertainment having
proven so successful it will be repeated.
- The first month of summer ended on
Friday, 2lst inst. 1t brought more rain than
was good for many farmers, who were late with
their harvesting, but upon the whole there was
not much about it to call forth complaints.
- About this time each year the usual CROP
of stories about people finding turtles with
signs of great antiquity on them-say thu
figures l79S-appear. The figures simply show
that the boy and his pocket knife are busy.
- Mrs Edward O. Meads. who died at hel
home in Keswick. Va, few days ago, was {
daughter of the late Henry R. BurgoyDe, of thu
9Th district of this county, and sister of Mr.
James L. Burgoyne, of the County Clerks
office.
- Scientists say that two large spots on thu
sun caused the intense heat of this week. Tit
sun is q pretty big atfair-9OO,O 600 miles il
diameter-and no wonder it can make thing
hot for us poor mortals when it gets good an'
ready.
Some Baltimore county farmers hat
their teams engaged last Sunday hauling il
wheat and rye that should have been unde
cover nearly two weeks before. Some CT ]
was in very bad condition, If not entlrel.