The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-09-23


as "Beulah,' formerly the residence of Nj
Joshua REGISTER. on REGISTER avenue, nea
Thursday. Oct. IL. by Mrs. Mary Schenning, fl
the village of Oragevile, Phila. road. horses
cows. hogs, poultry, wagons. farm jmple
ments. dairy fixtures, household and kitchen
Thursday, October IL, by Conrad Fisher, nea
Perry Hall, 18th district, stock. wagons. farm
implements, household effects, etc.
Tuesday, October II, by Percy @. Hennighaussn
attorney. on the premises, leasehold proper
ty No. 5l2 Third street, Canton.
torney. at the Court House used door. farm @ o
12s acres situated in the 9Th district.
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The School Board will hold meeting a
Towson, on Wednesday next, September 9th
- Miss Katie NJ. Novel;. principal of tbs
public school at Baldwin, 18th district, has re
signed
&c October I'd next the postoffice at Loeb
Raven, Baltimore county will become money
order Office.
- The Towson fox that THE UNION spoke
about last week has since met an ignominious
death. He was shot for stealing chickens.
- Sparrow's Point baseball team did the
trick to the Belair fellows last Saturday. Score
to 0, and that looks pretty bad for the
Belarians.
The bad road kicker is numerous just al
this time, but let him possess his soul in
patience. There will come turn for the better
some time.
The postofice at Carney, on the Hartford
road, will be discontinued after October 14th
and be superseded by rural free delivery from
Loeb Raven.
=, Today-Saturday, September 23d-is the
first day of autumn, the remarkable summer
Of 1905 having ended on Friday. according to
the almanac.
Mrs. Hannah j. A. H. Bowerman has
sold 376 acres of her property on Bird river,
18th district, to Mr.. Frank N. Hoen, of Balti-
more, for Sc, 500.
- Messrs. William A. March, Noah Walker.
H Holiday Enrich and William V. Carver are
named as incorporators of the Arlington V0lun-
teer Firemen's Association.
THE Baptist Juniors will hold a fair in
the Odd Fellows Hall at Hereford, on Satur-
day evening, September 30th. There will be
a fancy table and ice-cream.
sThe fund for the cruiser Maryland has
now reached S4,2l8. If you wish to contribute
something towards it you can leave the money
at the Towson National Bank.
The time selected for the Elks fair in
Towson is the last week in October Balti-
more City Lodge Of the order has appointed q
committee to assist at the fair.
THE shocks in some fields of corn that
have been cut off stand so close together in the
rows as to almost touch each other. These
fields ought to turn off big crops.
IA barrack on the farm of Mr.. John 8.
Royston, in the 9Th district was destroyed by
$500. Cause of the fire unknown.
MIR. George III. Merryman, who is an
extensive and successful farmer near BOsley
postoffice, threshed 300 bushels of wheat this
season, an average OF 20 bushels to the acre.
THE Talbot county fair is going on this
week and Hartford will be the next in order,
commencing October 10th. The Hagerstown
fair will be held the same week as Hartford.
- It has been noticed that there were fewer
bugs and millers that fly at night about Tow
son the past summer than was ever known
before. Why this was so we are unable to
explain.
%Dr. r. c. Massenburg, sanitary officer for
the 9th district. has determined to put an end
to the pigpen nuisance in some of the suburbs
of Towson. He regards them as menace to
public health.
- In the medal contest at the meeting of
Baltimore County w. G. T. U. at Govanstown
last week Miss Ethel McRoberts. daughter of the
late William McRoberts, Jr., was the success.
full contestant.
>The fact that court was in session this
week did not appear to liven up things about
Towson to any noticeable degree. Many of
the cases called on the first day were removed
to other courts.
- The fine new bowling alleys attached to
the Guild House in Towson are rapidly nearing
completion. There are three OF these and they
promise to afford fine sport during the coming
fall and winter.
Towson on Monday met with singular acct
dent. The animal tripped and fell, breaking
both shafts from the cart. Neither colt nor
driver was hurt.
sSome inquiry was made in Towson this
week about the proposed electric railway be-
tween Towson and Cockeysville. The informa-
ton that was given was not OF very en-
couraging nature.
- Mantua Mill, in the 4th district, run
by Mr.. Thomas e. Gill, has resumed operations
after an enforced idleness of three months due
to injury done to the dam by the heavy freshets
of the past summer.
Cut down the weeds about your premises
and burn them after they are dry. This is
better than allowing them to go to seed and
may also prevent sickness from decaying
vegetation after frost comes.
-Mr. William II. Wight, ofKinloch Farm,
near Cockeysville, who generally produces good
crops, raised this year 261 bushels of wheat 10
to the acre. He also raised an average of 30
bushels of barley to the acre.
IAN auto went through Towson last Sun
day at the rate of 25 miles an hour. Fortunately
few people were on the street and nobody was
run down. The speed limit through towns for
these machines is six miles an hour.
- Some of the numerous premiums taken
by Mr.. Joshua Goodwin at the late Timonium
fair were credited to other people. Mr.. Good
win, who takes great interest in the fair, farms
the Abel place. on the Pot Spring road.
THE weather man touched us up again
this week to the tune of Sc degrees and the
temperature was oppressive enough to feel like
So. 1t was distinctly dog day weather and
everybody knows how mean that can be.
The ceremony of laying the corner stone
for the new Methodist Episcopal Church at
Stevenson. Green Spring Valley, which was
announced to take place next Sunday, has
been postponed until Sunday. October LIST.
THE last of the bi-monthly dances at the
Cockeysville Country Club was given on Friday
night of last week, in charge of Mrs. j. r.
Orrison, Mrs. P. PalagaDo and Mrs. n. P.
Hammarstrom. The attendance was large.
MIR. Conrad Fisher, who lately sold his
property on the JOppa road, near Camp Chapel,
will dispose of all his personal property thereon
and shortly thereafter sail for Europe on q
pleasure trip. See advertisement in THE UNION
= today.
- The Sunday school of Mt. Olive Evan
gelical Church, in the I'd district, held its an
nual picnic on Wednesday, on the church
lawn, with large attendance. Mr.. Martin L.
lean, superintendent of the school, was in
- Patrolman Thomas McGrain, of the
Dmid Hill Park mounted police force, had bis
hlrse killed few days ago by becoming fright
eed and running into tree. The off1cer was
NJ hurt. Officer McGrain is a native oil
Tmson.
Il - Rev. J. A.. Jones, pastor of Hereford
Besist Church, named as delegates to the
Mile District Baptist Association, which mel
in annapolis this week, Mrs. Jacob M. VII
heA, Miss Emma s. Daily and Mr.. John i
WAelm.
-The Mullen Manufacturing Company
for inducing general machine and repair
shoR has been Incorporated in Baltimore Will
c9AaI stock of $4,000. Capt. Gregory NJ
MuIA, formerly of Towson, is among the in
corpAlors.
--.lAe body of Henry @. Ceilings, who dice
on thAh of November last was on Thursday
remoM from its first place of interment II
the Ueterv attached to the Presbyterian
ChurCa Govanstown, to Prospect Hill Gene
terry, Inon.
~ Hugh L. Elderdice, D. D., will de
liver nseture entitled Three Sweet Hearts,
in the Inn Hall at Warren, on Monday even
ing, Oc&sr ID. at 7.3O O'Clock. Proceeds TO
the pen Of the Methodist Protestant Churcf
at that N,.e
- Sscre field of corn on the White Hal
Manor of Mr.. Joseph Friedenwaid, II
WoI.na.A Valley, is claimed to be amonl
the mes MARYLAND. The stalks stand from
Il 20 10 ugh and the ears range from 10 Z
40 lnoT W. Angth. -.
DansAn of the late Thomas II. Moore
near hocAS4 Falls road, was offered at publ
sale on w&edav. on the premises, by tn
trustees; usshhdrawn, the highest bid BENZ
deemeI a4dent. Messrs. Pattison d Gahal
- AT tn.tSntv fair at Indianola, Iowa,