The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-06-10
LOCAL ITEMS.

- Next Sunday is Whit Sunday and the
day following is observed by many as holt
day.
->All-day services will be held at Dover NJ.
=. Church, Hereford Circuit, on Sunday,
June 18th.
THE growing corn is making fine progress
just now, and the fields present very attrac-
tive appearance.
- Wednesday next. June 14th. is Flag Day.
Every householder should display the Stars
and Stripes that day.
- Gov. Warfieid on Thursday appointed
Charles Z. Smith an additional deputy game
warden for Baltimore county.
- Children's day services will be held at
Iakeview M. E. Church, Dulany's Valley,
Sunday. June 18th, commencing at P. NJ.
- Wheat is beginning to show the yellow
ish tinge that indicates the near approach Of
harvest. Everything betokens large yield.
- The Glen Morris Supply Company has
/been organized to transact business at Glyndon
and Glen Morris. Mr.. John g. Coryell is the
president.
- Rev. w. w. Shaw, pastor of Govanstown
Presbyterian Church, conducted services and
made an address in the Jail at Towson last
Three fatal cases ofcerebrospinal menin-
gifts have occurred at Warren, Baltimore
county, within the last few weeks. All the
victims were children.
- The Howard County School Board, at
its meeting this week, ordered a new schedule
an increase of about per cent.
- Eureka Council, Jr. O. U. A. NJ, Of
Hereford, will present an American flag to the
public school at Glencoe. N. G. X. R., on
Saturday, June 18th, at 6 p. NJ.
:. A colored woman named Mary Watkins
died in Baltimore last Sunday at the age of 106
years. She was born in Maryland in 1879 and
saw part of the battle of North Point.
- The public school at Sherwood, N. G. X:
r., will hold strawberry festival in the school
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Proceeds for the benefit of the school.
- A postofice has been established at &c
clest0n, station on the Green Spring Valley
Branch of the Northern Central Railway, with
Mrs. Laura McGonnagill as postmaster
- Mr.. Charles A.. Councilman, of Worth
ington Valley, commenced cutting his alfalfa
crop on the 9th instant. He also had new
potatoes of his own raising on the same date.
- The County Commissioners this week
declined to accept the Western Run turnpike
as county road. The company made the
offer through Mr. E. E. Scott, one Of its officials.
Zone of the heaviest hail storms ever
seen in that section of the county was ex-
perenced in parts of the 18th district on We'd
nesday afternoon. Not much damage was
done.
ION Sunday last Towson Lodge of Elks
decorated the graves Of deceased members in
the cemeteries at Towson, and also those Of
several buried in the cemeteries about Balti-
more
1.-The contract has been let for the new
Union Chapel to be erected at Timonium and
work OH 1t will be commenced next week.
Contractor VIM. K. Burns, of Towson, will be
the builder.
- Harvest is almost at hand and still COM
plants of the scarcity Of farm help is heard
daily. It is a serious problem with many
farmers how they are going to get through with
their work.
-An esteemed correspondent has letter
in The UNION today telling of cure for teta-
nus, or lockjaw. This is something well worth
preserving. 1t may be the means of saving
The handsome new Methodist Episcopal
Church at Fawn Grove York county. was dedi-
Gated last Sunday. 1t cost $4,000 and the
money was raised by the Methodist ladies of
the community.
- Tuesday, June 9Th, was the warmest day
of the year up to that time. The mercury
registered 90 degrees and in less than II hours
it dropped below 60. This shows the possibili-
ties of this remarkable climate.
- Mr. John Rush Street,, of Harrington"
near Taylor, has threeacre field of alfalfa
from which he has already cut and saved this
year a crop of over two tons to the acre. The
seed was sown August 18th, 1904.
>M Mr.. Edwin Higgins, of the Baltimore
bar publishes an G1rgns patriotic song in THT
be especially suitable for the schools to sing on
Flag Day Wednesday, June 18th.
- Baltimore county pOstmasters were APP
pointed this week as follows: At Glen Morris
w NJ. r. R., Leonard R. Winters, vice P. G.
Zouck, resigned; at Rider, N. G. r. R., Frank
Cook, vice Daniel H. Bryson, resigned.
->Another couple from Baltimore came to
Towson on Thursday and were married by
Rev. ]. L. Straughn, of the M. p. Church.
Both the bride and groom had been separated
from former partners by the divorce court.
- Miss Katie Shriver, of Glyndon, Balti-
more county. won the third prize offered by
the Society of Colonial Wars in the contest for
the best essays on Cecilius Calvert, written by
the pupils of the public schools of Maryland.
ION Wednesday Justice Perrie, of Tow
son, fined Richard Hill, colored, IS in each of
two cases for permitting his rabbit dogs to run
at large. Total 1870, which he paid. Game
Warden Malcolm was the prosecuting witness.
strawberry festivals have been in full
swing this week and the way they have been
men is a caution And they can't miss them.
If they do their names will go on the suspect
list
Maryland Christian Endeavors will hold
their grand rally at the Lyric Theatre in Balti
more, on Friday, July 7th, during the week of
the Christian Endeavor Convention. It is ex-
pected that fully 5000 Marylanders will par
ticipate.
-->The annual all-day meeting at Sater's
Baptist Church, on the Falls road, will take
place next Sunday. These meetings have been
held the second Sunday in every June for over
one hundred years. They are usually largely
attended.
The Police Commissioners of Baltimore
city intend this year to strictly enforce the law
against the use of explosives on the 4th of July.
A number of deaths in the city last year re-
suited from accidents from fireworks of vari
Gus kinds.
ellis Sunday school will hold its Chill
dren's day service in GilPs school house, 4th dis
trict Sunday morning. June 18th. at 1880
o'clock. Public cordially invited to attend.
Rev. Edward G. Gisriel, pastor in charge. will
deliver an address.
Nothing has yet come to light regarding
the burning of the home of DR.. Stuart Cassard
on the HiIlen road, near Towson, last week.
That the fire was of incendiary origin seems
certain, but who the guilty person is is still en-
shrouded in mystery.
THE Towson baseball team went down to
Mt. Washington last Saturday afternoon and
were beaten by the strong team OF that place
IL to g.. The home team has no regular game
A. c. having cancelled.
THE public school at Mantua Mills, 4th
district, Miss Elizabeth A. Shroyer, teacher,
will hold an ice-cream festival and bazaar on.
the school lawn, on Friday and Saturday
evenings. June 10th and 18th. Proceeds for
the benefit of the school.
--$Mrs. E. L. Pinkerton, who some time
ago purchased piece of ground on West Allie
gany avenue, TOws0D, this week commenced
excavating the foundation for cottage. Benja-
Lulu JOuuSOus buc Ouly COAOIcu CaL PcutcI III
Towson, has the contract.
ANY number of automobiles passed
through Towson last Sunday and they were of
all shapes. By the way, one of these machines
blew up in Washington county few days ago
and its occupants made o narrow escape from
an involuntary trip skyward.
THE commencement concert ofthe Mary
land College of Music, which took place at
Ford's, Opera House, Baltimore on Tuesday
evening last, was very successful and enjoya-
BILE affair and reflected great credit upon the
director, Prof. Alfons w. Schenuit.
1.-THE Children's day exercises of the Sum
day school of the M. E. Church at Roland
Park took place on Sunday night last with an
elaborate and interesting program. The fine
new pipe organ recently installed in the
church was used for the first time.
- The Baltimore County Electric and
Water Company is prospecting at Towson with
a view to boring several additional artesian
wells here in order to supply the increasing de-
mand for water. The officers of the company
say the supply will be forthcoming.
Frank Shriver, formerly of Reisterstown,
who is a gauger in the customs service and
lives in Baltimore, obtained divorce from his
wife few days ago on the ground of abandon
ment He testified that his wife left him because