The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-08-26

tee and executor, on the premises, a lot o.
ground and an ice manufacturing plant II
Monday, Sept. 1. by Charles F. Schultz, auction
eer, on the premises, the property known al
OILERS Park and Summer Resort, on the
Belair road above Herring run.
Wednesday. Sept. 20, by 2. H. Isaac, Frank 1
Duncan and VIM. N: Isaac, trustees, on the
- An ingenious individual in York has Sc
cured patent for milking machine.
Tile public schools of this county will
open for the fall term on Monday, Septem
Der 18th.
- Next Thursday will be the last day Of
August and the summer Of 1905 can almost
"see its finish.n
THE UNION Office will have G. & P
telephone in a few days. We are already
using the Maryland phone.
- Towson Lodge of Elks initiated six can
didates at its meeting on Tuesday night. The
lodge now has a membership of about 100.
- Friday, August 18th, was the coolest Au
gust day in the past thirty-four years, the
lowest temperature being 81 degrees at A. NJ.
- Pickpockets are operating on the street
cars of Baltimore city just now. A well known
lawyer lost a gold watch in this way on Tuesday
- Mrs. Bertha Hutchins, of Towson, has
gone to a hospital in Baltimore to have an
operation performed on her foot for an in.
growing nail.
of Towson, died very suddenly on Tuesday
night last. She was "a years of age and leaves
three little children.
The summer hotel and clearinghouse.
keepers will welcome hot spelr' at the close
of August. This will insure longer stay for
many of their patrons.
- Plenty OF politics will be on tap at the
Timonium fair this year and the candidates
for the various offices will get in some good
work with the dear people,"
- Mrs. Sarah Yoder. of Long Green Valley.
raised some very fine Burbank potatoes this
season. One of them measured ii inches in
length and weighed pounds.
- The new Union Chapel at Timonium is
nearing completion and will be ready for dedi-
cation about the middle of September. Its cost
will be something like 81, 800
-DSome people continue to send unsigned
communications to this paper. Perhaps they
will learn some time that such things go
straight into the waste basket.
-The new Elks' Home in T0wsOn is going
forward rapidly under the direct supervision
Of Architect Nussear. II promises, when COM
pleted, to be an attractive building.
IA resident Of Carroll county who keeps
a record Of the weather, says that Is inches Of
rain fell in that county in July, 1905-the
heaviest precipitation ever recorded.
lit is said that many counterfeit quarters
are in circulation and 1t would be well to keep
excellent imitation Of the real thing.
THE Republican convention in Towson
on Tuesday brought many callers to The
UNION Office, and we also had the pleasure of
adding several new names to our mail lists.
THE County Commissioners went to Luth-
erville on Tuesday afternoon and inspected
the roads and avenues of that village Extern
sive improvements are in contemplation there.
1.-The tournament on Manor Glen Race
Track, on Saturday. September I'd, promises to
be an enjoyable affair. The proceeds will be
used for improving the track of the association.
Me- H. ul~w.I o.. 1.
5000. Leave small contribution for it at
the Towson National Bank or at THE UNION
Office. Five thousand dollars is the sum to be
raised.
THE horse show promises to be great
feature ct Tim0nium fair this year. Entries
for this department, as we'll as for all the other
stock departments, close on Monday next, Au-
gust 18th.
Typhoid fever is on the increase in Balti-
more city, Sc new cases having been reported
by the health authorities last week. It is be-
lieved that the disease is due entirely to local
conditions.
1.-THE Board of Election Supervisors met
at Towson on Tuesday and administered the
oath of Office to a number of registration off,
GERS. This years registration will begin early
in October.
->On field of 20 acres Hon. J. Fred. C.
Talbot raised this season an average of 26
bushels of wheat to the acre. Mr. Talbot con-
ducts his mothers farm, which is located at
Lutherville.
>Mr Rudolph Affeld, of Lutherville, has
produced this season sunhower stalk 16 feet
4 inches tall. 1t had q flowers on it, some of
which were 16 inches in diameter. That's
hard to beat.
The annual reunion OF the Belt-P Parrish
families, in which many Baltimore county
people are interested, was held on Thursday,
on Emory Grove campground. The atten-
dance was large.
Ill DIT n.
its winter cars ready for service. Wehad hopes
that the old ones would be retired and the new
outfit be in use before that time but it does not
look like that now.
1.-The Ladies' Aid Society of Grace English
Lutheran Church, Lauraville, held a success
full lawn fete in Belvidere Park, on Tuesday
evening. The attendance was large and the
receipts satisfactory.
- Miss Sallie r. Merryman, who died in
Baltimore on the 18th instant, was daughter
of the late Nicholas R. and Clarissa Merryman,
of Baltimore county. The funeral took place
on Monday at IL A. NJ.
- Bethany Lodge, 1. O. F.. of Glen. Arm,
will give an all-day entertainment in Mr.. John
w. Burton's woods, on Tuesday, September
18th. with dancing at night. Particulars in
The UNION next week.
MIR J. NOVEL; Hawkins of Baltimore
county, was high gun at the two-day shooting
tournament at Atlantic City last week, He
ing 1853 out of $50 targets
->Towson was visited on Friday morning,
25th inst, by one of the heaviest rain storms
of the year, accompanied by vivid lightning
and deafening thunder. The rain poured in
torrents for over an hour.
VIM. G. Woolford, of Baltimore, while
bathing at Riverview Park, cut his foot on
broken bottle and lost two of bis toes. He now
sues Mr.. NJ. j. FitZsimmonS, proprietor of the
park, for $4,000 damages.
- Minnie Swami, colored, aged Is years,
was struck by the engine of an express train at
Monkton, N. G. r. R., on Wednesday morning
and instantly killed. She attempted to cross
the track in front Of the train.
Rice Brothers Company has been incor-
porated in Baltimore with a capital stock of
100000. Mr.. Duane HI. Rice, of Baltimore
county, is one of the incorporators. The COM
pany conducts the largest bakery business in
>The storm of Thursday afternoon was
very heavy in the neighborhood of Garden
vile. The high wind blew down a number of
trees and did other damage. The storm in
Baltimore was one of the most violent of the
summer.
- Services in honor of the 160th anniver-
sarv of the birth of Bishop Asbury will be held
at Eutaw Street NJ. Z. Church. Baltimore, on
Thursday, August 31st. Bishop James P.
Wilson will deliver memorial sermon in the
morning.
"A word to the politicians: Don't open
the campaign in Baltimore county until the
weather gets cooler. The middle Of September,
or even the first of October, will be ample time,
and the people will get enough then before
election day.
IA colored boy named Herman Harris,
son of Julius Harris, of Lauraville was badly
burned about the face on Wednesday by the
explosion of a cooking stove at his home. 1t
was wood stove and what caused the explo-
sion is mystery.
Nearly 1000 people attended the tourna-
ment held on Wednesday afternoon for the
benefit of st. Mary's Catholic Church, in upper
Hartford. Mr.. James j. Lindsay, of the Tow
son bar, and Mr.. Sydney Hay ward, of Govans-
town, made the addresses.
- The editors of The UNION return thanks
to Mr.. John T. Riley. of Duquesne, Pa, for
merly of Ashland, Baltimore county, for q
COPY of a newspaper containing an account of
the great iron and steel industry in Mononga-
hela Valley, near Pittsburg.
Ut is stated that twenty-seven bridges
have been washed away in Baltimore county
by the floods of this summer. 1t will cost q
large amount of money to replace these, to say
nothing of the cost of repairing the roads that
suffered from the same cause.
THE display of agricultural implements
and machinery at Timonium this year. prom
ises TO be large and attractive. The leading
firms in Baltimore have secured space and
there will be number of outside exhibits that
cannot fail to attract attention.