The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-05-20

provements. in Green Spring Valley.
Monday May %, by N. e. Ofutt, attorney, at the
Court House door. q farm Of 230 acres, witt
good Improvements. near Belfast, 18th district
Wednesday. May 81. by g. I. Currier, on the Dr
VIM Whitridge farm, near Ashland, 6th dis
trict Percheron horse, wagons, household
effects. poultry, harness, etc.
Monday, June 5, BY John e. Bell, on the .premi-
from oi PARTON PARK On to 1T. Carmel.
Tuesday, June 9, by Percy q. Hennighausen
assignee. on the premises, suburban prop
ertv on the old Frederick road near the city
wednesday, June 2, by John s. Biddison and
John G. Rogers, trustees. at the Court House
door real estate on the Frederick road.
Wednesday. June :. by Frank Junker, on the
premises. on the Old Hartford road, near
Hamilton horses colts. Jersey c9.tle sd harm
hold furniture, etc.
: - The second month of spring ends next
Sunday. May 2lst. According to the almanac
summer begins one month later.
- Baltimore COUNTS allotment Of the
State fund for the improvement of roads is
81. 87S25. The totol appropriation is 500, 600.
-sThe Junior Missionary Society Of Here
ford Baptist Church will hold strawberry and
Ice scream festival on Saturday night, May 10th.
legal holiday in Maryland, is not school holi-
day and the public school will be open as
THE County Commissioners this week
approved the plans Of Architect james s. Nus
scar, Jr., for the Improvements to be made IN
the Jail: "a
height, but the weather has not been favorable
to the crop, hence the prices have generally
a Baltimore man was fined 81 and costs
for splitting on the floor of York road car on
Tuesday. It would be well for others to bear
this In mind.
THE dates for the next Hartford County
Fair are from the 10th to the 18th Of October,
inclusive. This will put the fair later than for
several years.
THE minor children of Benjamin Bess. a
colored man who died at Towson q year or two
ago, have been granted soldiers pension OF
SO per month.
-sThe first Maryland strawberries of the
season were sold in Baltimore on Tuesday at
is and 16 cts. box. They came from Anne
Arundel county.
THE directors Of the Towson National
Bank have declared semi-annual dividend Of
5 per cent, payable on demand, clear OF State
and county taxes. -.
The public schools of this county will
close for the summer holiday on Thursday,
June 9th. The high school commandments
will take place on the 9th.
->Mr. Samuel e. 6hepperd, successful
plant-grower at Monkton, brought to The
UNION Office this week variety of vegetable
plants as fine as we ever saw.
- Coal oil is declining in price in the West
and so Is beef. The trusts that control these
commodities are evidently beginning to feel the
pressure that is being put upon them.
-eThe locust trees are loaded with bloom
and 1t used to be said that this is "sure sign"
of good corn year. Let US hope that 1t will
prove an ''all right indication this year.
THE report of the proceedings of the last
meeting Of the Senior Gunpowder Agricultural
Club, held at the farm of Mr.. James B. Ensor,
will be published in THE UNION next week:
THE sixteenth anniversary of the Ep-
worth League was appropriately celebrated on
Sunday evening last ct Epworth M. E. Church,
CockevsVille Mr.. Harry l.. Caples presided.
THE Supervisors Of Elections, Messrs.
William A. Slade, Charles H. Wise and Jarrett
N. Zimmerman, met at Towson on Wednesday
and destroyed the ballots used at the election
in 1905.
-sThe number of yearly liquor licenses
issued from the County Clerks Office is 342
which is IL more than was issued In 1904. The
receipts from this source so far amount to
$6S, 900.
The summer opening of the Cockeysville
Country Club will take place on Tuesday, May
30th, at 4 P. N. A baseball game will be q
feature, followed by luncheon, music and
dancing.
-s0n Sunday, May 7th; the completed Sec
ton of the Hartford road electric railway car
ried l 1851 passengers and many more might
the line.
THE spring meeting Of the Shrewsbury
Trotting and Driving Association will take
place at Shrewsbury, on Saturday, June 3D..
There will be four events, including one rum
ming race.
and, as usual. it took barrel of money out of
thecity. Many families will be on short allow
ance for some days simply because they had to
see the show.
-The Court House in Belair is 1896 feet
above tidewater. The Court House in Towson
lie 500 feet above. and point on the Joppa
road, half mile east of this town, is over SOC
feet above tide.
-pUp country farmers have been hauling
some very fine hay to market in the last ten
DAYS. One load, drawn by mixed team of
six, and coming from the 9Th district, weighed
nearly six tons.
will hold lawn fete at the home of Mr.. Will
liam Fidler. near the railroad station. on Thurs
day and Friday, May 18th and 18th. Public
cordially invited.
-sThe Baltimore Lodge of Elks will deco
rate the graves in Lorraine Cemetery, on the
Franklin road, on Sunday afternoon, June
principal speakers.
-eThe succession of thunder storms on
Wednesday night brought with them such q
downpour of rain as We have not experienced
lately. Surely the earth must be well saturated
with moisture now.
will of Caleb A. Wilson, of lower Long Green
Valley. The caveatee was q niece, Mrs. Annie
Dale Norris, of Baltimore, who claimed to be
the nearest Of kin, etc.
MIR. w. Gill Smith, of the Towson bar,
is having his residence, located on East Joppa
appearances. Mr.. John T. Mays of A., of Here
ford IA doing the work
IA Packard truck machine is now being
tried on the Hartford turnpike, between Belair
and the terminus of the electric railway line.
If its work proves satisfactory the auto will be
placed in regular service.
advertises in THE UNION today for one hum
dred trough" carpenters 10 apply to him at
the Fifth Regiment ArmOry in Baltimore.
Wages $3.50 for nine hours.
IA few days ago "a little child Of Mr.. James
W. Shea. proprietor Of the Smile House, on the
York road, having strayed away from the house,
hurt. DR.. B. r. Benson attended it.
IAN old fox, with two young ones, has a
den near Baynesville, east of Towson. A few
days ago Q family living near BY lost mother
hen and 16 young chicks. The foxes, 1t Is
thought, have since been living high.
-sCutworms are playing havoc with the
Young corn and the cold weather seems to be
especially favorable 10 their work: Some
farmers are talking of replanting entire fields
because of the devastation by this pest.
During the thunder storm last Sunday
afternoon tenant house on the Boyce prop
erty, about II miles west of Towson, was struck
by lightning. Very little damage was done
and the family escaped without injury.
- Mr.. Robert NJ. Taylor, of Baltimore
county, with Monsoon, won the half-mile dash
at the Deep Run Hunt Club races at Rich
mond, Va, last Saturday. Mr.. Taylor also
won steeplechase at Norfolk on Tuesday.
- Bishop Paret will visit Trinity Church
Towson, next Sunday morning, when the ser
vices will begin at II o'clock. On the SAINT
day at P. N. the Bishop will conduct confir
nation services at Sherwood Church, Jockeys
vile.
- The rains that came the early part of thi'
week were much needed and therefore mos
welcome. We heard one farmer say that "th'
clover crop is out of the woods now" New
life has been infused into vegetation Of al
kinds.
= The last meeting of the Household I'm
provement Club Of the 9Th district was held a
the home Of Miss Katharine France. Mrs. ID
s. Pearce presided, and Miss Ella F. Scott wa
secretary. The subject of Antiquities" wa
discussed.
= Casper Popp, an old resident of Garden
vile, Belair road, was found dead IN Wagon
shed in the rear of his house on Thursday
afternoon. Justice J. Hartman Schone held al
INQUEST and the Jury rendered verdict of deatl