The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-05-19
whit Sunday falls this year on the Sd OF


- Whit Sunday falls this year on the Sd Of
June.
- No cases have been disposed of in th'
Circuit Court this week. =.
-DThe MAY term of the Circuit Court viii
begin next Monday, 2lst instant.
- Baltimores contributions to the San
Francisco relief fund now amount to about
100000.
%The graduating class Of Towson High
School this year will consist Of eight persons
1.-THE recent supper given by the Ladies
Aid Society Of North Point n. +. Church,
Patapsco Neck, netted $3.50.
- Cardinal Gibbons preached at St. John.
Church, York road last Sunday morning and
confirmed class of $50 persons.
- No beginning has yet been made on the
new high school building for Towson. The
lot has been secured and that is all.
street avenue, will begin next wednesday and
continue the remainder of the week.
- The tomato crop Of Hartford county SUI
fered severely by the heavy frOsts OF last week
Many thousands of plants were killed,
- Emory Grove camp-meeting Will begin
this year on the 18th OF July. me annual s
selection of tent sites will take place June 7th.
- The rails and ties that have been scat
tered along the Hartford road. between Hamil-
ton and Carney have been collected and ship
ped away.
Two marriage licenses were returned to
the County Clerks Office on Monday, neither
of them having been used. One OF the couples
- Last year clover seed sold at II cts. a
pound and this year the price IA cts. The de-
mand is said to be unusually strong and the
supply short.
H/Haut justice of the peace for the 10th dis
><frict OF Baltimore county, vice william l..
jenkins, deceased.
- We again call the attention of the game
wardens to the fact that it is against the law to
catch brook trout under inches in length.
- Cardinal Gibbons will visit st. Joseph's
Church. Belair road, on Sunday. May 10Th,
and confirm class of 116 persons after high
mass at 1890 A. n.
Three couples from Baltimore obtained
marriage licenses in the County Clerks office
nc Towson on Wednesday. The matrimonial
business is booming.
-pTha ToWson Guild baseball team has
Joined the Suburban League Of clubs and will
play the B. & o. team on the grounds here this
Saturday afternoon.
The cold weather of last week practically
ruined many Baltimore county gardens. The
strawberries were also badly damaged in places,
likewise the potatoes
- Nothing new this week in the Towson
and Cockeysville Electric Railway. We are
patiently waiting to see the flrst lick struck IN
the way of construction.
Two residents of Towson are each 81 years
o. age, and one of them "a county oficiaD at.
tends TO his duties two days each week and
is as spry as much younger man.
THE county police are ''pulling'' good
many saloon keepers who have been disre-
garding the orders as to slot machines. nne
Of $40 and costs is usually the penalty.
- Baltimore county is now pretty well sup.
piled with the telephone lines and the service
is generally good. This is one of the greatest
conveniences rural population can enjoy.
The Maryland Steel Company of Spar
rows Point has secured contract from the
Pennsylvania r, r. Company for 81. 900 tons
Of steel rails, which will cost over 81 900 900.
Mr.. ]. Leland Hanna has purchased from
Mr. William A. Cox 25 acres Of land on the
west side of the Reisterstown road, in the Sd
district, adjoining Mount Hope Retreat in the
rear.
- tits said the store of Mr. William Wesley,
at Sunny brook, 10th district. that was burned
a few weeks ago, will not be rebuilt. Mr..
Wesley desires to sell the property, which was
-On Wednesday of this week more than
100 cases of typhoid fever were reported in
Hampden and Woodbury. aud there seems to
be no doubt that the cause OF the contagion
was infected milk.
The congregation of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South at Arlington is making
site of the present one. Rev. ]. Howard Wells
Is pastor of the church.
-The season for public sales of personal
property is over in Baltimore county, although
there may still be few scattering ones. Since
the first of January THE UNION has advertised
large number of these.
Almost every day we hear of someone
looking for house in Towson, and as soon as
one is vacant there are always tenants ready to
go in. If we had the houses the population Of
the town would grow rapidly.
- Baltimore county contributed hundreds
of dollars to the circus that showed two days
in Baltimore this week. Towson was well
represented. The general verdict appears to be
that the show is the greatest ever.
>Open windows in Towson bring into the
houses the sweet notes of partridges and larks,
besides those of many other birds. This shows
what our present excellent laws are doing for
our useful and beautiful little friends.
- We are afraid some OF The MONS local
correspondents have been attacked with spring
fever; or perhaps they are too busy with their
craps to devote any T time to 81 u.s. a But don't
->At the morning service last Sunday Rev.
T. E. Copes, pastor Of Towson N: E: Church,
made strong appeal in behalf of the Woman's
College of Baltimore in its efforts to raise $500,
600 to extinquish its present Indebtedness.
-sThe Social Department of Monkton Ep-
worth League will give an entertainment in
Monkton Hail. Wednesday, May 23d, at 80 r.
NJ. consisting Of pantomimes, farces, tableaux
and music. Proceeds for benefit of church. 1.
- Pearce & Schenck, of Baltimore, will
give their popular motion picture entertain
ment in Calvary Baptist Church, Towson, on
Friday evening, May 25th. This will afford
an evening of pleasure to all who patronize it.
.-sM Many people who are coming to Towson
to pay their taxes are embracing the oppor-
tunity to renew their subscriptions to The
UNION. By paying their taxes this month
they get the benefit of the 2 per cent. discount.
-sThe Belair fair grounds were sold at
foreclosure sale. on Monday, to Mr.. Lawson
Cooley for 81, $50. The property contains Is
acres and has numerous buildings. It is not
known, what disposition will be made OF the
THE body of Mr.. B. McLane Hardisty,
who died in San Francisco several months ago,
was brought to Baltimore this week by Mrs
Hardisty and inferred in Greenmount Gene.
terry. Mr.. Hardisty was formerly resident Of
Baltimore county.
The patrons of four schools in the 9Th
district-Belfast, Verona, Glencoe and Philop-
olis-have started q movement for their con.
solidation, the building for the same to be
Z located at the intersection of the York turn.
pike and Glencoe road.
- Mr.. John Durham, of Mt. Washington,
lost fine colt few days ago from becoming
mired in swamp into which it had wandered
It required the strength of pair OF mules tc
null IL ont The colt became paralyZed from
exposure and finally died.
When the mercury gets to rambling
among the 80s then the sodawater man begins
to sit up and take notice. The question sis
It hot enough for your is never put to him,
because it would be useless. No one ever saw
it hot enough for the sodawater man.
- Mr.. Richard H. Woollen and others,
trustees OF the Brady estate, have sold lot, 40C
by 154 feet, on the northeast corner of Calvert
and Twenty-seventh street, to Mr.. Henry E.
Cook for S33. 1888 80. The ground will be inn.
proved with thirty three-story houses,
- With one Baltimore county official re-
signed and two dead within q month it looks
like the old saying that few die and none re-
sign is not holding good. Election Supervi
sor Slade and Orphans Court Appraiser Ruby
died within few hours of each other.
- While driving on the Loeb Raven road
a few DAYS ago Mr.. Thomas b. Jenifer made g
narrow escape on account of his Young horse
becoming frightened at an automobile: h
Z was thrown from his buggy and got OF with
nothing worse than a number Of bruises.
- And still the vacancy in the Board o.
County Commissioners remains untitled anc
Mr.Yellott says be has not yet determined
whether or not be will withdraw his resigna
4 ton It is certain that strong influences arr
being brought to bear to induce him to do 50.
- The Junior Gunpowder Agricultural Clul
met last Saturday at the home Of Mr.. Joshui
1vsn N PFiQo fore