The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-04-28

Thursday. May II, by Charles Herzog and Chas.
A. Mccarthy, trustees. on the premises, Zee
simple property on calvert avenue, near the
old PimlicO road.
Monday, May 81, by the Safe Deposit and Trust
Company, trustee. on the premises, seyeral
lots of ground and one ground rent at Glyn-
don, w. NJ. r. r.
The next holiday-but not generally
observed as such-is Decoration Day-Wed-
nesday, May 30th.
New Jersey is about to begin the expen-
diture of $3.50, 000in its attemptto rid the State
of the mosquito pest.
MIR. Lewis NJ. Keller, of Vauxhall Farm,
near Ashland, is suffering from spraiDed
ankle, the result of fall on stairway.
->Several more sales of personal property
that are now being advertised in The UNION
will take place in this county next week.
- Several local laws, passed at the last
session of the Legislature. are published in the
advertising columns of THE UNION today.
- The spring meeting of the Maryland
Jockey Club will end at Pimlico today. Upon
the whole it is said to have been successful;
All yearly liquor licenses must be taken
out before Wednesday, May I'd. The County
Clerks Office is now busy issuing these licenses.
.Tbe Neighborhood improvement Club
of Go7anstown, through Mrs. Chester b. Turn.
bull, subscribed SIS to the San Francisco relief
fund.
- The immense pier of the Maryland Steel
Company at Sparrow's Point, now 700 feet in
length is to be extended $50 feet. 1t is 100 feet
in width.
-S Several properties have changed hands
in Towson within the past week and no doubt
there would be more transactions II there were
more houses.
- We experienced a small taste of winter
early this week that brought with it frost and
ice Some say the fruit blossoms were seri-
ously damaged.
- Houses are in great demand in Towson
Al, To- an ono nj IN he had Our DOOu-
lation cannot grow much with such state of
things staring as in the face.
- Fruit blossoms appear to be very album
dant and present beautiful appearance. II a
wealth of blossoms be criterion then this
should be prolific fruit year.
The B. & o. surveying corps that has
been working about Towson several weeks is
still here and has not been called of, as stated
by Baltimore paper last week.
- Baltimore county is rich and populous
county and it takes a lot of money to keep its
machinery in motion. The levy for the COM
ing fiscal year calls for $6S7, 500:
:. - During the services held at the county
Jail last Sunday afternoon by the Spiritual De-
partment of Towson Epworth League, Mr..
John H. Grill addressed the prisoners.
The annual fair and supper of theJ unior
Epworth League will be held next Thursday
and Friday evenings, May Sd and 4th, in the
lecture room of Towson NJ. E. Church.
The Bishops Guild of Trinity Church.
Towson will have sale OF fancy articles,
candies, ices and cake in the Guild House, on
Friday, MAY 4th, from until 10 Pm.
>In two matches of an incubator Judge
Duncan, who lives at Luthervile got Sc and
81 per cent, respectively, of chicks. This is
thought to be an unusually good result.
in Towson Jail, 10 of whom were serving SEN
fences. This speaks we'll for the morals of a
county with nearly 100, 600 population.
-The regular baseball season of the East
ern League opened at Oriole Park, on the YORK
road, on Thursday afternoon when the Buffalo
and Baltimore teams met, the latter losing.
- Forty seven acres of land on Garrison
avenue, formerly occupied by the Mary land BIZ
cycle Club has been purchased by Mr.. William
Z. Beatty and others and will be developed.
"A number of protests against the grant
ing of liquor licenses we're heard by the court
this week. In some cases where protests had
been filed the applications were withdrawn.
- Last Sunday was almost as bad for spring
finery as was Easter Sunday and it took girls
with nerve to turn out in it. But then girl
without vedon't count for much these days.
IA meeting in the interest OF the temper
ance cause will be held in Lake View NJ. e.
Church, Dulany's Valley, on Tuesday. May
lst, atSP.M. Address by Mrs. Mary r. Haslup.
- The Governor has not yet settled the cues
ton as to who is to be Mr.. George w: Yellotts
successor as County Commissioner. There are
said to be about fifteen applicants for the place.
Zone square mile of territory was burned
over nv the fire in Baltimore, in February, 1904,
while the great fire in San Francisco last week
burned over fraction more than six square
miles. -
Proprietor James w. Shea, of the Smile
House. York road, was in a runaway accident
on the pike near his home on Thursday. he
was thrown out of his wagon and slightly in
jured
- Baltimore county has a population near
~ twice as large as that of any other county
tho N size hQinQ AlleQanV.
1904; Frederick, 5l,92O, and Washington,
As, 1873. :.
- Baltimore county was named for Cecilius
Calvert, Lord Baltimore, proprietor OF Mary
land, whose brother, Leonard Calvert, MADE
the settlement of the colony in 1884 in st.
Mary's.
- The Hartford county fair grounds, at Bel
air are now being advertised at foreclosure
sale, the society being hopelessly in debt. This
no doubt means that the Hartford fair is thing
of the past.
- The Improvement Association of Hamil-
ton, Hartford road, at its last meeting, passed a
resolution endorsing the course State Senator
John s. Biddison at the last session of the
Legislature.
% Upon the invitation of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Mex. Merryman the Senior and Junior
Guppowder Agricultural Clubs will meet this
Saturday afternoon at Grove Stock Farm, on
the Falls road.
- An authority on the subject says: IA
confirmed habit of purposeless lying, when
present in an adult is true disease" There
are a good many people affected with this
strange maady.
mir. Grove A. Shipley, wealthy retired
farmer, died at his home in Westminster, on
the 10Th instant, in the S1st year o. his age
For some years he had been engaged in the
brokerage business.
- Next Tuesday will be the first day of
Msy-the day for Maying parties and rambles
through the fields and woods. The latter are
now showing some green and the trees will
soon be in full leaf.
ton with the Towson and Cockey sville Electric
Railway. We want to see the enterprise push
ed rapidly. 1t will be money Garner and it
should get to work quick.
- A fair and festival for the benefit of the
public school at Providence, 9th district, will
be held at the school, on Friday evening, May
4th. Misses K. G. Rudiger and Gusse German
are teachers of the school.
- The Grand National Point-to- Point race
ian annual event) will take place in Green
Spring Valley next Monday afternoon. The
start will be near Stevenson. The length of
the course is about q miles.
Young carpenter named Page Zm mer-
man while at work on the Presbyterian Church
at Govanstown on Tuesday, fell distance OF
30 feet and sustained badly cut head. Strange
to say no bones were broken.
- Rev, Mr. Ernst, of Connecticut, will con-
duct service 10 English at st. Johns Lutheran
Church. Parkville, Hartford road, on Sunday.
April 18th, at 2 80 P. NJ. The members and all
who can are invited to attend.
- Some of the older residents OF Dulany' g
Valley are very indignant because their post
office was taken from them and they were put
on an R. f. D. route. Their postoffice now is
GIen-Arm. about five miles distant.
> gentleman who lately located in Tow
son said be hadn't an idea that there were so
many pretty drives about the town. In sum
mer this is one of the principal charms OF this
beautiful section of Baltimore county.