The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-07-20

Court House door, q valuable farm IN the Sth
Tuesday. August Is, By John r. Duncan. attor-
neys st the Court House door, valuable real es-
tate In ReisterstOwn.
+ ->These are dog days. Cat nights we have
with us always.
There win be partial eclipse Of the
moon on Wednesday night next, July oath.
1.-THE Baltimore and Fredericktown Turn
pike Company has declared dividend OF one
helf per cent.
The Towson baseball team will go to
Sykesville today Saturday to try conclusions
with the team at that place.
- William Z. Redifer, of Arlington, Balti-
more county, has made application for the
benefit Of the u. s. bankruptcy law.
- The Knights of Pythias Of Maryland are
arranging to hold social session and reunion
at Electric Park, on Tuesday, August 9th.
- Baltimore county is to have another ma
tional bank to be located at Pikesville. This
will increase the number in the county to six.
- Thursday evenings electrical storm was
a hard one on the trolley lines. Several cars
were struck by lightning, but no one was seri-
0usly hurt.
- Mr.. David A. Ebaugh, well known
farmer of the 9th district, was thrown from his
moving. machine few days ago and had two
ribs broken.
- The Towsons administered bad defeat
to the Columbia Athletic Club of Baltimore.
on the grounds here last Saturday afternoon.
Score 12to5.
- Emory Grove camp-meeting will begin
on Saturday, August Sd, and continue until the
18th. An especially interesting program has
been prepared.
Some crooks who put up baled hay are
putting something inside the bales to give them
the required weight. Better keep an eye open
for these scamps.
- More of the scanaries'' that took their
fight from THE UNION Office over six months
ago found their way back this week. And
still there are others.
- Baltimore county's official ballot will be
a large affair this year. There are now two
full tickets in the field and the Pfohibitionists
- Summit Grove camp-meeting will begin
next Thursday and continue until August 9th.
The great Taylor University Quartet has been
engaged for the meeting.
- Mr.. Charles e. Fendall, of Towson, who
advertised his new "FendaIl'' strawberry in
Der of inquiries for plants.
- Hicks weather forecast for July seems to
be hitting it pretty correctly in the matter Of
thunder storms. They have been more numer-
Gus this month than usual.
IA pair of sparroWs in ten years can have
275, 900, 100000 descendants. The provision
against social suicide among sparrows and rats
is one of the curiosities of nature.
In the Orphans Court this week letters
tesLamentary on the estate Of Mrs. Elizabeth
IL
her daughter, Miss Ella L. Smith.
- The Timonium Fair is only little more
than month off. Are you getting ready for
it, You can get q catalogue Of the fair by ap.
plying personally at THE UNION Office.
@The "old fashioned" campmeeting at
Jackson's Grove, near 0denton, will begin Au-
gust Sd and continue to the 10Th. A number
Of ministers from distance will officiate.
- The growing corn in Baltimore county
has made great progress in the last ten days
and it looks now as though the crop (which
received an early setback) is going to save
itself.
- The political campaign win not get fairly
under way in Baltimore county until the
weather gets cooler, although there is already
some quiet electioneering going on among the
candidates.
- The Sunday school of Towson M. E.
Church will hold its annual picnic at Bay Shore
Park. on Tuesday, July 2Sd. This school has
nearly 300 members and is, perhaps, the largest
in the county.
IA good many Baltimore county people
are finding their way to the jamestown Ex-
position and no doubt hundreds of others will
60 In the early autumn when the weather will
be more pleasant.
"a colored preacher in Baltimore has been
committed to Jail for not supporting his wife.
She swore that he had given her Is cents in
two years, and that during that time she had
worked to support him.
-eSt. Swithin's Day (Monday last) was as
fine day as anyone could wish to see and no
rain was reported. So If there is anything in
the old belief we may look out for dry spell''
for the next forty days.
- The open. air fete held three days for the
benefit Of the new st. Dominic's Catholic
Church at Hamilton, Hartford road, realized
81, 1916 %. The church will be opened for SER
vics on Sunday, August 4th.
- Several citizens of TOwson are now con-
structing sidewalks about their premises out of
material furnished by the county. This is
among the good things the Towson Improve
ment Association accomplished.
->The ladies of Andrew Chapel M. e.
Church South, will hold lawn fete in the
grove adjoining the church, West franklin
avenue, near Belair road. Thursday evening,
July 25th. If not fair the next fair evening.
- Mr.. w. w. Crosby, chief engineer of the
Maryland Geological Survey, will speak on
roads before the White Hall Farmers Club
and improvement Association on Saturday
evening. July 10th, at White Hall, N. O. r. r.
THE Park Heights Development Com
pany has purchased from Mr.. G. M. Griffin, II
acres of land on Park Heights avenue, north
of the Suburban Hotel, which will be devel-
oped. It is part of what is known as the Pope
tract.
MANY families are now cooking with gas
in Towson and it is much more satisfactory
than by the old plan. As a summer arrange
ment it surely is great improvement upon
what the average family has been accustom-
ed to.
! The officers have, up TO this time, been
unable to find Chapman Elliott, the negro who
shot Mr.. Levin Ensor in the harvest field on
the Shroyer farm, near Dover, 4th district. 1t
will be an outrage if this villain is permitted to
escape.
Coles Parkville Grove, O. miles on the Har-
ford road on Wednesday, July 31st, COM
mencing at p NJ. Il will be for professionals
and amateurs and liberal money prizes will be
offered.
- Mr.. William Hops, who bought the
Notch Cliff Stock Farm of nearly 500 acres, in
lower Long Green Valley, will 60 largely into
cattle grazing. The farm has some fine meadow
land upon it and it is well adapted to thegrowth
OF grass.
Three more men have been Obliged to
pay fines and costs to Justice Herbert, OF Tow
son, for running their automobiles on Charles
street avenue beyond the speed limit. The
charges were preferred by Deputy Sheriff Noah
Walker.
the Green Spring Valley Hunt Club and
Patapsco Hunt Club are arranging for joint
race meeting to be held at Pimlico track, be.
ginning August 10Th and continue four days.
There will be six races each day including one
steeplechase.
There was plenty of uncut wheat in this
section of Mary land on the 18th of July and
the proverbial "oldest inhabitant" don't re-
member when this occurred before In the
last lew years Wucdt uhENcsb LAS Dccu obOut
over by the first of July.
>The fourth annual reunion and picnic OF
the Sunday school of White Hall Presbyterian
Church will be held in Wiley's Grove, on
Thursday. August LIST. It is expected that
Governor Warfield will be among the promi-
nent personages present.
- The editions of the Baltimore american
and Ssgs of Tuesday contained very good group
pictures Of the Republican nominees of the
convention held in Towson the day before.
Some of the faces are familiar to thousands OF
Baltimore county people.
- The new Trinity Lutheran Church in
Reisterstown will be formally dedicated next
Sunday morning. July 2lst. Rev. J. A. Sing.
master, of Gettysburg Theological Seminary.
will preach the sermon. Rev. Albert Bell, OF
York, will preach at night.
- During the thunderstorm of Thursday
afternoon of last week the NJ. e. Church in
New Market, 9TH district, was struck BY light
ming and considerably damaged. Mr.. J. Frank
Trout. postmaster and storekeeper in the viii
lace. wss stunned by the shock.
- David Messenger. Of White Marsh. was
struck by lightning on Thursday afternoon Of
last week while sitting under shed; His
shoes were torn from his feet. and bis body and
legs were badly burned. A large dog that was
lying at his feet was instantly killed.
- The late P. A. Glatfelter, the well known