The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-05-18


THE Salvation Army is arranging to hold
a camp meeting at Glyndon Park this sum-
mer. -,
!. -sThe public schools Of this county will
close for the long summer vacation on Friday,
June 21st.
The May term of the Circuit Court will
convene next Monday, il being the third Mon
day of the month.
2sThe second month of spring will end
next Tuesday, but it has been more spring in
name than in reality.
- Burglars have lately been operating about
Gainesville, to the great annoyance of the resi-
, dents. No arrests have been made.
The all-night cars on the Hartford road
are now being run every hour to Hamilton.
! Heretofore they stopped at Weber's Park.
Thursday, June 9th, will be Baltimore
Day at the jamestown Exposition. Thousands
of Marylanders will see the show that day.
- Mr.. Noah Walker, of Arlington, has an
advertisement in this weeks issue of The
UNION to which we invite special attention.
Next Sunday, May 18th, will be Whit
Sunday and many believe that We never have
any settled spring weather until after that date.
I ->Some folks think the Towson chickens
are greater nuisance than the Towson dogs.
There are more of them and they are almost as
- Mr.. Harden is about completing very
handsome residence on the west side OF the
Reisterstown pike opposite Hannah More
Academy.
AT Annapolis on Monday last the Spar
rows Point baseball team defeated the Naval
Academy team, 6 to 3. 1t was line game
throughout.
this week, and it was most welcome after the
cold and unreasonable days and nights earlier
in the month.
=. Mr.. John II. Hitter, of the 10th district,
has been appointed by the Highways Commits
sion to superintend the painting of several
county bridges.
Many farmers have not yet finished
planting corn. No doubt the seed was better
out of the ground than in it, with the weather
SO unreasonable.
THE annual convention of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be held at
the new State headquarters in Baltimore, May
9th, 18th and 18th.
- Another building is now in course of
erection at the Sheppard Pratt Hospital, near
Towson, that will be q fine addition to the
already splendid group.
Thirty -four men have already announced
themselves Democratic candidates for the few
offices to be filled in Hartford county this year.
This beats Baltimore county.
-DMore ''canaries" got back to the starting
point this week. These are thirds" that appear
to have all seasons for their own-spring, sum-
mer, autumn, fall and winter.
Farmers say the hay crop will be very
short this year because of the unfavorable
weather. 1t does seem that the farmer has
many difficulties to encounter.
- Contractor Marion II. Merryman, OF
Towson, got verdict in the Circuit Court here
for $495 against the trustees of Gilfs M. E.
Church. His claim was for $685.
- Messrs. T. A. B. Dukehart q Co., who
leased the large livery stables of Mr.. Harrison
Rider, on East Pennsylvania avenue, Towson,
took charge of the same this week..
Two Towson men drove out behind the
moon" on Monday evening to hear the whip
porwills sing. These birds like secluded places
and they don't often come into towns
81 Mr.. John j. Hickok, who died in Rich
mond Va. few days ago, married Miss Belle
Hambleton, daughter of the late John A. Ham
bleton and sister of Mrs. Gustavus Ober.
->Strawberry festivals are now beginning
to be announced and this delicious fruit will
cut an important figure with churches and
schools from now to the end of its season.
->Nothing has been heard from Daniel
Leonard, who disappeared from Cockeysville
on the 10th of January last. He is 55 years of
age, unmarried and carriage upholsterer.
- James Chester, who died at his home on
the Liberty road, on the 18th instant was for
thirty-five years gardener for the late q. w.
Ridgely, by whom be was held in high esteem.
"A large tract of woodland belonging to
the Chew estate, adjoining Towson, was burned
over last Saturday. The fire was finally put
out by the Towson Chemical Engine Company.
I - The heavy frost of last Sunday morning
seriously damaged gardens in some sections of
This county. One man set out large lot of
lime tomato plants on Saturday and had them all
Killed.
1 - Harry Burgess has resigned as driver of
the Arlington chemical engine and is now in
the employ of Mr.. T. Irwin Zimmerman. Chas.
Hoffman has been appointed his successor as
driver.
- This is a wonderful country sure enough.
1t was showing nearly all day on Monday and
Tuesday of this week in parts of Nebraska.
Farmers thought it would benefit the winter
wheat.
- Farmers going to Baltimore with their
teams should keep off the lower end ofthe York
road. New paving is being put down north of
North avenue and the street is in no condition
for travel.
The Brooklandwood Handicap Steeple-
chase will be run in Green Spring Valley this
(Saturday) afternoon. Mr.. and Mrs. II. Car
roll Brown will give luncheon at o'clock,
the race to follow at 4.
THE Towson baseball team won good
game on their home grounds last Saturday
afternoon by beating the Baltimore Chesa-
peake and Atlantic r. r. team to 2. large
crowd enjoyed the game.
THE Epworth League OF Mount Wash
ington NJ E. Church celebrated its anniversary
last Sunday night, when a specially prepared
program was rendered. The pastor, Rev. Joel
Brown, made an address.
IAN old resident of Towson, who is close
observer of the weather, says "this is cold,
stormy moon," which is not very encouraging
to those who believe that that luminary has
anything to do with the weather.
>Mr. VIM. Dickinson Hough, who died
at his home in Baltimore, on Saturday last,
aged IA years, was brother of Col. Robert
Hough, the widely known starter of light
harness races. He leaves family.
Mr. Clinton o. Bosley, deputy warden of
the Towson Jail, had two of his teeth knocked
out and another loosened while engaged in
baseball game here last Saturday afternoon.
He did not quit the game, however.
1.-THE Maryland State Teachers Associa-
ton will meet at jamestown, Va, Tuesday,
June 18th. large attendance is anticipated
as the teachers will have an opportunity to
witness the Exposition at small cost.
Major John 1. Yellott, of the Towson
bar, has accepted the invitation of the Grand
Army of the Republic, Department of Mary
land, to deliver the Grafton on Union Memorial
day MAY 3Oth) at Loudon Park Cemetery.
THE ninth annual exhibition of the Bal
timore Horse Show will begin at the Kennels,
Charles street avenue, on Thursday next, May
23d, and continue the balance ofthe week. The
show promises to be better this year than ever.
THE county police made several arrests
last Sunday. for violations OF the liquor law.
The repeated warnings of the court appear to
pass entirely unheeded by these people. More
strenuous measures, it seems, will have to be
adopted.
1.-The State health authorities are after
those milk-sellers who make practice Of put
ting adulterants in their milk in order to keep
it from spelling. Severe penalties should be
inflicted upon these people when their guilt is
established.
1.-THE spring meeting of the Manor Glen
Racing Association will take place at the track
at Manor Glen, on the Jarrettsville turnpike,
on Saturday, May 18th, commencing at ?. NJ.
For particulars see advertising columns OF The
UNION today.
THE Lakewood avenue property of Mr..
Robert ]. Gamble, which was offered at public
sale on the 9th instant was Withdrawn. 1t
was divided into nine sections, and the average
price per acre was about $275. The tract con-
tains Is acres.
I'VE are indebted to Messrs r. Vincent,
Jr. & Son, of White Marsh Baltimore county,
for copy of their beautiful Descriptive Gera.
MUM Catalogue for 1907. Fifteen thousand of
these were printed and they go to nearly every
quarter of the globe.
- Messrs. John Hiltz & Sons, well known
Righlandtown builders, have been awarded the
contract for erecting the Second Church of the
Evangelical Association. on the corner of Madi-
son and Milton avenues. 1t will be of stone
and will cost $4,000.
Mrs. Susan Montgomery, widow OF John
Montgomery, who died at the Methodist Home
for the Aged in Baltimore few days ago, was
born in Baltimore county in 1915 She re-
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