The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-01

be the Fourth of July. 1t will fall this year
on Thursday.
There is much complaint about the
weather and the corn being so short through
out the county.
Strawberry festivals are now in full swing
and they are earning a good many dollars for
worthy objects.
cardinal Gibbons will visit Gainesville
next Sunday morning and confirm class at
st. Marks Church.
->It is very evident fruit will be scarce
this season. Cherries and Kiefer pears have
been greatly injured.
->One of the most incongruous things seen
about Towson this week were straw hats worn
with winter overcOats.
>Children's day service will be held at
Gilrs Church, Chestnut Ridge Circuit, on Sun
day. June I'd, at 10.30A. NJ.
Mr.. Z. Cuttings MerrymaD, of Garar
Stock Farm, 9th district, has replanted II
acrea of corn of field of 20 acres.
THE late Patrick Rogers, who owned a
farm near Gainesville and kept saloon in Bal
timore. left an estate inventoried at $39, 1880.
Anonymous notes and letters make ex-
cellent filling for the waste basket. If you
don't believe it just call at The UNION office
and see.
THE new reservoir for the Northern Cen
trail Railway at Parkton has been completed.
1t has a capacity of $4,000 gallons and cost
$4,000.
- Nature might be accused of not being
smart enough 10 20 III OUT Vi LUc TdlUt DuL II
can clean house simply by putting on new
green dress.
IA weather record for 1859 shows that the
May of that year was very much like the one
just ended. The coolest day of that summer
was the 4th of July.
wright is erecting house for himself on the
south side of McCurdy avenue, in the north
ern part of the town.
The one hundred and thirtieth anniver-
sary of the adoption of the Star Spangled Ban
per as the national standard will be observed
on Friday, June 14th.s
This is the first day of June. Let us
hope the month may bring MS weather that
will be more seasonable than that experienced
during April and May.
- Many persons who paid their taxes this
week embraced the opportunity to renew their
subscriptions to THE UNION. number of
ladies were among these.
The Ladies; Guild of st. James P. E.
Church, Ny Lady's Manor, gave Colonial tea
in the parish hall, Thursday evening, the pro-
ceeds being for the piano fund.
- DR.. A. @. McCurdy, OF TOwson, has gone
into the breeding of pigeons as recreation
He has a number of choice and beautiful speci-
mems of which he is justly proud:
Mrs VIM. II. Boyd has sold her property
in Luthervile to Mrs. Lisa Wyatt Tiffany, Of
Roland Park, for $1,000. The place contains
about 8 acres and is well improved
THE Towson baseball club won its fifth
+ consecutive victory Thursday, on the home
/ grounds, by defeating the Pennsylvania Rail-
road NJ. @. A. team by a score of II to l.
! John Bake, of Cockeysvle employed
in the works of the Beaver Dam Marble quar-
ries was painfully injured on Wednesday while
helping to lower some machinery into quarry i.
- There was frost and ice in some sections
of Baltimore county last Tuesday morning and
it was cold enough for winter clothing. The
month of May, 1907, made remarkable record.
I .GmUnn Oak Park 0f the hQauflfnl
eresorts about Baltimore, was opened for the
season last Saturday. 1t is especially well
adapted for Sunday school picnics and the like.
THE United Railways and Electric Com
panv is arranging to erect fine passenger sta
Z ton at Sparrow's Point 1t will be 20 by 30
feet and will be of pleasing architectural de-
sign.
"A young man who lived in Baltimore
was instantly killed few days ago by being
struck in the breast by pitched ball while en-
gagged in a game of baseball at Relay, 18th dis
] trict.
MIR. George W. Seipp, crier of the Cir
cult Court, on Thursday decorated the graves
of bis Union soldier comrades who are buried
at Prospect Hill and Monte Maria Cemeteries,
l Towson.
THE Highlandtown gas plant, owned by
Mr.. Joseph Schneider has been sold to New
York syndicate at price said to approximate
100000. 1t has an annual output of 100000
cubic feet.
- a QOrS6 D6lODRlUR 10 MT. w III D. w COcEs
| of Catonsville, that showed unmistakable signs
| of rabies, was killed on Monday. He was be-
lieved to have been bitten by mad dog several
| weeks ago.
THE war on the pesky mosquito is now
in full swing in Baltimore and petroleum is
the weapon that is doing the deadly work. We
hope the conflict will extend to the suburban
towns and villages.
+ ->Col. John Waters, proprietor of Dunbar.
ton Farm, Pikesville, owns horse that has
reached the venerable age of 40 years. His
4 name is Dexter and he bought him in Virginia
thirty.five years ago.
\ - An authority says the old-fashioned
remedy of sulphur and molasses, mixed in the
proportion of about one tablespoonful of sui
phur, is excellent for the blood, and is the very
best spring medicine.
THE Sunday school of Calvary Baptist
Church, Towson, of which Mr.. s. Howard
Merryman is superintendent held its Children s
day service last Sunday. A carefully arranged
program was we'll rendered.
THE sixteenth annual meeting of the Bal
timore and Washington Conference of the Col
ored NJ P. Church convened at Towson on
Wednesday. Rev. E. w. Scott is president and
Rev. B. H. Knight, secretary.
-$The new church at Stevenson, Green
Spring Valley, will be dedicated on Sunday,
June 23d, with impressive ceremonies. 1t is
one of the appointments of Hunts Circuit, oil
which Rev. Il. Wilson Burgan is pastor.
THE lawn fete for the benefit of the Con-
federate Soldiers Home, Pikesville, will be
held at the home today-Saturday, June 1st-
from 2 to 10 P. NJ. The proceeds will be used
mainly to purchase delicaces for the sick.
The vestry of Trinity Church, Towson,
will tender a reception to Rev. W. H. II.
Powers on Tuesday, June 4th, on the church
lawn, from to P. NJ, in celebration Of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of his rectorship.
! >Gaspipes are going into the ground rap
idly in Towson and it won't be long before our
people will be using that luminant. Towson
is making rapid advancement and as place OF
residence it is becoming daily more attractive.
1.-THE gentlemen who were endeavoring to
arrange for an agricultural fair in Hartford
They did not meet with sufficient encourage
ment to justify them in going on with the
work.
THE spring rally of the Baltimore Dis.
trict EpworthLeague was held Thursday after
noon and evening at Hunts M. E. Church,
near Sherwood. There was large attendance
and the delegates were entertained by the local
chapter.
= County Treasurer Rogers ended busy
month on Friday, May 3lst, scores of taxpay
ers having taken advantage of the per cent
discount to pay up before June LIST; The dis
count this month is II per cent and 5 per cent.
on State taxes.
1.-THE frosts of the last ten days have
spoiled many fine Baltimore county gardens
and there are many lamentations in conse
Quence. In some instances almost every DIT o.
garden vegetation fell a victim to Jack
Frost's icy fingers.
Mrs Olivia Gillespie, who some time age
bought the cottage of Mr.. H. L. Bowen, or
Linden Terrace, Towson, is having it thorough
ly renovated and painted and fitted with steam
heat. When the Improvements are completed
she will occupy it.
THE regular monthly meeting of thu
Towson Improvement Association will be helC
next Wednesday evening, June 9th, at
o'clock, in Guild Hall. All are urged to bt
present as important business will be brought
before the meeting.
p - THE UNION labored under disadvantage
for couple of weeks by reason of the fact tina
improvements to the Lee Building cut off it
main entrance. Now, however, we are al
right and our friends and patrons can reach u
without any trouble.
There will be no service at st. John
German Lutheran Church. Parkville, HarforI
road. on Sunday, June I'd, owing to the fac
that the annual conference of the Atlantic dis
trict is now in session. Rev. A. G. Ernst
pastor of st. Johns.
-The CIoverdale estate Of the late Chaun
cev Brooks on Eutaw Place extended and i'm
mediately south of and adjoining Druid Hill
Park. was offered at public auction on Wednes
day and withdrawn on bid of S25O,OOO i
contains ahouk % acres.