The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-05-04


ee, at the Court House door, the property
known as Bull Neck Farm, on Middle river,
near Middle River station, r, b; q w; X x.
Ernest 3. Hatch and e. Howard Isaac, trus-
. tees, on the premises; the property In the
Friday, May II, by Messrs. James II. Preston.
David Stewart and John B. Deming, trustees,
at the Court House door, the large estate, of
Valley. at Notch CHI Station.
- 1t costs over 500, 900 year to run Balti-
more county now.
THE municipal election will take place
In Baltimore city on Tuesday next, May 7th.
- Decoration Day-which falls this year
on Thursday, May 30th-is legal holiday in
Maryland.
- Mr.. George f. Fishel has been appointed
postmaster at Rider, Baltimore county, vice
Mr.. Allen Stevenson, resigned.
- Arrangements are being made for the an
nuaI fete to be held at the Confederate Soldiers
Home, Pikesville. on Saturday, June LIST.
-Mr. VIM. Frazer, of the Ruxton Floral
and Nursery Company, has q fine display in
the Maryland Building at the jamestown Ex-
position.
- The Junior Epworth League of Andrew
Chapel M. G. Church South will give an enter
tainmeut in the church at Gardenville, on
Tuesday evening, May 7th.'
- Rev. NJ. L. Beall will install the officers
of Waugh Epworth League, Long Green Cir
cult. on Sunday night, May 5th, at 8 o'clock.
Everybody will be welcome.
ION all county taxes paid before the LIST
day Of June discount of 2per cent. is allowed.
The discount on State taxes for May, June,
July and August is 5 per cent.
- Rev. DR.. A. B. Kinsolving rector of Old
st. Paul's Church, Baltimore, preached last
Sunday afternoon to the veterans in the Con-
federate Soldiers Home. Pikesville.
1.-The new r. f. ID. route north and north
east from Towson was inaugurated on We'd
nesday morning. May LIST. It's length is about
Is miles. J. T. Peterson is the carrier.
- Mr.. Jacob l.. Fowble has been awarded
the contract for building house at Jockeys
vile for Mr. w. Albert Long, on lot adjoin-
ing Epworth NJ E. Church. for $1,000.
THE time for hearing of protests in the
liquor license cases expired on Tuesday. Most
of the licenses were granted, the protests in
number of cases having been Withdrawn.
This was "circus week" in Baltimore
and the show carried many thousands of dol.
lars out Of the city that could have better been
expended by poor people for other objects.
more of the 'canaries' found their way
back to THE UNION Office this week, all in
good state of preservation. This shows that
they had been "laid aside for future reference"
- oday-Saturday, May 4th-will be the
last day of the spring meeting of the Maryland
Jockey Club at Pimlico. 1t is also likely that
it will be the last race meeting held at the old
track.
1.-The time for issuing yearly liquor licenses
expired on the LIST of May. The County Clerks
Office was busy place with this license work,
the receipts from that source having been
heavy.
The remaining cases growing out of the
liquor license protests will be disposed of in the
Circuit Court here next Monday. The May
term Of court will begin on the third Monday
in May.
-sProf. ]. A. Loose, of Baltimore, will give
=. NIL \ m -
on Wednesday evening, May 8th, commencing
at 80 o'clock. Proceeds for the benefit of the
church.
I'VE bid the month of April, 1907. good
bye without any regret whatever. 1t was by
all odds the most unpleasant April experienced
in years, and we could say $50 long, to it most
heartily.
The eighth annual Grand National Point
to Point race will be run near Stevenson, Green
Spring Valley. next Monday afternoon, May
6th starting at 4.50 o'clock. This race goes,
rain or shine.
- While fishing in the Patapsco river,
near Orange Grove: on Tuesday last Mr.. Ed
carp that measured 25 inches in length and
weighed 10 pounds.
Chicken-raisers are complaining that the
crows are carrying offtheir little chicks. These
sly fellows watch near houses and when they
think the coast is clear they swoop down and
->Rev. Edward A.. Colburn, for forty years
rector of Holy Trinity Church, Churchville,
Hartford county, died suddenly on Sunday
night last, at his home at Walbrook, aged "
years. He leaves family.
-$The cornerstone of st. Dominics Church,
at Hamilton, Hartford road, will be laid next
Sunday, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, by the Cardinal, as.
sisted by several priests. A turnout of secret
orders will be part of the program.
- The annual four-day meeting OF the
Primitive Baptist Association will be held at
Black Rock Baptist Church, Butler, commenc-
ing Wednesday, May 10Th. The all-day SER
vices will be held on Sunday, 18th:
THE April meeting of the Senior Gun
powder Agricultural Club was held last Satur.
day at the farm of Mr.. James B. Ensor, near
Belfast. A full report of the meeting will be
published in The UNION next week.
->Dr. Strayer, of Columbia University.
spent last week with Superintendent Albert y.
Cook and with him visited some of Baltimore
county's schools. He expressed himself as
being well pleased with what he saw.
- Maying parties will be out in force next
Sunday and they will make the wild flowers
aud the fruit blossoms suffer. People who
have fruit trees on or near the suburban trolley
lines had better be on the lookout for them.
~ Mr.. ID. II. Rice, of Valley View Stock
Farm. has been rapidly running off his last
consignment of Missouri mules, he having
sold IL head last Monday. It cost 1885 to
bring car load of these animals to Maryland.
- Some farmers have already finished plant
ing corn while others have not yet commenced.
The man who is behind hand this spring thinks
he is more fortunate than his earlier neighbor
because of the unfavorable weather conditions.
THE building and other Improvements
now in progress in Towson make business
brisk formechanics of all trades. The fact that
building materials of all kinds are high in price
has not proven drawback to solid progress
- Mr.. Charles E. Fendall, of the County
Clerks Office. is now preparing to put his new
strawberry, 1.-THE Fendall," on the market
and is now booking orders for autumn deliv-
cry. He says it's the finest strawberry on
earth"
Governor Warfeld on Thursday appoint
ed DR.. j. Charles Macgill, of Gainesville, a
member of the board of directors of the Mary
land Asylum for the Insane, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of his father, DR.. G. g. w.
Macgill.
- Marylanders going to the Jamestown Ex-
position will always find hearty welcome at
the Maryland Building. 1t was among the
first structures on the grounds to be fully ready
when it was needed and this speaks well for the
Commission.
- Joseph Gagliane, an Italian laborer en-
ployed on the Northern Central Railway, was
struck by an engine at Ruxton, on Friday
afternoon of last week, and instantly killed.
He was IS years of age and leaves a wife and
child in Italy.
MIR. Albert Struven, who owned the
ground upon which st. Dominic's Catholic
Church is being built. at Hamilton, Hartford
road, has opened an avenue through his land
at that place and has named it Gibbons in
honor of the Cardinal.
>County Treasurer Rogers gives notice in
the advertising columns of THE UNION that he
will be ready to receive taxes under the levy of
1907, on Saturday, May 4th, at his Office in the
Court House and also at the Office in Balti-
more, from A. NJ. to II NJ.
-The Board of Election Supervisors will
meet at their Office in Towson, on Tuesday,
cations for division of such voting precincts