The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-01

timore County Orphans Court where
in the publication of Notices to Credi-
tors and other advertising is necessary.
are requested to leave positive orders
with the Court when they wish such
advertising to appear in THE BALTI.
MORE COUNTY UNION. If they fail to
give such order the business may be
diverted into other channels.
Summit Grove Camp Meeting was for
mally opened last Thursday.
- This is the first day of August and the
summer of 1908 is rapidly waning.
- When the peculiar note Of the katydd
Is heard we know that autumn is not far off.
- Today-Saturday, August 1st-the sun
rises at minutes after and sets at 10 minutes
after Z.
- The Baltimore baseball team got up to
the head of the list this week, but it stayed
there only one day.
Corn sold in carload lots in Baltimore
early this week at S4.25 barrel-an unprece-
- The discount on county taxes paid this
month is one-half of one per cent. On State
taxes it is per cent.
->Since the recent rains the demand for
vegetable plants has been so great that the
growers could not supply it.
-. The Second Congressional district Re-
publican convention will meet at Towson on
Wednesday next, August 5th.
- September 18th is another holiday that
TAILS on Saturday. II is made State holiday
by PROCLAMATION Of the Governor only.
- The Office of the School Board, in the
Otfutt Building, was closed from Saturday,
August LIST, until Monday, August 18th.
- There will be % races on the card at
Tmonium next month-two more than ever
before. Most of them are for the runners.
THE lawns in Towson are again showing
green. For the most part they presented
sorry spectacle before the late copious rains.
- The Manor Glen tournament will take
place next Saturday, August Sth. For particu-
lars see advertising columns of THE UNION
today.
Late copious rains put the ground in
nne condition for blowing, and this work is
now demanding about all the attention of
farmers.
THE county authorities were notified on
Wednesday that horse bad been stolen Tues
Gay night from Mr.. George Price, of Foreston,
9TH district.
~ Corn sold in Towson this week at $3.50
per BARREL and we have no doubt it will be
higher than that before the growing crop is
ready for market.
MIR. Thomas g. DeFord, a we'll known
resident of Gainesville. had his right arm dis
located by fall while returning from church
last Sunday night.
THE blackb berry crep is very large this
year and the fruit is generally of fine quality.
They grow in profusion along the fence rows
and in the thickets.
The Towson postofice is no longer
known as Station A.. Hereafter its proper
designation will be Towson Branch OF the
Baltimore Postoffice.
-sThe Towson Guild House has been
closed ever since the property was offered at
foreclosure sale. 1t was not sold because the
bids were deemed Insufficient
The farm of Mr.. Cornelius Shaeffer, at
Trump, 9TH district. has been purchased by
~---IL R0n want to be. q real broad-gauge
sport these days you want to get balloon or a
fying machine of some sort. And if you get
killed that's only one sport less.
-Some belated "canaries'' got back to
TIE UNION Office this week and looked as fresh
as they did the day of their flight. They had
evidently been well taken care Of.
THE new club house of the Gainesville
Country Club will be ready for occupancy by
the 10th of August. 1t will replace the one
destroyed by fire several years ago.
- Looks like automobilists have taken
fancy lately to running down children. Two
we're seriously injured within ten days-one at
Ruxton and the other at Sherwood.
-It was an astute fellow who said he didn't
understand the peek a-boo waists when they
first came about. Then he added but I'm
beginning to see through them now"
-Some extra fine tomatoes, grown on Hon.
i eU. VI.
exhibited at the County Clerks office this week.
The largest of the lot weighed 183 ounces.
Troop A. Maryland National Guard, is
preparing for its annual practice march. 1t
will 90 to Charles Town, W. Va, leaving the
srnorv at Pikesville, Saturday, August 10Th.
- The fine barn of Mr.. Thomas J. Miller,
of Monkton, that was struck by lightning and
burned few days ago, was insured in the
Hartford County Mutual Company for 81, 500.
>Some farmers say the rains came in time
to save the corn crop. Let us hope that this is
true for it is the farmer most important cereal.
He could better stand the loss of any other crop.
>The peach crop may be abundant and
the fruit a glut in the market elsewhere, but
this is not the case here. Those being sold are
not first-class and the prices are almost pro-
hibitive.
- Automobiles have had harvest this
week. A number of people have been killed
and injured by them. Something got wrong
with the stearing gear" is common express
sion now.
fined IS and costs by Justice Coughlan for
cruelty to animals in nearly cutting off his
dogs head because the canine had been killing
his chickens.
- Horses are wearing new style of head
gear this year to protect them from the sun.
One thing can be said in their favor: They are
NOT so ugly as many of the merry Widows"
that one sees.
- The camp-meeting season is now on and
will continue about month. Thousands of
neople enjoy these annual gatherings in the
woods and it is hoped they are benefited spiritu-
allv and otherwise.
1.-The loving mother or the true wife is
mans best asset" Governor Crothers said
those words in his Carroll county speech, and
still he's q bachelor. That's one of the things
we can't understand.
- AT the meeting of the board of directors
of the Second National Bank of Towson on
wednesday Mr. Noah E. Offutt member of the
bar. was elected q director to succeed Mr..
Stuart Kearney, resigned.
- The September term of the Circuit Court
does not begin until the 21st of the month and
vet the jurors for the same were drawn q week
ago. Perhaps half of them will be excused
before the opening of the term.
81 1t is believed that the changes in the
racing laws in New York State will make big
entry lists at the Maryland fairs this year.
Poolselling and race betting of all kinds has
been stopped in the Empire State.
- Mr.. Duane H. Rice, whose large farm is
located about two miles east of Towson, said
This week that so far as his observation goes
1.-THE corn crop is all right" Hiscorn, he says,
was not affected by the dry weather
IA Sheriffs jury at Towson on Monday
declared John B. Lenhoff who kept public
house on the Belair road, to be of unsound
mind. The court will appoint committee to
take charge of his person and property.
- Nearly seven days of rain following
almost two months of drought has put de.
cidedly different appearance on the face of
nature. Fields are again showing green and
vegetation of all kinds has been revived.
- Baltimore county men do 60 wrong oc-
casionaIly. One of them is now in Jail in Bal
timore for making too free with other mems
names by attaching them to checks. Easy
wav to raise money, but look at the risk.
1.-The outlook for a large exhibit of cattle
at Timonium Fair this year is excellent. The
fact that there is to be new judge in this de-
nartment, it is said will be the cause of much
isyoer and better exhibit than heretofore.
p After all the talk about drought the rain.
fall of July was up to the normal, but it all
came at the end of the month. If the weather
man had been able to distribute the precipi
tation better it would have been all right.
- The Sunday school of s.. Michaeps
Lutheran Church at Perry Hall will hold its
annuaIpicnici in the grove adjoining the church
On Wednesday, August 18th. Mr.. s. M
Schroeder is superintendent of the school,.
The residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Noah E
Offutt. at Cockeysville, was struck by light
ming during heavy electrical storm of Friday
IF last week. A chimney was shattered bu
the members of the family escaped injury.
-E. J. Doyle, who keeps saloon at Texas
n C. r. r, was before Justice Joseph b
Herbert on Tuesday charged with selling liquo
on Sunday He gave bail in the sum OF 500