The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-30


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>The public schools of the county will
close for the long summer holiday on Friday,
June 10Th.
The discount on county taxes paid dur
ing the month of June is II per cent. On State
taxes it is per cent.
1.-The strawberry festival is now in full
swing and earning many dollars for churches
and other worthy objects.
Next Monday will be the first day Of
June, thought by many to be the most de-
lightful month of the year.
1.-The General Conference that has been in
session in Baltimore since the 9Th of May will
adjourn finally next Monday.
- Fine strawberries, grown near Towson,
were sold here this week at IL cents a box.
The crop seems to be abundant
- After the 31st of May no one will be al
lowed to sell milk in Baltimore city without a
permit from the health department.
"a Mr.. Gerard, OF Virginia, has purchased
the DR.. Bland farm, near Glencoe, N. G. r. R.,
for $33 per acre. 1t contains 237 acres.
- Mr.. Christian Ak has purchased the fine
residence of Mr.. Arthur Stanley Zell, in Good
wood Gardens, Roland Park, for S25 900.
THE mad dog scare in Baltimore has as
summed alarming proportions How to get rid
of the dog nuisance is a serious problem.
= Flowers will be in great demand today
for decorating graves. There seems to be an
abundance of them and this is fortunate.
- Bishop Paret will visit st. Johns Church,
Worthington Valley, on Sunday, May 31st,
and conduct confirmation services at IL Am.
REV. Durbin g. Miller, q we'll known
minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
died at West Chester, Pa, on the 18th instant.
- Today-Saturday, May 30th-is Decora-
ton Day and a legal holiday in Maryland.
All the banks and public offices will be closed.
"A mission will begin in the Church of
the Immaculate, TowsoD, on Sunday, June
18th, conducted by Rev. Father Anthony, and
continue two weeks.
ION Monday last Mr. John Ridgely. of
Hampton, shipped very fine yearling Jersey
bull calf to Mr.. O. B. Williams, of Laytonsville
Montgomery county, Md.
- Nearly 10000 dogs have been licensed so
far this year in Baltimore city. How many
there are going around without the legal tag
no one would attempt to say.
Mr.. Benjamin f. Kindig, a horseman
who was well known in Maryland, died of
pleuro pneumonia at his home in York, on
Wednesday last, aged 81 years.
There was paid in at the County Treas
urer's office on Wednesday morning single
check for over $1,000 from big corporation
with headquarters in Baltimore.
THE Sunday school of Phoenix NJ. E.
Church will hold a strawberry festival in the
- The Towson baseball team of the Subur.
ban League will play the Roland Park team
on the grounds here, Saturday afternoon, May
30th-two games at and o'clock.
- Messrs. D. II. Rice, Wilton Greenway,
Henry A. Brehm, P. f. Reddington and J.
Edwin Griffith will be well represented at the
Prospect Park Colt Show next week.
81 Mr. Charles E. Fendall exhibited some
strawberries of the new "Fendalp' variety in
the Court House on Wednesday. They were
very large and Of fine color and flavor,
-Gwynn Oak Park was opened for the
summer last Saturday. Many new features
have been added since last year and it is one of
the most attractive resorts about Baltimore.
THE annual entertainment by the pupils
of Towson High School was given in the school
building on Tuesday evening. The attendance
was very large and the affair was much
- That was sort of Democratic lovefeast
held in Towson on Tuesday. Everybody APP
peared to be of the same way of thinking, and
there was not ripple to mar the smoothness
of things.
The strawberry and ice-cream festival
held at School No. f. 9Th district, May 2lst
and Odd, for the benefit of the school library,
netted $27. Miss Mary w. Powell is teacher of
the school.
"a Carroll county farmer who had been
boarding his wheat for the past six harvests,
sold 5000 bushels of it in Westminster few
days ago at 80 cents bushel. He expected to
get 81 rs forit.
= Much hay of unusually fine quality has
lately been going to market by way of the
York pike. Evidently the farmers are getting
rid of it to make room for the great crop that is
promised this season.
- Much rain has fallen during the month
of May and the farmers have received numer-
Gus setbacks in consequence. But they have
no reason to complain as the outlook for them
Just now is very bright.
THE automobile races at PimlicO track
today will no doubt attract large crowd OF
people. One of the events will be a 100 mile
race in which some of the most noted drivers
F1v1kr mil
>The Maryland Poultry and Pigeon Asso-
citation has decided to hold its first exhibition
in Baltimore next January commencing on
the 9Th. 1t will be the biggest affair of the
kind ever seen in Maryland.
Maryland's Good Roads Commission has
gone to work with vim and energy that de-
serves the heartiest commentator. Governor
Crothers is hustler and he's got good men to
back him up, that is evident
IAN army balloon from Washington land
ed on farm in Patapsco Neck on Tuesday
afternoon. 1t took it one hour and forty
minutes to make the trip from the Capital
Four men were in the basket
THE Council of the Jr. o. U. A. M. al
Long Green will attend Fork NJ E. Church in
a body, on Sunday morning next, when the
pastor, Rev. M. L. Beall, will preach special
sermon. Everybody is invited.
THE entire wall of well of Mr.. jerome
A. Golibart. of Jacksonville, I'd district, cavec
in on Thursday night oflast week. The family
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the cause until the next morning.
MIR. Martin L. Thomas and Miss Ann
Elizabeth Blakeley, both OF Upper Cross Roads
Hartford county, drove to T0wson last Satur
day and were married by Rev. H. +. Wright, o.
the Methodist Protestant Church.
-It was currently rumored here this weeh
that the Notre Dame of Maryland is about t
purchase Locust Vale Stock Farm. located
short distance north of Towson, with view
10 establishing fine herd of cattle there.
Mrs. William K. Burns, Of Towson, hac
both bones of leg broken at the ankle or
Saturday last by jumping from buggy. Tn,
horse took fright at barking dog and started
to run. DR.. James II. Jarrett attended her.
->The Buchwald Delivery and EXPIRES
Company has been incorporated in Baltimore
with capital stock of $4,000. 1t takes it
name from Mr.. P. r. Buch valid, who has beer
conducting an express business at Lauraville.
THE Sunday school of Waugh NJ. e
Church will hold its Children's day service or
Sunday, June 14th, commencing at 3 P. NJ
The children are being trained by Mrs. Harr.
Sherman, assisted by Miss Estella Brown
p Mr.. David Bonner, one of the best au
thorities on the horse in this country, has con
scented to serve as judge at the first exhibition
of the Maryland Colt Show Association to D
held at Prospect Park next week, beginning Of
Tuesday.
mir. Edward Forrest, who rents part o
Mr.. Thomas G. Biddisons property at Garden
vile, sent sample of his Strawberries to III
UNION this week. We never saw finer berrie
as to color and flavor and they were also G
large size.
- Architects are now preparing plans fo
the new school house to be erected at M
Washington 1t will be two-story buildin
So bv 6S feet 1t will contain six class room
and other departments and will be hre-proc
structure.
- Mr.. John G. Bokel, retired busine:
man who died in Baltimore few days ago
the age of "a years, was brother OF M
Theodore A. Bokel, who was for many veal
engaged in business on the York road near y
AIMS Church.