The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-02

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.
Strawberries from the South have been
selling in Baltimore at 10 to Is cents quart.
The Towson Juniors will play game Of
ball on the home grounds, on Saturday, May
ID, at 8 NJ.
- Messrs. John G. Dorfier and Charles n.
Sims are each erecting house at Baynesville,
east of Towson.
- Last week IS issue of THE UNION contained
fifteen local letters. nearly every section of the
county being represented
- A detachment of Troop A, Capt. G. Lyon
Rogers, will be in line of the firemen's parade
in Towson next Wednesday.
->No more free lunches in the saloons in
Baltimore law passed at the last session of
the Legislature knocked them out fiat.
- Governor Crothers is expected in Towson
next Wednesday and he should not disappoint
the people. A warm welcome awaits him.
- The judges bench in the court room at
Towson has been supplied with new and much
more comfortable chairs than the old ones.
- The month of May came in with q cold
wave that sent the mercury down many degrees
and made fires and heavy wraps necessary.
THE spring meeting of the Manor Glen
Racing Association will be held on Saturday,
June 9Th. Full particulars will be published
hereafter.
- Mr.. John J. Michigan, whose beautiful
country place on the York road, Towson,
attracts much attention, has had constructed q
fine tennis court.
Thousands of gudgeons are now being
in ar rno md ms IN y
people enjoy the alleged sport of taking them
with hook and line
- This is the I'd day of May and the sum.
mer of 1908 will soon be with as. So far as the
weather is concerned we have already had
pretty fair taste of it.
- The new Towson Exchange of the G. & P.
Telephone Company will be put in commission
today-Saturday. This ought to mean greatly
improved service here.
- The pressure of advertising matter upon
the columns of THE UNION makes necessary
the reduction this week of the space usually
DEVOTED to local and other reading matter.
- TODD A Maryla1a National Guard. 70
plN1 "a July. Gapon springs. W. Va. will be
iheoBjective point of the Troop this year.
- There was a regular procession OF auto
nearly all of them we're heading for Loeb
Raven. Around the lake is favorite route for
the drivers.
"a Baltimore man has made merry
Widow" hat entirely out of vegetables. That's
nice use to put vegetables to, isn't itY But
we'll bet dollar it wasn't as ugly as some we
see on the street.
-The number of liquor license applica-
tions in Baltimore city is 2, 264 decrease of
less than $50 as compared with last year. The
high license didn't cut out as many as 1t was
thought it would.
- It is said that ex Governor Frank Brown
is about to start a breeding farm in Baltimore
county. He was in Kentucky last week and
purchased several fine horses among them a
highly bred stallion.
Perky, al Glencoe, N G. R R is being adver-
tised by the receivers in The UNION today. In
cluded in this sale is some of the finest farm
ing lands in Maryland.
- owson Nj. E. Sunday school held its
annual meeting on Tuesday night and re- cleo
ted the old officers This makes the 33d con-
secutive year Mr.. James E. Dunphy has been
elected superintendent.
- Fifteen months ago Daniel Leonard, an
unmarried man, disappeared from his home at
Cockeysvile and nothing has since been heard
of him. He had been resident OF the neigh
borhood about ten years.
- The last day of April brought Us the
much needed rain, but it came sparingly. The
growing wheat and grass were much in need OF
moisture and in some places the ground had
become too dry to work.
THE Towson Volunteer Fire Company
would be very much pleased if the residents of
the town would decorate their houses on We'd
nesday next in honor of the first Baltimore
County Firemen's Convention.
THE spring meeting OF the Maryland
Jockey Club will end Saturday, May 9th. The
attendance has been larger than for years and
the racing has been fine. The club seems to
be regaining its old popularity.
ROLAND Park has had a real mad dog
beautiful suburb are now undergoing treatment
at the Pasteur institute as the result Of having
been bitten by supposed rabid dog.
While driving near Harrisonville, I'd
district, few days ago, Mr. George Barnett,
of Catonsville, located fox den near the road
and secured six young foxes from it. He took
several of them home to raise as pets.
- Mr.. Jacob L. Fowble, the well known
contractor and builder of Timonium, has been
awarded the contract for building barn on
Mr.. E. Cuttings Merryman's Gerar Farm, to
replace the one lately destroyed By ire.
- The Protestant Episcopalians have organ
lied q congregation at Belgravia and plans have
been prepared for a church to be built at the
corner of the Belair road and Spring avenue
The cornerstone will be laid about the middle
OF May.
- Last week 9 issue of THE UNION contained
an unusual variety of advertisements. 1t is q
feature of the paper that is constantly increas
ing in interest and its large patronage shows
that the people have faith in it as an advertis-
ing medium.
%Mr. G. Bohn slingluff. who is an au.
thoritY on such matters says the recent frosts
have not seriously injured the fruit. Peaches
he says. have been somewhat damaged. Mr.
Slingluf lives ION the ridge" north OF Green
Spring Valley.
been planted in Baltimore county in the las
ten DAYS and much more is yet to be put in
This is the most valuable crop our farmers
have to deal within fact all things considered
It is their main one.
Presbyterian Church has elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: President, Miss
Clara Burns vice-president, Mrs. s. ]. Jones
secretary. Mrs. L. 81. Nelson; treasurer, Mrs
w. Evans Anderson.
>Twenty-eight of those who applied fol
yearly liquor licenses in the county have hac
protests filed against them. These cases viii
be heard by Judges Duncan and Burke mex
Monday and Tuesday. Six of the protest.
come from Catonsville.
THE County Commissioners have decided
to abolish the moonlight schedule for electric
lights at Towson, Arlington. Govanstown
Lutherville, Mount Washington and part o.
Roland Park. The lights at these places vii
hereafter burn every night.
>The bazaar and supper held last week in
The Casino, by the ladies of Towson Metho
dist Protestant Church, Melted S418.18. TIL,
money goes to the new church fund. Mis-
Louise Parks was chairman of the committe
that had the affair in charge.
THE large lemon on the tree in Eyer
barber shop window, Lee Building, Towson
that attracted SO much attention, dropped OF
on Tuesday 1t weighed % ounces. There ar
enumber of others on the tree, one nearly a
large as the one here referred to.
- The regular monthly meeting of Towsol
Improvement Association will be held in tn
office of Wheeler & Cole, Offntt Building, oil
Monday, 4th inst, at 8 P NJ As many mat
ters of importance are to be considered q full
attendance is urgently requested.