The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-04-24

=. The range of the thermometer in Towson
this week was from Al to 88 degrees.
- II is not the Towson Guild House any
longer. Trinity Church Parish House 10 the
correct name.
- Friday next, April 3Oth, will be Arbor
Day and it will be generally observed in the
public schools.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given 81, 600
toward the fund to purchase a new organ for
Waverly NJ. E. Church.
- Next Saturday will be the first day Of
May, thought by some people to be the most
beautiful month Of the year.
"a four-year old TOwson boy has devei-
oped talent for drawing animals and some Of
the pictures he makes are wonderful, consider
ing his age.
p Services at Sater's Baptist Church, Falls
road, on Sunday, will be as follows: Preach
ing at IL A. M. Sunday school at 10 A. NJ. Rev.
Harry W. Kemp. pastor:
- Rev. Dr.. w. L. Mcdowell, superinten-
dent of East Baltimore District, will preach at
Lakeview NJ. Z. Church. Dulany's Valley,
Sunday, April 18th, at O'Clock P. NJ.
1--WE enjoyed some real April showers
this week and vegetation Of all kinds is fairly
jumping. The foliage of the trees has also
made rapid progress in the last few days.
THE County Commissioners this week
designated Justice Padendorff as committing
magistrate at Gainesville, and ]. X. Wilkinson
as committing magistrate at Govanstown.
"a bazaar will be held in the basement of
the new M. P. Church, West Allegany avenue,
Towson., four evenings next week beginning
on Tuesday. Everybody will be welcome.
-%Mr. E. ]. Codd. who died at his home in
Baltimore this week, was highly esteemed
business man and director in many institu-
tons, including the Canton National Bank.
IAN attractive lad" of the G. & P. Tele.
phone Company appears in this issue Of THE
UNION. Don't fail to read it and profit by II as
it contains some good, solid chunks Of sense.
-SJudge Burke has signed decree appoint
ing Messrs. Edgar g. Miller, Jr., ]. Pembroke
Thorn and William II. Bruno, receivers to sell
the Thistle Mills property, on the Patapsco
river.
IA belled buzzard has been exciting the
curiosity of good many people in the neigh
borhood of Greystone Station, N. G. r. R.,
lately. No one has an idea from whence it
came.
- Every day or two one of last years
"canAries' finds its way back to THE UNION
ofice-a little belated, to be sure, but still an
evidence that our friends are still bearing US
in mind.
->Dr. Wilmer Brinton's fine country place,
"Alta VISTA" located on the York road, south
OF Towson, will be sold at auction, on the
premises, on Wednesday next April 2Sth, at
$50 P. NJ.
- Residents Of the Belair road will give
banquet at Kelly's Hall, Overlea, on Thursday
night April 10Th, to celebrate the selection
Of that thoroughfare to be improved as
State road.
Two thousand bushels Of No. Red
Western wheat sold on the floor Of the Balti-
more Chamber of Commerce on Monday at
$1.46 per bushel-the highest price in period
Of ten years.
vitations to its 18th anniversary celebration
and supper to be held in Towson NJ. E. Church,
Tuesday. April 9th, at g. P. NJ Mass-meet.
ing at P. NJ.
->The First National Bank of Catonsville
has established a savings feature and the bank
is now kept open Saturday evenings from to
8 to accommodate those who may wish to
make deposits.
THE pear trees are now in full blossom,
and if one may judge from the profusion of
bloom the crop of that fruit will be large this
year. But it is yet too early to tell what the
outcome may be.
MIR. Elmer r. Halle attorney for John
H. Dunty and others, has filed a bill in the
Circuit Court here for the sale of the real estate
owned by the late William Dunty and located
in the 18th district.
Talk is now of extending the Md. & Pa.
Railroad from Belair to Darlington. This
would prove great help to that section of
Hartford and would no doubt be a good thing
for the company also.
About ten persons died in Baltimore
county within week, all of whom had passed
the age Of 10 years and one was 88. The NOR
tally among aged persons has been unusually
heavy in the last three months.
- fair and festival will be held next Fri
day afternoon and evening in the schoolroom
Of Providence public school, northeast of Tow
son, Misses Kate @. Rudiger and Augusta L.
German, teachers. Proceeds for benefit of the
school.
- Mrs. Gertrude H. 8. Jenkins, widow of
Mr.. Joseph W. Jenkins, ST., who for many
in Baltimore. on the 10Th instant, aged about
80 years. One of her sons is Mr.. Harry s..
Jenkins.
- Don't forget the Volunteer Firemen's
big day in Towson-Wednesday May 9TH
only one week from next Wednesday. Sew
eral thousand strangers will be in town that
day and there will be warm welcome for
every body.
The Towson team of the Suburban
League played its first game of the season
last Saturday afternoon and walloped the Tow
son Reserves to the tune OF IL to l. The league
season will open Saturday. May sth, and close
September 6th
- Mrs. Letitia W. Owen, president of the
American Industrial League, will speak in the
Methodist Protestant Church, Towson, Sum-
day, April 18th, at P. NJ. Her theme will be
1.-THE Boy and Girl" Parents and young peo-
pie cordially invited.
THE spring meeting of the Maryland
Jockey Club will begin at Pimlico today (Satur-
day, April 24th.) and continue sixteen days.
Several hundred horses are at the track and it
ever held by the club.
- Before taking his departure from Patap-
SEQ Station NJ. E. Church Rev. William Rogers
was presented by his people with substantial
purse of money and other most acceptable and
highly appreciated gifts. Mr.. Gotleib Stengle,
Jr., was the spokesman.
THE 700 or more men that were thrown
out OF employment at Sparrow's Point last
week have resumed work, much to their salts
faction. The plant of the Maryland Steel Com
pany at that place is to be enlarged at an out.
lay Of about $1,000,000.
ION and after Wednesday, May 9th, Coun-
ty Treasurer Merryman will be ready to receive
taxes under the new levy. The discount on
county taxes paid before June 1st is 2 per cent.
On State taxes it is per cent. during May,
June, July and August.
->Towson Lodge, l. o. o. F., will celebrate
the 90th anniversary of the order by attending
service at Towson NJ E. Church, on Sunday,
April 25th at II A. NJ, to listen to an appro-
pirate sermon by the pastor, Rev. Thomas E.
Copes. Meet at hall at $50.
- Mr.. William B. Graves, who owns the
Grew Rock estate of over 200 acres, near Pixies.
willie. has lately sold off three tracts of about
100 acres, One of the purchasers is Mrs. VIM.
h. Emory, mother Of Mrs. s. Proctor Brady,
who secured so acres and the buildings.
ANDREW Reese. Jr., AZ years OF age, who
lived alone on Hazlewood avenue, kaspeourg,
committed suicide on Sunday last by hanging
himself in the woods near his home. He was
q bachelor and had lived on the place about
four years. No cause assigned for the act.
THE point-to-point race on Ny Lady's
Manor, postponed from Easter Monday, will
take place on Saturday. April oath, at 4.3O P:
N. sharp. There are ten entries but several OF
these will be scratched. The start and finish
will be on the farm of Mr.. J. Myers Pearce.