The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1888-02-04


NJ. G. Corner, &C., to John N. Carroll.
VIM, A. Boyd, Jr., trus., to G. +. Fusting.
A. 2. Warfeld to c. f. Barnkol.
F. w. Trimble to NJ. E. Starr &c.
A New Roller Mill in Long Green Val
ley.-The -four and saw-mis formerly known as
Kennels or Reese's Mills, in Long Green Valley,
and which were purchased by Messrs. P. Hartley
q Sons, have lately been thoroughly overhaued,
as referred to in The UNION some time ago, and
are now known as the "Keystone Roller Mills,
with daily capacity of fifty barrels of -four, be-
sides corn-meal and chop. The brands of -four
they are now turning out are the keystone Su-
perlative "Keystone Family" and "Oriental,"
| all of which are sold on their merits.
The mill is driven by 34-foot Overshot water
wheel, #. wide and furnishing 60 horse-p power.
The four run of buhrs formerly used have all been
displaced as has also all the other machinery, and
| the mill now contains all the latest and best i'm
| provements in the art of milling. 1t was planned
| throughout by Mr.. Ezra Valentine, of Baltimore,
widely known milling engineer, and is marvel
of simplicity, convenience and excellence and the
results it is producing will bear the closest inspec
| ton.
1t is full gradual reduction mill, on the Hun
garian process and contains six double set OF Key
| stone roller mills, Garden City roller MILL two
purifiers five centrifugal reels, scrapers dust-co-
ectors and in fact it is complete in every partlcu-
lar rejecting much credit upon its designer, Mr..
| Valentine as also upon the superintendent, Mr..
David Schuchts, and those who did the work
During the past summer the wheel house of the
mill was thoroughly overhauled at great expense
to the Messrs Hartley and it is now very nearly
| alright which, by the aid of large furnace,
enables the mill to run in extremely cold weather
without the interference of ice.
The saw-mill is one of George Pages improved
circular ssw-mils and is driven by l34-inch
Le6ell double turbine water-whee under 80 feet
head, furnishing 25 horsepower, and second to
none in the State In addition to the 4S-inch saw,
they have purchased a 6O-inch saw which enables
them to handle very large logs. Several times
they have sawed logs of such enormous size as to
make eight or nine hundred #. of lumber to the
log. This mill is capable of saving 5000 feet of
lumber per day. 1t is also equipped for saving
shingles, palings, laths scrolsawing and artistic
turning.
These mills are most favorably located in the
midst of the best wheat belt in the county, and be-
sides being approached by good roads from all di-
rections are within short distance of Glenarm
Station, Maryland Central R. R.
The Messrs. Hartley to be congratulated
upon the business enterprise they have displayed
and it is hoped they may meet with the encourage
ment and success they deserve.
In this connection are pleased to note the
fact that Mr.. Phineas Hartley, the senior member
of this enterprsing firm, has entirely recovered
from the effects of severe cold, contracted about
a month ago, and is again able to attend to his
duties. Under his supervision the farm attached
to the mills has been very much improved, adding
to the beauty of the far famed Long Green Valley
Towsontown's Sleighing Carnival-Fun
on the Runners.-An impromptu sleighing
carnival was gotten up in few hours in Towson-
town. through the efforts of DR.. R. C. Massenburg,
| and came off on Wednesday night, furnishing no
| little excitement and amusement. There were
| bet tween thirty and forty seighs in line and as
| they moved through the town the music of the
thousands of bells, mingled with the din made by
the tin horns of all sizes, served to make things
| quite lively for the space of couple of hours.
The procession moved about o'clock, headed
by Mr.. Chas W. Lee with large double sleigh
which had enough people in it to fill a street-car
| Mr. James A. Burgoyne one of his passengers,
| and with his cornet played lively airs as the pro-
cession wendell its way through the principal
| streets Afterwards the line headed FOR Charles
| street avenue and went down as far as Cuttings
| avenue, returning by the York road.
There were many good teams in the carnival
| and nearly every sleigh carried lanterns and tin
horns, the whole presenting a very lively and
| pretty scene.
stout gentleman from the Court House drove
| a IL year-old mare that was lately brought In
from the country, and which be called BLACK
Maria" When the horns in front footed, this
| sprightly animal, with pleasant recoections OF
| what the horn meant on the farm, did her level
best to climb over the other seighs to get near to
| the sound. In order to take the mettle out OF
her he had to leave the line and give her
| three-me squirt on a country road. When
| he came back he could not find the procession
| and contented himself by trying to rub the pains
out of his arms, caused by holding the ribbons
over his ambitious steed. He was afterwards
| heard to remark that the next time he goes into
| carnival he won't drive any more dod gasted
country horses that have not become used to town
| ways.
| Altogether the carnival, although gotten up in
| a few hours, was success, notwithstanding the
| night was rather dark and the sleighing not so
| fine as it had been, owing to Wednesdays thaw.
Had notice of the affair been given in last weeks
papers we have no doubt there would have been
at least three times as many seighs in line.
A Chance for Good Investments.-Mr.
| John T. Showalter, of Wellington, Kansas, and
| Mr.. Thomas c.. Brown, of West Chester, Pa, had
a conference at the office of Messrs. Bosley 4
| Smith, Towsontown, on Thursday of this week,
with Col. John G. Cockey, John Crowther, Jr.,
| John W. Shanklin and others, concerning the
negotiation of mortgages among our capitalists
from the Southern Kansas Mortgage Company,
whose headquarters are at Wellington, Kansas
Mr.. Showalter is president and Mr. Brown one of
| the Yice-presdents. Mr.. Philip D. Hoffman, of
| Baltimore city, is another vice-president. The
capital stock of the company is $500 600, S12OO
| palu up. Inc mortgages pay per ceut- lutoIosI-
! Messrs. Bosley & Smith have agreed with the
company to take the agency for the negotiation of
the mortgages at this place, and we wish them
every success.
The mortgages are taken on Kansas property,
mostly farm handsome city property-and only
| 40 per cent. of the cOmpany's valuation of the
| property is loaned on it. The mortgage is taken
to the company and assigned to other parties with
a guarantee of its payment in full at maturity
without expense or cost to the holder. Mr.. S.
Parker Bosey has been acquainted with Mr.
| Brown for nearly twenty years and knows his in
tegrity to be unquestoned. We were present at
the meeting and much pleased with both
gentlemen and their explanations of the eompa-
ny's operations.
How They do it in Belair.-The Belair
! Times of last week says: ga resident of the 4th
district, being in Beair recently, felt like having
dram and went into bar-room and called for
it. The barkeeper asked if he had an 'order,
and he replied that he had not. Thereupon the
bar-keeper placed printed form before him on
the counter and asked him to fill out and sign it..
He filed out the order for 800 barrels of wbiskey
and thirty dozen bottles of beer The bar-keeper
then handed him glass of whiskey, which he
drank, paid for, and went his way, and that was
the end of the transaction"