The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-01-13
AT the meeting Of The Young Mems Lit

erary ana DEBATING society OF IOWS0n. on
Monday night, twenty-six invited guests were
present An interesting program was rendered,
at the the conclusion OF which the visitors
were invited to Groom's lunch parlors and
provided with refreshments.
THE price OF brooms continues to adj
vance, owing to a corner in the broomcorn
market and the short crop of the corn last
year in the West. 1t has gone up from to 10
cents pound, while the price OF handles has
advanced from IS to S11 so thousand. Tacks
and wire have also advanced.
THE County Commissioners this week
passed an order that hereafter they viii. not
pay the water companies of this county more
plugs. Heretofore the companies have been
charging S25 and say they will take nothing
less. This means tilt. sure.
1.-The house of the Overland Hunt Club
in Towson. which has been lighted throughout
by electricity, is being very tastefully and
comfortably furnished and will be most at
tractive home for the club. The house is sup
piled with water, baths, ETC., and has ample
room for all purposes, including billiard room.
THE County Commissioners had more
trouble this week over the police force. The
people OF Pikesville and vicinity put up
large sized kick because they got man they
did not want. The members of the Board
showed disposition to smooth matters and it
is likely the troubles will be adjusted in some
way.
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farm, 18th district. whose barn, stock, proven
der, ETC., were burned on the 18th of Deem
Der, was not forgotten by his neghbors and
friends in his misfortune. One person alone
gave him two mules, horse and check for
800, while others contributed a sum of about
500.
>Dr. Palmer, of the Government bureau
of ornithology, declares that the fight against
the English sparrow is hopeless. He says
they breed with great rapidity-a fact we all
know-and that its numbers is only limited
BY the food supply. To those who don't like
the sparrow this will be most unwelcome
->The all-day rain of Thursday was the
first heavy rain experienced here in several
months Last fall was unusually dry and SO
far this winter there has been no snow worth
mentioning. Some are already predicting a
scarcity of water next summer. The ground
being frozen, Thursdays rain ran off as fast as
it fell.
>Towson Lodge, No. 49, I. o. o. F., cele-
brated its forty-eighth anniversary on Thurs
day night with banquet at Tracey's Towson
Hotel, under the management of Messrs. VIM.
Grason, Fred. A Groom, l.. w. Held, Alex. b.
Miles and y. Howard Isaac, committee. Past
Grand George G. Tracey was presented with a
handsome jewel.
Zone of the coolest nights of the late
cold snap" young man drove horse into
one of the public sheds in this town early in
the evening, tied him and left him there all
night and until IL o'clock the next day. with
out mouthful to eat or drink. Why isn't
this case for the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals?
member of the Baltimore Conference, NJ. Z.
Church, who was stricken with paralysis
about week before, died at his home in Balti-
more, on Wednesday aged 60 years. He had
been in the ministry thirty years, during
which time he had charge of several circuits
in Baltimore county.
"a good many people are complaining
about the filthy condition of the cars on the
through run between Towson and Gainesville.
The custom of expectorating on the floors is
also very common and the conductors never
try to stop the practice. Why don't the COM
to its patrons TO do so.
- Lieut.. Maxwell Keys, who was killed in
an engagement in the Philippines last Novem-
Der, was a nephew of Mrs. E. T. Nudge, of
Pikesville. He first served in Cuba with
Roosevet's Rough Riders and then joined the
Third Infantry, having been appointed second
lieutenant. He was only 26 years of age. His
remains are now on their way home.
THE annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Glyndon Park Prohibition Camp was
held on Tuesday, when it was decided to hold
a camp-meeting in the park this year. Mr.. A.
G.. Eichelberger was elected president, and
Mr.. Robert Ireland, secretary. Among the d.
rectors chosen were Messrs. Jacob N. Pearce
Peter G. Zouck and William E. George.
- MIR. Wilton Greenway is obtaining cleo.
trio power from the wires of the York road
electric railway to pump water from the fine
large spring on the place to the elevated tank,
east of his new house, on the old Stevenson
farm, south of Towson. From this tank it
flows to the house, stables, DC. The same
power will be used for other purposes on the
farm.
- umors were current in Towson this
week that the State Senate, which is now Dem
ocratic, would refuse to confirm the nomina-
ton of Col B. F. Taylor as a member of the
Board OF County Commissioners. In the same
connection it was said that if he was not con.
district, WOULD be named Tor the place by Gov
ernor Smith.
= Residents of Mt. Washington and Rux-
tom along the line of the Northern Central
Railway are being more or less terrorized by
thieves and at least one resident OF the first
named place Mr.. Charles Harvey was heldup
q few evenings ago and robbed of his pocket
book Several houses have been burglarized
and the people are beginning to demand better
police protection.
- We received this week from friend in
the State of Texas a copy of an eightpage
daily newspaper printed in Manila, Philip
pine Islands, and called The American. 1t was
sent to him by George Morrison who is a son
OF Capt. William d. Morrison, native of Bal
timore county, but who has been a resident of
Texas some years. Young Morrison is in the
U. S. Army in the Philippines.
M w. Starr Edwards, of Jamaica,
Long Island, died suddenly of apoplexy, on
the Both ult at the home of his brother-in-
law, Mr.. w. R. Galbreath, Slate HILL York
where he was paying visit. His re-
mains were taken to New York for interment.
The wife of Mr.. Edwards is a sister OF Mr..
Gassaway H. Battee, Of Lauraville, and half
sister of Mr.. VIM. s. Cowley. He left no chill
dren.
- 1t is said that number of those who at
first Joined the several branches of the Milk
Producers Protective Association, along the
railways traversing this county, have already
dropped out. Farmers, as class, have very
little cohesiyeness. They will jump at almost
any new thing that happens along and they'll
drop it Just as suddenly The Grange and
other farmers movements in this county have
met the same fate.
- The public sale season is opening early
this year and no doubt there will be many Of
them in this county within the next three
months. Those who contemplate having sale
should not forget that THE UNION office has
an excellent equipment for getting out at
tractive posters promptly, while an advertise
ment in the paper has never yet failed to bring
the most satisfactory returns. These are mat
tiers worth remembering.
- The statement Of Prof. James E. Green,
chief clerk and auditor in the Office of the
County Commissioners, which is published
in full in THE UNION today will be read by
LQe ptOplc SSHcIduy VIII iulclSct. on HluCu
has been said and written about the county's
Indebtedness that almost any statement APP
peared to be confusing. Now, however, we
have the facts as they really exist and the tax
payers can rest assured that they are not given
to make political capital.
> Mr. Z. NJ. Gillet, proprietor of Bacon
Hall Stock Farm, in the 18th district of this
county, has lately made number of sales of
Hereford cattle, Dorset sheep and Berkshire
hogs, to the breeding of all of which he de-
votes the most careful attention. His sales ex-
tend over the Southern and Western states and
his territory is constantly widening. The
breeding of choice stock is coming to be a very
important industry in this county and Mr..
Gillet's enterprise is contributing much toward
our reputation in othor states IN
Another Generous Offer From Mr.
annual meeting of the d.
rectors of the Hospital for Consumptives,
which institution is located on the Hillen
road, near Towson, was held in Baltimore on
Monday. when the following were reelected
Daniel w. Hopper, president; Rev. DR.. A.
Guttmacher, Rev. David II. Carroll, Rev. DR..
Arthur G. Powell, ]. ]. Middleton, DIR. Walter
p. Smith, Dr. Robert T. Wilson, DIR. George
B. Reynolds and Andrew G. Trippe.
A board of lady managers was also elected,
thirty women, nearly all of whom