The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-01-20

THE monthly meeting of the Baltimore
County Medical Association was held on
Thursday at Mount Hope Retreat where they
were entertained at dinner by DIR. Charles G.
Hill Papers were read by DIR. ]. Piper, DR..
W. j. Todd and DR.. Hubert Richardson.
- Messrs Noah Il. and T. Scott Ofutt,
counsel for Jesse w. Wagner, have entered
suit against the Maryland Steel Company
claiming $1,000 damages for alleged person
al injuries sustained by plaintiff in falling
through hatch way at Sparrow's Point.
Thieves have been raiding the country
place of Mr.. Thomas Hill, at Howardville, Sd
district, and causing good deal of loss and
damage. People in that section. as in some
others in the county are complaining very
much about the need of police protection.
- Mr.. Abram Cole of A., formerly well
known farmer in the Sth district of this coun-
ty, died at his home in Baltimore, on the 18th
inst, aged GO years. A widow and one daugh-
ter survive him. The funeral took place at
Sherwood Church, Cockeysville, on Monday.
THE ''canaries'' sent out with the first
issue of THE UNION in December last continue
to find their way back to the Office. although
they are not coming as rapidly as they should.
1t was an unusually large flock Of birds" and
the "bag" should be heavier, considering the
length of time.
Two boys firing pistol on a vacant lot
in Towson last Monday sent bullet through
window close by the side of which lady
was sitting 1t was not the fault OF the boys
that the lady was not shot. Such things as
this should be broken up, even if some arrests
have to be made.
- Mr.. Joseph Sandman, member of the
House of Delegates from Baltimore county,
has introduced bill to establish an armory
near Pikesvile for Troop A, Maryland Nation
al Guard, and asking for an appropriation of
$35, 900 to purchase the ground and erect the
hfIiII Ir0
This week Mr.. Wilton Greenway received
q lot of twenty-five very fine horses, most of
them from Kentucky. Among the number are
some handsome matched teams and stylish
single roadsters. The horses came by rail to
Lutherville and from thence were taken to the
farm, south of Towson.
MIR. Casper Supple of G.. of Gardenville.
inventor and proprietor OF the Champion Veg
etable Brush Washing Machine that has been
sold all over the country, has formed COM
pany to be known as THE Sipple Machine
Company" to handle these articles and others
of Mr.. Supplies invention.
Those who secured supply of ice dur
ing the first and only ''cold snap we have ex-
perienced SO far this winter are feeling very
comfortable just now. 1t might so happen
that there will not be another hard freeze.
But there are, perhaps, very few who did not
get all the ice they needed.
- The dairy farmer and the retail milk
dealer have been "in the push'' this week
and general interest has centered in them.
Let us hope that all the hubbub will result in
some good to the producers, some of whom
have, if reports be true, been selling their
product at runiously low prices.
- Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Dobler, mother of
Judge John J. Dobler, of the Baltimore City
Court, died at her home on the Hartford road
on Tuesday last from acute Brlgbts disease,
aged 60 years. She was the widow OF John
Dobler, Baltimore hardware merchant who
died in 1872, and daughter of the late Thomas
jenkins.
While preaching from the text, HE
giveth His beloved Sleep" minister of GER
tain church in this county stopped in the mid
die of his sermon and, gazing upon his sleep
ing auditors, said: Brethren 1t is hard to re,
alize the wonderous, unbounded love the Lord
appears to have for good portion of this con-
gregation."
> Messrs. Thomas H. Robinson, Harry s.
Carver and Bernard Reckord of Belair, came
to Towson few days ago and inspected the
system of keeping books and accounts in the
Office of the County Commissioners, intro
duced by Prof. James E. Green. Their object
is to improve the system in use in the Com
missioners' Office in Belair.
THE herd Of Jersey cattle from the "Sans
Souci' farm of Mr.. Samuel g. Croker, on
Chestnut Ridge, was sold at public sale by Mr..
o. A. Kirkland, auctioneer, in Baltimore on
Thursday. The COWS are fine animals and
highly bred, but the prices ruled low-from
s35 to $50 per head Mr.. Croker sold off his
Mr. John R. Tarbert, head gardener at
the Sheppard Asylum, near Towson, died on
Saturday last, after long illness from con-
sumption, aged SO years. He was native of
this county and was for many years success
full truck farmer. A widow and seven chill
dren survive him. The remains were inferred
at Waugh Church, 18th district, on Tuesday.
- Several persons have complimented The
UNION upon its remarks about the condition of
the electric cars on the York road. Superin-
tl.nw. lCI H.
irons if he will compel his conductors to en-
force the rules of the company relative to eK-
pectorating on the floors of the cars. With
little attention the disgusting and dangerous
habit could be broken up.
Rev. John Eberlein, the new pastor of
st. Johns Evangelical Church, Blenheim,
1nLi d;at .;.nd, ONO
Christian Workers, which is meeting with
Sunday evening, January 21st, at 7.3O o'clock,
when permanent officers will be elected. A
general invitation is extended.
The farmer who intends to sell off his
stock and implements within the next two or
three months should make up his mind to the
fact that if he wants to have successful sale
he must advertise it in newspaper of general
circulation, such as everybody knows The
UNION to be. A few dollars invested in this
work is sure to bring the most satisfactory re-
turns Try is and be convinced.
- On Thursday, January 18th, Towson
man received postal that was written by
colored man in the county Jail on the 10Th of
December, asking him to go his bail. The
card mscarried and during the time it was
travelling the prisoner was tried, convicted OF
| mon assault, and sentenced to the penitentiary
for two years and also to the House of Correc-
| ton for six months.
- Henry Matthews, young colored man
of bad repute about Towson, has at last got
| what he deserved and his case should prove a
warning to others of his class. He was con-
victed OF an assault with intent to kill and also
| with common assault. For the first otens
Judge Burke sentenced him to the penitentiary
for two years, and for the second to the House
of Correction for six months, the latter SEN
| tence to follow the first.
There is some talk now of getting the
present Legislature to pass law giving au-
thority to Baltimore county TO enlarge its
| Court House. In some respects the building IS
| too small but with debt of $500, 900 or more
on the county the people will not regard the
| time as suspicious to spend large sum for
/ this purpose. There are some pessimistlc
enough to believe the building is too large as
it is. If it were bigger, they think, 1t would
| only require more officials to NIL it.
| "A good many people are looking around
| for farms to rent and there are some who pro-
fess 10 want to buy, but all of the latter class
| appear to be imbued with the same idea: Ii
| they could find place exactly to their liking
| and then be able to buy il at their own price,
/
ness and dispatch. But as thepeopls who own
the farms have fairly good idea of their
value, they are not disposed to give them away
to crafty the whim Of another person.
| THE ''greeneSt' man ever seen in Tow
son appeared here on Thursday. All of his
outside apparel, even to his high boots and hat,
were painted green, and he came here to paint
green the new poles lately erected in this town
| by the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company.
| The man has a most ingenious arrangement
for swinging himself from pole and can hoist
and lower himself with the greatest ease. He
attracted much attention and created no little
amusement bat he isn't half as ''green" as be
| looks
fragrant Violation OF the Sunday Law
| Mr. Rufus X. Wood, manager for the Mary
land Steel Company at Sparrow's Point, has
written letter to the County Commissioners
in which he says:
II respectfully beg to call your attention to
| the fact that the provisions of the law against