The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-04-28

| date.
"A branch of the W. c. T. u will be or
ganized in Lakeview NJ. E. Church, Dulany's
Valley, Sunday, April 10th, at O'Clock P. NJ,
by Mrs. Mary r. Haslup, president Of the
Maryland Union. All ladies interested in
Temperance work are earnestly requested to
attend.
The Bayne stage line and livery stable
that was purchased last week by Mr.. William
| A. Lee, has been sold By him to Mr.. William
| z. Stansbury, who owns a livery stable In
Towson. The line between Towson and Luth-
erville will be managed by Mr.. Edward J..
"a movement is on foot in Hartford coun-
| ty looking to the enlargement and improve
| ment of the court house in Belair and the
| building of new Jail, two improvements that
are badly needed. The present court house is
entirely too small for the growing Importance
| of the county.
MIR. A. B. Gardiner, Jr., manager of Fill
ston Farm, Glencoe, had partially arranged for
! his fourth annual sale of surplus stock, to take
/ place May 18th, but he has since conclude to
abandon the sale, as he thinks be will be able
| to stable the increase OF his herd thus making
! the annual sale unnecessary:
! THE new stamp books issued by the Post
| Office Department and which were described
| by THE UNION last week. have already become
| popular and are selling rapidly In addition
| to the face value of the stamps in the books
one cent extra is charged for the book itself.
| Altogether it is good thing.
The Baltimore County Teachers ASCOT
alton held its quarterly meeting III Baltimore
on Friday of last week. DR.. Charles G. Hill,
of Mt. Hope Asylum. read paper on Men
tai Effects of Overstudy in the Young" and
! Dr. r. Percy Smith, of Sunny brook, one on
Sanitary Supervision of the Schools"
- Company A, Fifth Maryland Regiment,
U. s. Volunteers, that saw service in the war
with Spain, will hold its first annual banquet
at the Carrollton Hotel Baltimore, Monday.
May 18th, at p NJ MI Upton 5. Brady,
ty, is member of the committee in charge of
the affair.
The protest to the granting of liquor
license to August Wahaus, of st. Denis. 18th
district, was heard by Judge Burke on Thurs
| day and overruled because it did not state why
the license should not be granted, as required
| by law. Messrs. Boarman q Lindsay repre-
scented Wahaus Protests in two other cases
| were also dismissed.
THE Annual Conference of the African
| NJ L. Church, which was held this year in
| Baltimore, made the following appointments
for Baltimore county Gainesville, John T..
Jenifer; Long Green Circuit, A. II. Murray !;
| Quaker Bottom Circuit w H. Williams;
Randallstown Circuit, s. T. Crawford Provi-
dence Mission, Charles Williams.
| - George NJ. Drebing, who was arrested
for completely with his son in the killing of
| John Neidhardt at Lauraville, has been releas-
ed from Jail under writ of habeas corpus
Judge Burke fixed the bail at s., 900 and w. B..
| HINTON, Oh BALTIMORE D6cdIu6 Tue DOuuSmdIl'
The son, Charles H. Drebing, is also out on
! 5000 ball. furnished by John NJ Christopher.
- About o'clock on Sunday morning
last the store of w. q. Ditman, at Texas, N. G..
r. e., was blown up by dynamite. All the
| window glass in the honses surrounding was
shattered. The force of the explosion was
| terrific and caused much alarm in the neigh
borhood. The store was totally wrecked.
There is no clue to the perpetrator of the out
rage.
Maryland Hunt Cup will take place this
| Saturday. afternoon in Green Spring Valley,
the distance being four and an eighth miles.
The start will be on the farm of Mr.. George
w Ewing and the finish on the farm of Mr..
| William B. Ogden, now occupied by Mr..
Thomas Deford, Jr. There are fifteen entries
| for the race.
MIR ]. H. Herman, who keeps hotel
| at Gardenville. on the Belair road, has ex-
pended considerable sum of money in fitting
up a very attractive summer garden at which
| select entertainments will be given during the
coming summer. 1t will be conducted prin-
cipally as a family resort. The fare on the
electric line is only cents from almost any
! part of the city.
> One day this week Mr.. Joseph Phipps,
farm manager at Hampton, destroyed an en-
| tire family of foxes, consisting of the mother
| and five young ones. He concealed himself
near the den early in the morning and shot
them as they came out. The old fox had been
| CdTIJlUE OH turkeys anu OlHcT lOWlo NY bDc
wholesale and Mr.. Phipps thought it best to
| get rid of the entire family.
| $Some of the dairy interests of Balti-
more city are engaged in small newspaper
war just now and the newspapers are not say
| ing word pro or con, because the ammuni-
TONS all paid for at regular advertising rates.
| The fellows who produce the article that the
| fight is about are smiling benignantly be-
cause they ere getting moge tor IL than they
pany furnished the beautiful decorations of
plants and flowers seen in Trinity Church,
Towson, on Thursday, on the occasion of the
marriage of Mr.. George Poe Wier and Miss
| Sallie w Robertson. The residence of Mr..
| Charles II. Wier, father of the groom, near
| Towson, where the reception took place, was
also deliberately decorated by the same COM
pany.
| Towson, went to Rehobeth Beach, on Friday,
9th inst, in charge of Mr.. John M. Barrett,
excursion agent of the Queen Anne's r. R., to
make arrangements for an excursion of the
congregation and Sunday school of that church
Wright pastor, and Mr.. Joseph s. Bowen,
superintendent of the school, accompanied the
committee.
Zone of the local laws published in THE
| UNION today increases the pay of the bailf of
| the Orphans Court to 50 day "for each day
he shall be in attendance upon said court"
| Another one increases the pay of the sheriff,
for Office expenses, Including clerk and the
necessary deputies to assist him in the dis
charge of his duties " from So 900 to "a 900 a
year. Still another increases the allowance of
the County Treasurer for ''clerk hire" from
$1,000 to $500.
Ofhcers for the New School Board.-The
| newly appointed Democratic members of the
! School Board-Messrs. Thomas B. Todd Will
liam B. Krout, John S. Wilson and John
Arthur-held caucus in Baltimore last Sat
urday and agreed upon the following officers
of the Board, which will hold its first meeting
on Monday, May 7th:
President-Thomas B. Todd
Secretary, Treasurer and Examiner-Prof.
| Albert S. Cook.
Assistant Examiner-John T. Hershner
Counsel to Board-James ] Lindsay.
The selections were made with the greatest
unanimity and the meeting was entirely har-
monious throughout.
Mr.. Todd has for years been a member of
/ the School Board and is too well known to the
people to need an introduction.
Mr.. Cook is principal of the Franklin High
! School at Reisterstown and is young man of
| great ability as an educator and thoroughly
equipped in business way. He graduated at
| Princeton University in 1895 and has since
been teaching. He is brother of Mr.. Elmer
| J. Cook. of the Towson bar.
Mr.. Hershner has been teaching in this
| county about ten years and possesses all the
| qualifications necessary to make an efficient
| assistant examiner.
Mr. Lindsay is well known to the people Of
| the county and before held the same position
with the School Board. He is the junior men,
Der of the law firm of Boarman & Lindsay, is
engaged in active practice, and has represented
the county in both branches of the Legislature
A Colored Man With the Chickens.-At
a late hour Friday night of last week Officer
German saw a colored man passing through
Towson with bag on his back. He hailed
him and while talking with him heard a
strange noise proceeding from the bag. The
officer made some remark about chickens,
when the man dashed the bag in his face and
started to run at the top of his speed. Officer
German followed and called to the fellow to
stop, and even the firing of four shots at him
did not induce him to hold up, and he made
his escape. When the bag was examined it
was found to contain two live chickens and
four dead ones. The bag had stamped on it
| the name of Mr.. r. Emory War6eld, of Pot
| Spring Farm, north of Towson.
Some time afterwards the chickens were
| identified as the property of Mr.. Richard
| Cromwell, whose country place is near that of
Mr.. Warfieid, on the Pot Spring road. On
Monday Constable Whitaker. of Towson,
went to Mr.. Warfield's place and arrested John
Young, colored, upon the charge of stealing
the chickens. He was brought to Towson
and committed to Jail by Justice Herbert for a
hearing on Friday, 9th inst The officer is