The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-15

and lot in Towson.
Thursday, January 3. by P. j. Campbell and Jas.
j. Lindsay, trustees. on the premises, Zee
simple property on Homeland avenue, near
the York road
Monday. January Z, by A. Crawford smith; at
torney, on the promises, farm in the 18th
district known as SANDY vale" near Brad
shaw b. & o. Railroad.
Monday January Z by r. H. BqSsey attq }r tS
9Th district, near Mt. Carmel
- Ministers are now getting ready to
preach some twentieth century sermons.
- Charles R. Pohle, of Baltimore county,
has received his final discharge in bankruptcy
under the United States bankrupt law.
- The petit jury for the December term OF
the Circuit Court will reasonable next Mon
day, until which time it was discharged.
- The entertainment given by the children
of St. Francis Parochial School, Towson. on
the afternoon Of Thanksgiving day, netted $50.
- William Coney, assessor for the 9th dis
trct, has returned to the County Commas
sioners additional assessments aggregating
$3.50 $40.
= Towson postal station is doing a large
business just now in money orders. indicating
that cash will be plentiful during the coming
holidays
-The demand for farm hands in Balti-
more county keeps up and good men who are
on the lookout for work need not be long in
fndingit it.
-The ladies of EPSON NJ. P. Church,
Towson, who held an oyster supper in Armo-
nv Hail. last week, cleared between sixty and
seventy dollars.
ELIAS Hariz, the goose-bone weather
prophet of Berks county, Pa, says the winter
will be late in coming, but that it will be
unusually severe.
- Some of the ponds about Towson were
covered this week with thin coating of ice
lust enough for the venturesome small boy to
tackle with his skates.
MIR. John w. Hiteshue, proprietor of
Hiteshue's Hotel. Reisterstown, has sold his
Wolf, on private terms.
THE MARYLAND Ice Company, of Balti-
more this week sent big lot of horses to the
farm of Mr.. Benjamin I. Ridgely, in the 9Th
district, near Warren, to be wintered.
-All applications for road commissioner
ships under the new law must be filed in the
office of the County Commissioners not later
than today-Saturday, December 10Th.
IA modern summer hotel is about to be
erected at Ellicott City, on the site of the pres
ent Patapsco Institute. The ground will cost
about SIS, 600 and the hotel building $4,000
THE open season for partridges, wood
cock and rabbits in Baltimore county ends on
Monday, December oath. Deputy game war
dens should see that the law is enforced against
all violators.
Troop A will contest with the Smith & Wesson
Revolver Club of Springfield, Mass, will be
Shot on the range at Pikesville, Saturday, De-
cember 18th.
- Next Saturday, December 22d will, ac-
cOrding to the almanac, be the first day OF
winter. We are promised both mild" and
hard" winter and we can simply wait and
take it as il comes.
Mr.. William L. Amoss State director of
Farmers Institutes, was in Howard county
this week and made arrangements to hold an
institute at Highland, in that county, Janu-
arv 18th and 18TH
~ Among those who have passed the eX-
animation for positions on the Baltimore po-
lice force are John p. Concannon, of Texas,
and Asa T. Sedicum, of Mt. Winans, both of
Baltimore county
THE last meeting of the Fallston Farm
ers' Club was held at Mr.. Walter ?. Reckord' s
Orange Farm, on the Hartford road. The sub
iect discussed was 1.-THE Money Value of Good
Roads to Farmers"
the Valley Gun Club of Parkton, n. G..
K. r., had a successful shoot on Thursday and
entertained several sportsmen from Baltimore,
Glen Rock and elsewhere. About ,O0Otargets
and $50 live birds were used.
"a Young man named George Lippey,
employed as a farm hand by Mr.. Joseph
Armacost of the 9Th district, bad the sight of
his right eye destroyed a few days ago by be-
ing struck by piece of iron.
- Messrs. John S. Biddison and Louis P.
Hennighausen, receivers of the Gardenvllle
Permanent Building Association, have filed
suits by titingi in the Circuit Court here against
Charles A. Freund and others.
- Sneak thieves are operating in the neigh
borhood of Texas, Sth district. A few nights
ago they paid a visit to the farm of Mr..
Michael Padian and robbed his meat-house of
a lot of hams, pork, sausage, etc.
son Tuesday morning of this week the
mercury fell below 20 degrees, which was the
/ coolest of the season up to that time. During
1 the early part of the day slight snow fell
about enough ito track rabbit"
- Almost daily we are now hearing of
men who propose to be candidates for the sew
eraI offices to be filled in county next year.
There will be no lack of material, both Repub-
lican and Democratic, that is certain.
>The Willow Mill, on Western run, Sth
district. Mr. Robert G. Proctor, proprietor, has
lately been improved at an outlay of about
/ 81, 600 The additions include machinery for
{ the grinding of cornmeal and buckwheat.
- Mt. Washington is to have another
handsome improvement in the way of state
ly Colonial residence to be erected there next
spring, at cost of about 800 900, for Mr.. II: ].
Barrett. Assistant Attorney. General of the U ..
THE premises of Mr.. w. S. Waterman,
near Hernwood, I'd district, was invaded by
thieves few nights ago, who carried off nearly
100 chickens and turkeys. Not content with
this they also cleaned up the family clothes
line
son Monday evening last little daughter
of MIR VIM. McKeown, gardener for Mr.
the sash of dollhouse and cut a very bad
cash in her leg. She was attended by DR.. J
H Jarrett.
MIR Thomas V. Richardson, a well
known farmer of the 10th district, few days
ago killed 40 hogs the combined weight of
which was $500 Tbs. Two sows weighed 504
and 40 lbs, respectively. The others were
spring pigs.
THE annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Baltimore County Agricultural Society
will be held in the Court House at Towson,
Wednesday, December 10Th, at which time a
new Board of Managers will be elected for the
ensuing year.
The State Horticultural Society will hold
its annual meeting in Dushane Post Hall, Bal
timore, Thursday and Friday next December
Goth and 2lst. The Gardeners Club will CO.
operate with the State Society in the holding
of this convention.
-The extensive public sales of Mr.. Joshua
F. Todd, on the Pot Spring road, Sth district,
and Mr.. E. F. Raphel, near Upper Falls, 18th
district, will take place next Monday and
Tuesday. respectively. Both are being adver-
tised in THE UNION.
MIR. Anton Refer, a farmer of Green
wood, 18th district, has applied for the benefit
of the U. s. bankruptcy law. His liabilities
are IS 434 So and assets s., 225, of which SIS. 00C
is a farm of lac acres, on which there is 8
mortgage for $4,000.
SIX or eight horses have died in the
neiehborhood of Parkvile, Hartford road
within the last two weeks from some mysteri
Gus disease A man who saw couple of these
animals before death said they acted as though
they had blind staggers.
At the meeting of the Junior Gunpow'
der Agricultural Club, held last Saturday al
the farm of Mr.. T. Melville Pearce. the mem
bers were unanimous in their opinion that tbs
county should own the several toll roads radi-
citing from Baltimore city.
> Baltimore county people who were taken
in, ss alleged, by Thomas James Pritchett, the
Young Baltimore lawyer who was working q
''savings bank" scheme in Baltimore, will
learn with some satisfaction that he has been
indicted by the grand jury.
> Joseph ]. Turner has made a deed oil
trust of his interest in the estate of his father
Joshua ]. Turner, to George J. Turner, who is
to manage and control the same and pay all
debts of Mr.. Turner and convey the remainder