The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-04-19

| will shortly remove to the room in the Lee
Building that was formerly used as a drug
store.
THE runabout continues to be the most
popular pleasure wagon and rubber tires are
coming into more general use, especially so in
the city. The cut-under runabout is some
thing new in vehicles, but it is not as natty
looking as the old style body.
- Mr.. S. Davies Warfield, who owns a
large frame building at Timonium, N. G. r. R.,
| that was formerly used as a canning factory,
has rented the same to Mr.. 7. L. Hanway, of
Aberdeen, Hartford county. who will re-estab-
fish the canning industry there.
| "A Towson man went to Baltimore this
| week to buy a forty -eight-dollar ground rent ;
but he didn't do it. 1t sold for over 81 200. A
man can own a million dollars worth of
ground rents and don't have to pay cent in
taxes. Don't look right, does it?
- Mt. Vista is the name of the postoffice
lately established on the Hartford road, short
distance south of Fork. Perhaps the postal
authorities have not yet become familiar with
it as a copy Of THE UNION addressed there last
week failed to reach its destination
- The handkerchief bazar" held on Fri
day night of last week by the Bishops Guild
of Trinity Church, Towson, Melted about sS5.
The embroidered handkerchief sent by Mrs.
Roosevelt was disposed of at auction and Mr..
u. Howard Isaac became the purchaser.
There is less money being loaned on Bal
timore county farm lands just now than for
many years and this is said to be sure sign
that farmers are more prosperous than usual.
Some persons who have advertised money at
per cent. have had no applications for it.
The people of Reisterstown are very
much in earnest about the erection of new
building for the high school in that place.
The present building is entirely too small to
properly accommodate the school and there
are other features that are very Objectionable.
- One of the finest horses seen in Towson
in long time is high stepping. rangy and
handsome PAGER driven by Mr.. John W. Hite-
shue, of Reisterstown, who is member of the
present petit jury Judging from his appear
ance on the road the horse ought to go very
fast.
"a number of Baltimore county people
will go to Charleston. s. c., for the Maryland
Day exercises at the Exposition. The railroad
fare for the round trip has been reduced to $40.
Tuesday next is Maryland Day and the excur-
sionists will leave Baltimore on Saturday and
Sunday.
Another couple from a distance came to
Towson on Wednesday to be launched upon
the matrimonial sea. The groom, who is
from Poughkeepsie, N. Y, is 60 years of age,
and the bride, who is from Baltimore. is 49,
Rev. w. E. Robertson, of the Baptist Church,
tied the knot.
1.-The first three weeks of April brought
little in the way of weather that could be COM
mended and on account of the low temperature
most of the time vegetation made little pro-
gress. Farmers are mplaiEing because their
work is so far behind and they will have to
hustle to "catch up"
> Workmen are now engaged relaying the
tracks of the branch railroad that extends
from Hoffmanville, in the 9Th district of this
county, to the BALTIC. & Hanover Railroad
The road was abandoned and the tracks pulled
up after the mills at Hoffmanville ceased op-
erations few years ago.
MIR. NJ j. O'Hara, chief clerk in the
County Clerks Office, has been busy since
Wednesday morning issuing the liquor IL
censes that had been previously applied for
MIR. James w. Shea, proprietor of the Smile
House on the York road, was the first man to
obtain his license this year.
THE circus is coming and this is a sure
harbinger of spring. People will find money
to go to these shows even if they have to stint
their stomachs to do it. Two days of circus
means the taking away of thousands of dol
lars from those people who can i'll afford to
part with it, yet they will do it.
"a colored man named Henry Williams
was lodged in Jail here on Thursday upon the
charge of burglariously entering public school
house No. 10, located on the Eastern Avenue
road near the North Point road, on Wednesday
night last. The man was caught in the house
in the act of breaking open a desk.
1.-THE matter of the county granting a
franchise to the United Railways and Electric
Company to lay tracks on Garrison avenue, Sd
district, has not yet been settled. This week
Mr.. Charles I. Cockey, Jr., of Arlington, filed
a petition, with eleven signatures attached,
against the granting of the franchise.
1.-The executive committee of the Mutual
Fire Insurance Company of Hartford county
has ordered paid the policy for 81 500 of ].
Winfield Shepherd, of the 10th district of this
county, for the loss of his dwelling by fire.
The policy of 81, 500 on the store and dwelling
of John P. p. Corbin was also ordered paid.
This is the season when the glib.tongued
agent travels around the country and victimizes
the unsuspecting. Have as little dealing with
him as possible and whatever you do don't
sign any papers for him. 1t is in this latter
the real danger lies. Once he gets your name
to paper then he has you exactly where he
wants you.
-->The sale of Messrs. Chapman Bros,
which took place on the Chatterton farm, near
Jerusalem Mills, on Thursday, was a great
success nearly everything sold fetching big
price. Corn brought So go and 49, per barrel
The farm that was offered at the same time
was withdrawn. Slade & Risteau were the
auCtioneers.
"a tea for the benefit of the Hospital for
Consumptives, near Towson, was given We'd
nesday from to o'clock, at the residence of
Mrs Henry G. Matthews, 1902 st. Paul street.
Baltimore, the house having been especially
decorated for the purpose. The attendance
was large and no doubt the affair was finan-
cial success
MIR. George Porter of Rocky Point fish,
ing shore, has been catching some unusually
fine rock this week and he did not forget THE
UNION when disposing of some of them. One
of the fish sent to Towson weighed 81 pounds.
In one haul of his large sein on Tuesday Mr..
Porter caught very large and most brilliant
ly colored gold fish.
- Today--Saturday, April 19th--is the
forty-frst anniversary of the memorable 10Th
of April, 1861, when Towson had its first ex-
perience of what war meant. Our older citi-
zens will remember the exciting events of
those days and pray never to look upon their
like again, as they marked the opening of a
long and bloody war.
rpoI1lar monthly r11petinp of fha
Senior Gunpowder Agricultural Club will be
held today Saturday at the farm of Mr..
James B. Ensor, near Belfast. The chief SUBJ
ject for discussion will be paper on "Balti-
more County Farming" by Mr.. Asa B. Gardi-
ner Jr., which was published in full in THE
UNION few weeks ago.
MIR William Fraser manager of the
Ruxton Floral and Nursery Company, very
generously decorated the chancel in Calvary
Baptist Church. Towson, upon the occasion of
the lecture of Rev. Dr. Madison c. Peters, of
baltimore, on Wednesday night. Two wagon
loads of plants were used and the decoration
was profuse and beautiful.
>Th bicycle fad seems to be coming back
again at least it has been noticed that more
people are using the wheel now than for a
wear or two past. But il is doubtful if it can
ever again attain the popularity it once pos
sessed. Then it almost eQualed craze and
those who were not carried away with it were
regarded as somewhat eccentric.
- ATOOr LAY was Senerdlly OUSerFeu ny
the public schools of this county, some of
them rendering elaborate and appropriate pro-
grams. THE UNION received lengthy reports
from some of the schools and as we could not
publish one without doing the same for others,
we thought it best to omit all, particularly so
because of the similarity of most of them.
1.-THE race for the Maryland Hunt Cup
will take place Saturday afternoon. April Goth,
on the farm of Col. Robert NJ Denison, on
the Pot Spring road, about two miles east of
Timonium. The course will be about four
miles in length and has already been mapped
out by the stewards, Messrs. Redmond G.
Stewart, Ross w. Whistler and j. A. Ulman.
1.-Two more cases of typhoid have deve-
oped in the family of George A. Nash, near
Trenton, 9Th district, making eight in all.
The last to take the fever are Charles Nash
and his mother who were caring for the sick.
Two deaths have occurred in the family-Mrs.
Nash and her youngest child. This is case
that the health authorities should investigated
THE County Commissioners made a
thorough investigation of the charges of drunk
enness and disorderly conduct brought against
the substitutes who had charge of the Mt.
Washington fire engine house on Easter Sum-
day. There was much conflicting testimony,
but enough was brought out to show that the