The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-01-25

ter who disappeared from his home on the
9TH inst, has returned. He says he went to
Pittsburg to hunt work and had no idea of de-
sertiDg his family. He came back as soon as
he earned money enough to pay his way.
- The Democratic organization of Balti-
more county will recommend Messrs. William
A. Slade and Charles H. Wise, present incum-
bents, with two others, for appointment as
Election Supervisors. The Board is composed
of three-two Democrats and one Republican.
| 1.-The re established postoffce at limo
mum, n. G. r. r., with Mrs. Martin as post
master opened for business last Monday. 1t
had been closed for several months because no
one could be found who would undertake the
duties, the compensation being too small to be
| inviting
~ Those members of the Overland Hunt
| Club who had planned to go to Trappe, Talbot
| county, on the 18th instant, were obliged to
abandon the trip because of the indisposition
| of several of them. Weather permitting the
| club will meet today Saturday at Lutherville,
| at 2.30 P. NJ.
THE request of the people of Gainesville
for scent fare from Baltimore to that place
has been turned down by the United Railways
and Electric Company. They will continue to
pay 10 cents or walk The distance from Bal
timore to Gainesville is about the same as to
Towson-7 miles.
The congregation of st. Anthonys
Catholic Church, Gardenville, held a success
full oyster supper in the church hall, on We'd
nesday and Thursday nights. The money
will be devoted to the parsonage fund, for
which it is proposed to raise $1,000 before the
building is begun.
- Mr. T. Edward Hamb of "Hamble-
dune" near Lutherville. has contracted with
Mr.. Thomas Cooking for the erection of cy-
clone wire fence to enclose his extensive gar
dens and greenhouses. He has just completed
large palm house and now has fine vegetable
and flower gardens.
- Inquiry was made in The UNION last
week about the condition of the apparatus of
the Towson Volunteer Fire Company. We
are pleased to say that Capt Miles, of the paid
department, has devoted good deal of atten-
ton to the other fire appliances and has kept
them in excellent shape.
- The Towson Gun Club has voted in favor
of changing the Baltimore county game law to
fix the open season from October 10Th instead
of November 1st Messrs T. Scott Offutt
James Kelley and William s. Keech were ap-
pointed committee to draft resolutions and
forward the same to the members of the Leg
islature.
- Within the past week three more couples
from distance procured licenses in Towson
and were married here. One of them came
from Washington and the others from Bati-
more. Rev. w. H. H. Powers, rector of Trini-
ty p. p. Church, officiated for two of them and
Rev. W. e. Robertson, of the Baptist Church,
for the other.
MIR. Joseph Phipps, who made an ex-
hibit the past week at the Harrisburg (Pa.)
poultry show of Ridgely's Barred Plymouth
Rocks, was very successful. He won nine
prizes, including special on breeding pen.
There was fine display of birds at the show,
and the Rocks were especially strcng, making
the competition hot
1.-The voting machine shown last week in
the State House at Annapolis was thought by
many to be good thing, but too expensive
for general use. The machines cost $500 each
and to supply a county like Baltimore county
with them would cost S25, 000 1t is not at all
likely that such an outlay would meet the ap-
proval of the taxpayers.
The Govanstown Branch of the Young
Mems Christian Association, which has been
in successful operation about two years. is
now maturing plans for the erection of a
a suitable building for its own use 1t is esti-
mated that such building will cost about $4,-
OOO and 1t is their intention to raise the money
entirely by subscription.
- A very smart young man in Allegany
county has been indicted by the grand Jury
because he conceived it to be a very funny
thing to set fire to cotton robe worn by an
other young man who was impersonating
Santa Claus at Sunday school entertainment,
and burning him severely. There is still plen-
ty of work for the fool-killer.
1.-The American Farm Company, that
some time ago established branch at Corbett,
N. G. X r., this week commenced the erection
OF large warehouse and factory at that place
for the manufacture of farm supplies Mr..
Clinton E. Matthews is the local manager for
the company, which has capital of 81 00O, 900.
The headquarters is in Chicago.
> The board of managers of the Baltimore
County Agricultural Society will meet early
next month to elect president, but lust who
that is going to be is extremely problematical
Most of the members of the board have ex-
pressed the wish that Mr.. S. NJ. Shoemaker
again take the Office, but that gentleman is
averse to doing so-in fact says he will not &C.
cept it.
Ford Cathcart, son of Mr.. B. Frank
Cathcart of Madonna, crippled and captured
a strange looking bird a few days ago. It
measures five feet from tip to tip and is pure
white, with black spots all over it. 1t has feet
as large as mans hand, which are covered
with feathers, as is also its bill. 1t has large
eyes and looks like it might belong to the owl
species.
-Mr. Basil B. Bowen is another Baltimore
county farmer and dairyman who will aban-
don the business because he cannot obtain sat
isfactory help to carry it on SUCCESSFULLY He
rents the Gingrich farm, near Timber Grove
Station, Western Maryland Railroad, and will
sell all his personal property on Tuesday
February 18th. The sale will be advertised in
THE UNION next week.
Through the efforts of Deputy Game
Warden Harry Malcolm. of Towson, numer-
ously signed petitions have been sent to An
napolis asking that the game law for Balti-
more county be changed so that the open sea-
son for pheasants, cartridges and rabbits will
begin October, 10Th, instead of November 1st
change and it should be made
> The shock or tremor of what was sup
posed to have been an earthquake was felt by
a number of people in Towson about II o'clock
last Monday night. Doubtless this was the
same disturbance that alarmed some families
living along the Frederick road, the same night.
Some of those who felt it here said it sounded
like the sudden bursting open of door or the
fall of heavy weight on the floor.
THE Baltimore county non-partisan tax
navarro 10 1ikclu TO hon al
institution of the county. Such an organiza-
ton has it within its power to accomplish
much and good results are sure to follow the
last meeting. as they did previous ones. The
gentlemen at the head of the affair are among
our best citizens and have no object except the
broad one of general benefit to the people.
1.-THE farmers institute at Monkton this
week did not draw" as was hoped it would
1t seems impossible to get the great body of
our farmers interested in such gatherings as
much as they should be- This is a rich and
populous county, and above the average in
point of intelligence, yet there are still many
things for our people to learn. knowledge
is power" remember that as you go along.
- Very few if any of the boarding horses
that lost their lives in the burning of the barn
of Mr.. Louis Z. Knox, near Parkville were
insured. There were So stalls in the barn and
every one was occupied. Fifty of the animals
persisted in the flames. Not since the great
fire on Mr.. G. o. Wilson's Riverbank Stock
arm, near LOCu maven, mas SuCn q QeSLruC-
tive barn fire occurred in this county. In that
fire about rs horses, brood mares and colts
some Of them very highly bred animals-lost
their lives.
"a meeting was held in Philadelphia a
few days ago at which was organized the Ma
tional Association of Masters of Recognized
Hunt Clubs. Baltimore county was represen-
ted by Mr. Redmond G. Stewart, who invited
the association to hold its next meeting, Feb
ruary 14th at the club house of the Green
Spring Valley Hunt Club. The objects of the
association are to promote fox hunting, to de-
eide what is qualified hunter, recognition of
hunt clubs, registration of drag hounds and
fox hounds and to decide the definition of a
gentleman rider"
Public Road Matters Before the County
Commissioners.-The question of the dvi
sion of the roads of the 8th district between the
three road commissioners, John Chilcoat,
Michael Padian and George link, was up be.
fore the Board on Tuesday. 1t was said that
Mr.. Chilcoat had in charge AZ miles of road
while the other two had only So miles between
them. The Board directed that $500 be trans
ferred from MIR. Padians and $50 from Mr..
links account to Mr.. Chilcoat's account and
that the three get together and properly divide