The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-04-05

Saturday, April 9Th, by nj. E: Rier, at Glen arm
18th district.st goods in large var1ety.g gar
den TOOLS pillow irons. etc.
Tuesday, April s, by James j. Lindsay and JohI
/. Yellott. trustees, at the Court House, bust
ness property at Butler, 9th district.
Thursday. April II. by WilIoughby Chatterton
aud Alfred A. Chapman, trustees, and by Al
fred A. Chapman, on the premises Il ;. three
Thursday. April II, by Chapman Bros, near Je
rusalem Mills, 18th district. mules, horses
cows. hogs, farm implements, provender
canning outfit. etc.
Thursday, April II. by s. a. Williams. trustee
Racnpd on tho 10 Hayrford trnpke
Tuesday, April 25, by William s. Keech and w
Gill Smith, attorneys, at the Court House
door, a farm of 1876 acres in Dnlany's Valley
Tuesday, April 30, by Chas. j. Hull, Attorney
at the Court House door, fee simple prop
erty in the 18th dis trict.
The criminal docket will be taken up in
the Circuit Court at Towson next Monday.
- The Maryland Agricultural College now
has eleven students from Baltimore county.
"A special meeting of the School Board
will be held at Towson, Wednesday. April 9th.
- When you wish to communicate with
THE UNION use the Maryland phone and call
This is the month of sunshine, show
ers and much fickleness generally, but as II
lasts but thirty days we can grin and bear it.
The tax levy for 1902 will be made this
month and people are hoping that it will be
lOWeI IMAM 1OO13 NnCA II Wdo OF Sto. OAA tbN
800.
I'VE again wish to inform the local cor
respondents of THE UNION that no free GdOsr-
Using is admitted to the local columns OF this
paper. -,
been awarded the contract for the erection of
an ordnance shop at Fort Washington, 10Th
district
= The prize list for the spring horse show
at the Kennels, Charles street avenue, was is
Al. ,fria for chn cln
May LIST.
- Several ladies from Baltimore are about
to organize a female suffrage club in Towson.
The movement will have some active supper
tiers here.
- George w. Frye, a well known engineer
on the Northern Central Railway between Bal
timore and Harrisburg, died few days ago at
the age of GO years.
THE chiidren's Easter offering of Refs
terstown Parish last Sunday was the largest
in the history of the Parish-S90. Rev. Jo-
seph Fletcher is the rector.
- Farmers returning with their teams
from Baltimore are hauling quantities of seed
potatoes and fertilizers Looks if they are
going into planting on large scale.
The Bishops Guild of Trinity Church,
Towson, will hold handkerchief bazaar in
the chapel, on Friday, April 18th, from to 10
PM A general invitation is extended.
The list of applicants for liquor licenses
in Baltimore county is published in the adVer-
Using Columns OF 1HE Union lOudJs II COLI
tains $50 names, or % more than last year.
THE pupils of Towson High School did
highly commendable act when they sent
large number of Easter eggs to the Home for
Crippled and Deformed Children in Baltimore.
- Franklin High School, Reisterstown,
with 269 pupils, and Towson High School,
with 1856 pupils, have had an average attend
ance during the past two weeks of 81 per cent.
- By an act of the Legislature, passed at
the recent session, automobiles may now run
in the Baltimore parks. Heretofore they
were kept out on account of frightening horses.
- The idea that tramps burn barns and
barracks in which they have been in the habit
of sleeping is simply absurd. We don't be-
lieve there is any foundation for such a con-
clusion.
->The National Cemetery at Leudon Park,
on the Frederick road, is to be enlarged by the
addition of 1000 square feet of ground. The
Government will appropriate $4,000 to pay
for the same
1.-The pupils of Franklin High School,
Reisterstown, have organized an athletic asso-
citation, with Harry Eckhart as president. A
baseball team has been formed and is ready
for challenges.
- The Smedley House, Towson, will again
be conducted the coming summer by its owner,
Mr.. J Badger Brown, of Baltimore, who has
already moved out and the house is now open
for the season.
- Authorities say that the caterpillars will
be worse on the trees next summer than they
were last With these pests and the 17-year
locusts fruitgrowers will likely have plenty of
work this year.
- 1t is not pleasant thought but it looks
like all the old postoffices, with their familiar
sounding names, must eventually go. The
march of rural free delivery is unchecked and
seems inevitable.
= The interior of Trinity Church, Towson,
was beautifully decorated for the Easter service
last Sunday, as were also other churches in
the county. Flowers were abundant and
never more beautiful
- The Art Loan Exhibition, which closed
in Baltimore on Monday last, was a success
every way except financially. 1t is estimated
that the expense account will exceed the re-
ceipts by about $1,000.
- Many people observe Easter Monday as
holiday and enjoy rambles about the country,
but they didn't do it this year. The snow,
rain and high and chilling wind made it neces-
sary TO remain indoors
- Messrs. Booth a. Jessop whose steam
saw-mill rig has been at work in EPSON woods,
this week moved to the Sheppard and Pratt
Hospital farm, where the firm has large
amount of saving to do.
> The funny man was out as usual on the
first day of April and had his little practical
Joke with the unsuspecting. But he is a
harmless idiot and therefore should be accep
ted as a matter of course.
- John Fryfogle of Randallstown, I'd dis
trict, while driving on North avenue, Balti-
more, few days ago, fell from his wagon and
received severe cut on the head and pa inful
ly injured one of his hands.
The County Commissioners have set
Wednesday April 18TH as the date for hearing
the exceptions to the ratification of the exami-
ners' report in the matter of opening Franklin
avenue. in the 14th district.
- Mr.. William Frazier, of the Ruxton
Floral and Nursery Company, this week plan
ted number of fine young trees in the Court
House park TO replace those that were almost
totally ruined bV the late sleet storm.
- Baltimore county has lot of fire en-
gines but they can't be gotten to fires because
the alarm system won't work. Would it not
be well to give the firemen a vacation until
there is an alarm system that will alarm2
- March showed us what it could do last
Monday in the way of weather, although it
had but one day to do it in. We are glad the
blustry old fellow has left us and we don't
want to see his like again for twelve months.
- The sale of the Western Mary land Rail
road appears to be no nearer contamination
now than it was a month ago. 1t seems, how
ever, that some people are just beginning to
find out what valuable property it really is.
- Baltimore city sends several of her fish
merchants to Towson almost every day and it
is but Just to say that their fish are better than
their voices. If they were not there would be
some extra funerals in the city in short order.
- The sessions of the Baltimore Annual
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
were opened in Grace Church, Carrollton ave-
nue. and Landvale street, Baltimore, on We'd
nesday last. Bishop E g Andrews is presiding
- After four attempts Adam Henmuller,
Sr., aged So years, committed suicide in his
sons bakery at Gainesville, on Sunday morn
ing last, by inhaling Illuminating gas. A
widow, six sons and two daughters survive
him.
- The new Baltimore directory for 1902
has been delivered to Towson subscribers and
a copy of it may be consulted at THE UNION
office 1t is book that is rapidly growing in
size, showing constantly increasing popula-
ton.
- The demand for mules this spring seems
very unusual. Within two weeks the Locust
Vale Stock Farm, Towson, sold about $50 and
they are going off as fast as Proprietor Nc
Cleary can get them in. The price is also ad-
vancing.
- There are nearly 5000 delinquent tax
payers in Baltimore county, about 200 of them
being in the 9th district alone. Some think
that this large number is in some measure due
to the reduction in the percentage for prompt
payment.
- Mr. E. E. McCleary, proprietor of Locust
Vale Stock Farm, Towson, has closed another
contract with the English government to fur
nish 200 horses for use in the army in South