The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-05-24
THE farmers clubs and Organizations

tation of President Sylvester, will hold gen
eral meeting at the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege, on Wednesday and Thursday, May 28tt
and 10Th. The Baltimore county clubs will b.
represented.
- Team No. 2, of the Towson Gun Club
won the first prize at the Maryland country
club shoot at Prospect Park on Thursday oil
this week. The team was composed of Messrs
Upton s. Brady, Benjamin G. Marley anC
Walter Hullihan and they broke 122 out of 8
possible $50 targets.
THE sale of the mill property of the
late T. NJ. Corcoran, at Butler, Western Run
turnpike, made some time ago by Messrs
James : Lindsay and John l. Yellott, trustees
has been finally ratified and confirmed by the
court Mr.. Shadrach K. Cole was the purcha
ser of the property.
- Joseph Robinson, carpenter, who, on
the 9Th instant, assaulted Contractor G. E.
Thomas with board and broke his nose, was
arrested this week and held to bail in the sum
Of $500. The assault occurred on the Wilton
dale Stock Farm, near Towson, where a new
barn is being erected.
- People possess many erroneous ideas
about locusts and some of them are decidedly
funny. Eminent "bugmen" say the only
harm the ugly things do is to young twigs oil
fruit trees. in which they make a pnncture to
deposit their eggs thus causing the twig to die
and drop to the ground.
- Several weeks ago Mr. Lewis NJ. Bacon,
whose farm is at Belfast, 9Th district lost a
highly priced dog that had followed his team
to Baltimore. He advertised in THE UNION
and since then he has received letter from a
young man at Sharon, Hartford county, who
thinks he has the lost dog
THE UNION Office has had many calls
this week from people who came to Towson to
pay their taxes. Most of these come here but
once year and then, as they often remark kill
two birds with one stone by discharging their
obligations to the county and renewing their
subscriptions to their paper,
- Mr.. Jesse NJ Hoshall, of the 9th district,
who is a clerk in the record Office at Towson,
brought here this week 10 rattles and button
from the tail of rattlesnake that was killed
a few days ago by Harry J. Shauck, near
Shamburg 9Th district. Snakes of this species
are rare in Baltimore county.
->S Some of the schools of this county kept
holiday Whit Monday, the Board having given
of Decoration Day MAY 3Othl if they wished.
Whit Monday is not legal holiday, while
Decoration Day Is. Why this change should
have been made we fail TO see.
1.-THE fine farm of the late John Fang
meyer, at Owings Mills, on the Western
Maryland R. R., which was offered at public
sale, on the premises, last Tuesday, was with
drawn on a bid of $1,000. 1t contains 1874
acres and is we'll improved. Mr.. Robert H.,
Smith was the attorney in the matter.
1.-THE American Guernsey Cattle Club, at
its meeting in New York few days ago, APP
the Guernsey GLASS at the Timonium Fair this
year, provided the arrangements of premi-
ums and conditions in this class meet with the
approval of the executive committee"
THE running race meeting of the Green
Spring Valley Hunt Club will take place at
the Pimlco track, on Friday afternoon next,
goth of May, The officers will be; Stewards
-Messrs. r. O. Stewart Edward a. Jackson
and F. H. NJ. Birckhead; judge-Mr William
P. Riggs clerk-Mr. d. Sterett Cuttings.
1.-THE Horse Show management last week
very sensibly barred automobiles from the
grounds. One of these machines was the
cause of serious driving accident on Charles
street avenue during the progress of the show.
They are bad things to have around where
there are spirited horses. In fact they will
frighten almost any horse,
up to Thursday, 22d instant, A0S liquor
licenses had been issued from the County
Clerks Office, or - more than had been issued
at that date last year. The total number of
these licenses applied for this year was $50.
Several were protested and withdrew their APP
plications, while others did not take out Ii
censes after applying for them:
night two unknown men, dressed in cowboy
fashion, with pistols swung at their sides, rode
through Toyson and terrorized some of the
people by firing their guns as they went. We
submit that this is scarcely the right thing ip
a civilized community and if these fellows can
@The African Union NJ. P. Conference of
the District of Maryland, WHICH was held at
Elkton, made the following appointments for
Baltimore county East baltimore County
Circuit-W. H. Fax st. Johns Station, Rux-
ton-P. B. Robinson st: Andrews Station
D. W. Butler; Cherryhill StatioD-D. H.
Harris Baltimore County Mission-.G A.
Coleman.
IA delegation, headed by Mr.. Lewis M .
Bacon, was before the County Commissioners
this week to urge general improvement of the
public road from Sparks Station, n. G. II. R.,
very reasonable demand will be complied with
at an early date. 1t was said that farmers liv-
ing along the road would haul the necessary
material free of cost,
- Commissions were issued at the Execu-
tive Office in Annapolis few DAYS ago for the
following: To Mr.. Frank 1. Duncan as men,
Der of the Board of Managers of the House of
Correction; to Col. Benjamin f. Taylor as
member of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga
Battlefield Commission, and to Mr.. Thomas ].
Neal as justice of the peace for the 9th dis
trict of Baltimore county.
MIR. Frank g. Scott, we'll known 9Th
district farmer says the outlook for wheat and
grass in that section of the county is generally
exceedingly poor. He says he has field of
wheat that he does not think will produce over
bushels to the acre, while one of his grass
fields will not be worth cutting. Mr.. Scott is Q
is regarded as good farmer.
There is very old graveyard on the
Hillen farm, near Towson, lately purchased
by ex-Sheriff William P. Cole. Abont twenty
graves are marked and the others have no
stones. The Oldest stone marks the grave of
Martha Hillen, who died in 1859. The house
on the farm is built of stone and roughcast.
It was erected in ITS by Solomon Hillen, as
a stone set in the gable end shows,
Mrs. B. Kane offers for rent the property
known as the Valley Hotel, situated on the
Dulany's Valley turnpike, near Meredith's
ford Mr.. John ]. Lynch, who kept the
house about two years, gave it up several weeks
ago. This is one of the oldest hotel stands in
the county and was at one time-perhaps more
than 100 years ago-a centre for sporting events
such as horse racing, cock fighting, etc.
THE cornerstone for the new engine
house at Landsdowne, 18th district, was laid
last Monday afternoon. There was a parade,
headed by band Of music, and addresses by
Messrs. Frank !. Duncan and George 8. Kieffer
The house is intended for the use of the Vol
unteer Fire Company OF Lansdowne, which is
commanded by Mr.. William Hellwig. Fire
companies from st. Denis and Westport par
ticipated in the ceremonies.
"a squad of Baltimore police, at an early
hour on Wednesday morning, captured John
Wesley pevine, colored, the man who shot
Patrolman Charles ]. Donahue, of the North
western district on Monday last, in the house
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northwest of Cockeysville. The accused, who
is q desperate man and has bad record, made
no resistance. Patrolman Donohue has since
died from the effects of the wound.
1.-The fourth annual exhibition of the
Baltimore Horse Show Association, which
was held three days last week at The Kennels,
Charles street avenue, was a marked success
in every particular. The class of horses was
better than at any previous show and the atten-
dance each day was large and brilliant. MIR.
William P. Riggs, treasurer of the association,
was also the acting secretary, and to him much
credit is due for the success of the show.
"a team of Towson lawyers and team
made up principally of clerks in the Court
House played an aiming game of baseball
here on Tuesday afternoon and furnished no
little amusement for the spectators. Some of
the players were at one time strong in the game
and their really good plays showed that their
hands had not forgot their cunning. There
was any amount of squabbling and kicking to
beat the band, but the clerks came out yicto-
rious by the score of IL to TO-
-At the request of Mr.. Van Brant Ritten-
house, who is one of the largest berry and
pea growers in that section of the county, the
United Railways Company has consented not
to remove the old Gunpowder bridge on the
Belair road until the strawberry and pea crops,
which are hauled to Baltimore by way of that
road are harvested. As already stated in THE