The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-03-14
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colts. They were much pleased with the team
and will return in week, when the deal may
be contaminated.
- Mr.. ]. Griffin Hall, of Baltimore, will
give IAN Evening of Humorous REGULATIONS"
at Eutaw NJ. p. Church, Halls Springs. Har-
ford road, on Wednesday, March 18th; There
will also be vocal and graphophone selections.
No admission will be charged, but silver col
lection will be taken.
THE personal property of the late Will
liam T. Hackett, on the Sutton farm, at st.
Helena Station, was sold at public sale on
Monday last by Mr.. Thomas G. Biddison,
auctioneer. Notwithstanding the disagreeable
weather the attendance was large and the sale
in every way satisfactory.
"A lecture on the Passion Play, showing
in life motion the various scenes and incidents
in the life of Christ from His birth tothe ascen-
sion, will be given in st. Johns Lutheran
Church, Parkville. Hartford road, Thursday
evening, March 10Th, commencing at 730
o'clock. Tickets Is cents.
THE committee appointed for the pur-
pose has selected site for the new Franklin
High School building in Reisterstown. 1t is
opposite the Central Hotel and the lot has a
frontage of 200 feet on the turnpike, with a
depth of 600 feet. Work on the new building
will be commenced shortly.
- Edward G. Watts, whose trial for the
murder of his wife will commence in the
Hartford County Circuit Court next Monday,
was removed from the Towson Jail to Belair
ON Wednesday last. His daughter, who lives
in Baltimore, visited him regularly every
Sunday while he was in Jail here.
IA couple came all the way from New
York to Towson on Monday last to be mar
ried, the knot being tied by Rev. w. E. Robert
son, of the Baptist Church. The groom was
80 and the bride 40, and they were widower
and widow. The fame of Towspn as a good
place to be married in is spreading.
- Feldspar is now being mined in consid-
10 oil bo tuo Off ho q
Railroad in Baltimore county. The mineral
is found on the property of Hon. James A.
Gary, at AIberton: 1t is being shipped North
Is nsed in the manufactnre Of fine nottery
- IL was said this week that Mr.. John Ora
son, the present States Attorney, who is
candidate for denomination. will run ticket
in the 9th district Democratic primary. This
means that there will be hot fight in the dis
trict, with Mr.. William P. Cole, candidate for
Clerk of the Court, leading the opposition.
THE congregation of Eutaw Methodist
Protestant Church, Hall Springs, Hartford
road, has secured an eligible lot near Hamilton
and will shortly begin the erection of much
larger church. They have unanimously re-
quested the Annual Conference to return their
present pastor, Rev. j. W. Norris, for another
year.
>Some twenty of more walnut trees on
the Hampton estate, near Towson, are now be-
ing cut for lumber, they having been purchas-
ed standing by Mr.. Dennis Carter. The largest
one Of the trees is upwards of seven feet across
the stump and Mr.. Carter, who is we'll versed
in woodcraft says it must have been at least
three hundred years old.
Mr. Thomas G kennedy, the well known
architect, is preparing plans for fine house to
be erected on the country place Of Mr.; Angus
Lutherville The location is beautiful and
commanding one and the new structure will
prove an attractive addition to that highly ia.
vored section of the county.
1.-THE new Mays NJ. E. Church, on Chest
nut Ridge, has been completed and will be
dedicated on Sunday, March 10Th, the services
being in charge of the presiding elder, Rev. DIR.
G. Herbert Richardson. The church is a pref
ty building of Texas limestone and cost about
$1,000. The church is ON Hunts Circuit and
Rev. w. W. Costin is the pastor.
There is no more healthy place in the
country than Towson and this fact should go
long way with those seeking homes. If the
town was incorporated it would be better gov
erned, but as it is we have many advantages
not possessed by other places, and in summer
it is one of the most attractive places in Mary
land. This all who see it willingly acknowl-
edge.
-Mr. H. w. Knapp, superintendent of
the Northern Central Railway has purchased
from Gen. Agnus two acres of land at Rogers
Station, on the Green Spring Branch, where
handsome station will be built and the grounds
surrounding it beautifully embellished. This
will be an improvement that the people of
that rapidly growing section will duly appre-
ciate.
THE Methodist Episcopal parsonage at
Pikesville received an unexpected visit last
Monday night from q large donation party
who gaddened the heart Of the pastor Rev.
John Edwards, with a supply of substantals
and good things that nearly filled the house.
The pastor was taken completely by surprise
and was profuse in his thanks to his kind
friends.
IA we'll known Baltimore county farmer
says that last year was the hardest on farmers
in his experience of many years, owing to the
partial failHra of nrans--- He had
harvested over 80 tons, when, as matter of
fact, his crop was only about 15 tons Fifty
tons of hay at present prices would be worth
snug sum of money.
near Sunny brook, 10th district, on Thursday
of last week, corn sold as high as $500 per
barrel and hay from SIT to $40 per ton. The
attendance was good and the sale a success.
Charles H. Isennock was the auctioneer, and
the sale was managed by Mr.. w. E. Pocock,
who will hereafter conduct the farm in connec-
ton with his own place.
Mr. John Arthur, of Fork, 18th district,
who drove to Towson ON Wednesday to attend
the meeting of the School Board, says he
never saw the Joppa road from Carney to
Towson in such wretched condition as it was
this week. 1t is SO bad in places, he said, that
he was almost afraid to attempt to drive
through them. In summer this is one of the
finest roads in the county.
THE dates for the Timonium fair and
those of the Gentlemen's Driving Park will be
the same this year-September l to 5. Many
owners of race horses have assured the board
that they will ''cut OUT the Driving Park in
order to pay their annual visit to Timonium,
which is favorite place with them. The
crowds that attend the annual fairs there have
an especial attraction for them.
1.-THE Importance of the electric railway
line between Cockeysville and Towson is adj
mitted on all sides and that it will at once
prove paying investment is fact that can
not be doubted, for no trolley line has yet
been established that failed to prove success.
These lines are spreading out all over the
country and the benefits the people are gaining
from them cannot be estimated.
Thursday and Friday OF this week were
the fifteenth anniversary of the great blizzard
during the progress of which the office of THE
UNION was entirely destroyed by fire. An en-
barge was placed upon travel of all kinds and
some days elapsed before the country roads
were opened. There was not much snow on
the ground, but what there was drifted to al
most unprecedented depths in places.
THE board of managers of the Agricul-
tural Society has decided to erect an office
building on the Timonium fair grounds for
the use of the officers and in which there will
also be OfnceS Tor the railroad ana express
companies, ticket Office, &c. The estimated
cost of the building is 81 500 and an effort will
be made to get the railroad company and
Adams Express Company to cooperate with
the society in erecting it.
- When the Towson chemical fire engine
was called out few nights ago it stuck in the
mud before it got five squares from the engine
house. 1t is a cumbersome thing, twice as
heavy as it ought to be- and a regular horse
killer. Why don't the County Commissioners
substitute something else for it 1t looks like
a sin to make horses pull such a thing through
mud and snow. We are told that some of the
other county engines are not more than half
as heavy as this one.
Birthday Celebration and Family Re-
union.-Mr. Henry Volz ST., well known
citizen and business man of Golden Ring,
Philadelphia road, celebrated the 10th ami
versary of his birth on Tuesday last, upon
which occasion there was a family reunion
and a very enjoyable time. Rev. William
Zeiler, pastor of Howard German Lutheran
Church, was among the guests and made
feeling and appropriate address that was high
" appreciated Mr. Volz made fitting re-
Spouse. He was the recipient of a number of
presents, among them handsome reclining
chair from the children of Mr.. Joseph H.