The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-11

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near Jacksonville. 10th district.
THE School Board will hold meeting at
Towson on Wednesday next, 10th instant.
%Good Friday is a legal holiday in Mary
land. All the banks and public Offices were
closed.
Five public sales now being advertised
in THE UNION will take place on Wednesday
of next week.
1.-The Pennsylvania Legislature has passed
law putting heavy fine upon those who sell
cigarettes to minors.
- More rain this week put another stop to
farm work that is anything else than pleasing
to the tillers of the soil.
THE Easter outfit will be strongly in
evidence next Sunday and you want to lookout
for the Easter hat. Ipll be a sumner.
The pretty station of the Western Mary
land Railroad at Glyndon is to be still further
improved and lighted with electricity
- Corn is q scarce article in some sections
of Baltimore county Just now and it is not to
be had at any price. This is very unusual.
ION Wednesday morning Baltimore
county Democrat bet ahatthat Wachter would
be elected mayor of Baltimore next month
- Baltimore city has purchased $50 acres of
the Hardesty property, adjoining Bayview,
and will use it for the purposes of the asylum.
- Last Sunday afternoon the choir of Co
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the county Jail here and sang for the prisoners.
"a man collected S. this week upon the
plea that he wanted to buy an Easter bonnet
for his wife. Great Cesar An Easter bonnet
for IS.
Next Sunday is Easter and the last day
of the Lenten season. Many of the churches
will have special and elaborate musical pro-
grams.
1.-The 25-acre farm of the late Lawrence
Schnider, near Dances Mill, 10th district, has
been purchased by his son. Mr.. Joseph
Schnider
City people are getting out into the
country in order to enjoy the beauties of
spring, but there isn't anything very attractive
about 30 degree temperature.
THE report of the last meeting of the
Senior Gunpowder Agricultural Club. held at
the farm of Mr.. James B. EnsOr will be pub
lished in THE UNION next week.
Mr.. Charles H. Becker. a well known
dairyman of Canton 18th district, has COW
that dropped three calves last Sunday The
triplets are all perfectly formed and doing we'll
~ The cornerstone for the fine new Luth-
eran Church to be erected at Gainesville was
laid last Sunday afternoon with impressive
ceremonies in which several ministers partici-
pated.
- Last Sunday morning the mercury
dropped to q degrees and ice formed in places
to the thickness of half an inch. Fears are
expressed tina. the fruit has been seriously in
jured
THE cornerstone for the new armory for
TES0p a. at Rhe SN ls WILL pc laia with &MIa
be 10 charge.
The soldiers pension of John F. Waetge,
of Hamilton Station, Baltimore county has
been increased to $40 per month George w.
Chapman. of Texas, has secured a pension of
Sc per month
- County Commissioner George w. Yellott
sold this week from his 18th district farm. 81
head of very fine fat steers, but be says he lost
IN than ThQv aocf him 81 IN und hQ
sold for 1890.
III will be good news to the taxpayers
to learn that the rate for next fiscal year will
be down to IS cts. on the $780, This year it
was 70 cts. A reduction of Is cts. will be
most acceptable.
- Protests against the granting of liquor
licenses must be filed in the County Clerks
office before the 10Th of April--Wednesdsy
next. After that date the work of issuing the
licenses will begin.
- Baltimore county men who bet cash and
hats on the success of McLane in the Demo-
cratic primary in Baltimore city on Tuesday,
wore smiling faces the next day. They had
an easy thing OF it.
- At the Arbor day celebration at the pub
lie school at Cockeysville, the principal, Prof.
Arthur @. Crommer made and interesting adj
dress on 1.-The Effect on the Climate by the
Destruction of Trees"
- After having undergone extensive i'm
provements the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Glyndon will be reopened next Sunday. The
old lamps have been abolished and electric
light will be used hereafter.
"a drop of about As degrees in tempera-
ture within the space of twenty-four hours,
shows the possibilities of this climate. Such
sudden changes are remarkable and anything
but welcome to most people
THE appointments made by the Balti-
more Annual Conference, of the NJ. E. Church,
which adjourned on Tuesday, are published
in THE UNION today 1t will be noticed that
comparatively few changes were made.
- Mr.. e. B. Passano, business manager of
the Baltimore Methodist is digging the founda-
ton for house be proposes to build on the
northeast corner of Allegany and Bosley ave-
nues west of Trinity Church. Towson
THE fair for the benefit of the new
Catholic Church in Towson will be held in the
old church, commencing May 18th and con-
tinuing to the 9th of June. The ladies of the
congregation are now actively at work.
- Mr.. John lyric, marble worker at
Cockeysvile, is about completing the stone
base for mounting the Spanish gun in the
Court House park at Towson. 1t will be suit
ably inscribed and weigh about two TONS
There is always great demand for flow
ers at Easter and this year they are said to be
scarce and the prices unusually high. The
florist who has good stock on hand Just now
will be literally rolling in wealth next week.
I'm publishing THE UNION last week the
dates arranged for The Maryland and Virginia
Racing Circuit we inadvertently omitted those
for neutrality-suspicious. LIST to 9TH, inclusive
Mr.. H. A. Brehm is president of the circuit
- EaS yeral young men from
ToYG stsburg in the hope of find
city. They were disappoin
Ned sadder and wiser. Having
ir cash they stole their way back on
aims
I'VE experienced the first storm of thun-
and lightning on Wednesday afternoon.
ior,1r cd hxyo a. Int -
would be foolish to call an April shower. 1t
really looked like a small addition of Noah's
famous wetness
->The maple trees of Towson are rapidly
getting on their new spring suits and soon they
will present beautiful appearance. In sum-
mer they add much to the attractiveness of the
town and their shade from the hot rays Of Old
Sol is always welcome.
THE prize list for the coming horse show
at the Elkridge Kennels, Charles street avenue,
has been issued and is very complete. Mr..
William M. Manly. secretary of the assooia-
ton, can be seen at his Office, Gil Continental
Trust Building, Baltimore.
- Mr.. Harry Malcolm, deputy game war
den, has had printed notices calling attention
to the fact that there is penalty of S25 at
tached to the destroying of the nests of song
BIRDS Other game wardens should see that
this law is strictly enforced.
- Arrangements for the ceremonies attend
ing the formal reception of the captured
Spanish gun at Towson are about completed.
The affair will take place on Friday, May LIST,
and it is expected that great crowd will be
attracted to Towson that day.
- Mrs. Thomas Peerce, of Springfield"
Dulanys Valley. who is successful breeder
of poultry, has % hens in her flock and she
collected daily this week 81 eggs. Her breed
is single comb white Leghorns and she is now
advertising the eggs in THE UNION.
THE Woodlawn Cemetery Company has
purchased 400 acres of land in and about Pow
hatan, in the I'd district, and will convert it
into cemetery. The total amount expended
for the land alone was $4,000. The entire
tract will be enclosed with stone wall.
>The John A.Sheridan Company has been
awarded the contract to erect and fully equip
large building on Conway street, Baltimore,
for the Conway Warehouse Company for $685.
600. Mr.. Sheridan. the head of this company,
is a resident of Chase, Baltimore county.