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


biggest auction sales of the season and the ad
vertisement states that everything offered will
be sold.
Three young ladies in Towson are con
fined to their homes with injuries to thei
knees. This amounts almost to an epidemic
all being similarly affected-bnt in neither in
stance is it known how the injury occurred
One of them has had her limb in a plaste
cast several weeks.
"a Towson trout fisherman spent nearl,
all day Wednesday fishing in the drenchinI
rain and caught two small trout. Although
he is Democrat he named them McLane ant
Wachter, he having won several bets on tn
success of the former in the Baltimore cit
primary on Tuesday.
- Mr. G. Frank Morgan, Of Morgan's Mill
Dulany's Valley. sold this week several fn
hogs at 81 cts. per pound live weight. He say
be is selling them now because of the scarcity
of feed. Mr.. Morgan lately sold - tons o
hay at $50 and SCI per ton. the buyers hauling
it away from his farm.
IA delegation from Towson Epwortl
League attended the Baltimore Conference OF
Monday afternoon and presented Rev. Asbury
r. Kelley. former pastor here, with bunch
of fifty beautiful white and red carnations il
honor of the fiftieth anniversary of his en-
trance into the ministry.
"A few days ago while Baltimore mar
was fishing in Herring Run, near the Phls
adults and four children in a secluded place
all in advanced state of decomposition. 1t i,
thought they were sent there from some med
ical college in Baltimore.
- Well, the primary election in Baltimore
city is over and, as was generally expected
everybody wasn't elected It is wonderful
how politicians will lie when they hope to ad
vance their cause by so doing The election
will take place on Tuesday, May 5th, and the
campaign promises to be hot one.
- Many thousands of dollars were thrown
away in the primary campaign that ended in
Baltimore last Tuesday. Money was spent
lavishlv by both parties and the question
from2 The matter of advertising in the daily
papers alone must have cost great sum.
- Several cases of smallpox were discover
ed in camp of colored railroad laborers at
Hombergville, 18th district. and DR.. Schofield,
sanitary officer, has taken the matter in hand
to prevent the spread of the disease. DIR. John
S. Fulton, secretary of the State Board of
Health, will lend his assistance in stamping
it out.
Springs in the bed of what is known as
Balls hill, on the York road. are causing the
United Railways Company no little trouble
After rains teams frequently stall there and it
appears next to impossible to get solid foun-
dation that will last for any time There is
also soft place under the down track of the
railway. =
IA certificate of incorporation of Grace
Evangelical Congregation has been filed for
record in the County Clerks Office. Those
named as incorporators are Rev. f. s. Lehman
and Messrs. John P. Presser, George ID. Jacob,
j. H. Sommer and Philip p. Heinz The
church is situated on the Hartford road near
Hamilton.
1.-The Easter offering at st. Johns Protes-
tant Episcopal Church, Mt Washington, will
be devoted to making a number of necessary
repairs and Improvements to the church prop
erty. The committee in charge is composed of
Messrs. John NJ. Carter, E. L. Gernand, r. r..
Holloway, l.. b. Kemp and the rector, Rev.
w. f. Watkins, Jr.
- There is growing sentiment among
Baltimore county Democrats to hold their
party primary this year under what is known
as the Crawford county system, which means
voting directly for the candidates. This plan
was used by the Democrats in Baltimore city
last Tuesday and appears to have been in all
respects satisfactory:
MIR Wilbur H. Riddle, of Fork, 18th
district, general agent for Maryland for the
Hallock quadruple cultivator and weeder, is
now distributing in his territory 10000 cata-
logues of this valuable implement. The cata-
logue was prepared by Mr.. Riddle and has a
number OF excellent pictures showing the
workings of the machine.
THE corner stone of the fine new school
building at Sparrow's Point will be laid on
Thursday, April 10Th, that being the fifteenth
anniversary of the establishment of the pub
lie school at that place. County officials and
others will be invited and there will be brief
addresses and exercises by the school children.
The ceremonies will begin at IL M.
"a delegation of citizens of Arlington
including Messrs. Charles T. Cockev, Jr., Noah
Walker, John Felter, A. B. Whitelock and
others, called on the County Commissioners
on Tuesday and asked for an appropriation of
$500 to build truck house for the Arlington
Volunteer Fire Company and to supply horse
and pay for driver. No action was taken by
the Board.
- Mr.. VIM. P. Woolston appeared before
the County Commissioners this week and asked
if they would be willing to accept as public
highway the road extending from Mantua
Mills, 4th district, to the Dover road, provided
and he was asked to confer with Roads Engi-
neer Crosby.
- Confirmation services were held last
Sunday at St. Johns Lutheran Church, Blen-
helm, conducted by the pastor, Rev. John
Eberlein. Those composing the class were
Otto Hillgartner, George Green, Edward Trapp.
Karl Shurmann and Andrew Burk. The
church was beautifully decorated, and special
music was rendered by Miss Clara Amrein and
Mr.. Godfrey Kolk.
IA Towson man, who always likes his
coffee strong and black, to the injury of his
D6dllus Ills WIG luUuSu, las udu BOUU tIlCk
played on him and he's still in ignorance of it.
She provided herself with some of the new
whole wheat coffee and he is drinking that for
his breakfast every day in total ignorance of
the fact that his favOrite beverage is not made
from the pure Rio berry.
- On Tuesday Roads Engineer Crosby SUBJ
mitted to the County Commissioners an esti-
mate and specifications for the contemplated
Improvements to be made to the Joppa road
east of Towson. These include
a 3-foot cut on the hill in front of EPSON
Church and the general betterment of the road
for distance of about half a mile. The esti-
mated cost is about $1,000.
IA new rural delivery route will be estab-
lished at White Hall, Baltimore county, on the
miles in length, with 125 houses and popula-
ton of 531. Gorsuch Mills, Baltimore county,
and Shawsville, Black Horse and Madonna,
Hartford county, will be discontinued. Jar
will be supplied by rural carrier.
After the date mentioned mail intended for
the offices named should be addressed to White
Hall.
mia Railroad has lately been engaged in rum
ming lines north and east of Towson and this
is said to mean the building of a freight line
from Timonium, on the N. G. X. R., to Can
ton Something must be done, it is asserted
to get freight to the water front at Baltimore
without hauling it through the Union tunnel
and dragging it across the city by horse power.
Perhaps there is nothing in this story, but it is
certain the engineers have been at work
THE Belair Democrat comments very ia
vorably upon the letter of instructions lately
issued to the road commissioners of Baltimore
county by Engineer Crosby and adds: 1.-THE
sentiment in Hartford is growing stronger for a
road engineer and it is more than
probable the necessary road legislation for the
county will be asked for at the next meeting
of the General Assembly. It is acknowledged
on all sides that the county is behind the times
in the care of the public roads and it is be-
lieved something should be done to perma-
nently improve them"
THE stock books of the TOwson and
Electric Railway Company are
now open and our public spirited citizens who
have money to invest should not fail to enter
their names. An enterprise of this kind is as
certain of success as anything earthly can be,
and aside from the benefits the stakeholder
will derive as an investment, look what vast
advantage such a road will prove to the public
No one ever heard of an electric
railway line that failed. On the other hand
they have proven good paying investments
and have materially aided in enhancing the
value of property wherever they have been
built.
German Farmers May Visit Burnside"
"A letter from Washington says: Secretary
Wilson, of the Agricultural Department, is
for the tour of the party of German
agriculturists who are to visit this county next
month to inspect the agricultural regions, the