The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-11-07

torney. at the Court House door, farm of
l05 acres, in Long Green Valley.
1T looked like another "Cole" strike on
Tuesday, didn't it
= Less than two months remain of the
year 1908 and Christmas IS barely more than
month off.
- Mr.. Charles H. Knox independent DEM
ocratic candidate for County Commissioner,
polled lob votes in the county. a.,
"a lady who followed the Overland
hounds on Tuesday rode man fashion" that
is astride, using the divided skirt.
- Max Mensh, of Baltimore county, was
on Wednesday granted a discharge in bank
ruptcy in the U. s. District Court.
- And now get ready for Thanksgiving
day. Those who won on Tuesday should nave
especial cause for thanks this year.
What is the use Of a law prohibiting
the sale of liquor on election day when some
saloon keepers brazenly violate itY
- Under the present election law blind
man can vote for only such men on the ticket
whose names he is able to mention
- They experienced an earthquake shock
in ST. Louis on Wednesday. The one in Baltl-
more county occurred day earlier,
- The weather man treated us all right on
election day. If the day had been made to
order it could not well have been finer.
- Mr.. Robert NJ. Taylor's Arrahgowan
won the sixth race-selling, seven furlongs-
at Pimlico on Thursday. The betting was Z to O..
> THE UNION has had the pleasure OF adj
ding many new subscribers to its mail lists In
the last few weeks and they are still coming In:
AT one precinct in Towson the count Of
the bollots was not completed until IL O'Clock
on Wednesday. The total vote polled there
was 476.
The remarkably mild weather of this
week was a subject of general remark, the
mercury on two or three days reaching almost
so degrees.
William Tony has sued Mr.. Walter s.
Shields who lives on Woodbourne avenue,
near Govanstown, for $4,000 damages for al
legged SANDER.
- A trick bicycle rider-something Of the
genus tramp-gave puplic exhibitions in Tow
son on election day and his performance was
by no means bad.
"A young man in Baltimore was this
week fined 500 and sent to Jail for twelve
months for striking his grandmother. He
should have been hung!
THE regular monthly meeting OF the
Neigh borhood Improvement Club OF Govans-
town will be held in Golden Eagle Hail. Tues
day, November 10th, at P. NJ.
- The "I-tOld- you-sOs," since the election
is over, are looking for another job. Every
community is afflicted with certain percen-
tage of these human nuisances.
- Rabbits are said to have became so nu-
merous in York county as to be troublesome
nuisance to farmers in some sections, seriously
damaging crops and young trees.
>1n October II marriage license were is
sued in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court, making it the banner month OF the
year, June coming next with 60.
1.-THE United States grand jury IN Baltl-
more has indicted the driver of coal cart tor
obstructing the passage of railway postal car.
This should prove warning to others.
Hon. George l.. Van Bibber, of Hartford
county, candidate for Associate Judge of the
Third Judicial Circuit, who had no opposition,
polled 8, 225 votes in Baltimore county.
Tuesday was hot day, especially for
Republicans; but they've been there so often
before that they don't mind it much. Only
slightly disfigured but still in the ring.
- The Thanksgiving turkey will, it is said,
be higher this year than usual-in fact almost
everything for the table is hgher-but why
turkeys should be we are unable to say.
"a farmer of Gatchelville, York county,
this year raised from one seed 735 pounds of
pumpkins, the largest of which weighed 136
pounds and was seven feet in circumference.
- Mr. Charles H. Isennock, of Jackson
VILE has sold his Kentucky bred mare
"Trixy'' to Mr.. Owen Burton, of the 18th dis
trict. She is fine saddler and good jumper
- Duck shooting commenced on the Sus-
quehanna flats last Monday. Some gunners
Killed upwards of 100 ducks the first day and
yet it is said they were not so plentiful as
usual.
Ion election day a number of ladies of
ST. James P. E. Church. Ny Lady's Manor,
gave u luuCD6OU Ut MduOI pOolOluCo, Tue pIO-
ceeds of which will be devoted to some worthy
object.
THE fall meeting of the Maryland Steeple-
chase Association commenced at Pimlico on
Thursday and will continue three days next
week. There are nearly two hundred horses at
the track.
- So far as is known the election passed
off in an orderly manner on Tuesday In
some sections it is said that liquor was sold
freely, the officers making no effort to check
the traffic.
= statement of the receipts and disburse-
ments of the public schools of Baltimore coun-
ty is published in the advertising columns of
THE UNION today. The figures furnished in
teresting reading
- Rabbit hunters were out in force this
week and they made the fur fly, but it is said
that rabbits are not so plentiful as usual
There are about as many dogs and gunners as
there are Dummies.
THE Christian Endeavor Society of Ep-
som NJ. 2. Church will hold "pie social in
the hall over Towson engine house, on Thurs
day. December Sd. Proceeds to be used for
1.-THE report of the proceedings of the last
meeting of the Senior Gunpowder Agricul-
tural Club, held Saturday. October 31st at the
farm of Mr.. Lewis NJ. Bacon, will be published
in THE UNION next week.
- Now that the election is over people
should Danish politics from their minds and
devote their attention to business and the or
binary affairs of life A hot political CAM
paign unsettles everything.
"a supper was given in Reisterstown a
few nights ago by number of ladies for the
benefit of the free library in that place. Mrs.
George Davis and Misses Charlotte d. Shriver
ard Mary E. Carr were in charge
- George Murray of TowSon, employed
by Cummings express, had bone of one of
his legs broken on Thursday by, his wagon
running over him in Baltimore. He was taken
to the Maryland General Hospital
- The safety gates at Cockeysville crossing
of the Northern Central Railway which have
heretofore been operated by day and night
Waterman, will hereafter be raised and lower
ed by the operator in the nearest tower
> John OFT, an inmate of the Baltimore
county alms-house WHO'S entirely blind, voted
the Democratic ticket at the Timonium polls
of the Sth district calling out the names cor
rectly in regular order as the clerks marked his
ballot.
dav TO vote Mr. Joseph 7. Fulker, proprietor
of MitchelIs Mill, near Loeb Raven, came in
collision with an automobile and had his
vehicle demolished. Fortunately he escaped
without injury.
in THE UNION appears in the present issue OF
the paper. 1t presents an array OF figures that
will prove bewildering to most people, but the
table will be valuable for future reference, If
for nothing else. - 80
MIR j. L. Fowble, of Cockeysvllle built
the new Fairview NJ. e. Church South, at
Sunny brook, that was dedicated last Sunday
The building cost about $500, all OF wniGh
has been paid except about 5000. Rev. j. R.
Jacobs is the pastor
> The public school at Mt. Carmel, 9th dis
trict has been closed on account of the pres
ence of diphtheria in the neighborhood. The
nrotracted meeting that had been in progress
at Mt. Carmel NJ. e. Church was discontinued
for the same reason.