The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-17

horses. COWS. lelIerS. WdkOucs
ments, household furniture, poultry, etc.
Saturday, January 81, by William j. Peach, as,
signee, etc., on the premises, house ana
Tuesday February 10, by Charles Pielert, attor-
new at the Court House door, a house and
acres of land near Bengies, 18th district.
>Sleighs were again running in Towson
early this week, the roads being sheet of ice.
> On Wednesday last Mrs. William Burns.
of Cockeysville, fell on the ice and broke
wrist.
The amount of taxes under the levy of
1902, due the county on the 31st of December
last, was $172 1862.
fell on the ice on Monday and dslocated his
right arm at the elbow.
THE icy roads, requiring rough" horses
to travel them, made another harvest for the
bIacksmiths early this week.
- Early this week Towson livery stables
asked 81 an hour for horse and sleigh. But
they didn't send out many at that figure.
- A marriage license was issued in Balti-
more on Wednesday to William b. Hall and
Lille NJ. Harple, both of Baltimore county.
- Ice harvesting commenced again in Bal
timore county last Monday and it is likely by
this time all who wished to have secured
supply.
at West Arlington will cost $4,000. The con-
tract has been awarded to Messrs. Staup a.
Ensor builders.
- Measles is prevalent in Towson and it
will require an awful lot to go around, the
youthful population of the town being largely
in the majority.
- Sheriff Oeligrath has signed a contract
with the County Commissioners to board the
prisoners in Jail for the present year for
lump sum of s., 600
- In two days a resident of Towson caught
lO2 rats at his stable, raking in II at one haul.
He used plain wire trap, baited with corn,
and it acted like a charm.
- Hicks, the weather prophet, predicted
last Mondays cold wave. 1t looks like his al
manac is about as nearly infallible as 1t is pos
sible to make such work.
- William Mealey, employed in the cotton
mill at Phoenix, N. G. r. r., had his left hand
severely injured few days ago by having it
caught in some of the machinery.
The days are already frightening per-
ceptibly and as they grow longer the sun de-
velOps more power. And we may add that all
the heat he sends will be welcome.
by the recent death of Charles c. Mann,
of Philadelphia, his sister, Mrs. Mary j.
Lowery, of Lauraville Baltimore county,
comes into very comfortable legacy.
- Attention is invited to the annual state
ment of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company
in Hartford county, which is published in the
advertising columns of THE UNION today.
THE UNIONS supply of calendars for
1903 has been exhausted. 1t was case of first
come first served, hence the belated ones must
not grEmble if their wants cannot be supplied.
- Don't forget the birds while the ground
is coated with snow and ice Their natural
food supply has thus been cut off and unless
they are fed they will suffer and perhaps
starve.
this week slaughtered nine young hogs, all of
the same litter, the combined weight of which
was 2815 lbs. The heaviest one weighed 378
pounds
> Mrs. Mike, widow of John Mike. has
sold her farm of 80 acres, in the 18th district,
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place has been in Mrs. Mikes family about
- The devotees of coasting had fine OPP
Resk aahd teS dd not mss IS e. bdP4Tts the
walking back up the hill that's the spider in the
dumping.
- At the last meeting of the Deer Creek
Farmers Club the subject discussed was CO.
operation among farmers and the labor ques-
ton. We hope to give the views of the men,
bers next week.
William d. Hamilton, of Govanstown,
who for some years had been head gardener at
Druid Hill Park at a salary of SIS per week,
has been made keeper of Carroll Park at a sal
airy of S12 per week.
- While cutting ice on Monday last Mr.
Elisha w. Parks who farms the Samuel Chew
place, near Towson, slipped and fell and his
chin coming in contact with block of ice he
received an ugly cash in it.
The Baltimore Herald SAYS "theIe are
stormy times at Lauravile and Hamilton con-
corning the identity of the most popular man
in that neghborhood and it is natural that an
umbrella should figure in the problem"
THE trial of Edward G.. Watts, in Jail
here upon the charge of numbering his wife at
Phoenix, N. G. r. R., some weeks ago, has
been set for Monday, January 26th. Mr..
Howard Bryant is counsel for the accused.
THE oyster supper held on Friday and
Saturday nights of last week in Brooks Hall,
Belfast, by the ladies of BosIey NJ. E. Church,
proved to be successful affair and something
over $50 was realized for a worthy object
1.-THE public school at Granite, I'd district,
which has an enrolment of about 125 pupils,
had but or 10 present the past week on &C.
count of the prevalence of measles in the
neighborhood. The school has been closed.
1.-The Webster Literary Society of Towson
High School will give the play, "a Box of
Monkeys" in Grange Hail. Friday evening,
February 9th, at o'clock. There will also
be solos and tableaux. Admission 25 cents
Troop A, NJ. N. G., gave its annual din
ner at the Fifth Regiment Armory, on Friday
night of last week, and entertained a number
of officers of the National Guard. Capt. Joseph
W. Shirley, commander of the Troop, presided.
- We publish today a statement from the
Hamilton Volunteer Fire Company relative to
the trouble over the recent voting contest that
took place in the hall at Hamilton between
Messrs Charles H. Knox and Thomas B. Catch.
@The business of the Reisterstown Saw
ings Bank is growing rapidly and the success
OF the institution is most pleasing to its foun-
ders. The cashier, Mr.. j. T. Long, had his
salary substantially increased at the beginning
of the New Year.
= Mr.. Harry w. Dilworth has been APP
pointed postmaster at Hyde Long Green Val
ley, succeeding Col. Samuel n Hyde, resigned.
Mr.. Edward Waldmann has succeeded Mr..
Edward @. Necker as postmaster at Necker,
Baltimore county.
We have not yet passed the first month
of winter and the man who said it was going
to be a mild one, because of his Invaluable
signs, had better retire from business as
weather prophet. He is a rank failure and
unworthy of the name.
- Mr.. Julius Rudiger of A., who lately
disposed of his milk route in Towson, will on
Monday next establish daily express line be-
tween Towson and Baltimore. He is an in
dustrous and reliable man and deserves the
confidence of the public.
- A Baltimore lawyer who was in Towson
on Tuesday wore an imported Irish frieze
overcoat that he said no amount of Baltimore
cold could get through. And he did look
mighty comfortable despite the fact that the
mercury was below twenty.
->All kinds of farm produce took jump
in the Baltimore markets this week. On
Tuesday corn sold at 50 barrel and rye straw
at $18 per ton. AT such figures farmers have
no reason to grumble. Those who have plenty
OF stuff to sell now are fortunate
1t requires man of nerve to stand on
the front of street car, in the capacity of
motorman, with the mercury down to 10 and
the wind blowing at the rate of forty miles an
hour or so. There may be rougher jobs than
that, but we don't recall them Just now.
-. Thomas Phipps, who was agent at
Towson for the Maryland & Pennsylvania
Railroad, has been transferred to North Avenue
Station and made baggage master. Elmer G.
Lyle, who had been iagman at Hillen road
crossing, has succeeded Mr. Phipps at Towson.
- Mrs Ijams who is stopping with her
son-in-law DIR. A. G. Smink, near Powhatan,
slipped on the ice few days ago and sustained
a double fracture of the right arm. She is the
widow of George w. Ijams at one time a we'll
known teacher in the public schools of this
county.
DIR C. Massenburg has greatly increas-
ed the capacity of his drug store in Towson by
removing the partition on the north side and
thus throwing the entire floor space into one
room. When the contemplated Improvements
are finished the store will be very attractive
business place.
- Fifty one years ago last Thursday steam
cars were running over the Susquehanna river
at Havre-d eGrace on track laid on the ice.
Trains OH the P, w. & B. R. R. continued to
cross the river by this means for period of six
weeks At that time there was no bridge at