The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-01-16

People have been enjoying finer sleigh
ing this winter than for years and the deman.
for sleighs has increased greatly. Very few o
the old fashioned basket sleighs are seen thes'
days, the cutter or jumper having driven then
out almost entirely. The style of bells use(
has also changed greatly in the last few years
- Baltimore county has enjoyed the fines
/ ice harvest this winter than for years. MANI
houses have been filed with beautiful clea
ice from to IL inches thick. Those whit
failed to get supply, If there are such, canno
blame it on the weather. The opportunities
have been many since the latter part Of No
yember.
>On account of sickness in the pastor
family there will be neither Sunday school no
other service in the Presbyterian Church al
Ashland, N. Z. r. R., on Sunday, January
18th. The regular services will be resumed
on the oath instant; also evening service
Rev r. L. Walton is the present pastor of th'
church.
- Last Sunday the Sunday school officer
and children of st. Johns Lutheran Church
Baltimore, paid surprise visit to Rev Henry
Gyr. at his home, Glenmore avenue, Hamilton
and presented him with a purse and som,
.other articles, all of which were highly appre
ciated by the aged minister, who is now on the
retired list.
- "Old Pete,'' horse that has been in the
service of Highlandtown Engine Company fol
eight years. has been put on the retired list
and Henry p" named for County Commits
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a knowing old fellow and furnishes no little
amusement for the men of the company az
well as for visitors.
The insurance on Mitchell's Mill, near
Loeb Raven. has not yet been adjusted and i
is not known whether or not the mill will be
rebuilt. The property is owned by the Misses
Mitchell and was under rent to Mr.. Joseph T
Fulker. The burning of the mill, which was
one of the Oldest in Maryland, was great loss
to the community.
- The annual Farmers Institute is in ses-
sion at Towson as THE UNION goes to press on
Friday. Two sessions will also be held today
Saturday. commencing at 1910. A. NJ. All
who can should make it point to attend the
institute. The opportunity is offered to
farmers to gain valuable information at no
cost whatever to themselves.
- Discussing the infectiousness OF pneu-
monia DR.. James Bosley, Health Commission
er of Baltimore city, said on Wednesday: ut
can be communicated and those who come in
contact with patients suffering from pneumo-
MIA should be careful. Yet we have not found
the malady to be SO dangerous as to class it
among infectious diseases"
Henry Wicks colored, who died at his
home at Texas, N. G. r. R.. last Sunday,
claimed to have been los years old. He was
born slave to the late Governor Ridgely, of
Hampton, but his father bought his freedom
when he was six years old. He had been a re-
markedly robust man and was rarely sick.
The cause of his death was pneumonia.
Several unsuccessful attempts were made
to wreck an electric car of the York road line
at late hour on Thursday night of last week.
Motorman Joel s. Hayes was fortunately on
the lookout for the Instructions and no harm
was done. 1t is believed that the distractions
had been placed on the track by two colored
men who had been forcibly elected from car
the night before.
- The thoroughbred horse Arrahgowan,
owned by Mr.. Robert NJ. Taylor, the we'll
known amateur Jockey, won last year, SO it is
said, over $1,000 The horse, having gone
wrong as 2-year-old. was sold at auction for
$50 He cost Mr. Taylor exactly $75. Arrah-
gowan is wintering we'll at Mount Prospect
Farm, near Towson, and will be in good shape
for next years work.
1.-The urgent need of roads engineer was
apparent in the Office of the County Commits
sioners on Tuesday. There were road bills to
pay, but no one to audit the accounts, in &C.
cordance with the law. But the Board took a
common sense view of the dilemma and or
dered that the bills for labor be paid, while
those for materials etc.. be held over pending
the appointment of successor to Mr.. Crosby.
- DR.. B. f. Bussey, physician to the coun-
ty aims house. drives apretty little pair of bay
horses that he bought several years ago from
Mr.. John Ridgely, of Hampton. They make
handy team and work beautifully together
but one of them positively refuses to be driven
single and no amount of persuasion will in
duce him to do it. He seems to think it is bis
business to go double and he'll 60 double or
not go at all.
- The funeral of Mr. Benjamin W. Ady
took place at st. Johns Church, Long Green
Valley, at 1870 o'clock on Saturday morning
last and was very largely attended. showing
the esteem in which the deceased was held A
low mass of requiem was said by the pastor,
Rev. ]. B Hauck. Rev. ]. ]. Dillon, of Bal
timore. former pastor of st. Johns and per-
sonal friend Of Mr.. Ady, preached the sermon.
A quartet rendered appropriate music.
- At meeting of the members of Towson
NJ. E Church, above the age of 81 years, held
on Wednesday night, Mr.. John T. Hershner
was elected delegate and Mr.. ]. Howard
Flay hart. alternate, to represent the church in
the Lay Electoral Conference, to be held at
Fayette Street Church, Baltimore, Friday,
April LIST. during the session of the Annual
Conference. At that meeting delegates will be
chosen to attend the General Conference of the
M E. Church to assemble in May at Los An
geles Cal.
received as a New Year present check for $50
from the Orange Judd Company, publishers
of the american Agriculturist, he having been
awarded first prize in their recent business con-
test which was for the best results obtained by
their subscribers from their advertisers. 1t was
through an lad !" Mr. Riddle saw in that paper
in 1900, of the Hallock weeder and cultivator,
that induced him to buy one, which resulted
in him making fve-year contract to place in
this State 1000 of these machines.
Circuit Court.-Miller VS.. Addison argued
on demurrer and held sub curia.
Gill VS.. Galloway, exceptions to ratification
of trustees report of sale; argued and held
sub cura.
Harry Michel, by bis mother and next friend,
Mary Michel, VS.. John G Mexican and Sarah
]. Mexican; verdict for plaintiff for $3.50
Samuel j. Messersmith vs.. the United Rail-
ways and Electric Company and Daniel Sutch
vs. same; removed to the Court of Common
Pleas.
Eliza Smith and ]. Frederick Smith. her
husband. VS.. Frederick Smith and w. Gill
Smith. administrators of Mary. Parlett; re-
moved to the Circuit Court for Howard county.
Charles Milske VS.. the Steiner Mantel Com
pany, of Baltimore county; suggestion and
affidavit bv defendant for removal filed.
Ella Klug vs.. Sarah ]. Eberle and John
Eberle, her husband suggestion and affidavit
by plaintiff for removal filed.
Howard LeCompte VS.. the United Railways
and Electric Company suggestion and afi-
davit by defendant for removal filed.
Ruth Ann Benson vs. Hinke Wisner; re-
moved on defendants affidavit to the Circuit
Court for Carroll county.
Gardiner Dairy Company vs. Robert M.
TAYLOR; judgment extended for plaintiff Tor
Garnett E. Matthews and Edward A. Joyce,
under Indictment for larceny, pleaded guilty
and were remanded for sentence.
Judge Burke announced on Wednesday that
the criminal docket would be taken up next
Monday.
Use of Hot Water Has Cured Typhoid.
DIR. G. Hampson Jones, Assistant Health
Commissioner for Baltimore, says that hot
water treatment for typhoid fever has been
successfully tried in that city He said
ut may not be generally known, but it has
been found that some cases of typhoid fever
that could not be relieved with ice water have
been cured with hot water
The medical world has been very much in
terested il the case of little girl typhoid pa
tient in a hospital who had been kept in bath
of hot water for five days. She is only five
years old. She lies on water pillows and her
body is entirely under water, which is kept at
a constant temperature of 101 degrees by an
arrangement of hot and cold water entering
the mixing cistern, from which it flows into
the bath and thence out by pipe. In the
five days the childs temperature had fallen
from los to 103 degrees, but the crisis has yet
to come. At least three weeks must be spent
in the bath before the disease can be shaken
off. Some years ago at the London hospital a
man was kept immersed for six weeks and re-
covered.
After DIR. Jones' attention had been called
to the case be said that such a treatment was
not entirely new in Baltimore. although II