The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-06-18

Roads Engineer Shirley reported to the
Highways Commissioners on Thursday tina
he had inspected large number Of bridges
throughout the county and found that forty
six of them needed repairs. Several were sac
to be dangerous. He said it would cost SlO
THE Board of Election Supervisors, Mr..
William A. Slade. president, held meeting a.
| Towson on Tuesday to take the preliminary
steps to beginning their work for this year
| The resignation of Fl. Holiday Emich as regis
| tration officer in the second precinct OF the SC
| district was accepted.
- Mr.. J. Dickson O'Dell, assistant tc
| County Surveyor MCLEAN, is again at work IN
| Cecil county completing the survey OF the
| property of the Whitaker Iron Company
| which mbraces some 5000 acres. He has al
| his assistants Messrs BENJAMIN C. and Samuel
! A. Green of Towson.
"a fine driving horse, belonging to Mr.
Anthony s. Medary, who lives on the Hartford
road, near White avenue, while being driven
| few days ago, stumbled over an obstacle in
the road and broke one Of his front legs. The
animal was taken to DR.. Thomas w. Sprank-
| Inns hospital in Baltimore for treatment.
Judge Burke has overruled the excep.
tons to the ratification of the trustees report
| of sale in the case of Catharine Audoun VS..
Jane M. Audoun and others, and passed an
order finally ratifying and confirming the sale.
Mr.. Charles F. Stein was attorney for Mr..
Horace F. McSherry, who was trustee in the
matter.
THE County Commissioners this week
passed general order directing the police
force to notify them of any distractions in
the roads, such as excavations for pipe lines
| and telephone or telegraph poles. This is done
under the new rules adopted by the Board,
which requires all companies using the roads to
| get special permits.
- The Belair AEgis of last week said: "Our
genial friend, Mr.. G. Bosley Littig, who has q
farm at Van Bibber, is now making the bold
claim of having the best wheat and grass in
the country. He says that he is prepared to
back up this assertion and doubtless he can,
for from what we have been able to learn, both
crops certainly look fine."
"a successful strawberry and ice-cream
Loeb Raven, on Tuesday and Wednesday eve
nings of this week. The attendance was large,
notwithstanding the short notice and cool
weather. 1t was in charge of Misses Minnie
and Birdie Corbin, Ella Mays, Renie Mitchell,
Mrs, Jasper Grace and others.
1.-The June meeting Of the Junior Gun
powder Agricultural Club was held last Satur-
day at the farm Of Mr.. Tho mas V. Richardson,
near Phoenix, 10th district. The principal sub
ject discussed was: "Aow can we economize
in saving our crops?" Mr.. Richardson is
among the most extensive dairymen in the
county, and his farm is just one mile square.
THE senior class of franklin High School
Reisterstown, has sent out handsomely en-
RTdVcQ lQVlL6LlOUS IOI Tue duuudl COul
ment exercises to take place at Emory Grove,
Thursday, June 23d, at P. N. The class off,
GERS are President, Frank Sydney Reese
vice-president, VIM. Luther Byerly secretary,
Katharine Conrad Yingling; treasurer Helen
Dade Davis.
IA lengthy and interesting program was
presented at the Children's day service at New
Market NJ. E. Church, which, on account of
the storm, was postponed until the evening Of
the 9Th inst, when it was given in the presence
of large audience. Rev. George R: Sanner,
pastor Of Parkton Circuit, made suitable ad-
dress. Mr.. William 7. Day is superintendent
of the school.
Now, where in the name of all that is
reasonable did Mr.. Perky, of Worcester, Mass,
get the name Dread, or Dread, which he has
given to the property that was for many years
known as FilstOn Farm, and which is located
at Glencoe, Baltimore county? 1t may be
name of much meaning, but surely it is not
pretty one. Will he tell US where be got it and
what it means2
81 Last Sunday must have been big day
for the trolley car company. All the lines
running into the couAtry were crowded the
greater part of the day and evening and this
must have meant large receipts for the days
work. What in the world would the people
do today if it were not for the trolley cars
And what did they do before there was such
means of conveyance?
MIR. James Cooper, an aged farmer near
Partition, It'll district, says that for over thirty
years every spring he was greatly annoyed by
ground moles that often did his growing
crops much damage, but that this spring he
has not seen one ofthem. He thinks the severe
weather of last winter must have exterminated
the little pests. Mr.. Cooper also says that he
has seen no potato bugs this year.
MIR. Lewis Martin, of the 9Th district,
passed through Towson on Monday morning
with two immense loads OF timothy hay for the
Baltimore market. The net weight of one was
IL, $50 pounds and of the other II, $50 pounds.
The latter was drawn by the team of Mr..
Daniel Wheeler. Mr.. Martin, who is hay
buyer, has hauled hundreds of tons of fine hay
from that section Of the county in the last six
or eight months.
the brown gelding Henry s., Jr, driven
by Mr.. Wilton Greenway, of Wiltondale Stock
Farm. near Towson, won the 2:35 trot at the
had to go four heats to do IT. Time, 2:20a,
2:194, 2:204, 2:213. This was bis first race and
he showed remarkable speed. This horse was
sired by Col. Kuzer, formerly owned by MIR.
G. o. Wilson, of Baltimore county, who sold
him to Austria several years ago.
Mr.. Samuel W. Marshall, % years of
age, who kept green grocery store in Refs
morning, to buy goods. He left the electric
car on Linden avenue, since which time moth
ing has been seen or heard of him by his fam
lily and friends. No cause can be assigned for
his disappearance About four years ago Mr..
Marshall married daughter of Mr.. George H.
Stevenson, well known business man of
Reisterstown.
THE body of Don Manuel Cervera, the
Mexican bull fighter who was killed last week
in st. Louis, was brought to Baltimore on
Saturday, but it was not inferred in the Pres
byterian Cemetery at Govanstown, as origi-
nally intended but was placed in vault in
Catholic cemetery. It will be remembered, as
told in THE UNION last week, that Cevera's
wife is grand daughter of Mrs. Susan Barber,
who once lived in Towson and kept the toll
rnko ~, bo Dulonuio Uollov furnpiRo
"a weather wise individual in Philadel-
phia, who is known as Farmer Dunn, says
that all the indications point to a hot, dry
summer this year, while another in YOrk-a
man who says the world will come to an end
in 1908-decares that the summer will be cool
and pleasant. How these worthless come to
differ so widely we don't pretend to say. We
do say, however, that the right way to do is to
take the weather as it comes and don't be
eternally complaining if it is not exactly to
please you.
- Mr.. Edward o. McMahon ticket agent
of the Northern Central Railway at Texas, had
what might be designated as q close call during
the prevalence Of thunder storm few days
ago. A bolt of lightning entered his office and
wrecked the desk at which he was sitting. He
was badly shocked and his right hand was
severely burned, but he sustained no other in-
juries. An hour later second bolt entered
the office and scattered papers and furniture in
every direction, but Mr.. Mcmahon sustained
no further injury.
This Man Has Ideas Worth Considering.
"A level-headed individual writes the Balti-
more american as follows: "Entomologsts
who have undertaken to rid this country of
pests which are iDjuring the cotton, fruit,
wheat and other crops are deserving of praise
and encouragement. They have undertaken q
task of great importance, and if they succeed
the nation will owe them q debt of gratitude.
The wisdom of the means which some of them
have employed to exterminate insects that are
preying upon the growing crops, however is
questionable.
bugs from China have been imported to
slaughter the San Jose scale, which has been
playing havoc in the orchards and warrior
ants have been pressed into service to rout the
u-sas;l -vk;aA ia d;sro-tins in tho cotton 6olda
and filling the breasts of the planters with
alarm. Can any entomologist give us the as
surance that the weevil or the scale can be
stamped out or perceptibly decreased in this
way? l think not In the sea, the bay and
the river small fishes have been devoured by
| larger ones from time immemorial, still there
seems to be no diminution in the number of
minnows; some birds and beasts continue to
| feast on their natural prey, and insects of
many kinds are pursued by feathered creatures,
/ tho,,0h IN tho hast of NV knouledce and he.