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

trict. truck Iarm OF ~ acfes anu 'iAPiO'o
ments.
WAS it the january thaw" that struck
us this week Any old thaw would be accep-
table about this time.
Mr.. John Gephart, of Mt. Washington.
has been appointed assessor OF stocks and
bonds for the Sd district.
- Building operations promise to be brisk
in and about Towson next spring and the out
look for mechanics is good.
>The wholesale price of cabbage in Balti-
more this week was quoted at $50 to $40 ton
and white potatoes at 65 to IS cts. bushel.
- Mr.. John K. Parks. of the 9th district,
raised the past season I'D barrels OF corn on 10
acres of land, an average OF 10 Da'reis 10 tue
Another applicant for the position of
State game warden has doomed up in the per-
son Of Mr.. Glover H. Trenholm, OF Cations
-. The record of the winter of 1904 con-
Times unbroken. It begun before Thanks
giving day and there has been little let upin It
marriage license was issued in Wash
ington on Monday last to George ~, =, Cnan 1sS
and Lucy Kay Wnltmore, Dotn oi DicAey 'iiie
The Protestant Episcopal Sunday school
At Phoenix. N. C. R. R., will celebrate the eigh-
teenth anniversary Of its organization on Sun
day, January oath.
property at Texas, N. c. R. r., has been sold
bv the Jacob Tome estate to Mr.. cambridge W..
Brooke. of Baltimore.
- The Board of County Commissioners
did not hold meeting on Wednesday, having
adjourned from Tuesday in order to attend the
Inauguration in Annapolis.
- One dav this week Mr.. John I. Hicks, OF
Evna. 7th district, slaughtered two Chester
white shoafs. 20 months DID, that weighed, re-
spectively. $50 and 4l0 pounds.
- The first month of winter is nearly en-
ded and we have two more to face. After
what we have experienced so far we ought TO
be prepared for almost anything.
- Work on the new Methodist Episcopal
Church in G0vanstown Is progressing as raplo-
" az the weather will permit. When COM
nleted il will be an imposing building.
- few DAYS ago Miss Annie Price. daugh-
Ter If Mr. George Price, of Texas, N. G. r. R.,
fell and fractured leg. DR.. B. F. Bussey rem
dered the necessary surgical attention.
- Baltimore county was well represented
at Annapolis on Wednesday. When Governor
Warield shakes his plum tree tits said that the
faithful from here will not be overlooked.
- George A. and Alexander q. Davis well
known builders have made application for the
benefit of the u. s. bankruptcy law Their
liabilities are scheduled at s6,099.Sl and assets
Since the snowfall on January I'd the
coasting has been fine on the bills about Tow
son and it has been made good use Of. Fortu-
nately no accidents of any moment have &C.
--s Representative Talbot. of Baltimore
countv has introduced in Congress bill to in
crease the pension of John Cooper. OF Compa-
nv I Ninth Maryland Volunteers, to $50 per
month. -,
NIGHTS ago Thomas Monk, of Govanstown, ran
into telegraph pole and broke leg and three
fingers He was removed to hospital in Bal
timore.
medical superintendent, County Commissioners
Yellott, Slade and Mann will visit the Shep-
pard and Pratt Hospital on Wednesday, Janu.
ary 9th :,
more county, exhibited fifteen varieties of APP
piles at the annual meeting of the Maryland
State Horticultural Society held in Baltimore
"a fine mule belonging to Mr. Joseph
Osborne of Towson. was kicked bv one of its
mates few days ago and had leg broken,
necessitating its being killed. The animal was
valued at 5000
one dav last week while Virgil H Gill,
aged 16 years, Of Mantua Mills, 4th district,
was engaged in telling a tree, ne was caught
beneath il and sustained serious injury 70
one of his legs
->The coming Annual Conference of the
NJ. E. Church will be held in Favette Street
Church, Baltimore. commencing Wednesday,
March 30th. Arrangements for the same are
now in progress
- On Friday night of last week the green
house and stable on the property of Mr. Alonzo
Slavsman, Ready avenue, Queenstown, were
burned. causing loss of $780, upon which
there was no insurance
II makes us feel comfortable to see that
they are arranging baseball teams for next
season. When baseball is on the coal dealer
is in tears. Is it any wonder that we are
pleased at the prospect
- Tuscan Masonic Lodge, of Govanstown,
has removed its quarters from Golden Eagle
hall to the hall in the new building of Parr
Bros. on the west side of the York road near
the corner of Homeland avenue
- Ice IS inches in thickness was cut from
Loeb Raven last Saturday No such ice was
ever seen there before and it may be years be-
fore IL is seen again. At other places on the
lake the ice is said to be 10 inches thick.
-eThe annual statement of the Hartford
County Fire Insurance Company is published
in the advertising columns of The UNION to-
day. The affairs of this company are CAREFUL
" managed and it does large business.
The Junior Epworth League of Towson
M E. Church will observe the 18th anniversa-
nv of its organization on Sunday afternoon,
January oath, at o'clock. in the lecture room
of the church. to which the public is invited.
- Don't forget the birds while the ground is
covered with snow Unless they are looked
after many of them may die from starvation.
This is especially true of partridges that are
usually too shy to come about farm buildings
for food.
- Messrs VIM. E. Kricke, NJ. E. Winand,
]. Frank Shipley and Thomas ]. Winand, all
of Baltimore county, have incorporated the
Maryland Culture Yeast Company. with cap
ital stock of $1,000 The Messrs Winand are
distillers.
There has again been a revival of the
talk of building an addition to the Court
House in order that all the branches OF the
local government can be conducted under one
roof and thus do away with renting outside
buildings.
sit seems that the roads engineer problem
is no nearer being solved than it was when Mr..
Crosby resigned. It is said, however, that a
young engineer connected with the Highway
Commission of Massachusetts, will be urged
for the place.
- Il is said that thousands of rabbits an d
MANY coveys of partridges persisted from cold
and hunger in York county during the recent
intensely cold weather. One farmer found a
covey of is dead cartridges within few feet of
his corncrib.
At the last meeting of the Deer Creek
Farmers Club held at the farm of MIR. James
Lee one of the members said that Mr.. Lee had
the best equipped dairy barn he had seen, ex.
cept that of Mr.. Samuel NJ. Shoemaker, OF
Baltimore county.
-Mr. Richard M. Jobe, who for many
wears conducted restaurant on Postofice ave-
nue., near the Baltimore Custom House, died
at his home in the city, on the 9Th inst, after
short illness from pneumonia. be mad
many acquaintance in Baltimore county.
- Miss Julia Merryman, who lives near
Belfast 9Th district, was struck in the eye by
the horn of cow few days ago and was
knocked senseless. Fortunately the eye was
= not injured. Herein would seem to be an argu-
ment in favor of dehorning all dairy stock.
The taxpayers non partisan convention
did not draw much of a crowd on Thursday
IN fact about the same men attend each year
and those who remain at home must have en-
tire confidence in their ability to suggest and
frame such legislation as the county may need.
- Messrs. Charles and Arthur Herzog, at
tornevs for Joseph H. Schaetfer and others.
have filed q bill against Kate Clampitt and
others to secure decree for the sale of the
nropertv of the late Henry Noll and for the
distribution of the proceeds as directed by the
will of the deceased.
~ The rumor that diphtheria had made its
appearance among the pupils of Towson High
School was without foundation As means
Of nrecaution it was thought best to adjourn
the school on Friday of last week in order ito
fnmigate the building. The regular sessions
were resumed on Monday.
- A colored man in Baltimore was convic-
ted of snatching pocketbook and Judge
WRIGHT sentenced him to the penitentiary for
four wears. The Judge said that he intended