The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-02-27

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LOCAL ITEMS.
SALES ADVERTISED ~ THE UNION
Monday. February 20, by C. ]. Chapman. near
Kingsville, 18th district. mules, horses, cat
tie, hogs. farm implements, harness, etc.
Monday, February 20. by Benjamin N. Brooks
at Belfast, 9Th district. horses. cattle. farm
implements, wagons; etc; Also 20 acres Of
Tuesday. March ]. by Joshua Evans. on the old
Marbevale Paper MIN farm. near PnGnix
work and driving horses. cows, farm imple-
Wednesday, March I'd, by e. F. Raphel, at Up
per Falls. 18th district, mules, hogs, farm i'm
plements and machinery, wagons, harness.
wednesday. March 2. by John Schneider. on the
premises, 2 miles from Meredith's ford
bridge, on the Jarrettsville turnpike, stock
farm implements, etc., also farm OF about
Thursday. March 8. by Melvin s. Grifith. as
signee on the premises, a farm of 100 acres
near Marriottsville, I'd district.
Thursday, March 8, by George W. Yellotty at
ley, miles east of Towson. mules, horses,
colts. cows. heifers. farm implements and
Monday, March I. by Charles sisson, on the Oil
yer Blair farm, near Fork. 18th dist, horses,
colts, cows, farm implements; wagons, etc;
Sellers Point road. 18th dist, horses, mules.
cows, wagons. farm Implements. etc.
Tuesday, March Is, by Luke Edward EnsOr, at
Belfast, 9Th district, horses, mules, cattle,
farm implements and machinery, household
and kitchen furniture, etc.
on che premises q farm of 12x acres at Sum
nybrook. 10Th district; also, some personal
THURSDAY. March II. by Mrs. G. Punte. on the
Trump's Mill road. 18th district, real estate
and personal property.
ney, at the Court House door. the property
known as the Lee farm, near Phoenix.
Monday March ~ Dy Il - GSoE c near s ca%s
and heifers. horses. wagons, farm imple-
ments, harness, etc.
Springfield Farm, Dulany's Valley, horses,
mules. hogs, wagons, farm implements and
machinery, etc.
The next holiday is Decoration Day.
which will fall on Monday, May 3Oth.
Those who advertised their public sales
for this week struck it all right so far as the
weather was concerned.
THE mild weather of the early part of
the present week caused the price OF eggs to
drop to % cts per dozen.
- Nearly rs, 600 cases of canned goods were
destroyed by the Baltimore fire. IL is said this
will cause an advance in the price OF these
goods.
winter are keeping up with dissgreeable regu-
larIty. The one of this week again sent the
mercury below 20.
IA great many young men, residents Of
Baltimore county, who were clerks and sales
men in business houses in Baltimore, lost their
positions by the late fire.
- The regular monthly meeting of the
Neigh bOrboOd Improvement Club of GOvans-
town will be held in Golden Eagle Hall, Tues.
day, March LIST. at 8 P M.
IL l. -. - eIsw
eral mornings this week and there was some
little feeling of spring in the atmosphere and
temperature of 40 degrees.
- Eighteen sales of real and personal prop
erty were published in the advertising columns
of THE UNION last week. There are good
number still in and more to follow.
ION and after Tuesday next, March 1st it
will be lawful to fish for brook trout in Bati-
more county. The open season continues four
months-March, April, May and June.
1.-THE half hourly service on the York
road electric railway still continues and is
likely to do so until the damage to the main
power-house on Pratt street is repaired.
- Building operations have already COM
menced in Baltimore and soon the city will be-
gin to rise from its ashes. Henceforward busy
scenes will be the order of the day there.
-The price of wheat is still advancing and
the foreign war may send it still higher. If
farmers have any of their last years crop on
hand it might be good policy to hold on to il
- 1t is said that the bill introduced at An
napolis by Senator Biddison to fix the begin
ming of the fiscal year in Baltimore county on
January LIST instead of June 1st will become
law&
-, In digging grave in Prospect Hill Gem
etery, Towson, few days ago, the earth was
taken out in blocks with the aid of maui and
wedges. The frost had gone down to depth
of fully 80 inches.
Some months ago, so it is said, Balti-
more man purchased q piece of property for
which be paid $500. Since the fire be has
been offered $4,000 for it but declined to sell
- The d. Markley Supply Company of
LauravilIe has their "spring opening an
nouncement in THE UNION and you can get any
kind of seed from them that you may need.
And it'll all grow. too:
- Washington's birthday Cast Monday
although a legal holiday received very little
attention this year. Apparently the peoples
minds were too much absorbed by other mat
tiers to give it thought.
IA Baltimore man who is establishing
poultry-raising plant in Baltimore county, says
be expects to raise chickens by the thousand.
This is clearly case of counting the chickens
before they are Matched.
- A freight wreck occurred on the North
ern Central Railway, at Cockeysville, at N.
on Tuesday in which three cars were demol-
ished. The sudden stopping OF the heavy
train caused the damage
- Mrs. Perine, wife of Mr.. Wesley s:
Perine. Waterman of the Towson National
Bank, fell on the ice one day this week and
dislOcated her left wrist. She is one OF the
Oldest residents of Towson.
The explosion of a coal oil lamp in bed
room of the residence of Mrs. Harper Pen
nington, on the Maiden's Choice road, near
Gainesville, early on Monday night, caused
damage to the amount of about $500.
- An extra fine lot OF mules will be sold at
the sale of Mr.. George W. Yellott, on his farm
at Summerheld Station, lower Long Green
Valley, on Thursday, March 3d. Some good
horses and colts are also in the list to be sold.
-sDr. Harry Bosley. veterinary surgeon,
of Washington, D. c.. few days age. success
fully removed eight fibrous tumors from the
abdomen of horse belonging to Mr.. Harry
Tread we'll, of the Mill Farm, near Bosley post
Office.
- The grounding does not release his grip
on the weather until the middle of March and
Immediately after that is st. Patrick's day.
An old weather observer says we need never
look for any good weather until after the 18th
of March.
=. Next Tuesday will be the first day of
March and it may be said that we have gotten
is concerned. But don't begin to get gay too
soon. March may have several billiards stored
-sOn Friday night of last week the large
barn and other outbuildings on the property
of Mr.. Henry Gerken, dsiryman on Will
y
fire. causing loss of $1,000. Cause of fire
unknown.
The pupils of the Manual Training
: School at Sparrow's Point have constructed
seven large chairs which they have presented
to the members of the School Board for use in
their Office
THE Epworth League of Towson NJ. E.
Church will give literary and musical enter
tainment in Grange Hall, Friday evening,
March 4th, commencing at O'Clock. Talent
from Baltimore will assist in the program.
Admission % cents.
- A caveat to the will of Christopher CO.
lumbus Black Davis has been filled in the Or
phans' Court at Towson by his brothers, Will
lam and Richard Davis. The testator left an
estate of about $4,000, most of which be be-
oueathed to distant relatives.
The immense piles of ice that block the
road on the west side of Loeb Raven, south of
Meredith's ford bridge, is sight worth seeing.
II is estimated that to clear this roadway,
which is entirely blocked to travel, will cost
from one to three thousand dollars.
Two Baltimore business men who live
near Towson knew nothing about the great
fire until Monday morning. One of them,