The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-04-02


tenacious suckers" But worst of all they cal
it the Acarius scabei 1t must be simply
awful.
AT public sale in this county fev
days ago the auctioneer put up about % chick
ems at one clip, telling the crowd that be woul'
sell them at SO much pound as they stood,
half dozen, with the privilege. The highes
bid was IL cents and when asked how man.
he wanted the bidder said be would just tax
! the lot.
- Mr.. EImerJ Cook, attorney for Mary A
Diven, has filed bill in the Circuit Court her
against b. Howard Garrett administrator o
| Sarah A. Garrett, to procure decree for tn
sale of the real estate of the deceased to pay
| the debts due by her, the personally, it is al
legged, being insufficient to meet claims agains
i her estate.
The Sunday School of Towson NJ. e
| Church will give an Easter entertainment il
the church, on Sunday night next, April Sd
commencing at 8 o'clock, to which cordial
invitation is extended. An interesting pro
gram has been prepared. Mr.: James =. Dun
twenty eight years.
- Miss Bertha Halle and Miss Addie May
Flayhart, pupils of Towson High School
were among the successful competitors for tbs
five prizes offered by the Woman's Auxiliary
of the Maryland Civil Service Reform Associ
alton for the best essays on Civil Service Re
form. The competition was restricted to the
high schools of the State.
- The public sale of Messrs. John Garman
& Son. which took place on the farm of Mr.
Thomas Peerce, in Dulany's Valley, on Tues
day last was in all respects satisfactory the at.
tendance being large and good prices were OBJ.
tanned. Two lead mules brought S482 and
horses brought from $50 to S185. Charles II.
Isennock was the auctioneer.
This is the season to clean up about your
premises and get rid of the accumulatiOns of
the winter. 1t costs little and gives great
deal of satisfaction to have ones surroundings
spick and span. And then this is also worth
considering in the matter of health. 1t was
not the good book, but it was wise mind
that uttered the sentiment: Cleanliness is
next to godliness"
Tile thrifty town of New Freedom, just
over the Maryland line in York county. is en-
ioying building boom this spring. Several
dwellings, Catholic church, cloth factory
and water and electric plants will be erected
this spring and summer. One of the more re-
cent additions to the town is National Bank,
of which Mr.. James e. Green, Jr., formerly
of Towson, is cashier.
- In the issue of THE UNION of March 10th
Mr.. Clarence E. Baldwin, stock dealer of
Long 6reen Valley, advertised carload of
Shorthorn bulls. Asked the result of the adj
vertisement he said he disposed of the stock
promptly and among those who came to buy
were men he had never seen before indicating
that the lad" had brought him very satisfac-
tory returns, from unexpected sources.
line pubic SAFE Vi MI OudTlcS OOIe, Oh
the farm of the late Washington Gore, near
st. Georges, 4th district, on the 23d of March,
was one of the most successful ever seen in
that section of the county. The attendance
was large and the bidding spirited throughout,
the result being excellent prices. George w.
which was advertised exclusively in THE
UNION.
They got Charles w. Gallagher, the
curb stone broker, in the Baltimore Jail upon
some charge or other and then they cut his
hair, shaved him and made him take bath.
Immediately after that ordeal he sent for q
priest, but he's living yet and once more
breathing the pure air of heaven. A man who
wears an ulster and arctic shoes in July can't
be knocked out by little thing like bath
and shave.
The public sale of stock, implements,
crops, &C., on the Hayfields farm, near Cock
eysville, which took place on Tuesday last,
was attended by over five hundred people and
amounted to nearly $4,000. Slade 81 Risteau
were the auctioneers. As already stated in
The UNION. Miss Ann Gott Merryman. who
owned the personal property on the estate, and
her brother. Mr.. William D. Merryman, will
remove to Delaware.
"a man who plead guilty in the Circuit
Court here few days ago to the charge of big
amy-he having confessed to three wives
was sent to the penitentiary for three years.
The man is in delicate health and cripple,
marry him. And yet there are able-bodied
men going around who don't seem to have
nerve enough to get even one wife. This is
among the things that are hard to understand.
Three Mt. Washington ladies who wish
ed TO make some calls in Towson solved the
problem of saving time and nickles by taking
a train to Sherwood and then walking two
miles to their destination. Their calls over
they returned by the same route the jaunt in
volving tramp of four miles over a good
road, which meant sound nights rest &C.
companied with a consciousness of having
performed a social duty with much benefit to
themselysss physically lat Least
Sofsky property, situated on the corner of the
York road and Cuttings avenue, has had the
house removed and will build another on the
same site, to cost about $4,000. Mr.. w. +.
Sitter, the well known contractor and builder
of Parkton, is doing the work. Mr.. Sitter is
also Just about completing beautiful house in
Roland Park for Mr.. G.. r. Kendig, superin-
tendent of the Northern Central elevators. 1t
is finished throughout in hard woods and will
cost about $4,000.
- Last year Mr.. Dennis Carter, dealer in
lumber and telegraph poles, delivered large
number of poles at Eudowood Station, just
east of Towson, for shipment The Nd. &
Pa. Railroad, it was found, could not deliver
the poles without transferring them to other
cars at North avenue, and Mr.. Carriers force OF
men and teams is now engaged in dragging the
poles up the long hill from the station to the
Joppa road, where they are being loaded on
wagons and transported to Sherwood, N G. R.
R., where they are put on cars and forwarded
to points near Washington. A car will carry
about so of them.
Strike-a Light Done For.-The Baltimore
Herald of Wednesday said: ''Mr Robert M
Taylor's Strike-aLight, so favorably known
to the local followers of cross country sports,
has run his last race. He was entered in the
handicap steeplechase, the last event on the
Bennings card yesterday. Going over the
Liverpool for the last time, punched with the
leaders, Strike a-Light was suddenly seen to
falter and then to fall back and come to stop
MIR. Taylor dsmounted, and on examination
it was found that the horse had broken his
left hind leg just above the postern. Strike
Light was bay gelding by Torchlight, dam
unknown. He was one of the cleverest jump
ers in, the business and ridden by his owner,
Mr.. Taylor, had won many events on the local
and metropolitan turf"
Mr. TAYLOR has homes Of saving his well. K ed