The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-03-12

SALES ADVERTISED IN "THE UNION"

horses, cows hogs, wagons, farm implements
wednesday. March %. by George Quick Of P ION
Furley avenue. near Gardenville. horses,
dairy cattle, wagons, farm implements. dali
Thursday, March "A. by James N. Hanson, on the
Noah Gorsuch estate, on the York pike, TX
miles north of Cockeysville, horses, mules.
cattle, wagons, farm implements, household
Monday. March e, By y J. George. near Bald Bald.
and heifers. horses, wagons. farm imple-
ments, harness, etc..
Springfield Farm, Dulany's Valley. horses,
mules. hogs, wagons, farm implements and
TUESDAY, March 70, by Lewis NJ. Bacon. assignee.
at the Court House door, farm of 81 acres
in the 10th district, about TX miles from
Tuesday, March %. by Miss Ann Gott Merry
man, on Hayfields Farm, near Cockeysville,
herd of Hereford cattle, horses. colts, mules,
sheep, swine, farming implements and ma
chinery, poultry, etc.
wednesday, March 30, by j. D. Schmidt, Four.
coach horses, fat cattle, hogs, wagons, ma
chinery and implements, etc.
% con1 @ door, trucS farm 8
acres on the Dover road. 3D. district.
->The egg-picking season is now at hand
and the boys are industriously engaged in this
small form Of gambling.
the UNION is indebted to Hon. J. Fred.
c. Talbot for a copy Of the official directory
of the Fifty eighth Congress.
>Thursday next, March 18th, will be St:
Patrick's day and the memorable winter Of
1904 will end four days later.
- The annual race for the Maryland Hunt
Cup will take place In Green Spring Valley, on
Saturday afternoon, April 18th.
DThe members of the Legislature appear
to have been afraid to repeal the mortgage tax
law and it remains on the statute books.
THE mild weather has caused decline in
the price of foodstuffs. This is among the
numerous good things that the change has
wrought.
week of the March term of court there was
little deing about Towson, everything being
rather fiat.
The County Commissioners reappointed
the following constables this week 9Th dis
trict-William Benson: 18th dstrict-Frank
B. Boarman
- Isaac T. Urich, Baltimore county man
who has been dead several years, was drawn
this week to serve as petit juror in the U. s..
District Court.
"A good many Baltimore families are
solving the servant problem for themselves
They are giving up house keeping and taking
TO living in fats.
->T6e Marylan State Board of Education
has fixed upon Friday. April 18th, as Arbor
Day and Governor Warfield will issue his proc
lamation accordingly.
IA lot of imported Guernsey cattle for
Pennsylvania dairy farm reached Baltimore
from Liverpool this week. One Of the heifers
- We had small taste of spring this
week and we are able to stand plenty Of it az
ter the siege we have gone through in the last
three months or more.
field Farm, in Dulany's Valley, to Mr.. Grant
Warfel. Mr.. Peerce will continue the dairy
business on his own account.
- Judge Fowler especially called the atten-
tion of the Grand Jury to the Beckman muir
he hoF fO
= careful and searching investigation.
They had mad dog scare at Sweet Air
lately and as a result number of CANNES and
felines that were believed to have been bitten
by the rabid animal have been killed.
- Plans and specifications for the new
grand stand to be erected on the Timonium
fair grounds can be seen by builders at the Of
fee of DIR. A. G. McCurdy, in Towson.
- More new sales of personal property APP
pear in the advertising columns of THE UNION
this week. If you want to see who is going to
make sale YOU must consult this paper.
1.-The high water in the Gunpowder last
Monday left the roads about Meredith's ford
bridge In horrible condition with the guam
titles Of mud and sand carried out upon them.
There is general complaint of the poor
appearance of the growing wheat, which seems
to have wintered badly. The outlook at this
time is not encouraging for an abundant har-
vest.
"
trail Railway, short distance above Phoenix,
TO New York company for term Of ten
years.
MN d. r. Allen. who bought prop
erty on the Joppa road, short distance west
of Towson. is making preparations to build on
it. Other houses are also in contemplation in
that section.
= Mitchell N. Brown announces in The
UNION this week that he has fitted up in a
room over his barber shop, a public bath that
l.. 10 vrnoko rOnnIar N connection with
his tonsorial parlor.
- Rev. Alfred Ballhorn, pastor of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church at Perry Hall,
is preparing large class of young people for
confirmation, which ceremony will take place
on Palm Sunday-March 9th.
- Mr. Robert H. Ruhl, manager of Mr..
Beale r. Howard's Verdant Valley Farm, in
Hartford county visited Locust Vale Stock
Farm Towson. on Thursday and bought fine
pair of mules for which he paid $3.50.
1.-THE rain of last Monday was the heaviest
experienced here in long time and an i'm
mense quantity of water fell, swelling the
streams to unusual proportions. In some
places the county roads were badly washed.
School Commissioner Arthur has closed
for week the school at Upper Falls, 18th dis
trict, because of the presence OF diphtheria in
the neighborhood. Prof. X. Brent Crane for
merly Of Towson, is principal of the school:
&c. Oscar Brooks. son of MIR. B. NJ.
Brooks. who rents the Bacon farm at Monk,
ton while chopping wood a few days ago, had
the uaisforsnne 10 cat off che great toe of his
right foot. DIR. T. Ross Payne attended him.
"a fellow this week complained of that
tired feeling" and we should have thought
that sure sign that the vernal season was at
hand. except for the fact that he was never
known to do anything if he could get out OF 1t.
MIR. Christian Mooyer, who lives on the
BeIair road, and who is executor of the estate
of Louisa Mooyer, this week passed his trst
administration account in the Baltimore city
Orphans Court, the total amount being $lO4,-
500 A.
III some of THE UNIONS local correspon-
dents would send in their letters day or two
earlier they would be certain to receive atten-
ton. Coming as late as Friday morning their
destination is almost sure to be the waste
basket.
sOn Tuesday Mr.. A. H. Weir, secretary
and manager of the Baltimore County Water
and Electric Company, reported to the County
Commissioners that all the company's water
plugs in use by the county were in working
condition.
"A fire in the woods near Violetville, 18th
district, last Saturday afternoon. burned over
nearly 200 acres of ground before it was put
out Fortunately there were no houses in the
burned area. It is not known how the fire
originated.
THE fine new station. with dwelling at
tached. at Parkton, N. G: K. K, has been com
pleted and is now occupied by the agent, Mr.
Milton Sitter, and his family. The old station
enlarged and improved, is now used for stor.
ing freight.
The Baltimore county tax Office in Bal
timore has been doing very little in the way
of collections since the fire of February 9th
The receipts last Saturday were only about
$500 when usually they run from $500 to sl,O
or thereabout.
THE regular monthly meeting OF the
Junior Gunpowder Agricultural Club was held
last Saturday at the farm of Mr.. Granville
Matthews in the 9Th district The principal
subject discussed was Convict Labor on the
County Roads,
I'VE find FROM inquiry that there is much
opposition among the people to the Baltimore
county road bills now before the Legislature
Some one said, however, that there was no use
troubling about them as neither of them
would ever pass