The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-01-30

Sherwood, N. G. r. R-The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company is about to inaugurate
reform that will be highly appreciated by it
employees. 1t has always been the custom t
pay the men by check and it very often caused
them great deal of trouble and Inconvenience
to get these cashed, especially those working
along the line of the road away from towns
On the next pay day car will accompany thu
regular pay car and this will be manned b,
as they are received from the pay car. Muct
satisfaction has been expressed at this chang
\ as it will save the men trouble and often unne
cessary expense. 1t is said that this improve
! ment was suggested by members of the Young
| Mer's Christian Association who had learned
that some of the railroad employees went t.
saloons to get their checks cashed and wer'
thus tempted to spend money for drink wher
they would not otherwis have done so.
Miss Margaret Stanton, who had lived neal
this place many years, died on the 10th in
stant, at the home of her sister, Mrs. B
Rogers, Of this place She was 60 years of age
and had suffered a long time from cancer, which
| finally caused her death. The funeral took
| place on the 22d, the services being conducted
by Rev. Father Campbell, pastor. of St
were Messrs. John Dohoney, Levi yustus,
| Gilbert Hughes, Theodore Boyd, William
! Shade and Felix OwiDgs.
Mr. w. Bernard Duke is having lumber
! hauled from this place to his residence on the
Joppa road east of Sherwood, with which be
proposes to build large barn. Mr.. Duke. in
connection with his own place, also rents the
old Shriver property and raises good deal OF
farm produce upon the two. In order to prop
erly house this the barn became necessary,
there being no building Of that kind upon
either property.
Mrs. Thomas Hughes. of Buffalo, N. Y.
spent few days with Mrs. Julie o. Brien, OF
Lutherville. She came on to place her daugh-
ter in private school in Washington. The
husband of Mrs. Hughes is an extensive deal
er in live stock in Buffalo.
Last fall water from the Towson supply was
introduced into the houses of the Foster estate
at this place. The work was done in cold
weather and now the pipes are frozen and are
causing great deal Of work and trouble to
thaw them out-in fact it is found almost inn
possible to do so.
Mr.. William Rogers, of this place, who had
been suffering severely from an attack of in
hammatory rheumatism, has recovered suffi-
GENTLY to be out His friends are pleased to
see him able to move about again.
Mrs Mary Kay, of this place, who had been
confined to her home with an aggravated case
of grip is convalescing.
The parents of James H. Boyd, who live at
this place. have received letter from him
dated at Panama. He is in the U. g. marine
says he has been cruising around for three
years and that Panama is about the hardest
place he has struck in bis travels. All of the
country that he has seen is wilderness and he
declares that the population is of a low order,
lazy and shiftless. He says that during the
day it Is very hot but the nights are delight
fully COOL Rains fall about six hours out of
every twenty-four, There are, he says, about
900 u. s. Marines scattered around the town
and they are living real soldier life. So far
they have had no trouble. L.
Necker, 18th District.-The intensely cold
weather that prevailed for several weeks placed
an embargo upon many kinds of business.
The roads were q solid cake of ice and farmers
were seriously Inconvenience in their efforts
to get their produce to market. The black
smiths did large business as an unroughed
horse was no good on the roads. The physi-
Clans too, were taxed to their utmost in an
swering calls occasioned by the extremes Of
weather.
On Friday and Saturday the dense fog and
rain made things better and the roads are once
more in fairly good shape. During the freeze
the boys made good use of the coasting and
some of them claim to have beaten a mile a
minute on Putty Hill.
Maggie Dieter, the little daughter of Mr..
Jacob Deter, while returning from school
few afternoons ago, fell on the ice and broke
leg in two places.
The new furnace which was lately installed
in st. Joseph's Catholic Church. is greatly ap-
preciated by the congregation.
Many expressions of sorrow and indignation
were heard here at the brutal murder of John
Beckman of j., on Hamilton avenue. He had
many acquaintance in this section and was
well liked by them.
Mr. Edward Waldman has made number
of changes and Improvements in his public
house at This place, one of which is pool
room.
All the ice houses in this section are filed
with fine quanty of ice-the best harvested
in years.
A great many fine hogs have been slaugh-
tered within the last few weeks and stored
away in the smoke-houses. Some farmers
have as many as thirty "blootpootens" for the
about February 10th. They are already talk
ing about the grounding and some new plans
will be laid to trap him this year without fail.
Mr.. John Kreit has purchased another truck
farm of ten acres in this neighborhood and
will soon have it under good cultivation.
While hauling wood from Postum branch
Harry and Peter Conway lost their horse.
After pulling the wagon on bridge the anil
NAL set to kicking and kept it up. until he got
loose and fell through the bridge and was
drowned. s.
Owings' Mills, 4th District.-In reading
the different papers of the State find that the
people generally are very DESTROYS for the pro-
lection of game, but in my opinion, undei the
present laws, it will be hard work to increase
game because there are no dog laws. l am
in favor of dog law and l think every fair
minded citizen ought to be. As the popula-
ton increases so does the number of dogs, and
they are permitted to roam about in search OF
game at will and there is no law to prevent it.
am satisfied that they destroy more game
than all the SpOrtsmen and all other methods
combined.
According to my recollection the people of
Maryland never had to pay dog tax, and it
would go little hard on some, especially
those who keep one little house dog and are
not interested in the protection of game In
order to keep on the good side of such people
propose to let every taxpayer keep one dog
or gyp free of tax. If he keeps more than one
he or she shall pay one dollar head per year
for each additional one. Perhaps it should be
that non-taxpayers should pay one dollar a
head for each and every dog or gyp kept by
him or her, as the case may be-. Kennels of
foxhounds may be exempt, provided they are
not used to hunt other game than foxes.
There should be law to prohibit dogs hunt
ing game in the closed seasons, and any stray
dog should be shot; or if his owner be known
to the person seeing him he may go before
Justice of the peace and make oath to the fact
and the owner should be fined one dollar and
costs for the first oHense. If the same dog is
caught second time the owner shall be fined
five dollars and COSTS onehalf to go to the in
l wish to call attention to the practice of
some sportsmen who make habit of taking
their dogs out for work in the closed seasons,
especially on Sundays. This practice should
be stopped, because dogs taken out in that
way often catch and kill game unknown 10
the owner. If our present Legislature will
consider this matter and give it the attention
its merits deserve the members will earn the
thanks of large body of their constituents.
BENZ. G. KNETZER,
Deputy Game Warden.
Hereford, 7th District.-The fine coasting
that had been greatly enjoyed by our young
folks for several weeks was broken up by the
sudden thaw of the latter part of last week.
They are now contenting themselves in dis
cussing the fast records that some of them
claim 10 have made.
Mr.. William Stiltz is getting out the frame
for new barn which he proposes to erect the
coming spring.
Mrs. John T. Mays, who went to Philadel-
phia to attend the funeral of her niece, Mrs,