The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-03-26
Sunday next March 9th, is Palm Sun

Wednesday, April 20. by William s. Keech as
slgnee. at the court Ho i1s Goor' Ia1m q
18th district
SUNDAY next March 9th, is Palm Sun
day and Easter comes one week later.
- Mumps has madeits appearance in Tow.
son, but there are not many cases Of it.
- Notwithstanding the fact that Easter is
near at hand the price of eggs continues to de-
cline.
ty, has been granted his discharge in bank
ruptcy by the U. 8. District Court.
- Walter Trail has been appointed rural
letter carrier at Granite, Baltimore county, and
Willard Trail, substitute, both to fill vacancies
This is the season for snipe-shooting and
few of the birds are being killed Meadows
and marshes are the places where these birds
use.
- Before this date in March, 1903, many
acres of potatoes and peas had been planted in
Baltimore county. Now not furrow has
- Over thirty bridges have been reported
to the County Commissioners as having been
damaged during the past two months by high
water in the streams.
Next Friday will be the first day of
April, commonly called "all fools day.
Keep an eye open for the practical joker or
he'll have the laugh on you.
The annual ball of the Elkridge Hunt
Club will take place at the Kennels, Charles
bITccb avenue, w eQQcSQdy night, May lOLD,
the same week of the horse show.
- Robert Craig, employed at the lime kilns
of Mr.. Thomas n Lee, near Texas, fell from a
platform few days ago and broke his left
ankle. DIR. ]. E., Benson attended him.
The Maryland Legislature will adjourn
one week from next Tuesday-April 9Th. The
taxpayers of the State would have been good
deal better off If it had never assembled.
- The Baltimore Annual Conference of
the M. E. Church will meet in its one hundred
and twentieth session in Fayette Street Church,
Baltimore, on Wednesday next March Goth.
ION Wednesday morning. 23d inst, the
first express car on the United Railways made
its appearance in TowsOn since Saturday, Feb
ruary 9th, the day before the great fire in Bal
timore.
County Commissioners on Wednesday the sum
of 81 ,055 on account of benefits collected by
him for opening the Merritt road, in the 18th
district
The SUNDAY school of Union NJ. E.
Church. near Baldwin, 18th district, will hold
an Easter service in the church, on Sunday,
April Sd, commencing at 7.30 P. M. Public
invited
- Mr.. Joshua Turner Wilson, who died in
Baltimore on the 18th instant, after long ill
81 Towson. ne was ~ yeafs -oI
married.
- Mr.. John lyric is erecting handsome
Italian marble monument in the cemetery at
tached to Sherwood P. e. Church, Jockeys
Vile, to the memory of Mrs. Comfort NJ. w.
Morrison.
- Today-Saturday, March 26th-the sun
rises at one minute after and sets at twenty
four minutes after 6, making the day one hour
and eleven minutes longer than at the begin
ming of the month.
boom this year and the thought of this is
blessing. There is plenty of room here to
spread and the location of the town is equal
to the best in the State
- sneak thief got into house in Tow
son one night early this week and stole box
Containing small amount of money. En-
trance was effected by breaking pane of glass
and hosting the window.
- George Riley has been committed to
Towson jail by Justice Herbert upon. the
charge of stealing a quantity of milk from
Mr.. Robert M. Taylor, of Mount Prospect
Farm, on the Hillen road.
- People in some sections of this county
are complaining of the tramp nuisance and
yet farmers are unable to get enough help to
do their ordinary work. Men who will not
work don't deserve to be fed.
THE end of March is almost here and the
tillers of the soil have not yet been able to
strike lick in the way of spring work. When
this does begin it will come all in heap and
tax farmers beyond their powers.
Attention is invited to an article on the
first page of THE UNION today on the evils of
cigaret smoking. If what the author says be
true the parents of this country have serious
responsibility upon their shoulders.
mir. Walter R. Townsend, of Baltimore
county, is named as one of the incorporators
of the Mcknight & Nardin Constructing Com
pany that has Just been organized in Balti-
more with capital stock of $4,000.
->Some Baltimore county Democrats are
loud in their denunciation Of the provisions of
the road law introduced in the House o. Dele
gates by COL Cockey It must be monstrous
affair if what they say about it be true.
This is good time to begin cleaning up
about ones premises and put out OF sight the
accommodations and rubbish of the winter. A
little money and labor expended in this work
will produce the most satisfactory results.
THE annual horse show at the Elkridge
Kennels, Charles street avenue, will be held
May 18th, 10Th and 21st Mr.. William NJ.
Manly, the secretary of the association, will
open his office in Baltimore in a few days.
THE missionary society of Hiss NJ. E.
Church, Parkville, Hartford road, will give a
graphophone entertainment on Tuesday even
ing, March 10Th, at o'clock. Silver offering
atthe door. Proceeds for the cause of missions.
.->Some Of the country roads are reported
to be in fearful condition and to travel
them, especially with loaded teams is almost
next to impossible. 1t will take good deal of
sunshine and wind to put them in decent
shape.
and roof garden at Electric Park is now in
progress and they will be ready for use by the
time the season opens. The dimensions will
be 90 by 29l feet and the cost will be about
$4,000.
- Attention is invited to the annual state
ment of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company.
which appears in the advertising columns OF
THE UNION today. This company is represen-
ted here by the firm of Ofutt Wright &
Emmart.
= The deputy game wardens should keep
their eyes open just now for those who would
violate the law by shooting robins and other
insectiverous birds. A fine and costs will
teach these violators lesson that they will be
likely to remember.
IL J. Parks, farmer of the 9Th district,
has sued the United Railways and Electric
Company for $1,000 damages for injuries to
his team of mules and wagon in collision
With an electric car on the York road in Tow
son q few weeks ago.
-Mr. Josias ]. George, having decided to
abandon the dairy business, will sell the Jer-
sew herd on his Glendale Farm, in Long
Green Valley, on Monday next, at which time
he will also dispose of other stock, nipple.
ments, &C.. on the farm.
- Messrs. Oscar and Alfred Francies. the
energetic young butchers of Baldwin, 18th
district, are doing an excellent and rapidly
growing business A few days ago they pur'
chased from the Union Stock Yards four steers
that weighed 5000 pounds
About this time we should like very
much to hear something about the Towson
and Cockeysville electric railway. This is toe
good a scheme to let it slumber to its death anc
as spring is here fresh move should be made
looking to the building of it.
- Arthur Gordon Yates Perot, son of MI
William Y. Perot, of Forest road, Roland Park
has become deserter from the u. s. Marine
Service, in which he enlisted last Decen Der
and reward of $50 has been offered for his
arrest. He is 20 years of age.
- Through the efforts of Mr.. Walter w
Crosby, general superintendent of parks o.
Baltimore city, George W. Bowen, formerly o.
Towson. has been appointed policeman or
the Druid Hill Park force and is stationed a