The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-11-05

- The demand for trespass notices was 50
great early this week that The UNION Office was
unable to supply It. on account Of the pressure
OF other work. Now, however, we have plenty
on hand and all orders can be promptly filled.
- The Baltimore Methodist of last week
said: "For local items OF Importance transpir-
ing in and outside of the county where pub
lished THE UNION, of Towson, Md, gives its
readers weekly summary that cannot be ex-
celled."
THE partridge and rabbit season opened
in Baltimore county last Tuesday and the gun
ners have been out in force ever since, and it is
safe to say much execution has been done. The
open season will continue until Saturday, De-
cember oath.
- The sporting editor of the Baltimore
american. writing about the Baltimore county
hunt clubs, classes the Overland Club with
those frequently seen in the field. He should
have known that the Overland breathed its last
some time since.
"A young lady who teaches a class in one
of the Sunday schools Of Towson has q cum
ming little boy among her pupils. Last Sum-
day, among other questions, she asked him !:
WHO are the Jews ?" and he replied People
who keep stores"
MI ]. L. Fowble, of CockeysviIle, has
been awarded the contract for erecting hand
some cottage for DIR. Dickinson Gorsuch on
tract of land near Glencoe. N. @. r. R., recently
presented to him by his father, Mr.. Thomas T.
MIR David e. Evans, Jr., who acciden-
tally shot himself With pistol at his home in
Gainesville last Sunday morning, died at hos
pital in Baltimore on Wednesday He was a
son Of Mr. David e. Evans, president of the
Maryland Telephone Company.
Mr.. James w. Hall, of Vermont, who
some time ago purchased two acres of ground
on the south side of South avenue, Towson, on
| Thursday broke ground for the fine new house
be will erect thereon for himself Mr.. William
| X. Burns is the contractor and builder.
>'Coon hunting is now the favorite amuse-
| ment of many and some of the stories we
hear are sjest leetle tough" But few pounds
in the weight of coon, and his ability to lick
from two to flye dogs, all 60 when n fellows
- Mrs. Martha E. Carmichael, who died in
/ Baltimore on Monday last, was the widow of
William Carmichael, who was once member
county. She was stricken with paralysis while
| riding in a street car and did not regain con-
| seriousness.
THE UNIONS advertising columns made
| an extraordinary showing last week and among
| the new" business were no less than ten sales
of real and personal property, besides legal and
other advertising As an advertising medium
THE UNION has strong hold on the business
community.
line appears to be growing daily and it will
continue to increase as the road is extended.
| This is Just as sure to prove paying enterprise
| as anything can be and the sooner the company
! pushes it through the sooner will its fondest
| hopes be realized.
- The MARYLAND Game and Fish Associa.
| ton is keeping sharp lookout for violators of
| the law, and those who disregard its provisions
relative to the sale of game, etc., are likely to
. get themselves into serious trouble. Copies of
the law may be had by applying personally at
| THE UNION Office.
THE nut crop was unusually light last
| fall and the weatherwise folks said that was
sure sign of mild winter to follow. But
they missed it woefully because it was the
! coolest winter experienced in years, showing
that the nut crop hadn't anything to do with
| it one way or another.
- Last Sunday Deputy Game Wardens NAL
| colin and Whitaker. of Towson, arrested Harry
Schweikart and Edward Cover, both of Knoe
bel, 10th district, upon the charge Of killing
partridges out of season. They plead guilty
before Justice Keller, of Govanstown, and were
each fined $40 and costs.
SOnly two marks will be necessary on the
ballot that you will vote next Tuesday. One
of these must be placed in the square after the
names of the Presidential nominees and the
other in the square opposite your choice for
| Congress. Any other marks on the ballot may
cause it to be thrown out.
THE year 1904 has established one fact
and that is that business is not always dull in
Presidential years. In some places things are
not as brisk as they should be- but speaking
generally everything is on the boom and it is
hoped next Tuesdays election will not do any
thing to check this pleasing state of affairs.
-SThe fall meeting of the reorganized Mary
land Jockey Club will begin at Pimlico today
Saturday and continue all of next week.
There are said to be nearly 400 horses at the
track and the entry list for all the races is large
A feature of the meeting will be the steeple-
chases, in which the most noted horses of the
country will participate.
- The members of All Saints Church,
Reisterstown, celebrated All Saints day. Tues
day. Appropriate memorial services were con-
Quoted BY the pastor, Rev. Joseph Fletcher, in
the morning for the late William Keyser, who
built the church in memory of his mother.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the church served
luncheon in All Saints Chapel.
->In several instances the boys behaved
shamefully in Towson last Monday night. hav-
ing taken advantage of Halloween to carry out
their devitry, which some regard as ..inno.
| cent? amusement. And strangest part OF an
the town officer stood by and saw some of this
strikes Us as being very strange.
- ne of the most overwhelmingly amusing
things the Halloween raiders did in Towson on
Monday night was to remove the large insur-
ance sign of Messrs. Offutt, Wright q Emmart
and place it on the new Guild House on West
Pennsylvania avenue. We did not hear of
anyone dying from laughter on account of
this moss-covered and silly trick.
- Mrs. Mary 1. Scott, widow of George L.
Scott, formerly of Hartford county, died at the
home of her son, Mr.. Irving NJ. Scott, in San
Francisco on the 22d ult. Her remains were
brought east and will be inferred al Darlington
| the latter part of this week. Deceased was
daughter of the late DR.. Wakeman R Hopkins,
| of Hartford county. Six children survive her.
"A fine combination billiard and pool
| table has been set up in the new Guild House
| in Towson and other forms of entertainment
and amusement will be introduced. The idea
is to make the house pleasant meeting place
| for the young men of the town where they will
not be surrounded by influences that would be
| in any way calculated to corrupt their morals.
~ While Mr.. G. Mason Janney, of New
York, formerly of Green Spring Valley, and
! another gentleman. were passing through Cecil
| horse in Elkton became badly frightened at
their machine and smashed the buggy to which
| he was attached. The men were arrested and
placed under $500 bail for hearing the next
| day.
- The most remarkable production of corn
we have heard of this season was grown on the
Locust Vale Stock Farm Of Mr.. e. E. McCleary,
| of Towson. A field of 9 acres averaged little
| over 20 barrels to an acre, and many of the
| ears were of prodigious size-real monsters in
the corn line. The largest ear found had "a
rows of grains on it and pleEty of them had
! from 26 to 80 rows. Mr.. McCleary purchased
the seed at the Belair fair last fall year.
| Several hundred people attended the sale
| ofthe personal property on the Notch Cliff Farm
of the late John K. Cowen. in lower Long Green
Valley, on Thursday and Friday of this week,
and, considering the condition of the stock,
good prices were obtained. Mr.. Sam w. Pat
| tison, of the well known auctioneering firm
of Pattison & Gahan, conducted the sale in his
usual able manner. Mr.. Frederick Dallam,
one of the administrators of the estate, was
also present.
Dead Cats in Church Burial Ground
Justice Neumayer says They Can Stay
There.-Has the owner of lot in a cemetery
the legal right to bury his or her dog or cat in
| the lot? This momentous question, as far as it
refers to the cat, has been settled by Justice
Neumayer, of the 14th district. He says that
lot owners have this privilege, and when Mrs.
Sarah Rice was brought before him charged
with burying her two cats beside her husband,
the late Theodore H. Rice, he dismissed the
case.
For two months the residents of Parkville,
| Hartford road where the cemetery is in which
repose in close proximity the bodies of Mrs.
Rice's husband and cats, have been much ex-
ercised over Mrs. Rice's action, which they
| term dissertation. Every means of persua-
sion was tried upon Mrs Rice Other lot-own-
ore m ho 0f the