The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-11-11

VnuFS0aye November o. ny AcuEy uOLnOCLBe ~
Walfers' store, Eastern avenue road, 18th dis
trict. horses, mules, cows. hogs, farm imple-
ments, provender. etc.
on the Bucks school road. one mile east or
Putty Hill, mules, horses, cows. farm nipple.
ments. furniture, etc.; also, truck farm OF
Is acres.
Even Hartford county gave majority of
673 against the suffrage amendment.
IF you didn't vote on Tuesday you made
q great mistake and deserve to be censured.
- The tax rate in Baltimore city for the
coming fiscal year has been fixed at ~ on the
- The public schools will get two days
holiday at Thanksgiving this year-November
30th and December LIST.
The Democratic ticket was elected in
Baltimore county on Tuesday by pluralities
ranging from 1851 to 2,327.
- Some of the ballots voted at TOwson on
Tuesday had only one mark on them, and that
in the box against the amendment.
- Mr.. Robert NJ. Taylor's Monsoon was
among the winners on the first day OF the fall
meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club.
"A man in Frederick county is credited
with having husked 144 barrels of corn from
A. m. to P. NJ, with an hours stop for dinner.
- Election day was almost like Sunday in
Towson, and 30 far as we have been able to
ascertain. it was very quiet throughout the
THE directors of the Towson National
Bank. at their meeting on Thursday, declared
q semi-annual dividend of O. per cent, payable
on demand.
The majority against the disfranchise-
2.6lO, while the Democrats elected their local
ticket by about 1900.
- The Highways Commissioners this week
awarded the contract for bridge over West
ern run, on the Falls road, to the York Bridge
Company for S1.005.
- Ten thousand ballots were thrown out
in the count of Tuesdays election in Balti-
more. One man was elected to the Legislature
by plurality of one vote
-sGunners are plentiful but game appears
to be unusually scarce and many hunters re-
turn empty handed. Before the season opened
the reverse was thought to be true
- Winter set in last year early in N0vem-
Der and some ice was cut in Baltimore county
before Thanksgiving day, a very unusual &C.
currence in this section of Maryland.
- Mrs. Louisa K. Morris, OF Baltimore, has
opened sewing school at Toone Street Presby.
terrain Church. Canton. She Is member Of
Brown Memorial Church, Baltimore.
- The.report of the examiners in the Riggs
road matter will be filed with the highways
Commissioners next week. Inc contents OF
the report will not be known until then.
- The County Commissioners met as usual
on Wednesday. They were the recipients of
the congratulations of many friends upon their
reelection for another term OF two years.
voters were cursing the present ballot law.
They believe it was constructed simply for the
purpose of making men lose their votes:
- Mrs. Catharine Refer, an old resident OF
Greenwood, 18th district was in runaway
accident last Sunday and sustained painful in
iuries by being thrown from her carriage.
- Mr.. Joseph Phipps, farm manager at
Hampton will exhibit bis Barred Rocks at the
New York poultry show next week. BE has
some of the finest birds this year be ever raised.
L 49, H~.<< Ce.. rns,fo
Mill, Green Spring Valley, that was swept
away by the flood of last July, has been rebuilt
and very bad crossing has been done away
with.
"a young man of the 9th district came all
the way from Cumberland, Nd, to Towson,
distance of more than 100 miles, to vote on
Tuesday. That was highly commendable
- The ladies of EPSON NJ. P. Church, Tow
son, will hold o social in the hall over the en-
CINE house, on Wednesday evening, November
3D. Admission 10 cents, emitting the holder
TO refreshments.
%Mr. William H. Wight, of Kinloch
Farm. near Cockeysville, raised this season 400
barrels of corn on % acres of land, an average
of 10 barrels to the acre. He paid % cents
barrel for husking.
oyster and meat supper in Wilson's Church
Hall, Unionville, Saturday night, November
18th, to which general invitation is extended.
Music by the band.
- Church oyster suppers are now in full
swing and are raking in many dollars for
good cause. The man who pays % cents for
supper and then eats dollars worth is not
popular at these affairs.
- The Judges at the two Towson precincts
of the 9th district did not finish the count until
about o'clock on Wednesday morning. At
one precinct over 100 ballots were thrown out
because of improper markings.
"a colored man named Clarence Weaver
was lodged in Jail in Baltimore this week
on the charge of stealing pin, valued at 500
from Mr. James Piper, of Green Spring Valley,
ny whom he was formerly employed.
Those Towson Democrats who heartily
supported the Poe amendment were decidedly
blue on Wednesday morning, while those of
the same party who voted against the amend
ment were as jnbilant as were the Republicans.
Although there are six precincts in the
9h district some voters 3 are oOgeo 10 travel
loss of at least half day to many laboring
men, and they often fail to vote because OF this
-%sMr. John Ridgely. of Hampton, near
Towson. had 100 acres in corn this year and he
thinks the crop one of the largest be ever
raised. He. does not say it for fact, but he
thinks it will run from II to IA barrels to the
acre.
The sale of liquor on election day is pro-
hibited in Maryland aud the law is generally
observer III D0lklu1OIo COuuttt Oub ~ 10 ooAu
some saloonkeepers take the risk and do
side.door business and apparently never get
caught.
= The Hagerstown almanac man was
around on election day disposing of that ancient
publication as usual. He says that few years
ago he sold more than 100 copies of this alma.
nae here, while now his sales do not reach hall
that number.
deputy Game Warden Harry Malcolm
drove nearly 40 miles on election day on the
lookout for gunners violating the game law:
He says he heard but two reports of guns and
he was satisfied that the law was well observed
in the county.
Nov that the election is over and THE
UNION has more room to spare we hope oul
local correspondents will let us hear from
them with more regularity. Some of them
have been silent long time and they should
get move on.
a number of ladies of st. James P. E
Church. NV Lady's Manor served luncheon
At Mr.. T. N. Pearces, at Manor, on election
dav. and thus earned some money for very
good cause, besides contributing to the comfort
Of q lot of men.
f,eId on the farm of Mr.. George Fl. Merry
man. near Bosley postotice, and stole about
three barrels of husked corn. Mr.. Merrymar
offers reward of $25 for the arrest and con
viction of the scamp.
- Fewer nonresident gunner's licenses
have been issued from the County Clerk
office than usual, but we donbt il there ar
fawer puuners. The deputy game warden
should be on the lookout for these fellows
The license fee is s..
AT the meeting of the Home lnteres
Climb held on Thursday at the residence of Mis-
Martha Scott, near Shawan, the subject dis
cussed was, "HoW to prepare the house 10
winter" Miss Sadie Price presided, and Mis-
Ella F. Scott was secretary.