The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-04-08

->Mr. Dennis Carter, the welI-known tim.
Der contractor, has leased the farm of Col. d.
1 q. Mcintosh. situated on the Joppa road about
this departure is to raise feed for his stock.
The farm is known as Palestine"
-)Tbe list of applicants for yearly liquor
| licenses in Baltimore county is published in
the advertising columns of THE UNION today.
This list grows steadily every year, which is
not very encouraging Information to the adj
vocates of the cause Of temperance.
And still they come. A young couple
from Stewartstown. York county. came to
Towson on Wednesday and were married by
Rev. w. II. II. Powers, rector of Trinity P: e..
Church. The groom was Adam Henry Ander-
son, and the bride Miss Margaret p. Gemmill.
- The old William A. Wilson mill prop
erty at Jerusalem Mills. has been purchased
by Messrs. Joseph and Henry Weiner. of Bal
more, for $1,000. There are Is acres of land
attached to the mill, which is in active opera
ton at this time. 1t is said to be frst-class
business stand.
IA dozen fine roe shad were caught in q
sein in Back river by Mr.. George Coker on
Tuesday last He has been fishing in that
river twenty years and these were the first shad
in that river is due to stocking by the State
fishery officials.
MIR. William A. Lee deserves the thanks
of the citizens for the improvement he has
made in the sidewalk about his large building
in Towson Such improvements cannot be
too highly commended, especially in a town
like this, that has no ''city fathers" to look
after its simplest necessities.
"a police Justice of Baltimore has decided
that persons living in this county whose teams
are employed habitually doing hauling through
the streets Of the city, must hereafter pay the
license tax on their wagons. OF course this
does not apply to farm teams and light vehicles
that are only occasionally in the city.
"A Towson man who attended the Metho-
dist Conference in Washington on Monday
distance (about 80 miles, between the Capital
City and his home in one hour and forty-five
minutes. Twenty years ago 1t would have
taken at least half a day to accomplish that.
->Seventeen dozen partridges shipped by
Mr.. Paine, of Iowa, and consigned to Game
Warden Malcolm, Of Towson. are expected to
arrive today. Another consignment from the
same source will arrive few days later. 1t is
the intention of Mr.. Malcolm to distribute
these birds among the farmers of this county
as soon as they arrive.
-Dr. 8. d. Drewry, prominent retired
physician, died at his home, near Richmond,
Va. on Sunday last, aged 70 years. Deceased,
who married sister of DIR. Charles g. w.
Macgill, of Gainesville, was the father of Mrs.
Deford, wife of Mr.. B. Frank Deford, whose
summer home is on the Joppa road short
distance west of Towsoh.
The new lake that has been in course of
construction for some time on the Shappard-
Pratt Hospital property, near Towson, will be
completed this week. It covers a considerable
area on the east side of the drive leading to the
Charles street avenue entrance and will have
uniform depth of about three feet. Frank K.
Augins is the contractor.
During the thunder storm on Tuesday
evening an electric car of the Towson- Cations
vile line was struck by lightning while in
Catonsville. The controller and fuses of the
hsrr I'D ants md MOS ron6orod
helpless. The conductor was knocked down
and several passengers were stunned, but no
serious damage was done.
. THE American Exhibition Company will
present the Passion Play at st. Demands Hall,
Gorsuch avenue. Waverly, ON Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday evenings. April 10th. 18th
and 18th. The holder of each ticket will be
entitled to chance in q handsome Morris
chair. Proceeds for the benefit of st. Bernard's
Church, of which Rev. r. H .Lenaghan is rector.
About 10 o'clock on Thursday night of
last week large rick of fodder on the farm of
Mr.. Luke E. Ensor, at Belfast, 9Th district, was
destroyed by fire and il required hard work on
the part of Mr.. EnsOr and his neighbors to
save the farm buildings. It is believed that
the fire was the work of an incendiary and an
effort is being made to discover the guilty
person.
- Watts, the wife murderer, whose second
trial took place at Ellicott City, was convicted
by Jury on Tuesday of murder in the second
degree It will be remembered that Watts
brutality murdered his wife at Phoenix, Balti
once previously been convicted of murder in
the first degree, his counsel having secured a
new trial for him.
THE following appeared among the pro-
ceedings of the last meeting of the Junior Gun
powder Agricultural Club: what is the duty
Of the State Fire Marshal? Answer-to find
out the cause and, if possible. detect and arrest
the guilty parties" That officer don't appear
to be doing much in this line so far as Balti-
more county is concerned No arrests for this
crime are ever made here.
MIR. Samuel w. Shapklin, the we'll
known plantgrower near Camp Chapel, mas
made extensive preparations for the coming
season, having a larger acreage and greater
variety than ever before. His customers come
for many miles, showing that he has gained
wide reputation for the excellence of his stock,
notwithstanding the fact that he has only been
engaged in the business few years.
-SThe public school at Hyde's, Long Green
Valley, took recess last Friday morning in
order that the children should be able to hear
the men on the Corn Special talk. That
was a good idea and the teacher deserves credit
for SO doing. You can't teach an old dog new
tricks, but the young and tender mind is the
right one in which to implant new and pro-
gressive ideas that will be benefit to coming
generations.
- The Corn Special'' over the Maryland
& Pennsylvania Railroad on Friday and Satur..
day of last week was in all respects successful
and the gentlemen who got it up deserve the
thanks of the farming community. 1t was
the advance guard of the corn movement in
Maryland and must be productive of much
good. Nearly 1000 people heard the lectures
at the stopping points in Baltimore, Hartford
and York counties.
MIR. Osborne l. Yellott, member of the
bar, who was the first man in Towson to use
an automobile, has supplied himself with q
fine new Cadillac machine that can climb all
the hills he may encounter and speed along at
20 or 80 miles an hour without the least diff
Guilty. 1t is no uncommon thing to see autos
on the roads about Towson now. They are
coming into such general use that they no
longer attract attention as they speed along.
This is the season of the year when the
seedman and implementman reap their har-
vest. The new machinery and implements
make the labor of farming a pleasure. OF
course they all cost money, but look what they
save in time and drudgery, and after all these
are the most to be considered. And, consider
ing the scarcity of labor, how could the farmer
engagements? He simply couldn't do it.
The public is being constantly warned
by the newspapers to steer clear of the glib
tongued agent and the willy promoter" who
always has some -uncommoDly good thing to
offer by which riches may be acquired in a
very short time and without any possible risk.
And yet these fellows go right along scooping
in their victims. Hardly week passes but
we hear of some of these. and while we feel
sorry for them, they are not deserving of much
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