The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-03-04


way also personal property of every des-
Thursday. March 20. by Oliver J; Fisher, admin
deceased. at Granite, I'd district, horses,
mules. COWS, hogs, farm implements, corn,
hay, fertilizer. etc., etc.
The ice on Loeb Raven remains intact.
II is said to be at least Is inches thick.
- Next Wednesday will be Ash Wednesday
and the beginning of the Lenten season.
- The cash balance in the county treasury
ON the ist of March amounted to S73, 352.48.
- Spring begins this year on the Zlst OF
March and its advent will be hailed with
unusual pleasure.
The Governor has appointed Herman B.
Luttner an additional deputy game warden for
Baltimore county.
-. On Washington's birthday Mrs. Elisha
H. Walker presented the c0lored school OF
Goyanstown with an American nag.
THE March term of the Circuit Court will
begin next Monday, it being the frst MONDAY
offhe month"; It is usually short term.
Ice on the Patapsco river is said to be
nearly two feet thick and it is feared that when
this breaks up serious freshets will follow.
- The baseball teams Of this county are
getting ready for next seasons work. Several
Of them have already filled their scneuules. :,
- William @. Scarf has been appointed
carrier on route No 1, at Baldwin, Baltimore
county, with Israel A. Scarf Jr., as substitute:
"a Baltimore negro had to pay fine Of
S25 and costs on Tuesday for cruelty beating
horse. It always affords Us pleasure to record
"A Hartford county man was at The UNION
Office bright and early on Tuesday morning IN
answer to an advertisement in last week 9 issue
of the paper 60.
- Governor Wariield has issued his procla-
nation naming Saturday, March attn, as p 1ega;l
holiday in honor OF the Inauguration Vi rresi-
dent Roosevelt.
- That Towson is popular place OF resis
dence is proven by the fact that so many people
are looking for houses here, especially for sum-
mer occupancy. 90 ,,-,..
will 90 10 Washington today. The railroads
have made special arrangements to accommo-
date the crowds.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Neighborhood improvement Club OF Govans-
town will be held in Golden Eagle Hall, Iues-
dav. March 7th, SPIN.
- II is said that for the first time in ten
wears the large lake in Druid Hill Park had
been frozen entirely over this winter. Last
Sunday the ice was still intact.
- General James A. Gary bad the mlsIOr.
time to fail a few days ago and fracture small
bone in one of his legs. He is spending the
winter at his home in Baltimore.
- Baltimore county will be largely repre-
scented at the inauguration of President Roose-
Welt in Washington today, goodiy NUMBER
from Towson being among them:
- owson can soon be named the town OF
churches. We already have six or eight houses
Of worship and there are prospects for still
another. Let the good work go on.
- Over in New Jersey the crows have
been driven by hunger to attack ana oeyour
young pigs. When men went TO drive them
off the birds actually fought with them.
- The Osler cocktail is said to be popu-
lar tipple in Baltimore just now. Whether 1t
will kill you before you are 60 or nelp you 10
live until you are go, has not been stated;
- A bird called partridge hawk was killed
near Back River a few days ago: When shot
: - ylghed out pound and. a. nall, Wnen, orul-
narily, it would weigh from OTTO pounds.
-SThis is the month of vino and Dluster
but we won't kick on that account a. y only
treats us all right in the matter of snow. we've
had enough Of that for many months to come.
- MANY of Baltimore county's old resi-
dents have passed away during the last three
months The severe winter through wnlcn we
have nearly passed has been very hard upon
- few more of the 'canaries' found their
way back to THE UNION Office this week, but
there are still large number to be heard from'
Don't let the matter escape your memory en-
tirely. sh;.
farm. near Baldwin, 18th district, will sell all
his personal property thereon, on Wednesday,
March 10Th. The sale will include household
effects.
We have not heard of any cartridges or
other birds being frozen to death IN bai,lmore
county this winter. 1t seems the people looked
out for them and provided food to keep them
- Most OF the heavy snow that covered the
ground for number of weeks disappeared so
gradually as to do no damage. Had It gone
off with rush Hoods would lneVltaoly nave
been the result.
- The grounding weather" will end with
the second week of the present month, which
will be around st. Patrick's day--the 18th.
We never do experience any good weather
until after that date
to divide the Hampton estate among the heirs
of the late Charles Ridgely has not commenced
that work. It is thought it will take several
months to completeit.
->The Shrewsbury Driving Association
will have races the coming summer on the lltn
of July and the 18th of August The track will
be improved and additional buildings will be
erected on the grounds.
- Mrs. Catharine Warfel, formerly of Bal
timore county, died at the home OF her daugh-
ter, Mrs Lizzie Hertzer, near M0rgantown,
Berks county, Pa, on the 18th of February
in the 51st year of her age.
- Mr.. Marion Sherman has rented his
blacksmith shop at Greenwood, on the Har-
ford turnpike, to Mr.. Jesse Cursey, an expert
enced and capable mechanic, who Will here
after conduct the business.
- The abad roadp season is now with us
and complaints will be heard from all sides.
Perhaps there are men living today who, Will
survive long enough to see different order OF
things in Baltimore county:
have slipped away since the second Inaugural
ton of Mckinley, and yet it is so. And they
have been eventful years, too, as the history
of the country amply proves.
- People who have been travelling the
county roads this week are still complaining
about the snow drifts. In many places these
are so large and deep that it will require weeks
of sunshine to cause them to vanish entirely
- Mr.. Charles E. Fendall, of the County
Clerks office has received a number OF COM
Dliments-verbal and otherwise-on his article
on "The Cultivation of the Strawberry" which
appeared on the fourth page of The UNION last
- The Bengies baseball team, that made a
fine record last year, has been recognized for
the present season with f. w. Asher as mana
ger and T. Meeks as captain. Last year this
team PLAYED q games and lost only 5 of that
THE Japanese lecture recently given in
the public school building at Govanstown
Melted fraction over $53. It was given under
money will be used to beautify The school
e @eOn and after the 18th instant the street
cars in Baltimore city will stop to let of and
take on passengers on the far side OF the street.
Now they stop on the near sioe; an orolnance
passed bv the City Council makes this change
necessary.
= Why is it that almost everything for
the table is advancing, making the cost OF
living higher2 The last thing to go up is -four
and apparently, there is not the slightest reason
for this. Is the -four trust doing for us what
the beef trust has done?
- Mrs. James Nick. Merryman, whose
farm is on the Falls road, north of Brookland-
wood, has lately had a hog-house built that
goes far ahead of anything of the kind in Bal.
timore county. We hope soon to publish q
description of this building.