The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-11-18


Interest is charged on unpaid State taxes
after December 31st.
There are hundreds of acres of corn still
standing in shock in the fields in Baltimore
county.
Bishop Paret conducted confirmation
services at the Protestant Episcopal Church at
West Arlington last Sunday.
Potatoes have been advancing in price
IN the last ten days and have been selling from
country wagons at 80 cents bushel.
THE stable at the home of Mr.. John 5.
Ogier, on Bellona avenue, Govanstown, was
damaged by fire on Wednesday last.
ALREADY inquiries are being made for
1906 calendars. The UNION will distribute
some pretty ones when the proper time arrives.
- Elder b. e. Cubbage, of FELTON,. DEL,
will preach at Black Rock Baptist Church, on
Sunday morning. November 10Th, at IL o'clock.
- Mr. John P. Mulligan. York road and
Willow avenue, raised Chinese persimmon
this year that measured 81 inches in circum-
ference.
The December term of the Circuit Court
begins on the first Monday of the month,
which will be the 4th. 1t is usually the longest
term of the year.
miles to Towson on Tuesday morning said they
were nearly frozen when they got here. The
northw wind cut like knife.
THE newly elected Baltimore county Off
Gals will assume the duties of their office about
December LIST. 1t is said the changes among
the subordinate officials will be few.
- Disorderly persons on the street cars in
Baltimore are well sailed when they get before
the police magistrates. 1t generally costs each
one of these worthless upwards of S25.
- William A. Chenowith has sued his
wife. Edna K Chenowith, for an absolute
divorce, alleging abandonment. Mr.: John
Mays Little is attorney for the plaintiff.
"A frozen pump in Towson as early as
November 18th is something very unusual
But this according to Warden Chilcoat, is what
happened at the Jail last Saturday morning.
They are beautiful pink tint this year
and you cannot fail to recognize them. They
will take their fight from The UNION Office on
the LIST day of December. Look out for them.
The farm of Mr.. George NJ. Belt, near
Fairview, 4th district that was advertised to
be sold at the Court House on Tuesday, by Mr..
James ]. Lindsay, attorney, was withdrawn.
- Wasn't much about the weather of early
this week to remind one of Indian summer,
was here? The weather man gave. us fine
taste of what we may look for in mid winter.
- The County Commissioners on Tuesday
, notified the Board of Election Supervisors that
<they would pay no bills connected with this
z years election until after the LIST of December
- The Circuit Court has been engaged all
week in the trial of the case of State, use of
Edward NJ. Kehoe, vs.. Edward F. Kirwan and
the United States Fidelity and Guarantee Com
pany.
"A man who shot chicken hawk this
week says that they get more partridges and
other birds than the 'gunners do. He thinks
there should be bounty offered for killing
hawks
- Mrs. Kalb, aged 63 years, wife of Mr..
JohRKalb. of Gainesville, fell from an apple
tree at her home few days ago and sustained
serious injuries, including a broken hip and
kneecap.
~ Mr. Thaddeus Crapster, a prominent
Howard county farmer, died on Thursday
from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, aged
IS years. He was a first cousin of Governor
Warfeld.
- The Emory Grove Association is planning
to make extensive Improvements upon the
grounds before next years camp is held. These
will include the installation of an electric light
plant. etc.
Ames NJ. E. Church. at Pikesville, has
been supplied with fine new organ and was
used for the first time last Sunday. Mrs.
Winger, wife of the pastor, Rev. ]. l. Winger,
is the organist.
THE country landscape has taken on a
decidedly wintry look in the last ten days and
now little green is to be seen, except the grow
ing wheat, and this generally presents an excel
IA cold wave struck Towson on Monday
night and sent the mercury down to 20. A
regular blizzard blew from the northwest.
There was plenty of ice on standing water on
Tuesday morning.
Many OF The UNIONS subscribers whe
do not want to get bills in their papers are
coming up and renewing before the time for
the bills to go out, which will be with the first
issue In December
property of MIR. Jacob Missile near Kingsville,
18th district, advertised in THE UNION for the
past two weeks to take place next Monday, has
been temporarily Withdrawn.
Three public sales of personal property
are advertised to take place in the southeastern
.f ocixT do "
There are several others advertised for the
same week in the same section.
The small boys of Towson have football
squad that can play the game to the queen g
taste If they continue to work as they have
been doing lately they II be troublesome gang
to handle in three or four years.
>The new trolley line in Loudon Park
Cemetery, on the Frederick road, was opened
tothe public on Tuesday. The line belongs to
the company and those visiting the cemetery
will be carried on it free of charge.
IA corps of civil engineers has again this
week been running lines to the north and east
of Towson. 1t is supposed that the object Is
Il to secure freight route for the Pennsylvania
Railroad from Mmonium to Canton. y
- William Watson aged years, son OF
Mr.John Watson, of Gainesville, was run over
by an automobile last Sunday evening and is
likely to die from the injuries. The man who
caused the trouble has not been arrested.
MIR. William s. Keech, of Towson, while
hunting near Glen-Arm on Monday, killed q
chicken hawk that measured over four feet
from tip to tip of the wings. He gave the bird
to a coloredm man who said he intended to eat 1t
- unique advertisement from Mr.. Henry
q. Mast. of the 10th district. appears in TIL
UNION today: He offers reward OF 10 Tor
man who did him some damage on halloween
night, and the way he does it is worth reading
>Mr. w. r. Harvey, superintendent o.
Fiiston Farm, Glencoe, N. G. r. R., makes al
interesting announcement in the advertising
columns Of THE UNION today. This farm hai
the largest herd of high bred Jersey cattle II
Maryland.
The new cars of the United Railways ar
equipped with airbrakes, whistles, ETC., ant
have other modern Improvements that add 4
their safety and comfort. The first of thes
=, cars to go into service were put on the Emor!
Grove line.
THE children of Patrick LAWN, of Beave
Dam, Sth district, are sick with diptheria ant
scarlet fever and the attendance at the puDll
school at Cockeysville has been much reduced
Y in consequence. The LAWN family has beef
Quarantined.
"A Towson sportsman who spent two o
three days in the field this week, killed anon
other game, three woodcock, one OF them al
| uncommonly large one. These fine birds az
pear to be more plentiful this fall than the.
generally are.
-In the last few weeks the job department
of The UNION office has had an extraordinar.
run on posters for public sales of personal prop
erty. In one day this week four separate lot
of these were turned out, which is somethin
very unusual. -,
->On Friday, November 10th, sixty-on
deeds and mortgages were left for record in tn
office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, and MI
M. J. o. Hara, chief clerk in the ONCE, says ths
u number breaks all previous records of singl
days business.
@AIl election excitement has disappeare
and we don't hear any politics now except iroI
those who are looking out for jobs when 70
1 new deal comes around. This shaking of IL
Y plum tree every two years makes many peop
uncomfortable.
THE November meeting of the Senlt
Gunpowder Agricultural Club was held Ia
Saturday at the BelfieId Farm OF Mr.. Jon
Bond in Western Run Valley. A full repo
of the proceedings will be published in tn
paper next week.