The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-05-27

Mount Vista, 18th District.-Wheat and
grass are looking well and give promise OF
bOuntiful harvest that will be with rs within
a month. The very cool weather especially
at nights. seems to be just what the cutWorms
like and they have been making much extra
work for farmers and truckers.
Early cherries and berries are ripening ana
so are the strawberry festivals. One OF these
functions will be held in Shirley Hall. Satur-
day evening, May 9th, and. another will De
held at the same place by the ladies Of Fork
Christian Church, on Saturday evening. June
10th. The Sunday school of this chnrch VIII
hold its Children's day service on June lltn,
commencing at p. NJ.
The I-told.you-so's say the electric line on
the Hartford road will not be extended this
year, but be this as it may we are at least going
to have some means of travel supplied MS. The
Hartford Automobile Company has had an inn
mense auto on the road this week making
trips to connect with the ca rs at Carney and II
this keeps up it will be all we need for the
present. Twenty-Five or thirty years ago the
best we had in the way of public passenger
conveyance between Belair and Baltimore was
a stage line making three trips week and car
rying the mail. Now some are hardly satisfied
with two mails day. Truly, time brings
great changes. Some ordinary scenes of few
Today a 9-year-old child came home from
school and said he saw four big animals that
looked like COWS drawing load of hay and all
the harness they had on was piece of wood
on their necks. / know of but one yoke OF
oxen now being used in this community.
Thirty-five years ago man of my acquain-
lance made regular trips to the Baltimore
markets in cart drawn by oxen, and the dis
lance was twenty miles at that.
Mr.. D. r. Smith. of this place, who has been
suffering with heart disease for ten months, is
steadily growing weaker. :.
Albert Mowbray, who is employed by Mr..
VIM. A. Marburg, of Eager st., Baltimore, one
day this week brought several horses ont to
Mr. John NJ. Griffith's Chestnut Grove Farm
to board for the summer He also brought six
carrier-pigeons and set them free at Temples
shop here, and they were home in 30 minutes,
the distance being 144 miles. These little air
ships must have sailed in q bee line.
Mrs. Susan Lanahan is spending some time
with her son, Prof. Henry Lanahar, at College
Park, Md. P. B.
white Hall, N. G. r. R.-Mrs. Frances
Ellen Slade, widow of Madison Slade, died on
Sunday last at the home Of her son, Mr.. II.
Milton Slade, of this place, aged 6S years. The
cause of her death was paralysis, she having
received the third stroke few hours before
her death. Mrs. Shades husband died about
twenty five years ago. Besides her son she is
Ayres of Parkton. The funeral took place on
Tuesday afternoon at West Liberty M. K.
Church, the services being conducted by Rev.
George r. Sanner. Before her death Mrs.
Slade selected the hymns and text to be used
at her funeral. The pall-bearers were nephews
Of the deceased-Messrs. James B. Luckey,
Thomas L. Parrish, Harry Lyle, Griffith
Lytle, D. Owen Lytle and ]. March Lyle.
Mrs. Slade had been member of the Metho-
list Church many years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Shaeffer, of Trump,
who last fall went to Los Angeles, CAL, to make
no;r rof1t od M HoIl
They were very much disappointed and say
heir preference is for Maryland, which they
hink is good enough for anybody to live in.
Miss Helen Hutchins, of Howard county, and
Miss Anna Hutchins, of Baltimore. who had
been spending some time with Mrs. Asbury
Wiley of this place, have returned to their
homes.
Mrs. Clarence M. Hoshall has had as her
guests her sister and brother, Miss Elsie Hum
er and Mr.. Harry Hunter.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Wiseburg NJ. E.
Church, of which Mrs. George Frederick is
PRESIDENT was entertained at its last meeting
oy Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Bernoudy.
On Sunday afternoon last Rev. William A. |
Price, who has accepted call to church in
Baltimore, preached his farewell sermon at
White Hall Presbyterian Church.
Miss Emma Hutchins, ofthis place, sspend-
ng some time with her brother, Mr.. Monroe
H1tchins. of the Hotel Ralston, Atlantic City,
NJ. s.
Perry Hall, 18th District.-About two |
weeks ago young girl named Annie Shot,
laughter of Joseph Shott, who was employed
n Baltimore, came out to Perry Hall for the |
purpose of visiting her parents, who live here. |
She was seen near the toll-gate, but did not go |
o her home. She then disappeared and moth |
ng more was seen of her until the city police |
'ound her body in the Patapsco river at Ferry |
Bar, foot of Light street. She is supposed to
nave committed suicide. Her death was a
great shock to her parents.
Last Saturday night sneak thief entered
he premises of Mr.. j. Wildt, ofthis place, and
breaking off the lock of the ice-house got away |
With keg of beer and lot of fresh meat be- |
onging to Mr.. 7. j. GOttner, of the Smile |
House. No doubt the thief and his chums |
lad a good time the next day. There have |
been a good many thefts committed in this |
lately, but the guilty ones al.
ways escape A watch is being kept and it |
nay not be long before there are some develop
nents.
Mrs. Mary E. Moritz, of Baltimore, removed |
his week to the home of her mother. Mrs. M:
las small family.
On Wednesday last Messrs Van Brant Rit-
enhouse and Edward ]. Bell, each brought
Dad of strawberry pickers from Baltimore to
ave their large crops, which are sent to the
North. Hands are extremely scarce here and
# t. '-e'' s
The Germantown Building Association has
mad an application for big loan coming all
he way from Anne Arundel county. The So
,iety has plenty Of money on hand and our
nome people are all supplied. X.
Slang, Good and Bad.-Slang is of two
kinds, according to recent authority, says
he Baltimore San. Some slang consists of
&c hat frlooo
,urately and with brevity. ut is up to you" to
10 so and so is an example of useful locution
hat may ultimately get into the dictionary.
Such slang cannot at present be used properly
N grave discourse, but it may have future.
There is another sort, however, which results
rom intellectual indolenee and indifference to
and brevity. This kind is not actual
" descriptive. but needs explanation to be in
.elligible. ITO win OUT for example, is in
erior to the simpler, Ito win" TO get LETT
IS an obscure phrase to use as substitute for
'miscalculate'' or to be disappointed. To say
Of man that he .'got cold feet" is positively
nystifying, since it is far from conveying the
dea that he withdrew in trepidation from a
certain enterprise. Such slang does not make
/ short cut in speech and justify its use by
economy, but tends to render conversation I'M
Ineligible. No doubt many expressions now
IN good repute were once slang, having won
heir way into general use in spite OF the pro-
md the dictionary records the decisions of this
,rbiter.
Against the Western Maryland.-In the
Baltimore City Court few days ago Judge
Stock bridge decided the suit brought by the
Blue Ridge Hotel Company against the West
.rn Maryland Railroad in favor of the plain
,iff, and awarded the Hotel Company So, 453.68,
he full amount claimed, with interest.
The suit was brought to enforce an agree
ment between the Railroad and the Hotel Com
pany, by the terms of which the Railroad
the interest on the common stock
and firstmortgage bonds of the Hotel in the
event of the Hotels earnings proving INSULT
Gent to pay the interest on the securities The
earnings in 1903 were not enough to pay the
dividends, and suit was entered against the
Railroad to enforce the agreement. Judge
Dober decided some time ago that the agree.
ment was valid, and the case came up for final
hearing before Judge Stockbridge. The amount
claimed by the Hotel Company was $1,000,
and interest from the time it became due,
which was allowed by the Judge in his verdict
Messrs. Williams, Thomas & Williams APP
peared for the Hotel Company, and Messrs
McComas, Gather q Greenbaum for the Rail.
road
An Old Estate to be Soda letter from
Ellicott City says: 1.-THE fine old property
known as the Rogers estate, near Marriotts-
Vile, has been purchased by A. F. Arlington
e., al n e,,,-n 0f eli 000 t. contains ohouf 600