The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-03-25

March, followed by q couple of days rain. wa
! quite good ending for the remarkable white
| of 1904-5. Sunday evenings electricsl storm
were the real thing and no doubt they waket
| up the snakes as they assuredly did the frogs
>Appropos of the controversy over certain
| ianitor work in the Court House Mr.. Harrison
| Rider, Register of Wills, was seen heading TO-
that building at an unusually early hour OF
! Friday morning. Asked what it meant ht
briefly replied Going up to sweep out my
Office"
- During the thunder storm last Sunday
afternoon barrack on the farm of Mr.. William
Sauter, near Woodlawn. I'd district, was struck
by lightning and totally destroyed, together
with quantity of hay belonging to Mr.. Will
liam T. Sauter, tenant on the farm. Fully
/ insured.
IA st. Patrick's tea was given on Friday
evening of last week at the home of Mrs. Anna
M. Darling, at Hamilton. Hartford road, in aid
of the organ fund of st. Johns M. E. Church
South, Of that place. About $50 was realized.
Mrs. F. G. Purdum is chairman of the organ
committee.
- The bad condition of the Hartford road in
the vicinity of Hamilton is given as the reason
for movement for revival of the Lauraville
improvement Association. The road badly
needs attention and conserted action on the
part of the citizens is believed to be the right
way to secure it.
IAN automobile is doubtless very nice
thing to go bowling around the country in but
it's of absolutely no use when you strike some
of the roads that are to be found in Baltimore
county just now. What you need, if you wish
to escape the mud, is something that sits high
from the ground.
"a Towson man has 16 hens, of ordinary
breed, that made the following record for the
first three weeks in March First week, So
eggs; second week. 70 third week, so. He also
has two Plymouth Rock hens that have laid
lib eggs since they first commenced and they
are keeping it up.
THE Baltimore county judgeship is q
matter that is just now engaging the attention
of good many people and it looks like these
positions will cause the politicians no little
trouble. Both the Chief and the Associate
Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit always
have come from this county.
THE Baltimore and Yorktown Turnpike
Company and the United Railways and Elec-
trio Company were indicted by the late grand
jury upon the charge of creating a nuisance in
rowson by permitting filthy open drain on
its property near the lumber and coal yards of
the Wilson & Kenney Company.
THE State Fire Marshal has gone over
into Montgomery county to investigate mys-
terious barn fire, but we have not yet heard of
bis doing anything of tina. kind in Baltimore
county. There is plenty of material here for
him to work on and the people are growing
anxious to know why he don't do it.
THE abutments Of the Gunpowder bridge
at Glencoe, n. G. R. R., that had previously
been in bad condition, were still further
damaged by the heavy freshet of Thursday of
last week and since then the travel over the
structure has been suspended and a temporary
ford over the stream has been opened.
Several weeks ago subscriber to The
UNION in the 10th district became SO angry at
what he believed to be the shortcomings Of the
r. +. ID. system that he ordered his paper per-
emptorily stopped Matters having turned
out better than he thought he called at the
Office this week and renewed his subscription.
- The Watts murder case, removed from
Baltimore county, has been set for trial at
Ellicott City next Wednesday, March Goth. It
will be remembered that Watts, who is Bal
timorean. killed his wife in q most brutal man.
ner at Phoenix. N. G. X. R., where she had
gone to work in the mill to earn her own live
lihood.
- According to the United Railways Com
pany the jurisdiction of the far side stop ordi-
nance of Baltimore city covers Baltimore
county also. The management has given the
employees orders to stop on the far side of
roads and avenues in the county as we'll as of
streets in the city. This seems to be rather a
queer idea.
Two stores in Cockeysvile were bur-
glarized on Thursday night of last week, but
in both cases the thieves were frightened off
before they secured anything of value. They
were those of L. p Kraus and A. Goldberg.
Cockeysville appears to be faVorite place for
robbed several times.
THE caterpillar story that appeared in
the local columns of THE UNION last week at
tracted good deal of attention, and some ex-
pressed doubts about the entire truthfulness of
it. But the lady who owns this odd "bird'
knows the story's all right, and what is more
q second member of the family has joined the
original one this week.
Next week the corn special' will pass
up the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad, but
it is not proposed to have abroad any of the
Juice" of that important cereal, notwithstand-
ing the fact that it will traverse many miles of
Hartford county. 1t will simply carry the plain
dry grain and that hasn't much attraction for
the average Hartford man.
IAN Embarrassing Situation" very
attractive little play, will be given in Grange
Hail. TOwsOn, on Friday evening, March 31st,
Society of EPSON M. P. Church. Home talent
will be assisted by capable amateurs from
distance and pleasant evening is promised.
Admission Is and 25 cents.
- Next Saturday will be the first day of
April-called by some All Fools Day-but it
is no more that than any other day in the year
if you only keep your mind on your number
and don't let the troublesome practical Joker
get ahead of you. There is no law that per-
mits the killing of this mild nuisance, SO we
must simply grin and bear him.
AT the last quarterly conference of Great
Church separate appointment. This action
will have to be ratified by the Annual Confer
ence. There has also been considerable talk of
cutting Great Falls Circuit in two and make
two circuits of it. This is matter for the
Annual Conference to determine.
"A young couple came all the way from
Philadelphia to TOwson last Saturday in order
to be married, the knot having been tied by
Rev. John r. Edwards. of the M. E. Church.
When they reached here they found that the
County Clerks Office was closed. but through
the kindly offices of Mr.. Martin J. o. Hara they
were able to secure the necessary license.
Ion Saturday night last George .Dorster,
aged 81 years, who lives at TimOnium, was
struck by the engine of the Cockeysville accom-
mediation train at Texas and thrown some dis
lance. He was unconscious when picked up,
but he afterwards recovered and was sent 10
his home. He is brother of E. Dorster, track
foreman of the N. G. Railway at Timonium.
- Mr.. Lewis M. Keller, of Vauxhall Farm,
near Ashland, will this spring lberate 20 par
tridges on his property. The birds will come
from Iowa and will be shipped east by Mr..
Payne. who is also sending a lot to Game War
The latter will be paid for out of the fund &C
cumulated from nonresident license fees and
fines.
IA Baltimore paper reported last week
that an arrest in the John Beckman murder
case might be expected any minute, but up to
ILLS blluS 0OIuluB udS OCCuIrcu III tudt
Gus affair. It will be remembered that Beck
man was shot and killed near his home on
Hamilton avenue and thus far the perpetrator
of the crime has managed to escape arrest and
punishment.
- The L. Lamberd Company of Baltimore
has issued a very attractive catalogue of nearly
100 pages for the present year. 1t is profusely
illustrated and contains everything for the farm
and garden. On the back cover page is an ex-
cellent picture of the firms splendid new build
ing Ill, 113 and 115 Light street. The Landlord
Company was completely burned out in the
great fire of 1904.
- This couple got tripped up in Towson.
They came from Baltimore on Tuesday after
noon, got license and started out to hunt a
minister to marry them, but all refused because
the wouldb be bride had been divorced from her
first husband the day before. Failing here
they returned to Baltimore and found minis.
ter who tied the knot. The bride is 36 years
old and the mother of seven children, while
the groom said he was "a.
81 For the purpose of increasing its supply
at Towson the Baltimore County Water and
Electric Company has for some days been test
ing the artesian we'll in the rear of the new
Catholic Church at this place. The company
has not sufficient supply to meet present de-
mands and those who wished to get water be-
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