The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-10-27

the Conrad IdEms near OOEDeBJs Ne " H. n
mules. horses, cattle, hogs, wagons, farr
implements, etc.
Wednesday. November Z. by the Towson Hors
Co., at the stables In Towson, lot OF morse
Thursday, November 8. by ]. Truman Sefbel, o.
the farm of Lewis H. Seibel, on the Old Roll
ing road, near the Liberty turnpike, wor
and driving horses, cattle. wagons, farm i'm
plements, dairy fixtures, household furni
Saturday. November TO- by Louis CostagginI
on the Joppa road opposite st. Stephen
Church, 18th district horses, cows. farm i'm
PIGMENTS, household furniture. etc.
Monday. November II. by Fred. Brehm. on Hol
~ Neck Farm, miles below Walters P. o.
horses, mules. COWS, wagons. farm nipple
ments, provender. poultry. etc.
Wednesday. November IA. BY George H. Ger
from Stemmer's Run Station, stock, wagons
farm implements, poultry, provender,etc.
- The game law prohibits cunning on cleo
ton day as well as on Sundays.
- The open season for rabbits in this county
will begin next Thursday. They are said t
be plentiful.
Next Thursday will be the first day O
November and the Congressional election will
be but six days off
SThe fund for the new Y. Nj. G. A Build.
ing in Baltimore has reached nearly 5000, 600
II is proposed to raise 100000.
-SThe President has issued bis proclama-
ton designating Thursday, November 18th, as
day of National thanksgiving.
- House rents are higher in G0vanst0wn
than they are in Towson. A Scent trolley
fare is said to be responsible for this.
- States Attorney Bussey has been busy
this week disposing of criminal cases. The
docket was relieved of many of them.
- Complaints are heard of the wet weather
damaging the corr, hundreds of acres of which
is still standing in the shock in the fields.
Wild geese have been on their southern
fight this week and thousands of them will
spend the winter in Baltimore county waters.
Mr.. Joseph Daley, 7th district farmer,
raised this season 100 barrels of corn on acres
Of landau average of IL barrels to the acre.
"a protracted meeting has been in progress
at Tows0n NJ. e. Church for the past two weeks,
conducted by the pastor, Rev. Thos. E. Copes.
THE farmers race meeting and tourna-
ment on the Belair fair grounds was knocked
out last Saturday by the very unfavorable
weather.
%Towson Lodge of Elks continues to add
to its already large list of members. There
was another initiation at the meeting on Tues
day night.
- Protracted services will begin next SUM-
day. October 18th, at Wesley Chapel M. E..
Church, 10th district, conducted by the pastor,
Rev. Solomon German.
--SThe partridge and pheasant season will
open in Baltimore county next Thursday, No
vember LIST. The season for squirrels closes in
the county November I'd.
1.-THE open season for pheasants in Balti-
more county is the same as for partridges-
from November LIST to December 25th not in
Guiding the last named date.
->Immense quantities of potatoes have
been going to market by way of the York
turnpike this week. Baltimore county's crop
this year was unusually large:
- Deputy game wardens should be on the
lookout for Sunday gunners. We hear Of
some sections where Sunday cunning is COM
mon practice. Why not break il up2
Mr.. Jacob RI. Fowble, the well known
contractor and builder of Timonium, has the
contract for the erection of a building to cost
$4,000 at Springfield Insane Asylum.
~ Mr.. j. Henry Laubach, whose farm is
on the old Hartford road south of the Joppa
road has sold acres of his land to Mr.. Henry
e. Plack of Baltimore, upon private terms.
THE Senior Gunpowder Agricultural Club
will meet today Saturday at the farm of Mr..
John Bond. in Western Run Valley. Mr..
Charles H. Price will represent the Junior
Club.
Two aged brothers, residents of Towson,
have half brother not so old. They are all
married and all three of their wives, by
strange coincidence, were born in the same
year.
- The Ladies' Aid Society of Jessop M. E.
Church, at its last meeting, passed resolution
of sympathy on the death ofRev. Sam" Jones'
and ordered that copy be sent to his bereaved
family.
Another couple from Baltimore came to
Towson on Wednesday and. after procuring
license at the Court House, were married by
Rev. B. B. Abbitt. pastor of Calvary Baptist
Church.
- At the meeting of the Methodist Protes.
tant ministers in Baltimore last Monday Rev.
j. L. Straughn, formerly of Towson, read
paper on the progress Of temperance work in
the city.
- Farmers have been rushing large quanti-
ties of hay to market this week. Very little
has been doing outdoors on the farms because
of the frequent rains, hence the teams are kept
on the roads.
The Baltimore Water Board, at its meet
c<lowx 1o1 10 call all ffrrio
land in connection with the dam at Loeb Raven
except go acres, which is not needed by the
water works there.
->Some farmers have not yet finished seed
ing. the October rains having caught them:
The wheat that was sown earlier is up and
growing finely the fields presenting beauti-
fully green appearance.
AT last Sheriff Elliott has gotten rid of
the Electric Park ostriches that had lately been
such great bone of contention among certain
trouble with poultry"
- Fisher Whitcomb, who is employed by
Mr. A. H. Hall, near McDonogh Station, was
held up by two men while on his way home
on Friday night OF last week and robbed OF q
small amount of money.
->It is a we'll known fact that using pro-
fame language on public highway is viola
ton Of the law. Why then are some people
permitted to do 1t with impunity and to the
disgust of all within hearing?
1.-THE Archdeaconry of Tow son will meet
in st. Matthew's Church, Sparrow's Point, on
Wednesday next, October 31st, at IL A. NJ.
Rev. Hobart Smith. of st. Thomas Church,
Garrison Forest, will preside.
- The ladies of Lauraville Nj. E. Church
will hold bazaar and oyster supper in the hall
at Hamilton, Hartford road, on Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings, October Both and 3lst, to
which general invitation is extended.
"a sample of the official ballot to be voted
on the 9th of November is published on the
fourth page of TIE UNION today. There are
four candidates for Congress on il and all of
them are residents of Baltimore county.
THE work of erecting a gallery in the
annex to the County Clerks office is now in
progress and is being done at night in order
not to interfere with the clerks. More room
in the office made the gallery necessary.
THE Elkridge Hunt Club had lively
chase north Of T0wson on Wednesday after
noon.. The hounds started two foxes, one of
which was denned and the other was lost.
Several ladies were among those who followed.
- Mrs. Eliza Ia. Welty, who died at her
home in Baltimore few days ago at the age
of 81 years. was the widow of Rev. Elias Welty,
a minister of the M. E. Church South, who
years ago preached in Baltimore and Hartford
counties.
THE suburban trolley lines did a very
small business last Sunday because of the
disagreeable weather of that day. Instead of
the thousands that usually ride in good weather
the patrons of the lines could be numbered by
the hundreds.
THE new 0ffutt Building, located oppo-
site the south front of the Court House, is
nearly finished and will soon be ready for oc-
cupancy. Since the large trees have been re-
moved from the front it presents a very attrac-
tive appearance.
Occasionally a caller at THE UNION Office
shows strange superstition. He will go out
the same door he comes in believing it bad
luck" to leave by another exit. 1t issurprising
how many there are who believe in this ap-
parent absurdity.
1.-THE people of Govanstown are congratu-
lating themselves on the fact that they are
soon to have an increased water supply, to be
furnished by the Baltimore County Company.
An inadequate supply has been serious draw
back to the town.
- The Frederick fair struck streak of
bad luck last week in the matter of weather,
but despite this drawback the fair was pro.
nounced in all respects successful. The weather
man treated York, Hagerstown and Frederick
rather badly this year.
The annual field trials of the National
Beagle Club of America will begin at Steven
son, Green Spring Valley, next Monday and
continue throughout the week. Mr.. 7. Dudley
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