The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-02-03

ments and machinery, provender. etc.
Wednesday, February IA, by Mrs. j. Jacob Biel
corner First avenue and Sixteenth ST., Can
ton, stock of all kinds, wagons, farm and
trucking utensils, household effects, etc.
Monday. February 10. by Fred. o. Smith, on the
Montebello Farm, Hillen road, horses. dairy
stock, farming implements, dairy fixtures
Thursday, February ed. by Harry B. Smith. on
the Price farm, on the Warren road, horses,
cows. hogs. wagons, farm implements etc.
Tuesday, February q, by W. Gill Smith, trustee
at the Court House door, desirable little
farm on Chestnut Ridge, Sth district.
- Washington's birthday february 22d)
is legal holiday in Maryland
%tovernor Warfeld will designate Friday,
April 9Th, as Arbor and Bird Day.
- Easter flowers are already beginning to
show-ebove ground in Towson, owing to the
Unusually mild weather.
- The County Commissioners Wednesday
appointed James Marriott, constable for the I'd
district, vice Louis Smith.
IA stringent cigarette bill is before the
present Legislature and as matters look now it
will be fought with much vigor.
- Edwin Trapp of Blenheim, 10th district,
while working at cutting box q few days ago,
had the index finger of his left hand cut off.
- The baseball teams are already preparing
for next seasons work. The Towson Athletic
Club expects to have strong aggregation in
the field.
fhe Knights of Columbus Home Corporation
of Baltimore
- Petitions to the Legislature favoriDg the
passage of compulsory education bill were in
circulation in Towson this week and were
numerously signed.
I'VE enjoye more springIike weather this
week and the winter of 1866 appears to have
settled down to a steady gait of mildness that
will prove record breaker.
The snug little farm of the late s. NJ.
Yoder, near Unionville, which was offered at
public sale few days ago by his widow, was
Withdrawn on bid of 50, $50.
- Baltimore city needs more wafer and
Baltimore county must furnish it, so there is
mo sense in making fuss about the matter.
The thing is simply inevitable.
- An illustrated lecture ON africa" will
be delivered at Providence NJ. e. Church.
northeast of Towson. Sunday, February 4th,
at O'Clock. Public cordially invited.
- The United Railways and Electric Com
pany has ordered 100 new cars to take the place
/of those destroyed in the Waverly barn fire.
The company will not rebuild on the old site.
- Twelve eggs the product of Brown Leg
horn hens belonging to Towson man weigh
ed l pound and IA ounces. These hens are
steady layers, producing eggs every day.
- Today, Saturday, February Sd, the sun
will rise at IA minutes after and set at u
minutes after s. making the days nearly an
hour longer than they were at the beginning of
January.
- Active preparations are now being made
for the formal opening of the new Elks Home
IN Tows0n, which ceremony will take place on
the evening of Washington's birthday-Feb-
ruary 22d
- The prospect for an ice supply this winter
looks as though it had gone glimmering. but
the anxious ones should not give up hope.
There may still be plenty of opportunities to
secure supply.
- The meeting to form a lyceum at Sweet
Air will be held III the hall at that place, on
Saturday evening" February Sd, at O'Clock.
There should be large turn out. Everybody
will be welcome.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Neighborhood Improvement Club of Govans-
town will be held in Golden Eagle Hall, on
Tuesday, February 9Th, at 8P. NJ. Miss Harriet
May Mills will speak.
>'An immense crowd of people came to
Towson on Wednesday morning to attend the
funeral of Rev. Matthew O'Keefe. The fine
large church that he built could not nearly ac-
commodate the throng.
MIR. d. w 9emmill died at his home in
Westminster, Md, on Thursday last, aged IL
years. He was a native of Baltimore county
and was at one time manager of the furnaces
at Ashland, N. G. r. r.
- The non partisan taxpayers convention
will meet in the Court House at Towson, on
Tuesday next, February 9th, at 10 A. NJ. 1t
will be an ira portant gathering and one that
should not be overlooked.
- Ladies from Baltimore county going to
Baltimore on shopping tours should be careful
of their purses. The negro purse snatcher is
now very active in the city and people should
be on the lookout for him.
The Kansas partridges ordered for Balti-
more county will begin to arrive about the 10Th
of this month and they will be distributed from
Towson. Sixty-seven dozens have been ordered
from Wichita, in that State
THE new directory of the Maryland Tele-
phone Company was issued this week. The
Lutherville Exchange is abandoned and the
<Towson Exchange takes its place. The call of
THE UNION is Towson 23-F.
-It looks now like Baltimore city will
pave the York road, as far north as the new
boundary. with Belgian blocks. The protests
Of the people against either cobblestones or
macadam have had their effect.
-> One of TOwsOn's most active women has
started scheme to secure clock to be placed
in the tower of the Lee Building and unless
we greatly misjudge her tact and energy she
will succeed in the undertaking..
Justice Grammar, of the Central Police
District of Baltimore has fixed the price OF two
kisses-and it seems reasonable enough. He
charged man $26 20 for kissing pretty young
married woman against her will.
- Bear in mind the dates for the Farmers
Institutes at Towson and Monkton, the former
February 14th and 18th, and the latter Febru-
airy 2lst. Il is earnestly hoped tn at there will
be q large turn out ON both these occasions.
The Maryland School for the Deaf and
Dumb, located at Frederick, has now but four
pupils from Baltimore county, viz: Clyde
Bowen and Elizabeth and Helen Moss, all OF
Govanstown, and Sophia Beasley, of Freeland.
Several ministers of Gainesville have
joined forces to check lawlessness in that COM
munity and also to cut down the number of
saloon licenses They have issued a letter ask
ing the cooperation of the citizens in the move
ment.
Two deaths in Towson last Sunday morn
ing within few hours of each other was a
shock to the community. They were Rev.
Matthew O'Keefe, the venerable pastor of the
Church of the Immaculate, and Mr.. Henry j.
Mattingly.
- Reports are now being circulated that
the Nd. q Pa. Railroad will be operated by
electricity soon as the great electric plant at
McCalps Ferry, on the Susquehanna, is COM
pleted. The dam for this plant is now in course
of erection.
- Valentine Trout, trackman who lives
at New Freedom, n. c. R. R., had his left leg
badly crushed few days ago by log at SO W
mill rolling upon him. He is a brother of Mr.,
j. Frank Trout, storekeeper and postmaster at
! Maryland Line.
- By a decree of the Circuit Court at Tow.
son on Monday Sidney A. Starber had his name
changed to Sidney A. Vaughan, which was the
maiden name of his mother and by which he
was generally known. Mr.. o. Parker Baker
was his attorney.
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change the names of county alnis.houses to
'.cenhty homes" and we hope it will pass. Ii
1T should pass it will hereafter be Baltimore
County Home instead of alms-house, which
name sounds unpleasantly.
- Although the case of the negro William
Winder, one Of the murderers of Gate Keeper
Rinehart, has been removed to Hartford county
nothing is heard as to when it may be brought
to trial. Would it not be well to push thi;
matter a little2 Delays are dangerous.
- Erdman avenue. from the Hartford tc
the Belair road, along the north side of Clifton
Park, is to be macadamized under the direction
of the Baltimore Commissioners for Opening
Streets. Judge John ]. Dobler and other prop
erty owners are to pay the expense of grading
- The popularity of the Guild House bowl
ing alleys in Towson continues undated. Some
of the ladies who patronize them are becoming
quite expert bowlers. A few nights ago team
of ladies bowled against team of gentlemen
and the latter had hard work to pull off vic
tory.
>M Mr.. g. Frank Morgan, the Dulany's Val
lev miller, says that if the proposed dam thre'
miles above Loeb Raven is built to height o
70 feet the backed water where his mill nov
stands will be 35 feet deep. If this be SO th,
entire valley above his mill will be one vas
lake.
A number of persons from Norfolk, Va.