The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-04-07

Berrerss Hotel BeIair road horse and bug
gy, household and kitchen furniture, bar
Thursday. April Is, By Henry schennins.on Hor-
ner's lane, near Phila. road. 100 fat and fresh
cattle. horses. mules hogs implements + etc etc;
OfRutt, trustees, at the Court House door.
farm of 157 acres on My Lady's Manor 2K
miles from Monkton, N. c. X. r..
: - The new Protestant Episcopal Chapel in
Highlandtown has been completed and is now
ready for service.
- We enjoyed touch of very pleasant
spring weather this week and we can stand
plenty more of the same kind.
- Next Sunday, April 9Th, will be Palm
Sunday, which precedes Easter one week.
Good Friday falls on the 18th.
- Monday was q sort of general moving
day in Towson, six or eight families having
changed their places of residence.
>Good Friday april 13th) is legal holt
day in Maryland. All the banks and public
offices and the schools will be closed.
- Next Thursday, April 18th, will be OBJ
served as Arbor and Bird Day, in accordance
with the proclamation of the Governor.
- The Joyous notes of the spring birds and
the dismal croakiDg of the frogs are sure indi-
cations hat the vernal season is with US.
ut is said that George Washington was
so opposed to lying that he positively refused
to establish weather bureau during his adj
ministration.
MR. Noah E. Offutt has awarded the con-
tract for bis new Office building in Towson to
Mr. William I. Murphy, well known baltl-
more builder.
= The Baltimore Horse Show will be held
at the Kennels, Charles street avenue extended,
May 25d to 26th, inclusive. The entries will
close May 10th.
The Annual Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church is now in session in West
Baltimore Church. corner of Lafayette avenue
and GlmOr street.
- The list of applications for yearly liquor
licenses in this county is published in THE
UNION today There are 1887 of these or Is
more than last year.
- This week The UNION has been Obliged
to curtaiI its reading matter on the I'd and Sd
pages because of the heavy pressure on our
advertising columns.
Mr.. William Chenoweth, of Baynesvile,
near TowsoD, who lost his house by fire last
January, has had it rebuilt on the same site
and will occupy il next week.
MIR. James Mex Merryman. of Grove
Farm. has just sold to Gen. Felix Agnus,
very fine yearling bull calf sired by the prize
Guernsey bull at the st. Louis fair
The automobile show now in progress at
the Mt. Royal Garage in Baltimore is attracting
large crowds of interested people. 1t will con-
tinue throughout the present month.
- The bad weather that continued through
out the month of March proved serious set
back to many farmers, whose spring work is
now crOwding them uncOmf0rtably.
THE bright sunshine and light winds this
week helped the country roads very much,
but it will require good deal more of these
elements to put matters in good shape.
April came in with bright sunshine, al
though there was an unpleasant chill in the
atmosphere. March kept up its bad behavior
almost to the last. finishing with rain and snow.
Some of the Baltimore newspapers can't
shake themselves loose from the Winder mat
ter. II was choice mOrsel with them for so
long that they are evidently reluctant to give
it up.
-sThe track hands of the several divisions.
of the Northern Central Railway are now
making but three days each week. 1t is said
they have been put on half time as a matter of
economy.
As a result of humane laws for their
protection it is noticed that birds are more nu-
merous this spring than ever before. The
country appears to be alive with robins and
blackbirds.
- The public school at Shawan, 9Th district,
Miss Edna link. teacher, will give an enter
tainment on Saturday evening, April 14th, in
the school house, to which the public is cor
daily invited.
Rev. Henry R. Miller. of South Dakota,
preached in Glyndon M. E. Church last Sunday
morning and evening and told of his expert
ences as captain in the Union army during
the Civil War.
81 Half dozen or more aocks of wild geese
passed over Towson about Co clock on Monday
evening. bound in a northwesterly direction.
The peculiar noise made by them attracted
much attention.
-The Senior Gunpowder Agricultural Club
will meet Saturday, 7th instant, at the home of
Mr.. John Crowther, Jr, in Luthervile. The
subject for discussion will be Farm Fences"
This club is SO years old.
1.-THE entertainment announced to take
place at Ridge public school, Sth district, was
postponed on account of the illness of the
teacher until Wednesday and Thursday even
ings, April 18th and 18th.
( THE Baltimore baseball team will play
its first exhibition game TODAY Saturday. at
Oriole Park with the Walbrook team. The
championship season will open at the same
place, Thursday, April Goth.
- Prof q. A Miller, leader of Parkville
C0rnet Band az pieces), will be in attendance
on Easter Monday, April 10th, at Wolters
Carney Hotel. Carney, Hartford road, when the
grand opening will take place.
- The formal opening of the Maryland
Country Club, on Park Heights avenue. took
place last Saturday night. followed by dance.
The club has beautiful home with baseball
diamond. tennis courts, golf links, etc.
Mr.. Upton s. Brady. who has removed
to Baltimore. will sell all mis- personal property
on the farm of Mr.. Harrison Rider, on the
HiIlen road, about two miles southeast OF
Towson, on Monday next, 9th instant.
$Mr. Henry D. Perky, founder of Dread
Institute in Baltimore county. will lecture in
the Guild Hall in Towson, on Monday night.
April 9th, at z 80 o'clock. For particulars see
advertising columns of THE UNION today.
1.-The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
can have its freight cutoff north of Baltimore,
but Mr.. Bernard Carter says it would Deces-
sarily be over such route as TO make 1t prac-
tically out of the question for his company.
-sOn Sunday last nearly the entire large
congregation ofSt. John s Church, Long Green,
received holy communion for the repose OF the
soul of Mr. Joseph A. Hauck, of Philadelphia,
father of Rev. Joseph B. Hauck, pastor of that
church.
THE water loan bill having failed in the
Legislature the great Gunpowder reservoir will
not be built for at least two years. Those who
expected the city to take their farms for the
bed of this storage lake can make themselves
sMr. Harry NJ. Gather, who established
livery and boarding stable at ROLAND Park
about two years ago, has built up very salts.
factory business. Before removing to that
place Mr.. Gather was engaged in farming in
the 9Th district.
THE records of the Baltimore weather
bureau show that little over IL inches of
snow fell during the month OF March. The
average precipitation in March for the past
thirty -six years was 1856 inches Last month
it was 463 inches.
THE members of the Relief Council, No.
Sc, Jr. o u A NJ. of Mt. Washington, attend
ed service in body st Mt. Washington NJ. E.
Church last Sunday morning. Rev. u w.
Evans, former pastor of the church. preached
patriotic sermon.
Mr.. VIM F. Weiser who died suddenly
of heart disease in York last Monday. was
nephew of Col. Walter s. franklin. He was
SO years of age and unmarried. Mr.. Weiser
was formerly connected with the York banking
house of Wiser, Son & Carl
THE Legislature failed to make an APP
preparation for the Greater Baltimore Jubilee
and Exposition that was 10 have been held
next September and it is likely that this will
put an end to the enterprise. This would be
Unfortunate to say the least.
THE gross earnings of the Maryland q
Pennsylvania Railroad for the month of Feb
ruary, 1906, were S24,547.37, showing an in
crease of 81, CAB 48 as compared with the cor
responding month of last year. The net earn
ipgs for the month were s., 432-
=. Miss North, Of the WOman's College,
Baltimore, delivered an interesting lecture on
child labor at the regular monthly meeting OF
the Neighborhood Improvement Association
of Goyansrown on Tuesday afternoon. mu-
steal program followed the lecture.
- Have you forgotten what you learned
last year about the selection of seed corn and
which the corn specials taught you? You
should bear in mind the fact that what was
learned through those specials largely increas-
ed the yield of corn in Maryland in 1905.