The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-03-17


shredder. had three fingers of il amputated q
the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
- Elijah NJ. Price, the new warden of thu
county jail, was sworn in on Tuesday. William
ShipleY<of the 10th district has been appointed
deputy warden. Mr.. Price should make ar
efficient warden as be has had experience as Q
lLiaiI official.
The weather man tried this week whai
be could do in the way of variety and ht
must have succeeded far hey ond bis expecta-
tions. We have had about everything in the
list except sunshine and this has been conspic
uous by its absence.
- The public sale of Mrs. Estelle H. Pearce
advertised TO tax, take place at her farm: near ss,
was postponed on account of the weather until
Thursday next, March 22d. See advertisement
in THE UNION today.
>Towson school building. that was burned
last Saturday, was built in 1872 by the late
John T. Marshall. Two or three years later it
<~as enlarged to nearly double its original size.
It had become too small for a school OF its
present size and importance.
>It is announced that Mr.. Henry D..
| Perky's Dread Institute at Glencoe Baltimore
county, will open on the LIST of May next. Mr..
Perky lectured in Lehman's Hall, Baltimore,
on Monday night on Rebellion Against the
Educational System Of Today"
"A supposed mad dog created much ex-
element in COckeysville early this week by
biting two men-William Storey and Isaac
Brown, both of whom were attacked on the
road. The dog, black Shepherd and a stran-
ger in the village. made his escape.
THE Winder hunters gave Cockeysville q
black eve last Saturday. Those who saw the
drunken mob say nothing like it was ever seen
in Baltimore county before. Let MS hope it
may never be seen again. No wonder "Hurri-
cane Branch went home in disgust.
THE new postal station at Roland Park
was opened for business few days ago. 1t is
modern affair and complete in every particu-
lar. Mrs. Maud Oldershaw is the superin-
! tendent in charge. The new station is located
at the terminus of the electric car line.
- The Presbyterian congregation at Owings
Mills has filed articles Of incorporation at the
| County Clerks Office Those named as incor-
porstors are DR.. w. H. Campbell and Messrs.
ILo. H. Michael. Edward g. Knatz George s.
Byerly, F. B. Crawford and W. B. Smith.
- A rumor was circulated this week that the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has changed
its,plans regarding the freight cut of, lines for
which have been run from Timonium north
and east of Towson. 1t is said the plan now is
to go around the city by some other course.
= MIR. William Bryan, who lately sold his
mill property at Rockland, on the Falls road,
will sell his personal property on Wednesday,
| April 4th and retire. See advertisement in THE
UNION today. Mr.. Bryan has led an active
business life and will enjoy well earned rest.
- The milk special Will De run over the
| Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad on Friday
| and Saturday, March 22d and oath, and over
| the Western Maryland on the following Mon
dsy and Tuesday. The Northern Central Rail-
road declined to furnish a train for this pur-
| pose.
- This was the subject discussed a few days
ago at a meeting of the Lowell Literary So
| ciety of the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute:
Resolved, The system of vertical writing now
in vogue in the public schools should be aboi-
ished." The decision was in favor OF the affir-
NATIVE.
- Mr.. William Lanahan, whose beautiful
country place is situated on Bell0na avenue,
| near Charles street avenue had an addition
built to his barn the past winter that cost 81 600.
| The work was done by Mr.. Lawrence Gran
ston, who has also been doing other work on
| the place.
- The Monkton firm of Norris & Burk
| having been dissolved by the death of Mr..
Frank C. Norris, notice is given in TIE UNION
today that Mr.. John F. Burk will continue the
! business in bis own Eame, he having assumed
the liabilities of the old firm and will collect
the debts due it.
"A bill was introduced in the House of
Delegates on Thursday to incorporate the
| Farmers and Merchants Savings and Trust
Company Of Baltimore County, with capital
Tstock of S250,000. Messrs. Jacob Parr and
Lawrence B. McCabe, of Govanstown, are
named among the incorporators.
>Towson Lodge of Elks has now nearly
| 100 members and is receiving accessions at
every meeting. There were three mutations
| IT the meeting on Tuesday night and there are
/on file about fifteen applications for member
| ship. The lodge was established seven years
ago and has met with extraordinary success.
~ large part of the population of Balti-
| more county has became nauseated with the
| Winder stuff that has been crowding the
columns of the daily papers for over a week.
| If there ever was case overdone by the city
papers it has been this one and scores of intel
| ligent persons have been heard to express dis
| gust.
general manager of the Mt. Washington Elec-
trc Light and Power Company, says that on
| the 1st of May next his company will adopt the
F~day and night service for lighting and power.
This will be an important move and will prove
very satisfactory to the patrons. Of the COM
pany.
- Mr.. E. Stanley Gary and Mr.. David A.
Clark, both well known gentlemen, were ar
restedyin Baltimore on Wednesday on the
charge of driving their automobiles faster than
aJnnile in ten minutes. Both plead guilty and
h<~ere fined S1.70. Mr.. Gary said it was i'm
| possible TO go at the rate of speed allowed by
| the law.
"A man who said his name is Philip
Burns and that his home was in Boston. was
| up before Justice Goldman, in Baltimore, on
! Tuesday, on the charge of vagrancy. Upon
| being sentenced to two months in the House
| of Correction he said II would like to go to
the Baltimore county jail" So our fame seems
! to be spreading.
> The unusually heavy sleet of this week
did considerable damage to fruit and ornamen-
| tai trees in the county. The weight of ice
| caused large oak tree at Hartford and Erd-
man avenues to fall. In its decent it struck
/ passing electric car and George Johnson, the
motorman was severely cut by broken glass.
| The passengers escaped injury.
- Mt Zion Lodge of Odd Fellows at Pixies
vile, ons~of the Oldest lodges of the order in
the csdnty, is making preliminary arrange
medfs to erect a new and commodiOus hall.
Among those on the building committee are
Messrs. Arthur Chenoweth, John G. Bell, 81.
| A. Davis. John Cowen, William Chenoweth,
Walter Brooks and Philip Watts.
THE congregation now worshiping in
time ago bought an ellgibly located lot on
West Allegany avenue upon which to erect
new church, will soon begin operations with
that end in view. The new edi6ce will be
within two squares of Trinity Church and near
the residence of DIR. H. s. Jarrett.
An old adage says ut is an i'll wind
| that blows good to no One." Ifit had not been
| for the high wind of last Saturday Towson
would not have a new high school building
at least not for some time to come. Now we
will have one within a year, thanks to the
| Board at its special meeting on Monday.
- Monday and Tuesday last was the ami
versary of the great March blizzard of 1888,
when the Lee Building in Towson was burned
and with it the entire plant of THE UNION. At
| that time railroad and other traffic was blocked
| for several days. and Towson's mails were en-
I~tirely cut off, The snow storm of Tuesday of
this week was a gentle reminder of that MEM
orable event.
- Several hundred people came by electric
cars to Towson last Sunday afternoon 10 see
| the Jail that Winder escaped from. They stood
| about the building in droves and gazed with
opened mouthed wonder at the window from
which the condemned murderer jumped to the
ground The morbid curiosity of a certain
class of American people is something that
cannot be explained.
->Some unusually smart individual started
the story that if Winder was not re-captured
until after March Both, (the day his execution
| was to take place., he could not be hanged.
The Governor promptly settled this by saying
Efhat if Winder was not caught before March
1 Both il would be an easy matter to reprieve
| him from time to time until he is. Winder
will surely hang-if he is caught
1.-THE B. & 0. surveying corps that has
been located at P E. Soth's Hotel, Perry Hall,
for some weeks has temporarily removed else
where 1t is said the line that it has been run
ming will strike the Philadelphia Division at
or near Clayton, Hartford county. The other
end of the line is at Sykesville, Md, and if the
new freight route is built it will shorten the
distance to Philadelphia about 80 miles.
THE stockholders of the Towson and
| Cockavavilla Electric Railway COmDanV will