The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-07-14

-sThe United Railways Company did q
rily raising the pay Of the conductors and mo-
tormen. The men are classified according to
time of service and the increase amounts to
about 81 cents per hour.
1.-THE Riggs road case was interrupted this
week on account of the sudden illness OF one
of the jurors, Mr.. Samuel w. Burton, and it
had to be postponed until Wednesday next
Judge Van Bibber admonished the jurors not
to discuss the case with anyone.
The County Commissioners have ordered
telephones installed in the railway waiting
rooms along Park Heights avenue in order to
afford the police better facilities for capturing
violators OF the automobile speed law. Special
Officer Noah Walker will be in charge.
- Last year the Maryland Steel Company
imported 6S1 900 tons of ore for use at its Spar
rows Point works. The company finds it
cheaper to do this than to bring it from the
Lake regions. Nearly all this ore comes from
Cuba, where the cost of mining is very small:
~ -)Flies are even harder on horses than the
heat and the animals should be protected
against the pests as much as possible. Bob
tailed horses especially should be covered with
q thin sheet while standing, as they have been
Ndeprived OF their natural means of protection.
->Postmaster Harris announced on We'd
nesday that Mr. Joseph g. Hoffman has been
appointed clerk in charge Of Station K at Spar
rows Point to succeed John +. Cochran, who
died recently. The appointee was. formerly
assistant at the station of which he is now the
head.
"A gentleman who enjoyed long drive
through sections of Baltimore county few
| days ago says he never before heard so many
bobwhites, and he concludes that the partridge
family will be very large this year. The cheer
fol note Of these pretty birds is very pleasant
| to the ear.
IA young woman who secured divorce
| from her husband in Baltimore on Wednes-
day. testified that she was married in Towson
in 1902 by Rev. Joseph b. Stitt and that she
I and her husband never lived together. The
| late Rev. Mr.. Stitt was not resident Of Tow
son in 1902.
MIR. Michael j. Lindsay, of Texas, Balti-
more county, and Mrs. Blanche A. G. Wells,
Gainesville, have been appointed by MI. Charles
j. Fox, chief of the Bureau of Statistics and
Information, inspectors as prescribed by the
Child Labor law passed at the last session OF
the Legislature.
while driving in the 10th district few
days ago Towson gentleman saw woman
who is Sc years of age. He says she is quite
spry looking and he had no idea she had
reached nearly the century mark. The 10th
district is healthy place and the residents live
to good old ages.
- In the last two or three weeks the popu-
lation of Baltimore county has been increased
by several thousand on account of the influx
of city people for the summer months. These
good folks annually spend large sums of money
and in many ways aid materially in social
and business way.
MIR. John Ridgely, of Hampton, raised
an immense crop of wheat this season, the
average for the entire farm having been about
rs bushels to the acre. Two six-mule teams
have been engaged for week hauling the
grain to Baltimore, where it has been bringing
rs cents per bushel.
1.-THE ladies of the Church of the Immacu-
late, Towson, are arranging to hold lawn fete
on the evenings of July Both and 3lst and Au-
gust LIST. The affair will be in charge of Mrs.
N Charles ka Me- Tindoou nv
James Kelley, Mrs. J. G. Perkins, the Misses
Ady and Miss Rose Stack.
IAN adjourned meeting of the Baltimore
Presbytery will be held in the Presbyterian
Church at Gainesville, on Monday next, at P.
NJ, when Mr.. E. A. Odell will be ordained to
the ministry. Rev. John Dixon d. D., secre-
tary of the Board of Home Missions, New York
city, will preach the sermon.
Son Tuesday a petition was filed by the
stockholders of the Gunpowder Lumber Com
pany in the Circuit Court here asking that the
company he dissolved, as it has stopped bust
ness. Attorney John Mays Little was APP
pointed receiver of the company for the pur-
poseiof winding up its affairs.
= Mr.. William E. Peerce. of Dulany's Val
ley, has Barred Plymouth Rock hen bradley
strain) Matched in 1905, that has brood of
chicks three weeks old. This hen has been
laying for four successive days, an egg being
found in her coop with her chicks every morn
ing. This is something very unusual;
bench show which will be feature Of this
years Timonium Fair. Money prizes will be
given and there will be number of specials
for specially meritorious dogs. The show will
be in charge of DR.. Stuart Cassard and Messrs.
George P. Wier and Matthew 8. Tyson.
MIR. George Fisher and son, of Cations
vile, while driving Wednesday evening along
the Rolling road, in the 1st district. discovered
a small deer near Glenwild, the estate of the
late Mr.. Appold. The animal, on seeing the
do of.,l 1aok
the fields and disappeared in the woods.
1.-THE rural free delivery routes in Carroll
county are now being rearranged by the de-
partment and the people are much stirred up
for fear that the change will make no end Of
trouble. But this is what the department APP
pears to be after these days-make all the
trouble it can for the patrons of the postofices.
- On Thursday delegation composed Of
Messrs: John I. Grace. John W. Sparks and
Harry F.. Hopkins called on the Highways
Mr.. George Grace, keeper of Bear Creek draw
bridge, be increased. After some discussion
the Board arranged matters satisfactory to the
delegation.
> At the meeting of the Hagerstown Fair
Association ON Wednesday it was decided to
join an organization to be composed of the fair
associations now comprising the Maryland and
Virginia racing circuit There are now ten
associations in the organization. Mr.. Henry
A. Brehm is president and Mr.. John F. Ander-
son, secretary.
AN aged sharper, who was in Towson
several months ago, but who failed to raise any
money here, has evidently been meeting with
better success up in Connecticut and several
drafts from him on Baltimore banking houses
have lately been received. His method of pro.
ceeding is exactly the same as he tried here.
This old scamp has dozen aliases and calls
himself COL Somebodyorother.
- Mr.. John lyric, stoneworker of Jockeys.
vile, is erecting in Prospect Hill Cemetery,
Towson, for Mr.. Arthur L. Bosley, of Balti-
more, handsome granite monument to the
memory of DR.. Grafton M. Bosey and wife
and other members of Mr.. Bosley's family.
The bodies were transferred several months
ago from the old family burial ground, on
West Joppa road, to Prospect Hill.
O
Summer Schools for Farmers.-A cores
pondent writes as follows to the Baltimore
american: Reports received here state that
farmers school is to be held next month at
the Maryland Agricultural College and at
which all the farmers in Maryland will be given
Of agriculture. This is splendid idea and
specials that were made for didactic purposes
and the results of which were decidedly bene-
fetal beyond the shadow of doubt. But there
is one thing that detracts from the probable
success of the present plan for summer agri-
cultural school, and that is that every farmer
in the state will not be able to take the courses
offered even If he wants to, simply because
they will not be able to travel to College Park
at the time required for their attendance They
are greatly hampered in this respect. The
milk snpnial went direct IN the hnn1oq 0f th0qa