The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-01-26

Of MARYLAND and Baldwin & Baldwin, receiv-
eEs at Fiston Farm GLENCOE zoe NJ n; =. =: H.,
Thursday, January 81. by Nils P; Hammarstrom.
MIL 6th district, horses, cows, farm imple-
ments. household furniture, ETC.
brook. one a sorrel mare, sold for livery.
Monday, February 4. by John 3. Blddlson. as
signee, on the premises. two pieces Of prop
erty IN Lauraville, Hartford road.
Wednesday, February b. BY Robert Clark. on
Mrs. JosephIne Diamonds farm; half ~, mile lie
from Meredith's Ford Bridge. In Duany'e
Valley, horses. dairy cattle. wagons. farm
Thursday, February 4, by William B. Michael.
wagons. farm implements etc.
Tuesday, February 10. by James J. Lindsay,
at the Court House. tract Of timber land at
Gien-Arm, 18th district.
SAL the holidays this year, except Christ
mas fall on either Thursday or Friday
- Next Friday will be the first day Of Feb
ruary and spring will be almost within sight.
- There are still few 1907 calendars left.
Call at THE UNION Office and get one before 1t
Is too late.
4 - The Carroll County Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company paid last year SO, 42445 for
losses caused by lightning.
- Thieves have been operating along Park
Heights avenue this week. In one night three
,robberies were committed.
- Samuel Smith, while at work few days
ago on building at Halten Farms, 9Th district
fell q considerable distance and sustained
broken rib.
\ - Thursday morning was the coolest Of
1 the present winter upto thatti Thermome-
1 tiers in Towson registered as low as degrees
1 above zero.
The horses and mules in the farm teams
passing through Towson early Thursday morn
ing were white with fr0st-a sure lnolcation OF
very cold weather.
- The 'syellow birds" continue to fly back
TO The UNION Office. Another good lot Of
them .lit" here this week. Letthem continue
to flop their wings. :.
r Is your farm machinery in good condi-
ton for the spring work? It will pay to look
/ 1t over now and remedy any defects before the
busy season begins.
= - In Baltimore city in the last three weeks
I over eighty persons have been arrested Tor ex.
pect0rating on the hoors OF street cars. Let
the good work 60 on.
- Thirty members have been added to
GunpoWder Baptist Church as result OF the
protracfed meeting recently held there by the
pastor, Rev. J. A. Jones.
- Another opportunity was offered this
week to get ice and no doubt many availed
themselves of it. There may be plenty more
before the end of February.
Two persons died in Baltimore on We'd
nesday of this week-a man and woman
both Of whom had lived over century. This
Is remarkable occurrence.
Ash Wednesday, the beginning Of the
Lenten season, falls this year on the 18TH OF
February, OF about two weeks ss Garner tnan last
"a rumor was freely circulated in Towson
this week that some Of the enterprising citizens
of Sherwood, N. g. R. R.. we're about to estab-
lish an ice manufacturing plant there.
The oyster supper held three nights last
week for the benefit of Hunts NJ E Church,
Sherwood proved very successful affair not
withstanding the unfavorabe weather.
- The Smedley House property in Towson
is being advertised for sale or rent. There was
no truth in the rumor that Mr. George z.
Tracey was negotiating for the property.
The capital stock of the Elkridge Hunt
Club has been increased from $4,000 to $40,-
O00 certificate to that effect having been filed
at the County Clerks Office on Wednesday.
- The horse thieves who have been opera
ting in the lower end of York county have not
been arrested The report that one OF them
had been caught at G0vansiown Is erroneous.
4If YOU shoot rabbit 10 che closed season
you lay yourself liable to q fine of 50 and costs.
The penalty is just the same for trapping them.
Deputy game wardens should bear this in
- The Friendly Sons Of st. Patrick, of
Texas. will give an oyster supper on Friday
and Saturday nights of this week. Mr.. Joseph
p Conner is chairman of the committee OF
arrangements.
- Many farmers in this county have their
spring blowing we'll advanced because Of the
open winter we have experienced thus far. IL
is rare thing to see plows running here in the
month of January.
Two colored men living in shanty at
Dundalk, 18th district, were attacked With
smallpox few days ago. The county. police
had them sent to quarantine and then burned
their bedding. clothing. etc.
- Hundreds of Baltimore county people
very we'll know the merits of THE UNION as an
advertising medium. And these are improving
all the time because of the constantly growing
PAID circulation of the paper.
IL - .rInnt 1T Fur
have done we'll thus far in the New Year, and
in the last two or three weeks our columns
have had from ten to thirteen letters covering
the greater part of the county.
- Last weeks snow furnished an oppor-
tunity for the owners of sleighs to get the rust
| rubbed off their runners and that was about
all. The ground had no frost in it and the
l roads were soon in bad condition.
ION Monday Sheriff Elliott, as required
by law, renewed bis official bond for the Sec
ond year of his term. The penal sum is S25.-
600, and the bond is signed by his brothers,
Messrs William and Thomas Elliott.
- Four members of a Towson family were
made very sick few days ago by something
they had eaten and it was thought to have been
vegetable soup. physician had to be sum-
moned to relieve them of their sutferings.
MIR. ] Lewis Horne. who married Miss
Annie Given, formerly of Worthington Valley,
Baltimore county, died suddenly at his home,
near Williamsburg, Kansas, few days ago.
He is survived BY a widow and five children.
- The sale of the personal property on the
Walnut Hill Farm of Mr.. N. p. Hammar-
strom, northwest of Cockeysville. will take
place on Thursday next January 31st and
will be conducted by Slade q Risteau. auc-
tioneers.
-Mr. Edward E. Scott. farmer of West
ern Run Valley and an active member OF the
Junior Gunpowder Agricultural Club, raised
the past season 200 bushels of prime wheat
on 40 acres of landau average Of 30 bushels
to the acre.
Z - While shooting at his Rocky Point
farm, near Miller's Island light, last Saturday
afternoon, Mr.. Franklin Hall, of Baltimore,
killed swan that weighed % pounds. The
4 huge bird measured feet inches from tip to
ttip of its wings.
- A thief played mean trick on Mr.. VIM.
4 H. Buck, Jr., cashier of the Cockeysville Ma
| tional Bank, on Wednesday night. He stole
/ all the potatoes he could carry and then left
the cellar door open so that what he did not
take we're fr0zens w
- Nothing done yet towards the trolley
line extension from Towson TO Lutherville.
We don't want to see another month slip by
before there is a movement in this direction.
The line will be built, of course, but we want
to see beginning.
- Towson Lodge of Elks has changed its
meeting night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Meetings are held every two weeks in the fine
new home on West Pennsylvania avenue.
The lodge now has membership of 159 and is
constantly growing.
- Miss Jeanette Brown, who had been an
assistant teacher in the public school at High
landtown, has been appointed typewriter in
the office of the School Board succeeding Mr..
Albert HobIitzell. She is daughter OF Mr. E.
+. Brown, of Towson.
- Mr.. A. ID. Grafton, successful business
man and highly respected citizen of Forest Hill,
Hartford county, died on Saturday last from an
attack Of grip. He was son of the venerable
Nathan Grafton and brother of Mrs. Mary
L. Henderson. of TOWsOn.
- large delegation of representative citi
zens from the neighborhood of Gardenville
came to Towson on Thursday to urge the High.
ways Commission to widen Franklin avenue
from the Belair road to the Philadelphia road
to uniform width of 80 feet.
- The suburban town of Overlea, on the
Belair road. not yet four years old and already
has several hundred houses. Its growth j:
almost phenomenal. tits located at the termi
ms of the electric car line, with 5 cent fare tC
almost any part of Baltimore.
=. Next Saturday February 2d) will b
grounding day-a date that is always carefully
Watched BY many who think the weather ther
prevailing governs the remainder OF the win