The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-03-30

WooupRulue avenue ana sankIO AtS 1esA :,
mud. i was necessary to call the assistanc,
Of the Govanstown Fire Department to extii
Douglas q. Powers. Of Towson, who hat
| q leg broken two weeks ago by ball from !.
catrife, isgetting along very well at the Churci
Home and Infrmary in Baltimore. 1t
thought he will be able to go about on crutche
/ in another week.
->Mr. Howard F. Smith, who bought th'
| property of Mr.. Frank B. Boarman, at Noun
Vista, Hartford road, will open general country
store there. Mr.. Boarman, who bought thu
Hotel Towson, will take charge here abou
Wednesday next.
Perhaps not many people know tha
Lutherville has very prosperous business en-
| terprise in the way Of keg manufacturing
establishment conducted by Messrs. G. Weis
brod & Sons. The product of the factory goeE
| all over the country.
- Edward Bowersox, of North Branch
I'd district had an arm badly crushed on Mon
day last by being run over by wagon that be
was driving on the turnpike near Pikesville
The accident was caused by the team taking
fright and running away.
1.-THE finances of Hereford Circuit have
been fully adjusted for the past year. The
total raised for ministerial support was 81, $50
and for benevolences $3.50. Monkton Circuit
also closed the year in most satisfactory man.
ner as to its finances, etc.
Residents of the neighborhood of Cations
past week and, worst Of all, the suspected ami
NAL escaped. 1t bit dog and a cow belonging
TO Mr.. Joshua Proctor and other dogs are be-
lieved to have been bitten.
->The regular monthly meeting of the
Neighborhood improvement Club of Govans-
day. April I'd. at 8 P. NJ. Miss La Motto and
DR.. II. @. Hess will speak on 1.-THE Causes and
Prevention of Tuberculosis"
-Many improvements are either under
way or in contemplation in Towson, and the
season promises to be brisk one for mechan-
all kinds continue high in price has put no
check to building operations.
->The Pacific Club, for social purposes was
organized at Canton on Wednesday night. A
thousand dollars will be expended in fitting it
up. Mr.. Charles F. Smith is president of the
club and Mr. Ernest Herr. secretary.
THE first experiment of bringing foreign
ers to Maryland to work on farms has, it seems,
proven failure. The Greeks landed in Bal
are demanding 81 a day for their services.
And they can't speak word of Engnsh.
1.-THE congregation of Ebenezer M. E.
Church, at meeting last Sunday, decided to
withdraw from Great Falls Circuit and will
ask the coming conference to make it a sepa-
rate appointment with resident pastor. 1t is
said some members oppose the movement.
1.-THE Beulah estate of the late Joshua
REGISTER, situated on REGISTER avenue, south of
Towson, will shortly be offered at public sale
by the trustees, Messrs. Armstrong Thomas,
Samuel REGISTER and Charles E. Hill. 1t is an
eligibly located and very desirable property.
THE Riding Club that has taken the old
Matthews property, in the western suburbs of
Towson, has made number of Improvements
and will formally open the house with tea
on Easter Monday. Mrs. George Blackstone
is president of the club and Miss Jean Clark,
secretary.
Two Towson men drove long distance,
spent an entire day trout fishing and caught
one fish. They returned late in the evening
very blue and leg-weary and with poor opin-
ion of that kind of sport, Evidently some ex.
pert had been in that branch before they
tackled it.
-sThe editor of the Ellicott City Times
(Col. William s. Powell) asks the ladies of
Baltimore county to compete in the coming
Ellicott City Chicken Show for q beautiful
china breakfast set Of 81 pieces for the best trio
of chickens Il cockerel and pullets) of any
breed, of their own raising.
- Representatives of the Consolidated Gas
Company have secured the consent of upwards
of one hundred householders to use gas if the
company's main is extended from Govanstown
to TowsOn. The company requires 240 pledges.
1t is likely that many others will consent if
they could be seen by the agents.
- The Misses Matthews, who have been
occupying their snug little home on the York
turnpike, near Philopolis, for a quarter of a
century, are now offering it at private sale by
two of them left. The place is only about half
a mile from Sparks Station, N. @. r. R.
"a few years ago man bought small
truck farm on the Belair road, about mile
beyond the present terminus of the trolley line
for which he paid $110 an acre. Today he
would not take $500 an acre for it. This gives
some idea of how property in that section of
the county has advanced in price recently.
- The time for the filing at the County
Clerks Office of applications for yearly licenses
to sell liquor in Baltimore county will close at
IL O'Clock on Monday night next, April LIST.
The list of applicants, which will be published
in THE UNION next week, will be larger this
year than ever and will probably contain about
400 names.
- Maryland Day was generally observed
last Monday by the public schools of Balti-
more county and the special exercises were
d. Worthington, of Belair, an ex-school ex-
aminer of Hartford county, made an address at
the Towson High School on the early history
of Maryland.
We hear of q man who eats eight soft
boiled eggs for his breakfast every day, with
other things that go along with them. Also.
of another who drinks nine large cups of coffee
every day-three at each meal-and don't feel
well if he fails to get them. There is no ac-
counting for taste, as the old woman said when
she kissed the COW.
- The Towson Volunteer Fire Company, at
a meeting Tuesday night, adopted a constitu-
ton and bylaws. A circular letter will be
addressed to the residents of the town asking
them to assist the company. The company,
which now has a membership of 80. will hold
meetings the second and fourth Tuesday even
ings of each month.
Zone item which appears in the quarterly
statement of the Cockeysville National Bank.
published in THE UNION today, is this UNITED
States deposits, So, 000." This items has never
appeared in the statement before and means
that the bank has been made depository of the
U. =. Government a distinction not enjoyed by
many similar institutions.
Communion service will be held at st.
Johns Lutheran Church, Parkville, on Easter
Sunday morning and on the following Sunday
services will be conducted in German. The
Easter Sunday at 7.45 P. M, to commemorate
their confirmation. All will be welcome. Rev.
A. G. Ernest is pastor of st. Johns.
deputy State Game Warden Harry NAL
colin will receive next Monday 5000 young
trout from the State hatchery in Western
Maryland and will place them in stream that
heads on the Cowpens Farm of Mr.. Frederick
Won KapH and passes on to the GuDpowder
through the farms of Messrs. ID. II. Rice,
Arthur W. Shanklin and Thomas r. Jenifer.
.->As. will be seen BY notice 10 the adver-
Using columns of The UNION today Messrs.
John W. Hall and William P. Hail. of Balti-
more, have become special partners in the
Towson firm of T. A. B. Dukehart & Co., Mr..
Dukehart being the general partner. The new
company succeeds to the business of the Tow
son Horse Company. Mr.. Thomas G.. Steven
son. who was a member of the old company,
retires.
1.-THE old man who has been going up and
down the York turnpike through Towson
every spring and fall for more than twenty
years, went through on his trip north last
Thursday afternoon, leading dog by string
and having several bundles slung from a stout
stick across his shoulder. Where he halls from
and whittier he is bound no one has ever been
able to ascertain as'the old man is very secre-
tive and not disposed to converse with anyone.
ION the 9Th of February Baltimore lady
lost valuable fur neckpiece in going from
Towson to Hampton. She advertised it in the
Baltimore papers without any result. Then
she tried the advertising columns of THE
UNION. offering SIS reward for the return to
this Office of the lost article. On Wednesday
morning the finder brought back the fur and
got the money. Comment is unnecessary.
The finder of the fur was Mr.. ]. N. McClung,
who rents the Windsor Farm, in Dulany's
Valley.
The Spirit Picture Saved.-With the
burning Of the Dalcour mansion, near Ellicott
City, Thursday evening, March 2lst, there
were also destroyed many valuable heirlooms