The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-03-16

Third street, Highlandtown.
Tuesday, April 2, by Valentine Diller, on the, the
premises, the property known as Dlllers
Park, on the BeIair road.
Wednesday. April 3. by L. and n. scnennlng, on
the Ortel farm, German Hill road. 18th dis
trict, horses, dairy stock and fixtures, hogs,
wagons, farm implements, nay. straw, etc.
Tuesday, April 9. by John F. Centrum, attorney:
ETC., at the Court House door, Two tracts OF
land near Parkville, Hartford road.
Adolphus +. Perot, of Baltimore county,
has been granted his discharge IN bankruptcy.
The price of eggs is gradually declining,
but it may take turn the other way as Easter
- We enjoyed a real spring temperature
on Thursday of this week with Thermometers
marking 20 degrees.
The late Mrs Louisa NJ. Este, mother of
Mrs William A. Fisher. of Ruxton, left an
estate appraised at S76.975 80.
- The Baltimore Annual Conference of the
NJ E. Church will meet this year at Cumber-
land on Wednesday, April 3d..
- Todav-Saturday, March 16th-the sun
rises at IS minutes after and sets IL minutes
after g. The days are rapidly lengtheping.
IAN interment was made in Prospect
Hill Cemetery, Towson, this week, the body
being encased in solid mahogany casket.
MIR. Clarence r. Marchant, OF Roland
Park, has been drawn to serve as petit juror
at the present term of the U 8. District Court.
The Circuit Court room in the Court
House has been lighted with electricty-an
. Last Sundays snowfall covered the earth
Il to the depth of about 7inches. Some wiseacres
say we are to have six more SHOWS before the
winter ends.
= Last week we made orr 9Th district cor
respondent (O) say that sugar" factory had
been started at Glen Rock 1t should have
read cigar factory.
- Jesse Leathery, cattle dealer who was
well known in York, Hartford and Baltimore
counties, died of consumption in York hos
pital few days ago.
> Mr.. Joseph T. Fulker has been appointed
postmaster at Phoenix Baltimore county, vice
Mr. Noah Seitz. resigned. Mr.. Fulker keeps
the store at Phoenix.
THE UNION is indebted to Mr.. Charles J.
Fox chief of the Bureau of Statistics and In
formation of Maryland, for copy of his fif-
tenth annual report.
1.-The regular monthly meeting of the Bal
timore County Medical Association will be held
in the Guild House at Towson, on Thursday,
March 21st, at 2 P. NJ.
The Riggs National Bank, of Washing
ton, ID. e., has been approved by the Treasury
Department as q reserve agent for the National
Bank of Cockeysville.
"A fine new organ is being installed at st.
Marks Catholic Church. Gainesville. 1t is
modern pneumatic pipe instrument III hand
some quartered oak case.
= . IL is expected that the new R. F. D. route
i going north and northeast from Towson will
90 into effect on Monday, April 1st Mr.. ]. I.
Peterson will be the carrier.
ut seems that nearly everybody is COM
planning of some form of cold just now. The
malady appears to be more prevalent than at
any time during the winter.
Sister Mary Paul Connell, of Mount st.
Agnes College, Mt Washington, inherits one
sixth of an estate valued at SlSO,OOO, left by
deceased uncle of Norfolk, Va.
- Hudson Bateman, an ex-clerk to the Har-
ford County Commissioners, tried at Belair
upon the charge of embezzling county funds,
was acquitted by jury on Tuesday.
- The Junior Auxiliary of Trinity Church,
Towson, will have sale of fancy articles,
cake, candy and ice cream in the chapel, on
Saturday, March 10th, from to 10 P. NJ.
- More of the 'canaries" found their way
back to THE UNION office this week. And they
are all in a good state of preservation, showing
that they have been carefully looked after.
John Day and George Cox have been
4 placed ia charge of the railroad gate over the
Z turnpike at Cockeysville. The working of the
/ gates from the tower has been abandoned.
- During the coming spring and summer
eight or ten cottages will be erected at the Mary
land School for Boys, near Loeb Raven. a
I large barn will also be erected on the farm.
->Some of THE UNIONS local correspon-
dents send in their letters as early as Monday.
That is as much too soon as some are too late.
Friends, can't you strike happy medium?
- Rayville Lodge, K. of p, will give an
oyster supper in the hall al that place, on Fri
day and Saturday evenings March 10Th and
30th, to which general invitation is extended.
~. VIM. Phipps, garbage remover for
( Towson, was out with his drags twice last Sun
! day and kept the sidewalks open so that pedes
trians could get about with some degree o: conf
fort.
) 1.-The outlook for early spring work among
farmers is by no means good. 1t is very fortu-
nate for many of them that they were able to
get lot of blowing done last fall and early
winter.
- Additional rural free delivery service will
be established at Fallston, Md. d Pa. Railroad,
on the 10th of May next The length of the
route is 26.7 miles, serving 116 families of 4S0
persons.
Next Sunday will be st. Patrick's Day
and that ought to be sufficient to insure another
"bad" Sunday. But we have had SO many of
these letely that we have grown almost used
to them.
- Annie E. Shelter has been appointed post
master at Ecolestun, Baltimore county, sue
ceeding Laura McGonnagill, resigned. The
Office is located at Eccleston Station, Green
Spring Valley.
80 At Sacred Heart Church, Canton, last
Sunday afternoon, Cardinal Gibbons confirmed
class of 800 persons-43 adults and 277 chill
dren. This was the largest class ever confirmed
in that church.
The ladies of Waugh Church, Green
wood, will give musical and literary enter
tainment in the hall at Glenarm, on Tuesday
evening, March Goth. The proceeds will be
devoted to good cause.
The roads will have hard time this
spring to recover from the freezing and thaw-
ing and heavy SHOWS. Hauling on them when
they are in their present condition should be
avoided as much as possible
MIR. Theodore Clayton, of Summerfeld,
was painfully hurt by few days ago by fall
ing while assisting in the removal OF some
furniture from his home. A fractured rib or
two has caused him much pain.
Next Thursday, March 2lst, will be the
first day of spring, and its advent will be well
coined by many in the hope of relief from the
rather strenuous weather that we have ex-
perienced for nearly two months.
1.-THE grand jury for the March term OF
the Circuit Court adjourned finally on Friday,
18th instant. The jurors gave dinner at
Bosley's Hotel on Thursday and had as guests
the Judges and other court officials.
- The States Hotel Company is now erect
ing hotel at Piney Beach. near the James.
town Exposition grounds. 1t is said that Mr.
r. E. McCleary, formerly of Towson, will
manage the hotel for the company.
"A number of Baltimore county farmers
are retiring from the business this year, but
there are others coming along to take theiI
places There are plenty OF tillers OF the soil
THE Central Pennsylvania Evangelical
Conference, in session at Carlisle, Pa, tins
week, made the following appointments fol
Baltimore county churches: Hebbville-Rev
I. ii. Turner; Alberton-Rev. j. Hartzler.
-Dr. Edward B. Matthews on Monday
night delivered highly entertaining lecture
before the Maryland Historical Society on ',Iht
Mason and Dixon Line"-the line which i
supposed to divide the North and the South.
- The snug little truck farm OF the late
John Zubach on the old Court road, about ont
mile from PikesviIle Station, W. NJ. r. R., was
offered at public sale on Thursday and with
drawn IN hid IF 50 600 II contains acres