The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-04-04

- Many of The UNIONS subscribers are
changing their addresses al this time. We
again ask that in ordering changes they will
be particular to give the old as well as the new
address. This will insure prompt attention.
Those taking out liquor licenses this
year will be obliged 10 plank down $500 each
for them. The price was doubled by the last
Legislature. The list of applicants will be
published in the county papers on the 18th of
April.
- Messrs. John E. and Abram W. Ensor
have been appointed trustees of the John Il.
Bosley estate in Western Run Valley, the
widow, Mrs. Dorcas Bosley, who is 81 years
old, being incapacitated on account OF failing
THE UNION last week broke all previous
records IN the matter of the number of new
advertisements. There were "a of them, hlling
nearly four columns, and making showing
as to variety that is rarely seen in country
| newspaper
- An act of the Legislature provides for
| the improvement of the Towson Court House.
The building has long been too cramped for
the volume of business done in it, and this Is
growing every year as the population OF the
county increases.
->The Riding and Driving Club established
| last summer by a number of Baltimore ladies
on the old Matthews property in the western
| suburbs of Towson, has been abandoned because
| the place has been Sold The club may secure
| quarters elsewhere.
THE Democrats of the House of Dele
gates, before adjournment on Monday night,
presented Mr.. CarvilIe d. Benson, of Baltimore
county, with beautiful diamond and emerald
scarfpin. Mr.. NJ. P. Kehoe, of the county dele
Cation, made the presentation speech.
- at the last meeting of the Fallston Far
mers Club Mr.. VIM. A. Harlan gave his esti.
mate of the cost of raising colt to three years.
as follows First year. $500 SECOND year,
will no doubt think this estimate high.
- Messrs Charles e. Hill, Samuel REGISTER
and Armstrong Thomas, trustees of the Joshua
REGISTER estate, have transferred the Beulah
Farm, on REGISTER avenue, south of Towson,
to Mr.. Daniel T. REGISTER. The place contains
2SS acres and the purchase price was $50, 600
Gather, proprietor of the livery and boarding
stables at Roland Park advertised three mares,
sore from city use" ordering three insertions.
On Wednesday Mr.. Gather wrote Please
stop my advertisement. Sold the mares on
Monday"
- Now is the time to clean up about your
premises and also to use the whitewash BRUSH
Wbitewash is fine disinfectant as well as a
preservative of fences and outbuildings. 1t
costs very little and it's good exercise applying
tiff you can't get an artist to do 1t for you.
Try it and see
IAN attempt was made on Friday night
of last week to wreck the new steel bridge over
the Little Gunpowder, on the B. d o. Railroad,
near Bradshaw. Fortunately the structure sus-
tanned little damage. 1t is believed that dis
charged workmen did the act, but no arrests
have been made.
AT the weekly meeting of the board of
directors OF the Towson National Bank on
Thursday it was decided to increase the direc-
torate of the bank from seven to nine members
and Messrs. Emanuel W. Herman and Ernest
G. Hatch were chosen. Both gentlemen are
young members of the bar.
- Messrs. James J. Lindsay, president, and
). Powers Smith, secretary, of the Baltimore
County Volunteer Firemen's Association, de-
livered addresses before the Forest Park Vol
unteer Company, on Wednesday night last.
There was large attendance.
The Washington Conference (colored)
M. Church, in session in Baltimore, made
the following appointments for Baltimore
county: Sparrow's Point, G. A. Davis Huls-
vile, G. j.; Johnson Chase, w. T. Harris
Hereford j. II. Jenkins Lutherville, w. M.
Brown; Reisterstown, r. r. Riggs.
- Mr.. and Mrs. Turnbull Murdoch, who
spent several summers at Towson, have pur-
chased from the Home Building Association
the property at Refs HILL on the York road,
at the entrance to Wiltondale Stock Farm, and
will make their home there 1t is likely a
number of improvements will be made
THE move to build an electric rail way
from York to Maryland Line is now in excel
lent shape and the success of the enterprise is
almost assured 1t is said it is the intention OF
the men at the head of the movement to ex-
tend the line south from Maryland Line to
COckeysville and from thence to Baltimore.
Mrs. Thos. Peerce, of Springfield Farm,
Dulany's Valley, has sold TO MIR James W.
Shea, of Lutherville, an immense yellow pop
lar tree that stands in field known as Bar
bour's Hollow. 1t is q feet in circumference
and about 20 feet to the first limb. The tree is
believed to be over 100 years old. Mr.. Shea is
now taking it down.
81 Two very young couples from Baltimore
came to TOwson together on Wednesday and,
after procuring the necessary documents from
the County Clerks office, went to the residence
of Rev. B. B. Abbitt, pastor of Calvary Bap-
fist Church, and were united in marriage 1t
is said the brides have been intimate friends
since early childhood.
- Mr. A.. G. kiingelhefer, Of Morgpntown.u
UH1oN writes as follows: II am so pleased
with the paper, and it keeps me in touch with
the doiDgs in my old home county / want to
remit my renewal to you so there will be no
probability of my losing an ISSUE" Mr.. Kiln
gelhofer is engaged in railroad construction in
West Virginia.
The volunteer fire companies of Balti-
more county promise to make things lively in
Towson on Wednesday, May 9Th, when the
first annual convention of the companies of the
county will be held. Arrangements for this
affair are being made on big scale and it is
expected that several thousand strangers will
visit the town that day. All should join in
and help the fire ladies make the thing go.
We are wondering why some thrifty per-
son does not purchase modern spraying outfit
and offer its use to the general public for a
moderate charge, says the Belair Agis 1t has
become pretty we'll established fact that fruit
without spraying is seldom profitably raised,
but with spraying it is one of the farmers
greatest possibilities Yet it is hardly feasible
for each fruit grower on a small scale to have
his own appliances We believe this would
open up an excellent opportunity for thrifty
man and that it would be very beneficial to his
customers.
Kind Words for Director Amoss-Mr.
W. F. Massey, of Pennsylvania, who engages