The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-02-01

arrived in Baltimore county, but that it will
| do so soon we have no doubt. It's trial on the
Hopes farm in Hartford has been such
marked success that there can no Longer be any
doubt about its entire practicability.
- The weather man got here with the
goods in his promised cold wave of this week.
The mercury in Towson on Thursday morning
registered from to IL degreee-according to
the location of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT was the
coolest of the winter up to that time.
- Mr. John w. Wolfe, who will remove to
his own farm at Sunnyb brook shortly, will sell
off bis surplus stock on the Furnace Farm.
Dulany's Valley turnpike, on Thursday, Feb.
ruary 10Th. He will be succeeded there on the
LIST Of March by Mr.. A. Griffith Lee.
- The Farmers League of Maryland will
hold its annual meeting at Mccoy Hall. Johns
Hopkins University Baltimore, on Wednes-
dav next 5th Instant commencing at 1230 r
N. This is a meeting solely in the interest Of
farmers and they should not neglect it.
-SA Baltimore man has applied for par
tial divorce from his wife because of her miser-
able cooking that gave him indigestion so bad
he thought he would die Ii such subterfuge
as that were allowed to stand there would not
be room on the dockets for the divorce suits.
The crows have had the time of their
lives this winter and none of them should have
died of hunger unless they were too tired to
forage There is plenty of corn still stand.
ing in shocks in the fields in this county and
we doubt if such thing was ever known before.
- On Thursday night of last week Rev.
Joseph Fletcher. of Hannah More Academy,
Reisterstown, lectured in the parish house at
Sparrow's Point on "a Visit to the Cathedrals
at England" Rev Mr. Fletcher was at one
time rector of st. Matthews Church, at The
Point.
-In Baltimore city on Monday young
woman got an award of $50 600 damages against
former lover for alleged breach of promise of
marriage The defendant did not appear at
the trial and said the matter gave him very
little trouble as he didn't expect ever to have
$4,000
MIR. d Ward King. of Maitland, Mo-.
good roads enthusiast and man of practical
yisgEs VII Pea ak IL ToEso1 On Friday ns1..
King is the originator of the split log drag for
mending dirt roads and be will tell you all
about it,
- Articles of incorporation ofthe Suburban
Realty Company were filed in the County
Clerks Office on Tuesday. The company has
a capital stock of 5000, and the incorporators
are Messrs. Henry Kolb, William j. Biddison,
Joseph B. Webster, John s. Biddison and
Frank A. Back
Col. d. NJ. Matthews, having rented bis
Brook wood Farm. in Dulany's Valley, will
sell all his personal property thereon, on Tues.
day, February 25th Col. Matthews has own
ed and conducted this fine farm many years
and no doubt he gives it up to another with
much reluctance.
- Mr. William L. Amoss, director of Far
mers' Institutes in Mary land, has arranged for
son. Thursday and Friday. February 9Th and
7th, and in the hall at Grange. Patapsco Neck.
Saturday. February 9Th. The hours will be
from 10 A. N. to ?. NJ.
- Mr.. Henry A. Brehm has purchased from
Mr.. Wilton Greenway, of Wiltondale Stock
Farm. near TOwson. the trotting mare Ethel
Woodford, record 2.24&. She is by Pilot Me-
dium, dam, Miss Woodford 2.094. Ethel
WoodfOrd has been sent to Mr.. Brehm's stock
farm, near Havre de-Grace.
A ortr.0 nd f1fno Nrndf in fho
Towson National Bank few days ago. A man
came in opened savings account and deposited
$40. When his bank book was numbered it.
was found to be 240. The account was opened
on the oath of the month, and the ledger folio
where it was placed was "a.
- The bad behavior of some of the colored
people who ride on the late Cars of the York
road trolley line is nuisance that should be
checked. Often white passengers are subjected
to indignities that are almost intolerable, and
yet the conductors seem to pay little If any at
tention to the bad behavior.
- Doric Masonic Lodge, of Baltimore, hav-
ing been deprived OF its usual meeting place
by the burning of the Masonic Temple on
North Charles street, held its regular COM
municatiOO on Tuesday night in the Masonic
Hall in Towson, the use of the same having
been rendered by Mt Moriah Lodge.
-One of Baltimore county's most intelli.
gent and progressive farmers who has an only
son, was asked this week what be intended to
farmer, of course" following up the remark
with the assertion that the boy had no wish to
be anything else than a tiller of the soil.
Paul E. Kolk, a builder living at Orange
vile, on the Philadelphia road attempted to
commit suicide in Baltimore on Monday by
swallowing a quantity of strychnine. The
doctors at the City Hospital said he took
enough of the poison to kill three horses.
Dependency is said to have been the cause.
Those who have fruit trees affected by San
Ii. 1<.ft1 ns.A
not fail to avail themselves of the offer made
by Prof Symons in The UNION last week. To
get rid of the dangerous pests at 30 small an
Guilty Sh9ld be = insse t To-
- The Fullerton Permanent Loan AssOcia-
ton will hold its annual election at Fullerton,
Belair road on Thursday evening, February
9th. This has been one of the most prosperous
associations of the kind in the county and Mr..
Alex Mccormick has been its president, and
MIR. Charles Brockmeyer its secretary since its
organization.
- The talk of charging and improving the
Court House is still heard and the necessary
legislation should be procured at the present
session. 1t is said the County Commissioners
favor the Improvement and think the work
should be done under the supervision of COM
mission of which one member of the Board
should be member
"a Reader" takes up question asked
in this department Of TIE UNION last week and
answers it in way that will put the residents
of the town to thinking, if they are not al
ready doing it. That be is in measure right
in bis deductions we have no doubt. 1t don't
seem to be fashionable to arrest any one for
petty thefts in Towson.
- Somebody has been stirring up State
Game Warden Oregon Milton Dennis. and he
makes sharp reply to his critics through the
Baltimore papers. Mr. Dennis is no doubt an
excellent official, but there are some deputies
under him that should be given ticket of
leave. Heis not responsible for these, however,
as be does not appoint them.
- Last Saturday, January 25th, was the
thirtieth anniversary of the great fire in Tow
son that destroyed the entire block west of the
turnpike and north of Pennsylvania avenue
the only building left standing being the old
stone toll gate house that stood on the site of
the present Lee Building. Then all the build
ings we're of frame construction except the Odd
Fellows Hall and the Shealey Building.
- The legislative committee of the Mary
land State Firemens Association will go to
Annapolis on Wednesday, February 18th, to
urge upon the Legislature the importance of
increasing the State appropriation from 81 900
TO SO 900 for the benefit of the families of vol
unteer firemen who may lose their lives while
engaged in extinguishing fires. The commit
tee, of which Mr.. James J. Lindsay, of Towson,
is chairman, has sixty members.
- The public sale season is beginning to
open up and if you wish to know where and
when these sales will take place you must con-
suit the advertising columns of THE UNION.
Wideawake people these days know that il
they expect to have successful sale they must
advertise it in a widely circulated newspaper.
Posters are all right in their way, but they
don't reach the people like an advertisement in
THE UNION. This has been proven scores of
times over.
Md. & Pa. Railroad Stockholders Hold
Annual Meeting-Business Growing.-At
the annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Mary land and Pennsylvania Railroad, held in
Baltimore on Tuesday, the following were re-
elected directors for the ensuing year. George
G. Jenkins, w. w Spence, Alexander Brown,