The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-12

| the building of fine large CatholIc Cnurcn
Mt. Washington. to take the place OF the pres
emit old church, which is known ss Sacre'
Heart. A fair will shortly be held to turtle
this object.
- The dairymen of Maryland will bold al
important meeting in Mccoy Hall. Johns Hop
kins University. on Tuesday next, Decembe
18th, commencing at 10 A. NJ. full program
of the meeting is published elsewhere in TIL
- Inst think of this The New Jersey
Automobile Club has expelled one of its mos
prominent members for reckless driving. Th'
membership of the Maryland Club will be very
much reduced when 1t begins to take scuor
along the same lines.
- The responses to the "canaries" thai
went ont with last weeks issue of THE UNION
have been most generous and every mail thai
arrives brings more of them. Such prompt
ness is most gratifying to the publishers. Lei
the good work keep up.
= A member Of the Towson bar is minus
an overcoat that. presumably, somebody took
BY mistake at the Elks' memorial service last
Sunday afternoon. The coat left behind does
not please him so well as his own and he'd be
delighted to trade" back.
MIR. Norman Stump, of Green Spring
Valley, added sample Of bis corn to the Tow
son display of Massenburg & Son this week;
It is of the Branamburg variety and some OF
the ears are of unusual length The average
yield was II bbls. to the acre.
- One of THE UNIoN's subscribers has sent
us a .pome" dedicated to the .'canaries" and
innocently says: You can publish it if you
want to-" But we don't want to. 1t might
lead to the shedding of human gore, and we
prefer to preserve our anatomy in its present
form.
The Prohibition candidate for Congress
in the Fifth district at the late election was
Mr. Samuel w. James and be had a campaign
fund of g. He didn't "let himself out" very
much and the result was be saved 90 cents of
that fund. What shining example is this
Mr.. James
THE county police were very busy among
the Sunday liquor sellers last Sunday and sew
eral arrests were made. 1t does seem to be
next to impossible to break up such violations
of the law. Most, If not all, of these Sunday
sellers are foreigners and they have no respect
for our Sabbath.
Applications for the drawings for the ad-
ditional wings for the Court House at Towson
must be flied at the Baltimore office OF Messrs.
Baldwin & Pennington, architects, on or before
noon on Tuesday, December 10Th. For full
particulars relating to the same see advertising
columns of THE UNION today.
- The proposed Improvements to the Tow
son Court House will include two two story
wings to the present buildings, so by Sc feet,
built of the same material as the present struc
ture, with marble trimmings. The appropria-
ton for the work is $50, 900, but it is said this
will prove insufficient to complete the job.
The jury in the case of Miss Marcia E.
Brady, of Green Spring Valley, who sued Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Buck for $4,000 damages for
dog bite, returned verdict for the plaintiff
for 81 600. The attorneys for the defense made
a motion for a new trial Messrs u Howard
Isaac and w. Gill Smith represented Miss
Brady.
= Mr.. John B. Wonderly, who for many
years was engaged in the crOckery and china
ware business on North Gay street, died sud-
In f u hoTr fT,R olf Onf no inst
aged 65 years His father, William Wonderly,
established the business, and was known to
hundreds of Baltimore county people, as was
also the son
- When one sees the money that goes into
Christmas presents one is constrained to won
der where it all comes from. Judging from
appearances there is no scarcity of cash and
this fact appears to be making glad the hearts
of the shOpkeepers. Their harvest is now on
and they are making the best of it in every
possible way.
- Many persons renewing their subscrip.
tions to THE UNION seem to have good deal
of fun about the "canaries." Some call them
"redbirds,'' some "bluebirds," etc. but they
can't get away from the fact that while they
don't sing they have mighty "pursuadin"
way about them. Now you're all ready to adj
NIT that, amt your
THE body OF Mrs. Lilly K. Fitzhugh,
who died at Alameda, CAL, about a week
before, arrived in Washington on Tuesday
night. Mr.. and Mrs. William s. Keech, of
Towson, attended the funeral, which took
place Wednesday afternoon at Beltsville, Nd.
Mrs. Fitzhugh was twin sister Of Mrs Rose
Keech. formerly of Towson.
- Mr.. Laban Sparks, administrator of the
estate of the late Henry d. Perky, this week
sent out checks to the creditors of 10 per cent.
of the claims filed in the Orphans Court. Mr..
Sparks says the amount of the next dividend
will depend upon the amount the administra-
tor may receive from the receivers of the
Filston Farm when the receivership is finally
closed.
- Last week The UNION contained an item
about a serious loss of fine sheep that Mr..
William B. Cockey, of Garrison Farm, had
sustained through worthless dogs. Is there
any law to reimburse farmer for losses
in bis flock from this cause? The Baltimore
county sheep raiser has serious difficulties to
face and, apparently, no one seems to appre-
ciate his position.
- Mr. Daniel Welsh, veteran of the Civil
War, who makes his home in Towson, walked
in front of the buggy of Mr.. John w. Hall, on
one of the principal streets of the town about
dusk on Wednesday evening, and was knocked
down and painfully hurt. Mr.. Hall said
afterward that the accident was unavoidable.
He did what he could to have the old man
properly cared for.
- The Junior Gunpowder Agricultural Club
held its regular monthly meeting last Satur-
T..
near Oregon, Sth district, with Mr.. II. Amos
Matthews as foreman. Messrs. e. Cuttings
Merryman and Lewis M. Bacon represented
the Senior Club. Mr.. Matthews, who is noted
for raising large crops, this season produced Is
barrels of corn to the acre.
Mrs. Catharine Cockey, wife of Mr..
Stirling I COckev, of Baltimore was instantly
killed last Sunday morning by jumping from
q buggy in which she was riding near Zoucks-
vile, Baltimore county, with Mrs. William
Burke. broken bride bit caused the horses
to run away. Mrs. Burke remained in the
buggy ard was not hurt. Mr. Cockey, hus
baud of the unfortunate woman, is a son of
the late Charles 0. Cockey, of Timonium.
- We stated last week that Mr.. j. Dixon
O'Dell, Towson civil engineer, was engaged
in the survey of large body of land in Cecil
county belonging to the Whitaker estate.
There are 600 acres in this tract and much of
it is woodland that has been cut off to make
charcoal for the Whitaker furnaces. The land
is not for sale, and Mr.. O'Dell, having about
completed the surveys, is now having stones
planted to substantially mark the boundaries.
- The streets in Baltimore are full of Christ
mas shoppers, but the numerous admonitions
to do your holiday shopping early in order to
avoid the rush." will have no effect. There
will be thousands of tardy ones-just like there
holding off in order to get bargains at "the heel
of the hunt" This is no doubt fallacous
idea, but those who possess it appear to think
they are just trifie more sagacious than their
neighbors
- We invite the special attention of road
supervisors and others to an article from the
Scientific american on "Why Macadam Roads
Go to Ruin so Soon," which appears on the 4th
page of THE UNION today. 1t has always been
a matter of mystery to us why the county
should build fine road and then make no
effort to keep it in shape, but allow it to go to
rack and ruin simply because it was not thought
necessary to make trifiing repairs and thus
save the roadbed.
- Mr.. Israel Graham and Mr.. Jas. Lusby.
two of the aged inmates of the Confederate
Soldiers Home al Pikesville, passed away last
Saturday. Sixteen of these veterans have died
this year and Is died in 1907. There are now
remaining in the home 90 persons, the Oldest
being Mr.. Daniel McCauley, who is "a. An
other death occurred at the Home on Thurs
day OF this week when Mr.. Charles Worthing-
ton Dorsey passed away. He was native of
Howard county and 76 years of age.
"a Baltimore business man who lives at
South Towson went out rabbit hunting just
about the time the season opened and during
his rambles lost his gold watch and fob. Two
or three weeks later, having given up all hope
of regaining his lost property, he was again
out hunting, covering nearly the same section
Of hat he kod hofo NH m