The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-01-25

- Edward A. Wilson, colored. of Baltimore
who will be hanged February 18th for wifi
murder, was for many years resident o
Reisterstown, Baltimore county, and Will
there bore good reputation. Wilson's count,
relatives will make an effort to have bis sen
teDce changed to life imprisonment.
- owson people strike streak OF luci
sometimes. Occasionally countryman may
come along with lot of apples in his Wagon
and sell as many of them for % cents as yoT
get in the stores for dollar. But the country
man gets wise'' too, and then lookout. He'i
a worse burner" than the storekeeper.
- Several ladies of Pikesville gave leap
year ball to their husbands and friends on
Thursday night in Red Mems Hall at that
place. The ball room was handsomely decor
ated. The cbaperons were Mesdames Arthur
Chenoweth, Hazel Forman. Charles Treich-
man, Vernon Wheat and William Shirley.
- At an extra meeting of the board of di.
rectors of the Towson and Dulany's Valley
Turnpike, held here on Thursday, dividend
of per cent. for the past year was declared,
payable on and after January 2Sth. This is
in addition to a considerable sum lately ex-
pended for crushed stone for repairs on the
road.
THE parlor matches that are making so
much stir in the Maryland Legislature just
now are not the kind that too often end in the
divorce courts. They are the sort that are
causing many thousands of dollars loss every
year through the fires that they cause. The
bill to stop their manufacture should become
a law.
=. Today Saturday. another party. under
the direction of Mr.. J. Alexis Shriver. will be
taken by the Md. & Pa. Railroad to Mr.. ]. I.
Hopes ST. Omer Farm, near Bynum, Hartford
county, to make an inspection of the electrical
milking machine now in successful opera
ton there. The train will leave Baltimore
at 10 P. N.
Some farmers treat it rather as a joke
when you tell them that some others of their
craft in the county have been cutting ice from
8 to inches in thickness. But it's fact, and
we have seen 1.-THE goods to prove it. But
they must not despair. There may be plenty
of opportunities to get lots of this useful arti-
Gle in the next thirty days.
THE beautiful weather of last Sunday
made business brisk for the suburban trolley
lines. The cars were crowded throughout the
day and evening and the company's treasury
must have been bulging at the end of the day 8
work The question naturally comes up:
What did the people do for Sunday amusement
before the trolley car came into existence?
- The Junior Gunpowder Agricultural Club
met last Saturday at the farm of Mr.. Charles
II. Price. with Mr. William d. Curry, fore
man. Mr.. Laban Sparks was chosen delegate
Pearce as alternate. Papers were read by Messrs.
Joshua q. Bosley. Granville Matthews, Harry
A. Matthews, W. D. Curry and T. P. w. France.
THE annual meeting of the Maryland
State Teachers Association will be held at
Ocean City, Md, June oath to 26th, inclusive.
Superintendent A. s. Cook, of the Baltimore
county schools, is president of the association
U. s. Senator. elect John Walter Smith and
Governor Crothers will be among the speakers
The latter may have 1.-The chance of bis life''
on this occasion.
- George W. Billups and female COM
panion named Kahl were instantly killed early
on Saturday morning last in an automobile
accident on Park Heights avenue near Druid
Hill Park gate. The chauffeur, who was driv-
ing the car at 40 to so miles an hour, escaped
with slight injuries. Billups was proprietor of
q hotel on Park Heights evenue, opposite Pim-
leo track. He was Al years of age.
- Mr.. George B. Coale, of Towson, brought
to The UNION Office last Saturday a cake of
natural ice that measured Ga inches in thick
ness. 1t was sent here by Mr.. Harry Lee,
manager of the Oakdene estate, in Green Spring
Valley, and was cut by him about two weeks
before from pond on the premises. The pond
is located on the south side of the valley, where
the sun never strikes it, and is fed by stream.
THE report of the Gardiner Dairy. of
Baltimore, for the year ended December 31st,
1906, showed that it had sold 612, 900 gallons of
milk and cream. For the year ended Deem
Der 31st, 1907 it sold 825,44 gallons, an in
crease for the year of about 35 per cent The
report by months also showed regular and
steady increase in the business. Mr.. Asa B.
Gardiner, Jr., of Baltimore county, is president
VI luO OdiuluCi OOulpduy
- Reckless driving of an automobile caused
the death of two more persons early on Satur-
day morning last on Park Heights avenue.
The chauffeur-who was the only person in
the car who was not killed-says he was run
ming 40 miles an hour. but an expert who saw
the machine after the wreck, said he was going
at speed of at least go miles, and on public
highway at that. There ought to be plenty of
work for the fool-killer just now.
- Perhaps never before in the history of
Towson have hOusekeepers experienced SO
much trouble with servants as they are doing
just now. There are plenty of women and
girls about and they could find steady employ
ment, but this is just what they don't seem to
want, and if they work day or two each week
il is about all. How these people live without
working is question that is often asked, but
nobody seems able to give satisfactory answer.
- Baltimore county appears to have Jared
pretty well when the minor places in the pres
ent House of Delegates were disposed of Mr..
Harry E. Goodwin was made assistant to the
chief clerk Messrs. Edward l.. Bland and
Clarence L. Hill, engrossing clerks; Messrs.
Robert Graham and Martin A. Mulligan, COM
mittee clerks. and Mr.. William E. Mitchell,
assistant to keeper of cloakroom. Messrs.
Jacob L. Dieter and Ed. A. O'Mara, of Balti-
more county, have been made clerks to Senate
committees.
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