The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-27


and unmarried Mr.. England was a clerk in
the Pennsylvania r. R Office, Calvert anC
Centre streets, Baltimore.
- Mr.. Henry Macatee, one of the oldest
citizens of the upper end of Hartford county
died at his home, near st. Mary's Church. q
few days ago, aged ~ years. He was known
as Blind Henry" he having lost his sight
from an attack of measles when be was 8
small boy.
"A dog poisoner has been operating al
Govanstown in the last few days. and much in
dignation is felt because of his work. Why
don't the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals take this matter up? 1t is about
time that somebody was punished for such
acts Of brutality.
- The Orioie baseball team for the coming
season commenced work this week and it looks
good The first exhibition game will be played
with the team of the Walbrook Athletic Club
at Oriole Park. Saturday afternoon, April Sd.
Several new faces will be seen among the
Orioles this year.
- MANY people in the I'd district are com
planning because the telephone companies don't
get their lines in working order Once this
service is interfered with in any way then the
patrons begin to see how really bad off they are
without IT, and wonder how they got along
before they had it.
- Mr.. John Peasants was the purchaser of
Mrs Henry C. Smiths country place at Rux-
ton, N C. R. R.. known as 'Glengariff." 1t
contains 151 acres and the price paid was 1922
600 M Peasants who is Clerk of one of the
courts in Baltimore, is a son of the late J. Hall
Peasants Of Woodbrook.
- The large room in the Lee Building.
TOwsOn, that is being improved for the use of
] ohm Eager Howard Council, Jr. o. y. A. M.
will be ready for occupancy by the first We'd
nesday in April. Messrs Wright and Francis
are doing the carpenter work and Messrs. Stet
ser & Shock the painting.
"A farmers institute corn special, in
charge of Director William L. Amoss, will be
run over the B. d o Railroad, leaving Balti-
more, Thursday, April LIST. at 8 A. NJ, going as
far as Hagerstown and stopping at Is of the
most important stations for lectures on corn
growing All will be welcome.
- Gossips say that among the wedding pres
ents of Miss Harriet Brown, soon to be married
to q New Yorker, will be thirteen thousand
dollar touring car from Mr.. Oscar g. Murray,
president of the B. & o. R. r. Company. Miss
Brown is daughter of General Alexander
Brown, the well known banker.
- Rev DR.. James T. Lassell. a retired
minister of the Methodist Protestant Church,
died at bis home on the Old Pimlico road, on
Wednesday last, aged 70 years. He was ma
tive of Chestertown, Md, and served in the
Confederate army during the Civil War. Three
sons and two daughters survive him.
- Governor Crothers has announced that
he will call the proposed conference of the
County Commissioners Of the % counties Of
the State for 10 A. NJ, April 21st. The purpose
of the conference is to discuss the question of
local roads, maintenance and repairs, with the
view of securing uniformity of methods.
- The acid thrower that has been causing
the Baltimore police so much trouble. was ar
rested on Monday. He proves to be Charles ].
Cooper, a freight brakeman on the Western
Maryland r. R., and very innocent looking
fellow who has wife and children. He says
the devil forced him to do it. Evidently
"daffy."
overtime lately Leutbecker says it was he
that made him assault Mr.. and Mrs. CIautice.
of the Old Hartford road. with briar scythe,
and Cooper, the vitriol thrower, says his Satanic
Majesty was urging him on his work. If this
thing keeps up the insane asylums will have
to be enlarged
can made short work on Thursday of Attorney
Harry Wolfin bis effort to get Joseph John
Mueller, the man accused Of numbering Regina
Reed, at Mt Washington, out of Jail under a
writ of habas corpus. After hearing the testi-
mony of several witnesses the court remanded
the prisoner for trial.
MIR George ]. Clautice and wife, who
were murderously assaulted last week by John
Leutbecker, who attacked them with a briar
scythe are recovering at their home on the Old
Hartford road. 1t is believed that their assai-
ant was made insane by reading a book on
spiritualism. Mr. Clautice is II years of age
and his wife little younger.
~ man said on Monday that Baltimore
city cannot construct storage lake in West
ern Run Valley if it wanted to because that
stream is one of the main tributaries to the
Gunpowder and its waters must continue to
flow as they do now. But no one seriously
believes that the basin of the Western Run
will form the bed of the great storage reservoir.
- Firemen's day is going to be big day in
Towson 1t is expected that several thousand
strangers will be here to enjoy the parade and
hear the bands play. Wednesday, May 9th,
will be the day and you don't want to forget
the date The convention will meet in the
Court House at 10 A NJ and there will be
something doing all the balance of the day and
night.
- The very heavy pressure on the adver
Using columns of The UNION last week made
it necessary for us to omit considerable matter
intended for that issue of the paper. With our
local letters it is sometimes case of first
come first served" which means that the be
lated ones are crowded out by rush of adver
Using matter late in the week that must be
inserted.
- Farmers and dairymen should not forget
the first practical demonstration of the tuber
culin test to take place at the State Experiment
Station at College Park, Thursday and Friday,
April 9Th and 9th. These tests will offer an
especially good opportunity for young men on
farms to gain some valuable information at
comparatively little cost and they should not
miss it.
- Mr.. Achilles Ford, for many years active
in Democratic politics in the old 18th district
of Baltimore county, died on Wednesday, at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. John P. Foley
in Baltimore, aged "a years. Mr.. Ford's family
owned valuable property in the vicinity of
Brehm's brewery and in his younger days he
was a great lover of horses and owned several
good ones.
speaking about planting potatoes a gen.
tleman said in The UNION office on Monday ::
Never plant potatoes in May if you expect to
get a crop. have tried it often and l know
whereof l speak. l have planted potatoes as
late as July 4th and raised fine crops. You
will be more certain to get crop if planted
early in July than in May, which seems to be
fatal month for potatoes"
- 1t is earnestly hoped that some one will
win the reward being offered by the County
Commissioners for the arrest and conviction of
the person or persons that robbed the house of
Mr.. Thomas V. Richardson, near Phoenix, on
the 18th of January last. The perpetrators of
such crimes should not be permitted to go un-
punished, and it is reflection on the police de-
partment of the county if they are not appre-
hended.
The trip of the Good Roads Commission
from Baltimore to Belair last week-going by
the Belair road and returning by the Hartford
the automobiles used by the gentlemen OF the
party showed the various stunts they are capa-
BILE of Anyway, they got back safely, but the
main question, Nv hich OF the two is to be the
road" seems as far from settlement as ever.
1t may be weeks yet before decision is ar
rived at.
"a good many people complain about
prisoners and insane people in the hands of the
law officers being carried in the trolley cars
between Towson and Baltimore. Often these
people present disgusting sights that men can
hardly endure, to say nothing of ladies and
children. Surely a better way of doing this
can be found, even if it should cost few dol
lars more. The only wonder to US is that the
railroad company has not broken up the prac-
tice long ago.
Mr.. Mann Sets himself Right on the
Road Question.-In an interview few days
ago Mr.. Henry P Mann, president of the
Board of County Commissioners, said that the
statement made that he is an advocate of the
Belair road route from Baltimore to Belair is
entirely wrong and that he never intimated
nor suggested preference for either the Belair
or Hartford routes. He further said:
II have remained entirely neutral on the
subject of the selection of the routes to be i'm
proved in the county. l have contended that
the proper thing to do would be to distribute
the money whereby all turnpikes would be
benefited by an equal distribution ofthe funds,
but under the provisions of the law under
stand that the Commission is not permitted to
distribute the money along the lines suggested
but must build one in and-Out' road through
the county.
mind that the Philadelphia road would be the
YnOsf louical road m no defarminpd on and ac