The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-06

- An authority says that many good horses
have been killed by feeding them mouldy corn.
- Farmers are anxiously looking for set
tied weather N order to get at their spring
work.
->The temperature of February, 1909, was
higher than for any February in nearly twenty
years IN.
the seed corn now" and that's very good
- Some people insist that March is a spring
month, yet it brought US the worst storm of the
winter.
- Perhaps they will see the necessity Of
changing the date of the Presidential Inaugural
ton now.
- The grounding period does not expire
until the middle of March, or after st. Pat
rick's day.
1T Green Spring Valley Hunt Club will
go to Chestertown, Md, on Thursday, March
18th, for two days hunt
- Just one furrow plowed through field
that is soaked with water will hurry the pro-
cess Of drying good many days
- You can fish for broOktrout in the streams
of Baltimore county now without fear of ar
rest The open season lasts four months.
Zone Towson trout fisherman, who was
out on Monday, is said to have caught II
beauties. Others were not so successful.
- The storm of this week would have left
Towson in darkness had it not been for beauti-
full moon. Electric lights were not needed.
- Mr. John L. Phillips, of Arlington, has
been appointed an additional notary republic
for Baltimore county by Governor Crothers.
THE property on the Warren road, 9Th
district, known as the Tome Institute farm,
has been rented by Mr.. Howard E. Shelley.
1.-THE Towson water question, that has
been much discussed, is again looming up.
Looks like our artesian well supply will have
to go.
City on Tuesday to James Seton, aged q. and
Jessie McCallister aged 10, both of Baltimore
county.
-sSome of THE UNIONS local letters are
unavoidably omitted this week. Delayed mails
on account of the storm is mainly the cause
of this.
> Applications for yearly liquor licenses
are now being filed at the County Clerks office.
All such applications must be in by Thursday,
April LIST.
->Surely March came in like lamb. the
day being sunny and springlike. Let us hope
that this does not mean a blustry and cold
departure.
IA number of public sales of personal
property, announced to take place this month,
may be found in the advertising columns oi
THE UNION.
- Here is the 9th of March and sufficient
ice supply is still lacking. Those who filled
their houses early can now be counted among
the fortunate ones.
mental trees by the weight of this weeks snow.
Many limbs were broken and some trees were
borne to the ground.
tuberculosis patients are still being re-
ceived at the Towson annex" Again we
ask: How long do the people Of the town in
tend to tolerate this
IA number of Baltimore county people
bought motorcars at the automobile show in
Baltimore last week, and in all respects the
show appears to have been great success;
- Health Commissioner Bosley, of Balti
more city, is again organizing for his war on
the mosquitoes. Let US hope the warfare will
prove more successful than it did last year.
- Last weeks issue of THE UNION con-
tanned seventeen local letters, thus breaking all
previous records. And they were set ''soid
and without any display to make them FILL up. y
- Wild geese have been flying north ward
in considerable numbers and many think this
means that the winter is ended. But the geese
often make mistakes, just like other prophets do.
1.-The snow at Towson on Thursday morn
ing was Is inches deep on level aud solidly
packed. If it had fallen on dry and frozen
foundation it would likely have been feet
deep.
IA good many people wanted to know on
Thursday what got wrong with the weather
man this week His forecast for Inauguration
day was almost roseate, but look at what it did
to us
-Dr. ]. Duncan Spaeth, of Princeton Uni.
High School, Reisterstown, Thursday evening,
March 18th, on the representative American
writers.
Col. A. G. N. Matthews, formerly of the
well known Baltimore auctiOneering firm oil
Matthews & Kirkland, died suddenly on Thurs
day at his home near York, Pa. He was 81
years old.
> Green's Express, that has been running
for several years between Baltimore and Tow
son, has been sold by its owner, Mr. John Rush
n 4 C,k,, rkon
Company.
- A Towson family that had been missing
their daily paper some time accidentally ascer
tanned the cause. A neighbours dog had beer
stealing it and carrying it home. Pretty Gun
ming dog that.
cing' boy to the family of Mr.. Charles K
Brown, the obliging carrier on R. F. d. Route
No. 6, at Towson. It's bad wind that dom
blow good to somebody.
- Rev. Samuel W. Graff1in, of Baltimore
will lecture at Hunts M. E. Church, Sherwood
Thursday evening, March 18th, at O'Clock
on THE End of the Rainbow" Admission II
cents children 10 cents.
- The Blind Asylum property, on the nortt
side of North avenue, has been purchased BY
the city of Baltimore for S345, 900 and the new
Polytechnic Institute building will be located
there. The location is ideal.
- Bethany Lodge, /. o. o. F., of Glenarm
will attend Fork NJ. E. Church on Sunday
March 7th, at IL A. NJ, when the pastor, Rev
M L. Beall, will preach special sermon suits
BILE to the occasion. All invited.
MIR. Jacob l.. Fowble has secured tn
contract for the erection of barn for Mr.. E.
Wilson at Cockeysville, to replace the on
lately destroyed by fire. 1t will be 40 by 70 fee
and the cost will be about 81 500.
"A colored man, who was unknown il
the neighborhood. was found dead few day
ago in the woods along the Green Spring
Branch Railroad. A jury of inquest decided
that the man died from exposure.
- The small boy and his Easter egg j
already in evidence, but the habit of "pickin,
for keeps" is not altogether an unmixed evil
ANYTHING that fosters gambling spirit amonj
the bows should not be winked at.
IF it had not been for Mr.. ]. VIM. Phipp
and his snow plows the people of TowsoI
would have had hard time getting around OF
Thursday. Even with the sidewalks opene
partially Iocomotion was no easy matter.
- Jacob Quick. provision dealer at Gal
denyilIe, Belair road, shot himself on Friday 9
last week while riding in a Middle River tro
lev car. The wound is not serious. WINS
caused him to commit the act is unknown:
- Professor Hubbard, of the Maryland Ayr
cultural College, who lectured before the Gee
County Farmers Club few days ago, told O
Holstein cow that produced % 600 lbs. Q