The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-01-16

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MORE COUNTY UNION. If they fail to
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diverted into other channels.
- Earthquake shocks were felt in some
sections of Maryland this week, but they were
very slight.
- Looks like spring is not far off when the
baseballists are already preparing Tor next
seasons play.
more county are growing small by degrees and
beautifully less.
The wicked didn't stand in slippery
places on Thursday morning. They simply
went down kerhop.
- Rev. Thomas Wood of Washington, D.
c., will preach at Fork Christian Church, on
Sunday, January 18th, at P. NJ.
- Groundhog day we will soon have with
us and then we'll tell you the kind of weather
there will be until the middle of March.
- THE UNIONS "canaries" are still coming
home to roost They are not harbingers of
spring, but they get there just the same.
- Mt. Washington appears to be just now
suffering from a visitation of horse thieves.
Two animals were stolen within week.
- Rev. DR.. W. l.. Mcdowell, district super
intendent, will preach in Towson NJ. E. Church
on Sunday, January 10th, at o'clock P. NJ.
Maryland will cut big figure at the
Taft inauguration Thursday, March 4th, the
military feature being especially attractive.
- Director Amoss will hold institutes along
the Maryland & Pennsylvania R. R., begin.
ming at Long Green Station, February LIST
and I'd.
"A part OF the plant of the Crown Cork
and. Seal Company at Highlandtown was
damaged by fire on Tuesday night. The loss
was small.
The banquet hall in the Temple of Mt.
Moriah Masonic Lodge Towson, is being fres-
coed by Messrs. Emmart Quartley, of
Baltimore.
The West has this week been expert
encing the coolest weather of the winter thus
far. Twenty degrees below zero was the record
at St. Paul.
IA fine bell, weighing l, 200 lbs, has been
presented to Gainesville Evangelical Lutheran
Church by Mr.. Henry Ringing, of Arbutus
18th district.
>All the Baltimore county national banks
held their annual elections on Tuesday, 18th
instant. There were very few changes among
the officials.
The blacksmiths enjoyed harvest this
week "roughing" horses. The icy condition of
the roads made travelling with smooth animals
almost an impossbility
The entire face of the earth in this Sec
ton of Maryland was fine skating park on
Thursday morning. The sleet was the heaviest
seen here in long time.
Again we must inform some of THE
insert advertisements of any kind among the
reading matter of this paper.
- Thirteen Of the county fire-alarm boxes
have been demolished within the last few
weeks by malicious persons. The Jail is yawn-
ing for some of these worthless.
-Our upcountry friends are going into the
good roads movement with heartiness that
does them much credit. Their efforts cannot
help but bring forth good fruit.
- Mr.. E. G.. Gray, superintendent on Mr..
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Towson, cut last Saturday quantity OF fine
solidly frozen ice about 3 inches thick.
$The end of THE UNIONS 1909 calendars
has about been reached. They have been
going out strong for a month and ahalf and if
you failed to get one you can't blame US.
THE weather man got here on time this
week with his cold wave, but it wasn't much
of one. The mercury in Towson on Wednes-
day morning registered around 20 degrees.
Two aged persons died in Towson on
Monday within few hours of each other
Mrs. William Denny and Miss Charity Con-
ner. sister of the late Capt. Chas. A. Conner.
IAN oyster supper, under the auspices of
Belfast public school, will be held in Matthews
Hall, on Friday and Saturday evenings, Feb
ruary 9th and 9Th. Refreshments will be for
sale.
-Mr. Walter B. Brooks. vice-president of
the Maryland & Pennsylvania r. R., is in
Omaha this week watching the tests of another
unit car which may be given trial on this
road.
-If Baltimore gets 50.cent gas through the
introduction of the natural article-as now
seems probable -Towson and intermediate
points between here and the city will likely be
benefited Also
THE inventory of the personal estate of
the late John M. Denison, of Baltimore, foots
up S7S6, 376.73 mostly in bonds. The wife of
Mr.. Denison is a sister of Col. j. NJ. Pearce, of
Ny Lady's Manor.
THE Baltimore County Farmers Insti
tute will be held in the Court House at Tow
son, on Tuesday, January Goth, with morning
and afternoon sessions. An elaborate program
has been prepared.
-School Commissioner Frank G. Scott, of
the Sth district has provided a wagon, in
charge of Mr.. Jarrett Howard, to convey chill
dren from the vicinity of Western Run to the
school at Cockeysville.
MIR. Charles Carroll Bowersox, who had
been resident of Woodbury. for forty years.
died at his home in that place last Saturday,
aged 81 years. One of his sonsis Mr.. Frank j.
Bowersox, of Loeb Raven.
Mr.. Joseph T. Martin has been elected
president of the Sparrow's Point Club;
Mr.. E. G. Reist, secretary, and Mr.: s. N. Dry
den, treasurer Mr.. R. B. Sparks is a member
of the executive committee.
-And now they have established slaugh-
ter house right in the very centre of Towson.
We really seem to be scourged too much. Is
it possible that there is no protection for the
Perhaps The first man in Baltimore county
to fill his ice house this winter is Mr.. Harry
w. Dilworth, the popular merchant at Hyde's,
Long Green Valley. He cut ice last Saturday
Al inches thick and of excellent quality.
superintendent Patterson, of the Mary
land Experiment Station, will address the
White Hall Farmers Club and improvement
Association on Saturday evening, January Both.
His topic will be ''Soils and Fertilizers"
->At the annual meeting OF the stock
holders of the Towson National Bank on Tues
day Mr.. Marshall Winchester was elected
member of the board to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Capt. Emanuel Herman.
- The Ladies' Aid Society OF Partition NJ.
p Church will give an entertainment and play,
entitled 1.-THE Country School,, in the Masonic
Hall at Parkton, January 3d. at 73O P. NJ.
Ice-cream and confectionery will be on sale.
THE Baltimore City School Board has
purchased the Maryland School for the Blind,
located on the north side of North avenue,
upon which the new Polytechnic Institute will
be erected. The price to be paid is $500 600.
IA load of hay from the farm of Mr.. n.
Howard Gill, near Mantua Mills, was weighed
at the Eastern Scales few days ago and tipped
the beam at 10,625 pounds-5 tons and 625
pounds. The load was hauled Is miles with
four horses.
The property of Mr.. ]. Vernon Camp
bell, near Eccleston Station, Green Spring
Valley, which had been advertised for sale in
THE UNION to take place last Monday, was not
offered, the matter having been adjusted before
the hour or sale.
The State Good Roads Commission on
Wednesday declined to purchase the Liberty
turnpike when urged to do so by committee
composed of Messrs R. Pierce Choate, B. John
Black, Ebert Jean, ]. T. George and others.
The price asked was $4,000.
Mr. William M. Gorsuch, of Monkton,
who is a successful breeder of Rhode Island
Reds, had unusual success at the Maryland
Poultry and Pigeon Show in Baltimore last
week, as a reference to the advertising columns
of THE UNION today will show.
Fourteen members of Troop A, Mary
land National Guard, whose headquarters is at
the fine armory at Pikesville, have resigned
because il is stated of dissatisfaction with Capt
c. Lyon Rogers 1t is said the commander has
been neglecting his duties lately.