The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-02-27

diverted into other channels.
Next Sunday, February 18th. is the first
Sunday in Lent. Easter falls on the 18th Of
April.
will begin next Monday. The term is usually
q short one.
-The Governor on Wednesday appointed
w. G. Rigor an additional deputy game warden
for Baltimore county.
- Rev. Thomas Wood, of Washington, d.
c.. will preach at Fork Christian Church, Sun
day, February 18th, at p. M.
THE Northern Central Railway Office at
Texas was robbed on Saturday night last OF
cash and tickets valued at $50.
- Next Monday will be first day Of March
and the new President of the United States
will be inaugurated four days later.
-The national banks and savings banks
of Carroll county eighteen in all-had on de-
pOsit on the 9Th instant So 281, 701. II.
- County Commissioner Mann said this
week that the taxable basis of the county will
be increased about So, 0000 600 this year.
- Baltimore county will be largely repre-
sented in Washington on Inauguration day.
1t is hoped the weather man may treat them
right.
- The season for brook trout in Baltimore
county will open next Monday. 1t will con-
tinue four months-March, April, May and
June.
- Corn sold at public auction in Baltimore
county last Monday at $5.05 per barrel. Il was
q credit sale, with the notes to run twelve
months.
- Baltimore county was well represented
among the jackies OF the battleship feet that
was officially received on Monday from its
cruise around the world.
>The regular monthly meeting of the
Loyal Temperance Legion of Towson will be
held in the chapel of Trinity Church, Sunday,
February 18th, at 2.30 P. NJ.
MIR. J.. Maurice Watkins, ST., of Towson,
while in Baltimore one day this week, lost his
pocketbook containing SAT. He thinks some
of the light fingered gentry got it.
1.-THE automobile cranks had plenty to
talk about this week. The motorcar show in
the Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore COM
menced on Wednesday afternoon.
Very little attention is paid generally TO
Washington's birthday as holiday. The
banks and public offices close, but other bust
ness goes on the same as on other days.
~ Mayor Latrobe is still harping on the
annexation of Highlandtown and Canton to
Baltimore city. But how is he going to do it
when the people down there don't want it?
-The Northern Central Railway Company
paid an 8 per cent dividend last year in face of
the fact that there was general stagnation in
business that seriously affected all the railroads.
"a sharper, named William II. Smith,
alias Fred. Wilbur, who passed several bad
checks on Proprietor A. H. NOfsinger, of
Cockeysville Hotel, has been arrested in Wis
consin.
IA large quantity Of rain fell this week
and the ground has been thoroughly soaked
The present one is said by "mcony" people to
be dry moon" 1t don't look like it.,
does It?
THE United Railways and Electric Com
pany has sold the lot where its Waverly car
barn Stood corner York road and Carroll ave-
nue., to Mr.. George A. Cook, builder, for about
$4,000
melvin A. Jones, assistant postmaster at
Cardiff, Nd. & Pa. Railroad, was arrested on
Tuesday by the Q. s. authorities on the charge
of unlawfully opening letters. Jones is only
II years old.
IA joint meeting of the Senior and Junior
Gunpowder Agricultural Clubs will be held
Saturday, March 9Th, at the farm of Mr.. Lewis
NJ. Bacon. Corn" will be the principal sub.
iect discussed.
THE Hicks weather prediction for next
month will not be encouraging for those who
expect to attend the Inauguration on the 4th of
March. But then he may slip up in this fore
cast, as he does sometimes.
"a boy and cigarette was the cause OF
Mr.. jesse Pocock OF the 10th district. losing a
3 ton load of hay at Mt. Washington on Thurs
day. The boy set fire to the load accidentally
and the high wind did the rest.
THE assistant teachers of Baltimore coun.
ty, who have been making lively contest for
the increase of their salaries, will come to
petitions to the County Commissioners.
~ We learned this week of a successful
Baltimore county miller who has purchased
5000 bushels Of wheat at 81 Is per bushel. He
evidently believes that wheat is going still
higher before this years crop is harvested.
John f. Wheeley, an inmate of the Con-
federate Soldiers Home at Pikesville, died on
Wednesday, aged g. years. He was q native
of Richmond, Va, and served through the en-.
tire Civil War, he having enlisted in April, 1861
THE fox-hunters made things lively in
Towson last Monday. Some of them were
here by A. NJ, and the last OF them did not re-
turn until nearly dark. Riders, horses and dogs
looked pretty well tagged out after their long
chase.
- Those people who believe the groundhoe
regulates the weather from the I'd OF February
are having their faith badly shaken this year
The mild and open winter has continued right
along and there is no immediate prospect for q
change.
SThe books are now in course of prepare
ton in the County Com missioners' Office for
the making of the levy of 1909, which is usually
, announced about the middle of April. The
fiscal year covered by the levy begins on the
first of May
- Baltimore county people-or at least q
good many of them-think they got a rather
law deal on the State aid road question, but il
may come out all right in the end A pecu.
liarity in the law may be blamed for the pres
put Stdl6 Oh t0l0SS.
- Mayor Mahool is now trying to devise
pme plan which will entirely do away wi th
e use of the Warren Mill property in con-
ncting the proposed reservoir in the valley oil
Gunpowder Expert engineers are now
ing into the matter.
The new house for the Pikesville Ath-
dc Club is about completed. 1t is two story
building and has large assembly room, baths
, lockers, etc. The building committee is com
posed Cf DR.. H. Louis Naylor and Messrs. VIM
E. Crusey and Nicholas Peddicord.
The County Commissioners redeemed
their promise to the residents of Cockeysville
by going TO that place on Thursday and max
ing an inspection in reference to installing
electric lights there. 1t is hoped the Board viii
take favorable view of the matter.
"a company has been formed at Manches
ter, Carroll county, to build trolley line from
Reisterstown to Hanover. Surveys are now
being made and the prospects for the success o.
the enterprise are excellent. DR.. j. 81. Sher
man is president of the new company.
->Some Baltimore county farmers who are
interested in dairying are beginning to plan
how to get along without ice next summer
Many of them failed to secure any ice during
the present winter and think the chances now
IN that direction are exceedingly slim