The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-20
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Mr.. John England and his bride, of North
Dakota, have been guests of Mrs. George Eng
land, of Butler, Baltimore county.
Mrs. Bartleson, wife of Mr.. 81. =. Bartle
son. of Cockeysville has been spending some
time with relatives at Chester, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Granville Matthews, of Mount
Pleasant Farm, near Oregon, have been spend
ing some time with relatives in Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. II. L.Grube, who are well
known in Baltimore county, registered at Ho-
tel st. Denis, New York city, on Wednesday.
Mrs. Corkran, widow of Francis s. Cork
ran, has been critically i'll this week at the res
idence of her son, Mr.. M. B. Corkran, in Lu-
therville.
The Governor has appointed Mr.. Harry E.
Mann, the well known attorney, State direc
tor of the Maryland School for Boys, near
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Frank Deford and family,
who spent the past Writer at Ormond Florida,
will return to their country home, on the Joppa
road, west of Towson. April LIST.
-Messrs. Noah e. Offutt Thomas W. Offutt,
William A. Lee and James P. Offutt went to
Love Point this week on duck shooting expe-
dition, but returned empty handed.
Mr.. Jas. Fitzpatrick, who circumnavigated
the globe with the Atlantic Fleet, and Mr.
Ellsworth Robinson, of New York, are visiting
Mr.. Charles Caples, near Dover, Baltimore
county.
Capt. and Mrs. John R. Sherwood and
Sherwood, who spent two months at Braden
town, Florida, have returned to their home at
Pikesville.
DR. and Mrs. ]. Royston Green of Towson,
announce the engagement of their niece, Miss
Mary Elizabeth Green, to MI. Edward McPher
son Haynes of Hopewell, n. ]. The wedding
will take place in June.
Mr. John Mays Little, of the Towson bar
and member of the House of Delegates, has
been asked to deliver an address on Maryland
Day before the High School in Westminster
on Contributors to Maryland Literature"
snug little farm of Mr.. James w. Harvey, at
the head of Dulany's Valley, will take posses.
sion of the same today. MIR. Kelley sold his
farm at Hyde's to Mr.. Boswell, of Baltimore,
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel A.
Leonard was christened last Sunday afternoon
at st. Joseph's Monastery, on the Frederick
road. He is grandson of Chief JudgeN. Chas.
Burke, and was named Charles Burke Leonard.
Judge N. Charles Burke, of Towson, was
reelected vice president of the Hibernian So
ciety, the annual meeting Of which was held
in Baltimore on st. Patrick's day. Mr.. Stuart
kearney was re elected treasurer OF the school
fund of the society.
Rev. Otis Herbert Draper, of the Johns
Hopkins University, and his sister, Miss Elsie
B. Draper, of the Woman's College of Balti-
more, who reside at Brooklandville, Green
Spring Valley, were guests Of Miss Diapers
Rev. j. B. Manley, pastor of st. Dominics
Catholic Church, Hamilton, Hartford road, who
has been away on his vacation, has resigned
his charge since his return. He has obtained
years leave of absence and will spend the
time in Chile and other parts of South America.
His successor has not yet been named.
Hon. ]. Fred. G. Talbot, Of Baltimore
county, who is among the older members of
the House of Representatives was given the
privilege by Speaker Cannon to select his own
seat in the House when the usual drawing was
made on Tuesday. The one selected by him is
seat No. in the front row, three seats from
the center aisle.
DIR. William G. McCurdy celebrated his
birthday at his home, Garrett Park, Baltimore,
afew days ago. He graduated at the Baltimore
College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1873, and
later practiced his profession for number of
years at Madonna, Hartford county. He is a
brother of DR.. A. G. McCurdy, the well known
Towson dentist.
"A congregational meeting of Chestnut
Grove and Fallston Presbyterian Churches
will be held next Sunday morning at Chestnut
Grove Church, near Sweet Air to extend call
as pastor to Rev. Mr. McNeill of Princeton
University, the charge having been without
regular pastor for year or more. Rev. Il.
Medley Price. of Ashland Presbyterian Church,
will preach 1t is said Rev. Mr. Mcneil will
accept the CALL He is now in his last year at
the university.
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little farm in the extreme northeastern section
of the 10th district, and who is a member of
the present petit jury, renewed his subscription
to THE UNION on Tuesday. His father, Wesley
Knight, who died on the same place at the age
of 70 years, was a subscriber to this paper from
the date of its first ISSUE and it has been going
into the family ever since. The present MI.
Knight, who travelled over the country great
deal in his younger days. has been in twenty
two states of the Union. Before retiring tothe
farm he carried on blacksmithing at Jockeys
vile twenty years.
Maryland Dairymen's Association Or
Ranized-An Interesting Meeting. The
Maryland State Dairymen's Association was
organized on Wednesday at meeting of about
40 leading dairymen of the State in Mccoy
Hall. Baltimore. Preliminary steps toward
the formation Of the association were taken
at a meeting last December. A constitution
and bylaws were adopted, officers were elected
and four standing committees appointed.
The purpose of the association is the inn
provement of the milk producing and selling
business. All dairymen and farmers produc-
ing milk will be eligible for membership. An
annual convention and quarterly meetings will
be held, at which topics of interest will be dis
cussed.
A resolution was adopted authorizing the
president to appoint four committees on the in
spection of dairies the cost of milk production,
the cost of transportation and the laws govern
ing the milk business.
According to the general opinion of those
present, the dairy business is a losing game
and every farmer is selling milk for less than
the cost of production. This was the com
plant. The only solution offered was to de-
crease the cost of production and to educate
the public to pay higher prices for milk. Mr.:
Samuel NJ. Shoemaker said the public could
be induced to pay good price for good milk,
but that the fight would be long and hard.
Mr.. II. E. Cook, dean of the department of
agriculture in the University of St. Lawrence,
at Denmark. N. Y, and also the owner of a
large creamery. said that the solution of re-
duced cost lies largely in the individual COW.
He said that as dairymen become more skilled
be looked for reduction in the price of milk,
just as skill had reduced the price of steel and
many other commodities. He pointed out
that the new dairy sections, in which dairy
men only know the improved methods. are
making more money than the old sections,
where the dairymen are handicapped by old
customs and prejudices.
Mr.. Cook said the dairy COW had followed
the poor land and that truck lands sell higher
than dairy land. He claimed that the bust
ness of the dairy COW has been to enrich poor
land.
But" he asked, docs it pay to increase the
crop yield if you turn the crop into milk at a
loss? Milk has been poverty business and a
by-product business for so long that it will take
years to educate the public out of the belief
that milk is cheap food. dairy business
should be run strictly on its own merits, and
it is not necessary to have live stock on farm
to enrich it. 1t has been proved that rota-
ton of crops, with clover plowed under and
the use of chemicals, will restore sterile land
quicker and better than live stock.
Mr.. G. P. Lane, of the dairy division of the
Government Department of Agriculture, spoke
on the sanitary operation of dairy farms. He
said public sentiment is growing every day. in
favor of better sanitation in all lines and that
milk products must meet the demand.
As illustrative of how bacteria grows, he
cited the following test "a fly caught in 9
kitchen was put in one cubic centimer ~
drops) of sterilized milk. After the proper
period of incubation the milk was found to
contain 200 900 bacteria"
Prof. G. W. Melick, of the Maryland Agr1'
cultural College Experiment Station, gave an
interesting talk on dairy laws
The officers of the association are: Pree1
dents. M. Shoemaker Baltimore county
vice. presidential. W. Nicodemus, Jr, Fred
erick county; secretary treasurer. Alexis
Shriver, Hartford county.
The directors are the officers and former
State Senator Henry M. Mccullough, OF Cecil
county, and Messrs. Asa B. Gardiner, Jr, oil
Baltimore county, and John Thomas, of Mont
gomery county.
Interesting Odd Fellows Ceremonies
AT the rally held at the I. o. o. F. Temple
Baltimore, Friday evening, March 18th, under
the auspices of the Grand Lodge of Maryland
the degree staff of Mt. Zion Lodge, No. 81, o.
Pikesville, under the direction of Mr.. Harry
A. Davis, conferred the first degree of the orde