The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-13

candidate for pubic favor as an auctlOneer IN
Baltimore county, and his announcement ap
pears in THE UNION today. He has had some
experience and thinks he can "fi!l the bilr' all
right
- People are freely signing the petitions to
have Charles street avenue extended continued
through to Lutherville. This would make a
very fine improvement and one that the people
would greatly appreciate. Let us have it by
all means.
-Mr. Robert W. Royston and wife have
secured an injunction in the Circuit Court here
against Mr.. Thomas Merryman to restrain him
from cutting down and carrying away wood
from their premises. The case will be heard
next Monday.
Zone of Mr.. Robert NJ. Taylor's horses,
hooked to milk wagon. was killed by live
wire at the intersection of the York road and
REGISTER avenue, on Thursday morning. The
other horse was badly shocked and may be
useless hereafter.
- The country place of the late George r.
Vickers. on the east side of the Liberty road,
north of Walbrook Station, has been sold 20
Mr. Francis E. Yewell for about S187. 900. 1t
contains 107 acres and will be developed for
building purposes.
The sale of Mr.. William q. Hall, near
Sunnybrook. 10th district. announced to take
place March 4th, was postponed on account of
the snow storm to Wednesday, March 18th.
See announcement in the advertising columns
of THE UNION today.
Several fine dogs have lately been poison
ed in Roland Park, and one owner has offered
1t must be very brutal person who will throw
poison around to kill dogs ndiscriminatey-
the good with the bad.
- The expert engineers employed by the
Baltimore Water Board to look over the site of
the proposed Gunpowder lake will not begin
their work before May LIST. The idea is to see
if the Warren Mill property can be eliminated
from fho orioinal nlan
- Baltimore city is all right and we like it
very much, but we don't like the criminal
cases that ii sends here for trial. sample of
these tried here this week was disgusting and
better suited to the courts Of big city than to
a community such as this.
- Wood-chopping ought to become popu-
lar now seeing that the ex President took to it
as soon as he left the White House. But there
are other kinds of exercise and pastime that APP
peal more strongly to most men. Mr.. Taft
thinks golf is one of these.
- Thursday, March 18th, was the first day
since the storm of the 4th inst. that Carrier
Charles r. Brown, r. F. d. No. g. Towson,
was able to cover his entire route. Many of
the snow drifts are still so deep that they will
not disappear for some time.
- The Towson Athletic Association has
leased from Mr.. William P. Cole 8 acres of land
on the north side of Allegany avenue-being
part of the old Bosley tract-which will be used
for athletic purposes. The location is about
seven squares west of the centre of the town.
- Mr. David Bonner, of New York, will
again be the judge at the second annual exhi-
bition of the Maryland Colt Show Association,
to be held at the Gentlemen's Driving Park in
June next beginning on the 9Th. He will
have as bis assistant Mr.. Clark Petit, of
Salem, NJ
- The assistant teachers of Baltimore coun-
ty, having won partial victory in their fight
to have their salaries raised, are determined and
will not give up until they have fully won their
point. They have the sympathy of great
many prominent people who think their cause
is just one.
.>Mr. Clarence Brooks, farmer on the
Hillen road, rugged up a gun, loaded with sand,
to catch a chicken thief that had been visiting
him. While gathering eggs Mr. Brooks acct
dentally discharged the gun himself and re-
ceived the load in his back. Funny thing
for the thief.
- Many fruit and ornamental trees in Tow
son were badly damaged by the March storm
and some have been entirely ruined. One
gentleman said that fine tree of his that last
year produced bushels of beautiful cherries
was put out of business entirely, and this is
only single instance.
- Rev. Thomas E. Pattison, who died at
Atlantic City a few days ago, aged IA years.
preached in Trinity Church, Towson, several
times last summer during the temporary alb
sence of the rector. The funeral took place in
Baltimore, and the remains were taken to
Woburn, Mass. for interment.
% Clean upl Clean upl Clean upl That's
good advice for every body at this season of the
year. There are about almost every house
some accumulations of rubbish during the
winter and these should be gotten rid of as
speedily as possible. 1t improves the appear
ance Of things and is also conducive.to health.
- The people on some of Baltimore's subur-
ban trolley lines made much complaint on &C.
count of poor mail service just following the
late storm but they should remember that
conditions were very bad and in some in
stances almost insurmountable. They might
not have another such experience in lifetime.
- While trying to stop runaway team in
Baltimore on Wednesday, Mr.. Charles A. Sell
ing, of Raspeburg, Belair road, sustained in
juries that caused his death in short time.
he was ~ years OF age and leaves widow and
six children. Mr.. Selling, who was a carpenter
and builder, was a member of Catch NJ. E.
Church.
->If an Inauguration day turns out to be go
bad that every body heaps excavations on the
head of the weather man, then all talk about
the necessity of changing the date of Inaugural
ton to time later in the year. But in little
while all this is forgotten and March 4th re-
mains the day. 1t is a difficult matter to get
away from traditions like this.
- large meeting of Baltimore and Har-
ford county farmers was held at Fallston last
Saturday and passed strong resolutions calling
consideration to the desirability of selecting
the Hartford instead of the Belair road to be
improved by State aid Those who attended
the meeting were very much in earnest.
- An accident that occurred last week on
the electric line between Baltimore and Wash
lngtOn was, by some means, kept out OF the
Baltimore papers. The car ran into tree that
the snow threw down on the track and smashed
the front, but no one was hurt. a resident of
Towson who was on the car said it was almost
a miracle that somebody was not killed.
- THE UNION has received large number
John b. Longnecker, and our brethren of the
press have been most kind in their expressions
of sorrow at his removal. All these are deeply
appreciated by the surviving member of the
firm and we would be glad to personally &C.
knowledge each one were such thing possible.
> The sudden and unexpected death of Mr..
Charles ID. Wler, which occurred at his winter
residence in Baltimore last Saturday, was
great shock to many people in this commu.
nifty. He was well known here-the family
being regular attendants in summer at Trinity
P. E. Church-and he was highly esteemed.
Much sympathy is expressed for the bereaved
family.
- The weather man went as far wrong in
his forecast for Thursday of this week as he
did last, and this day must be sort of hoodoo
for him. He predicted good weather for March
4th, and everybody knows now how woefully
he missed it. This week he said snow and
much colder for Thursday, and the day was an
ideal spring one. Evidently screw loose
somewhere.
$Towson hotel men have been ENJOYING
harvest since the late storm. They have had,
in addition to their usual customers, a large
number of telegraph and telephone linemen to
provide for. The havoc wrought by last weeks
storm among lines and poles is without prece-
dent in this section of Maryland, and the cost
to the companies to repair the damage will be
very heavy.
- Taking their cue from what they saw in
THE UNION several weeks ago a number of
Baltimore county people. who had previously
failed to secure any ice, filled their ice-houses
heavy and if packed tight it ought to keep
long time. Some years ago Mr.. George Hoff,
of Sherwood tried this, filling his house with
snow that fell early in April and he was very
well pleased with the result.
- Mr.. Thomas w. Offutt, president and
manager of the Mt. Washington Electric Light
and Power Company, says that the damage
wrought to telegraph and telephone lines in
this county by the storm of the 11th instant
will reach fully 100000. Mr.. Offutt's COM
pany deserves much credit for its promptness
in restoring many of the lines to service. The
Towson newspaper offices were fearful that
they would be without power to drive their
presses on Friday of last week, but before the
middle of the day the line was working.
Another Fake Suit Against Railroad
Company.-In sentencing David A. Howard,
colored, to nine months in Jail for attempting
to defraud the United Railways and Electric
Company by pretending that he had been
struck and injured by car, Judge Wright, in
the Criminal Court of Baltimore said on Tues
day that his experience led him to believe that