The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-01-02

Woodensburg, 4th District.-The Christ
mas holidays have SO far passed off very quietl
in this section and have been considered nue.
duer than usual. The occasional report of GU
or toot of horn were about all that was heard o.
Christmas day to "awaken echo, and the
were hardly able to do it. Prayer-meeting wa
held in the M. E. Church, at Reisterstown, at
o'clock Christmas morning, and at 1880 a. m.
sermon was preached in the M. &. Church South
[ suppose the usual Christmas services took plao
in the Episcopal and Catholic churches, they sci
dom being neglected.
| On Christmas eve, at o'clock, the wedding o
Mr.. Upton Bergman and Miss Georgia Fisher
daughter of Mrs. Louisa Fisher, of Gyndon, tool
place at the M. Z. Church, at ResterstOwn, Rev
B. G. W. Reid performing the ceremony. Messrs
Roswell Bergman, brother of the groom, ant
Samuel Yingling were the ushers. The wedding
cake, which was very handsome and surmounted
with wreath of artificial flowers, q horse shot
and the words "Good Luck" was photographed
and will be preserved in this form for the bride
and groom and their friends in the future to gaze
upon. After the wedding reception was giver
to the friends Of the bride and groom at the resi-
dence of the formers mother. The brides pres
| ents were numerous and handsome.
On the same evening services were held II
the Lutheran Church, at Reisterstown, and a
Christmas treat administered to the children Of
| the Sunday school.
Watch meetings are to be held in both the M
| E. Church and NJ. E. Church South, at Reisters-
town, on New Years eve, and afterwards series
of evening or night meetings is to be held in the
| former church, with view to a religious revival
if possible, which the recent protracted meeting at
| Glyndon failed to result in.
| A very pleasant little sociable was held at the
| residence of Mr.. VIM. Allen, on Monday night in
honor of his daughter, Miss Katie Allen. Among
| those present from Resterstown were Mr.. Samuel
| Yingling, Miss Blanche Yingling, Miss Katie
| Parkinson. Miss Katie Giles and others, nearly all
members of the M. E. Church there.
] The provision business of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. D.
Yingling, at Reisterstown, in the place from which
the postotfice was recently removed, is prospering
beyond all their expectations, they being scarcely
able to supply the demand upon them. Such an
| establishment has been a long-felt need in that
| community, and no doubt when the summer sea-
| son comes and boarders again swarm into the
| place as usual, the business will be still much
| further increased and will become a highly re-
| munerative one.
| Mrs. Yingling received q few days ago, through
| the express, very handsome gold watch and
| guard a Christmas present from her eldest son,
| Dean, who is employed in the Elgin Watch Works,
| in Illinois, and who, less than year ago, mar.
| ried very interesting Illinois lady.
noticed that the Odd Fellows Hall, in Refs
| terstown, is being handsomely renovated with a
| new coat of paint and with new carpet in the
lodge rooms. The work inside is quite completed
| and that on the outside nearly so. The appear
| ance of the hall be greatly improved.
| A peregrinating show company was making
preparations to give an exhibition in the hall on
| Monday evening. The advertisement stated that
| the candies and other good things given to the
| children were to be esteemed Christmas treat
and the ticket money for the exhibition only.
| A good Christmas catch to get large patronage
for the show.
Mr.. George Prechtel, the teacher of the public
| L IL,
week, which somewhat prolonged the children s
holiday, he being compelled to close the school a
couple of days in advance.
Mr.. John Clark, who has suffered so long with
rheumatism, is rapidly improving under the treat
ment of DR.. Davis, of Hampstead, who is said to
be specialist in the cure of this disease Mr..
Clark walks around freely now without cane or
any difficulty, and hopes soon to be able to resume
his usual work of carpentering.
A good many Sunday school exhibitions and
entertainments have been held in the several
churches during the holidays in this district,
tably the ones at St. Paul's Lutheran Church.
Arcadia; Emory NJ. E. Church and Mt. Gilead
NJ. P. Church of this place. I learn that one of
exclusively religious character will take place
at Reisterstown, next Sunday evening. Mt
Gilead M. P. Church was crowded with people so
that there was not standing room within doors on
Tuesday evening, and the exercises were of an in
teresting character and creditably performed.
A fox was let loose Tuesday, at Fairview, with
a view to good chase, but the animal was either
too tame drugged so that he did not take to his
work, and turned around few PAGES from where
he was let loose to look at the yelping hounds
which were nearly upon him. He was caught
within the same field, Mr. Louis Mumma's hound
being the first to seize him, and Mr.. Harry Algire
getting the brush. The chase proved quite tame.
ANON.
II TO Wah oy ~
and have it bad-that is our ladies have the
"crazy" quilt fever. Did you ever one, Messrs.
Editors, and would you dare try to approach it
with little arithmetic? If you did fear the re-
suit would be that your readers would be tempted
to apply the quilts cognomen to their worthy edi-
tors. One quilt, twenty-five squares-and there
stick, for one hundred and ninety nine pieces to
a square and nine times ninety -nine stitches to
each piece will require Babbage of extra capaci-
ty to determine the aggregate. So let's give it up
and acknowledge the term "crazy" well applied.
But to be more specific, let me say that the ladies
Of our NJ. E. Church, in the kindness of their ma
ture, have made what they call crazy quilt, and
have gladdened the hearts of their pastor and his
wife by giving it to them as an Xmas present. Of
all who receive presents on our Christian annver-
sary none l am sure, can be more deserving than
a faithful pastor. The average Methodist minis
ter is not often troubled with a superabundance
of the good things of this life. Some churches of
the denomination are wealthy and their laborers
get the worth of their hire, but with the majority
this is not so. And whilst they may not all be
saints, yet the ef-sacrifcing zeal of by far the
greater NUMBER their unselfsh devotion to a
cause that they do not even expect to supply what
the natural man seems most to crave, must win
the admiration of fair minded men.
After the regular service on Thursday evening
last, the ladies, through their spokesman, Miss
Annie Schultz, presented the quilt to Rev.Mr. Nor
gan and his wife. He responded quite fee ingy for
himself and Mrs. Morgan. Mr.. w. j. johnson
made some apt remarks and quoted Scripture to
prove that "the bed is (not) shorter than that a
man can stretch himself on it, and the covering
(not) narrower than that he can wrap himself in
it," as applied to this quilt.
The quilt consisted of twenty five squares. The
central one was the presentation square, and
beautifully worked upon it were the words: "To
Mr.. and Mrs. 7. A. Morgan from the Mt. Wash
ington W. F. NJ. s." The memorial square con-
tanned the names Of the members of our church
who have died during Mr.. Morgan's pastorate.-
They were Llewellyn L. Parker, Mrs. DR.. Bowen
Miss Sarah Ensor, Miss L. R. Blake, Mr.. Sperry
and Harry Weman. The Dickinson College
square embraced the names of DR.. McCauley, Prof.
Hartman and all the other members of the faculty
and of fifty of the students. Distributed among
the other squares were the names of the official
board and most of the members of the church.
To call it so thing of beauty" would be to do
the quilt very inadequate justice. 1t was that
and far more, for it bore upon its surface the evil
dence of sincerity of devotion that is beyond our
power to compute. Some parts of it quite natur-
ally reached ideal of art than Others but
who shall shy that the love which directed one
hand was more fervent than another?
The contributors of the various squares were
Mrs. L. E. Bennett, Mrs. VIM. Daniel, Mrs. Dr.
Tall, Mrs. B. B. Owens, Mrs. j. Love, Mrs. Emily
Smith, Mrs. NJ. Williams, Mrs. J. H. Shamberger
Miss Hiltabridle, Miss Matte Johnson, Miss Mary
0rrick, Miss Emma Amos, Miss Lizzie Yardley,
Miss Annie Schultz, Miss Ella Richstein, Miss
Ida Blake, Miss Annie Smith, Miss Ella Baker,
Miss Bcckie Mewshan, Miss Belle Bennett, Miss
Sallie Welsh, Miss Maggie Akehurst, Miss Ella
Ensor, Miss Amelia Jardin and Miss Carrie
Jackins. X.
Lauraville, Hartford Road.-The officers
and teachers of Eutaw Sabbath school gave the
children q Christmas treat on Tuesday night,
Dec. 22d, and most enjoyable time was had
Among those present were Rev. Silas Treadway
and the Rev. Mr.. Tagg, the latter q former pas
tor of Eutaw, who delivered an address to the
children, with moral for ALL After the address
the members of the Bible class presented their