The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1888-02-04

The supply of coal in Towsontown has be-
come short and uncertain that some of our citi
gems have found it necessary to have their coal
hauled out from the city. in carts. This adds to
the already high price of that necessary article and
is an unfortunate condition of affairs resulting en-
tirey from the long cOntinued strike in the Penn
sylvania coal fields
"A "Christian Endeavor" society has been
formed by the young people of Grace M. E. Church,
Woodbury., with the following officers: William
Eichelberger, president; Harry Benson, vice-pres-
ident; Eugene Ogg, secretary; Miss Laura Dorsey,
treasurer. The object is to assist in the prayer
meetings and to pledge themselves to take part in
every service of the church.
DIR. Joseph Roberts, who for many years
conducted drug store on Greenmount avenue,
near Belair Market, and who was we'll known in
Baltimore county, died on Tuesday from an attack
of pneumonia resulting from a severe cold con-
tracted at his farm in Back River Neck, 18th dis
trict, about week before. He was 81 years of
age and leaves a wife and one child.
The saying that men are only boys grown
larger was illustrated here on Tuesday when q
staid and circumspect Court official seen coast
ing on tie turnpike hill with lot of boys, appar-
emily enjoying the sport as much as any Of them.
He halls from a district where the politicians are
said to be slippery" and this ma, in some mea-
sure account for his weakness for sliding"
Mr.. John S. Crowther, agent for Hon. Geo.
Hawkins Williams, was before the County Com
missoners on Tuesday and asked the Board to
favor the BILL now before the Legislature to amend
the charter of the Havre-de-Grace Turnpike Com
pany, relieving it from keeping up portion of
that road. The Board declined to indorse the bill
and DR.. Monmonier said the county would take
all of the road or none.
MIR. Henry Baker, of the 9th district to
whom The UNION alluded several weeks ago. is
not only the oldest person in that section of the
al Init ho hos
haps the largest number of descendants. He has
seven living children and three dead seventy -four
grandchildren and forty-seven great grandchil-
dren. The old gentleman has always led an active
life and still enjoys good health.
When bicycles first commenced travelling
our public roads people said it would never do,
that horses would be frightened by them aud many
accidents would be the result. Now they have be-
come so common that no attention is paid to them.
Just so will it be with motors the York road.
They will be q nine-days' wonder and then those
who at first objected to them will see how foolish
they were. Let US have the motors.
The case of Florence E. Kane who obtained
a verdict in the Baltimore county Circuit Court
for SS,740 damages against the BALTIC. Ohio R.
R. Company for personal injuries sustained at
Curtis Bay, which was carried up to the Court of
Appeals by the company, was argued in that court
few days ago by Messrs. D. G.. Mcintosh and J.
]. Wade, of Mrs. Kane, and by Messrs. John X.
Cowen and W. Irving Cross for the company.
Ground hog dsy-Thursday, February I'd
was a bright day and if the grounding came
out from his hiding place he must have seen his
shadow, which means, according to the old-time
idea, that are to have six weeks more of rough
wintry weather. But you can all make yourselves
easy. We never do have any good weather until
after the middle of March. and the six weeks the
grounding allows US just puts us past that date.
-Towsontown's sleighing carnival came off
on Wednesday night and it was a daisy, although
arrangements for it were made in a few hours.
They attempted something like this over in Belair
a couple of winters ago and when the day for it
arrived there was no snow. The idea of a sleigh
ing carnival without snow But then must
member that this occurred in Belair. This simple
statement is all the explanation that is necessary
A committee of citizens from Highlandtown,
headed by Mr.. Thomas McGinniss, called on the
County Commissioners Tuesday and asked that
the school house at that place be enlarged to accom-
modate the large increase in attendance. Mr..
Bruf, who accompanied the committee, said there
were now 800 pupils in the school, all of whom
were crowded into four rooms. The members Of
the Board promised to make personal inspection
of the building.
Mr.. Boone, member of the House Of Dele
gates from Baltimore county, told Mayor Latrobe
last Saturday that if the Belt went in the people
could not wait twelve months to have their streets
opened and that the best thing the Mayor could
authorizing loan of ST, 000,0 900 for improvements
in the new territory. This rather cool proposition
almost upset the Mayors equanimity and no doubt
made him wish that such thing as a Belt had
never been heard Of
The bill now before the Legislature, to per-
NIT the use of electric motors on the York Road
Railway, should become law. The benefits that
will be derived from quick transit by this means
cannot be estimated and the very few objections
that are now being made to the motors will soon
vanish in the light of the many advantages that
will be secured to the people along the entire line.
We hope the Baltimore county members of the
Legislature will secure the passage of the bill and
thus earn the thanks of large body of their con-
stituents.
At 10 o'clock on Monday morning last we
mailed at TOwsontown closely sealed package,
stamped with letter postage and addressed to q
business house not more than two squares distant
from the Baltimore postofice. The mail reached
its destination at 80 the morning, but that
package was not delivered until Wednesday Morn
ing, nearly twenty-four hours after leaving Tow
sontOwn. That does not speak very well for the
boosted expedition Of Uncle Sans mail. There
must be screw loose somewhere.
During the late severe cold snap the Mary
land Central Station at Boundary avenue so
uncomfortable because of insufficient heat-or
rather no heat at alias to cause great deal of
complaint, particularly from ladies who were
obliged to sit and shiver in the cold while await
ing trains. If the waiting -room cannot be made
comfortable in any other way the company should
put up a stove. Doubtless the foundations for
many colds, if not more serious cases of illness.
were laid because of this neglect on the part of
the company, which merited all the censure it re-
ceived.
Rev. Joseph Mettam, who had been the
pastor of the Baptist Church at Pikesville, Balt-
more county, for fifty years, died on Wednesday
last at the residence of his son-in-aw, Mr. Philip
Watts, in that place, in the SD year of his age.
His wife, who is nearly 81 years of age, survives
him. Mr.. Mettam was a native of England, but
came to this country in 1882, locating at Pikesve
coon afterwards and remained there until the time
OF his DEATH nearly all of that period having been
actively spent in the ministry. In 1885 Mr.. Met
tam and wife celebrated the sixtieth anniversary
of their wedding.