The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1889-01-26

ST. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church, Park
riHe.-Rev. Karl Buff. pastor Service and ser
mon every Sunday, at 1910 A. M
81. Johns Church, Long Green, Bdldwin Station.
First, third and fifth Sundays and hohdays,
masses at and II A. NJ; second Sunday. mass at
81. Philips Church SWnnybrOOk.- Sun
day of the month, mass at ii A. M.
So Joints Erangelical Lutheran Church, Street
AI.-Rev. j. G. Reitz, pastor Preaching every
Sunday at 10. 30 A. NJ
-If YOU want good calendar for 1889 you
can get it by calling at THE UNION office.
> Parkville, on the Hartford road, has now
daily mail service Sundays excepted) from
Baltimore.
Mr. Nelson Perrin has been elected presi-
dent of the Gainesville horse railway company,
vice Mr. T. C. Robbins.
Mr.. C. S. Hobbs, assessor for the I'd dis
trict, lately made return to the County Com
missiOners amounting to 81, 299.
THE Office of Col. Samuel H; Tagart, on
Lexington street, Baltimore, was slightly dam
aged by fire on Monday morning last.
> ebecca ]. Doty, of Sparrow' Point, 18th
district widow of Cornelius b. DOty, has been
granted pension by the Government.
1.-The York Road Railway Company has
paid to the city its park tax for the quarter
ended December 81, 1888, amounting to S3S8.S1.
THE Grand Jury for the December term
of court adjourned finally on Monday; The
to-day.
Rev. Hobart H Smith. the new rector of
ST. Thomas Church, Garrison Forest, holds
service every Sunday afternoon at McDonogh
School.
Gouverneur Hyatt Jr, of Waverly, acct
dentally chopped off one of the fingers of his
left hand on Monday, while carelessly using a
Ratchet.
MIR. Thomas Jones, a painter of Waverly,
while at work on house at Ruxton, on Thurs
lodi and lU
his right arm.
THE Towson Guards were this week sup
piled with new overcoats. They are of dark
blue cloth, with large capes, and are very pretty
and comfortable.
nv having been reOrganiZed it is no longer any
secret that it is to be made broad-gauge road
in the near future
1.-The Governor has appointed Gen. Joseph
B. Seth, of Talbot county. member OF the
State Live Stock Sanitary Board, vice I. Alex
Seth of Baltimore county, deceased.
The Deer Creek Farmers Club has been
in existence nearly sixteen years and the flrst
death among its members was that of Mr.. Jas.
II. Ball, who died short time ago.
1.-The Loyal Legion of TOwsOntown will
meet in the NJ. E. Church, Sunday, January
9th, at P. NJ, when DR.. Edward Benson will
deliver an address. Public cordially invited.
"A meeting of Baltimore county farmers
will be held in Towsontown, Friday, February
interest. Particulars by advertisement here
after.
THE next meeting of the County School
Board will be held February 18th The teach
ers will be paid their salaries for the present
quarter on Friday and Saturday, February 18th
and 18th.
->Mr. Carvell Christopher, residing near
Gatch's Church, Belair road, died very sudden
ly from heart disease ON Thursday last He
was Al years of age and leaves wife and three
children.
ION the 23d instant the County Commits
sioners paid the School. Board $1,000. The
notes of the Board, amounting to $1,000, held
by the Towson National Bank, were taken up
on the 23d.
AN electric motor, which is to be given a
trial on the York Road Railway shortly is now
being built in Richmond, Va. The principal
upon which the new motor works has not yet
been divulged.
Next Saturday-February Dds ground
hog day People who believe in the theory
that that day controls the weather for the sue
ceedng six weeks will watch for its coming
with great deal of interest.
1.-The new kilns ofthe Ideal Lime and Stone
Company of Texas, n: Z. r. r., Will be tired
for the first time next Monday. BY the process
this company will use the stone is burned by
gas instead of by coal or wood.
THE statement that the interest on the
premium notes of the Mutual Fire Insurance
Company in Hartford county had been reduced
Six per cent. continues the rate.
THE town of Gainesville was disgraced
by another big chicken fight on Monday night
last, which is said to have been witnessed by a
large number of sports" Such brutal exhi-
billions should be forbidden by law.
1.-THE primary school at Arlington, estab-
lished by the city School Board, started Nst
Monday with fifty-five pupils. Miss VIOLA Nc
Crea, formerly an assistant teacher in the Wood
berry school, is the principal.
ok I'd kQ
for an appropriation of 1000 to run the
schools in the lately annexed sections for the
current year. The estimated cost of running
the city schools for 1889 is $685., 800.
~ orkran's Telephone Exchange of Luth-
erville now has thirty eight instruments in its
circuit, which includes COckeysyille, Mt. Wash
ington, TOwsOntOwn and Green Spring Valley.
Additions are constantly being made to the
number.
Ground was broken at Belair on Wednes-
day for the new Deer Creek and Susquehanna
Railroad. Mr.. George NJ. Jewett president of
the road, used the pick and shovel. The Messrs.
McCabe, contractors, commenced work on
Thursday.
- Lieut. Col L. Allison Wilmer, of the 1st
Maryland Regiment, Infantry, came to Tow
sontOwn Friday night, 18th inst, and inspected
the TOwson Guards. The company appeared
in full dress uniform and presented fine APP
pearance.
eThe Baltimore Sun saws: THE BALTI-
NUKE OOtNI1 CN1ON, puDAouCu at 1OAOOiAeOnli
by Longnecker Bros, has begun its fortieth
year THE UNION is a conservative, carefully
edited paper, and always replete with variety
of interesting matter
1.-Two or three sleighs made their appear
ance on our streets Tuesday morning-the first
of the winter. But the sport was short-lived,
the warm sun removing the thin coating of
snow from the streets in a few hours. Sleighs
appear to be poor stock this winter.
1.-The bazar for the benefit of TowsontOwn
NJ. f. Church will commence Monday, Febru-
airy 18th. and continue the balance of the week.
The ladies of the congregation respectfully ask
for donations for the tables. The bazar will be
held in the lecture-rOom of the church
Mrs. Elizabeth Hook, wife of ex-Sheriff
Richard w. Hook, died suddenly on Sunday
morning last at an advanced age, at the resi-
dence of her son, in Baltimore. She was the
mother of Messrs. r. Edwin and r. Bruce
Hook, formerly residents of TowsOntown.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, widow of the
late William Jackson, who at one time owned
large body of land on the turnpike short
distance below Towsontown, was stricken with