The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-29
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Jessie Mckenzie, Jr Della, So; Susan Cox, of
Black Rock, widow of Oliver Cox, SO. Sam
uel Holbert, of Hyde's, has had his pension in
creased to IS per month.
THE green reminders have been return
| ing to the office of THE UNION this week in
considerable number, and still there are many
hundreds of them not accounted for. Next
week-the last one of the old year and the
nineteenth century-should be good time to
remember this little matter.
The new school building at Owings'
Mills, 4th district, will be dedicated next Mon
day with appropriate ceremonies. The mem
bers of the School Board and the County Com
missioners have been invited to be present.
The new house is of brick, contains three
rooms, and cost about 80, 000
- Mr.. Wesley S. Perine. Waterman of the
Towson National Bank, received as q Christ
mas gift from President Crowther the an
nouncement that his salary would be increased
IS per month commencing with January LIST,
1901 The Twentieth Century will therefore
open auspiciously for Mr.. Perine
- Baltimore city shops got large slice OF
Towson's cash in the way of Christmas shop
ping. For several days preceding the great
holiday this town was at times almost deserted.
And the business of the electric line was BOOM
ing right along, the traffic being unusually
heavy for week or more before Christmas.
- So far as the use of explosives, horns, and
other noise producing devices are concerned
last Tuesday was the most quiet Christmas we
ever saw in Towson, and to the credit of the
town it can be said, there was very lttlei if any
drunkenness. People appear to think that
rational enjoyment of the day is by far the
best.
Mr.. John Brown, who was so seriously
injured last week in a blasting accident in Boil
linger's quarry, near Butler, is recovering at
the City Hospital Baltimore. 1t was thought
at first that he would lose his left arm and the
sight of one of his eyes, but the surgeons said on
Thursday that there were prospects of saving
both
The Champion Vegetable Bunch Wash
ing Machine, invented and patented by Mr..
Casper Supple of c., of Gardenville. is to be
manufactured on large scale by the Supple
Machine Company, which will shortly be in
corporated in Virginia, with a capital of $685.
600, to push the sale of this and other patented
articles.
-" Auchentoroly, the fine residence of
the late ]. Morris Orem on the west side of
Druid Hill Park, near the Reisterstown road,
with lot 40 feet square. has been sold to Mr..
Daniel Baker for 81, 900. This house was
built for his son by the late John M. Orem
and probably cost three times as much as Mr..
Baker paid for it.
> a special entertainment was provided on
Christmas day by DR.. E. N. Brush, medical
superintendent for the inmates of the Shep-
pard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, near Towson.
The program included Ethiopian Melodies"
and farce entitled much Nonsense" by
Marion and Will Hail. and also an electric
fountain exhibition.
> CLYDE aged years, son of Mr.. Charles
E. Bowen, keeper of the York road toll-gate
in Towson, was struck by an electric car on
Wednesday and sustained some painful cuts
and bruises. This was the third time he had
met with similar accidents. The child, al
though deaf and dumb, the result of sickness,
is remarkably bright
>"Open house. on Christmas day, once
such a general custom in Towson-in fact in
the South generally-is now more honored in
the breach than in the observance. OF course
there is still much entertaining, but not of the
kind so much in vogue twenty or more years
ago. And the new plan of Celebrating APP
pears to be generally approved.
- Speaking about nerve what would you
think of an agent who could enter business
office early on the morning after Christmas
day and attempt to take up lot of your val
liable time in his efforts to sell you a book?
That is what happened in THE UNION office
on Wednesday morning. Nerve like that
simply surpasses all understanding.
- number of citizens of Ruxton, n. G.
R. R., have petitioned the County Commits
sioners for the appointment of special police
man for that place to serve during the months
when many families remove to the city for
the winter. A number of robberies of un-
protected houses have occurred. The Board
will appoint temporary officer.
THE children of Trinity P. E. Sunday
school, Towson, were given treat in the
chapel, on Thursday night. Mr.. II. " Walt
jen impersonated Santa Claus to such degree
Of perfection that many of the little tots were
much frightened when he made his appear
ance through the chimney. Mr.. Osborne I.
Yellott is superintendent of the school.
~ Since the Wednesday crop of appoint
ments at the Court House there has been much
Swearing and scores of threats from those who
for one reason or another, failed to connect.
In some districts the feeling is especially bitter
/ and some offered to give odds and bet that the
Republicans will sweep the county next year.
AStranger things than that have happened.
IA large delegation of Baltimore county
Democrats, headed by Hon. J.. Fred. G. Tai
bolt, was before Gov. Smith on Thursday to
recommend the appointment of Mr.. e. Lynn
Painter as road engineer for this county.
Mr.. Redmond c. Stewart continues to press
Mr.. w. W. Crosby, of Massachusetts, for the
place. The Governor must make the appoint
ment before January LIST.
+Nothing definite has yet been settled upon
on with regard to the Milk Producers Associa
ton and they are apparently as badly mixed
up as ever. The closing of the doors this week
of the Old Town Bank, to which the associa-
ton was heavily indebted, will be likely to
bring matters to head very shortly. The
general opinion on the outside is that the cred-
tors of the association will have to whistle
for their claims.
MIR. s. s. Merritt of Grange, Patapsco
Neck, had fine display at the annual meet
ing of the State Horticultural Society held in
Baltimore last week. The articles were col
lected among his neighbors and embraced
savoy cabbage purple-top turnips, carrots,
parsnips, Sandwich Island satisfy, sweet pota-
toes, spinach, Siberian kale, Scotch kale or
broccoli and other articles. The display at
tracted great deal of attention.
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''The School Commissioner, the Teacher
and the Scholar."-Thisw was the subject of
an address delivered by Mr.. w. B. Krout mem
Der of the Baltimore County School Board to
both the white and colored teachers before the
final closing of the institutes held in Baltimore
last week. Mr.. Krout gave humorous ac-
count of the trials ofthe School Commissioner.
He said that the teachers forget that the Com
missioner cannot always do just as he would
like to do. His duties seem to be without linn
it. He is expected to supply a substitute at
moments notice. and is also expected to sup
ply at equally short notice stove CRATES or any
other old thing. But, he said, the school
teachers demands can't compare in extent and
variety with those of the candidate for the
position of teacher.
Turning to the teachers Mr.. Krout gave a
number of suggestions to be followed in class
room work. He advised that they demand
the most careful department from their pu
pills. He reminded the teachers of the large
amount of money expended for school pur-
poses annually by the State, emphasizing the
fact that $3.50 600 of this is spent for the teach
ers' salaries He urged the teachers to remem-
Der that they are personally responsible that
the expenditure of this amount should be fol-
lowed by commensurate results.
Mr.. Krout commented on the fact that eff
forts are being made to establish public libra
ries in some sections of the county, and spoke
of their usefulness to both teacher and scholar
Items from the Glyndon Record. -
Mrs Patrick Dyer, of Glyndon, went to Dan
ville Va, last Friday, where she will spend a
month.
Miss Lizzie Russell, of Reistertown has gone
to Pittsburg, where she will spend the winter
with her sister, Mrs. ]. c. Wightman.
Mrs. Joshua Tracey, of Worthington Val
ley, is spending several weeks in Philapelphia
with her daughter, Mrs. II. +. Sewing
The pupils in the seventh grade at Frank
lin High School presented their teacher, Miss
Jessie Wenner, with handsome silver watch
as a Christmas gift.
Edward Bonner was arrested in Reisertown
on Saturday night for using profane language
on the public highway and taken before JUS
tice Beckley. The swearing proved an expen-
sive diversion to Bonner, who was required to
pay fine and costs amounting to 1891.
The chandelier of the Southern Methodist
Church, Reistertown, fell last Tuesday. 1t
was valued at S75 and was damaged beyond
repair. Mr. Rawlin, the sexton of the church,