The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-22

next Sunday night, at o'clock. Carols will
be sung and there will be an address made by
Rev. Jere X. Cooke, of Grace Church, Balt
more. A cordial invitation is extended to ev
erybody.
- Owners of nearly 5000 shares of BALTIC
/ & Lehigh stock have agreed to give Messrs
Brown & Sons, bankers, option on the same al
$40 share, the option TO extend until March
1st, 1901. The total number of shares is s, 435,
so it will be seen large majority of the stock
has been secured.
Y - The Road Drivers Association, of which
A Mr.. Ormond Hammond is president, is now
n taking active steps looking to the conversion
III of Bark Heights aveEu into a speedway and
cycle path. This is an enterprise that should
II succeed as it will be sure to add to the atrac-
N tiveness Of Baltimore.
\ THE Board of County Commissioners
adjourned on Wednesday until the day after
Christmas 1t was unoficially given out that
| no appointments would be made public until
| that time, so the man who expected to get an
office in his Christmas stocking will be obliged
to possess his soul in patience.
IA copy of the articles of incorporation
of the Independent Match Company has been
filed for record in the County Clerks office at
Towson. The capital stock of the company is
100000. None of the incorporators are
known here and there seems to be some mys-
terry surrounding the company.
- Richard Evans, colored, of Sparrow's
| Point went to Baltimore with 50 in his pocket
He fell in with two colored sharpers and it
wasn't long before they had his cash, which
they got from him by the key-ring trick.
| Others should take warning by Richards ex-
perience and fight shy of the sharpers.
"a large residence not far from Towson
is said by colored servants who have worked
in it to be 'hanted." They declare that
popularity about the doors is that invariably
when one closes another is sure to open and,
according to their superstitious natures, this
is "sure sign' that "gosts" are around.
1.-THE I'd district made things hot in the
County Commissioners office on Tuesday, all
about the trifling matter of district road COM
missionership. An ancient political corpse
| became rehabilitated for the time being and
took the side of one of the applicants. and if
anything could kill him that ought to do it.
THE old Hammet House property, on
the Reisterstown road, has been sold by Mr..
Albert N Horner, of Baltimore, to Mr.. L. u.
/ Condor for $4,000. 1t contains 10 acres and
the old, dilapidated tavern building is still
standing on it. 1t is said that it is the inten-
ton of Mr.. Condor to erect modern summer
hotel on the property.
= - The Sunday school of the First German
Y Reformed Church, Jacksonville, 10th district
will hold its annual festival on the evening of
\ Christmas day, commencing at s o'clock. Mr..
| Joseph Lins, superintendent, will have charge,
assisted by Rev. Paul Wienand, of Baltimore,
and Mr.. Albert Lins, of Cleveland, 0. a gen.
eral invitation is extended
~ The sale of the personal property of Mr..
Joshua F. Todd, on the Pot Spring road, one
mile southeast of Warren, which took place
last Monday, was one of the most successful
of the season. The attendance was large and
the bidding throughout spirited. The net
amount of sales was about $1,000 Slade 81
Risteau were the auctioneers.
THE weather took a sudden turn on
Wednesday and from sharp and freezing at
mOsphere of few hours before the mercury
gradually assembled above 60 and put sudden
stop to ice gathering. 1t looks now like We
are going to have green Christmas" sure
enough and that, according to an ancient be-
lief, betokens fat graveyard"
- After the current one there will be but
one more issue of The UNION before the close
of the nineteenth century. Those who wish
| to become subscribers before the opening of
! the new century should delay no longer.
Everybody wants to make good start at the
beginning of 1901, and this is one of the means
to that end. Let us hear from you at once.
>The Yuletide bazar, held in the James
mansion, North Charles street, Baltimore, two
afternoons and evenings last week, for the
benefit ofthe Hospital for Crippled and Deform.
ed Children, was a splendid success and will
net about 5000. This is charity in which
Mrs. D. G. Mcintosh, of Towson, is deeply in
terested, and which is accomplishing much
good
II > The people of Baltimore are arranging
for the welcoming of the coming century on
a big scale. AS thousands of Baltimore coun-
ty people will participate in this affair we of
the hayseed contingent are feeling almost as
much interest as though we were to be active
participants. And we will be, even if our
sDobbish neighbors think we are not quite up
to the mark.
- Henry F. Harrison, Baltimore book
dealer, has secured an absolute divorce from
his wife, who was formerly Miss Kate Boyce
daughter of the late James Boyce. He went
to Cheyenne Wyoming, where he had to re-
main six months to gain residence before he
could secure the decree. 1t is said that Mr..
John Watson, Jr., attorney for Mrs. Harrison,
will make an effort to upset the decree.
THE stockholders of the Baltimore Coun-
ty Agricultural Society did good thing at
their annual meeting in Towson on Wednes-
day in re electing as a Board of Managers the
gentlemen who served last year. They did
their work faithfully and acceptably and are
able to make financial showing, in the face
of many adverse circumstances, that is great
" to their credit as well as to the benefit of
the society.
Some of the conductors on the through
I electric line between Towson and Gainesville
are disposed to treat unjustly passengers who
come north of the Govanstown fare limit.
Often their cars are crowded to overlooking
with people who pay but cents fare while they
try to run away from passengers who want to
come all the way through and have 10 pay 10
cents to do it. There is something wrong here
Isthat should be corrected.
> The Christmas horn and the holiday eX
plosive have been very little in evidence this
week and it looks like they are not to come
into general use by young America. The sci
entists can tell us when to look for eclipses OF
the sun and moon, for shooting" stars and
many other apparently occult things, but none
of them have yet attempted to explain why
the small boy is happiest wheE he is making
as much noise as boiler shop.
- Several weeks ago THE UNION told
little story about how Congressman-eect A; A.
Blakeney put himself in for pony at the late
Timonium fair. Well, the pony arrived in
Towson on Thursday from Mr.. E. B. Schmidts
Phil EDDY Pony Farm, at Cub Hill, Hartford
road, and now the young daughters of Mr..
VIM. A. Lee are very happy little ladies. The
pony is bay, with good deal OF white and
looks like he ought to stand the racket.
MIR. Alex Mccormick, of Fullerton,
vice president of the Baltimore County Agri-
cultural Society, says that the water in the
we'll on his place is lower than 1T has been IN
twelve years, but this causes him no inconve-
nience as his dwelling, greenhouses, &C., are
supplied from a lake on the farm, the water be-
| ing forced up by hot-air engine that gives
great satisfaction. He says there has been but
one rain to thoroughly soak the earth since
last spring.
| This is the season when the expressman
thanks his stars that it don't happen SO every
month. But the man who owns the express.
| That is altogether another matter. He is go
! ing about with his hat cooked to one side and
q strange leer on his face which appears to say {:
You may elude me at other seasons of the
| year out I've got you now, sure. lou uSually
turn the street cars into freight line, but the
pressure is too heavy just now and you must
give me a chance whether you want to or not"
\ With the beginning of the new century
THE UNION will enter upon the fifty-second
year of its existence. AS years go that is a
pretty good age for a newspaper For the
greater part of that time it has been under the
same management and the success with which
it has met, in all its departments is the best of
evidence that it is appreciated. The publishers
feel deeply grateful to the people generally for
their liberal support and it shall be their con-
kstant effort to continue to merit their good will
- 1t is good thing to remember the poor
at all seasons of the year, but it is especially
appropriate Just now, when good cheer abounds
so generally. In the abundance of your store
remember that there are many whose lives have
not been cast in pleasant places and who have,
perhaps, scarcely the common necessities of
life 1t is such as these, and especially the
little ones, who should not be neglected.
Make your heart glad by assisting those who
have not the wherewithal to provide for them
! selves.
| 81 is not so many years ago that the 1ork
turnpike, from ten days to two weeks before
Christmas, was crowded day and night with