The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-01-06


leaving for home.
- 4 Baltimore county school teacher was
in Towson early Monday morning looking for
the Teachers Institute. Although the place
of holding the institute had been announced
in the county papers several weeks this man
did not know it. How can teacher expect to
be informed of what is going on in the world
if he don't read the newspapers?
THE annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Baltimore County Agricultural Society
was held ct TOwsOn, on Saturday last but
owing to the slim attendance it was adjourned
until Saturday, January 18th, when it will re-
assemble at The Maryland Hotel, South Cal
vert street, Baltimore, at IL A. NJ, when
board of managers for the present year will be
elected
IA pretty lively kick has been put up in
Gainesville because the new night officer at
that place John G. Naylor,) was sent there
from the 7th district A good many people
think the officer should have been selected
from the 1st district, in which Gainesville is
located, more particularly so as the 1st did not
shaken.
-On Monday morning, when the train
from Belair reached Towson, Sheriff Todd's
officers arrested young man named Thomas
Hopkins upon the charge of passing forged
check for $50 on Milton A. Reckord, a clerk
for the Reckord Manufacturing Company in
Belalr About $50 of the money was found ON
him and be was fully identified by Mr.. Reck-
ord Hopkins, who bears bad reputation,
tried TO pass forged checks on the banks in
Delta a few days before:
> The greatest New Year surprise in Tow
son was furnished on Tuesday morning by
County Commissioner Blakeney and Col. B.
F. TAYLOR. They came here together the for
mer resigned his Office and the latter went into
the Clerks office and obtained his commission
from the Governor to fill the place until the
fall of 1901. Previously there had not been
the slightest intimation that such change
was in contemplation, and most naturally
there was much surprise expressed.
- With this issue THE UNION enters upon
its fifty-first volume. The paper was started
at Cockeysville fifty years ago by the late Is.
F. Church, and was called the Baltimore Coun-
~ Adgocdte. When the county seat was
changed from Baltimore city to Towson the
plant was removed here and has been here
ever since. There are a few names still on The
UNIONS mailing lists that were there when it
was first issued, while hundreds of descendants
of others that were then there are still patrons
of the paper.
- Mr.. James ]. Lindsay, of the law firm
of Boarman & Lindsay, met with bad acct
dent on Saturday night last. He boarded an
electric car at Lauravile. Hartford road, to
come to his home here Before he had time
to take q seat the car started suddenly and
turned into shifting track at high speed. He
was hurled against the front glass of the car,
smashing it and cutting severe cash on his
cheek and another on his hand. When he
reached home DR.. ]. II. Jarrett had to be
called on to dress the wounds.
- Chestnut Grove Presbyterian Church
will not be reopened next Sunday, as errone-
ously announced in these columns last week.
The extensive Improvements that are being
made to the building will not be completed for
several weeks. The special service announced
by the pastor, Rev. J. w. Campbell, last week,
will be held in the hall at Sweet Air, Sunday
morning, 7th inst, commencing at IL o'clock.
Preparatory service Saturday, 9th, at 8 p NJ,
followed by a meeting of the session to receive
any who may desire to unite with the church.
- During the late intensely cold weather,
with the mercury near the zero mark and
winds that cut like knife, gang of men
has been engaged in stringing wires on the
large new telegraph poles in this place. Many
people could not understand why they were
kept at such work while the weather was so
severe Upon inquiry it was learned that cold
weather is always the best for stringing tele
graph wires, because if put up in warm wealth
er they are likely to be snapped by contraction
when the weather becomes very cold. This is
something worth remembering.
Death of Widely Known Methodist
Protestant Minister-Rev DIR. J. T. MUIR
ray died at his home in Baltimore, on Sunday
morning last, aged 10 years. He was attacked
with pneumonia a week before and it was this
that caused his death. His wife died many
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