The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-01

- People are already beginning to make
INQUIRIES for calendars for 1901.
ut is thought the tax rate in Baltimore
city for the coming fiscal year will be $1.95 on
the 500.
- George T. Parrish, of Dickeyville Balti-
more county, has secured a pension at the rate
of Sc per month.
THE December term of the Circuit Court
for Baltimore county will begin next Monday.
This is the longest term of the year.
-%Thirty-two deeds were received for record
in the County Clerks office on Tuesday-an
unusually large number for one day.
- Alfred Bailey has brought suit in the
Circuit Court at Towson against Andrew Bal
ley for 1854 for board bill of six years stand
49, Five hundred turkeys was part of the
menu of the Thanksgiving dinner furnished
the animals in the Baltimore Zoo on Thurs
day.
closed on Wednesday for the Thanksgiving
holiday, will reopen next Monday, Decem-
Der Sd.
MIR. Caleb s. Hobbs, who has been an eff
ficient constable of the I'd district many years,
was on Wednesday reappointed by the County
Commissioners.
-All three of the Baltimore county hunt
clubs had meets ON Thanksgiving day. All
the conditions were favorable and the result
was splendid sport
There was slight fire last Sunday night
IN the reSluenCe Oh MI. OudFleS u I1OLuSI, al
Sherwood n. G. r. R., caused by disarrange-
ment of the electric wires.
cardinal Gibbons paid visit last SUM-
day TO st. Luke's Church, Sparrow's Point,
and confirmed class of forty seven persons,
thirty-nine of whom were children.
the weather of Thanksgiving day was
very pleasant, with temperature of 90, Fol
outdoor sports. riding, driving or walking, II
was all that could have been desired.
ION Saturday last William Montgomery,
while working on the new bowling alleys al
the brick hotel Govanstown, fell from scat
fold and dislocated his right shoulder.
- Towson Lodge Order of Elks, will hold
memorial services in Grange Hall here, Sun
day night, December I'd. An interesting and
impressive program will be presented.
- owson Council, Royal Arcanum, will
give banquet at Tracey's Hotel, Towson, Fri
day evening, December 18th, in honor OF the
officers of the Grand Lodge of Maryland.
- Look out for the little green messengers
that go out with this weeks issue of THE
UNION. There are many hundreds of them,
but you need not feel sighted if you don't gel
one.
->In ten years the population of Baltimore
county has increased about Is, 600 In 1860 II
was 81 1856; in 1870, So, 3S7 in 1880, SO, 1856; in
1890. y, 909-loss due to annexation; in 1900,
80, 1855.
- The fruits and vegetables used in the dec.
Grafton of Trinity Church, Towson, on Thanks
giving day were sent to the Church Home
Baltimore, and to st. Johns Orphanage FOL
Boys, Waverly.
- Mrs. Susan B. Sweetfer. relict of David
e. Thomas, of Baltimore. died on the Oath
inst, at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr.
John NJ. Carter, of Mt. Washington in the 9th
year of her age.
> This is the first day of December and
when one remembers the presents, the mince
pies and other troublesome things be is almost
appalled, to think that Christmas is only TWEEN
ty-four days off
- DR.. R. Percy Smith, of Sunny brook
10th district is having his house reprinted and
otherwise improved. The location of his place
is very high, affording some of the most beau
tiful views in the county.
- Mrs. Elizabeth Yeager, mother of Mrs.
John B. Longnecker, of Towson, died at her
residence, Stockton avenue, Allegheny City,
Pa, on Wednesday morning. Her death was
due to the infirmities of age.
- William Chenoweth, OF Baltimore, who
was confined in Jail here on the charge of lar.
ceny and who was attacked with typhoid fever
has been sent to hospital in the city, by order
of Jail Physician Massenburg.
Two years age. people were sleighing in
Baltimore county before the first of December
This year we did not have enough snow be-
fore the first of the present month to even
make showing on the ground.
1.-THE buds on some lilac bushes in Tow.
son are beginning to swell like they do in early
spring the bright green showing plainly
through the outer covering. An unusually
mild autumn is accountable for this.
1.-THE new dry house at Sherwood Distil-
lery, Cockeysville, was put into service on
Monday last. The house is used to dry the
swill slop, which will thus be converted into
bran and sold to the farmers for feed
- Elsewhere in The UNION today is pub
lished a letter from the pen of DR.. B. Rush
Ridgely, of the Sth district, in which he gives
some interesting "reminiscences that will be ap
preciated, especially by our older readers.
"a Baltimore paper says Captain Cassell
of Druid Hill Park, is now the grandfather oil
thirteen grandchildren" 1t would have been
funny if the venerable Captain had been the
uncle of that many of his grandchildren.
1.-THE sharp storm ofthunder and lightning
on Sunday night last was followed by some
blasts from the northwest that were good re-
minders of winter. Heat and cold, storm and
sunshine, are curiously mixed in this climate
THE Cedar Heights Land and Improve
ment Company, with a capital stock OF 81, 500
was incorporated in Baltimore this week by
Messrs II. NJ. Benzinger, James s. Calwell
VIM. Spilman, Charles Spilman and Charles
Bouchet.
Zone night this week worthless cur
killed Is fine sheep belonging to Mr.. Frank D.
Brown, in Howard county, near Woodstock.
There is no law-to the shame of Maryland be
itsaid-to protect the sheep raiser against such
outrages.
Soliloquizing the day after Thanksgiving
the turkey said 10 Pm feeling just fine. II
felt any better I'd think something was the
matter with me-" Vain and fooling bird
Has he forgotten that Christmas is less than q
month off?