The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-08
= Everything on the newly broad-gauged

| - Everything on The newly brOad-gaugeC
BALTIC. & Lehigh Railroad is now moving
along smoothly and there is little cause fol
complaints from the passengers The freigh
traffic of the road is growing constantly anC
the general outlook for it is excellent
Mr.. David L. Matthews, who has charge
| of the poultry at the Sheppard and EnocE
/ Pratt Hospital, is now turning his attention
| to the growing of Belgian hares also. He has
seven does and buck and with this beginning
| he expects soon to have a large colony.
- Warden Kidd, of the county Jail, claim:
to hold the record as a slayer of large hawks.
! While cunning near the Pot Spring road on
Thursday he killed one that measured it, 81
inches from tip to tip of wings. The bird was
eating large chicken when he was shot.
>Mr. Elmer J. Cook, of Towson, general
agent for the United States Fidelity and Guar
anty Company of Baltimore, will accept our
thanks for a calendar for 1901, issued by his
company, that is the most elaborate and beau
tiful thing of the kind that has yet come to
our notice.
ION Tuesday afternoon County Commits
sioners Knox, Sade and Taylor accompanied
by DR.. T. Ross Payne, secretary of the local
Health Board, went to Baltimore to confer
with the State health authorities relative to a
more rigid enforcement of the sanitary laws OF
the county.
~ Scores of the little green messengers
sent out with last weeks issue of THE UNION
have already found their way back to the office
number. This should keep up from now
until January LIST, and we'll try to take care of
all that come along.
Two weddings are booked to take place
in Trinity Church, Towson, early in January,
7 the first on New Year dav So it will be seen
that this town, having gained something of a
reputation as Gretna Green, it is not without
home matrimonial events that are of more or
less absorbing interest.
MIR. William l.. Amoss, director of
- - r
his schedule of institutes for 1901. The one
for Baltimore county will be held at Towson
Monday and Tuesday, January 2lst and 22d
with two sessions each day Particulars will
be announced hereafter.
THE Christmas holiday of the public
schools of this county will be longer this year
than usual, due to the fact that Christmas day
falls on Tuesday. The schools will close on
Friday, December 14th on account of the
Teachers Institute, and not reopen until
Wednesday, January I'd.
THE NJ. E. Church at Parkton, n. c. r.
R., which has undergone extensive repairs and
Improvements in the last few weeks. will be
reopened for service on Sunday December 10th,
when Rev. Joseph Dawson, of Baltimore, will
preach at 10 80 A. NJ. and p. NJ. Rev. P. C.
Edwards is pastor of the church
THE two shortest days of the present
year will be December 22d and 3d. when the
sun will rise and set exactly at the same hours
-7.24 A. NJ. and 448 P. NJ. Winter, according
to the almanac, begins at this time, and when
the days begin to lengthen the cold begins to
strengthen" as the old saying has it.
On Saturday last Judge Fowler signed
decree appointing Messrs. Arthur w. Machen,
Allen McLane and VIM. CabelI Bruce trus-
tees to sell the "Old Baltimore Copper Works"
property, in this county. belonging to the es-
tate of the late John w. Garrett They are
required to bond in the sum of $250000.
"a delegation from Baltimore county
RI m fo hot
rural free delivery be extended over the Carroll
county line into this county, near what is now
officially known as Route No A. Congress
man Baker escorted the visitors to the Post
office Department and introduced them.
- The Beaver Dam Quarres, near Cock
eysyille will furnish all the marble for the
ierection of the Albright Art Gallery to be
abuilt on the grounds of the Pan American
Exposition to be held at Buffalo, N. Y, next
year. The building will be permanent one
and it will require $4,000 cubic feet of stone to
construct it.
- Dr. s. Z. Lloyd veterinary surgeon, who,
a short time ago, bought the Bayne livery
stable property, in this town, has greatly I'M
proved the same and it is now most complete
ard comfortable establishment and well suited
for veterinary hospital for which purpose it
will be devoted. DR.. Lloyd will also run a
livery stable
SOLVER Young, O well known colored
man about Towson, has been sent to the House
of Correction for two months by Justice Her.
bert for disorderly conduct at his home and
resisting an officer. Oliver is valuable man,
when sober, but when indulging too freely as
he not infrequently does, he becomes terror
and nuisance.
"a certificate of incorporation of Chest
nut Grove Presbyterian Church. near Sweet
Air has been filed in the County Clerks office
Those named as incorporators are the pastor,
J Rev. James w. Campbell, DR.. John S. Green
and Messrs. Charles W. Baldwin, James B.
Jackson, John r. Price, Joshua Jessop and
Thomas j. JeSsop.
- Although the Maryland Home for
Feeble Minded, near Owings' Mills, is now be-
ing enlarged, it is said the Trustees will not be
able to furnish accommodations for all appli-
cants, even after the improvements are COM
pleted. Many of these unfortunates are being
sent by the BOARD TO Bayview- in lieu of
more suitable place.
1.-The suits of Miss Jessie G. Reckord, of
Belair, and Miss Beulah E. Bedsoe, of Balti-
more, against the BALTIC. & Lehigh Railroad
Company have been removed from Belair to
Towson. They each claim S25, 900 damages
for personal injuries sustained by the upsetting
of passenger train near Laurel Brook Station,
in the spring of 1899.
- The contention over the administration
of the estate of Patrick Garvey ended this
week in the appointment of Messrs. James J.
Lindsay, VIM. II. Lawrence, John e. 0'Con-
nor and Henry Berge as administrators. Gar
d
supposed to be worth about $1,000. He had
no relatives in this country.
- Mr.. Thomas McGuinness and other
prominent citizens have filed protest With
1.-THE County Commissioners against the aban-
ldoning of the garbage service at Highland
town and Canton. The Board assigned lack
of funds as the reason for Withdrawing the
service. This looks like step backward and
therefore not commendabe.
= On Thursday Justice Herbert committed
William Ware, of Loeb Raven, to st. Mary's
industrial School until he reaches the age of
d. He is now IA years old. Ware is the boy
who shot his school companion, Lawrence
HOchrein, in the breast, presumably by acct
dent+-He was committed on the charge of in
corrgibility, preferred by his mother. -
> In making their remittances many of THE
UNIONS subscribers accompany them with kind
and encouraging words that are highly appre-
ciated. The paper will, on January 5th, 1901,
enter upon the fifty-second year of its exis-
tence and it is pleasure to say to its friends
that its general business was never more pros
porous and satisfactory than it is today.
- Another weather prognosticator was
!, heard from in THE UNION office on Monday
He saws the weather of the first three DAYS of
the month of December governs that for the
entire winter. And he firmly believes it, too.
If this holds good we are to have a mild win
ter as the weather of Saturday, Sunday and
Monday last was mild for the time of year.
1.-THE four-in-hand park team that Mr..
Thomas Deford, Jr., bought in New York a
fortnight ago. has arrived at "Oakdene,"
Green Spring Valley. The wheelers are named
Byron and shelley and are 1873 while
the leaders are named Sampson" and "Sigs-
bee" and are 18Th They are all browns. 1t
is said that Mr. Deford paid IS, 600 for the team.
THE total collections of the County
Treasurer's office for the past year, as shown
by statement just issued by Mr.. Thomas J.
Meads, chief clerk, amounted to 81 ,055 272 OS,
and the disbursements to 81 Ola 90, leaving
a cash balance on hand. December LIST, of S4O,-
273.16. This is exclusive of the amount of
State taxes collected in the same time-S123,-
S0S.16
@It can be said to the credit of Baltimore
county that the Grand Jury, now in session,
has practically nothing to do-that is there is
not a single case of any importance. so far as
known, to come before it. When it is remem-
bered that the population of the county is over
$4,000, and that three months has elapsed since
a Grand Jury has sat- this is remarkable
showing.
This year the job department of THE
UNION has broken all previous records in the
matter of printing posters for sales of real es-
tate and personal property. And although
December is usually dull month in this line,
it has not proven so this time and the lead is
still being increased daily Turning out good
work with promptness are the chief aims of
the office.