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

Jacksonville and SunnybrOok, 10th Dis
trict.-Owing to the inclement weather and
dark night there was no Christian Endeavor
meeting at Chestnut Grove Church last Sun
day evening. The meeting will be led next
Sabbath by Mrs. John r. Price, of Jackson
vile.
The revival meeting which was held two
weeks at Fairview M. E. Church South, closed
on Friday night of last week.
Rev. l.. S. Lehman was installed as pastor
of st. Johns Lutheran Church, near Sweet
Air, last Sunday evening. Rev. II. H. Ackler
ordained the pastor. Rev. R. E. Golladay,
who was the former pastor of the church. in
stalled the new pastor. His sermon was brief,
but beautiful. The debt on the church has
been lifted. very gratifying fact to the pastor
and congregation.
Mrs. John Ensor, of Sunny brook, is the pos.
SCISSOR of beautiful blooming cactus. The
plant is a very large one and is viewed with
much pleasure by Mrs. Ensor's friends.
Mr.. Aubry Jackson of st. Johns College,
Annapolis, is spending Thanksgiving with his
parents Mr.. and Mrs. James Jackson, of this
place.
Miss Lannie Magness, who has been spend
ing some months with relatives in Hartford
county, has returned to her home, near jack
sonville.
Mrs. George Ritter, who died on Monday, at
her home near Jacksonville, was buried We'd
nesday afternoon, in st. Johns Cemetery
near Sweet Air. The funeral was large one.
Mr.. CnarleS owens, q meQlcal student IN BAL
timore, is spending Thanksgiving with his
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Owens, of Sun
nybrook.
Mrs. E. G. Nelson, of Jacksonville, has been
visiting relatives and friends in Baltimore.
Mr.. George Schriver of Jacksonville, has had
q warehouse built as an addition to his store,
which is great convenience and adds very
much to the appearance to his property
Misses Henrietta and Bessie Burke. of Clover
Hill farm, near Sweet Air, are visiting their
brother, Mr.. Andrew Burke, of Lauraville.
Rev. Mr. Perry, of Roland Park president
of the County Christian Endeavor Society, met
with the Christian Endeavor of Chestnut
Grove, on Wednesday night, and gave them a
beautiful and effective talk on the Response
bility of Christian Endeavors, the good their
work could and has done, and the pledge and
its responsibility" NJ.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-01

More Damage Suits.-Messrs. Boarman
Lindsay, attorneys for A. j. Brooks, have
brought sui in the Circuit Court here agains
the United Railways and Electric Company,
greatly injured by being compelled to walk
from Arlington avenue to Griffin's switch at
Govanstown, because the car on which he was
riding failed to run all the way through to that
point.
On Tuesday Mr. Charles Herzog, attorney
for Thomas NJ. Montgomery and Ella Man
derson, executors and trustees of the will of
Andrew MandersOn, filed a suit against the
Maryland Oil Company for 81, 500 damages,
alleging that the defendant unlawfully de-
prived them of the possession of a property
at Highlandtown.
Mr.. John p Poe, attorney for Mr.. John M.
Dulany, has entered suit for $4,000 damages
against Mr.. John s. Wilson, member of the
School Board of this county. The suit grows
out of the recent controversy over the award
of the contract for furnishing the schools with
books, stationery and furniture. The contract
was awarded to J. H. Medairy & Co.
Messrs. VIM. T. Larkin and H. E. Scherf,
attorneys for Virginia Scott, have entered suit
here against Annie Deetz and George Deetz
for $500 damages. The plaintiff alleges that
she left some jewelry and wearing apparel in
the custody of the defendants. and they have
wrongfully retained them in their possession.
Messrs. Grason & Bacon and w. Gill Smith,
attorneys for Martha l.. O'Keefe, of the I'd
district, have entered suit in the Circuit Court
here for $1,000 damages against G. P. STAINS
field for assault and battery.
Messrs. John T. Ensor and John Grason, at
torneys for H. Simon, have entered suit by tit
ling against the B. & o. r. R. Company for So
800 damages for destroying timber on his prop
erty, alleging the fire to have been caused by
sparks from an engine.
VIM. r. Bowers has entered suit at Tow
son against the United Railways and Electric
Company claiming $4,000 damages for al
legged forcible ejectment from one of the de-
fendant's cars Thereby causing him great hui
initiation and notification" Mr.. Frank 1.
Duncan is his attorney.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-01

Ruhls P. O., 9th District.--The new
powder-mill near Hoffmanville, this district,
is nearly completed and is expected to start up
soon.
A number of girls have been engaged to
work in the wire cloth, shoe and sewing fac
tories which are starting up at New Freedom,
Pa, and the only way to get female help in
the district is by marrying, and Col Fendall,
of the County Clerk Office, makes our young
people toe the mark in that line. One young
lady was denied the privilege and had to wait a
few weeks to reach her majority, but she
finally succeeded.
We are inclined to envy the northwest end
of our district in the enjoyment of rural mail
delivery. Now that the election is over the
Republican club at Eklo ought to prevail upon
the new Congressman to follow up the efforts
in that line that made Hon. VIM. B. Baker SO
popular.
There must be turkey trust among the
hucksters. With Mckinley reelected Presi-
dent everything is booming except turkeys,
wheat and potatoes. There was even a squirt
in the prices of corn and hogs, which is sec
ond-class living about Thanksgiving time.
The first thing the next Legislature ought to
do is to repeal that part of the new road law
requiring the appointment of an engineer and
three road commissioners, and put their sala-
ries on the roads in labor and stone. The
idea of inspecting the stone that must fill a
mud-hole As it stands now, after paying
those salaries there will be no money in this
district to apply to labor and stone on the
roads o. d. g.
Mr.. Hanson Submits to an Operation
A letter from Ellicott City, dated November
9th, says: "Mr. Grosvenor Hanson, a MEM
Der of the House of Delegates from Howard
county, is at the Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, where day or two ago he sub
mitted to an operation for appendicitis. DR..
Halstead, who was the operating surgeon. pro-
nounced the patient in hopeful condition,
his splendid general health giving the best
promise of his restoration. At the last ses-
sion of the Legislature Mr.. Hanson was in
capaeiated from attendance because of what is
now thought to have been the same disease
There were numerous inquiries today about
his condition.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-01
T7oWsoN COTTAGE FOR SALE.

We offer for sale snug and eligibly loca- 81
ted COTTAGE IN TOWSON. property in good
Condition. Excellent water. Terms to suit.
Apply to LONGNECKER BROS.,-
No. 3l4 Real Estate, Towson, Md.
May 6,-tf.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-01

n, The Episcopal Church and Divorce
me action lately in New York of the commit
Tee of the General Convention of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church on the divorce ques-
T LION IS attracting good deal of attention.
Inc new canons provide that no divorced per-
son shall be married by Protestant Episcopal
clergyman unless the former marriage was
annuiled by decree of some civil court of COM
petent jurisdiction for cause existing before
such former marriage. Persons divorced for
causes arising after marriage and remarrying
are 10 be ineligible to the sacraments of the
ccnurch, except when penitent and separated
rom the other or penitent and in immediate
danger of death. The canon is not to apply
70 the innocent party in ad;vorce for the cause
OF adultery.
Upon this subject Right Rev. William Paret,
Dlsnop of the Diocese of Maryland, said:
As to my own views do not know that
can give them better than by quoting from the
action of the General Conference, held in
Lambeth, London, in 1883. | was member
OF the committee on divorce at that conference,
ana as such had the privilege of drawing up
tnls report and resolution. They express my
own views and the views of very large part
OF The authorities and members of the church
at the present time. The substance of the re-
port follows:
:. They (the cOmmittee) therefore consider
IL important to declare inasmuch as our Lords
words expressly forbid divorce, except in case
OF fornication or adultery, the Christian
church cannot recognize divorce in any other
tnan the excepted case or give any sanction to
the marriage of any person who has been di-
vorced contrary to this law, during the life of
the other party.
"'They would add that under no circum-
stances ought the guilty party, in case of d.
vorce for fornication or adultery, to be regar-
ded during the lifetime of the innocent party
as fit recipient of the blessing of the church
on marriage.
They recognize the fact that there always
has been difference of opinion in the church
on the question whether our Lord meant to
forbid marriage to the innocent party in di-
vorce for adultery, and they recommend the
clergy should not be given instructions to re-
fuse the sacrament or other privileges of the
church to those who under civil sanction are
thus married.
"'But whereas doubt has been entertained
whether our Lord would permit such marriage
to theinnocent party, the committee is unwili-
ing tosuggest any precise instructions in this
matter, and recommends that, where the laws
of the land will permit. the determination be
leftto thejudgment of the bishop of the diocese
whether he clergy would be justified in re-
framing fiom pronouncing the blessing of the
church on such Unions ~
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-01

Purchase of a Hotel Property Peter
]. Dengler, who has been renting one of the
farms Of Col B. F. Taylor, in the 18th district,
has purchased the hotel property of Mr.. John
Weber, at Perry Hall, Belair road, for 81, 100.
The place has good Improvements and has at
tached an excellent truck farm of Fl acres. 1t
is a good business stand, and Mr.. Dengler will
take charge of it as soon as he can make the
necessary arrangements. He will sell all his
personal property on Col. Taylor's farm on
Thursday, December 18th.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-01
NOVEMBER WEDDINGS.

Sn,ink-Jams.-M Bertha NJ. Ijams, of
Baltimore, formerly of Towson, was married
in Trinity Church, Towson, on Thursday, to
Dr. A. Clarence Smink, popular young ply
stefan of Hebbville. I'd district Rev. W. H {.
Northern trip DR.. and Mrs. Smink will be at
home to their friends at Hebbville. The bride
is daughter of the late George w. Ijams and
granddaughter of Mr.. Joseph B. MITCHELL ST.,
by whom she was given away
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-01

Eklo, 9Th District.-The timely rain of last
Saturday night and Sunday has softened the
ground so that farmers can finish fall blowing.
A mum Der of springs and wells are dry and it
will take heavy rainfall to do them any good.
Butchering is the order of the day through
this neighborhood. Some of our people are
determined, if they cannot have the tooth
some turkey for Thanksgiving, they can have
the next most palataDie oisn-buckwheat cakes
and sausage.
The ladies of the NJ. E. Church here are
holding milk and-pie" festival in the Odd
Fellows Hall this week-Thursday Friday
and Saturday nights. A literary feature is con-
nected with the affair.
My communication last week made me say
that the destruction wrought by the high wind
of the Dist of November to school house No 8,
in this district, was in this village. This was
somebodyeses information and not mine.
learn that there is great deal ofenthusiasm
exhibited in the neighborhood of Pine Grove
Church over the subject of procuring heater
for the church. No doubt those who do not
see it in the light that the active portion of the
congregation, who worship at that place do,
will ere long be convinced that it is in the line
of progress and that this much-needed i'm
provement will be consummated in the near
future.
There will be preaching at Eklo M. E..
Church next Sunday morning at the usual
hour.
The congregation at Hoshall's old school
house is contemplating building church at
that point next spring.
School Commissioner Ensor passed through
this village on Tuesday, on his way to inspect
the damage done to the school house near
Steltz by the recent wind storm. PHILo.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-01

Maryland Line, 7th District Mrs. Josiah
Lee is spending this week in York, Pa, visit
ing relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs Reuben Smith are visiting
friends in Port Deposit, Md.
winter with their daughter, Mrs. Clay, of Dun
cannon Pa.
Miss Jennie l.. Miner is visiting her sister,
Miss Jessie Miner, of York. Pa.
Mr.. Orion NJ. Day, of Delta Pa, spent a
few days with his father, Mr. VIM. T. Day, of
this place.
Miss Pearl Grove and Miss Dunnick, of
Draco, Pa, are the guests of Miss Mary Leib.
Mr.. w. Scott King and Miss Hannah G..
Hitchcock, both residents of this neighbor-
hood, were married November 3d. at the par
sonage of the First NJ. e. Church, York, Pa,
by the pastor, Rev. DR.. Canoe. The bride and
groom, accompanied by Mrs. Francis A. Crook,
a sister of the former, visited Mrs Frank PAUL.,
another sister. who resides at Mt. Holly, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. King will make their home in
this neighborhood on farm owned by Mr..
King.
On Tuesday night November 9th, fire was
discovered in the barn of Mr.. VIM. p. Gem
mill. The men and boys of the neighborhood
soon collected and worked hard to try to save
as much as possible. All the stock was gotten
out, but 6 tons of hay, 200 bushels of grain,
so barrels corn and rs bushels oats were de-
stroyed with the building. The insurance on
the barn amounts to 1850, the contents $3.50,
the wagon shed SIS. and harness $50. Sup
posed to have been of incendiary origin. In
sured in American Agricultural Company,
Philadelphia. M.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-03-30
SIX NINETY SIX, MAIN

TITS strange said a blue-eyed cen
trail" to a central with gray-green
eyes, that no one ever calls up 500 on
this circuit. The phone has been in
three or four months now, and l test
the wire regularly every morning, but
there is no further communication with
the house day in aud day out"
Who answers when you call?" in
CURED the girl with the gray-green
eyes.
"A man. His voice sounds as though
he we're old. l suppose it is Mr.. Rum
ford himself"
"Rumford, you say?"
George Whitman Rumford. That's
his whole name. l looked him up in
the city directory. No place Of bust
ness is given. There is no occupation
mentioned in connection with his
name"
MY goodness, he is a mystery"
cried the girl with the gray-green
eyes. Have you tested the wires yet
this morning?"
NO"
Let me try II then.
She rang up briskly. A voice an
swered:
Good morning"
Testing the wire" responded Cen
trail" cheerfully.
THE wire responds" said the voice.
The gray-eyed Central" turned to the
blue-eyed Central"
mo one ever answered me that way
before" she observed. He said: The
wire responds.
Yes, he always says that. 1t seems
a sensible thing to say, but 1t sounds
curious. l think he doesn't know what
people are in the habit of saying over
the telephone"
The weeks went by. From time to
time the girl with gray eyes would say
to Ida Nelson, the girl with blue
eyes:
Has 696 been called yet?"
Never" said Miss Nelson, but the
wire still responds"
One day Miss Nelson, against all
rules and regulations. attempted a d.
version.
1T is an electrical sort of a morn
ing" she observed. 1T makes the
voice sound unnatural over the wire"
There was an accent of eagerness in
the voice that replied.
1T does, indeed" observed 696; but
don't you think voice always sounds a
little strange in the telephone?"
Miss Nelson was quite aware that
she had no right to continue the o n
versation, but she had held her curl
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-03-30
AMERICANS AT MONTE CARLO.

Girls Were Somewhat Criticised for
Going About Alone.
THE first Americans have arrived"
writes a resident at Monte Carlo to
the New York Commercial Advertiser.
1T is expected that an unusually large
number of them will visit the Riviera
this winter. The hotels have made
every preparation for the %hoped-for
guests. In the meanwhile the Rus
slams, Austrians and especially the
Germans, are arriving in number every
day now and they will insure a fairly
successful season. During the last
week of December a party of young
American ladies arrived. They were
chaperoned by a somewhat elderly
lady, and, having disembarked at
Genoa, came here to pass their Christ
mas. They attracted much attention.
Some persons thought them overbold
TO go about thus without male attend
ants. but admired them for having the
courage to do sO-all the more as the
young women paid no attention to peO-
pie about them. The party has left
AOA NlAAdht GACGg HOLl6 anu INhpl66
and will be in Paris in March. The
impression is general that one cannot
live cheaply in Monte Carlo. This is
a mistake. There are hotels, we'll fur
nished and well kept, where a person
may live en- pension for $3.50 a day.
The cuisine is good, the wines also,
and the hotels are comfortable. / may
add that several Of these cheaper hotels
have an outlook over the Monaco bay
and the Mediterranean. Curiously
enough, there are no hotels in Mo-
naco proper mean the rock upon
which stands the palace Of the prince.
The position is admirable and a large
hotel in Monaco would be a great sue
cess undoubtedly, but the trouble is
the prince would not consent to having
a hotel upon the rock. In all the prin-
cipality the will of the prince is para
mount and even the making of alter
ations In any building or the erection
of a new building depends upon the
consent Of his serene highness."
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-03-30

you must find It pleasant living on
the boulevard" said Miss Nelson.
"oh, very, veryl So many people
so by. would like to ask some OF
them in, at times, but they might think
It strange. I'm much obliged to you
for coming in. It has made a very
agreeable break in the day. I'm a lit
tie solitary, o know. II 1t we're not
for John | should be quite dull"
Miss Nelson was moved to shake
hands in saying farewell, and the hand
that took hers was Unexpectedly hard
with ancient callouses. She could not
make the man out. He was more Of a
mystery than ever.
She got in the way, after this, Of
adding m little word over the
phone, after the daily test Of the wires,
and finally she confessed that 1t was
she who had called. Mr.. George
Whitman Rumford was greatly pleased
at this. He laughed and chatted about
1t till Miss Nelson was obliged to ring
on. He wanted to send her a little
gift, but she refused-very gently-to
receive It. He asked to take her to
church Sunday evening, but she felt It
to be best to refuse that courtesy, too.
He inquired whether he might not call
for her and escort her home. But she
did not accord him the permission. He
took these rebuffs sadly. One morn
ing there was no response when she
rang the bell. and after many trials
Chn T1ndn NfrN NI.N T1ka vsmm wau1rfnm
futile attempts to be heard. 1t was
John who mumbled over the wires for
four successive mornings.
Miss Nelson grew anxious, and called
personally at the house. John came to
the door, weeping.
"Mistah Rumfo'd he pass way dis
moh'nin', ma'am. He ask me ovah
and ovah las night, did o tes' the
wiahs yet. He mighty fon' OBJ answer
ing the phone, Mistah Rumfo'd."
Ida Nelson suffered a pang such as
she had never felt before. 1t was re-
morse.
She vent into the room where tho
undertaken and his assistants were,
having just finished their sorry task,
and she looked with penitence at the
white face of the loneliest man she had
I've known.
Il ought to have had less propriety
and more humanity" she said to her
self.
1t was Miss Nelson, John, two or
three of the neighbors, and Mr.. Rum
ford's man of business who followed
the black coffin to the place Of the
dead.
And the next week Miss Nelson had
all the mystery solved. The man Of
business brought her a manuscript. 1t
was written for her by the dead man,
and 1t contained a simple story of a
man whose money had brought him
only isolation. With the manuscript
was a gift.
When you receive this" the donor
had written, II shall be where you
cannot return it to me-"
my contemplate. selfish propriety!"
sobbed Ida Nelson. MY cowardly
discretion! It's the biggest chance l
ever had for giving happiness. and l
missed it. / let it 60"
She was glad when her circuit was
changed. so that she would nave no
further occasion to ring up Six-ninety-
six, Main. Chicago Tribune.
The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-03-30
usINo rHs REFERENDUM.
Swiss invoke lt TO veto Unnecessary Legi
latlon.

Swiss Invoke n 70 Veto unnecessary Legis.
lation.
Fully 10000 citizens Of Switzerland
have invoked the use Of the referendum
in the matter of the projected lcgisla-
ton concerning insurance against acct
dent and sickness. II the law went iu.o
effect as proposed It would entail an
enormous increase in the number Of
state employees, and It Is felt that there
are already too many functionaries I'm
the pay Of the government. Many ap-
prove the principle of the law, but they
feel that the measure would cause the
ruin OF the private and free mutual as
soclations. They affirm that the lest
solution Of the question would he to
modify the law so as to provide for a
national suhvention Of the free assO-
Citations already established for insur-
ance purposes. At the same time, the
federal law can be made to compel all
Swiss or foreigners here to belong to
some mutual association which can
support the members of their families
during their own sickness. The OppO-
sitiOn to the measure as now proposed
is strongest in the canton of Vaud. The
present project undoubtedly will be re-
jected when the ballots are taken on
May Doth.