The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-13

Tuesday, January 9, 1903, by Robert II Bussey.
attorney at the Court Housedoor, house and
lot in the sth district, near Quaker meeting
house.
- Hicks, the almanac man, predicted the
storm and cold wave for early December, 1902.
THE United Railways and Electric Com
pany is preparing to erect power-house near
Gainesville.
= Harry Yingling of Cockeysville, fell on
the ice last Saturday night and broke his left
leg above the ankle.
- Those fond of skating had an opportu-
nifty to enjoy the sport this week. The ice was
several inches thick.
- Charlotte A. Allender has been appointed
postmaster at Jerusalem Mills, vice Thomas
b. Bateman, resigned.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Epworth NJ.
E. Church, Cockeysville, will furnish the
church with new lights.
Such weather as we have experienced
for about week makes fellow sigh for that
Good Old Summer Time"
- What is known as the COmpany's store
at Phoenix, N. G. r. R., has been sold to Mr..
Samuel Scott, of Baltimore.
- Charles Cling, of Baltimore county, an
applicant for the benefit of the .. s. bank
ruptcy laws, has received his discharge.
> Another mysterious barn fire has &C.
Cured in Baltimore county and it is the duty
of the State Fire Marshal to look into it. VIII
he do it?
THE Governor has appointed J. Adam
Shuppert justice of the peace for the 9th dis
trict of Baltimore county, vice William H.
Hare, deceased.
- Farm teams are now hauling firewood
into the towns just like they usually do other
produce, and it appears that the owners always
find ready sale for it,
Holly is said to be scarce this year and
this will necessarily make what there is of it
high in price. The supply comes mostly from
Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.
"a wagon load of live turkeys was hawked
about the streets of Towson on Wednesday.
The birds may have been all right, but the de-
mand for them did not seem brisk.
- Don't take any chances with the trolley
car. 1t is dangerous thing to fool wlth-al-
most as treacherous as the unloaded gun-and
kills and mains many more people.
- Messrs- John A Sheridan " Co. have
been awarded the contract for the erection of
shelter station at Turner's, on the Sparrow's
Point Branch of the United Railways.
- Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett, who owns the
Pleasant Plains farm, on the Joppa road, east
of Towson, is giving away firewood 10 anyone
who will go into the woods and cut 1t.
THE UNIONS calendars for 1908 are now
ready for delivery and our patrons and friends
are requested to call at the Office and get one.
They are too large to mail with safety.
- There is again talk of starting another
bank in Towson. 1t is thought by some that
a savings institution would do well here and
would be good thing for the community.
- Checks, money orders and registered let
tiers are the safest means to make remittances
through the mails. Our subscribers should
bear this in mind just now and thus prevent
loss
THE county appointments for 1903 will
be made before Christmas, says President
Knox, of the Board of County Commissioners.
1t is not expected that there will be many
changes.
while cunning in the vicinity of Loeb Raven
last Saturday. killed three fine pheasants. He
is good shot and bird is lucky to get away
from him.
- Catonsville is said to be without pound
of coal of any kind and green wood is selling
there at Sc a cord. The supply of coal in the
public school in that town was exhausted on
Thursday.
- Measles has again made its appearance
among Baltimore county school children and
one school-that at Sparrow,s Point-has been
ordered closed on account of the presence of
the malady.
1.-THE open season in Baltimore county
for pheasants, woodcock, cartridges and rab.
bits ends on Wednesday, December 24th
Deputy game wardens should see to it that the
law is enforced.
- Mary Rehbine, domestic employed in
the family of Rev. George G. Stokes, rector of
the Church of the Redeemer, Charles street
avenue, fell from step-ladder few days ago
and broke leg.
"a resident of Towson was taken sud-
cause was thought to have been eating cab
bage upon which paris green had been sprin-
killed. to kill insects.
- Baltimore county blacksmiths are run
ming short of soft coal and if the famine con-
tinues some may be obliged to close their
shops. This would be most extraordinary
condition of affairs.
"A Masonic Temple, to cost $4,000, is
about to be erected in West Arlington. 1t will
be of brick, two stories, and the dimensions
will be 40 by rs feet. Mr.. Daniel E. Ensor is
preparing the plans.
MIR. G. P. Barnett, manager on the coun-
try place of Mr.. A. g. Snyder, near Towson,
this week sold young registered Berkshire
SOW, with eight pigs that had been advertised
in THE UNION, for S45.
The Sunday schools are making active
preparations for their Christmas entertain
ments and for the annual visit from Santa
Claus. This holiday. is always dear to the
hearts of the little folks.
ION Sunday night last Towson Lodge of
Elks held services in Grange Hall in memory
of its deceased members, Sylvester c. Tomay
and Henry J. Hick Col. Charles B. MCLEAN,
exalted ruler, was in charge.
- There don't seem to be any appIehen-
sions about green" Christmas this year.
The change from an unusually mild fall to the
real thing in the shape of winter weather was
something not soon to be forgotten.
- People who came to Towson on Monday
from the eastern section of this county were
greatly surprised to find so much snow here.
In the Perry Hall neghborhood there was
scarcely enough to cover the earth.
- A Towson man who came east on the B.
& o. Railroad few days ago says he is will
ing to bet that there are more than thousand
cars loaded with coal sdetracked on that road
between Cumberland and Washington.
- Chestnut trees that will make telegraph
and telephone poles sell for 81 to $3.50 each
standing in the woods. The demand for these
poles has grown so great that in year or two
more there will be none of these trees left.
- There are some men in Towson who de-
clare that they would take pleasure in help
ing to hang the men who are responsible for
the present scarcity of coal and are the cause
of the suffering that is necessitated thereby.
"a horse belonging to Mrs. Amanda
Banks. of Howard county, went mad from the
bite of dog and had to be killed. The same
dog also bit colored girl who is now under
treatment at the Pasteur Institute in Baltimore.
THE December term grand jury adjourn
ed finally on Friday, 18th inst. Before part
ing the members presented their foreman, Mr.:
William L. Shriver, with silk umbrella, and
their clerk, Mr. Andrew t. Hartner, with
fountain pen.
THE Postmaster General has issued an
order amending the postal regulations by re-
ouiring that whenever a woman employed
in the postal service, either as postmaster or
unclassified clerk, marries, she must take the
oath of office anew"
> Rev. C. F. Thomas, pastor of St AIMS
Church, York road, was on his metal last Sum
dav morning He declared to his congrega-
tion that the lack of interest in the fair now