The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-10-31

Meeting of the School Board.-The
School Board held a meeting at Towson on
Wednesday, the president Mr.. Thomas B.
Todd, in the chair.
delegation was present from the 9Th dis
trict and asked that the school at Hoffman
vile be allowed to remain open. The Board,
however, decided TO close the school, but
stated that next year another school will be
opened in the neighborhood.
The following appointments were made
Miss Ruth Miller, assistant, School No. 8, 18th
district Miss Mildred Carney, assistant, No.
49, 18th district; Miss Maude Forester assis-
tant, No. 5, 18th district Miss Anna D. Nc
Nichols, assistant, at school at Sweet Air;
Miss Bessie Zimmerman, assistant, School No.
5, LIST district Maude Smith, School No. %,
colored school, 7th district; Lydia R: Fitzell,
assistant, School No. 1, 18th district; Margaret
NJ Lee assistant, School No. 1, 18th district.
The contract of Miss H. Silver Wilson, prin-
cipal of School No. 5, in the 10th district, was
confirmed.
1t was decided that teachers who returned to
their schools when the average was not that
required for an assistant shall not be paid for
their services during the time the attendance
was below the required average.
1t was ordered that the absence of teacher
from school for any cause for sixty days shall
be reported to the Board by the commissioner
in charge Of the district.
Teachers salaries due November 10th were
ordered to be paid
CITIZENS, REMEMBER THAT it was a
Democratic Legislature that passed our
present Infamous election Iaps-a 1aw
has deprived hundreds of unfortunate citi-
zens-white and bIack-Of their right to
vote. The only way to get rid of this out
rage upon the people is to vote the Repub-
lican Ticket on the Sd of November.
All .-Hallowee EN-, which &C.
ours this Saturday night, October 3lst, is not
the popular event it used to be back in the
good old times" when people were more
sentimental than practical. Its spirit has been
gradually losing influence until now it is chief
~ noted because of the license it is supposed
to give to young folks who are fond OF playing
pranks and masquerading through the streets.
Halloween was the time when lovelorn
maidens and others of her sex could find out
many of the hidden things of both the present
and the future. With candle and mirror !;
with some nuts and some apples sputtering on
the hearth or with some of the many other
aids to divination, she could quite definitely
settle the problem of marriage. Many were
the ways of seeing her INTENDED" or OF DIS
covering his name. But the witches and COB
Inns and fairies have given up the modern Hal
lowe'en as an impossibility. They seldom con-
gregate any more and their spell is spent.
There is no need for them. The twentieth
century maiden does not care to learn of her
future in that way. She is accustomed to get
ting her information first-hand from the i'm
tended himself In like manner she has dis
pensed with all the other Halloween fancies.
However, Halloween is not entirely sub
merged in oblivion. There are many of its
customs around which still linger the charm
of diversion. real old-fashioned Halloween
is refreshing change.