The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-12-26

The National Bank of Cockevsville has
declared a semi-annual dividend of q per cent
for the past six months. The bank is care
fully managed institution and its affairs arr
prosperous. During the coming year it viii
occupy its handsome new building.
ION Tuesday Judge Burke sentenced thu
colored girl Rosie Richardson, to six years
confinement in the House of Correction
week Of arson for having burned the barn oil
Sheriff Rittenhouse, in the 18th district:
- That THE Union is a first class advertis
ing medium is being demonstrated every week
and those who patronize its columns are gen.
orally very well satisfied with results. II you
! wish to sell anything or want to buy, just put
it in THE UNION and see what you will see.
- The lecture of Rev. DIR. Frank M. Bris.
toll, of Washington, d. c., delivered in the
NJ. E. Church here on Friday night of last
week, was greatly enjoyed by the audience
which, although not large, was highly appre-
ciative His subject was MY Young Man."
~ The road committee of the Taxpayers
Convention will hold another meeting at Tow
son, on Wednesday next, December Both,
which will be its last before the annual meet
ing of the convention, at which time the COM
| mittee's report will be ready to be submitted
Thousands of tons of ice were harvested
| in Baltimore county last week and finer
| quality has not been secured in Baltimore
county in years. Those who failed to get a
supply may not have another such good op'
| DOTLuDllY QuTlDR the IcUldlQucI VI LDc WlutcI.
THE Christmas traffic on the suburban
electric lines early this week was very heavy
and the packages bundles and boxes that the
| people carried were a pretty good evidence
that holiday money was plentiful and that the
shops and stores of all kinds were reaping a
| rich harvest.
- Many hundreds of THE UNIONS sub
scribers will receive their papers on Friday of
this week instead of Saturday. This is due to
the fact that we print one day earlier than
usual because of Christmas falling on Friday.
| Next week the paper will be issued on the reg
ular day of publication.
-Some Hartford county people have start
ed a crusade against the reckless driving OF
automobiles on the public highways, and SIM
liar movements have been made in other sec
tons of the State. 1t is more than likely that
there will be some legislation on this subject
at Annapolis this winter.
- A great deal of sickness is reported from
several sections of the country and this would
seem to disprove the fact that weather such as
we have experienced in the past two months
is "healthy.n Cold, dry weather at this time of
the year is seasonable and should therefore be
conducive to good health.
- Don't forget the convention of Maryland
farmers to be held at the Young Mems Chris
tian Association building, North Charles street,
Baltimore, next Monday, beginning at 10 A. NJ.
Baltimore county should be well represented.
The object of the meeting is to give the good
roads movement substantial boost.
- Patapsco NJ. P. Church at Della, LIST dis
trict which has been closed for some time
will be reopened on Sunday, December 9th,
and there will be preaching there every Sun
day thereafter at ii NJ. and P. NJ, by Kew.
w. s. Simms, who has been appointed to fill
the pulpit until the meeting of the next annu-
al conference.
- committee has been appointed to Sc
lect pastor for Calvary Baptist Church. Tow
son, to succeed Rev. w. E. Robertson, who ac-
cepted the call to Richmond, Va. MIR. John
G.. Watson is chairman of the committee, and
Mr.. 8. Howard Merryman. secretary. Rev.
Mr.. Robertson will preach his farewell sermon
here next Sunday.
- It's time now to get out your old New
Year resolutions and FURNISH them up for flu
ture use. If you haven't any of the old kind
you can readily make some new ones and
when you do LET US hope that you will stick to
them faithfully. Heis poor shoat of fellow
who resolves to do better and then pays no re-
gard to his resolution.
- Edward L. Parker, who said his home
was at Sherwood, N. c. R. R.. was arrested in
Baltimore on Monday last, upon the charge
of obtaining 1878 from Lexington street
firm by means of bogus draft. Parker said
he thought the draft was all right and that he
was prepared to make it good. He was re-
leased on $500 bail for further hearing.
- 1t was ''green" Christmas this year.
That is the earth was clear of snow, but the
''greenness" was of unknown quantity be-
II
There was an old belief that "a green Christ
mas meant full graveyard" but this, like
many other old sayings, has little faith at
tached to it in these days of enlightenment.
"a union watch night service will be
held Thursday night next. December 3lst
M. P. Churches, Towson, in the former church.
The following Sunday night, January 3d.
anion evangelistic service will commence in
EPSON Church, to continue each evening for
two weeks. the second week to be held in the
M. E. Church.
- Years ago, for at least ten days before
Christmas the York road was lined with farm
teams on their way to and from the Baltimore
markets. Now one is not seen where there
were formerly fifty. 1t must be that the diff
ference in the modes of farming have wrought
this great change and that the produce that
once went to market in wagons is now either
shipped by rail or fed at home in the fattening
of stock.
Mrs. D. F. Maroney, of Saint Mary's,
Elk county, Pa, formerly of Ruxton, Balti-
more county, sends us the following pleasant
little note by way of Christmas greeting:
1--WE wish THE UNION the compliments of the
season and hope the New Year will be bright
and prosperous, making some return for your
efforts each week to let us, who are so far
away, feel that Baltimore county still num-
bers us among its people and its interests are
yet ours"
The Junior Epworth League of Towson
NJ E. Church held its annual treat on Christ
mas afternoon. The Sunday school room was
decorated with wreaths, evergreens and ban
ners in addition to two large Christmas trees
attractively dressed with colored glass balls,
chains, etc. The little folks connected with
this organization sent this week to the Dea-
coness' Home, Baltimore dressed dolls, pic
ture scrap books, aprons, ETC., of their own
handi work, to be distributed among the poor
children in the city. Mr.. ]. Howard Flayha
is SUPERINTENDENT of the Junior League.
Celebrated lOlst Anniversary Of Her
Birth on Christmas Eve.--Miss Rachel
Fowler, of North Exeter street, Baltimore,
celebrated the one hundred and first anniver-
sary of her birth on Thursday, December 24th.
She is in the enjoyment of reasonably good
health and eats and sleeps well.
Miss Fowlers life has always been quiet and
uneventful, and there is no such marked de-
cline in her bodily and mental condition as
would have been the case had her activities
been greater. She spends most Of her time in
bed, but is able to arise daily and sit in an
easy chair. Her mind, always practical and
well balanced, seems simply torpid. She sell
dom speaks, but when she does her utterances
are not childish, and are seldom wandering.
Her sense of hearing is the only one of her
faculties which seems much impaired.
Born in Baltimore county, at the old Fowler
homestead, near Parkville, Hartford road Miss
Fowlerh has never been farther away from her
birthplace than her present residence, to which
she removed when she was a young woman.
Her singularly placid nature apparently never
contained any element of curiosity or adven-
ture ard she has never ridden upon a railroad
train or a trolley car, nor seen steamboat.
The universal use of the locomotive and steam
boat came about after the days of her youth |;
and the use of the lightning as a means of pro-
pulsion is a mystery which she cannot compre-
bend and has no desire to investigate. This
great calmness of temperament, evinced by
the fact that she was never known to be angry,
is doubtless largely responsible for her lon
gevity.
Thomas Jefferson was serving his first term
as President when Miss Fowler was born I; the
battle of Austerlitz had not been fought, and
| Napoleon had not arrived at the zenith of his
| power. The battle of Waterloo was reported
around the world when she was old enough to
comprehend the significance of the victory OF
the allied armies, and she heard the lombard
ment of Fort McHenry by the British in 1914.
AS little girl, she heard the story of Fulton
successful trip up the Hudson in the Clermont,
| and she was sedate young woman when
ground was broken for the Baltimore and
| Ohio Railroad Friction matches and the tele-
graph were inventions which came in her
| middle age, and the electric light the tele-
! nhone the Typewriter and the trolley car came