The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-12-17


near Rayville. 9Th district.
Tuesday. December 27,by John s. Crowther near
1'enlt,r 0sn fmpIements corn, hay, etc
Wednesday, December % by Martin Eorster. or
the Phila.. road miles from Baltimore,
horses. mules, wagons, farm and garden I'M
plements, provender, etc.; also.a truck Iarm
TUESDAY January q 1906 by William Grsson,
ia the 10th district, on the road from the old
York road to Corbett. N. @. 4. 4.
William Fl. Rose, of Catonsville. has
secured patent for a telephone disiniectine
Theodore Boyd, of Sherwood, N. G. r.
R., has had his soldiers pension increased TO
$40 per month.
the dairymsn appear to To Pc e Locking 90 ing
prices are ruling high.
- Bishop Paret will visit the Church OF the
Evangelist, Canton, on Sunday next and con-
duct confirmation services.
-The Senior Gunpowder Agricultural Club
will meet today Saturday. at the farm OF MI.
Lewis AZ. Bacon, at Belfast, 8th district.
- Christmas raffies are booming and many
turkeys and other fowls will DC disposed
'-oi TINS way IN the next SIX o. seven uays. =,
The public schools of the county. will
close for the Christmas holiday on Friday,
December 23d, and reopen on Tuesday, January
~ LSCol. Lawrence B. McCabe, of Govans-
town. fell on the ice in Baltimore few days
ago and sustained a compound fracture OF the
Gus Bruehl has been appointed post
master at Butler Baltimore county, succeed
ing Shadrach w. Upton, who had held the
office many years.
- Another couple from Baltimore came to
Towson on Monday and were married by Rev.
Matthew O. Keefe, pastor ofthe Catholic Church
of the Immaculate.
- The work OF repaintlng ana Irescoelng
Lakeview NJ E. Church. Dulany's Valley, has
been completed and the church will be re-
opened next Sunday.
- Ice-cutting was commenced In Baltimore
county this week and some was secured that
was about six inches thick, although not en-
tirely free from snow.
- When the mercury gets below 20 the coal
piles begin to suffer andthe coal man looks on
with fiendsh glee. He says its cold day.
when be don't get left.
- Have YOU thought about what you are
going to give her for Christmas gift2 This is
q highly Important matter and you had better
not put it off too long.
- After next Thursday the days will begin
to get longer. An old adage put 1t this way !:
when the days begin to lengthen the cold
begins 10 strengthen"
"a chicken house at the county aims.
house, near Texas was burned few days ago.
caused by the lamp connected with the Drooder.
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- Mr.. ]. Wesley Lee. who had held the
position several years. has resigned as superin-
tendent of the T0wsOn postal station, i'll health
being assigned as the cause
-STowson will be the scene of another exc
cution next Friday. OF course these revolving
affairs are necessary, but we would ratner nave
them occur somewhere else.
Mr.. o.. Parker Baker, member OF the
bar, has been elected director of the Orem
Fruit and Produce Company, which was organ
lied in Baltimore few days ago:
1.-The work of improving the interior OF
st. Anthony's Catholic Church, on Franklin
avenue, near Gardenville, sprogressing rapidly
and will be finished before Christmas.
->THE UNIONS friends and patrons are in
vited to call at the Office and get calendar for
1905. The supply is being run out rapidly and
It may be exhausted if you put it of too long.
sIt is cruel man who VIII allow ms morse
10 stand outdoors in cold weather without being
blanketed Heavy covers cost comparatively
little and each horse should be provided with
- Last Monday while DR.. James H. Wilson,
of Fowblesburg, 4th district, was driving Q
horse to sleigh the animal suddenly dropped
dead. Heart failure is believed to have been
the cause.
IA man in Towson owned an old sleigh
that orsixaniky forth. about q dollar Rr&
a-half. When the ground was covered with
foot Of snow the price went up to $40, and he
- Coasting is dangerous sport and some
times serious results follow indulgence in it,
An accident happened to party in this county
few days ago in which several persons might
have lost their lives.
- Next Thursday, December 22d, is the
shortest day of the year and, according to the
almanac the first day of winter, although we
have already experienced some pretty lively
efforts in that direction:
- Don't forget the birds when the earth is
heavily coated with snow. This cuts of the
natural source of their food supply and they
must suffer, and perhaps starve, If some provi-
sion is not made for them.
- The money order business of the T0wson
postal station has been unusually heavy for the
past ten days, showing that people are sending
cash for Christmas presents and for other neces-
sary objects at this season..
"A man who was invited to take sleigh
ride this week declined. He said he could very
well initiate that alleged sport by putting his
feet in q tub of ice water and getting boy to
ring string of sleigh bells.
- Last Sunday morning was the coolest of
the season up to that time, and the thermome-
tiers in Towson registered from to 10 degrees
almost as cold as any day last winter, which
made record for its severity.
THE residence of Mr.. John Arthur, at
Fork, 18th district, made narrow escape from
destruction by fire last Saturday night. A
prompt discovery of the condition OF affairs
was, perhaps, all that saved it.
eOfficers of the State Council, Jr. O. U. A.
A., paid visit to Multiply Council No. 4, OF
Cockeysville, last Saturday night and assisted
in an Initiation ceremony. At the close of the
usual business refreshments were served.
Efforts are again being made by num-
Der of citizens of T0wson to secure the erection
of new and larger building. for the High
School. The present structure is too small and
utterly inadequate in many other respects.
->Christmas is only one week off from next
Sunday and all the indications now point to a
white" one. It looks like the winter of
1904 is starting in to make record for snow,
the third heavy one having already fallen.
->Thegrand jury for the December term OF
the Circuit Court adjourned finally on Friday,
18th instant. Mr.. Van Brant Rittenhouse,
who was foreman of the jury, declined to ac-
cept a present at the hands Of his fellow
jurymen.
- Charles E. Huke, who formerly carried
the mail from Cockeysville to Baldwin, has
been appointed carrier on the new route be-
tween Cockeysville and Warren. The new
route of Joseph Hertzler extends westwardly
from Baldwin.
->Several of the younger baseball teams
of this county have temporarily organized q
Junior Baseball League to be composed of
eight or ten county clubs. Frank Fisher was
elected temporary president, and John f..
Frazer IT. secretary
->In digging grave in Prospect Hill Gene
IofV. lOWSOu, Oh w eQuccudy thSt IL was AOuuu
that the ground is frozen but very little over
an inch in depth. Last year in the same
cemetery, before the winter was over, it had
frozen fully two feet.
->If Santa Claus attends all the Christmas
entertainments that are announced to take place
in this county in the next two weeks he'll be a
very busy fellow and will find it necessary to
provide himself with an extra large supply of
toys and good things.
The Junior Gunpowder Agricultural Club
has entered upon the thirty-first year of its ex-
istence. Mr.. Joshua G. Bosley, who was one
of the original members, and who still takes
an active interest in the club was the first secre-
tary of the organization.
There are number of good sleigh teams
about Towson, but perhaps the best of the lot
is that owned by DR.. s. E. Lloyd, veterinary
surgeon. He has a young mare that is "a
peach" and can make trouble on the road for
anybody that tackles her.
THE home place of the late John Stir
ling, in the 9TH district, has been sold by the
heirs to Mr.. Jacob Earnst, of Shrewsbury, for
$500. The farm has been the Stirling home
stead for several generations and is considered
a very desirable property.
-sSleighs were in great demand this week
and anything that went on runners could be
easily disposed of if it was in the market. The
sleighing has been unusually fine, the roads
having been in excellent condition to receive
the heavy coating of snow.
The following residents OF Baltimore