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

--->A man who IL rarely In the court room
at Towson happened there on Thursday and
was surprised to see such large percentage Of
fifty and then asked If Towson could afford
such large number of idle colored people.
SMf. Joshua Goodwin, who manages Mrs.
Francis 7. Homer's property on the Pot Spring
road. raised this season 1856 barrels of corn on
charge of this place it was in bad shape, but he
is getting 1t up and will soon make it shine.
THE Maryland and Pennsylvania Rail-
/ road has recently made decided improvement
at North Avenue Station by putting in new
high platform. which makes ingress and egress
to and from the cars much easier. Other inn
| provements are contemplated in the near
! future
-. One day this week five beautiful red
birds were seen at one time on q grape arbor
in Towson picking the dried up fruit from the
vines. These birds rarely come SO near house
and 1t must be the cravings of hunger that
impel them to it. II would be pity If they
should starye.
- Ten shares Of the stock of the Baltimore
County Agricultural Society belonging to the
estate ofthe late John X. Cowsn were appraised
at 81 each. The par value is IS. Several sales
of this stock have been made lately at from 50
| to "a per share but this cannot be considered
the ruling price.
school of st. Johns M. E. Church South. of
Hamilton, will be held in Hamilton Hall, on
December Goth. The children of the school
are already being rehearsed in songs, drills and
Christmas carols. Rev. Charles M. Hesser Is
pastor of the church.
IA large number of the "yellow slips''
have found their way back to THE UNION office
this week, and all who have responded to the
Invitations" have gone on their way rejoicing.
There are many hundreds yet to be heard from
tot kau ffrt.j
before December 31st.
ALFRED Pettus, the young colored man
indicted for attempting to wreck cars on the
electric railway in Towson and also on the
Maryland q Pennsylvania r. r.. by placing
distractions upon the tracks last summer, was
tried in court here on Tuesday and Wednesday
and acquitted by Judge Burke.
"A procession of the Blessed Sacrament
took place at the Church of the Immaculate,
lesson, last Sunday afternoon, when 40 cnii.'
dren, carrying banners, participated. BeDe-
dictiOn of the Blessed Sacrament was celebrated
at the five different affairs in the church. A
large congregation was present.
- The personal estate of the late Mr.. John x.
Cowan is appraised at nearly $3.50, 000 and the
entire estate, including the large farm in lower
Long Green Valley, is estimated at about $780,
OOO Mr.. Frederick Dallam, of the law firm of
Dallam & Marbury and Mrs. Cowan the
widow, are the administrators
"a freight train on the Northern Central
Railway had the top of one of the cars blown
off by the wind, near Lutherville, one day last
week. Conductor Geiser was on the roof of
the car at the time and was thrown to the
ground and escaped with an injured back. The
train was running slow at the time.
THE snow that began at an early hour on
Saturday morning last continued for about IS
hours and covered the earth to the depth of
nearly a foot. Fortunately there was very
little wind and it did not drift sufficiently to
interfere with travel. 1t is rarely that we ex-
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Mr.. John s. Crowther, who is now &C.
cupying the property known as the Gill farm,
on the county road between Texas and Beaver
Dam, 9Th district, having abandoned general
farming to devote bis attention entirely to the
dairy business, will have sale OF surplus stock,
implements etc., on Tuesday, December 9th.
->Mr. Harry Malcolm, of Towson, had
pleasant surprise on Thursday when he re-
ceived by express from his friend, DR.. g. w.
Downey, of Frederick county, Md, pair
of beautifully marked Beagle puppies. DR..
DoWney's Beagles have an almost world wide
reputation and have won prizes in many bench
IA few days ago Rev. Nathan Mathews,
of Cape Mount, West Africa, gave q highly
entertaining talk at st. Thomas P. e. Church,
Homestead, where he has been engaged in mis-
sionary work in that country for the past four
years. Cape Mount is the place where Miss
Margaret Ridgely, of Hampton, near Towson,
will locate.
-The two heavy SHOWS of the past two
weeks caught many farmers with large part
of their corn crop standing in the shock in
fields and it is very uncertain now when they
will be able to secure it. Weheard one farmer
say this week that he still had over 40 acres
out, while another said he had fully 100 barrels
unhusked in the field.
ing of all praise for arresting gang of thieves
called the 1'yeggers, who had an encampment
near Mt. Wilson, in the Sd district of this
county. Over 20 of them have been captured
and it is believed that some of them are the
men who have been robbing banks and bust
ness places in this State.
mt. Washington, the town of many hills,
had mild sensation few days ago when Miss
Beatrice e. Patterson, daughter of MIR. George
f. Patterson, and popular young lady, ran
off to Washington with Mr.. Charles e. Scarlett
the son of neighbor, and were married. The
parental blessing was soon forthcoming and
all goes on smoothly again.
1--WE nave received from MIR. Edward j.
Donahue an interesting letter from Colon,
Isthmus of Panama, which we hope to be able
to publish in THE UNION next week. Mr..
Donahue is a Baltimorean and was at one time
a clerk in the T0wson postal station. He went
to the Isthmus with the Newport Structural
Company and expects to return in few weeks
- Messrs. William B. Cockey, Redmond G.
Stewart and other residents of the Sd district
complained to the County Commissioners on
Tuesday that some persons were running snow
plows over the county roads in a way to spoil
the sleighing. They suggested that the plows
be obliged to keep to the sides of the roads.
The matter was referred to the district super
Mr.. William G. Brooks, of the 9Th dis
trict, who drove to Towson on Tuesday morn
ing, said he saw bunch of hobos moving
northward on the York turnpike and follow
ing them at short distance was q well dressed
stranger. Hethought the gang might be some
of the .yeggmen" with whom the Baltimore
police have been having such a lively time
within the last week.
why not let the good old sentiment,
ION earth peace good will toward men," pre-
vail all the year around. 1t is suicidal to dust
that motto off only once year and expect it
to do service for fortnight or so. and then to
gather dust and be forgotten for fifty long
weeks. When Luke uttered those words he
intended them to be the everyday sentiment of
mankind, not merely Yule-tide echo.
MIR. r. Baldwin Homer, youngest son of
Mr.. Charles G. Homer of Sherwood, N. G. R.
R., was seriously hurt in a coasting accident
on Friday night of last week, but his injuries
were not of fatal nature. Several others who
were with him at the time were painfully hurt
among them Nathan r. Smith, Jr., son of DIR.
N. r. Smith. and Thomas Wright, son of Mr..
Robert II. Wright. tits almost miracle that
some of them were not killed.
"A well known farmer near Warren,
which is only about miles from Towson
makes complaint to us because he does not re-
ceive his copy of THE UNION until Monday
when he should get it on Saturday morning.
This is another one of the beauties of the new
postal system (?) that we are hearing so much
about Just now. Affairs in this line are get
ting so mixed up in this county that many
people cannot tell where they live any more
and for getting their mail promptly they APP
pear to have abandoned all hope of that The
whole thing looks like farce.
Humane Persons Should Look After the
the Birds.-Rev. j. L. Straughn, pastor of
Baltimore Circuit NJ. P Church, writes as fol-
lows to The UNION:
"Gentlensen you give space for the
publication of letter from the State Game