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

Meeting of the School Board. School
Board held a meeting at Towson on Thursday
with the president, Mr.. Thomas B. Todd, in
the chair, and Prof. A. s. Cook, secretary.
County Commissioner Henry P. Mann pre-
sented petition from some of the residents of
Highandtown asking for the appointment of
q separate board of trustees for the new school,
The Board promised to give the matter con-
sideration.
Mr.. Rice was given authority to arrange for
exchange of property to straighten the lines at
Catonsville colored school.
A resolution was adopted by the Board ex-
pressing its appreciation of the services of DIR.
William J. Todd, trustee of Mount Washing
ton school.
It was ordered that the secretary request
Mount Moriah Lodge OF Masons to put electric
lights in the School Boards office at once.
The schools will close for the Christmas holt
day on December 23d and reopen Tuesday,
January Sd.
The monthly teachers meeting will be held
December 2Sd at O'Clock.
A special meeting of the Board will be held
on December 18th, at 1890 A. NJ.
A delegation composed of Messrs. Charles E.
Fendall, John F. Anderson, Thomas b. Butler
and Rev. ]. L. Straughn appeared in reference
to rumor that 1t was designed to build new
high school building at Towson and use the
present building as colored school. The dele
CATION was informed that there is no such inn
provement in contemplation.
New Fire Insurance Company in Har-
ford.-The Belair Agis of last week said !:
"Plans for the organization of the new mu.
tual fire insurance company, brief outline OF
which was given short time ago, are rapidly
maturing. This week q circular letter, similar
to the one outlined in our previous article, has
been mailed to thousand property holders in
the county. The letter urges that the extern
sive insurance premiums now going elsewhere
should be kept at home, and looks upon the
present as the proper time for the formation OF
another local insurance company. 1t is not
intended to in any way detract from or impair
the usefulness of the Hartford Mutual Com
pany. In order to bring about the movement,
an invitation is extended to the parties inter.
ested to become members, and reply postal
card is enclosed for this purpose. A signature
to this postal card is in no wise binding unless
a satisfactory constitution is adopted and a
board of directors elected"
Attached to the circular letter are fifty names
among them those Of Stevenson A. Will
liams, Charles w. Michael, John d. Worth
ipeton. Thomas H. Robinson. VIM. 8. For
wood, Jr, DR.. Martin L. jarrett, Robert q.
Richardson John 6. Rouse, James ID. Waters,
Noble L. Mitchell, Willard G. Rouse, Philip
H. Close, Walter w. Preston, John Moores.
Nathan Grafton and ]. Alexis Shriver.
Baltimore County's bad Man" Again
Convicted.-Roland B. Rigor, the Lakeside
car bandit was convicted Of assaulting Deputy
Jail Warden Henry A. LIE Cron with intent to
kill, by Judge Wright in the Criminal Court
of Baltimore, Wednesday. Sentence was sus.
pended pending a motion for q new trial
filed by Rigor's counsel, Messrs. Lewis Hoch-
heimer and Boarman q Lindsay. The mini
mum sentence for the crime is two years in the
penitentiary and the maximum is ten years. 30
It is possible for Rigor to remain in the custody
of the State for Is years. He is now serving q
term of Is years for holding mp car at Lake
| side last summer.
Harold Brewer, who was tried with Rigor on
the same charge, was found guilty of common
assault, and Judge Wright gave him tive
months in jail, to begin when his seven-yeal
| term at the penitentiary has expired,
After the announcement of the verdict States
Attorney Owens said he would stet the cases Oh
attempted jail-breaking which are pending
! against Rigor and Brewer