The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-12-23

! late James K. Tys0n's mammoth variety.
- Christmas shoppers have been busy this
/ week and money seems to be spent freely to lay
in presents and other things for The holidays.
It is season Of mirth and high living, and It
| is hoped that all may get their share of good
things. There should be plenty for everybody.
- Mr.. Charles Patterson, formerly of the
9Th district of this county, died on Monday at
the home of his son, Mr.. B. H. Patterson, of
Mansfield, o. The remains were brought on
here and inferred at Grave Run NJ. e. Church,
near bis former home. on Thursday afternoon.
- Thomas Mcdonald, former superinten-
dent of the Beaver Dam Marble Quarries near
Cockeysvile, was arrested on Wednesday on
the charge of assaulting Mr.. Hugh Sisson,
president of the company, by striking him in
the face. He was committed in default of
bail.
- We invite attention to letter from Mr..
Harry Malcolm that appears in this week.
issue ofTHE UNION. Mr.. Malcolm is to be COM
mended in this good work, and we hope bis
appeal will be productive Of good results. If
Bob White is to be saved to us something must
be done non.
- Baltimore county farmer and q Balti-
more business man met in THE UNION Office on
Tuesday and in the course of conversation the
former learned that the atter-then a strong
German boy not long from the old country
had worked for him as a farm hand nearly
fifty years ago.
- Somebody says the cash the boys used
years ago to buy explosives to celebrate Christ
mas now goes for cigarettes. 1t was much
better expended in the old way even If it did
cause few fingers to be burned Better burn
ed fingers than permanently injured health
through pernicious habit.
THE man who got an Office in his Christ
mas stocking counts himself lucky. But how
about the fellow who got left? Things have
not quite such a roseate view for him just now.
"Disappointments sink the heart of man, but
the renewal of hope gives consolation" Think
0f this old "a On and Qhoor m
THE poor should not be forgotten at any
time, but just now is an especially suitable
season to remember them. Those who have
ample and to spare should not forget their less
stir the heart at this season. Everybody will
feel happier by doing kindly turn.
- Fourteen farm teams were stalled on the
Dnlany's Valley turnpike hill at Bosley post
office on Tuesday morning of this week. on &C
count of the icy condition of the road. The
only way they could make it was by doubling
up. Mr.. Joseph F. Schmidt, in bis attempt to
climb the hill, upset big load of hay.
- With its next issue The UNION will close
the fifty-sixth year of its publication in Balti-
its.entire ownership but once, and the present
proprietors have conducted the paper the greater
part of that time. There are few country news
papers in Maryland with a record like this.
IA large number of the pink slips found
their way back to THE UNION office this week
the end of the present year. Please keep us in
mind and if you can't get here in the Old Year
start the new one right by coming in as early
as possible. We can always be found ready
to wait on you.
IA man came to Towson on Tuesday wear
ing pair of boots 10 years old. They were
made by the late Christian Schmidt of the 10th
district The owner brought them here ito
have some repairs made, but no shoemaker
could be found who could do the job, owing to
the many changes in boot-making in the past
nineteen years.
- The storm of Wednesday night was so
severe as to Brighten some residents of Towson.
One man says he was SO sure the house in
which he lives would blow down that be got ]
up and dressed himself and spent the balance
of the night down stairs. The rain accom-
panying this high wind was almost in the ma
ture of deluge.
- DR.. BosIey, health commissioner of Bal
timore city. says one of the best ways to avoid
catching cold" is to have plenty of fresh air
and adopt the physicians idea. Fresh air
never killed anybody and if human beings
would get more of it their physical condition
would be improved
- The body of Miss Eta Hines, the young
nurse at DR.. Gundrv's sanitarium, Relay, who
so mysteriously disappeared two weeks ago
last Saturday, was found in the Patapsco. some
distance below the railroad viaduct, on Monday
afternoon. She is believed to have committed
suicide while laboring under temporary aber-
ration of the mind.
will give its Christmas entertainment on Sun
day night, December Oath, commencing at 7.30
o'clock Special pains have been taken to pre-
pare for this affair and it promises to surpass
all previous efforts of the school, which now
numbers 260 children. Mr.. VIM. j. Biddison
is the superintendent.
->S Special services will be held at Towson
M. E. Church Christmas morning, at O'Clock.
In the afternoon, at o'clock, the children con-
nected with the Junior Epworth League will
give an entertainment and receive their Christ
mas treat. On Tuesday evening, 18th, at 1880
o'clock, the Sunday school will hold its annual
Christmas entertainment.
- It is rumOred that the supply of water in
Lake Roland is to be increased by reestablish-
ing the pumping station at Meredith's ford, on
the GunpoHder, and relaying the pipe line
fpom That point to Roland run, at Lutherville.
This part of Baltimore city's water supply, es-
tablished at an outlay of several hundred thous
and dollars. was abandoned some years ago.
- The Hartford Mutual Fire Insurance Com
panv finds that the most of its fire losses are
of incendary origin, and yet it is very rare
indeed that there is an arrest for this crime.
The State pays an officer to ferret out such mat
tiers, but if he ever does anything we never hear
of it. The incendaries appear to have free rein
in Baltimore county and this is Incompetent
sible.
- A man from Hsrford got off trolley car
in Towson on Tuesday and as he stepped to the
ground the large grip that he carried flew open
and disclosed miscellaneous lot of bottles filled
with Christmas cheer. And the bottles didn't
contain all the wet goods he had with him,
either. With the assistance of boy he reached
the Md & Pa. Railroad station and from thence
proceeded to his home.
->Some cases of smallpox are making their
appearance in Baltimore among the cOlored
people, and Health Commissioners Bosley is
taking active steps to check the spread of the
disease. Citing several cases he says one col
ored woman Twas actually broken out with
smallpox nine days and yet went out working
in white peoples houses" The mere thought
of such a thing is horrible.
- considerable sum of money has been
subscribed in Baltimore county to purchase
Western partridges for restocking purposes.
Some thought it would be better to get birds
from the South, but an experienced sportsman
says they will not stay here. Kansas birds are
the best, he says. 1t is generally believed now
that the severe weather of last winter and the
hawks killed most of the cartridges.
- Big yields of corn have been much ex-
plotted in Baltimore county this year. but moth
ing has been said about the little fellows" A
well known farmer near Bosley postoffice says
the smallest crops OF corn ever raised in that
had II barrels to the acre another had barrel,
and third one didn't get any. This state OF
things was due to the many freshets in the
Gunpowder.
AT the last meeting of the Junior Gun
powder Agricultural Club Mr.. Laban Sparks
stated that the laws are such that the public
may expect protection from automobiles and
from any infringement or loss of milk cans or
vessels. He read the laws concerning both
and said the receivers of the milk are to blame
for the abuse of or loss of cans, as they allow
the cans too often to get into the hands of those
not their owners.
- The County Commissioners of Cecil
county received this year 81, 400 for tax
on dogs. When the constables had the collec-
ton of this tax they got from 5000 to S4OO The
money goes to reimburse those farmers who
have sheep killed by dogs. Why can't Balti-
more county have such law as this? If it
works well in Cecil it ought to do the same
here. Let our members in the next House of
Delegates take the matter up.
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A Milk Show in Baltimore.-Baltimore is
to have a milk exhibition next spring. The
affair will be on large scale and will have
special bearing upon the danger from tubercu.
loss bacilli in milk, although the exhibits will
cover a much wider field than this alone. The
exhi biton is to be given under the auspices of
he State Board of Health. and, according to
tDr John s. Fulton, of the Board. nothing like