The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-12-16
-Y You can get a calendar for 1906 by calling


- You can get calendar for 1906 by calling
at THE UNION office
THE Circuit Court will adjourn next Mon
day until Tuesday, January ID, 1906.
- The School Board will hold meeting at
Towson, on Wednesday, December 10th.
- Next Friday, December I'D, will, accord
ing to the almanac, be the first day of winter.
- The C0ckeysville National Bank will &C
cept the thanks Of THE UNION for an attractive
calendar for the year 1906.
- The grass still shows green on some
lawns in Towson and this is very unusual with
Christmas only week on.
- Mr.. Elmer ]. Cook, attorney for George M.
Schroeder, has entered suit for s.. 600 damages
against j. Henry Richter for alleged Islander.
- Mr.. Thomas Todd, afarmeF near Warren,
9Th district, lately slaughtered 10 hogs the COM
bined weight Of which was 5000 pounds.
- Another couple from distance came to
Towson few days ago and were married by
Rev b. b. Abbitt, pastor ofthe Baptist Church.
IA movement is on foot to organize a
Presbyterian congregation at Arlington. A
lot has been secured upon which to erect a
church. z
Episcopal Church at Sparrow's Point next
Sunday morning and administer the rite OF
confirmation.
- A valuable collie belonging to Mr.. John
Reugert, of Gardenville, died a. few days ago.
Only recently the owner had refused an offer
- The County Commissioners on Wednes-
day appointed Clarence Crusey constable for
the Sd district and William f. Hare, constable
for The 9Th district.
- Only one more issue of this paper before
Christmas. This greatest of the years holt
days falls this year on Monday, so that two
holidays will again come together.
- Belair Road Council, No. TO. Catholic
Benevolent Legion, will give its first oyster
supper in St. Joseph's Hall, on Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings, December 18th and 9th.
- Don't get the idea that the project to
build an electric railway between Towson and
Cockeysville is dead. 1t is still alive and kick
ing and is sure 10 be heard OF again before long:
->A barrack on the Homeland estate OF
Mr.. K. Glenn Perine, west OF Govanstown,
with about 30 tons of hay, was destroyed by
fire on Wednesday afternoon. Loss 81, 200
Insured.
- Dealers in Christmas turkeys are taking
orders for them at 20 cents a pound. 1t is
thought by some the price may be below that
It is almost certain to be if the mild weather
continues.
the Belair road, had successful literary and
musical entertainment and dance OF Hamilton
Hall, on Tuesday night last. Talent from Bal
timore assisted.
- Christmas rafting has begun and there
are always plenty of fellows who want to TRY
their luck'' Luck is very uncertain guam
tity and those who believe in it get left nine
times out of ten.
- The Christmas dinner will cost more this
year than it has done for years, due to the fact
that everything for the table has advanced in
price this year. Even oysters are higher than
they usually are.
Mr. Andrew J. Feelemyer a well known
horse-shoer, died at his home in Baltimore on
Tuesday, in the Goth year of his age. He was
brother of the late George w. Feelemyer, of
Baltimore county.
- The open season for hunting in Balti-
more county will end next Saturday. The oath
of December is the last day, but it happens to
fall this year on Sunday, hence the preceding
-sMr. Edward E. Scott of Western Run
Valley, raised 400 barrels of corn this season,
or an average of II barrels to the acre. Mr.. ].
Griffith Gent. of the same neighborhood, raised
so barrels on q acres.
- Here is Christmas almost on us and we
have not yet had snow enough ito track
rabbit" The prospects for green Christ
mas" are excellent, but in old times this was
not thought desirable
- Be1ah W. Halle, aged years, daughter
of Mr.. George NJ. Halle, of the 18th district.
was struck in the face BY stone while at school
on Tuesday and painfully hurt DIR. J. +. II.
Gorsuch attended her.
MIR. Louis McLane, who died at his home
in Baltimore, on Wednesday morning last,
was the father of Mrs. E. Cuttings Merryman, of
Baltimore county, and owned pretty country
place near Cockeysville.
The Tobacco Special'' is off through
Southern Maryland, and no doubt those COM
posing the party are having fine time. Both
tobacco and corn are to be given big boost
through this movement.
the Ladies' Aid Society Of Epworth M
E. Church, Cockeysville, has elected the fol-
lowing officers President Mrs. w. Albert
Long vice president, Mrs. John G. Leaf Sec
rotary, Miss Ella Fisher.
@Mr. Joseph Harris, who died in Balti
more few days ago, was born in Baltimore
county in 1919. He was well known merchant
tailor and for nearly sixty years an active mem
her of the Masonic order.
Santa Claus has his busy day sign out
now He'll have on his hand next week rather
more than he can attend to, but nobody yet
ever heard of the old fellow getting left. He's
always equal to the occasion.
- Messrs Dukehart & Stevenson, of the
Towson Horse Company, are handling great
deal of stock and their business appears to be
prosperous. 1t is a new enterprise in Towson
and we are glad to see it succeed.
- Wagon loads of cedars and other ever
green trees are being hauled to market for use
at Christmas. These trees are being so rapidly
destroyed that it will not be long before the
country is entirely denuded of them.
- Dandelons are blooming in the fields
and gardens of Western Maryland, and in some
places trees are budding Fuzzy caterpillars
are also seen in the open air. These things are
so strange as to cause much comment
- One of the biggest hogs ever raised in the
10th district was slaughtered few days ago by
Mr.. Nicholas Parker, we'll known farmer.
weighing 655 pounds, as reported by one of
THE UNIONS local correspondents today.
"A large number of the members OF Refs.
terstown NJ. E. Church paid donation visit
on Monday night to their pastor. Rev. J. f.
Amos, who received liberal supply of neces-
saries for the table as well as other articles.
- Hicks and the goosebone man appear to
be running neck and neck this winter. The
kind of weather they are giving US thus far is
ali right and the fellow who would kick about
it don't know when he's got good thing.
THE choir of st. Johns M. Z. Church
South, at Hamilton, Hartford road, gave sue
cessful concert last Monday night. MIR. F. @.
Purdum was director and Miss Agatha Amendt,
pianist. The chorus contained thirty voices.
- What's the sense in going to Florida
when you can find temperature of az degrees
in the open air in the middle of December right
here in TowsoL? Perhaps il was little taste
of Indian summer that we have been enjoying.
->Mr. A. J. Tarbert, head gardener st the
Sheppard Pratt Hospital, near Towson, took
number of first prizes on the vegetables he ex-
hibited at the annual exhibition OF the State
Horticultural Society held in Baltimore last
week.
AT meeting of the board of directors of
the City Savings Bank of Baltimore, held on
Monday, Mr.. Charles A. Roe. of Lutherville, a
former resident of Towson, was elected clerk
and assistant to the treasurer, Mr.. James r.
Reese.
AT the dinner given the Senior Gunpow-
der Agricultural Club by Mr.. Lewis M. Bacon,
at his farm in the 9Th district, last Saturday,
the most noticeable article on the table was
25pound bronze gobbler of the hosts own
raising.
THE first real storm of the present winter
set in about 7.30 o'clock on Friday morning,
December 10Th, and in an hour the earth was
white with the first snow of the season in this
section of Maryland. The temperature at A.
NJ was %.
- In riding on some trolley lines in Balti-
more passengers are now permitted to leave the
cars by either the front or back platform.
al hot 1oll 40 mo
Passengers will be taken on by the rear plat
form only.
The December meeting of the Senior
Gunpowder Agricultural Club was held last
Saturday at the farm of Mr.. Lewis M. Bacon,
in the 8th district The report of the proceed.
ings ofthe same will be published IN IHE UNION
next week.
The G. &. P. Telephone Company has
completed its new exchange at WoodlaWn, Il
being located in the store OF DR.. George Vogel,
who is the manager. The exchange covers
Hebbvile, Dickeyville, Franklintown and
Woodlawn.
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