The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-12-22

diverted into other channels.
The public schools closed on Friday, 21st
instant, and will reopen Thursday, January
Sd, 1907.
land, and all the banks and public offices will
-STHE UNION office will be open the greater
part of the time Christmas day and callers will
be welcome.
- December is also making a record for
rain. Three solid days OF 1t IN one week Is
decidedly too much.
- The annual early morning prayer meet,
ing will be held in Towson NJ. E. Church at
O'Clock on Christmas day.
- THE UNION will soon celebrate another
birthday Its fifty eighth anniversary will fall
on the LIST of January, 1907.
- Don't fail to get UNION calendar for
the New Year that will soon be with us. There
are still good many of them left.
- According to the almanac today (Satur-
day, December 22d) is the first day of winter.
The DAYS will now begin to lengthen.
>Towson's new National Bank appears TO
be going along finely and the officers are much
pleased with the encouragement thus far met
with.
IA cantata that abounds in bright music
will be given by the Sunday school OF Fork N
E. Church, in Shirley Hall, on New Years
night.
of Cockeysvile, slaughtered three hogs, IL
months DID, the combined weight Of which was
LIPS pounds.
are presenting the numerous customers with
Christmas gifts consisting of finely printed and
bound check books.
- Water pipes were frozen in some houses
in Towson by the cold snap of Tuesday night.
Wednesday morning was the coldest OF the
winter up to that thine.
The Junior Epworth League of Towson
NJ E Church will hold its holiday festivities
at 4 o'clock P. NJ, on Christmas day, In the lec-
ture room of the church.
"a rattle for the benefit OF St. Joseph 8
Church, Belair road, will be held in ST. Joseph g
Hall, on Thursday, December 9th. There will
be music dancing and refreshments.
Santa Claus is the activest man we know
lust now. He keeps bis busy day sign con-
spicuously displayed all the time, and he's
really got bis worst to go through yet.
- Two Towson sportsmen. who spent a
couple of days in Anne Arundel county last
week, found cartridges more abundant than
here, although they killed only Is birds.
- Subscribers to THE UNION who may
change their residences about the close OF the
year are requested to notify us promptly, CIV
ing both their old and their new address.
- Nothing new to report this week in con-
nection with the trolley line extension between
Towson and Cockeysville. We have been as
sured, however, that the road will be built.
- Inc open SedSOu lOE pdfIi1uSccs laDOAtci
ETC., in Baltimore county, will end next Mon
day-the day before Christmas. Deputy game
vardens should see that the law is enforced.
- There is still some corn standing in shock
in the fields. Some farmers get so in the habit
of being behind hand that they never catch up
no matter how favorable the conditions may be.
- The first issue of THE UNION in the New
Year will fall on the 9Th of January, 1907. II
you wish to begin your subscription with that
date you still have plenty Of time left IN which
to do it.
- Fresh eggs took drop in price this week
and were retailing in the stores at 3S cents.
They had gone up to nearly 80 cents. 1t is
thought heavy sales of Grated eggs brought
about the slump.
- The monthly entertainment at Towson
Guild House will take place on Friday night
December 28th Members and their lady
friends will be admitted free. Others will be
charged rs cents.
= The large barn on the farm of Mr.. George
VIM. McComas, a few miles south OF Bear,
with all of his crops, implements and two
horses, was burned on Wednesday evening"
causing heavy loss.
- The finest and cleanest timothy hay we
see weighed on the scales in TOws0n is grown
by Mr. William N. Lee on Mr.. George Browns
farm at Brooklandville, Green Spring Valley.
1t is bringing SIS ton.
1.-The Baltimore County Water Company
has taken an appeal from the decision of Judge
Duncan on the question of laying pipes in this
county, and now the matter is up to the Court
of Appeals for final decision.
THE Office Of the Towson Democrat aud
Journal was reuloF11 this week from the Lee
years, to the new Offutt Building, opposite the
south front of the Court House.
THE public school at Pikesville, Sd dis
trct, was temporarily closed few days ago on
account of the prevalence of diphtheria among
the pupils. There have been no fatal cases
nd arc
->The Gainesville Country Club has not
vet done anything towards erecting club
house to replace the one recently destroyed by
fire. 1t is likely building, to cost about $15,-
600, will be erected on the old site.
christmas rafiies are a thing of the past
in Towson now. Why ban was put upon
this class of holiday sport we have not been
informed. Perhaps our people haveg grown too
moral to indulge in such pastimes.
- Charles Guyton, teamster for Mr.. W. s.
/ G. Williams, of Long Green Valley, had a leg
\ crushed few days ago by falling beneath the
wheels of his wagon. He attempted to lock
Athe wagon when he slipped and fell
" - Christmas will have come and gone
before the next issue of THE UNION reaches its
readers. May it be happy and joyous season
to all our readers is our earnest wish.
There promises to be plenty of fun at Vol
tiers Hotel Carney, Hartford roard, on ChristmaF
day. shooting match will be among the
diversions, and Proprietor Wolters promises q
Christmas present to each OF his guests;
- 1t is said that living expenses OF all KINDS
are higher this year than they have been in
twenty-five years. 1t is asserted that the cost
is about 50 per head per month more than for
merly. This seems to be large increase.
Sup in the great Northwest where the
fuel famine prevails coal sold within the last
week at SEQ ton. Let us thank our stars that
we are not caught in such straits as these.
Mr.. William J. Biddison, fire insurance
agent, has removed bis Office from the drug
store at Bellevue, Belair road, to Kelly's Hall,
at the terminus of the Belair road trolley llne'
He represents several excellent companies.
MIR. Charles c. Schuster, of Towson, has
sold the property at Jacksonville, on the Jar
rettsville turnpike known as the 16 Mile House,
to Mr.. ]. Perry Carroll upon private terms
Mr.. Carroll keeps the store at Jacksonville.
"A few DAYS ago Mr. Thomas X. Hartley,
of Diamond Ridge, I'd district, slaughtered
two hogs that weighed, respectively, 496 and
425 pounds-total 921 pounds. He says he
still has some more left that may beat these.
Tuscan Masonic Lodge, of Govanstown,
celebrated its fourth anniversary on Monday
night last with banquet. Mr.. R. E. Lee Hal
made an interesting address on 1.-THE Work.
ings of Masonry" Mr.. Robert Hockaday wa:
POSTMASTER.
THE storekeepers are now reaping theil
harvest, and they are making good use of theii
time Money appears to be plentiful and tht
people are spending it freely. This is a rich
and happy country and yet there is much
suffering in it.
-Mr. j. Wesley Isennock, manager fo
Mrs. John X. Cowen, will sell all the persona
property on the Notch Cliff Farm. lower Lonl
Green Valley, on Thursday, December 9th
The farm, which contains nearly 500 acres
will be sold later.
Almost universal regret is expressed a
the death of Gen. John M. Hood, president o
the United Railways and Electric Company
He was in all respects most useful and valua
hIo o;fi1on and the community Qan i'll affOr(
to lose such men.
-All the churches will have special ser
vices on Christmas morning and many of tn
Sunday schools will give entertainments q
night. 1t is said that some of these school
always show an increased attendance as tn
holidays approach.