The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-21

torney, at the Court House door, real estate
near Carney, 9th district.
Monday, December 30, by George P. Isennock,
near Greenwood, 18th district. stock, wag-
ons, farm implements and machinery. etc:
Thursday, January 2. by Annie B. II IKE. on the
Warren road, near Cockeysville. horses, COWS,
hogs, poultry, farm implements. household
Tuesday, January Z, by H. Baldwin Meyers and
others. heirs of Henry R. f. Meyers, deceas-
ed, at the Court House door. farm of 4Sk
acres in the 18th district.
Wednesday, January Is, by d. Meredith Reese,
Attorney, on the premises, leasehold prop
erty, 1885 East Baltimore street.
- According to the almanac winter begins
on Sunday next, December 22d.
Grip is prevailing in Baltimore just now.
Physicians say it is in mild form.
- It was given out this week that million
cows in the State of New York have tuber-
culosis.
- Christmas Day is a legal holiday in Mary
land and all the banks and public offices will
be closed.
- Look out for the sneak thief He is very
active about holiday times and is no respector
ofpersons.
- You can get calendar for the New Year
at THE UNION office. 1t will come in handy in
q few days.
Turkeys promise to be plentiful for the
holiday season, and it is said the prices will
not be high.
The December term of the Circuit
Court adjourned on Tuesday until Monday,
January 9th.
- The smallpox scare at Hullville. 18th dis
trict. turns out to have been chickenpox in
cOored family.
- Enthusiastically, December 21st-the
sun rises at "a minutes past and sets at 40
minutes past 4.
- The Christmas rattle is now on and it
often happens that the man who wins the prize
is the loser in the end.
- The month of December is keeping up
its record for unpleasant weather. Any change,
almost. would be agreeable.
- The public schools OF this county closed
on Friday. Goth instant. and will not reopen
until Monday, January 9th, 1908.
- There will be little doing about the Court
House next week. especially after Tuesday.
Might as we'll call it a week of holiday.
THE Merchants National Bank of Balti
more has been appointed reserve agent for the
First National Bank of Gainesville, Baltimore
county.
- Wagon loads of Christmas trees have
been going to market this week by way Of the
York road. No doubt they bring their vendors
many dollars.
- Rev. NJ. L. Beall, pastor of Long Green
Circuit, will preach and administer commu-
MON at Waugh Church, on Sunday, December
22d, at IL A. M.
vanced to the presidential class, with an in
crease of salary to 81 ,000 Mr.. S. s. Yingling
is the postmaster.
- Next Wednesday will be Christmas. the
most important holiday of the year. We trust
it may prove thoroughly happy one to all the
readers of THE UNION.
- Forty eight copies of THE UNION are now
going regularly to Raspeburg postoftice, on the
Belair road, at which point an R. f. d. route
was lately established.
->It looks like Santa Claus will have to
travel in an automobile this year, but then,
when it comes to weather, the present Decem-
Der is mighty uncertain.
Men who have been teaming on the York
turnpike this week say they never before saw
the road in such condition. In places it has
become almost impossible.
THE fellows who got offices in their
Christmas stockings are wearing smiling faces
now. The Board of County Commissioners
made the distribution on Tuesday.
1.-THE County Commissioners must have
been well satisfied with their old staff of Off
GERS. Hence they found it necessary to make
very few changes in the new DEAL"
, - Mice gnawing matches in a house at
Della, LIST district, caused fire that damaged
the building $500. If matches were kept in
tin boxes such losses might be avoided
- One of the finest calendars we have seen
this year is that being sent out by Mr.. H. L.
CRUDE, the well known timber dealer. 1t is
an elaborate affair and does him great credit.
IA large number of properties are now
being advertised for sale for taxes by County
Treasurer N. Bosley Merryman. Most of the
districts in the county are represented in
the list.
lit is astonishing what load of bundles
and packages small specimen of female hui
manity can carry about holiday times. The
accumulation sometimes looks like load for
q dromedary.
- Mr. Frederick Schanberger has subleased
Electric Park to the Electric Park Company at
a rental of Sc. 900 per annum for the first two
years and $4,000 per annum for the follow
ing six years.
- Last Saturday was another December
day to be remembered for its snow, rain and
high wind. Certainly this month has thus far
made very unpleasant record for the kind of
weather furnished.
- Mr.. Elisha NJ. Price, who was re-appoint
ed warden of the Jail by the County Commits
sioners on Tuesday, has re-appointed Clinton
O.-Bosley, deputy warden, and VIM. Thomas
Fulton, Waterman.
The Rev. Arthur j. Rich Endowment
Scholarship Fund of Hannah More Academy
Reisterstown, has been increased SIP by re-
cent sale of fancy articles donated by pupils
and members of the alumn@.
Several more Baltimore county dairy
herds were sold this week because their owners
are retiring from the business. The high price
of feed and the scarcity of help are generally
assigned as the principal causes.
- There was another change this week in
the r. f. ID. route extending east and south
east from Towson, Charles r. Brown, carrier.
The length of his route has been increased,
which means an advance in pay.
"a young lady resident of TOwson was
very seriously scalded few days ago by upset
ting a large bucket of boiling water over her
legs below the knees. She will be confined
to her room for at least month.
->It now turns out that the q. q 2. Tele
phone Company was the actual purchaser of
the Maryland Company. This means that in
time there will be but one telephone company
and this should mean better service.
->If money is tight" as many people as
sert, where is all the cash coming from that is
now flowing into the stores and shops? Money
seems to be as plentiful now as il ever was and
people are spending it just as freely.
- Governor-elect CrOthers will be inaugur-
ated at Annapolis on Wednesday, January
8th one week after the assembling of the Legis
lature. He has not yet given any intlmation
as to who his Secretary of State will be.
81 Have you seen the new ten-doilar gold
piece without the words: I'm God We Trust ~
Well, it's mean looking coin, despite its in
trinsic value, and Roosevelt did a poor day s
work when he ordered the minis to make it.
. - - Bad roads is a popular topic with many
lust now. The frequent rains and SHOWS in
November and December have been the cause
Of this state of things. 1t is not often that our
roads are in such condition at this season of
the year.
- carload of furniture shipped from Phila-
delphia to Towson on Wednesday of last week
did not arrive here until Monday morning of
this week. Considering that the distance is
less than 100 miles this seems very slow trs.ns-
portatiOn.
- The work oftransforming the old Journal
Building in Towson into an exchange for the
c. e. P Telephone Company is progressing but
the alterations are so many and so elaborate
that much time will necessarily be consumed
in making them.
THE last grand jury might be called a
reform" jury because it made number of
suggestions for changes in various things, but
we doubt very much if these suggestions will
ever be needed We have noticed that they
rarely, if ever, are.
- The wagon from the Pleasant Plains
Dairy Farm is not now seen in Towson and it
is said that Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett, who owns
the farm, has given up the business. The Tow
son and Govanstown routes were advertised for
sale some time ago.
MIR G. Frank Morgan, of the Dulany'
Valley Stock Farm. has very fine sample of
hominy corn on exhibition in the collection in
the Towson drug store of Massenburg & Son.
He had yield of II barrels to the acre of this
corn-a very good crop.
Justice NeUmayer, of Gardenville, has
sent Howard Gibson to Jail at Towson upon
the charge of stealing horse from Joseph
Reeins and another from Louis E. Schaub, both
of whom live on Franklin avenue. 1t is said