The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-14

- Rev. Louis O'DOnOvan, OF the BaltlmOr
Cathedral, lectured on Monday afternoon il
the concert hall at Mount st. Agnes College
Mt. Washington. on THE Immaculate Con
ception." 1t was the third of series of Lectures
given at the college.
- They have the hatless man in Baltimore
and we have the spatless man in Towson. They
were, pretty spats and he liked them, but they
man be don't mourn like one without hope
! He says they'll come back all right.
THE man who has to go down in bis
clothes to dig up the wherewithal to buy Christ
mas presents is beginning to take on sort Of
far off, helpless look just now. If it is true
that misery loves company he won't be by any
means lonesome in the next ten days.
~ There seems to be considerable dissatis
faction in Patapsco Neck on account of the ser.
vice furnished by the r. F. D. route just estab
lished there. Some declare that they were
much better served under the old plan and they
say they would be glad to return to it.
>C Contests for some Of the offices at the
disposal of the County Commissioners were
begun this week and several delegations i'm
portuDed the Board in behalf of their favorites.
The shaking of this big plum tree is looked
forward to With serious concern by many.
- There appears to be lively contest going
on over the counselship to the Board of County
Commissioners. All the gentlemen who have
been named for the place have strong influences
behind them and it is saidto be difficult mat
- There are said to be thirteen applicants
for the position of transfer clerk in the Office of
the County Commissioners a position that Mr..
N. Bosley Merryman had so acceptably filled
for several years. The best guessers haven't
yet been able to name the successful aspirant.
>TowsoD Lodge of Odd Fellows, which
held its annual election on Thursday night of
last week. is one of the strongest lodges, both
numerically aud financially, in the State 1t
is over fifty years old and one of il scharter
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- Many hundreds of dollars worth OF
christmas greens" are made up in some Sec
tons of Baltimore county every year and are
sold in the Baltimore markets for decorating
purposes. This is trade that brings dollars to
many who, without it, would have nothing
to sell.
- The c. & P. Telephone Company in dig
ging up our streets to put its wires under ground
has done no little to make our thoroughfares
seas of mud but then this work will soon be
finished and improved telephone service will
more than compensate for the present dis
comforts.
"A gang of burglars operated along the
Hartford road early on Saturday morning last
and although they entered several stores and
public houses their booty was small. The post
Office at Parkville was among the places visited,
but they only got small amount of money.
No arrests.
>The Towson patrons of the Consolidated
Gas Company will be pleased to learn that it
has made arrangements with the Towson Ma
tional Bank whereby they can pay their bills
at the bank, thus obviatiDg the necessity of
sending checks or going to the main office in
Baltimore.
The Black Hand Society has commenced
operations in the suburbs of Baltimore by try
ing to blow up house in Walbrook. The 30
ciety is composed of bloodthirsty Italians who
want. for some fancied wrong or other, to
wreak vengeance against some of their fellow
countrymen.
->The grand jury for the December term of
court, which adjourned finally on Friday, 18th
instant, gave banquet on Thursday afternoon
at the Smedley House, at which the court Off
Gals and others were entertained. The jury
presented its foreman, Mr.. John c. Perkins,
with fine fountain pen.
ION Monday night last Washington Camp,
No. IL, Patriotic Sons of America, presented q
beautiful American flag to the public school at
Westport, 18th district. Rev. A. B. Wood, of
HighlandtOwn, made the presentation speech
and the address of acceptance was by Mr.. John
Mays Little. of the Towson bar
1.-THE Merchants and Farmers Carnival
Association met with great success at their an
nual exhibition held at Sykesville this week,
despite the unfavorable weather. There were
a large number of exhibits of very superior
order and the managers of the carnival were
very much pleased with results.
-The residence of Col. ID. g. Mcintosh, on
West Pennsylvania avenue, TOwson, that was
badly damaged by fire some weeks ago, is being
put in complete repair. The work is being
done by Mr.. John Cowan, the we'll known con-
tractor and builder. Col. and Mrs. Mcintosh
are spending the winter in Baltimore.
Mr.. Lewis NJ. Bacon, agent for the heirs
will sell on the farm of the late John Bacon. at
Monkton, N. G. R. R., on Thursday, Deem
Der 10Th, a dairy herd of AZ cows, said to be one
of the best in the State; also young stock, farm
implements. etc. For full particulars see ad.
vertising columns of The UNION today.
Last week the advertising columns OF
THE UNION contained "a separate and distinct
lads" under the head of new advertisements.
This beats all previous records, % having been
the highest before. There is no longer any
question about the value of this paper as an
advertising medium. The general public knows
it and appreciates it.
Looks like most Dulany's Valley far
mers can get ready to move now. When the
water question between Baltimore city and
county is settled the valley will be turned into
Vdot Inhe TO r11 H.isfE ..<a~afti----lrrly
of water to the city. This will mean, of course
the obliteration of the farms and change in
the whole face of nature.
"A house on West Pennsylvania avenue.
Towson, was considerably damaged few days
ago by bursted water pipe caused by freezing
The family was temporarily absent and moth
ing was known of what had occurred until
some one heard the running water from the
outside; Bursting water pipes 80 early in the
season is something new here.
~ Mr.. John G. Del, who lives at Baynes-
vile, east of Towson, was painfully injured in
Baltimore few days ago while being put off a
street car by the conductor, who refused to &C.
cept transfer that Mr.. Del rendered him. He
is peaceable, law-abiding citizen and no one
who knows him believes that he would try to
beat conductor out of fare.
THE Sparrow's Point Store Company has
sent out invitations to its employees and Off
GERS of the Maryland Steel Company. as well
as the clergy of the town, for its third annual
banquet to take place New Years night. While
the white employees of the store are feasting
the colored employees il another part of the
town will enjoy the same menu.
AT the annual meeting of the Hartford
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, held in Bel
air last Monday, reports showed its affairs to
be in most satisfactory shape. Last year it had
a surplus of about 1928, 00O while the amount
has been increased this year to over 5000
The fire losses the past year were comparatively
small. The officers of the company are to be
congratulated upon the fine showing.
THE UNION receives many pleasant notes
accompanying remittances for subscription.
One from COckeySville reads as follows: II
take this opportunity to congratulate you on
your excellent paper. l am just beginning
farming and find THE UNION most valuable as
a newspaper, and it contains q great many
sound suggestions which | have used to ad.
vantage"
Some of the leading citizens of the upper
end of the 18th district are just now highly in
dgnant at the way Uncle Sam is treating them
in regard to their mail. well known bust
ness man declared on Wednesday that their
mail facilities are worse today than they were
thirty years ago, and be is ready with the evil
dence to prove what he says. In this age of
progress and enlightenment this is surely bad
showing on the part of the P. 0. Department.
-It was reported in THE UNION last week
that Mr.. R. g Kelbaugh, of the 9th district,
had raised % barrels of corn to the acre. This
week Mr.. KelbSugh placed sample of his corn
on exhibition at the drug store of Massenburg
G. Son. in Towson, and it easily leads any OF
the samples that are being shown there and
this is saying a great deal. Mr.. Kelbaugh said
he did not lay claim of % barrels to the acre,
but said he was safely within bounds when
he claimed Is barrels.
About Taking Cold.--No one knows exactly
and at all times how he takes a cold, and after
he gets one the doctors don't know how to
rid him of it, says an exchange 1t is as mys
terious as rheumatism and has as many RENE
dies-say, ten thousand, more or less. One
doctor has come to the conclusion that a cold
is dirt disease" and can be cured by abstain