The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-10

Harrisonville, I'd District.-Sunday last
was a busy dav with the church going contin.
gent of Jacksonville and adjacent sections OF
this district. At IL o'clock IN the morning
Rally Day services were held in Mount Paran
Presbyterian Church, the pastor, Rev. d. ID.
Henry. d. n. presiding. At 3 o'clock p NJ.
the Sunday school of the same denomination
observed Rally Day. Special programs had
been arranged for both services ana were well
rendered.
In Holy Family R. G. Church the devotion
of the Forty Hours was begun with mass az
II O'Clock A. M, when the Feast of the Soem-
nifty of the Holy Rosary was also opserveo.
Rev. Edward Hynes. of Oregon, was the ceie.
brant of the mass, in the enforced absence OF
the pastor, Rev. Edward P. McAdams. rather
Hynes also preached taking for his subject the
devotion of the rosary and treating OF lts origin
and rapid dissemination. AT 75O o CLOCK 2. M.
large congregation Joined in the recital OF the
rosary and Rev. Thomas Duty, OF Epipnany
College, preached an eloquent sermon on the
Blessed Sacrament Masses were read at ana
o'clock on Monday and Tuesday mornings
and the service of Sunday evening was repeated
on Monday evening at 7.3O O'CLOCK, Rev.
Father Kenny, of Baltimore, filling the pulpit.
At 7.30 O'Clock on Tuesday evening the devo-
ton closed with the observance OF the holy
Hour.
The congregation of st. Luke's Protestant
Episcopal Chapel is preparing to- honor the
patron saint of the edifice on Sunday, October
18TH by an all-day service. For two decades
this little congregation has observed very
pleasant custom-that of picnicking in the
grove adjoining the chapel in the interval be-
tween the services and spreading bounteous
luncheon to which pastor, visiting clergy, con-
gregation and visiting strangers all do full JUS
tice. neglected to say that any. representa-
tives of the press who may be so fortunate as
to be present are cordially invited to the repast.
We are careful to represent the press on these
occasions, and hope the editor won't insist on
covering the affair himself.
There is little political agitation IN this dis
trict as yet, Republicans speak OF TAT TAT as is
already elected and Democrats speak little, If
any. Some few of the latter have declared
their intention to stay away from the polls.
Church people are talking little adversely OF
the Unitarian creed of the Republican candi-
date. And, to tell the truth, we (while wait
ing for the kettle to boil, or the cow to come
home) have found ourself wondering, in
feeble feminine way, why this is thus
Miss Anna M. Jean, who has been so criti-
cally i'll for the past three months, is improv-
ing but is still very weak. Her sister, Miss
Alice q. Jean, teacher in the public schools
of Baltimore, has not resumed pedagogic duties
as yet, owing to Miss jeans illness.
Miss Alice Holbrook, daughter of Mr.. j.
Isaac Hobrook, is patient at the Maryland
General Hospital, where she is recuperating
from an operation performed about week
ago. Miss Holbrook is an active worker in
Presbyterian circles in this district.
Vernon Migan. the 12-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Migan, of near Randalstown,
met with painful accident last Sunday that
might easily have proved fatal He, with an
older boy, Louis Greenwald, was endeavoring
to dislodge squirrel which had taken refuge
in tree. The older boy had climbed the tree
and was trying to chop the animal out with
Ratchet when the tool fell from his hand
striking young Migan, who was on the ground,
on the head and cutting very ugly cash in
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necessary aid and the little chap is doing
well. M.