The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-11-21


agricultural school building to be erected a
Glencoe, Baltimore county, on the line OF tn
n. @. r. R. This will be an innovation her
and the outcome will be watched with grea
deal of interest.
- The Green Spring Valley Hunt Club
with their guests from New York and Phila
delphia. struck a bad streak of weather Will,
spending ten days at Pennington" Will
about 6 inches of snow on the ground the spor
was much interfered with.
THE assistant teachers in the public
schools of this county are taking steps to have
their pay increased, and they deserve to sue
coed in the undertaking. In view of all thu
circumstances their present compensation ap
pears entirely inadequate.
- Diana Taylor, a highly respected colored
woman, died at her home on Schwarz avenue
Govanstown, on the 18th instant, aged II years
She was the widow of Isaac Taylor, who was q
well known man in his day and an active
participant in church work.
- The Educational Club of Baltimore
county will meet today at SIG Park avenue
Baltimore and hear an address on School
Finances by School Superintendent Cook
Mr.. Joseph Blair is president of the club and
Miss NJ. Annie Grace, secretary.
IAN effort is being made in Baltimore
city to have Governor Crothers make Saturday,
December 26lh, legal holiday in Maryland.
That would make three.day holiday at Christ
mas-Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Saturday
is half holiday in the city anyway.
- The Baltimore County Medical Associa-
ton held its regular monthly meeting in Tow
son on Thursday, with the president, DR.. r. f.
Gundry, in the chair. DR.. VIM. J. Todd read
an interesting paper. Drs. A. NJ. Forster and
]. B. Webster were elected members.
AT the Baltimore County Volunteer Fire.
mems Block Convention to be held at the
Alert engine house. Belair road, Thursday
night, December Sd. addresses will be made by
Mr.. James J. Lindsay, president of the associa-
ton, and by State Fire Marshal Ewell.
- Mr.. ]. w. Devese, of Owings Mills, was
the first man out with sleigh last Saturday
evening. He drove ten miles in As minutes,
which was going some," as the presentday
slang has it. Mr.. Devese does not remember
sleighing before so early in November.
; 1t now appears that we were wrong in
stating last week that the name of Raspeburg
postoffice on the Belair road, had been changed
to Overea. It is still Raspeburg and Overlea
what the postal guide for November says.
- Mr.. II. s. Wirtz, who farms Mr.. N.
Bosley Merryman's Hayfields estate, in the 9Th
district, hauled to Baltimore few days ago
with his six-horse team load of ear corn that
weighed IA, $50 lbs. 1t was one of the biggest
loads of corn ever seen at the Eastern Scales.
THE Automobile Club of Maryland will
hold its first hill-climbing contest on Belvidere
avenue, extending from the Falls road to Ro
land avenue, on Saturday, November 21st at
l 80 P. NJ. There are seven classes on the pro-
gram and highly interesting time is promised
- Thousands of adults living in Baltimore
county today never before experienced such
day was, and to get up on Sunday morning and
find five inches of snow on the ground was
almost beyond belief. Those were days long
to be remembered
- Those interested should not overlook the
notice again published in THE UNION today,
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Dulany's Valley pike, next Tuesday, at P NJ
Only owners whose lands will be covered with
water when the great valley lake is completed,
are expected to attend.
- Samuel Williams, colored, who drives
the conveyance that carries the Parochial school
children from Sherwood to Towson, was
stricken with paralysis on Thursday morning.
Williams, who was for many years employed
by the late Father O'Keefe, is the father of a
large family of children.
%Towson's improved sidewalks are duly
appreciated at all times, but especially so such
weather as we have experienced this week.
Thanks are due to the improvement Associa-
ton for this state of things. If it hadn't come
to the front in business way we'd still be
trudging along in the mud.
"a well known minister who was for
merly stationed in Baltimore county, this week
wrote us as follows: "Your little yellow bird
has been kept closely confined until its wings
crease its size and let it extend its flight until
the latter part of next year."
- The first sleigh of the season in Towson
was out last Sunday morning and was driven
by Mr.. Wilton Greenway, of Wiltondale Stock
Farm. His and another were the only ones
seen on the streets during the day. To go
sleighing on the 18th of November in this part
of Maryland is indeed a novelty.
>The frolicsome oyster is now doing good
service as a lure to attract the unwary to church
suppers and other functions where the chief
aim of man seems to be to let others see what
gastronomic feats he can perform. And then
he thinks it strange when he is obliged to nurse
a case of indigestion the next day.
- Loeb Raven was, according to the most
reliable accounts, the coolest place in Balti-
more county on Monday morning. There Their
mometers registered degrees above zero, while
in Towson the record was from 8 to IL degrees:
The "oldest inhabitantn cannot recall q 18th of
November with such a temperature.
1.-THE formal opening of the new Junior
Order Hall, at Long Green, 18th district, will
take place on Saturday next, November 18th,
commencing at 230 P. M. The officers of the
State Council will have charge of the ceremo-
MES. An oyster supper will take place at
night. A general invitation is extended.
- We this week publish the first of series
of interesting letters from abroad, written by a
bright young Maryland journalist who is max.
ing trip through Europe on foot and will tell
of his experiences in this rather novel mode of
foreign travel. We hope and believe THE
UNIONS readers will be pleased with them.
- Baltimore county held up her end of the
and District of Columbia Field Trials Associa-
ton at Laurel this week, when Mr.. Grason
Gents pointer Brace g., won first in the Gen.
tlemen's Shooting Day Glass. Mr.. Gent,
whose home is at Cockeysville, is president of
the association.
> Many of the readers of THE UNION who
are interested in poultry raising will be at
tracted by letter from Mrs. John Ridgely, of
Hampton, which appears in this issue of the
paper. Her visit to the home of the widely
known Bradley Bros. must indeed have been
treat to her, as it would be to any other
chicken fancier.
- Mr.. Charles NJ. Raymo, ST., who for
nearly fifty years conducted a hat store on
North Gay street, Baltimore, and who was
known to hundreds of Baltimore countians,
died few days ago at an advanced age. Mr..
Raymo belonged to family of matters that
had been engaged in business on that street for
nearly century.
- Mr.. Isaac Price is principal of the public
school at Randallstown, I'd district, to which
one of THE UNIONS local correspondents re.
ferred in rather uncomplimentary terms last
week. Mr.. Price declares that there is no
foundation whatever for the structures of the
writer and asserts that the school is well con-
Quoted and prosperous.
- According to the almanac we have still
one month of autumn before us, but if last
Saturday, Sunday and Monday were not real
winter then we don't know where the weather
man would catalogue them. Some say this
experience is only foretaste of what we may
expect and that severe winter is promised,
but we don't believe it.
"a tramp printer from the Middle West,
who struck The UNION Office on Monday,
said he slept out in the woods the night before
and kept from freezing by keeping up roar
ing fire. He said: II didn't sleep very much,
though" 1t must have taken a man of nerve
to spend the night outdoors under such weather
conditions and we couldn't help but admire
the fellow.
IA whole roast pig graced the dinner
table of a professional man of Towson last
SUNDAY, and as he started to carve it he said
"What this pigs got in it is something awful"
And it was, for there were oysters. apples,
onions and dear knows how many other yege.
tables, herbs, etc, which, il seems, all belong
to roast pig, but which wouldn't very well
agree with live one.
->Since it has been given out that the mill
property at Phoenix, N. G. Il. R., will not be
necessary for the Gunpowder lake. there is
talk of the mill resuming operations. It was
dismantled several years ago and would have
to be supplied with other machinery. The
property is owned by the Consolidated Cotton
Duck Company. More than 300 persons will