The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-12-25

- The Black Cat Minstrel Club will give q
show and dance in the Casino at Upper Falls
| Eleventh district, on Friday night, December
| 81 The proceeds will be devoted to a most
worthy object and liberal patronage should
be extended by the people OF the neighborhood.
Admission 25 and Is cents:
&c. w. E. Treadwell, U. s. cooperative
weather observer at TowsoD, reports the fol-
lowing data for the week ended Thursday even
ing December %: Highest temperature, A
degrees. on 18th lowest. 13 degrees, on 2Ist !;
mean. 26.4 degrees. The greatest daily range
was 25 degrees, on 18th. There was no rainfall.
In remitting his subscription to The
UniOn-News this week Mr.. William z. Cooper
of Salt Lake City writes as follows: THE
UnioD-News reaches me promptly every Tues
day and is always read with a great deal Of
pleasure. consider it one of the best, If not
the very best, county newspaper published
- Invitations are being sent out for meet
ing ia the interest of the Laymen's Missionary
Movement to be held in Trinity Church Parish
House, Tows0n, at $50 P. M, January 6th
Supper will be served to those invited by the
ladies of the Bishops Guild. Mr.. A. d. Steb-
bins is chairman of the committee and Mr..
George.A. Needbam secretary.
->There was O time-not so very many
years ago-when Christmas was ushered in by
the discharge of firearms and explosives, with
almost constant fusilade during the, day.
Now all this is changed and we hear little
racket Of that kind. Evidently the people
prefer to spend their holiday cash for .other
thiDgs-and perhaps wiser ones.
- The Christmas Day hunt of the Elkridge
Club will start from Hampton Gate at 10 A.
w. The meets of the week following will be
Monday, 9th, (place and time to be posted at
the kennels on Saturday, and Wednesday, 18th,
2P. M, at Warren, east of Cockeysville. Mr..
Spalding Lowe Jenkins, acting master, and
Mr.. Graeme Turnbull, secretary.
- Some idea of the amount Of business
transacted at the Towson postoffice during the
rush of the Christmas holidays may be gath
cred when it is stated that about 6 900 one-cent
stamps were sold in the short space of two
days to be placed on postcards. The clerks
say the mail matter and packages and general
volume of business were heavier this year than
ever.
>Mr. William r. Hammond, president of
the Third National Bank and prominent
man in business circles in Baltimore, dropped
dead while descending the front steps OF the
PimIico Club house early last Sunday evening.
His sudden death was a great shock to his
family and friends. Mr. Hammond, who was
in his 46th year, was the principal owner OF
PimIico race track
- Conrad Sohn, who formerly carried the
mail from the Towson Station of the Maryland
and Pennsylvania Railroad to the postoffice,
has been appointed station agent and operator
at Woodbrook Charles street avenue. Several
other telegraph operators, who are filling re-
sponsible positions today at the key, were at
one time carriers at this place between the
station and postotfice.
= John +. A. Grant, who was arrested last
week charged with stealing turkeys from Mrs.
Annie E. Ramsay, near Loeb Raven. has been
committed to Jail for the action of the grand
jury His partner, Ralph Irwin, is also held
on the same charge. 1t is generally believed
in the neighborhood that these men are the
ones who have been carrying on the wholesale
stealing of fowls there
- The recent order of the School Board
prohibiting the children of the public schools
of the county from giving and receiving pres
ents from their teachers, has caused considera-
bic favorable comment. In place OF the pres
ents this year the pupils of the Towson High
School were requested to bring donations,
which were forwarded to st. Vincent's Orphan
Asylum. on the York road, near Govans, to
be distributed among the inmates.
- In addition to the usual high-class enter
tainments given by the pupils of Towson High
School, the announcement that Prof Fritz
Gaul would preside at the piano was of added
interest in attracting large audience to the
entertainment given in the assembly room
Tuesday evening. A little comedy, What
Happened to Santa" in which fairies, brig
ands. gypsies, etc., took part, was well rem
dered The singing of Miss Margaret Foss,
who i'm personated the rag DOLL" was excep-
tionally fine, as was also that of Miss Leta
Shearman, the queen of fairies. The costumes
were feature.
"A hOld-up was attempted IN the Court
House yard last Saturday night, within
the shadow of the temple of justice. Mr..
Albert E DeBaugh, the well-known carpenter
and builder, who resides on Central avenue,
West Towson, had just gotten off Towson-
Catonsville car and was making shortcut to
his home through the Court House yard. As
he was going up the main walk he noticed two
men. one of whom carried large club, dodg-
ing from tree to tree and hiding behind the
shrubbery His suspicious were aroused, and
halting be called to the men that if they did
not come from their place of concealment he
would open fire on them, at the same time
pulling a two-foot rule from his pocket and
pointing it at them. The supposed foot-pads
made good their escape.