The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-08
Personal Mention

Personal Mention
Capt. Wilson G. Nicholas, of the 4th dis
trict, is foreman of the present Grand Jury.
Mr.. and Mrs James McNab, of Cations
vile, will spend part of the winter in Balti
more.
Mrs. John B. NJ. Jenifer, of Loeb Raven,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Nicholas J. Hutch
ms, of Belair. 1898 -
DR. James H. Jarrett, of Towson, has been
elected surgeon of Wilson Post, Grand Army
of the Republic.
Miss Grace Ennis, of Roanoke City, Va,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. K.
Ennis, of Warren.
Mr.. James NJ. Gillespie and family, OF
Back River Neck, have been spending week
with Mrs. William R. Ennis, of Warren, Bal
timore county.
Mr.. William H. Perot and family have
closed "Woodbrook, !" their country residence
on Charles street avenue, and gone to their
winter home in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles ]. Bonaparte have
closed their country place, ''Beuna Vista" in
the 18th district of this county, and removed
to Baltimore for the winter.
of the six children of Mr.. A. w. Ensor,
of Marble Hill, 9Th district, who were sick
with typhoid fever, four are able to be out and
the other two are sitting up.
Miss Frances Yellott second daughter of
Major John |. Yellott, and DR.. Frank r. Rich
will be married in Trinity P. E. Church, Tow
son, on Tuesday, January LIST, 1901, at o'clock
P. NJ.
Mr.. George o. Manning Jr., of Govans-
itonitis and appendicitis, with which he was
suddenly attacked on Tuesday. 1t is thought
he will recover.
Last Saturday, December 1st, Mr.. n. Bos-
ley Merryman closed his third year as Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Baltimore county. He is
an attentive and popular official and has made
many new friends since he has been in Office.
Mr.. B. F. Roller, of Shrewsbury, was
among the callers at THE UNION office on We'd
nesday. He came here in the interest of the
York county Farmers Institute, which will
be held at Stewartstown, December 18th and
goth.
Mr.. George W. Williams, of the Baltimore
bar. was admitted TO practice in the Circuit
Court for Baltimore county on Wednesday.
The motion for admission was made by Mr..
Elmer ]. Cook, who was college mate of Mr..
Williams at Princeton.
Mrs. ]. c. Cooper, of Walbrook. formerly
of Towson, arrived safely at Salt Lake City,
Utah, on the 28th of November, where she
will spend some time with her son, Mr.. Will
liam P. Cooper, secretary and manager of the
R. L. Polk Company, in that city.
Miss Anna Smith, of Dulany's Valley,
who had been visiting friends in Virginia and
also in Washington, has returned to her home,
accompanied by Miss Mamie Allender daugh-
ter of Rev. John e. Allender, of Virginia,
formerly of the 18th district of this county.
MIR. John E. Guthrie, who sold his farm
stock and implements on the Sd inst, will re-
main on the farm as manager for Miss Elliott,
who has removed her dairy herd from Towson
to that place. The farm is in the 10th district,
about mile and a-half from Jacksonville and
three miles from Phoenix.
Judge and Mrs David Fowler have closed
their country home at Gainesville and will
spend the winter at the Albion, Baltimore.
Mr.. Lawrence Fowler, their son, who is now
a postgraduate of architecture at Columbia
University New York, will shortly return to
Baltimore for the Christmas holidays.
An announcement appeared in The UNION
last week. copied from the Baltimore Herald.
of the engagement of Miss Lulie Cuttings and
Mr.. William Brogden. We are requested by
the family of Miss Cuttings TO say that there is
no truth in it whatever, and that the Balti-
more paper published the announcement with
out authority.
ME- f. Raphel, well known farmer
near Upper Falls, 18th district has removed
his family to Baltimore for the winter having
taken a furnished house on West Lafayette
avenue. Having determined to abandon farm
ing Mr.. Raphel will dispose of all his personal
property on Tuesday, December 18TH Both
his farms are offered for rent
Mr.. H. Best Miller, a well known farmer
of the 18th district, was in Towson on Tuesday.
He came here to look after the foreclosure sale
of a farm that adjoins his home place and
which had been under rent to him several
years. The upshot of the matter was that he
bought the farm and went home happier
man than when he came to Towson.
On Tuesday evening last Mr.W. Gill Smith,
of the Towson bar, entertained number of his
friends at dinner at his pretty home on the Jop-
pa road, East Towson. The guests included
Messrs. Albert Fowble, Harrison Rider, VIM.
p Cole John S. Biddison, VIM. Grason, Lewis
e. S. Bosley and John B. Longnecker.
Mr.. George e. Shelley, of My Lady's
Manor, came to Towson on Wednesday to Sc
cure the use of the court room in which to
hold the Farmers Institute on the 21st and 22d
of January. He was accompanied by his son,
Mr.. T. Howard Shelley, recent graduate of
the Maryland University Law School, who has
established an office in the Fidelity Building,
Baltimore.
-Ex.State's Attorney John S. Ensor and
Mrs. Ensor, on Friday night of last week,
threw oPsnsthc beautiful now house in Mt.
Washington and entertained large number
of their friends at an old-fashioned house
warming. The affair was a very pleasant one
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ensor were warmly congrat-
ulated upon their suspicious start in their
charming home.
-Messrs. Charles A. Councilman and Il.
Cuttings Merryman, we'll known Baltimore
county farmers, on Saturday night last at
tended the meeting of the Evansville Farm
ers's Club, held at the residence of DR.. Joseph
R. Owens, Hyattsville, Md. DR.. Owens, who
is a brother-in-law of Mr.. Councilman, read
an interesting paper on THE agricultural con-
ditions of the five tobacco growing counties of
Southern Maryland"
Mrs. Bosley, widow of James A. Bosey
of Bosley postoffice, Dulany's Valley turnpike,
will sell all the personal property of the de-
ceased on Tuesday, December 18th, and short
ly thereafter remove with her family to Balti-
more The sale will include the store goods
and fixtures and the entire equipment of the
blacksmith and wheelwright shops. The prop
erty, which is one of the best business stands
in the county, will then be for rent.
Mr.. George P. Wier, son of Mr.. Charles
H. Wier, is very sick with typhoid fever at the
home of his wife's father, on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland. Mr.. Wier, who is well
known young man, is engaged in business
with his father, in Baltimore. DR.. II. Burton
Stevenson, of Sherwood has been sent for to
consult with the attending physician. Inquiry
at the residence of Mr.. Wier's father, near
Towson, at late hour on Thursday night,
elected the information that the case was pro-
crossing favorably.
"A new man is in the field for the posi-
ton of road engineer for Baltimore county,
and it is said the Democratic managers are for
him and will urge the Governor to appoint
him. He is Mr.. E. Lynn Painter, of the 4th
district, who is not only member of the BAR
but also possesses the necessary college degree
to make him eligible for the position. Mr..
Painter is gentleman of intelligence and is
blessed with an extraordinary amount OF en-
energy, something that will be most essential
in the man who gets this place.
Mr., James Piper, young member of the
bar, and only son of DR.. Jackson Piper, of
Towson, will he married at l P. NJ. Saturday,
December 18th, to Miss Alice D. Pitts, daugh-
ter of the late Charles II. Pitts. The ceremony
will take place at "Olney" the residence of
Mr.. George Hoff, near Sherwood, and will be
performed by Rev. DIR. J. Houston Eccleston,
rector of Emmanuel Church, Baltimore. The
wedding will be quiet affair, only the mem
bers of the two families and few intimate
friends having been asked. The young couple
will go to Saranac Lake, N. Y, for several
weeks, where Mr.. Piper has cottage.
Religious Services.-Attention is called to
the following announcements:
Great Falls Circuit. N. Il. Church.-Sunday,
December 9th, Rev. W. f. Roberts will preach
at Hiss and Providence, and Rev. L. NJ Fer
guson at Ebenezer at P. NJ; Rev. E. c. Gal
laher will preach at Back River at 1870 A. NJ.
Monday, December 10th, the third quarterly
conference will be held at Back River Church.