The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-04-19
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moved to Baltimore.
Mr. Jacob H. Taylor and family, of Eutaw
Place, Baltimore, will occupy their summer
home in Towson early next month.
Mr.. Robert Palmer, of Baltimore, has
been visiting his aunt. Mrs. Sarah Standiford,
of Maryland Line, Baltimore county.
Mrs Catharine A. Moore, who spent the
past winter in Baltimore, has reopened her
house, near Brooklandville. for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Bernard Duke and Miss
Jennie NJ. Abel, of Sherwood, registered at
the Holland House. New York city, on Monday.
Rev. B. W. Harrison, who is visiting Rev.
W. E. Henry. pastor, will preach at North
Point NJ E Church South next Sunday, morn
ing and evening.
Mr.. S. Merryman Anderson, formerly of
Baltimore county, who had been living in
York county for some years, has removed his
family to Baltimore.
Col Charles B. Rogers, who formerly held
the Office, is again being mentioned for the
School Examinership of this county and it is
said he has strong backing for the place.
Rev. John l. Yellott, who is rector of a
Protestant Episcopal Church in Frederick
county, accompanied by his wife and two chill
dren, is visiting his former home in Towson.
MIR. Daniel Sweeny, an old-time resident
of Freeland, N. q. R. R., has gone to Birdsboro,
Berks county, Pa, to live with his daughter.
Mr.. Sweeny has sold his property at Freeland.
Col. M. w. Offutt and family, who spent
the past winter in Baltimore with Mrs. Offutt' 8
father, DR.. Felix Jenkins, are again at their
country place a short distance west of Towson.
Mr.. Lawrence E. Parks, of the railway
mail service, who was sick and confined to his
home in Towson several weeks, threatened
with pneumonia, is again able to be out. DR..
R. c. Massenburg attended him.
DR. Harry Naylor, son of DR.. II. Louis
Naylor. a we'll known physician of Pikesville,
who has been studying abroad nearly year,
will LET mr. or
engage in practice with his father
The congregation of EPSON M. P. Church
Towson, gave reception on Thursday night
to their pastor, Rev. J. L. Straughn, who has
been returned for another year. The affair
also took the form of donation visit.
DIR. Edward N. Brush, medical superin.
tendent of the Sheppard and Pratt Hospital,
and Messrs. John ]. Yellott and George R..
Willis, members of the bar, have been elected
active members of the Maryland Historical
Society.
Dir. A. C. McCurdy and Mr.. George W.
Seipp, of Towson, went to Annapolis this
week as delegates from John Eager Howard
Council, Jr. o. U. A. M, to the annual meet
ing of the State Council, which was held in
that city.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Hereford NJ E.
Church on Thursday night rendered a recep-
Koontz, pastors of Hereford Circuit. Rev. Mr..
Koontz succeeds Rev. r. N. Edwards as junior
pastor of the circuit.
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Rose, who spent
part of the past winter in Baltimore, have re-
turned to their home near Catonsville. Mr..
Rose who had a serious trouble with his ear
that necessitated several surgical operations,
has almost entirely recovered.
1t is now said that Mr.. Samuel M. Shoe
maker, of Green Spring Valley, whose appoint
ment as a member of the School Board came
as great surprise to him, has determined to
accept the position. He will succeed Mr.. Will
liam B. KTout on the LIST of May next.
DIR. w. F. Goodwin, a retired physician of
Reisterstown, formerly of Kent county, Del,
has announced the engagement of his fourth
daughter Miss Rebecca Goodwin to Rev. Flem-
ing James, rector of St. Andrews P. E. Church,
Philadelphia. The marriage will take place
next summer.
Rev w. E. Robertson, pastor of Calvary
Baptist Church, Towson, who lately received
a call to Edenton, N. c., will preach there next
Sunday. At a meeting of his congregation
held on Tuesday night resolutions were uDan-
imously adopted urging Rev. Mr.. Robertson to
decline the Edenton call.
Mr.. G. s. Davis, who has been manager of
the cotton duck mill at Warren, Baltimore
county, for ten years past, has resigned and
will be succeeded by Mr.. Richard N. Britton,
the assistant manager. Mr.. Davis has been
connected with milling interests in different
sections of the country for about fifty years.
Mr.. w. Calvin Chestnut has been elected
to the chair of commercial and insurance law
by the faculty of the Maryland University
Law School, succeeding Mr.. Edgar H. Cans,
resigned. Mr.. Chestnut, who is connected
with the law firm of Cans & Haman, is a
grandson of the late DR.. William H. Mace, of
Baltimore county.
Rev. j. f. Heisse. who was pastor of Yves.
ley Chapel, Washington, for the past five
years. was sent by the last Conference to Fay
cite Street Church, Baltimore, where he sue
ceeds Rev. ]. B. Stitt, who comes to Govans-
town. Rev. Mr.. Heisse is native of Balti-
more county and a son of Mr.. John F. Heisse,
the well known justice of the peace of Monk
ton, N. G. r. r.
Rev. j. B. Stitt, D. D., the new pastor of
Govanstown NJ. E. Church, was once stationed
at Towson and has many friends and acquain-
tances in this county. The condition of his
health would not permit of his remaining
longer at Fayette Street Church and he had 10
accept an appointment where the work was
not so exacting, the congregation at Fayette
Street being very large.
Rev. Henry G. Martin, who was the es-
teemed pastor of GovanstOwn Presbyterian
Church many years, and who resigned on ac-
count of impaired health, has been at Ocean
Grove, N. J. Today Saturday. he will sail
from New York on the "Westernland" for
Liverpool and spend the summer principally
among the islands along the coasts of Engla nd
and Scotland. 1t is his intention to return to
Baltimore in the autumn and read during the
winter.
Mr.. Smith Left Large Estate.-The will
of Rodney B. Smith, of the Baltimore paper
firm of Smith, Dixon & Co., was admitted to
probate in the Orphans Court at Towson, on
Wednesday last, and letters testamentary gran
ted to his widow, Mrs. Ann Maria Smith.
The testator's country residence, Glen Dale,
near Mount Washington, with furniture, car
riages and horses and other effects, is given alb
solutely to the widow. In addition he be-
queaths her $50, 900 absolutely, and directs that
100000 shall be held in trust for her benefit
and use during life. After the death of Mrs.
Smith and after certain specific requests are
paid the remainder of the trust fund is be-
queathed to the testator's granddaughter,
Beulah Margaret Smith, (now the wife of
Mr. Charles H. Smith. The testator's son is
bequeathed $4,000 absolutely. There is to be
held S25,O 900 in trust for the testator's grand
daughter, after the death of his wife.
The testator's sister, Mary S. Lockwood, of
Washington, is bequeathed $4,000, to be paid
after his wife's death. The testator's sster-in-
law, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitaker, of San Diego,
Cal, is bequeathed $1,000, and his nieces, Lii
liam Lockwood and Alice Whitaker, are each
bequeathed 81, 900.
The residue of the estate is left absolutely to
the testator's widow.
There IS nOtllDg IN the Will 10 lnQICate JD6
value of the estate which is stated to be very
large. Mr.. James W. Denny is counsel for
Mrs. Smith.
Many Baltimore County People Interes-
ted in This-Recevers Bird NJ. Robinson and
Randolph Barton, of the Baltimore Building
and Loan Association, filed in the Circuit
Court of the United States on Tuesday report
of the liabilities of the association to its credi-
tors and stockholders. The report is prepare
tory to declaring dividend. 1t shows the as
ISOLATION to have had 5000 stockholders. The
basis on which the dividend is to be declared
is 81 $50 AL 3S liabilities made up of the total
amount paid in to March 2lst, 1900, when the
receivers were appointed. This includes the
amount paid in by the stockholders in Mary
land, Virginia, West Virginia Pennsylvania,
North Carolina and the District of Columbia.
The report will lie in court thirty days, during
which time exceptions to it may be filed. At
the expiration of this time the court will de-
clare dividend on the assets in the hands of
the receivers. The first dividend, it is under
stood, will be at least Is per cent, and the
total dividend may be so per cent. on 81, 401,-
900, which is the amount paid in, exclusive Of
interest.
Why Butter is Highly going back TO
first causes authorities find the reason for the
present high price of butter in the prolonged
drought of last summer in the West and else
where. Feed was made scarce and beef cattle
were hurried to market. With the price Of
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