The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-04-26
parsonal Mention. :

Helen Denison are at the Traymore. Atlantic
City.
opened their cottage at Sudbrook Park for the
summer
Mr. and Mrs. William Elliott of White
Hall, N G. r. R.. are enjoying visit to the
Charleston Exposition.
-Messrs H. B. L. Everding and William s.
Norris, of Govanstown, left on Monday for
the Charleston Exposition.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dunlop Wight, of Jockeys
vile, are visiting the formers grandmother,
who resides in Petersburg, Va.
Mrs Henry Selden, of Washington, D. c.,
with her infant son, is visiting her mother,
Mrs Rose Keech, of Towson.
Mrs E. Clarke, of Utica, N. y, has been
visiting Mrs. Hobart Smith, at the rectory of
st. Thomas Church, Garrison Forest.
Miss Sara P. Butler, of Towson, is spend
ing few days with her cousin, Mrs. DeWar-
rem Barnett, at her home in New Jersey.
Mr. Robert II. Smith, the well known
Baltimore attorney, with his family, will spend
the summer at Avalon Inn, Green Spring
Valley.
Mr.. John H Wight who spent the winter
in Baltimore, has reopened Wildwood" his
handsome country place in Green Spring
Valley.
Mr.. William R. Hoff index clerk in the
Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, on
Monday removed his family from Sherwood
to Towson.
Lieut. Lewis Mccoy Mutton, of the Wash
ington Navy Yard, accompanied by Mrs. Null
ton, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Joseph B. Her
bert, of Towson.
Mr.. John Stirling, we'll known and aged
farmer of the 7th district sustained a third
stroke of paralysis this week, the entire left
side being affected.
Mr.. George Brown, of "Brooklandwood'
is still sick at his Marshy Point ducking shore
and Mrs. Brown has been confined to her
bed since last December.
MIR. w. w. Crosby, roads engineer for Bal
timore county, has as his guests this week his
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson
Crosby, of Bangor, Maine.
Mr.. Gerard T. Hopkins, Jr.. and Mr.. Roger
Brook Hopkins have opened for the summer
their country home, "Bagatelle," on Charles
street avenue, opposite the Kennels.
Miss Elizabeth Braun, of Lutherville, was
among the passengers of the North German
Lloyd steamship Breslau that sailed from Lo-
Gust Point, Baltimore, Wednesday afternoon,
for Bremen.
Miss Anna Meredith, of Queen Anne's
county; Miss Clara Wilson, of Hartford coun-
ty, and Miss Julia Parlett, of Govanstown,
spent fortnight with the M Uses Ady, of Long
Green Valley.
Mrs. Eudocia Stansbury, one of Towson's
Oldest residents, who had sudden and alarm
ing attack of illness few days ago, is DOW
somewhat improved. DR.. R. G. Massenburg
is her physician.
Mr. John T. Stone and family, of Balti-
more, this week removed to their country
home ON the York road near Towson, for the
summer. MIR. Stone is brother of Mr.. Will
liam F. Stone, collector of the port of Balti-
more.
Mrs E. A. Robinson and Mrs. John NJ.
Carter, of Mt. Washington, are among the
delegates from Maryland to the biennial meet
ing of the General Federation of Woman's
Clubs which meets in Los Angeles, CAL,
May LIST.
Mr.. Henry o. Devries, of Marriottsville
Howard county, whose condition had i'm
proved considerably, is again critically ill. He
is an aged and well known gentleman and the
father of Rev. B. +. Devries, formerly of
Pikesville.
Rev. w. E. Robertson, pastor of Calvary
Baptist Church, TowsOn, returned on Wednes-
day from Edenton, N. c., where he preached
last Sunday. He will definitely announce next
Sunday whether or not he will accept the call
to that place.
Rev R. Heber Murphy and wife have re-
turned to st. Johns Rectory Worthington
Calvert county, Md. Mrs. Murphys friends
will be pleased to learn that her health has
been improved by the trip.
DIR. E. N. Brush, of the Sheppard and
Pratt Hospital, accompanied by his daughter,
Miss Lavinia Brush, as announced in The
UNION several weeks ago, sailed from New
York for Europe on Wednesday. They will
be away about four months.
Cuttings Marion Wilson, youngest son of
Mr.. Cuttings Wilson. farmer near Sweet Air,
has enlisted in the United States army His
father was soldier in the Union army during
the Civil War and was confined for months in
Libby Prison, Richmond, Va.
Prof. James S. Robinson, of the Mary land
Agricultural College, was attacked by sudden
illness at Camdan Station on Thursday and
had to be removed to his home, North Carroll
ton avenue, where his condition has since i'm
proved. Prof. Robinson is we'll known in this
county.
Mr.. Charles H. Hurkamp, of Fredericks-
burg, Va, who is we'll known in Baltimore
county was married in New York on Thurs
day, to Miss Marion Murchison, of that city.
Mr.. Hurkamp has frequently attended limo
mum fair, where his fine horses have won
many prizes
Mr.. G. V. Matthews, son of Col. D. NJ.
Matthews, of Dulany's Valley, will be one of
the graduates at the twenty-first annual COM
Dental Department, which will take place at
the Lyceum Theatre, Baltimore, Wednesday
evening, April Both.
Rev DR.. E. D. Newberry, who had been
pastor of Ashland Presbyterian Church for
the past seven years, retired last Sunday on &C
count of age. The congregation then elected
him pastor emeritus, subject to the approval
of the Presbytery, and rendered him the free
use of the manse for six months.
Mr.. Robert H. Blackburn, well known
citizen, has opened general real estate and in
surance office at Hamilton, Hartford road, and
will attend to the collection of rents, etc. Mr..
Blackbu is secretary of the Germantown
and Carney building associations, two of the
most successful institutions of the kind in the
county.
Mr.. J. Henry Raspe, postmaster and store
keeper at Raspeburg Belair road, was among
the visitors to Towson on Thursday. He says
that the Belair road is improving very rapidly
and that property is enhancing in value all the
time. Mr.. Raspe, although not so young as he
used to be, is still an active and successful bust
ness man.
Mr. Charles A. Councilman, of Worthng-
ton Valley was among the invited guests who
accompanied the Marylanders to the Charles
ton Exposition. DR.. Henry j. Hebb. ex-Reg-
lister of Wills, was also member of the party
and on the return trip his professional skill was
availed of to care for brakeman who had
been badly cut by being thrown through a
glass door.
-Messrs. E. Cuttings Merryman, w. Plum
kett Stewart, III. Carroll Brown, Carter Bowie,
James Nick. Merryman and Lewis Hopkins,
upon invitation of Mr.. r. w. Walden, paid
visit on Friday. 25th inst, to the great Bowling
Brook Farm, in Carroll county. to see the
Young thoroughbreds make their last trial be-
fore they are moved North for their regular
summer campaign.
Mr.. D. f. Maroney, formerly of Ruxton,
Baltimore county, was on Monday elected
president OF the 1lLLSDuIB, OudWmul anu
Northern Railroad Company, in charge of the
operating and traffic departments. He will also
have charge of the interests of the Shawmut
Mining Company, which owns $4,000 acres of
coal and coking lands located in Elk, Clearfield,
Jefferson and Armstrong counties, Pennsyl-
vania.
On Monday night last the congregation of
Towson NJ E. Church rendered reception to
their pastor, Rev. John r. Edwards, who was
returned by the late Conference to this APP
pointment for the third year. The affair was
under the auspices of the Epw0rth League
and Mr. John S. Ensor, of the Towson bar,
made the address of welcome. At the conclu-
sion of the ceremonies refreshments were
served in the lecture room of the church.
Mr.. Daniel Vondersmith. who has con-
Quoted hotel in Resterstown nearly thirty
years, was among the visitors to Towson on
Tuesday He is just past 20 years of age, has
been married twice and is the father of eigh-
teen children, nearly all of whom are living.
Mr.. Vondersmith has the reputation of con-
Quoting an excellent house and he is much re-
spected in the community. He is a son of
Peter Vondersmith who for many years kept
the a. Mile House on the Reisterstown road.
Mrs. Howard B. Case and children, of
London, England, who had spent the winter
in Rochester, N. Y. sailed for her home on
Tuesday, 22d. On the same day her sister,
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