The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-20
Personal Mention


State Senator John Hubner, of Cations
vile, was in Towson on Tuesday and called on
the County Commissioners.
Mrs Martha Gilbert, of Glencoe, N. @. R,
| R., is visiting her daughter Mrs. Stockton.
who resides in Buffalo, N. Y.
Miss Bessie Brady, who spent several
months with friends i'll Raleigh, N. c. has
returned to her home in Towson.
Mr.. Jesse L. Madden, of Reisterstown. has
been summoned to serve as grand juror at
the present term of the U. s. District Court.
MIR. William Bosley, of Finksburg, has
been very sick for some days with pneumonia
DR.. H. NJ. Slade, of Reisterstown, is attending
him.
Mr. and Mrs. J. j. George have closed
their country place, "Ellendale," Long Green
Valley, and removed to Baltimore for the
winter.
Mr.. and Mrs Jefferson D. Norris and the
Misses Norris, of "Brookland," near Reisters-
town, have taken house on Mt. Royal ave.
nue., Baltimore, for the winter.
Col. William A. Hanway and family
have closed their house in Aigburth Park, adj
joining Towson, and taken apartments at
Hotel Sherwood, Baltimore, for the winter
Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Cowley, of Seattle,
Washington, have been visiting the formers
cousin, Mr.. William S. Cowley, at his home
on the old Hartford road. Mr.. Cowley is en-
gagged in gold mining.
Mr.. w. Bernard Duke, of Sherwood Bal
timore county, is named as one of the incor-
porators of the Maryland Development Com
pany that has just been organized in Baltimore
with capital stock of $4,000.
Mr.. H. L. Gerstmyer, who will spend his
Christmas vacation at his home in Towson,
will preach in the M. E. Church on Sunday,
December 2Sth, at IL A. NJ. He is a student at
Gettysburg Theological Seminary.
Mr.. Thomas ]. Hunt, of Hampstead Md,
son of the late Wiley Hunt, of Towson, has
been appointed aide-de-camp to General Stew
art, of Pennsylvania, commander-in chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic.
Rev. w. H. H. Powers, rector of Trinity
Church, Towson,, went to. Cambridge, Nd.
this week to conduct the funeral services of
Mrs. Eva Winchester Baugher, who died at
her home i'll Govanstown, on the 18th instant
DIR. w. Millard Stirling, of Shane, 7th dis
trict, was among the visitors to Towson on
Wednesday. He is son of the late John
Stirling, who was prominent farmer in that
section of the county, and his wife is the only
sister of Judge N. Charles Burke.
Mr. William l.. Boyer of Phoenix, Balti-
more county, was reelected president of the
East Baltimore District Epworth League, the
annual convention of which was held in Bal
timore few days ago. Mr.. Lewis NJ. Bacon
was chosen one of the vice presidents.
Rev. Philip G. Edwards who is being
treated at the Maryland General Hospital in
Baltimore, shows very little if any improve
ment and his family and friends are much con-
cerned about him. He was formerly senior
pastor of Parkton Circuit, NJ. E. Church.
AT the annual meeting of the Maryland
State Grange in Baltimore on Tuesday Mr..
Alexander Mccormick, president of the Balti-
more County Agricultural Society, made an
Growing" Mr.. Richard Vincent, Jr., of the
firm of R. Vincent, Jr., & Son, also spoke on
the same subject.
-Messrs. George H. Merryman, Alexander
Mccormick, Richard Vincent, Jr., w. jeff.
Shanklin and Mrs. Annie E. Vincent were
hos from Rolff nkxYx hn of
tended the annual meeting of the Maryland
State Grange held in Baltimore this week.
Mr.. Vincent was reelected member of the
executive committee.
Mr.. Walter W. Crosby, county roads en-
gineer, who went to Maine about two weeks
ago to wait upon friend who was married, re-
turned to his home in Towson on Monday.
He was in Bangor on Monday, December 8th
when the mercury registered from % to % de-
grees below zero and the wind blew at the rate
of sixty miles an hour.
Mr.. George r. NOVEL;, who has been sue
cessfully engaged in business at Glencoe, N. G.
r. R., for the past thirty-one years, is now Of
fering his store property for rent. In case he
secures a suitable tenant he may engage in
some other business in Baltimore that is less
exacting. The stand is an excellent one and
possesses many advantages.
Mr.. Basil B. Bowen, of the 4th district
was in Towson on Tuesday. He spent several
days last week in Carroll county and said the
snow there was so deep and the drifts piled so
high that in many places the roads were en-
tirely blocked to travel The sleet was also
heavier than with us and much damage was
done to telegraph and telephone lines
Wednesday was one of the busy days of
Rev. Charles E. Fultz pastor of Otterbein
Memorial United Brethren Church, Hamp
den Within an hour he married two occupies,
one from Baltimore city and one from Balti
more county. Rev. Mr.. Fultz is son of Mr.
George NJ Fultz a well known paper manu-
facturer of the upper end of this county.
Mr.. Philip A. S. Franklin, formerly of
Baltimore county, has been elected president
of the Atlantic Transport Company, succeed
ing Mr.. Bernard N. Baker, resigned. The
headquarters of the company is in New York
city, where Mr.. Franklin resides. He is son
of Col. Walter S. Franklin and his wife is a
daughter of the late Hon. John Merryman, of
Hayfieds, Baltimore county.
Lieut.. Oscar K. Tolley, of the Fourteenth
Infantry U. s. A., now stationed at Fort Por-
ter, Buffalo, N. Y, will go with his command
to the Philippines about the middle of next
February. Lieut.. Tolley, whose home is at
Taylor, Hartford county, has many friends in
Baltimore county. He was lately appointed
to the army, having secured his present posi-
ton through highly creditable competitive
examination.
Rev. John p Dean, who is local preacher
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, celebrated
his S0th birthday at his home in Reisterstown
a dinner to few of his friends. Mr.. Dean
enjoys excellent health and is i'll full posses
sion of all his faculties. He is a most estima-
BILE gentleman and passes his life quietly in his
comfortable home in Reisterstown, where he
has spent so many years of his life.
Medical Association Meeting reg
ular monthly meeting of the Baltimore Coun-
ty Medical Association was held Thursday af
ternoon at Tracey's Hotel, Towson. Dr.Joseph
II ILL - Al SC
read paper on Recent Work on Rheuma-
tism,' showing the close association and rela-
ton between rheumatism and tonslitis. Cases
of ecclampsia were reported by Drs. Naylor,
Smart, Gichner, Massenburg, H. S. Jarrett and
William J. Todd The new members proposed
were DR.. H. D. Lewis and DIR. r. Perry Car
man. Those present, in addition to President
H. Louis Naylor, were Drs. f. r. Rich, L.
Gibbons Smart H. A. Naylor, A. A. Matthews,
Joseph E. Gichner, Marshall Price, William j.
Todd, A. G. McCurdy, r. 9. Massenburg and
Harry S. Jarrett.
Woman Attacked on the Road.-At
late hour on Saturday night last while Mrs.
Heinz, wife of Mr.. Hugh Heinz, truck far
mer who lives near the Parkville tollgate, on
the Hartford road, was returning from Balti-
more, where she had been to attend market,
she was stopped on the road by man who
evidently intended to rob her. She screamed
loudly for help when the highwayman fired
two shots at her and then ran away. Botn
shots took effect, one in the jaw of Mrs. Heinz
and the other in the left side of her body, but
the wounds were only slight and Mrs Heinz
was able to proceed to her home, near which
the affair occurred.
The Best Way to Celebrate Christmas.
An exchange says the best way in the world
to celebrate Christmas is to make some heart
glad by the giving of a present. It need not
be great present-iust something that attests
the sincerity and affection of the giver. The
choosing of the gift is perhaps the best part of
the annual event. and the chances are very
good that it brings to the sender as much good
as it does to the recipient. Titles both together
throughout another year Fortunate is he
who can afford to go outside of his own home
on Christmas morning to find the poor, the
friendless, and the unhappy. His is the best
Christmas this world offers.
Jury of Condemnation.-Thej jury sum-
moned by Sheriff 0eligrath to condemn Ger.
tain lands in the 18th district for the use of
the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis
Railroad, sat this week at Junkers Hotel, West
Fayette ST., Baltimore. Those composing the
jury were S. r. Cooper, ID. A. Kalb, William