The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-04-12
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| Ork, are the RueSlS VI Tue MISSES
| of tHayfields," near Cockeysville.
Miss Mary Brady, daughter of Mrs. Samuel
| Brady, of Towson, who had been visiting
friends in Washington, has returned.
Mr. William B. Smith, an aged citizen of
Towson, has been much indisposed this week.
| He is a son of the late Frederick Smith, of Du-
lany's Valley.
Mr.. ]. b. Temple, who recently sold his
personal property at Fork, 18th district, has
removedto Baltimore and engaged in the hotel
! business on Hillen street.
Mr.. Philip s. Cross, well known farmer
of the 9th district, was among the visitors to
Towson on Thursday. 1t was the first time he
had been here since last August.
Miss Clara T. Todd, daughter of Mr..
| Thomas B. Todd, of Patapsco Neck, who spent
about three months with friends in Chicago,
returned to her home this week.
Mr. L. Lynn Painter, member of the
House of Delegates from Baltimore county,
was in Towson on Tuesday looking after some
professional matters at the Court House.
DIR. r. Percy Smith, of Baltimore, former
ly of Sunnybrook, Baltimore county, has
been appointed aide on the staff of Comman-
der Geer, of the First Naval Brigade of Mary
land.
Miss Laura Pindell. of Cockeysville, is
spending month with her sister Miss jamie
NJ. Pindell, superintendent of nurses at the
Metropolitan Hospital, Blackwelps Island,
N. Y.
Mr.. James Amoss, well known farmer
and Gamer of the Forest Hill section of Har-
ford county, spent several days in Towson
this week visiting his sister, Mrs. William M.
Risteau.
Mr. c. W. Bork. formerly of Sweet Air
Baltimore county, who is now successfully en-
gagged in business at Benson, Hartford county,
| called ON some of his friends in Towson on
| Wednesday.
Mr. William H. Wight, of"Kinloch, . near
! Cockeysyile, has gone to the Charleston Ex-
position. Mrs. Wight, who was visiting in
Petersburg, Va, Joined him there and accom-
panied him to Charleston.
| Mr.. Thomas G. Kennedy the well known
| architect of Mt. Washington, has prepared the
plans for the new ST. Paul's Catholic Church,
to be erected on the corner of Caroline and
| Oliver streets, Baltimore, at cost of $50 600.
Mr.. E. Cuttings Merryman, we'll known
Baltimore county farmer and stock-raiser and
an ex-president of the County Agricultural So
ciety, was on Wednesday elected one of the
trustees of the Maryland Agricultural College.
Mrs. Levin Lake Jr., who was reported in
THE UNION last week as being critically i'll at
the home of her aunt, Mrs. John Lippincott
in Baltimore. is improving. She is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. Edward S. Peerce, of Dulany's
Valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel K. Fendall having
rented their farm, near Watervale Station,
Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad are now
occupying apartments in Belair. Mr.. Fendall
is a brother of Mr.. Charles E. Fendall, Of
Towson.
MIR. O. Parker Baker, young member of
the bar was on Thursday installed as Grand
Chancellor of the Grand Lodge of Maryland
knights of Pythias. He is resident of Bal
timore county and son of Mr.. Charles III.
Baker, of Melvale
Mr.. J. Alexander Preston, the we'll known
member of the bar, has been selected to judge
the trotters and roadsters at the coming horse
show at the Kennels, Charles street avenue
Mr.. Preston owns farm at Hardwood, on the
P. W: & B; Railroad.
Miss Eliza D. Longnecker, of Towson, left
on Friday 11th inst, for New York city to
spend some time with her aunt Mrs. William
Conant Church. She was accompanied by Miss
Amelia Williams. of Casanova, Va, who sails
from New York for Europe today.
Mr.. and Mrs. William G. Harvey, who
had been living a short time at Lauraville,
Hartford road, removed this week to the farm
that Mrs. Harvey inherited from her fathers
estate near Scotts Level, I'd district, and where
her family lived for more than fifty years.
Mr.. John NJ. Griffith and family who
spent the past winter in Baltimore, this week
removed to their beautiful farm on the Har-
ford road, east of Glen-Arm Station. Mount
Vista, the new postoffice lately established on
the Hartford road, is Mr.. Griffiths present
address.
The youngest son of Mr. and Mrs William
r. Hoff, of Sherwood, was critically i'll early
this week and for a time appendicitis was
feared. On Friday morning, 18th instant, his
condition was improved and his prospects for
recovery good. DIR. II. Burton Stevenson is
attending him.
The Board of Directors of the Towson Ma
tional Bank, at its meeting on Thursday, ere
ated the Office of vice-presdent and honored
Mr. Duane H. Rice by electing him to the po-
sition. Mr.. Rice is a widely known and sue
cessful business man and the selection is, there
fore. in every way a suitable one.
The engagement has been announced of
Miss Edith Lamb daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George M. Lamb, of "Cedarcroft," near Go
vanstown, to Mr.. Howard Cooper Johnson, of
Philadelphia. Mr.. Johnson is graduate of
Swarthmore College and of the University of
Pennsylvania. He is a member Of the Phila-
delphia bar.
The congregation of Towson NJ. E. Church
rendered a reception at the parsonage on
Thursday night to Rev. John R. Edwards.
The ladies visited the parsonage in the after
noon and arranged for the supper that was
provided later. Rev. Mr.. Edwards, who is
greatly liked by the people, returns to Towson
for the third year.
Among those raised to deacons and elders
orders by the late Annual Conference of the
NJ. e. Church were the following: Deacon
Rev. Richard G. Koontz, junior pastor of
Monkton Circuit; Elders-Rev. L. M. Cham
bers, of Summerfield Circuit; Rev. r. N. Ed
wards, junior pastor of Hereford Circuit Rev.
d. H. Martin, of Lutherville, and Rev. H. NJ.
Rider, of Roland Park.
Mr.. Walter b. Warner, of My Lady
Manor, who was at Annapolis during the last
week of the session of the Legislature, was at
tackled suddenly with pneumonia and has
since been confined to his room in the Mary
land Hotel, in that city. One lung only is af
fected and his condition has not been serious
Mr.. Warner was formerly transfer clerk in the
County Commissioners Office.
Rev. w. e. Robertson, who is about COM
pleting his tenth year as pastor of Calvary
Baptist Church, Towson, has received a call to
church in Edenton, N. c., and is holding it
under consideration. Since Mr.. Robertson has
been in charge here the membership has in
creased from 38t Sc and the debt on the church
has been liquidated and 81 900 additional ex-
pended as improvements. A parsonage, ad-
joining the church property, has also been
purchased at an outlay of $500.
On the 9th of the present month DR..
James II. Jarrett highly esteemed physician
of Towson. will have been engaged in the &C.
tive practice of his profession fifty years. He
was born at Jarrettsville. Hartford county, was
educated at Dickinson College and the Medi-
cal Department of the University of Mary
land, and commenced practice in Hartford
county. He served through the War of the
Rebellion az a surgeon in Maryland Federal
regiments and at its close located in Towson,
where he has ever since resided DIR. Jarrett
has large practice and still gives it his per-
sonal attention, going night and day when
| circumstances require that he should do so.
He still enjoys excellent health.
The Other 90 Didn't Show Up.--Mr.
| Elias Livezey, an aged and wealthy citizen of
Gainesville who violently opposed the incor-
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