The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-12-06
DISQUALIFICATION

Miss Grace Parrish, OF Whlte Hall, n. u
r. R., has been visiting Miss Alice Martin, of
Sparrow's Point.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rush Street,, of Farm
ington' are visiting friends on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland.
Mr.. William L. Shriver, notary public
of Reisterstown, 4th district, is foreman of
the present grand jury.
Miss Helen NJ. Bordley, of Govanstown,
has gone to Santa Barbara, Cal, to spend
some time with relatives.
On Tuesday Col. D. G. Mcintosh and fami-
" closed their house in Towson and removed
to Baltimore for the winter.
Mrs. w. w. Barron, of Richmond, Va,
has been visiting Mrs. Edward A. Cockey, at
her home near Gwynnbrook, 4th district
Mr.. Robert E. Lee Marshall, of the Balti-
more bar, was on Monday admitted to prac-
tice in the Circuit Court for Baltimore county.
Misses Eleanor and Mary Myer, of Litter
louna," near Pikesville, attended the Army
and Navy football game in Philadelphia last
Saturday.
Mr.. Maurice Watkins, Jr., stenographer
of the Circuit Court, and Mr. Charles Erdman
went to Middlesex county, Va, this week to
hunt wild turkey.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Mason Janney of New
York paid visit this week to Margaret
Meadows" the former home of Mr.. Janney, in
Green Spring Valley.
The Misses Stevenson, of Fellowship"
near Towson, attended the great Army Navy
on Saturday afternoon last.
Mr. Edgar G. Miller and family have
closed for the winter their handsome country
place on Charles street avenue and have taken
apartments at The Stafford, in Baltimore
Miss Marie Tames christened the new truck
of the Hamilton Volunteer Fire Company on
Thanksgiving evening. She is a daughter of
Mr.. Charles G. Tames. captain of the company.
Rev. Philip G. Edwards, of Doubs, Fred
erick county, who was last week taken to the
nd III nj iv,p oil iVraNr fOr
treatment for disease of the stomach, has inn
proved somewhat and there are hopes for his
final recovery:
married at Frederick, Md, last week, spent
part of their honeymoon in New York city
and were registered at the Imperial Hotel.
Their future home will be at Sherwood, North
ern Central Railroad.
Mr.. Samuel e. Hartley, storekeeper and
assistant postmaster at Bradshaw, B. q o. R.
R., who had been critically ill for several
weeks with typhoid fever, is now improving
slowly. He is attended by DR.. John s. Green
and Dr. N. A. S. Keyser.
Mr. H. E. Miles, who sold his personal
property on his fathers farm, near CAROLS
old mill, 10th district on Monday last will re-
move his family to Sparrows Point. The
farm of 100 acres was offered on the same day
and withdrawn on bid of $780,
Mr. Joseph Friedenwald, who owns
large and beautiful estate in Worthington
Valley, near Glyndon, is being prominently
mentioned as possible Democratic nominee
for mayor of Baltimore city. He is a wealthy
business man and it is doubtful if he would
accept.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles J. Bonaparte have
closed their country house in lower Long
Green Valley and removedto Baltimore for the
winter The farm owned by Mr.. Bonaparte
was formerly known as the Lambert Cuttings
place. 1t is fine estate and handsomely inn
proved.
-Mr.W w. Crosby, roads engineer for Balti-
more county, attended the Stewart-Small we'd
ding in York, Pa, on Wednesday evening.
From thence he continued his trip to New
York, Boston and Bangor, Maine, where he
went to act as best man at the wedding OF
relative.
Mr.. William Fowble, who met with such
a serious accident at his home near Grace
Church, 9Th district, as reported in THE UNION
last week. will get well. For time his life
was despaired of. Mr.. Fowble, who is in the
10Th year of his age, is among the leading
farmers in that section of the county.
Capt. Henry Wilhelm, of the 9th district,
is member of the present petit jury. He has
pleasant home at Eklo, where he is always
pleased to see his friends. Capt. Wilhelm
made an excellent record as defender of his
country in the Civil War and since the close
of that conflict has enjoyed retired and peace
full life.
Mr.. "sam" Nicholas, formerly of Balti-
more county, sustained some injuries by
fall on Thanksgiving day while following the
hounds of the Radnor Hunt Club, of Phila-
delphia, of which city he is now resident.
Mr.. Nicholas who is member of the Green
Spring Valley Hunt Club, is well known
amateur jockey.
Mr. N Bosley Merryman, Clerk of the
Circuit Court, and Messrs. Charles E. Fendall
and William R. Hoff, assistants in his office,
spent Thursday cunning at "Hayfields," in
the Sth district Mr. Merryman, who is the
Of tho late III lon Jnhp MQrrVYnan
was born at that beautiful old estate which is
now the home of his sisters.
-Messrs Thomas B. Todd, Reister Russell,
John Arthur Samuel M. Shoemaker, G. Her
bert Rice and James B. Ensor members of the
Baltimore county School Board, and Prof.
Albert S. Cook secretary and examiner of the
Board, attended the annual meeting of the AS
ISOLATION of School Commissioners of Mary
land held in Baltimore this week.
-Messrs. Robert r. Boarman and James ].
Lindsay, composing the law firm of Boarman
& Lindsay, have been appointed local counsel
for the Western Maryland and Tidewater
Railroad Company. They will have charge of
all the important land condemnation cases
that will shortly take place in the vicinity of
Baltimore in the extension OF the company'S
lire to tidewater.
Col. Benjamin f. Taylor, secretary of the
Spanish Gun Commission, was in Towson on
Tuesday. No definite plan has yet been ar
ranged for the mounting of the gun in the
Court House Park, although Col. Taylor has
been carefully arrangipgthe preliminaries. 1t
is likely the commission will decide not to
carry out the formal ceremonies of receiving
the gun until early next summer.
Rev. w. H. H. Powers, rector of Trinity
p E. Church, Towson, attended the annual
meeting and banquet of the Churchman'S
Club which took place at Lehman's Hall, Bal
timore, on Thursday night. Others present
from Baltimore county were Messrs. Frank
Ehlen, Randolph Barton, Jr., Henry r. Turn
bull, Talbot Jones, Thomas Cradock, ]. Smith
Orrick and DR.. L. Gibbons Smart.
Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Ogier, well known
residents of Govanstown, celebrated the fftieth
anniversary of their marriage on Tuesday last,
upon which occasion there was pleasant fami-
ly reunion. Those present were their daugh
tiers, Mrs j acob Nicholson. of Baltimore Misses
India, Emma and Florence Oger, their son,
Mr.. George Ogier, and their daughter.in-law,
Mrs Charles Ogier, whose home is in Cali
fornia.
Mr.. William Ensor, who is a member of
the present grand jury from the 18th district,
has been the subject of numerous quiet con-
gratulations since he has been in Towson.
Notwithstanding the fact that he is upwards of
70 years of age, he was lately married and
bears his honors with apparently much quiet
satisfaction. Mr.. Ensor, who was widower,
is the largest land owner in the upper end of
the county.
on Wednesday evening were Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel NJ. Shoemaker and Miss Ellen Shoe
maker, Mr.. and Mrs. John McHenry, Capt.
and Mrs. Wilson g. Nicholas the Misses
Nicholas, Mr.; and Mrs =, Randolph Barton,
Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. George w Ewing, Mr.: James
Mex Merryman, the Misses Myer, Mr.. and
Mrs w. Stewart Diffenderffer and Mr.. Nor
man Stump.
AT the meeting of the Association of
School Commissioners of Maryland in Balti-
more on Thursday Mr.. G. Herbert Rice, mem
Der of the Baltimore county School Board,
read paper on the Progress of Consolidation
in the Rural Schools in Maryland" The sub
ect was generally discussed and every speaker
agreed that the consolidation of the rural
schools in the several counties of the State
would be wise and progressive and would tend
toward better educational standards
Sale of York Road Real Estate.-Patti-
son & Gahan, auctoneers. sold on the premi-
SEES on Tuesday, for Messrs. Miller & Bonsal,
attorneys for Mr.. William Lanahan, assignee
of a mortgage from James F: McCabe and wife,
tract of about % acres of land, with ordi
nary imnrovements situated on the west side