The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-09
Personal Mention

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Mrs. Slade. wife of County Commissioner
Slade, is recovering from an attack of pleurisy
at her home, Corbett N. G. R. r.
Mr.. Madison E. Lloyd, member of thu
Towson bar, has been admitted to practice il
the United States Courts of Maryland.
Mrs. Edwin F. Abel, of Woodbourne
avenue, near Govanstown, is spending a fort
night at The Marlborough, Atlantic City.
Mrs. Sarah Jane Yellott has been very sick
this week with bronchitis. at the residence OF
her son, Major John 1. Yellott, in Towson.
The County Commissioners have reap
pointed DR.. t. Ross Payne, of Corbett, N. c.
R. R., secretary of the local sanitary board.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. t. Mallonee and son, OF
Boston, Mass, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. E.
Mallonee, of "Litterlouna," near Pikesville.
MIR. Frank Ehlen and family, who spent
the past winter in Baltimore, have reopened
their summer home at Oakleigh Station, east
of Towson.
Miss Mary B. Mordecai. of Green Spring
Valley, is visiting Mrs. w. w. Keith CORNER
ly Miss Brown, of Brooklandwood,) at her
home in Chicago.
Rev. w. W. Costin, pastor of Hunts
Circuit, Baltimore county has been elected
secretary of the Brotherhood of the Baltimore
District, NJ. E. Church.
MIR. and Mrs. Chester B. Turnbull, who
spent the past winter in Baltimore, have re-
opened auburn Cottage" their summer
home south of Towson.
Judge James D. Waters, who has been
very sick at his home in Beair, is improving
slowly. Chief Judge Fowler will open court
for him next Monday.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the
President, will visit the horse show at The
Kennels, Charles street avenue, on Friday and
and Saturday of next week.
Mr.. Frank |. Duncan and Mr.. Osborne 1.
Yellott, of the Towson bar were engaged this
week in the argument of cases before the
Court of Appeals at Annapolis
Miss Eliza ID. Longnecker, of ToWson,
left on Friday, 8th instant, for New York, to
spend two weeks with her aunt, Mrs. William
G.. Church, of Irving Place, that city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles R. Ditfenderffer, who
spent the past winter in Baltimore, have re-
opened "Cassia," their handsome country
place at the head of Charles street avenue.
Mr.. G. w. Bork a successful young bust
ness man of Benson, Hartford county, was
among the visitors to Towson this week. He
is a native of Sweet Air, Baltimore county.
MIR. John G. Wilson has given up his farm
ing interests in the 10th district and is now
devoting his entire attention to his farm near
Mt Vista postofice, lower Long Green Valley.
Mr.. ]. Wesley Lee, superintendent of Tow
son postal station, who has been sick and con-
fined to his home several weeks, is improving
slowly. He is one of Towson's Oldest citizens.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Jackson are pre-
pairing to move into their handsome new home
at the head of Charles street avenue. Mr..
Jackson is president of the Elkridge Hunt
Club.
Mr.. ]. Marsh Matthews, of Baltimore
county, will be among this years graduates at
the Maryland Agricultural College. He is a
son of Col. D. M. Matthews, of Dulanys
Valley.
Mr.. James P. Reese, of Lutherville, has
been reelected a member of the board of d.
rectors of the City Savings Bank, Gay and
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the bank.
DIR. Jackson Piper and family, who spent
the past winter in Baltimore, returned to their
home in Towson on Monday. Mrs. Piper,
who had been indisposed for some time, is inn
proving.
Mr.. William B. Krout, who has been on
the reportorial staff of the Baltimore Sun about
forty years, and who is an ex-member of the
County School Board, is sick at his home in
Towson.
Judge N. Charles Burke, of Towson, on
Thursday completed his course of lectures on
1.-The Constitution of the United States before
the students of Mount st. Agnes College, Mt
Washington.
DIR. Il. S. Jarrett, of Towson, will next
week go to Washington to attend the annual
meeting of the National Association of U s.
Pension Examining Surgeons. DR.. Jarrett is
a member of the examining board in Balti-
more.
Mr.. NJ. J. Lindsay, of Texas, n G. R. R.,
has accepted the agency for the Mutual Life
hereafter devote his entire attention to that
business. He was some years ago teacher in
the public schools of this county.
-Messrs. Thomas W. Otfutt, Upton S. Brady
and W. George Marley, of the Towson Gun
Club, went to Wilmington, DEL, on Wednes-
day to take part in the handicap shooting tour
of the Wamaset Gun Club Of that city,
oh kooI on and
Mr.. George r. Heffner, who was elected
of Baltimore city on Tuesday by
the Republicans, is son of the late Edward
Was we'll kno WI local preacher of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church.
Mr.. w. Gill Smith, who was for several
years counsel to the County Treasurer, and
who was succeeded this week by Mr.. John S.
Biddison, has been appointed counsel to Sheriff
Oeligrath. Mr. Smith, by his liberal dealing
with unfortunate taxpayers, made many
friends while acting as attorney for the Treas
urer.
Mr. w. M. Shoemaker is visiting his sister,
Mrs. Jackson Piper, of Towson. BE is yoe-
man on board the q: s. Steamship Alabama,
which reached New York on the LIST instant
from the West Indies, where she wintered.
Mr.. Shoemaker, who is son of the late Will
liam s. Shoemaker, was at one time resident
of Towson.
Mrs. Edwin Scott, of Western Run Valley,
who with her daughters, Misses Bessie and
Ella Scott, and her son. Mr.. e. E. Scott, had
been travelling abroad about two months, re.
turned home early this week. Mrs. Scott did
not learn of the death of her brother, Irving
NJ. Scott, of San Francisco, until she reached
this country.
Miss van Wegenen. who has been for eight
years vice principal at Hannah More Academy,
Reisterstown, will give up that position at the
end of the present scholastic year and spend
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by Miss Frances M. Buchan, who has held
similar positions in schools in South Bethle-
hem Pa. and Denver, Col.
Rev. Charles E. Fultz has recently COM
pleted his fourth year as pastor of Otterbeln
Memorial U. B. Church at Hampden. A Pc
culiar coincidence is the fact that during his
pastorate he preached 631 sermons and has had
631 conversions. Rev. MIR. Fultz is the only
son of Mr.. George NJ. Fultz, who died very
suddenly at his farm in the 9th district few
months ago.
Mr.. Richard Vincent. head of the firm of
r. Vincent & Son, seedsmen and florists,
White Marsh, Baltimore county, was in Tow
son on Friday, looking after some business
matters at the Court House. Some idea may be
gained of the magnitude of their business
when it is stated that their shipments by mail
and otherwise on Thursday of this week went
to twenty-three states
MIR. Dixon Connolly, who had leased the
store property of Mr.. George r. NOVEL;, at
Glencoe, N. c. R. R., and put in a new stock
of goods, has sold the lease and stock back to
Nh NOVEL;. who will continue there. He
thought he would retire from business, but
changed his mind at the last moment. Mr..
Connolly, who had been living at Corbett, will
continue to reside at Glencoe.
MIR. Louis d. Greene, who was elected
member of the First Branch City Council of
Baltimore by the Democrats on Tuesday last is
a native of the 4th district of Baltimore coun-
ty and learned the butchering business with
Mr.. Charles J. Beckley. Later he became a
railroader, commencing as brakeman and
ending as conductor. He has for some years
been proprietor of the Hand House, North
Paca street.
Mr.. Joshua Plaskitt, of Baltimore, &C
companied by his 6-year-old son, James Mar
shall Plaskitt. was among the visitors to Tow
son to witness the ceremonies incident to the
formal reception of the Spanish gun. Many
years ago Mr. Plaskitt was resident of Balti-
more county and his father, who was an
Englshman, owned farm in what was then
called Lime Kiln Bottom" short distance
east of Towson. After going to the city he
took an active interest in public affairs and
served once as member of the House OF Dele
gates and later as a member of the school
Board While occupying the latter position
be originated the Polytechnic School, which
has since met with such great success.
THE BOARD of directors of the Maryland Pen
itentiary on Wednesday reelected Mr.. John
F. Weyler, warden for the sixteenth consecu-