The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-11-21
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-Dr. a. y. McCuruy, OF IoWSon, lett on
Tuesday for Delta, to make his annual foray
on the rabbits of York county.
Mrs. Arthur Brogden and her father. Mr..
Findlay, have taken house on North Calvert
street, Baltimore, for the winter.
Mrs. Held, wife of Judge Lewis W. Held,
of Towson, is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Henry Will, of Ronceverte, w. Va.
MIR. William NJ. Isaac, OF Towson, was on
Wednesday night reelected secretary of the
Masonic Grand Lodge of Maryland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Won Kapff of
"Stoneleigh," near Towson, spent this week at
the Fifth Auenne Hotel, New ORR city.
MIR. and Mrs. Jefferson ID. Norris have
closed their summer home, near Reisterstown,
and removed to Baltimore for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. George G. Jenkins have
closed their country place in Green Spring Val
ley and removed to Baltimore for the winter.
Mr.. Robert 81: Bussey the States Attor-
ney-elect for Baltimore county, will not as
sumo the duties of his office until January LIST,
1904.
Mr.. Harry E. McCleary, of Locust Vale
Stock Farm, Towson, attended the Madison
Square Garden horse show in New York this
week.
Mr.. D. w. Baker, member of the District
of Columbia bar, was this week admitted to
practice in the Circuit Court for Baltimore
county.
Rev. w. II. H. Powers, rector of Trinity
Church, Towson, who spent short vacation
in Virginia, returned on Friday, 10th inst, and
will conduct services as usual next Sunday.
Rev. R. II. Taylor, who has been rector of
st. Thomas Church, Homestead, Hartford
road. for the past eight years. has resigned on
account of failing health and the loss of his
voice.
Mr.. w. W. Edmondson and family have
closed their country place, Blythewood, on the
west side of Charles street avenue and re.
moved to their city residence, 904 st. Paul
street, for the winter.
MIR. w. Tyler Page, of Baltimore county,
who was the Republican nominee for Congress
in this district in 1902 is being named as pos
sible successor to Mr.. s. Davies Warfield as
postmaster of Baltimore city.
Rev. T. ]. Foley, of Glyndon, and Rev. ].
E. Dunn, of Catonsville attended the annual
meeting of the Alumni Association of st.
Mary's Seminary, which was held on Wednes-
day at the seminary in Baltimore.
The family of Mr.. r. Emory Warfeld.
who spent the past summer at their farm, Pot
Spring, east of Timonium, left for their home
in Philadelphia, few days ago. Mr.. War
field is engaged in business in that city.
Mr.. John P. Clark, the well known real
estate agent, and formerly president Of the Bal
timore County School Board, has closed his
summer home at Mt. Washington and removed
to his city residence on North Calvert street,
for the winter.
Mr.. Charles E. Treadwell, of Towson, the
railway postal clerk who was seriously injured
in wreck at Piedmont, W. Va, on the 9Th
inst, was this week brought from Cumber-
land to Baltimore and is now in hospital in
the latter city.
Miss Pauline Mosby, of Warrenton, Va,
has been visiting her friend and classmate,
Miss Martha A. Fendall, daughter of Mr..
Charles E. Fendall, of Towson. She is
daughter Of the noted Confederate cavalryman,
Col John s. Mosby.
Mr. Carville u. Benson, who was elected
a member of the House of Delegates from this
county at the late election, has been chosen a
member of the Maryland State Bar Associa-
ton. He is son of Mr.. Oregon r. Benson, a
we'll known member of the bar.
Mr. Charles A. Hook who was chosen
warden of the Baltimore city Jail on Thurs
day, is a native of Baltimore county and son
of the late Richard w. Hook, who was once
sheriff of this county. He is brother of Mr..
R. Bruce Hook, of the I'd district.
MIR. William B. Krout ex-member of the
School Board, and the Towson representative
Of the Baltimore San, who had been sick for
several months, has SO far recovered as to be
able to resume his newspaper work. He has
been connected with the San about forty years.
Mr.. A. s. Marshall, the well known I'M
dertaker of Falls road, Hampden, was in Tow
son on Thursday. He is a son of the late
Hugh Marshall and was born at Philopolis, in
the 9Th district of Baltimore county, having
learned his present business with Mr.. William
G. Brooks
Mr.. William Gisriel, who was the Prohibi-
ton candidate for Governor in the late cam
attended service at the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He is prominent Baltimore bust
ness man and president of the Summit Grove
Campaigning Association.
Among the Baltimore county people who
attended the Madison Square Garden horse
show in New York this week were Mr.. and
Mrs. W. S. g. Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Stewart Diffenderffer, Mr.. and Mrs. H. Carroll
Brown MIR. and Mrs. w. Plunkett Stewart and
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodor G. Lurman and daugh-
tiers.
Mr.. Philip A. s. Franklin, president of
the Atlantic Transport Line, who has been
sick with typhoid fever at his home in New
York city, is improving rapidly. For some
days his condition was critical. Mr.. Franklin
is a son of Col. Walter s Franklin and his
wife is sister of Mr. N. Bosley Merryman,
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore county.
Rev William E. Robertson, who has for
some years been pastor of Calvary Baptist
Church. Towson, this week received call
to the passionate of Randolph Street Baptist
Church. Richmond, Va. He has not yet de.
ter. The members of his congregation are
averse to his leaving. Calvary Church has
prospered greatly since he has been III charge.
MIR. Robert s. Corse, of Baltimore, for
merly member of the Board of County Com
mssioners of this county, has made applica-
dent of parks. This is the Office for which
MIR. W. w. Crosby, roads engineer for Balti-
more county, was being prominently named.
He did not make application for the position
and has no idea who brought his name for
ward for it.
tella E. Bailey and Mr.. Charles Oscar Brooks,
which was to have taken place at Mt. Carmel
NJ E. Church, on Wednesday evening, Novem-
Der 25th, have been recalled on account of the
prevalence of diphtheria in the neighborhood.
The ceremony will be performed that evening
at 7.30 o'clock, at the home of the brides
father, Mr.. John w. Bailey, at Evna, in the
presence of the two families only.
Judge and Mrs. N. Charles Burke will to-
day quietly celebrate the twenty fifth anniver-
sary of their marriage at their home in Tow
son. They have eight children,six daughters
late Edward H. Ady, who was well known
citizen of this county and once Clerk of the
Circuit Court. She is graduate of Mount st.
Agnes College, Mt Washington. Judge
Burke has served fourteen years of his fifteen
year term as Associate Judge of the Third Ju-
dical Circuit Of Maryland, which embraces
Baltimore and Hartford counties.
Fine New School Building Opened.-The
new school building at Sparrow's Point cree
ted at cost of $40, OOO was officially turned
over to the county last Monday and the chill
dren of that place recited their lessons in their
new home for the first time. 1t will be re-
membered that this Is the first time Baltimore
county has contributed anything for school
buildings at that place. the Maryland Steel
Company having furnished them up to this
time and the county paying the teachers. In
this case the Steel Company furnished $4,000
of the total cost and also gave the lot.
The exercises were of necessity of very in
formal nature, as the building has no assembly
room that is large enough to accommodate the
entire school at one time, there being in the
neighborhood of 600 pupils The president of
the School Board, Mr.. Thomas B. Todd, was
present and received the building on behalf
of the Board from Contractor Daniel Harding.
There were also present Messrs. Walter K.
Townsend, Reister RUSSELL Henry P. Mann,
John 8. Biddison. John Green, Benjamin
Owens, the architect, and Mr.. R. K. Wood,
general agent of the Maryland Steel Company
and president of the board of trustees Of the
school.
The children assembled as usual Monday
morning in the old buildings and then march
ed, class by class, to their new quarters. Spar
rows Point Chapter, Patriotic Order Sons of
America, presented an Oxford Bible to each
class.
Commissions Have Been Received.-The
commissions for the newly elected county
officers have been received at the County
Clerks Office from Annapolis. They are as
follows: