The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-24
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Personal Mention
Mrs Charles w. Hoff has been very i'll
this week at her home, Sherwood n. G. r. r.
Mr. Harry NJ. Benzinger, of the law firm
of BenZnger Calwell, has gone or business
trip to Missouri.
DIR. A. c. McCurdy, of Towson has been
elected second vice-president of the Maryland
State Dental Association.
Mr. Edwin A. Gorsuch, of Baltimore, for
merly a we'll known farmer of the 18th dis
trict, was in Towson on Tuesday.
Miss Eleanor Matthews, Of "Brookwood,"
Dulany's Valley, is spending some time with
Miss Phillips, of Washington, D. G..
Mr.. Charles c. Homer, of Sherwood, N.
G. R. R., was on Tuesday reelected president
of the Baltimore Clearing House Association.
Mr.. Howard Fox, who is student at st.
Johns College, Annapolis, is sick with pneu-
monia at his home at Perry Hail. Baltimore
county
Miss Nellie Wright, daughter of Mrs
Jane Wright, of Towson, will leave next Mon
day to spend some time with friends in Phila-
delphia.
Rossville, went on a pleasure trip to New York
this week and were registered at the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel.
Mr. E. S. w. Choate, Jr., and Harold B.
Vincent, both of Baltimore county, are officers
of the MARYLAND Club of Cornell University,
Ithaca, N. Y.
Gen. John NJ. Hood having resigned the
PRESIDENCY OF the Ulleu EleClIlC IlSuJ anu
Power Company. Col. NJ. W. Offutt, vice pres
ident, is now acting in his stead.
Mr. William s. Keech, of the Towson bar,
spent several days this week in Upper Marl-
boro, Md. attending to some business matters
for his mother, Mrs. Rose Keech.
Mr.. William Stouffer, who lately sold his
fine farm, near the 17-mile stone, York turn
pike, to Mr.. E. E. Scott, will not give posses
sion until the expiration of year.
Mr.. VIM. B. Graves, of Grey Rock, near
Pikesville, is another Baltimore county man
who is about to sell off his fine herd of Jersey
COWS and abandon the dairy business.
Mrs. William L. Marbury gave a large at
home,'' at her residence. Club road, Roland
Park on Saturday afternoon last. She was as
sisted by her sisters the Misses Slingluff.
Mr.. VIM. T. G. Whiteford, student at the
Baltimore Medical College. has been confined
to his home at Parkville, Hartford road, some
days suffering from an aggravated case of grip.
Mr.. John W. Frankenfeld, agent for the
Northern Central Railway at Cockeysville,
gave a dinner on Tuesday in honor of the Seth
birthday of his mother, Mrs. Julia A. Frank
enfield.
Mr.. William R. Hoff, index clerk in the
office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, has
been sick several weeks with bronchitis at bis
home in Towson. DR.. H. S. Jarrett is attend
ing him.
Prof Albert S. Cook, school examiner, at
tended the annual meeting of the Association
of School Examiners of Maryland, which was
held at the State Normal School building on
Thursday.
Mr.. Henry H. Hubner, of the law firm of
Hubner & Hubner, has been elected director
of the Central Trust Company of Baltimore.
He is a son of Hon. John Hubner, of Balti-
more county.
Mr.. George Savage, chief judge of the
Orphans Court of Baltimore city, who had
beer very sick for some weeks, returned from
Atlantic City this week and resumed his duties
on the bench.
Mr.. G. A. Swarthout of New York State,
has been appointed manager OF F1lston Dairy
Farm, Glencoe, Baltimore county, succeeding
Mr.. Asa B. Gardiner, Jr., whose resignation
took effect on the Goth instant.
Rev. DR.. John f. Goucher and his daugh-
tiers, Misses Janet and Eleanor Goucher, who
are now at their country place, Altodale, near
Pikesville, will leave about February LIST for
an extended tour of the West
Judge N. Charles Burke, of Towson, on
Thursday delivered to the students of Mount
st. Agnes College, Mt Washington, the first
of course of lectures on American History
and the Constitution Of the United States"
Mr.. James f. Ingram, Jr., of the law firm
of Graham & Ingram, is president of the Bal
timore and Frederick Electric Railway Com
pany, whose line will extend from Baltimore
to Frederick Mr.. Ingram is resident of
the Sd district of Baltimore county.
Mrs. Kane, widow of Bernard Kane, who
has rented her farm at Bosley postoffice. Du-
lany's Valley turnpike. will dispose of her
personal PROPERTY on Monday next and re-
move to Towson to make her future home
with her son-in-law, Mr.. S. Edgar Cockey.
Mr.. Robert H. Bussey, of Cockeysville,
who is a well known member of the Towson
bar, is another man who has aspirations for
the States Attorneyship and will seek the
Democratic nomination this year. He has
never held an Office of any kind in the county.
Rev. James r. gladden., member of the
Baltimore Conference, NJ. e. Church, celebra-
l.. l~srtI doxy NJ hfc in Ndct
Arlington, on Monday night last and enter
| tanned number of his friends. The Gladden.
family at one time resided in the 18th district
of this county.
haroe ra J9 ann aRG HGRaTe Bona Of De
Moines, Ia, are visiting their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Bond, of Western Run Valley.
! Mr.. Bond, ST., who has been very sick for sew
| eral weeks, is improving slowly. He is well
| known farmer.
Mr.. Benjamin H. Read, who lives near
| Towson, and who is engaged in the wholesale
coal business in Baltimore, was a witness a
| few days ago before the Senate Committee on
| the District of Columb ia that is inquiring
into the cause of shortage of the coal supply
| in Washington.
Rev. Henry G. Martin, formerly pastor of
| Govanstown Presbyterian Church, preached in
the Methodist Episcopal Church in that place,
last Sunday morning, Rev. DR.. J. B. Stitt, the
pastor, having been indisposed and unable to
OCCupy MS I6N. MI. Is Sp6uu-
| ing the winter at Govanstown.
Mr.. William t. Hackett has just been re-
elected superintendent of the Sunday school
of North Point Station, NJ. E. Church South,
for the forty-frst consecutive time. The many
friends of Mr.. Hackett will regret to learn that
he has been sick and confined to his home sew
eral weeks. He is now better, however.
Mr.. Harry Malcolm, of Towson, on his
trip West this week, bought from a we'll
known horse dealer of Lexington, KY, pair
of Cleveland Bays, full brothers, 5 and 6
years old, for the sum of $4,000. They are
beautiful bays, with long tails, and were bought
by Mr.. Malcolm for gentleman in Baltimore
city.
MIR. E. E. Scott, well known farmer of
Western Run Valley, accompanied by bis
mother and sisters, Misses Bessie and Ella
Scott, will leave shortly for three months
tour of Europe. The trip will include Egypt
and the Holy Land. Mrs. Scott is the widow
of Edwin Scott, who was brother of the
Messrs. Scott, of the Union Iron Works, San
Francisco, Cal.
Mr.. James Brian, well known and sue
cesstGl business man of Middle River, P, w.
& B. r. R., who was in Towson on Wednes-
day, says that his trade was larger last year
than ever before and that his prospects for
1908 are equally as good. Mr.. Brian has built
up large business in agricultural implements
and machinery, fertilizers etc., and is still
further extending it.
Mr.. Samuel M. Shoemaker, member of
the School Board, while in Towson on Tues
day was asked if there was anything in the
rumor that he would be candidate for the
State Senate this year. He simply smiled at
the inquiry and replied II suppose they will
have me a candidate for Governor next" He
would no doubt make a very good Governor,
but there is Just one serious difficulty in the
way. He is Democrat and the Republicans
intend to elect the next Governor of Maryland.
What Intensive Farming in Small
Way Can Do.-Mr. Charles E. Fendall, of the
County Clerks Office, who is known to be
successful gardener and fruitgrower, furnishes
us with the following data of what be pro-
duced last year on one-quarter of an acre of
ground at his home in Towson, the figures
given being the market price of the articles at
the time they were gathered
FRUITS.
SIS quarts of strawberries. ........-.. $52.18
l7S cherrfes...... .-......... 1903
81 raspDerrieS. S.65
10 blackberries. LOS
currantS. ................ 10
692 pounds OF grapes. ............ 1I.U
* bushels of June apples. 1.95
1SH pears -....-....-'. ll.lO