The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-11-12

Personal Mention
Mr.. and Mrs. /. NJ. Parr have closed their
country house in Green Spring Valley and have
taken apartments at the Belvedere in Balti-
more for the winter.
Mrs. William h. Wight and Mrs. Harry u
Matthews have been elected members OF the
board of directors of the Woman's Industrial
Exchange of Baltimore.
Mr.. aud Mrs. G. Mason Janney, OF New
York, are visiting Mr.. Janney's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Janney, of Margaret Mead
ows," Green Spring Valley:
Hon. Stevenson A. Williams, of Belair,
was in Towson on Wednesday. on professional
business. He was naturally much pleased at
the result of Tuesdays election.
DIR. H. Burton Stevenson, wei known
Young physician of Sherwood, N. G. Il. r., has
been very sick this week with double pneu-
monia. He was better on Friday morning.
Mr.. Richard G. Francis, of Baltimore, for.
merly of the 18th district Of this county, called
at THE UNION Office on Thursday. he was
highly elated over the result of Tuesdays
election.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Cromwell will close
their country place, on the Pot Spring ROAD,
next week and open their town house, SOUTH
east corner of Monument and ut. Paul Streets
for the winter.
for several years pastor of Calvary Baptist
Church, Towson, called on some OF his TRENDS
here on Tuesday and also cast his vote at one
of the Towson precincts.
Rev. w. II. II. Powers, rector OF Trinity
Church, Towson, accompanied by his daugh-
ter. Miss Leila Powers, left on Tuesday for
Greenwood, Albemarle county, Va, where
they will spend ten days.
Mr. and Mrs. William s. G. Williams, &C
companied by their little daughter, will sail
today from New York for Liverpool. They
will spend the winter in the Isle of Wight and
remain abroad indefinitely.
A. al IonR ina GA q n
cheon on Tuesday to the Elkridge Hunt Club
at their beautiful country residence on Lake
avenue, following the meet of the club that
day. About $50 guests were present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Cole, of Butler,
gave a party on Monday night in honor of the
2lst birthday of their son, Mr.. Harry Cole. A
very large company ofthe young mans friends
ATTENDED and an ENJOYABLE time was had.
MIR. John @. Dorher, who keeps store at
Baynesville east of Tows0n, has been very SICK
the past week suffering from complication
of diseases. Mr.. Dorf1er is superintendent OF
the Methodist Episcopal Sunday school at
Providence.
Mr.. III. Courtney Jenifer, stenographer in
the law office of Mr.. Frank l. Duncan. has
been suffering very much lately with infiam-
matory rheumatism: Heis son OF Mr.. Tnomas
R. Jenifer, of Loeb Raven, and very popular
young man.
Lieut.. oscar K. Tolley, of the Fourteenth
u. s. Inf, who has been with his regiment in
the Philippines during the past year, expects
to return next month. His home is at Tay Tor,
Hartford county, and he has many friends in
Baltimore county.
DIR. John s. Green, of Long Green Valley,
was among those elected ice-presidents of the
MARYLAND Christian Endeavor Union. the an
nual convention of which was held at West
minister last week. Mr.. VIM. A. Schumacher,
of Phoenix, was chosen director of the
Union.
Among the Baltimore county people who
registered at the Maryland State Building on
the Worlds Fair grounds within the past
week were the following: Mrs. Caleb " Cher
BONNER, Timonium; Charles A. Mealey, Mt.
Washington; DIR. w. T. G. Whiteford and
Frank c. Kilchenstein, Parkville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry NJ. Benzinger have
closed their country place. Harmony Hall"
near McDonogh, W. M. r. r., and have re-
moved to Baltimore for the winter. Mrs.
Benzinger and her daughter are at present at
Atlantic City. Mr.. Beuzinger is the senior
member of the we'll known law firm of Ben
Finger & Calwell.
Mr. Charles h Mann, doorkeeper of the
House of Representatives, came to Towson on
Tuesday morning to vote. He left the Capital
by the B. & O. road at z O'Clock and at 8 40 he
was in Towson and had cast his ballot. That
shows how steam and electricity can accom-
plish things The distance between the two
points is about 46 miles.
Rev. George H. Beckley, who has been
pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Reisters-
town, for the past nineteen years, has handed
his resignation to the church council to take
effect at once. Iii health was the cause of this
action, and the council accepted the reslgna-
ton with much regret Rev. Mr.. Beckley is
among the Oldest members of the Maryland
Synod.
County Commissioner Henry P. Mann,
who lives at Orangeville, on the Philadelphia
q rQc1nfl0n
Thursday night by large number OF his
friends. at the home of Mr.. R. G. Sutton, 923
Tenth street. The affair was gotten up as
mark of appreciation for the excellent service
Mr., Mann has rendered to that section of the
county since be has been member of the
Commissioners Board. County Commission
ers Yellott and Slade were among the invited
guests.
DIR. W. T. G. Whiteford and Mr.. Frank G.
Kilchenstein, of Parkville, returned on Monday
last from the Worlds Fair. They extended
centre 81 Ka9sas s Shsh + h6
great State and DIR. Whiteford says that what
lis going on there is simply marvellous. He de-
clares that fortunes are growing up there like
mushrooms, and that in that immediate vicinity
all farming has been abandoned, farmers sell
ing off their lands to the oil companies at inn
meEse profits.
The marriage of Miss Eleanor Butler Del
u,
ano. Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet
of President Grant to Mr.. Robert Preston Shea
ley, of Washington, will take place on Wed
nesday, November 23d, at IL o'clock, at Christ
p e. Church. Washington. Mr.. Shealey, who
is young member of the bar, is son of the
late Lieut. Daniel Shealey, of Towson, who
served in the Union army during the Civil
War; while his mother is a granddaughter of
the late Robert Jenkins, of Locust Vale, near
Towson.
Mrs. Rachel H. Bosley, widow of John
Bosley of VIM, who was in his day one of
Baltimore county's most prominent citizens,
celebrated her 80th birthday at the home OF
her daughter, Mrs. George Jessop, near Cock
eysvlle. last Sunday. A birthday cake, with
eighty lighted candles, was provided, and she
was the recipient of many remembrances from
her children and friends. Mrs. Bosley is q
daughter of the late Lewis R. Cole, who was a
leading farmer in his day, and was born not
far from her present home. Mrs Bosley has
three sons-Messrs. William H., John G. and
Richard w. Bosley. The first named is a
member of the Baltimore firm of John 8.
Cuttings & Co., bankers. and president of the
Queen Anne's Railroad Company.
Rev. Thomas Gorsuch of c.. of Parkville,
Hartford road, local minister or the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, who is in his 84th year,
came to Towson on Tuesday and cast bis sixty
first vote. He was born in Hartford county
ticket and up to this time he has never voted
a Democratic ticket, although he has voted for
personal friends who were candidates on the
Democratic ticket. Ffty-sx years ago Mr..
Gorsuch removed to Baltimore county and he
has since resided here. He has for many
years been a director of the Hartford Fire In
surance Company and devotes part of his
time each day to looking after the interests of
the company in his section of the county.
Mr.. Gorsuch enjoys excellent health and drives
about the country alone, always ready TO
preach funeral sermon or perform wedding
ceremony as occasion may require. .
Will Leave Today for Liberia.-Miss
Margaretta s. Ridgely, sister of Mr.. John
Ridgely, of Hampton, near TOwsoD, will sail
today from New York for Liberia to engage in
missionary work. She will be accompanied
by her sister, Miss Eliza Ridgely. and by Miss
Ellen Freeland, of Baltimore. Miss Eliza
Ridgely and Miss Freeand will remain in
Liberia with Miss Margaretta Ridgely until
she is settled.
Miss Ridgely will devote her life to work
among the Africans. She has been taking a
course of training at the Episcopal Hospital,
Philadelphia. and goes under the auspices of
the Board of Foreign Missions of the Episcopal
Church. One of the difficulties of the trip lies
in the fact that at this time there are only two
white missionaries in Liberia, and that in the
houses of neither of these is there room for