The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-10-14

with friends in Richmond, Va.
Rev. ]. X. Fielding, of Chicago who had
been visiting Mrs. K. l.. Hinder. of Long Green
! Valley, has returned to his home.
MIR. and Mrs. Robert H. Wright, who live
near Sherwood, have been spending few days
| at the Imperial Hotel, New York city.
Mr.. Arnold Gent, who was seriously i'll for
some time with typhoid fever at his home on
Chestnut Ridge, is able to be out again.
Mrs. Thomas ]. Hunter, of Towson, has
gone to Bitumen, Pa to spend two weeks
with her daughter, Mrs g. d. Mervine.
Miss Eta Cook, of Greencastle, Pa, is
spending some time in Towson with her broth
ers, Messrs. Elmer ]. and Albert 8. Cook.
Mr.. Robert M. Taylor, the well known
Baltimore county jockey. won two steeple-
chases at the LynchbCrg (Va.) fair last week.
DIR. c. V. Matthew'S of Baltimore county,
has removed his dental offices from Linden
avenue Baltimore, to 20 West Preston street.
| MIR. aud Mrs. John Ridgely will not re-
move to Baltimore this winter but will remain
| at their country home. Hampton, near Towson
Mrs. Granville Matthews, of Philopolis,
gave party on Tuesday evening in honor of
her guest, Mrs. Walter Scott, of San Francisco
| Cal.
Prof. Thomas c. Bruff of Towson, are spend
ing fortnight in Washington with their aunt,
Mrs. Parker.
Mr.. Jacob H. Taylor, whose summer
home is at Towson, while at Atlantic City
lew Gays ago, ndu IDo AulSiOitune " ioA ohu
Sprain an arm.
Mr.. Howard Ruhl recent graduate of
the Tome Institute at Port Deposit has entered
as a student at st. Johns College Annapolis.
He is son of Mr.. Peter Ruhl, of Walbrook.
Mrs. Richard w. Gardiner, Of West Phila-
delphia, is spending two weeks with relatives
in Baltimore county She was formerly Miss
Martha Lee Stevenson, of Fellowship" near
Towson.
Mr.. Frank l. Duncan, Democratic nominee
for Associate Judge of the Third Judicial Cir
cult, which is composed of Baltimore and Har-
ford counties, attended the Belair fair on
Thursday.
Misses Helen and Mary Ashby, daughters
of DR.. Thomas A. Ashby, of Madison avenue,
Baltimore, have been spending few days with
Miss Eleanor Matthews, OF "BrookWooo,
Dulany's Valley.
Mi. William H. Hook, formerly of the
18th district of Baltimore county, who has
been living at La Harpe Illinois, for the past
two or three years, expects to return to Mary.
land next spring.
Mr.. ]. Randolph Rutledge who had an
operation performed several weeks ago at the
Union Protestant Infirmary in Baltimore has
recovered sufficiently to return to his home on
Ny Lady's Manor.
Among the Baltimore county people who
attended the Hagerstown fair this week were
DIR. A. G. McCurdy and Mr.. John B. Long
necker, of Towson, and Mr.. James NICK. Mer-
ryman, of Grove Stock Farm.
Mr.. Frederick G. Kelch, q well known resi-
dent of Raspeburg and an active member OF
the Belair Road Improvement Association, has
been appointed to clerkship in the Baltimore
postoffice, under civil service rules.
Mr.. Robert Garrett, of Baltimore county,
has been chosen q member of the board OF
trustees of Princeton University. at which in
stitution he graduated in 1897. Mr.. Garrett is
the Youngest member of the board.
Mr.. Osborne l. Yellott, of the Towson bar,
has been appointed chairman of the commit
tee on laws of the Automobile Club of Mary
land. Mr.. Yellott was the first man in Tow
son to supply himself with an auto.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Galloway, who
snent several months at fredericksburg, Caroline
county, Md, where their son is engaged in the
practice of medicine, have returned to their
former home at Rayville 9Th district.
Rev. Mr.. Castleman, rector of the Episco-
pal Church in Belair, and Rev: William M.
Dame. rector of Memorial Church, Baltimore,
will be the guests next week of Rev. w. H. II.
Powers, rector of Trinity Church, Towson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fairfax s. Landstreet, who
spent the summer at their country place, near
Timonium, have announced the engagement
of Mrs. Landstreet's sister, Miss Elizabeth
Davis, to Mr. John K. Berry, of New York.
Mrs. Salle Siade, mother of County Com
missioner Slade, has been very sick for some
DAYS at her home on My Lady's Manor. She
is among the Oldest residents OF that section
of the county and has spent her enure NE tnere.
II.
summer at their country place on the Hillen
road, near Towson, will in few days remove
to Baltimore for the winter. Mr.. Snyder con-
ducts large pork packing establishment in
the city.
Mr.. Frank Nj. Bonsal of Green Spring
Valley. was chief Judge at the annual trials of
the Brunswick Foxhound Club, which took
place at Barre, Mass, this week. He was &C.
companied by Mrs Bonsal, who followed the
hounds every day.
postofice, in the upper end Of the 4th district,
have gone on an extended tour of the West and
will not return until some time next month.
While absent they will visit their son, who is
living in Colorado.
Misses Virginia s. Todd and Mary L.
Ridgely gave largely attended and very en-
ioyable dance at the Eockeysyille Country Club
on Thursday night. The ebaperones were
Mrs. BENJAMIN T. Ridgely, Mrs. Thomas Todd
and Miss Clara Merryman.
Mr. A. Orrick and daughter, of San Fran
cisco. CAL, who have been visiting the princi-
nal cities of the East, have been the guests this
week of COL and Mrs. d. M. Matthews, of Du-
lanv,s Valley. They will leave in a few days
for home, going by the southern route.
Mr.. Caleb s. Hobbs, of the I'd district of
baltimore county, served as judge at the
tournament held at Elkton on Thursday, for
the benefit of the proposed Union Hospital OF
Cecil county Mr.. Charles e. Howard, OF Ny
Lady's Manor, was the successful knight.
Mr.. George Edwin Lynch, OF the I'd district.
Republican nominee for Register OF wills, was
in Towson on Wednesday. He thinks that
Baltimore county will give large majority
against the Poe constitutional amendment, and
also that the outlook is bright for the Republic
cans carrying the State.
Mr.. George s. Mann, who had returned to
his home at Orangeville after having spent
abont three months in the Johns Hopkins
Hospital under treatment for very serious in
iuries sustained in railroad collision at High
Iandtown, has been obliged to go back to the
hospital He Isl son OF County Commissioner
Mann.
the tenth anniversary of their marriage (tin
wedding) at their residence at Lansdowne,
18th district, on Monday night last, and enter
tanned q large number of their friends from
Baltimore city and county, special train TAX
the recipients of many gifts in tin. Mr.. Hull is
well known attorney and real estate operator:
Chief Judge David Fowler, of the Third
Judicial Circuit, made record leap from the
bench to the bar. He resigned his once on
Friday, 9th inst, formed partnership with
Mr.. George Whitelock and the following
Monday morning found him facing the judge
in the Common Pleas Court of Baltimore as an
attorney in will case in which over $5O,OOO is
involved. We doubt If there is another such
instance on record in Maryland.
Mr.. and Mrs. William II. Read, highly
esteemed residents of Hamilton, Hartford road,
quietly celebrated the fiftieth anniversary OF
their marriage on Tuesday night: Their six
| living children presented them with purse OF
| gold. Their only son is Mr.. James z. Read,
| their daughters being Mrs. VIM. Unverzagt,
| Mrs. D. Standenmayer, Mrs. John I: Lutz,
| Mrs. H. Clifton Mccormick and Mrs. Charles
| II. Raspe. Mr.. Read is retired truck farmer.
| This couple have resided in their present home
| at Hamilton forty eight years. The maiden
name of Mrs. Read was Julia A.. Mason.
Mr.. G. Bosley Littig, the well known Balti.
| more commission merchant called on some OF
his friends in Towson a few days ago. He is
| one of the men who was mainly instrumental
| in getting up the corn specials" that passed
| through sections of this county early this year
and which proved so highly beneficial to many
| of our farmers. Mr.. Littig has something else
'up his sleeve that, If successful, will place
the tillers of the soil under still further oblga-
tions to him. Himself y farmer, he is also 9
public spirited citizen and his efforts in behalf
| of his fellow-farmers is purely labor OF love.
| Mr.. Alexander Carr, who has been farm
| ing his fathers place, near Pikesville, has been
appointed manager of Mrs. CARROTS Pleasant
| Plains dairy farm, on the Joppa road east OF
| Towson. He is son of Mr.. Alfred j. Carr OF
| the Baltimore bar and possesses every qualifi-
| cation necessary to successfully fill his new
position. Young Mr.. Carr's wife is daughter