The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-06

State Dental Association.
Rev. Hugh w. s. Powers left on Friday,
9Th instant. to assume the rectorship of St.
| Peters p E. Church, Homecoming Md.
Mr.. OsborneI |. Yellott, counsel to the Board
of County Commissioners, spent several days
this week in Philadelphia on professional BUSH
ness.
Mr. and Mrs. N. Bosley Merryman, of
! Havfields, near CockeysvilIe, entertained a
| number of their friends at an oyster roast on
! Thursday night of last week.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph W. Jenkins will close
"Windy Gates" their country place on Lake
avenue, this week and open their city residence
! on st. Paul street, Baltimore.
The family of Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin q.
Miller had a reunion on Thursday of last week
at "Woodcliff," the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alex. d. Brooks, of Cockeysville.
Mr.. Walter Lea, of the New York firm of
Waeber & Lea, has been visiting his brother,
Mr.. Thomas j. Lea, farm manager at the Shep-
pard Pratt Hospital, near Towson.
Mrs. Pfaff, wife of Mr.. II. g. F. Pfaff,
chief of police at Sparrow's Point, who spent
several months abroad, part of the time in
Switzerland, returned to her home few days
ago.
| Towson. who has been sick for some months,
has been in an extremely critical condition
this week and it is thought shescannot survive
much longer. IL
Miss Elizabeth Marshall, who spent some
of her health. is now visiting her brother, Mr..
| @. Howard Marshall, at his home near Sweet
Air, Baltimore county.
"A family reunion was held on New Year
day at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. GOttleib
Stengle. of Grange, Patapsco Neck. MIR. STEM
| gle is an extensive and successful truck farmer
and we'll known citizen.
Rev. ]. G. Yeakel, who has been pastor of
| the Presbyterian Church at Hamilton, Hartford
road, for some time, has been chosen pastor OF
Crisp Memorial Presbyterian Church, Brook
| Ign, Anne Arundel county.
Mr.. Theodore ]. Smith, who lately sold bis
| farm near the old Manor road, in the 1lth dis.
| trict, and who since disposed of his personal
property at public auction, will remove his
| family to Baltimore next week.
Rev. Byron Clark, pastor of the Presby-
| terrain Church at Mt. Washington for several
years. has received call to the pastorate OF
| the First Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth,
Va. 1t is thought he will accept.
1t is said that Mr.. Fl. w. Knoebel, of the
10th district of Baltimore county. who has
before held the same position, will be post
master of the House of Delegates. Mr.. Knoebel
| is also an ex-member of the House.
Mr. William H. Fox, who spent the holt
| days at his home near Greenwood, 18th dis
Seminary, Williamsport, Pa. He is studying
for the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
| Church.
Mr.. Jacob NJ Pearce, of My Lady's Manor,
who. with Mrs. Pearce is spending some time
| on North Charles street, Baltimore, called on
| some of his friends in Towson on Tuesday.
They contemplate trip South before their re-
| turn home.
Mr.. and Mrs. James N. Frederick gave
| large dinner party at their home near Park
| ton, N. G. R. R., on Thursday of last week.
| Mr.. Frederick, who is well known farmer, is
| an ex-member of the Board, of County Com
missioners.
Mr.. ]. Glenn McComas retired farmer of
| Green wood, 18th district, paid his respects to
| THE UNION on Tuesday and renewed his SUBJ
scription. He is one of our oldest subscribers,
and says the paper is as indispensable in his
| home now as il ever was.
Mr. Carville d. Benson, who was on We'd
nesday elected speaker of the House of Dele
| gates, was in Towson ON Thursday attending
| to some professional matters at the Court
House. He is son of Mr.. Oregon K. Benson,
of the 18th district of this county.
Mr. Walter r. Townsend, of Baltimore
county, who was for number of years read
ing clerk of the House of Delegates, has secured
the same position in the Senate at the present
session. He is lawyer by profession and one
of the active leutenants of Hon. j. Fred. G.
Talbot.
The family of Mr. and Mrs. John D. G.
Duncan, of Marble Hill, 9Th district, held
reunion on New Year day at the home of their
son, Judge Frank /. Duncan, in Luthervile.
All the children and grandchildren to the
number of nineteen were present. A bounti-
full collation. was feature of the day.
Mrs. Caldwell, wife of Mr.. James s. Cald-
WELL the well known attorney, few days ago
made q run from Baltimore to Belair in her
new Packard car, going by way of Towson and
Loeb Raven, in sixty eight minutes. The dis
lance between her home on North Charles
street and Belair, by measurement, is thirty
one miles.
Mr.. Jacob B. Wilhelm, who was appointed
a bailif in the Circuit Court to succeed Mr..
new position on Tuesday, I'd. This was the
only change made among the court officials.
Mr.. Wilhelm, who is 9th district farmer, is
the father of eight sons, the youngest two or
| three months old.
Next Sunday, January 7th, Rev. Matthew
O'Keefe, pastor of the Catholic Church of the
Immaculate Towson will celebrate the fifty
fourth anniversary of his ordination to the
priesthood. He will be rs years of age next
May. During the Civil War Father O'Keefe
saw service in the field as chaplain of General
Mahone's Brigade of the Confederate army.
Mrs. John l. Yellott gave dinner on Tues
day evening, at her residence in Towson, in
honor of the 35th birthday of her eldest son,
Mr.. Osborne l. Yellott, well known attorney
and counsel to the Board of County Commits
sioners. Her other son, Rev. John |. Yellott,
rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church at
Petersville, Nd, who was expected, was unable
to be present.
Mr.. John Rdgely Jr.. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Ridgely, of Hampton, who has been con-
nected with the Maryland Casualty Company
in Baltimore for several years, left on the 9th
instant for Atlanta, Ca, to assume the head OF
the company's business in that city. Mr..
Ridgely is a popular young man and his many
friends will be pleased to learn of his well de.
served promotion.
Mr.. E. Cuttings Merryman, of Gerar Farm,
near Cockeysville, who has been confined to
his home several months with severe attack
1okkn ErsH knrk
and able to sit up in his room. Mr.. Merry
man is president of the Maryland Live Stock
Sanitary Board. During the holidays he re-
ceived letter of sympathy from Governor
Warfield, of Maryland, personal friend.
Mr. Thomas V. Richardson, a well known
10th district farmer and milk producer, was
among the witnesses before the grand jury in
the Winder murder case on Tuesday. 1t was
on Mr. Richardson's farm that one of the me-
groes was arrested. He was found concealed
in hay lmow when the Baltimore officers
captured him. Mr.. Richardson knows both
men well and says they are bad lot and
nuisance in the community.
Mr.. John Bond, of Bellfield Farm, West
ern Run Valley, renewed his subscription to
| THE UNION on Wednesday. The paper has
been going into his family since it was first
issued at Cockeysville, over fifty years ago.
Mr.. Bond, who is a retired farmer, is an active
| member of the Senior Gunpowder Agricultural
Club and attends its monthly meetings regu-
| larly. He is a son of the late Thomas Bond,
and was born in the section Of the county
where he now resides.
The BeIair Democrat of last week said !:
| "Mr. Nathan Grafton of Forest Hill, is one of
| the substantial citizens of Hartford county and
| enjoys the confidence and respect of a large
| circle OF friends. Last Tuesday was the anni-
versary of the 55th year of his marriage and
was quietly observed at his home after attend
| ing the weekly meeting of the directors of the
| Hartford National Bank of Belair There is no
| director that is more faithful or attentive to
| his duties than Mr.. Grafton and few meetings
are missed by him. He enjoys the best of
health and one of his daily duties is to keep bis
wood pile we'll supplied with fuel, which he
cuts himself" MIR. Grafton is the father of
Mrs. Mary L. Henderson, of Towson.
MIR. Richard c. Francis, of Baltimore, called
at THE UNION office on Thursday to renew his
| subscription. He was born and spent nearly
the whole of his life in the 18th district of this
county, and is member of large family,
most of whom lived to good old age. he is
| in his 18th year. Mr.. Francis says that Mr..
Alex Dance, who was quoted in these columns
last week, is wrong in fixing the time the trains
| on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore
Railroad crossed the Susquehanna river on the
| ice at Havre de Grace. He says it was in the
winter of 1872 instead of in 1856, as Mr..