The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-20
Personal Mention

Personal Mention
Mr.. W. d. Tilghman, of Elk Ridge, Md.
was in Towson on Tuesday. He wants to buy
a store stand in Baltimore county.
Mr.. Charles G. Homer, of Sherwood, the
we'll known banker, has been reelected presi
dent of the Baltimore Clearing House Associa
ton.
Mr. H. Courtney Jenifer, popular young
man of Towson, has been appointed clerk to
the Judiciary Committee of the Senate of Mary
land.
c. Frank Emmart, of the I'd district, have gone
to Roseville, o., to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Emory
Iglehart.
Mrs. Eleanor L. Pinkerton, who has been
very sick at her home in Baltimore, is slightly
improved. She is suffering from an aggravated
attack of grip.
Valley has gone to Philadelphia to visit her
sister, Mrs. Clinton NJ. Bidwel, of De Lancey
DIR. j. Hall Peasants has been very ill
I with typhoid fever at bis home on West Chase
street, Baltimore. he is the youngest son of
the late Richard H. Peasants.
| MIR. John F. Centrum, the well known
| Towson attorney, has taken offices All and 412
| in the Law Building CORTLAND street, Balti-
more He will also continue his offices here.
MIR. A. A. Piper, well known member of
with an automobile. He lives on his farm in
| the 18th district and goes back and forth to his
| Office daily.
Miss Katharine Tremper, daughter of Mr..
| Peter Tremper, of Putty Hill, Belair road, who
has been critically i'll with pneumonia several
weeks, is now improving. DR.. L. l. White
| ford is her physician.
Hon. Nathan Wesley Hall, q new member
| of Congress from Tennessee, is descendant of
Gen. Nathan Towson, after whom the town of
Towson was named. He can also claim de-
scent from Oliver Cromwell.
Mrs. Ed win F. Abel, accompanied by her
sister, Mrs. NJ. F. Lackey, and her niece, Miss
Eleanor L. Myer, sailed from New York for
Naples on Tuesday. They will spend the re-
mainder of the winter in Rome.
MIR. John Lindsay, who lives with his
daughter, Mrs. John W. Gollery, at Raspe-
| burg Belar road, quietly celebrated his 92d
birthday last Saturday. He is native Of Ire
land, but spent the greater part of his life in
| this country.
Mr.. George Porter, proprietor of Hockey
Point fishing and ducking shore, in the 10th
district, has been sick for some days and his
family and friends are much concerned about
him. Mr.. Porter is well known in Baltimore
city and county.
MIR. William R. Hoff, whose wife died at
her home in Towson about two weeks ago, has
removed, with his three sons, to Sherwood, N.
G. r. r., and is now living with his sisters the
Misses Aoff. Mr.. Hoff is index clerk in the
.
Mr.. Isaac N. Turnbaugh, a well known
citizen of the 9TH district, went to the Union
Protestant Infirmary in Baltimore this week
to have an operation performed. he is
brother of Mr.. ]. Walter Turnbaugh, principal
of the public school at Butler.
-Mss Mary Gorsuch is seriously ill at the
home of her relative, Mr.. George Fl. Merry
man, near Bosley postoffice. She is the Oldest
member of Bosley NJ. E. Church, near Jockeys
vile. and sister of the late Noah and Rein
Gorsuch, highly esteemed citizens in their day.
Edward A. Blair, student at the Mary
land Agricultural College, will be manager of
this years college football team. He is a son
of Mr.. William J. Blair and grandson of the
late Edward w. Stiefel, who was once MEM
Der of the Board of Commissioners of this
county.
Mr.. Richard H. Marshall, a farmer and
cattle feeder of the 10th district east of Sweet
Air, says the market for beef cattle this year is
better than it was last, but the prices are con-
stantly 1uctuating changing from day to day:
He says that in one day last week 81 ,OOO head
of cattle on the hoof we're sold in Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Johnson, of Fallston,
gave q party on Saturday evening last in honor
of the 18th birthday Of their daughter, Miss
Anna Marian Johnson, who was the recipient
of many pretty presents. A large number OF
the friends of the family were present. The
principal features of the evening were games
and music. Refreshments were served at
late hour.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. H. Whitridge have
issued invitations to the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Ethel Whitridge, and Mr..
Washington Irving Keyser, Jr. The ceremony
will take place at noon, February LIST, at Christ
Church. Baltimore. A pretty home for the
young couple is being built near Rogers Sta
ton, Green Spring Valley, and they Will &C.
cupy it next summer.
Mr.. Henry T. Scott, of San Francisco,
CAL, who was few days ago elected president
of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph
Company at salary of $4,000 year, was
born in Western Run Valley, Baltimore county,
and is a son of the late John Scott widely
known minister of the Society of Friends.
Mrs. Edwin Scott of 'Rosedale," in that val
ley, is sister of Mr.. Scott
Mr.. VIM. Fell Johnson, whose fine old
estate is located on the Falls road, near Brook
landville, was among the numerous business
callers at THE UNION office this week. Mr..
johnson is representative of one of the Oldest
families of Baltimore county and was, until
few years ago. an enthusiastic breeder OF trot-
ting horses For many years he has been
vestryman of st. Thomas church, Garrison
Forest.
Mr.. Thomas c. Pearce, of the 9Th district,
was in Towson on Monday and renewed his
subscription to THE UNION. He is retired
farmer and over fifty years ago was regular
traveller with his team on the York turnpike,
hauling farm produce to market Mr.. Pearce,
although rs years of age, is still an active man
and enjoys life. He spends much of his time
in Baltimore with his son, Dr. William d.
Pearce.
days ago to his nephews, the Messrs Hartley,
proprietors of Hartleys Mills, lower Long
Green Valley. Mr.. Hartley is farmer near
Alberton, in the extreme western section OF
Baltimore county, and was born and has spent
his entire life on the farm where he still re-
sides. He and an unmarried sister who lives
with him are the last of the old families who.
fifty years ago, inhabited that section of the
county.
Mr.. John l. Anderson we'll known re-
tired farmer who lives on the Hillen road, has
sufficiently recovered from the kick of a horse
to come to Towson on Friday 10Th inst, and
renew his subscription to THE UNION. A
horse was being led past him when it fired
away with both feet presumably at horse
Mr.. Anderson was unhitching,) and struck
him fair in the back. For time he says he
thought his back was broken and he suffered
severely for some days.
The engagement is announced of Mr..
| Stuart Kearney secretary and treasurer of the
Canton Company, and Miss Armenia Brooks,
| daughter of the late John Chauncey Brooks, OF
| "Cloverdale," adjoining Druid Hill Park. Mr.
| Kearney is well known in Baltimore county
and has many friends at Towson, where he
| has spent several summers. The prospective
bride is nd-daughter of the late Chauncey
| Brooks who was well known in the financial
and business affairs of Maryland.
Mr.. Robert Dilworth, well known farmer
of the 18th district, was among those who at
| tended the annual banquet of Towson Lodge
of Odd Fellows on Thursday night. He has
| been member of the lodge forty years and in
that time he has missed very few of these
| functions Mr.. Caleb G. Carman, q popular
business man of Taylor Hartford county, also
attended the banquet. He has been member
| of the lodge forty-one years and in all of that
time he has drawn but one week s sick benefits.
|
League Ofacers Elected.-The Epworth
| League of Nc Kendree NJ. E. Church, Airing
ton, has elected the ollowing officers; Presi..
dent, John Miller; frst vicepresident, Howard
Meyers; second vice president, Vivian Miller {;
third vice president, Mrs. Benjamin Collision ;
| fourth vice president. Mrs. Lee Wright; treas
| urer Miss Stella Kieffer; committee on music,
Miss Myrtle Collision. Miss Annie bergman,
Mrs. Edward Kirk, john Miller ard Stephen
| Kieffer.
The Junior Epworth League Of Cations
| vile NJ. Z. Church has elected the following
officers President, John Shotta; first vice.
president, Miss Ethel Wagner second vice.
| president, Miss Ethel Pierpoint; third vice.
| president, Miss Blanche Kirkpatrick; fourth
vice-president, Frederick Speed secretary, Miss
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