The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-08-11

spending some time at Oakland, Nd.
Judge Duncan left on Thursday for Cape
May, MI, where he will spend his vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. James ]. Lindsay and family,
of Towson, left on Monday for q stay of two
weeks at Atlantic City, N. j.
Rev. Howard f. Downs, pastor of Govans-
town M. E. Church, is spending his vacation
at Boston and Northfield Mass.
Misses Anna and Maria Wilson, daughters
| of Mr.. Magruder d. Wilson, who spent some
time at Ocean City, Nd, have returned.
Mrs. Harry d. Busick, of Towson, left on
Tuesday for Shippensburg and Greencastle, Pa,
| where she will spend a month with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Piper, of Green Spring
Valley, left on Friday for Monmouth Beach,
N. j., where they will spend several weeks.
Mr.. Joshua F. Cockey, president of the
! Cockeysville National Bank, and Mrs. Cockey
| have gone to Cape May, N. j.. for two weeks.
Mrs. Rose Keech, Of Towson. accompanied
by her daughter Mrs. Henry Selden, of Wash
ington, sailed from Baltimore for Boston on
| Monday.
Rev. John R. Edwards, pastor of Cations
Vile NJ. e. Church, accompanied by Mrs.
Edwards, has gone to Northheld, Mass, for
| two weeks.
Miss A. Gertrude Cole, of Parkville, Har-
ford road, is visiting friends in Bangor, Maine.
On her way home she will stop in Boston and
New York.
Mr.. David German, we'll known stone
mason, was stricken with paralysis at his home
in Lutherville, last Sunday. He is about rs
years of age.
Mr.. John o. Cockey, son of Mr.. Edward
A. Cockey, of Gwynnbrook, is enjoying his
vacation at Thousand Islands, in the St.
Lawrence river.
Col Charles B. Rogers, of Batesburg, s. c.,
formerly school examiner of Baltimore county,
passed through Towson in an automobile on
Tuesday evening.
Valley, accompanied by her brothers, Messrs.
Robert and John Deford, has gone to Nara
gansett Pier, r. /.
Mrs. Samuel Moore and Mrs J oshua Jessop
of Baltimore county, accompanied by Mrs.
Thomas J. Halle, of Baltimore, are at ATTAIN
tic City for-two weeks----
Rev. II. F. Wright, pastor of Baltimore
Circuit M. P. Church, accompanied by Mrs.
Wright, left on Tuesday for GlenbKook, Va, to
visit Mrs. Wright's mother.
the principalship of the public school at
Sunnybrook, 10th district, has gone to Wis
coDsin to remain several months.
Mr.. Upton S. Brady, of the Baltimore in
surance firm of Brady & Colburn, called on
some of his friends in Towson on Tuesday.
this county
Miss Martha Townsend preached last SUM-
day in Gunpowder Friends Meeting House,
near Philopolis. While in Baltimore county
she was the guest of Mrs. Granville Matthews,
near Oregon.
Mr.. and Mrs. William G. Spottswood, of
Washington, D. c., spent part of this week
with relatives in Towson. Mr.. Spottswood
has for years held responsible position in the
War Department..
Mr.. James E. Ingram, Jr., of Baltimore
county, member of the law firm of Graham q
Ingram, was on Wednesday elected president
of the Jefferson and Braddock Heights Electric
Railroad Company.
DIR. Clyde V. Matthews has been appointed
demonstration of an@sthesia in the dental de-
partment of the University of Maryland. he
is a son of Col. D. M. Matthews, of Brook
wood" Dulany's Valley.
Mrs. Elizabeth r. Thompson, of Phoenix,
is suffering with progressive paralysis She is
SO years of age and the widow of DR.. William
S. Thompson, in his day prominent physi-
clan in that section of the county.
MIR. William Frazer, OF the Ruxton Floral
and Nursery Company, accompanied by his
family, this week attended the annual meet
ing of the State Horticultural Society which
was held at Berlin and Ocean City.
Mr.. Theodore II. Crommer, principal of
Towson High School, accompanied by Messrs.
Harry G. Halle Carroll P. Benson and Sher-
man F: Kurtz, of Cockeysville is camping 1pI out
-Messrs. Elmer ]. Cook, Osborne l. Yellott
and Thomas w. Offutt, of Towson, are enjoy
ing a weeks bass fishing at South Branch,
West Virginia. Mr.. o. F. Hershey, of Mt.
Washington, is also member OF the party.
-Mrand Mrs. Jacob Albert Krach, of Hamil-
ton Hartford road, who spent several weeks at
Little Plymouth, King and Queen county, Va,
have returned. Mr.. Krach says wild turkeys
are abundant in that section of Virginia this
year.
John s. Biddison, of Baltimore county, are
among those selected by Gen. Murray Vandi-
YER chairman of the Democratic State Central
Committee, to attend the Bryan reception in
New York.
Church, Garrison Forest, accompanied by Mrs
Smith, is in New York State. During his
absence Rev. Mr.. Crosby, formerly ofSt: Peters
Church, Baltimore, conducts the regular SER
vices at st. Thomas.
vile, are enjoying a months travel in the
North their objective points being Boston.
Niagara Falls, Montreal, Quebec and Nova
Scotia Mr.. McNabb is superintendent of the
pany. :,
u. S. Senator VIM. Pinkney Whyte quietly
| celebrated his 82d birthday at his summer
| home at Ruxton, Baltimore county, on Thurs
| day. He is in the enjoyment of excellent
| health. The Senator, with members of his
| family, are regular attendants at Trinity L. e.
| Church, Towson.
| Major William A. Thompson, a retired
army officer, has been reelected professor of
! law and military tactics at st. Johns College,
| Annapolis. He is son of the late DR.. William
| s. Thompson, of Warren, and brother of the
| late DR.. George A. Thompson, OF Phoenix,
| Baltimore county.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Rogers Bayly, of Bates
| burg, S. c.. who had been spending some time
at "Lystra,n Green Spring Valley, have gone
to Niagara Falls and will also visit other points
| of interest in the North. They were accom-
panied by Misses Fanny and Mary Bayly,
| daughters of Mr.. Bayly:
The committee appointed to officially notify
! Hon. J. Fred. G.. Talbot of his nomination for
| the House of Representatives will perform that
| duty at his home in Lutherville, on Thursday,
| August 10th, at 8 P. NJ. DR.. w. I. G. White
| ford, of Parkville, is the Baltimore county
member of the notification committee.
Major Thomas B. Catch, of the County
Clerks office, and Mrs. Catch sailed from pal
| timore for Boston on Tuesday, on his Two
! weeks vacation. They were accompanied by
| DR.. Anthony Ray and wife and by Messrs.
| B. W. Catch and Arthur G. Clinton. Thepar-
| ty will go to Niagara Falls, Albany and New
| York city before they return.
| attended the summer meeting of the Maryland
| State Horticultural Society, held at Berlin and
| Ocean City this week, were Messrs. Richard
| Vincent Jr., Isaac H. Moss, William Frazer,
George o. Brown, Charles NJ. Wagner, R.
| Pierce Choate, E. G. Choate Charles +. Mann,
| F. Shamberger and ]. A. Muth.
| Mr.. Conway w. Sans, president OF the
| MARYLAND State Bar Association, has announc-
ed the committees for the year and the mem
| bers of the Towson bar have been named on
| them as IOllOWS. OQ JuOICtdl
| and Legal Reform-Osborne l. Yellott; on
Legal Biography-Elmer ]. Cook; on Admis-
Subsidiary E. Mann, chairman; on Griev-
ances-Judge Frank J. Duncan.
| As has been their custom for about twenty
| years, Messrs. William P. Cole, Thomas X.
| Jenifer, Arthur w. Shanklin, William A. Lee
and William s. Cowley, with members of their
families, enjoyed their annual outing at Cape
May Shore, Middle river on Thursday. Messrs.
w. Gill Smith, William s. Keech, DR.. A. @.
McCurdy, Alex. Y. Carr, Hugh P. Price and
James w. Offutt were members of the party
this year.
Mrs. Ritter, widow of Lewis Ritter, Sr.,
| for many years proprietor of the Brick Hotel
| in Govanstown, is So years of age and makes
her home with her daughter, Mrs. Joseph T.
Griffin, whose husband is well known resi-
dent and business man Of Govanstown. She
is still a remarkably active woman and an ex-
cellent cook, an accomplishment that made
the Ritter hotel famous when she was much
| younger woman.
The Thomas Wilson Sanitarium.-A re-
port has Just been issued by the trustees OF the
Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children, loca.
ted at Mt. Wilson, w. NJ. r. R., and founded
in 1879. While its work has been actively
carried on since 1884, none of its annual re-