The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-13
Personal Mention. :

| Personal Mention
Mr.. William B. Crowther, of the 9th dis
| trict, has gone to South Carolina on q two
weeks cunning trip.
Rev Byron Clark, pastor of the Presby
terrain Church at Mt. Washington, has accepted
the call to the church in Portsmouth, Va.
Mr. and Mrs o. E Weller, ofReisterstOwn
left this week for the Hot Springs of Arkansas
where they will remain the balance of the
winter.
"A little son of ex.States Attorney John S.
Ensor, of Mt. Washington, who had been very
sick with pneumonia, has almost entirely re-
covered.
Mr.. E. Cuttings Merryman, who has been
sick at bis home near Cockeysville, continues
to improve and his friends hope to see him out
very soon.
Mrs. Frank R. Rich of Pittsburg, Pa, &C.
companied by her little daughter, is visiting
her parents, Major and Mrs. John l. Yellott,
of Towson.
Miss Bonnie Chick, daughter of Elder F.
A. Chick, of Hopewell, N. j., is visiting rela-
tives in Reisterstown and elsewhere in Balti-
more county.
Mr.. Daniel Dunlop, of Petersburg, Va,
has been spending some time with bis sister,
Mrs. William H. Wight, of "Kinloch," near
Cockeysville.
MFR. Il. w. Knoebe. of the 10th district of
Baltimore county, was on Tuesday elected
postmaster of the House of Delegates, posi-
ton before held by him.
Mr.. John NJ. Griffith, of the Griffith &
Turner Company left this week for Los Ange-
les, Cal, to Join his wife and daughter, who
are spending the winter there.
DIR. J. Royston Green, popular young
physician of Towson. celebrated birthday on
Wednesday night and he and Mrs. Green en-
tertained a few of their friends.
Mr.. Henry B. Chew, of Gloucester, N. j.,
came to TOwson on Saturday last to attend the
funeral of his younger brother, Benjamin Chew,
who died suddenly the day before.
Mr.. Charles l.. Heacock, of the well known
I'd district family of that name, has rented and
is now occupying the Birckhead farm, near
Providence, three miles northeast of TOwson.
Gen. Murray Vandiver, who was on We'd
nesday elected Treasurer of Maryland for the
fourth consecutive time, was on the same day
drawn to serve as juror in the Hartford county
court.
Among the Confederate veterans who will
receive medals of honor from Baltimore Chap
ter, Daughters of the Confederacy, on the Goth
inst, are Messrs. T. Edward Hambleton and
William s. Carroll, of Baltimore county.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Colin Vincent, of Luther
vile, have announced the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Lillian Gertrude Vincent, to
Mr.. Everett Parker Lesley, of the experiment
tai department of naval construction in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Brown, wife and
daughter of Col. B. Il. Taylor who have been
home about February LIST. Mrs. Browns hus-
band, who is mining engineer, has. been en-
gagged in Mexico.
Mr.. Thomas s. Carter, a well known con-
tractor and builder of Long Green, called at
THE UNION office on Monday and renewed his
subscription. He has been reader of this paper
thirty-seven years and he says it is still well
come visitor to his household.
Col Robert Hough, the well known starter
of light harness races, has been selected by
Secretary Gocher, of the National Trotting AS
ISOLATION, as a member of the committee on
rules, the biennial congress of which will meet
in New York city on the l4th OF February: =.
Paul's M. e. Church, Hagerstown has retired
from active ministerial work for one year on
account of i'll health Mr.. Mowbray is we'll
known in Baltimore county. He married two
daughters of the late Edward Rider, of Ruxton.
Miss Mary McCabe daughter of Col. Law
renee B. McCabe, of Govanstown, and Mr.. I.
A. Bayne Dukehart will be married on We'd
nesday, January 18th, at the home of the bride.
Mr.. Dukehart, who is q well known stock
dealer, is the head of the Towson Horse Com
paDy.
der treatment at DIR. Kelly's sanitarium in Bal
timore, left for her home in New York this
week, much improved. She was accompanied
by her sister, Miss Molie Bosley. These ladies
are daughters of Mrs. John Bosley of VIM, of
COckeysville.
DIR. Daniel Jenfer, who has been an assis-
tant in a hospital at Atlantic City, N. j., for
some time has associated himself with DR.. H.
B. Stevenson, of Sherwood. He is graduate
of the Maryland University School of Medi-
cine, and son of Mr.. Thomas r. Jenifer, of
Loeb Raven.
Church of the Immaculate last Sunday com
pleted ifty-four years of service in the priest
hood and received the congratulations of many
members of his congregation. Next May
Father O'Keefe will celebrate bis 18th birth
day. The new church at Towson, built by
him. is one of the finest in the country.
MIR. J. g. Miller, of Baltimore was in Tow
son on Thursday. He wants to rent Balti.
more county farm, with the privilege OF buy
ing Mr.. Miller was engaged in farming two
or three years in Arkansas and left that State
on account of the climate. He said he nor bis
family scarcely experienced well day while
they were there, fevers of various kinds pre-
vailng generally. especially in the summer.
Mr.. g. W. Litchield, who for the past nine
years bad managed the farm known as Tap
ler's," situated on Bush river, Hartford county,
and at one time owned by the old firm of Bart
lett & Hayward, will hereafter assist in the
management of the fine farm of Mr.. Van
Brant Rittenhouse, situated in the 18th district,
near Kingsville. Mr.. Litchfield is an old
soldier, having served throughout the Civil
War in the Fourth Maryland Regiment.
Rev Don Luigi Sartori, formerly pastor
of st. Stephens Church, in the 18th district of
this county, has been in Rome about month
and has bad private audiences with the Pope.
Father Sartori writes to this country that he
spoke confidentially with the Pope ION many
subjects concerning your superb republic and
the faithful Catholics. l presented to him the
message of compliments intrusted to me by
your President of the United States. He ac-
cepted them with heartfelt thanks"
The engagement has been announced OF
Miss Jane G. Rider, daughter of Mr.. Daniel
Rider, a we'll known Baltimore commission
merchant and Ensign William Upton Conn,
Jr., q. s. Navy, son of Mr.. William 1. Conn,
president of the Emory Grove mp-Meeting
Association and native of Baltimore county.
The Young people have known each other
since childhood. Ensign Conn is stationed on
the Island of Gaum, of the group of Miconesian
Islands which were taken from Spain in the
late war.
Dwellings Burned.-When Mr.. William
Bond and family, who live at Violetville, 18th
district, returned from visit to friends last
Saturday night they found their home in ashes.
The cause of the fire is unknown, but may
have been from defective electric wiring. The
loss is estimated at about $1,000 and 1t is par
TALLY covered by insurance.
The house of Mrs. Martha Wineholt, asss
tant teacher of the public school at New Mar
ket, 7th district was destroyed by fire at noon
on Monday last, causing loss OF cl,OVV Win
$500 insurance Some of the contents of the
house was saved by neighbors. A defective
chimney is supposed to have been the cause.
The small frame house of Mr.. William Chen
oweth, at Baynesvllle, on the Joppa road east
of Towson, was burned on Thursday morning
caused, it is supposed, by the overturning of a
coal oil lamp Some of the contents was saved.
The house belonged to Mr.. Thomas Cheno-
weth, who had it insured for $500. There was
also policy of $500 on the contents.
An Esteemed Business Man Dead.-The
Chester (Pa) Times of 9Th instant says ed
ward E. Bartleson one of the older residents OF
Chester for the past twenty years, and during
his life of 70 years an inhabtant of Delaware
county, died Yesterday at his late home, Tween
ty fourth street and Providence avenue, after
an illness of some months. MIR. Bartleson had
been in the grocery business close to score oil
wears at the old stone store and house which
furnished a mart OF trade for a large part of
the people in the upper part of Chester and the
Waterville section. This property Mr.. Bartle-
son purchased years ago, after coming to Ches-
ter from the section of GarTettvile, near Cliff
ton Heights, where be conducted farm for
years. Deceased leaves two sons, Edward e.
Bartleson, Jr., the cigar merchant of Chester
Fl. e. Bartleson, of Cockeysville, Md, and
Miss Sue r. Bartleson. During his life Mr..
Bartleson was an ardent Republican, but filled
only minor offices, never aspiring to high