The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-09-22

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Personal Mention. =
Mr.. George Hoff. of Sherwood, is foreman
of the present grand jury.
Miss Eliza Campbell, of Chicago, is spend.
ing some time with Miss Mary Yellott, OF
Towson.
Miss Anna Frese, of Baltimore, is spend
ing month with her sister at Loeb Raven,
Baltimore county.
Misses Lillian and Maud Pocock, of Du-
lany's Valley, are attending the State Normal
School in Baltimore.
Mr.. 7. NJ. Richardson and family, of
Phoenix, have removed to North Calvert street,
Baltimore. for the winter.
Miss Rogers, of Washington, D. c., is visit
ing Mrs. Dixon G. Walker, at her home on
West Chesapeake avenue. Towson,
Miss Eleanor Matthews, of "Brookwood,
Dulany's Valley, entertained number of her
friends at cards on Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter R. Townsend, of
Rossville, Baltimore county, registered at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York city, on We'd
nesday.
Miss Avis Mccormick. who had been visit
ing relatives and friends in Philadelphia, has
returned to her home at Raspeburg, Baltimore
county.
Mrs. T. Dudley Riggs and family, who
spent the summer at Kennybunkport, Maine,
have returned to their home in Green Spring
Valley.
county paid visit to relatives here few
days ago.
Miss Page Crowther, who spent the sum-
mer vacation at her home, near Cockeysville,
this week resumed her studies at the Moravian
College, Lititz. Pa: :,
been travelling abroad during the summer, re-
turned this week and are now at their home at
Sherwood N. G. r. r.
DIR. Irving Standiford, of Elizabeth, Pa,
visited relatives in Towson this week. He is
the youngest son of the late Judge James A.
Standiford, of New Market 9TH district.
Mr.. Caleb G. Carman, of Taylor, who is
member of Towson Lodge, has been attending
the annual meeting of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows in Toronto, Canada.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. G. Williams, who
spent part of the summer at their farm in Long
Green Valley, have again taken apartments at
the st. James Hotel, Baltimore, for the winter
Chief Judge N Charles Burke accompan-
led by Mrs. Burke and their son and daughter,
Mr.. Edward H. Burke and Miss jamie Burke,
sailed from Baltimore for Boston on Monday
afternoon.
Col. Robert Hough has been engaged this
week starting the light harness races at the
Easton, Md, fair. He has several other SINH
lar engagements in this State before the fair
season ends.
Mrs Joseph H. Rieman and her daughter,
Mrs. P. Lea Thorn, who spent the summer in
barton, on the York road, where they will re.
main for the early fall.
Postmaster W. Hall Harris, of Baltimore.
paid visit to Towson on Tuesday to look into
the sanitary condition of the postal station
here. He was not pleased at the condition in
which he found matters.
-Messrs. Duane II. Rice and Granville O.
Wilson, of Baltimore county, are among the
gentlemen who have been asked to serve as
judges at the coming one day show of the Green
Spring Valley Hunt Club.
-Ex-Sherif VIM. H. Green, of Baltimore,
who is occupying bis handsome new residence
at Sherwood, N. G. r. R., will remain there
through the winter and become permanent
resident of Baltimore county.
MIR. and Mrs. Summerfield Baldwin and
family, who spent July and August on the
Massachusetts coast. are now at their summer
home at Warren, Baltimore county, where
they will remain during the autumn.
The marriage of Miss Eleanor Matthews,
of Dulany's Valley, and Mr.. Reginald M.
Ames will take place on Wednesday, Novem-
Der 7th, at Hotel Rennert in Baltimore. The
prospective bride is the only daughter of Col.
d. NJ. Matthews.
Col. D. G. Mcintosh, who is a member of
the Maryland Commission, was among those
who, with Governor Warfield and staff, were
present at the laying of the cornerstone of the
Maryland Building on the jamestown Expo
sition grounds on Wednesday.
Mr.. Harry G. Gordon, who spent the sum-
mer vacation at his home at Providence, north
east of Towson, returned to the seminary at
Pennington, N. j., on Tuesday. He is prepar-
ing. himself for the ministry and still has sew
eral years of study to complete the course.
Mr.. Bradley K. Purdum, of Hamilton, a
successful teacher in the public schools of this
county has been chosen by the State Board of
Education as assistant superintendent OF pub
lie education. He is graduate of the Mary
land State Normal School. The salary of the
position is 81, 500 per annum.
Mr.. Thomas G. Biddison, the veteran auc-
tioneer conducted the sale of the Carter prop
erty, on the Belair road, on Tuesday afternoon,
and did it in highly creditable manner. He
is as sharp-visaged as in his younger days, and
his tongue is as glib as it ever was Mr.. Biddi-
son is q real old war horse in his profession.
Col. Benjamin f. Taylor, formerly of Bal
timore county, was on Wednesday night elect
ed president of the Veteran Association of the
Second Maryland Infantry, at the annual re-
union held in Baltimore. This regiment made
the first charge at the battle of Antietam and
fired the last volley in the same battle. Less
than one hundred members of the regiment
survive.
Rev. William B. Mcpherson has resigned
the rectorship of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Holy Trinity, Baltimore, to
take up educational work. He was formerly
rector of the Church of the Holy Comforter,
Rossville, and also served st. Andrews Chapel,
on the Hartford road. In addition to his pas
toral work Rev. Mr.. Mcpherson has been editor
of the Maryland Churchman.
DIR. J. s. Woodward, Jr., son of DR.. ].
S. Woodward, chief resident surgeon for the
Maryland Steel Company, at Sparrow's Point,
who since his graduation from the Baltimore
Medical College has been a surgeon in the U.
S. Navy until recently assigned to duty on the
honors the examination in Washington which
advances him to the next highest grade-that
of assistant surgeon, with the rank OF senior
lieutenant. DIR. Woodward will shortly re-
ceve his assignment to service.
Rev. Edward A. Odell. son of Mr.. William
c. Odell of Hernwood and member OF well
known family in the western section of this
county, will sail today from New York for San
Juan, P. r. Mr.. Odell was graduated from
Princeton Seminary in May, and in June re-
ceived his degree of master of arts, being a
member of the class of 1903 of that university.
He was ordained to the ministry by the Balti-
more Presbytery, July 10Th. He goes to Porto
Board of Home Missions, and will be stationed
at Lares, town about fifteen miles from the
coast on the west side of the island.
Coming Nuptial Events.-Doctor and Mrs.
"A. S. Baldwin, of Long Green Valley, announce
the engagement oftheir daughter, Miss - Blancne
Baldwin, to Mr.. James 0. Watson, of Fallston,
Md. The wedding will take place the latter
part of September.
The engagement of Miss Roberta Howard,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jarrett Howard, OF
Western Run Valley, to Mr.. Howard Sullivan,
of Green Spring Valley, is announced. The
wedding will take place next month.
The engagement of Miss Margaret Turn
baugh, daughter of Mrs. Francis Turnbaugh,
of Yeoho, 9Th district, to Mr.. Howard G. Bur-
ton, of Baltimore, is announced. The mar
rage will take place in October.
The marriage of Miss Mary Van Lear Find
lay, daughter of Hon. and Mrs. John Van Leaf
Findlay, to Mr.. Yorke Allen, of New YORK
will take place on Saturday, October 10th, al
Trinity P. E. Church, Towson. The wedding
will be quiet and only the immediate relatives
and few friends will be present at the cere
mony and at the reception, which will follow
at Auburn. the country home OF Mr. and Mrs
Findlay, near Towson.
An Experiment in the Cultivation of Al
falfa.-The Belair 1Egis of last week said
IAN interesting experiment in the cultivation
of alfalfa was inaugurated at the aims house
farm on Monday by Prof. W. 7. l.. Taliaferro
formerly of Hartford, but now professor Of
agriculture at the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege. An acre of ground having been thorough
Iy cultivated by Overseer Small, Professor
Taliaferro first applied thirty bushels of lime
then fertilizer composed of $50 pounds of raw
bone, 100 pounds of nitrate of potash and b