The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-06-01
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Personal Mention
! I Mr.. and Mrs. Raj Parr, of Green Sprinj
Valley, attended the Philadelphia horse shov
this week.
Hon. John Hubner and Mrs. Hubner, o
Catonsville, will sail for Europe next Saturday
and spend the summer abroad.
Miss Mamie Green, daughter of Mr.. Chas
II. Green, of Kingsville. is visiting her cous
ms, the Misses Hanf, of Baltimore.
Mrs. Edwin F. Abel, who spent some time
abroad returned to her home on Woodbourne
avenue, near Govanstown, this week.
Mrs. William Gilmor and her sons the
Messrs. Gilmor, this week reopened Summer
field. their country home near Loeb Raven.
Mr. ]. Crawford Lyon and family, who
spent the past winter in Baltimore are again
occupying their summer home in Luthervllle.
-Messrs. A. A. Piper and John Mays Little,
members of the Towson bar, have been elected
to membership in the Maryland Bar Assocla-
ton.
Bishop Paret will sail for Europe on the
10Th of June and spend the summer in Swift
zerland. He will be accompanied by Mrs.
Paret.
Capt. VIM. G. Licking, a popular conduc-
tor on The Md. & Pa. Railroad, is Democratic
candidate for sheriff of York county. He
in York.
Mrs. Laura Baker, of Washington, D. c.,
is spending some time with her brother, Mr..
D..
8th district.
The condition of Mr.. Greenbury P. Shep-
perd, of Govanstown, who has been sick for
some time, is improved, he being able to sit up
in his room.
Mr. George W. Seipp, crier ofthe Baltimore
county Circuit Court, has been elected chaplain
of the First Maryland Veteran Volunteer In
fantry Regiment.
MIR. T. M. West, Jr who is a student at
the Maryland University School of Medicine,
is visiting his father, Rev. T. M. West, senior
pastor of Hereford Circuit.
Mr. ]. Hooper Edmondson, of the Balti-
more bar, has been admitted to practice in the
Circuit Court for Baltimore county, upon mo-
ton of Mr.. John s. Ensor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Diffenderfer, who
spent the past winter in Baltimore, have re-
opened for the summer their beautiful country
place at the head of Charles street avenue.
Mr.. Arthur l. Judge secretary treasurer OF
The Trade Company of Baltimore, has rented
and is now occupying the house of Mr.. Fred
erick O. Smith, on the York road in Towson.
Mr.. G. Ross Mace, of the Towson bar, de-
livered the Decoration Day Grafton at Forest
HILL Hartford county, on Thursday, upon the
invitation of Post 40, G. A. R., of that place.
Mr.. Thomas G. Biddson, Jr., who had been
very sick several weeks with rheumatic fever
at bis home at Gardenville, is improving: He
is a brother of State Senator John s. Biddison.
Mrs. John Ridgely, of Hampton, has been
selected as chairman for Baltimore county of
the Edgar Allan Poe Memorial Association, the
object of which is to erect monument to the
poet.
Mr.. John Francis Hoff a Baltimore county
boy and son of Mr.. Frank II. Hof, of Sher-
wood, is captain of this seasons baseball team
of the University of Virginia, where he is
student.
Mr. George Hoover, well known farmer
near Butler, who was able to come to Towson
on Tuesday to pay his taxes, has been in fail
ing health for some time and shows no signs
ofimprovement.
Among the graduates of st. Johns College,
Annapolis, this month will be Mr.. Irving T.
Kane, son of Mr.. and Mrs. James G.. Kane, of
Long Green Valley. The commencement taxes
place on the 10Th. s "a !.
Mrs. George Brown, ST., of Green Spring
Valley who had an operation for appendicitis
performed at her home two weeks ago IS rapidly
recovering. She is attended by her son.in.iaW,
DIR. Nathan r. Smith.
General and Mrs James A. Gary, Of Cations
Vile, went to Canton, O., this week to attend
the funeral of Mrs. Mckinley, wife of the late
President General Gary was a member OF
President McKinley's Cabinet.
Mrs. Harry Carroll is in Philadelphia,
where she was matron of honor at the we'd
ding, on Wednesday, of Miss Adeline Henry to
DIR. Albert Nicholson Baggs. Mrs. Carroll is
daughter of Mr.. N. Bosley Merryman.
! The members of the graduating class of
yTowson High School are Misses Alexia Ander.
son, Emily Harrison and Mary Risteau and
Thomas Carey Hunter, James G. L. Anderson,
William P. Cole, Jr., and Hershall Allen.
MIR. Philip s. Cross we'll known farmer
of the 9th district, came to Towson on Wed.
nesday to pay his taxes and call upon some of
his old friends. His right hand, upon which
he has had troublesome sore for some months,
is getting well.
Mrs. Susan Burton and Miss Eva Scarf
Io11c -, kho Qnndou cnhnnl IN.
vention in Towson from Fork M. E. Church.
Among others who attended from the same
church were Mrs. D. A. Harlan, Mrs. w. ID.
Riddle and Miss Edith Riddle.
Mr. ]. A. Candles, of Roland Park, has
been elected president of Baltimore Camp, No:
l. order Of Gideons, an organization composed
of Christian commercial travelling men, the
second annual State convention of which was
held in Baltimore the past week.
Mrs. Mary M. Austen, who spent the past
winter and spring in New York city, has gone
to Litchfield, Conn.,, for the summer she Is
native of Baltimore county and the widow OF
Edward Austen, who established the Filston
Farm herd of Jerseys at Glencoe.
MIR. Benjamin R. Benson, Jr., son OF DR..
B. R. Benson, of Marble Hill, 9th district, is
among this years graduates OF the Maryland
University School of Medicine. His brother,
the same institution probably next year.
Mr.. J. Marsh Matthew's was among the
graduates at the thirty seventh annual COM
mencement of the Maryland University Law
School, which took place at The Lyric. on Fri
day, May 31st. He is son of Col. D. M. Mat
thews, of Brookwood, Dulany's Valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. William D. Curry and daugh-
ter, Miss Annie E. Curry, of My Lady's Manor,
gave a reception on Wednesday night in honor
of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas McMurtrie Orr, of
Melbourne, Australia. Mrs. 7. Melville Pearce
assisted Mrs. Curry. About 300 persons were
present. :,
College, Westminster, the annual commence
ment of which takes place next week, will be
the following Mr.. VIM. Luther Byerly, OF
Fowblesburg Miss Gertrude Helen Gemmill,
of Freeland, and Miss Mary Blanche Bosley,
of Finksburg.
Mr.. Daniel W. Myers, a prosperous farmer
in the extreme northwestern section OF Balti-
more county, came to Towson on Tuesday to
pay his taxes and renew his subscription to
The UNION. Mr.. Myers said that thermome-
tiers in his neighborhood that morning regis
tered as low as SO degrees.
The Towson baseball team was very fortu-
nate in securing the services of Mr.. Dixon q:
Walker as manager. He is taking great deal
of interest in the team and they are responding
by putting up an excellent article of ball that
is highly gratifying to the manager as well as
to the devotees of the game here.
Mr. and Mrs. John Rush Street, formerly
of Taylor, Hartford county, have bought prop.
ertv and become residents of the western end
of Green Spring Valley. Mr.. Street, is engaged
in business in Baltimore as secretary and treas
urer of Greenes Transfer and Express Com
pany with offices at 212 North Paca street.
Mr.. Charles II. Curtis, of the 10th district,
came to Towson on Tuesday to pay his taxes
and renew his subscription to THE UNION. He
has rented his farm and has retired from active
business pursuits. Mr.. Curtis is native OF
that section of the county and son of John ).
| Curtis, who was leading farmer and citizen
| in his day.
Major John 1. Yellott, of the Towson bar.
| made an address at the memorial services held
| on Thursday by Veteran Post, No. 46, G. A. r.,
| at the grave of their comrade, Charles L. Mar
| burg, in Greenmount Cemetery. Major Vel
| LOFTS tribute to those who wore the blue was
greeted with demonstrations of enthusiasm by
| those present.
Miss Lulu Smith, daughter of the late
| Valentine Smith, of Govanstown. was married
| at P. NJ, Thursday, at the residence OF the
BRIDE to Mr.. Lester Pullman. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. William Russell Owen,
pastor of Huntingdon Avenue Baptist Church,
| Waverly. The wedding was quiet affair be-
cause of the recent death of the brides father
Mrs. Mamie Pearce Eigelberner, who spent
a year at Charlottesville, Va. visited some Of
her Baltimore county relatives and friends this
week From here she went to State College
| paar Ilallofopfo pa whore her SOn. Jesse EiQel