The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-11-07

Mrs. Percy Lanius, of York, Pa, is visiting
Mrs. Robert Wier, of Lutherville. She is
niece of Capt. E. Herman.
Mrs. Mary Butler, lifelong resident of
Towson, has been sick for some days at the
residence of DIR. r. G. Massenburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Dixon G. Walker have closed
their house on West Chesapeake avenue, Tow
son, and taken an apartment in Baltimore for
the winter.
Mr.. Clarence l. Benson, son of DR.. B. R.
Benson, has returned to his home near Cock
eysville, after undergoing an operation for ap.
pendicitis at the Maryland University Hospital.
Mr. George Eisinger, Baltimore business
man, has leased for term OF i've years the
road, Towson, formerly the home of the late
Judge Yellott.
Mr.. Summerfeld Baldwin and family, who
spent the past summer at Hillside, their coun-
try home at Warren, Baltimore county, have
reopened their winter residence on N. Charles
street. Baltimore.
Hon. John Hubner, of Catonsville, was
elected a lay delegate by the Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of Maryland held in Frederick
last week, to the General Synod which will
meet in Richmond, Ind, next May.
Mr.. Jacob II. Taylor and his sons, Messrs.
Harry and Frank ]. Taylor, with their fam
lilies, have closed their summer home on
Trinity Terrace, Towson. and reopened their
winter residence on Eutaw Place. Baltimore.
Rev. W. II. II. Powers, rector of Trinity
P. E. Church, Towson, left on Tuesday for the
Summer Rest in Albemarle county, Va, where
he will spend two weeks hunting: He was
accompanied by his daughter, Miss Leila
Powers.
Mr.. William G. Spottswood, of the War
Department, Washington, D. c., has been
spending some days with relatives in Towson.
He is great admirer of Judge Taft and thinks
he will be one of the most popular Presidents
the country has ever had.
NJ Lob on rQoidQnt
son, sustained stroke of paralysis last Satur-
day. His speech is affected but his condition
is not thought to be serious. Mr.. Gross, who
is q Confederate veteran, is son of the late
Thomas Cross, of Govanstown.
Mr.. William P. Cooper, of Salt Lake City,
formerly of Towson, is visiting relatives in
Maryland. He came on especially to see his
mother, Mrs. J. G. Cooper, who had been sick
for some time He accompanied her from
Newark, N. j., to Baltimore, where they are
now stopping~
election figures for the return judges in the
Court House at Towson on Thursday, has per-
formed the same duty twenty.eight consecu-
tive years. Prof Green, who is resident OF
Towson, is a deputy in the office of the State
Insurance Commissioner.
Mr.. Charles H. Mann, doorkeeper of the
Press Gallery in the House of Representatives,
Washington, d. c., and his two sons, both of
whom are in the Government employ, came
to Towson on Tuesday to vote. Mr.. Marshall
H. Wilson, of the Census Office, also came to
his home here for the same purpose.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas j. Lea, who had
been residents of Baltimore county number
of years, have removed to their former home
at Ashton, Montgomery county, where Mr..
Lea owns q highly productive farm OF ID acres.
It is two miles from Sandy Spring, widely
known as a rich agricultural section.
MIR. Joseph Snyder, well known citizen
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takes q lively interest in public affairs, was
attending to some business matters in Towson
on Wednesday. Mr.. Snyder, who is director
in the Jerusalem Turnpike Company, is one
of the largest landowners in the southeastern
section of the county and, when his health
will permit, gives his personal attention to his
extensive interests.
Rev. Dr.. M. F. B. Rice, district superin-
tendent of Frederick District, Baltimore Con-
ference of the M. E. Church, was stricken with
paralysis last Sunday while conducting quar-
terly conference at Homecoming. He was
brought to his home in Baltimore. DR.. Rice,
who was at one time pastor of Towson M. e.
Church, has been vigorous man and much
surprise was expressed at his breakdown. The
speech nerve was affected by the stroke.
Rev. Thomas Gorsuch of c., of Parkville,
who passed his 87th birthday last June, drove
to Towson on Tuesday, unaccompanied, and
voted at the polls of the third precinct of the
such cast his first ballot at Belair and he has
voted at every Presidential election since then
and always against the Democratic party,
Tuesdays vote being no variation. Mr. Cor
such, who is local minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, has for many years been an
active director of the Hartford County Mutual
Fire Insurance Company and so far this year
he has paid over to his company, in the way
of premiums on his business, about 5000
sum considerably larger than that paid in by
any other single one of the Is directors Mr..
Gorsuch enjoys excellent health, goes about
daily in good weather in pursuit of his bust
ness, and is at any time ready to perform
marriage ceremony or preach funeral SER
mon. He is one of Baltimore county's most
remarkable citizens.
A Fine Boulevard Projected for the
Suburbs.-A movement is on foot among resi-
dents of North Walbrook and Forest Park for
a beautiful boulevard to be constructed along
Liberty road from Walbrook junction to the
city line. tits purposed to have the boulevard
along Old Liberty road from Druid Hill Park
to Forest Park. Mr.. Frank H. Galloway il
fathering the scheme.
The project is contemplated in connection
with the Undertakings within Baltimore O
| the Good Roads Commission, and efforts will
| be made to have that commission take up the
work, carrying it, perhaps, beyond the city
| line into Baltimore county.
|
! which it will bring to the city in the way o.
suburban development will more than war
rant the investment is the opinion of those
| who favor it. Along with the Old Liberty roaC
| boulevard it would open to development al
that undeveloped territory north of NORTH
avenue and west of Druid Hill Park, part o.
| which has been purchased for inclusion IN thu
| park system of the city.
From Walbrook Junction to Forest Parl
| the Liberty road is turnpike, part OF which
| is owned by the United Railways and part By
/ private individual from whom the Railway
| Company leases a right of way. When tn
Good Roads Commission began making II
plans for the expenditure Of the $5,000,0 0
loan, the city was assured of getting benefit
| from at least 81 100000 of the money and
| was suggested by the city officials that thi
amount could be spent in no more protitabl
manner than for the purchase OF the variou
turnpikes in the Annex. If this suggestion
followed it is probable that the Liberty turn
| pike will become city property and thus opene
to the proposed boulevard Improvement.
Halloween Franks Cause Of Fata
Shooting.-An indirect victim of Hallow' EEL
pranks Lareaux Mister, % years old, living Of
Grace avenue, near the Relsterstown ROAD, Al
| lington, died on Sunday last from gunshC
wound inflicted by his adopted sister, Ma
Blackwell, Is years old. The shooting was en-
tirely accidental and Coroner Baldwin gave
certificate of death due to accident.
Mister, who was known over large PORTO
of that section of the county as "McGinty,
was shot while trying to brighten away som
boys who were annoying his aged mother.
told Miss Blackwell to load and hand him
shotgun while he opened window. He II
tended shooting into the air, hoping to scar
the boys away. In some manner the gun wer
off while still in the young girls hands, To
charge nearly tearing Mister's arm OF at tn
elbow.
Miss Blackwell tainted and Mister's mothe
Mrs. Mary E. Blackwell, who is 70 years oil
and lame, could not call aid Immediately.
was half an hour before DR.. Milton 2. Hill a.
rived. By that time Mister had lost so muc
blood that efforts to save him were futile. ID
Hill had Mister taken to the Maryland Gener'
Hospital late Saturday night. where he diet
Miss Blackwell was Frustrated and the phys
clan experienced great difficulty in quietlu
her.
Mister had horse and wagon express bus
ness in Arlington and the surrounding country
He was unmarried and lived with his mothe
The Big Verdict is Afarmed.-The Unite
States Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond
Va. on Thursday affirmed the Judgment
s., 500 and interest against the city of Bait
more for the death of John Q. Hutchinson,
Philadelphia, which was obtained on Januar
22d last by Mr.. Hutchison's widow and minC