The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09

| Personal Mention
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Rieman, of Farm
Gates, near Towson, registered at the Hotel
Albemarle, New York, on Thursday.
Mr.. E. Cuttings Merryman, of Baltimore
county, was on Wednesday re elected president
of the Maryland Live Stock Sanitary Board.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Stewart Diffenderffer,
who spent the winter in Baltimore, are again
at Oakland" their country place in Green
M. and Mrs. Stuart Kearney, who spent the
past winter at Sherwood, N. @. r. R., are again
occupying the mansion on Hillendale Farm,
southeast of Towson.
MIR. William S. Forwood, Clerk of the Cir
cult Court for Hartford county, was among the
visitors who enjoyed the firemen's parade in
Towson on Wednesday.
Mrs Gerard D. Moore and children, of
Charlestown, w. Va, are visiting her mother.
Mrs. G. s. Taylor, at her home on REGISTER
avenue, southeast of Towson.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NOVEL; Hawkins and
children and Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Hawkins,
Jr. and child, who spent five months in Jack.
sonville, Florida have returned.
Mr.. ]. Marsh Matthews, attorney at law,
has associated himself with Mr.. Hyland P.
Stewart for the practice of his profession. Their
Offices are in the Fidelity Building, Baltimore.
Rev. B. B. Ahbitt, pastor of Calvary Bap-
list Church, Towson, was suddenly called to
Appomattox Court House, Va, few days ago
on account of the critical illness of his mother.
Register of Wills William ]. Peach was in
Princess Anne, Md, this week attending the
annual meeting of Maryland State Camp, Mod
ern Woodmen of America, to which he was
delegate.
o. E. Weller, of Reisterstown, will regret to
learn that he is under treatment at st. Joseph's
Hospital in Baltimore. His condition is not
alarming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph w. Jenkins and fam
lily, who spent the past winter in Baltimore,
fhic Uook rofurnad IN fWindv (iafa " their
beautiful country place on Lake avenue, over
looking Mt. Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull Murdoch, who late
ly purchased the Refs property at Wiltondale
on the York road, are having number OF
Improvements made to the house before occu-
plying it as their summer residence.
Rev. w. II. II. Powers, rector OF Trinity
Church, Towson, who had been at the Johns
Hopkins Hospital several weeks, was able to
leave for Richmond, Va, on Thursday. 1t is
not definitely known when he will return here.
DIR. James G. Matthews, who spent the
past winter in Baltimore with his parents, Col.
and Mrs. D. M. Matthews, left for Seattle,
Wash, few days ago. His brother, Dr. A.
A. Matthews, has been engaged in practice in
that city several years.
Mr.. Osborne Yellott, who met with such
serious automobile accident about three weeks
ago, is still at the Church Home in Baltimore
and may be obliged to remain there at least
two months longer. His burns are healing and
are causing him much pain.
MIR. Charles ]. Fox, who was reappointed
chief of the Maryland Bureau of Industrial
Statistics, qualified on Wednesday before Mr..
William P. Cole, Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Mr.. Fox is chairman of the Democratic Execu-
tive Committee of Baltimore county.
Mrs. Rachel G.. Bosley, who spent the past
winter in Baltimore with her son, Mr.. VIM. d.
Bosley, has returned to the home of her daugh-
ter. Mrs. George Jessop, of Cockeysville She
is the widow of John Bosley of VIM, who was
in his day one of the leading citizens OF the
county.
Jackson, who conducted service in Trinity
Church, Towson, last Sunday, will become the
assistant to Rev. W. Fl. II. Powers rector OF
the church. Rev. Mr.. Jackson is at present
assistant to Rev. DIR. William M. Dame, in
Baltimore.
Prof. Guy E. Snavely, of Allegheny Col
lege, Meadville, Pa, is among the candidates
for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the
coming commencement of Johns Hopkins
University. He is a son of Mr.. Charles g.
Snavely, well known farmer of the 18th dis.
trict of Baltimore county.
-Dr. Joseph r. Owens, who has acceptably
filled the Office for several years, has again
been elected mayor of Hyattsville, Md. He
received 203 of the 205 votes cast. Dr. Owens
is a brother law of Mr. Charles A. Council
man, of Warrington Valley, and treasurer of
the Maryland Agricultural College.
Mr. Jerome Nolte, of Hampstead. Carroll
county, came to Towson on Tuesday to pay
his taxes and renew bis subscription to IHE
UNION. He is still the owner of large body.
of land in the extreme north western section OF
Baltimore county and has other interests here
so he does not feel that he has deserted the
county entirely.
Miss Elizabeth Goucher, daughter of Presi
dent John F. Goucher, of the Woman's Col
lege has returned to her home after an extended
stay in Japan. Miss Goucher was in company
IL n h o0r fol in laef
and on arriving in Japan and learning Of the
need of teachers in the mission school IN Toxic
she decided to remain as teacher in the school
until other help could be secured.
Mr.. Thomas G Biddison, the veteran auc-
tioneer of the 14th district and representative
~ onS -. = ssIS Of veal
Biddison has spent his entire life in the neigh
borhood of Gardenville and has witnessed its
growth from sparsely settled farming section
to one of the most prosperous and thickly set
tied suburbs of Baltimore.
Mrs. William H. Read, of Hamilton, was
among the first to pay her taxes at the County
Treasurer's office on Monday. Her husband
has been an invalid for about two years and
she now looks after business matters that he
formerly attended to. Mr.. Read is 76 years of
age. They have been married hfty-two years
and have lived all that time upon the land
that he inherited from his father. He is the
last surviving member of family of twelve
children, and one of THE UNIONS Oldest
subscribers.
Mr.. ]. Joseph Davis, superintendent of
Druid Ridge Cemetery Pikesville, was among
those who renewed their subscription to THE
UNION on Wednesday, he having come here to
participate in the firemens convention. Mr..
Davis has been on the property that now COM
prses the cemetery since he was a boy, he
having been in the employ of the two former
owners of the land. In addition to his duties
with the company Mr.. Davis is successful
breeder of fine chickens-Plymouth Rocks.
Rhode Island Reds and others-and has four
acres of ground enclosed in wire. His birds
have been prize winners at some of the most
rrounin ont shows in the C0unkrv