The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-15
THE DEATH RECORD.


and sister of NJ essrs Michael, George c. and Jos
W. Jenkins, the well-known fnanciers, die
tuesday morning at Edgewood, her countr.
nome on Lake avenue. Miss jenkins ha'
been i'll since about May last. She was borl
In Baltimore and in addition to her brother
she is survived by one sister, Miss Eliza Jen
klns. Miss Jenkins was a woman OF great piet,
and of exemplary life. Up to the beginning o
ner illness she was a regular attendant at tn
cathedral in Baltimore. She was an active anC
earnest worker in the Dorcas Society, the Tab
ernacle Society and the Sanctuary Society Of
the Cathedral. She was better known to thu
people of Baltimore for her charitable deedl
and as an ardent church worker. She joined
with her brothers and sisters in the erection o.
Corpus Christi Church at the corner of Mount
Royal and Lafayette avenues, that beautiful
structure being reared as memorial to theil
parents. From her girlhood Miss Jenkins was
connected with church affairs and took deer
interest, not in the church work alone but also
IN aiding the poor. OF the latter work there is
comparatively little known, since. she went
about her charity in the most transformations
manner, stunning publicity and notoriety, and
many of her kind deeds were done in such q
way as to be known only by those who were
recipients of her bounty. Although by birth
entitled to move in the most exclusive social
circle Miss Jenkins cared little for such oppor.
tunties, preferring to live life which, while
ofcomparative obscurity, was busy and help.
the interment was in one of the side chapels OF
Corpus Christi Church. 1t is in this church
that the parents of Miss Jenkins are buried.
owings.-Mr. Philip Reister Owings. one
ofthe best known residents of that section of
the county, died at his home in Reisterstown,
on Tuesday last aged SO years. He was de-
scendant of one of the earliest settlers of Mary
land. His ancestry can be traced as far back
as the fifteenth century, and the family now
holds deed and will issued through Cecilius
Calvert, made ont in England on June 5, 1854.
which gave Richard Owings, Mr.. Owings'
gfeat-great- grandfather, title to tract of land
containing 100 acres at Smith s Neck, for which
he was to have made an annual payment of 16
shillings. Owings' Mills received its rame
through his uncle. Reisterstown received its
name from the family of Mr.. Philip R. Owings'
first wife, who was Miss Hannah Reister. After
the death of the first Mrs. Owings he married
Miss Susan Holton, of Oxford, Pa, who sur
wives, with two children, one son, Mr.. Francis
Owings, of Parker City, Pa, and daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Owings, of Reisterstown. He
was charter member of the Heny Clay Lodge,
No. 81, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
which was organized over sixty years ago. Mr..
OwiDgs had been living retired life for sew
erai years, prior to which he was in business at
Reisterstown and for twenty years conducted q
farm in the I'd district. After his retirement
from active pursuits he returned to Reisters-
town to spend the remaining days of his life.
The funeral took place at his late residence at
3 P. NJ. on Thursday. Services were conducted
by Rev. w. McKendree Hammock, pastor of
Reisterstown M. e. Church, assisted by Rev.
William K. Curley, pastor of Ames Chapel,
Pikesville; Rev. B. F. Devries, pastor of Mt.
Vernon M. E. Church, and Rev. John r.
Wheeler.
Knetzer.-Miss Emma Knetzer. aged II
years, daughter of Mr.. Benjaim G. Knetzer, of
Owings' Mills, died at the Maryland General
Hospital in Baltimore, on Friday evening, 7th
inst, as a result of an explosion of coal oil
can, some of the contents of which she was
using to kindle fire. A sad incident of her
death was that she was engaged to be married
to Mr.. Andrew Snyder, of Baltimore. and the
wedding would have taken place on the 9th
of September next. Besides her parents Miss
Knetzer is survived by two brothers and three
sisters. One of the brothers-Mr. John G.
Knetzer, of Seattle, Washington-returned
home on visit only few days before the &C
her parents at P. NJ. on Sunday, Rev. VIM. E.
Curley, of Ames M. E. Church, Pikesville, con-
Quoting the services. The pall-bearers were
Messrs. Henry Hoff, w. Hobbs v. Klohr,
Harry Knott. Clarence Lockard and Elmer
Shoemaker. Interment was in Druid Ridge
Cemetery.
Cockey.-Mr. John Merryman Cockey died
at his home in Baltimore, on Monday last,
aged 81 years. He was a native of Baltimore
county and a son of the late Thomas Dye
Cockey, who once owned large body of land
at Texas, 9th district. Mr.. Cockey was a
brother of Mrs. Rachel G. Bussey, Of Texas,
and an uncle of States Attorney r. H. Bussey
and Drs. B. f. and Thomas c. Bussey, well
known physicians of this county. He is sur.
vived by a widow, who is daughter of the
late John Armstrong.
Shriver.-Mrs. Emma Shriver, wife of Mr..
William L. Shriver, who had been sick long
time, died suddenly at her home in Reisters-
town, on Sunday last, aged 81 years. The fu-
neral took place on Tuesday qaQEnjO eRawe4e
Messrs. George Uhler. Frank Haughey, Reister
Russell, Charles J. Beckley, Henry Wagner and
]. Edwin Kirk. Interment in the old German
Lutheran Cemetery, Reisterstown.
died at his home in Baltimore, on Wednesday
last. He was a native of the 9th district of
Baltimore county and son of the late Jacob
Turnbaugh. The deceased is survived by
widow and four children. He also leaves sew
eral sisters and brother-Mr. Thomas Turn
baugh.
1.-THE Use of Foodstuffs Produced on the
Farm. This was the subject of an address
by Mr.. Walter c. Reeder. graduate
of the Maryland Agricultural College, at the
last meeting of the Cecil Farmers Club. He
said
Several years ago, when a small boy, l
heard farmer, who was prosperous, say that
farming would become profitable business
when the farmer produced all his fertilizers
and feeds on the farm; that the farmers profits
90 into the pockets of the fertilizer manufac-
turer and the exponent of the patent foods.
have always wanted to see farm where this
was given thorough test and see what the
result would be. Whether a man is to follow
agronomy or animal husbandry in all its
branches depends on the man and the environ
ments of the farm. This is an age of special
ties. The man who knows how to do some
one thing well, other things being equal, sue
ceeds. While do not advise so broad policy
as to have a man jack of all trades and master
of none, do not, on the other hand, approve
of 40 narrow-minded policy as to see only one
side of a question and think that is the only
side. think if a man is to be an animal hus-
bandman he should not only know all that he
can about that branch of science, but he should
be familiar with the underlying principles OF
crop growing, so that he can produce on his
own land almost all the necessary food for his
animals. In primitive dairying COWS were not
supposed to yield profit during the winter
when they were fed on such roughage and grain
as would not command very high price on
the market. Today the cows environment is
changed. She is high. pressure milking ma
chine the year round. She is fed succulent
food all the time, where formerly about all the
succulent food she obtained was the grass
browsed in the meadow during the summer
months. To form balanced ration one can
NOT feed exclusively an animal on succulenl
feed AS silage for roughage. They must be fec
some concentrated foodstuffs."
Citizens Democratic League Organic
ed.-A movement against Congressman j. F
G. Talbot, who is a candidate for re election
this fall, was organized formally in Baltimore
on Friday, 7th inst, at q meeting held at the
Hotel Raleigh, when the Citizens Democratic
League of Baltimore County was formed.
Mr.. George w. Yellott former County Com
missioner, presided, and the following were
elected President, T. Scott Offutt, Towson
Vice President, John w. Sparks. 18th district
Secretary, Charles E. Weakley, 10th district
The object of the league, as stated in its plat
form, is to promote good government IN the
interests of the taxpayers to report to the pub
lie the character and fitness of candidates fol
Office to destroy the political power OF Con
gresham Talbot to maintain fair primary
election law with a secret ballott tocause thu
observance of the laws forbidding gambling
and regulating the sale of liquor; to equaliz'
taxation and to insure representation OF al
sections of the county on the Board OF County
Commissioners.
The platform declares that the league ri
opposed to Talbot as candidate for Congress
for the reasons that he is, by reason of his pc
culiar conception of political morality, unfit
because his nomination is founded in frau'
and falsehood he having promised years ag(