The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-01-25
parsonal Mention. :

DIR. Charles BagIey, formerly of Baltimore
county, has been re elected president OF the
Hartford County Medical Association.
Rev Claud M. Hesser, pastor of Taylor
Circuit NJ K. Church South, has been appoint
ed chaplain in the Maryland Senate.
Mr.. Benjamin P. Butler, Of Towson, has
been reappointed tax clerk in the office of
State Comptroller Herring in Annapolis.
Miss Rachel Hubner, daughter of Hon.
John Hubner, of Gainesville, has gone to Bos-
ton to prepare herself for the profession OF
trained nurse.
-ExSheriff William H. Todd who has been
sick with pneumonia at his home on the Pot
Spring road, is much better and hopes to be
out in few days.
Mrs. John Ridgely, of Hampton, has
been sick with grip for more than a week, but
she is now better. Mr.. Ridgely, who had also
been sick, has recovered.
MIR. William Grason, auditor of the Cir
cult Court, who had been confined to his home
in Towson several weeks by illness, was able
to be out on Thursday.
Mr.. Edmund G. Prince, gardener at Hamp-
ton, who bad an operation performed at the
University Hospital, has returned to his home.
His condition is much improved.
Mr. George H. Merryman. president of
the Baltimore County Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, who has been sick and confined to
his home near Bosley, has recovered.
An interesting little daughter and only
child of Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Brookhart, of
Towson, is very sick with pneumonia. DR..
William L. Smith, of Sherwood, is attending
her.
Rev. w. II. II. Powers, rector of Trinity
Church, Towson, has been very sick for more
than a week with grip and it will be some
time before he is able to attend to his pastoral
duties.
Mrs. Greenwell, wife of Rev. s. s. Green
we'll, of Belair, is spending several weeks in
Florida. She is a daughter of Mr.. John M.
Griffith, formerly of Mt. Vista, Baltimore
Col. Lawrence B. McCabe, of Govanstown,
has made application to the Governor for APP
pointment to the position of Fish Commission.
er. He is an ex-memoer OF the House OF
Delegates.
Mr.. John 1. Anderson, of the Hillen road,
who renewed his subscription to THE UNION
on Wednesday, is recovering from very trou-
blesome case of grip. Mr.. Anderson is re-
tired farmer.
Valley, who was confined to his home several
weeks with severe case of grip, was able to
come to Towson on Tuesday, although he has
not vet fully recovered.
Rev. A. Louis Hyde, pastor of Slate Ridge
PRESBYTERIAN Church. near Delta, preached in
the Presbyterian Church at Gainesville last
Sunday Mr.. Hyde is son OF Col. Samuel
N. Hyde, formerly of Long Green Valley.
County Commissioner Byerly, who some
time ago purchased the residence of Mr. John
z. Crout, in Reisterstown, is now occupying
it with his family. For many years Mr..
Byerly had lived on his farm at Fowblesburg,
in the same district.
Mr.. Robert Ruhl, formerly of Baltimore
county, has been drawn to serve as juror at
the February term of the Hartford county
court. He is farm manager on Mr.. Beale R.
Towards beautiful estate, "Verdant Valley"
near My Lady's Manor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard T. Merritt have re-
turned from their wedding trip and have per-
manently located at Grange, Patapsco Neck,
where Mr.. Merritt is successfully engaged in
trucking. Mrs. Merritt was formerly Miss
Wann, of Hartford county.
Mr.. Charles G. Homer has been re elected
president of the Baltimore Clearing House As
sociation position that be has ably filled for
several years. Mr. Homer, who resides at
Sherwood, N. O. R. R., is president of the
Second National Bank of Baltimore.
Mr.. Charles r Frankenberry, OF the Bal
timore bar, has also established an Office in
Towson and has formed partnership with
Mr.. Alex. Y. Carr in the real estate and in
surance business, under the firm name of Carr
& Frankenberry. Their office isin the Masonic
Temple.
Mr.. Fred. A. Groom, formerly of Towson,
has been elected secretary of the committee
that controls the Odd Fellows Library which
is located in the Temple at the corner of Cath
edral and Saratoga Streets Baltimore. The
library is controlled by the various lodges OF
the city.
-Ex- Judge George E. Lynch, of the I'd dis
trict, who is a director of the Pikesville Ma
tional Bank, was among the visitors to Towson
on Tuesday. He says the bank is succeeding
far beyond the expectations of those who star.
ted it and that although in operation but four
months it has already done business of over
$165,000
Major and Mrs. John 1. Yellott accom-
panied by their daughter, Miss Eleanor Vel
lott, and their niece, Miss Emily Yellott. daugh-
ter of Mr.. George W. Yellott, left at noon on
Thursday for their long pleasure trip to Texas.
They will stop at Pittsburg and also at st.
Louis and from thence to San Angelo, con-
Stunning about ten days on the jaunt. The party
will return to Towson about the 10Th of March.
Capt. p. Andersen, of Copenhagen, COM
mander of the stearnship Kentucky, now lying
at the port of Baltimore, was caller at The
UNION office on Wednesday. He is friend of
Mr.. Allen Stevenson, of Sherwood, and with
him attended meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Second National Bank of Towson
that morning. Capt. Andersen, who speaks a
number of languages, was much pleased with
this section of Maryland.
AT the twenty eighth annual banquet of
the Society of the Army and Navy of the Con-
federate States in the State of Maryland, held
at the Hotel Herman in Baltimore, on Monday
night Hon. J. Fred. G. Talbot responded to
the toast, "Our Infantry" Among the guests
were the following from Baltimore county ::
DR.. W. P. E. Wyse and Messrs. T. Alvah
Merritt, John Gephart, James h. Linzey,
Alonzo l.. Merritt and Alvah R. Merritt.
Mr.. Wilmer P. Hopes, who was mar
ried last week to Miss Anna Graham Matthews
at her home near Cockeysville, was living in
the State of louisiana until about fifteen
months ago, when he met with serious acct
dent. A tornado swept through bis section of
country and blew down the houses OF some of
his neighbors. While helping to repair one of
these Mr.. Hopes fell and sustained very seri-
Gus fracture of the leg. For some time Mr..
Hopes has been living with his father, Mr..
Joseph T. Hopes, of Bynum. As soon as he
entirely RECEIVERS he will return with his bride
to Louisiana.