The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-10-17
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Personal Mention
Miss Nellie Henderson, of PleasantvilIe,
Hartford county, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. A. j..
Tarbert, of Towson.
Mr.. Samuel J Fisher, of Mt. Washington,
was starter of the running races at the Hagers-
town fair this week.
Mr.. William s. Keeeh, of the Towson bar
spent several days in New York city this week
on professional business.
ter avenue, attended the Washington Horse
Show and races this week.
DIR. Josiah s. Bowen, a popular physician
of Mt. Washington, is sick at his home with
pneumonia. but he is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. b. Carroll Brown, who are
still at Brooklandwood, Green Spring Valley,
will spend the coming winter in New York.
Mrs Charles E. Rieman and her sister-in-
law, Mrs. David G. Mcintosh, Jr., registered at
Hotel Albemarle. New York city, on Thursday.
Miss Reba Diffenderffer, of Garrison, and
Miss Marie L. Cherbonnier, of Timonium, had
entries at the Washington Horse Show this
week.
pr. Henry R. Dunton, an assistant ply
stefan at the Sheppard. Pratt Hospital, has been
elected president of the Baltimore Medical
Mr.. Charles G. Macgill, president of the c.
! A. Gambrill Manufacturing Company, has
been elected president of the Baltimore Board
| of Trade.
DIR. William B. Gambrill, formerly of Bal
timore county, but for some years engaged in
active practice at Alberton, is now located in
Ellicott City,
Mrs. Henry Gerstmyer, of Towson, is
spending some time with her son. Rev. Henry
L. Gerstmyer, who is pastor of Zion Lutheran
Church, Marysville, Pa.
Mrs. Hugh w. s. Powers and her little
daughter, who spent two weeks with relatives
| in Towson, returned to her home at Highland,
| Howard county, on Thursday.
| Mr. I, Ransom a0n Of DIR. II. X. Ben
son, of Marble Hill, 9th district, was success
fully operated on for appendicitis at the Mary
| land University Hospital last Saturday.
Mr.. Edwin Higgins, of the Baltimore bar,
and a frequent contributor to the columns of
THE UNION, delivered temperance address in
Towson M. E. Church last Sunday night.
Miss Helen NJ. Day, who had been living
at Churchville, Nd for some time, has removed
Dampman property near Baldwin, Baltimore
Mr.. T. Edward Ritter has entered the
| Maryland Agricultural College to take course
in electrical engineering. BE is son of Mr..
John T. Ritter, of Pleasant Plains Farm, east
Mr.. William Fell Johnson, Jr., was adj
mitted to practice before the Supreme Bench
| of Baltimore city on Tuesday. He is nephew
! of Mr. VIM. Fell Johnson. of Rockland, Balti-
more county.
Mr. Walter W. Crosby, formerly roads en-
gineer for Baltimore county, registered in Paris
on the 18th instant. He went abroad to attend
| the International Road Congress, now in ses-
sion in that city.
Rev. Ralph E. Pearce, at one time pastor
of Gatch's M. E. Church, Beair road, has been
appointed pastor of First M. E. Church, San
| Juan, Porto Rico, and will leave for his new
| field about November first.
Rev. G.. Mosley Murray, general mission
| ary of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Maryland, has rendered his resignation to
| Bishop Paret and has accepted call to st.
| Johns Church, Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Rev. W. H. II. Powers entertained the
Clergymen's Club of Baltimore at the rectory
of Trinity Church, Towson, Monday evening.
His son, Rev. Hugh W. s. Powers, of High
| land Parish, Howard county, was among the
| guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Plummer, who were
married in Trinity Church last week, have re-
home of the bride. They will spend the winter
| in Baltimore. Mr.. Plummer is connected with
the B. & o. R. R. Company.
Mr.. Charles B. Roberts, who was shot on
the boardwalk at Atlantic City on the 26th of
| August last and seriously wounded, returned
to Baltimore on Wednesday and is now at the
country home of his wife's family, near Luth-
| vile. He is apparently entirely well.
Mr.. Dixon G. Walker, of Towson, was on
| Tuesday elected vice president OF the Automo.
| bile Club of Maryland. Mr.. A. A. Piper, of
| the Towson bar, was elected member of the
board of governors of the club, and Mr.. o.
| borne l. Yellott was reelected counsel.
Mrs. Joshua B. Todd who spent the past
summer with Mrs. William n. Todd, of Mount
Airy Farm, Pot Spring road, has returned to
her home in Virginia. Mrs. Todd, who be-
| fore her marriage, was Miss Mamie Stansbury,
has many friends in Baltimore county.
The members of Salem Workers, of Salem
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Catonsville,
gave an entertainment on Wednesday evening
in the lecture room of the church to welcome
home the pastor, Rev. Martin Luther Enders,
who recently returned from his vacation.
Mr.. Louis P. Hennighausen, well known
member of the bar who is now a resident of
Towson, was painfully hurt one evening early
this week by being thrown down by the sud-
den moving of trolley car that he was in the
act of leaving. He was confined to his home
M Edgar Hilary Cans. of the widely
was among those upon whom the degree Of
Doctor of Laws was conferred at the centen-
NAL celebration of Mount st. Mary's College,
Emmitsburg, Md, this week. Mr.. Cans re-
sides at Govanstown.
Mr. John F. O'Hara who last week SUBJ
mitted to very serious operation at the Union
| Protestant Infrmary in Baltimore, is improv-
ing rapidly and his entire restoration of health
| is expected. He is native of Baltimore coun-
| ty and brother of MIR. M. ]. O'Hara, of the
| County Clerks office.
| Mr. J. Wilbur Meads, recent graduate of
the Baltimore Law School-he having COM
pleted the threeyear course in two years-has
opened an Office in the Piper Building Tow
cashier of the Second National Bank of Tow
son, and grandson of the late Judge Thomas
G. Rutledge, of the 7th district.
On Thursday night Rev. and Mrs. w. W.
Shaw, of Govanstown, celebrated the twenty
| fifth anniversary of their marriage by giving
reception in the chapel to the members of
the congregation of Govanstown Presbyterian
Church. They were the recipients of many
handsome presents, including a silver fruit
dish filled with silver dollars and half dollars.
Mr.. William Bowen of s., bailit to the
| Orphans Court, quietly celebrated his 80th
birthday last Sunday. He is son of Solomon
Bowen, was born in Towson and has spent,
his entire life here. Mr.. Bowen is the last
| surviving charter member of Towson Lodge OF
| Odd Fellows. He still enjoys good health and
sometimes does days work at his trade-that
| of stonemaSOn.
Mr.. H. Washington Knoebel, popular
| citizen of the 10th district, who has been sew
eral times postmaster OF the Maryland House
urday night by entertaining the members of
the Jacksonville Democratic Club at his home
at Knoebel Among the guests were Messrs.
Elmer R. Halle and ]. Howard Fox, members
| of the Towson bar, who spoke at the club
meeting that night.
Mr.. A. q. Klingelhofer, who had been en-
gagged on railroad survey at Morgantown, W.
| Va, about a year, is now located at Cheat
| Haven, Pa. He is voter In the third pre-
cinct of the 9th district and every year his
name is ''sworn off, the lists and he is obliged
to come here to have it replaced. Mr.. Klingel-
hofer's home is near Taylors Church, on the
Hllen road. He thinks the fact that he Is
Republican is the cause of his name being
| stricken from the lists every year.
Rev. and Mrs. o. E. Swinehart have re-
turned to Perry Hall after months vacation.
Mr.. Swinehart first attended the District
Synod meeting at Peru, W. Va, while Mrs.
| Swinehart visited her mother, at Delaware,
Ohio. After synod they met at the formers
old home, near Somerset, Ohio, visiting his
parents there. They also visited in Columbus,
Ohio, where Mr.. Swinehart received his the
illogical training. After few days together
at Delaware they returned to Perry Hall on
| Saturday.
Rev Charles Albert Hensel, vicar of the
Protestant Episcopal Chapel of the Advent,
Baltimore. has resigned to accept call to the
Church of the Redeemer. Charles street ex-
tended. He had charge of Grace Church dur
ing the absence of Rev. A. G. Powell. The
! Chapel of the Advent is a mission of Grace
and it has prospered under the care of Rev.
| Mr. Hensel. The Church of the Redeemer is
! in a fine section and is likely to grow in
| praennf tho ronOrppati0n ia