The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-30
Personal Mention

1t is Salu tnaC Mr.. CnarleS n. Dlckey, oil
Baltimore county, will be district delegate to
the Democratic National Convention at Denver
Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. G. Williams this week
closed their town house and are now at their
farm in Long Green Valley for part of the
summer.
Mr.. George Y. Massenburg, son of Dr. R.
@. Massenburg, of Towson, graduates in phar-
macy this year at the Maryland University
School of Medicine.
Mr.. David T. Benson, of Benson, Hartford
county, will shortly graduate as a veterinary
surgeon. He is a brother of Mr.. Charles A.
Benson, formerly of Fork.
Col. Walter s. Franklin has been elected
president of the board of trustees of Ashland
Presbyterian Church and Mr.. William II.
Buck, Jr. secretary and treasurer.
Mrs. William s. Keech and Miss Leila
Powers, of Towson, have been spending week
with Rev. and Mrs. Hugh w. s. Powers, at the
rectory, Highland, Howard county.
Representative Talbot did not attend the
convention at Towson on Tuesday. In expla-
nation his friends said he was very busy with
his Congressional duties in Washington.
MIR. Osborne 1. Yellott, who has been at
his home in Towson a week, was able on
Monday to attend the sale of the Filston Farm
| property, of which he was one of the receivers.
Miss Claudia Rutledge, adopted daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John V. Slade, of Corbett is
a member of this years graduating class of
the Maryland College for Women at Luther
| vile.
Mrs. Thomas B. Todd and con Edward of
Fort Howard, Baltimore county, spent the
week end at Pleasant Prospect" the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Burton, in Long Green
Valley.
has accepted an invitation to deliver the adj
dress at the commencement at Mount st.
Joseph's College, on the Frederick road, on
Tuesday, June 10th.
Mr.. John NJ. Griffith, of Baltimore, who
| lately purchased the "Eldon" property in
| Iuthervilte, from Mr.. Charles e. orlr eIa, 10
| now occupying it with his family. They
moved there ON Thursday.
| Mr.. G. Benson Dushane, who had been
spending some time in Greensboro, N. c., as
| commissioner to the General Assembly of the
| Southern Presbyterian Church, has returned
to his home in Mt. Washington.
DIR. ]. F. H. Gorsuch, the new general
health officer for Baltimore county, weighs
280 pounds, but this fact don't in the least in
terfere with his locomotion. He gets around
| about as lively as the best of them.
DIR. Stuart Cassard, superintendent of the
| York turnpike, has also been appointed by the
| United Railways Company manager of Gwynn
| Oak Park. The latter position was held for
| some years by the late Col. Robert Hough.
DIR. Daniel st. Thomas Jenifer, who lately
| completed postgraduate course at the Johns
| Hopkins University, has located at Atlantic
| City, N. j., for the practice of his profession.
| He is a son of Mr.. Thomas r. Jenifer, of Loeb
| Raven.
Mr.. Thomas ]. Price, of the 9Th district, is
now serving on the jury for the first time in a
period of thirty-six years. His brother, Mr.
Beal Price, who is engaged in business in Bal
| timore is recovering from serious attack OF
| illness.
Mr.. ]. P. L. Shamberger, son of Mr..
Daniel Shamberger, a former assistant school
examiner of Baltimore county, and well
known farmer and miller of the 9th district,
will be among this years graduates at the Mary
land Agricultural College.
Mr. j. Howard Fox, of Towson was among
the graduates of the Baltimore University
School of Law, the annual commencement of
which took place on Wednesday night. Mr..
Fox has been student in the Towson law
offices of Mr.. Elmer J. Cook.
Mr.. William McCallister president of the
Hamilton Improvement Association, was in
Towson on Tuesday on a motorcyce-one of
those machines that can go faster and make
more noise for the size of them than anything
else known in the present day.
Mr.. Angelo Lupo, of New Jersey, who
bought the Meadows Farm, part of the Perky
estate sold this week, will shortly remove his
family there. Mr.. Lupo has since acquired
in addition 245 acres of the Samuel Carroll
farm and he now has tract of 450 acres.
Mr.. John G. Schmidt, who on Tuesday
purchased the farm of his late father, at Sunny
brook, does not intend to move to the place,
but will continue as tenant on the Long Quarter
Farm, near Towson, where he has been for the
past sixteen years. Mr.. Schmidt is successful
farmer and dairyman.
Mr.. Charles A. Rowe, of Towson, was
among the graduates of the National Univer-
sitv Law School, the annual commencement of
which took place in the National Theatre,
Washington, on Sunday night last. Mr.. Rowe
was formerly assistant secretary OF the late
Senator German, of Maryland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul A. Seeger have sent out
invitations for the marriage of their daughter
Elsie to Mr.. Boiling Walker Barton, on We'd
nesday, June 10th. The ceremony will be per-
fa<1e q .et.A = = W. ly7.-s'e
Mr. John Ridgely, of Hampton, accom-
panied by his son, Mr.. Stewart Ridgely, went
to Philadelphia on Friday and today they will
attend the great annual sale of Jersey cattle at
Coopersburg, Pa. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E.
Rieman will also attend the sale. Mr.. Ridgely
spent Friday night in Philadelphia with his
daughter, Mrs. Leidy.
The Belair 1Egis of this week says "Mr.
Joseph NJ. Street,, whose serious illness was
reported a week ago, has responded to treat
ment beyond the most sanguine hopes OF his
| friends, and unless something unlocked for
intervenes, in all probability he will soon be
i fully restored to health and his former useful
| ness to society"
Mrs. Mary M. Austen, who spent the past
| winter in New York city, has gone to the Man.
son House, Fishers Island, N. Y, for the
| summer Mrs Austen is the widow of Edward
! Austen, who established the Filston herd OF
Jersey cattle that was sold at auction, together
with his beautiful old homestead, Filston Farm,
! Glencoe, this week.
|
Fendall, Prof G. B. Bracket, pomologist OF
the Plant Division of the Agricultural Depart
| ment Washington, accompanied by his as
| sistant, Prof. W. H. Raglan, will come to low
son today Saturday. to see Mr.. FendalPs
awberries. The visitors will spend several
hours here and take luncheon with Mr..
Mr.. William Grason, W. Gill Smith, DR..
John s. Green, Dr. J. Royston Green and VIM:
s. Keech attended meeting OF the Maryland
| I &c Odd EollOua uhioh w held
in Frederick on Tuesday night. They made
the trip in the motorcars of DR.. j. r. Green
and Mr.. Keech, starting from Baltimore on
Tuesday afternoon. The party returned to
Towson early on Wednesday morning after
having had most enjoyable trip.
Rev. and Mrs. T. Nj. West, of KensiDgton,
Nd have issued invitations to the marriage
of their daughter, Miss Lucy May West, to MI.
Edward Harrington German, on wednesday,
June 10th, at st. Pauls M. +: Church at Ken
sington. Miss West is graduate OF the Wo-
mans College. Mr.. German is the son OF Rev.
Solomon German, pastor of the M. u. Church
at Mount Washington. Rev. Mr.. West was
until recently pastor of Hereford Circuit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hunter Anderson Huston, OF
junction City, Kansas, have issued CARDS to the
marriage of their daughter, Mary Elizabeth,
to Mr.. Gist Beverly Cockey. The ceremony
will take place at the home of the bride IN
junction City, on Wednesday, June 10th, at
noon. The prospective groom is a son OF Or.
|
county, and grandson of the late Peter F. and
Elizabeth Hutchins Cockey, of "Melrose, +"
Cockeysville.
Mr.. G. Edgar Richardson, young farmer
near Perry Hall, 18th district, was able to
come to Towson on Thursday to pay his taxes
He had severe case of grip last winter and
this was followed by an attack OF neurtis that
affected his entire body and limbs and rendered
him entirely helpless for about ten weeks. He
has improved so much now that he can walk
without the help ofcanes. DR.. II: I: Harrison
and Dr. j. F. II. Gorsuch attended him dur
ing his illness.
Mrs. Hannah NJ. Chester, who is "a years
of age, entertained at dinner at her home IN
OrangeviIle last Sunday, County Commissioner
and Mrs. Henry P. Mann and several mem
: bers of their family, besides other friends
,, Mrs. Chester, who is the widow Of Michael
, Chester, is a native of England, but has been
! in this country sixty-ive years. She enjoys
! good health and retains her faculties to re
markable degree. Her children are Mrs. Henry
P. Mann, Mrs. William Hops. Mrs. Sarah j
Kennedy and Messrs. Samuel, Charles e. anc
Frank Chester.
Mr.. George E. Shelley, well known far
! mer of My Lady's Manor, was among the visl
tors to Towson on Thursday and renewed hi!
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