The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-07-25
Personal Mention

Personal Mention
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Scott Offutt, of Towso
are spending a couple of weeks at Virgin
Beach.
Mrs. Albert DeBaugh, of Central avenu
Towson, is visiting friends in Camden, Ne
Jersey.
Miss Laura Talbot Bosley, of Luthervill
is visiting the Misses Shirley, near Charlie
town. w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Kennedy Cromwell an
children, of Lake Roland, will spend mel
Mrs. e. Cuttings Merryman and family,
Gerar Farm, near Cockeysville, are spending
two weeks at Long Branch, N. j.
MIR. and Mrs. James J. Lindsay, of Tow
son. accompanied by their three children az
at Wildwood, N. j., for two weeks.
| Miss Ann Colt Merryman, of Willov
| Brook Farm, near Cockeysville, has as be
| guests Misses Mary and Eta Albert
DIR. John w. Hawkins, of Towson, ha
gone to Charles county. Md, to spend tw,
weeks at his old home, near La Plata.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Deford. of "Oak
Waldorf Astoria, New York, on Thursday.
Miss Nettie ]. Polagano, of Ashland, N. G
K. r., and the Misses Richardson, of Balti
more, are registered at Hadden Hall, Allan
tic City.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Stewart Diffenderffer and
daughter, of Green Spring Valley, are spend
ing some time at the Marlborough Blenheim,
Atlantic City.
= Mr.. Edgar G. Miller, Jr., president of the
Title Guarantee and Trust Company, accom-.
panied by MIR. Richard 81. Peasants, is spend
ing six weeks abroad.
Miss Jennie Mitchell, of Hereford, has
been elected secretary of the Ladies' Home
Interest Club of the 8th district, succeeding
Miss Ella F. Scott, resigned.
Mrs. A. 7. Pindell, of Sherwood Rectory,
Cockeysville accompanied by her daughter,
Miss Jane Pindell, will leave today for trip
TO Niagara Falls Buffalo. etc.
Miss Mary NOVEL;, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George r. NOVEL;, of Glencoe, who has
been under treatme mt faT, RpNqpd iaitia at Johns
-Ex-County Commissioner George w. Vel
lott, who is enjoying his leisure at his Ridge
view Farm, in Long Green Valley, called on
some of his Towson friends this week.
-Messrs. s. Bonsal Brooks and Horace
White, of Green Spring Valley, are at Orange,
Va, this week attending the horse show.
They are guests of Mr.. Thomas Atkinson.
MIR. George A. Klein, justice of the peace,
has an Office at Fullerton, Belair road. The
services of such an official have been much
needed in that rapidly growing community.
Mr.. John F. Anderson, clerk to Sheriff
STREET., who has been very sick for a couple of
at this time. DIR. R. G. Massenburg is attend
ing him.
DIR. William D. Corse, the well known
physician of Gardenville, who has been i'll for
six weeks, is convalescing and, accompanied
by his wife, is spending several weeks at Cape
May, NJ.
Mr.. Charles Fl. Mays has rented his farm,
near Hereford, to Mr.. James Almony, an ex-
perienced farmer who is now in charge. Mr..
Mays has resumed his duties in the County
Clerks Office at Towson.
DIR. A. c. McCurdy, one of the managers
A. MI -.
on Thursday to attend the races of the Della
ware Horse Show Association with view to
securing entries for the Timonium races.
Col. Charles B. Rogers, formerly school
examiner of Baltimore county, who is now
resident of Pittsburg, is visiting his former
home, "Lystra." Green Spring Valley Until
recently Col. Rogers was resident of Bates
burg. s. G.
Mr.. William Bowen of s., bailiff to the
Orphans Court, who is nearly so years of age,
attended the outing of Towson M. Z. Sunday
school al Bay Shore Park on Tuesday and APP
peared to enjoy the day as much as those not
half his age.
Mr.. J. Stanley Gorsuch, of Baltimore
county, who is student at the Maryland
Agricultural College, has secured a position
with the Geological Survey. He is son of
DR.. ]. F. H. Gorsuch, general health officer of
This county.
Mr.. John Mays Little, of the Towson bar
Baltimore county, is sick with diphtheria at
bis home near Partition. He was attacked
suddenly last Monday while on his way to his
office in TOwson.
Mr.. Elmer J. Spamer, we'll known truck
farmer of the Perry Hall neighborhood, who
ion of the county is not SO badly off for rain
as some others. They have had some showers
here when there was no rain elsewhere.
Mrs. A. T. Street,, Mrs. Harry W. Dill
worth and Mrs. Susie Burton, of Long Green
Valley, and Mrs. Robert s. Francis, ofTowson,
eft on Wednesday by the Northern Central
Railway for ten days trip to Niagara Falls
ind other points of interest in the North.
Rev James F. Plummer, of West River,
Nd, has accepted the call to the rectorship of
st. James Church, My Lady's Manor. He is
graduate Of the Virginia The9logiGal Semi.
by Mrs. William H. Wight, Mrs.
RI Dunlop Wight, Mrs. N. Bosley Merryman
Mrs. George Jessop, Mrs. Harry M. Lord. Mrs.
Asa B. Gardiner, Jr., Mrs. Lewis N: Kelzer
and sister, the Misses Wright and Miss Mar
yaret Wight.
Mr.. Richard H. Woollen, of Baltimore,
Tor many years well known resident OF Green
Spring Valley, called on some of his friends IN
Towson few days ago. He has almost en-
tirely recovered from the effects OF the frac-
tured hip that he sustained last winter by
falling on the ice.
-Messrs. John w. Hall, q. Howard Isaac,
Frank l. Wheeler and 7. A. Bayne Dukehart,
of Towsou, with several gentlemen from Bal
timore. including Messrs. Jefferson D. Norris
and Walter B. Warner, left on Wednesday for
a Yachting trip on the bay. They will go to
Old Point and the Capes and expect to be away
Mr.. Noah E. Offutt, of the Towson bar,
celebrated his 35th birthday at his home at
Cockeysville, on Wednesday, and at the same
time his parents, DIR. and Mrs. Thomas u.
Offutt, of Granite, celebrated the ffty-first an.
niversary of their marriage. Mrs. n. Il. OHutt
is daughter of Mr.. Joshua +. Cockey, presi-
dent of the National Bank of Cockeysville.
Mr.. A. E. Mccain, of Seven Valley, YORK
county, was in Towson on Monday. Some
wears ago he was extensively engaged in dairy
ing at Melvale N. G. r. R., but atterly be has
been in the timber business. He is now on
the lookout for a farm in Baltimore county
and if he finds something to suit him he may
locate here permanently. Mr.. McCann says
that the late financial depression has knocked
the bottom out of the timber business.
Mr.. Thomas ]. Lea, manager of the Shep-
pard. Pratt Hospital farm, returned last Sun.
dav from a n.day visit to his brother-in-law,
DR.. Gilpin, well known physician OF Berkeley
Springs. Mr.. Lea says the drought IN that
section of West Virginia is even worse than it
is here and that farm crops-especially hum
dreds of acres of tomatoes that are planted for
the canneries-are literally burned up. Can
ming is a new industry there but Mr.. Lea says
it will prove disastrous to many this year.
When Baltimore Was Village.-Inter-
esting histories are connected with several OF
the buildings on the east side of Greene street,
inst south of Baltimore street, says the Baltl.