The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-12-04

+ sparrows Point, Fifteenth District.--Mr
Leroy Draper of this place and N iss Catherine
Kelly of Baltimore were married Wednesday
November "a, at st. GATHERINGS Church, Balti
more. They will reside at 4O5 East street
Miss Margaret Irwin and Mr.. Leon Irwin
have returned from visit to friends at Easton
Md.
Mrs. ]. w. Cole and Mrs. r. E. Atilwei oI
Dryden, N. Y. who have been visiting Mr.
and Mrs. D. T. Wheeler. have returned home
Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Brundage of New
York are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. George d
! Wood.
Miss Helen James of Duq1esne. Pa, is
visiting her grandmother, Mrs. G. A. James OF
West E street.
Mr.. and Mrs. John N. Aten have returned
from Danyille, Pa, where they have been
visiting relatives.
Mr.. Fred Kennedy of Washington, d. c.,
spent the THANKSGIVING holidays with his
parents Mr.. and Mrs. ]. q. Kennedy.
Mrs Isaac Shertzer of Bel Air, Md is visit
ing her daughter. Mrs. Walter Hoover.
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Carnes gave recep-
ton Monday night in honor OF their daughter.
Ethel whose marriage to Mr.. Robert Carter
took place last week. A number OF useful
presents were received.
Mrs. Jacob Dallman was removed to the
Church Home and Infirmary, Baltimore, last
week for treatment, but is in an improved
condition at this time.
Miss Lulu Crewe, who has been connected
with the estore company for about five years, has
resigned her position and will take up pro-
fessional nursing at the Hebrew Hospital. Bal
timore. Miss Crewe was faithful in the duties
! that devolved upon her, and 1t is the wish OF
/ her many friends that she will meet with
success in her larger field of usefulness
Mrs. Hattie White, wife of Mr.. w. Clarence
White, has been suffering greatly from the
effects of a burn on her arm. which, IN some
I hcn inAo mod 0anainO infonan
Miss Grace Knapp and Messrs. John Knapp
and Edward Galloway spent the Thanksgiving
holidays at Chestnut Ridge
Mr.. John f. Hartzel has returned from a
! visit to relatives in Danvile. Pa.
I The next smoker of the Micawber Circle
| will be held on Monday evening, December 6,
| in the parish house. Mr.. Lynn Roby Meekins
of the Baltimore Star will be the speaker.
| But few men in Maryland have had as interest
ing career as has Mr.. Meekins, and whatever
subject he may speak upon is sure to prove of
| interest. he is a speaker much in demand,
and his willingness to again appear before the
Circle is a source of congratulation to its MEM
bers 1t is hoped that large attendance will
greet him.
Washington Camp, No. 8, Patriotic Order
Sons of America. attended divine service at
the Presbyterian Church last Sunday evening
and listened to a fine discourse by the pastor,
Rev. Charles G. Cady, his subject being 1.-The
land of the free and the home of the brave"
Mrs. Arthur Harris (nee Bockmiller) and
her husband and son paid a short visit to
friends here last week on their homeward
journey from trip to Florida. Mrs. Harris
was the organist of the Methodist Episcopal
Church here for several years previous to her
marriage. Mr.. Harris has large fruit farm
near Betterton, Md
Master Earl Raffensberger, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. H. Raffensberger, who was taken to a
hospital in Baltimore for treatment, has re-
furp od and e ronOrfQ6 ho m uoh inrp
in health
Mr. Charles Weir of the main Office has re-
turned from a weeks hunting trip.
1t is remarkable the interest that is mani
tested in and about Baltimore in the steel
works here, as evidenced by the large number
of pupils of the various schools that visit this
plant from time to time Probably the largest
number of pupils present on any one occasion
arrived Tuesday of last week, occupying three
trolley cars. 1t is readily seen that the interest
shown on the part of the business men is that
they have some conception at least of the adj
vantages that accrue to the State and county,
and to Baltimore in particular, because of this
great industry in their midst, and when inter-
est is manifested by the younger generation it
is evidence that there is disposition on their
part, more particularly than it has been il the
past, to be intelligent upon things about them,
in addition to the knowledge they get from
books; and it is this desire which seems to
have developed in later years that will
result in a more intelligent, broad-minded and
safer citizen in the years that are to come.
| Sparrows Point is great school in many ways
and should have the interest of every citizen of
the State when matters pertaining to its con-
| tinued usefulness are in the balance.
More than 5000 tons of iron ore from Cuba
| was in the holds of three tramp steamers that
| arrived here Monday morning. The vessels
bringing the raw material, which will later be
| turned into steel rails and possibly be shipped
| back to the country from which it came, were
| fhn Rritiah sfpamara VimQria from SQnfiap0.
| Grangewood, from Ninanima, and the Nor
| wegian steamship Leander, from Daiquire
| The combined cargoes of the three vessels was
| the largest consignments of iron ore to reach
| here in any one day for some time. All the
vessels reported moderate passages with just
enough rough weather to make the voyage up
the coast interesting. The Norwegian steamer
| Elsa reached here Monday from Havana to
load steel rails for Guaymas, Mexico.
| Slipping gracefully down the ways to the
| accompaniment of sOnorous blasts from score
| of steam vessels and the cheering of large
crowd of interested spectators, the new steamer
Three Rivers, built for the Maryland, Delaware
& Virginia Railway Company, took her initial
dip into the Patapsco at the shipyard Saturday
| last. The launching took place at 2 O'clock
| and promptly at that hour the last tie that
| bound the hull to the land was severed in
| twain, and as a cry "She's off, from the
crowd the boat started on her journey to the
| water. Striking the water stern first, the
| vessel sent up a shower of spray and careened
to one side as if to turn turtle, giving those on
board bad scare. Only for moment did
the vessel lose her equilibrium and then righted
herself rolling gently from side to side she
passed out into the stream. As the steamer
started on her trip down the ways the name
| which she will ever bear was given her by Miss
Helen Thomson of Wilmington. Del, grand
daughter of General Manager Willard Thorn
| son of the railway company. At the first
movement of the hull the fair sponsor sent
gaily bedecked bottle of champagne crashing
against the iron stern of the craft, and at the
same time, in a loud voice, exclaimed: II
christen thee Three Riversy' The crashing of
the bottle and the movement of the vessel was
the signal for the rousing welcome of the
steam craft about the shipyard, and in an in
slant the air fairly reverberated with the noise
of Whistles which kept up until after the new
vessel was taken in tow by a tug to her
fitting-out pier, where she will have her
engines and boilers installed and the finishing
touches put on. Capt. Thomson and party
made the trip on the steamer Westmoreland,
and on the return trip up the river luncheon
was served. The new vessel is built for night
service, and has her own electric light plant.
She will have accommodations for about $50
passengers, and will ply on the Rappahannock
Patuxent and Patapsco rivers, after which
waterways she was named.
Roslyn and Vicinity y.-Revival services be-
gan on Sunday night last at Mount Olive M: B..