The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-08-28

Personal Mention
Mr.. Ralph W. Rider, well known Tow
SON business man, is spending few days at
Atlantic City.
visiting their uncle, Mr.. VIM. T. Miles, of My
Lady's Manor.
Mrs. Elizabeth K. Ensor, widow of George
r Ensor. of the 9Th district, is suffering from
a stroke of paralysis.
Rev. William J. Meeks, pastor of Hereford
Circuit, N. E. Church. has been enjoying bis
vacation at Atlantic City.
Mrs. Jane Wright and her daughter, Mrs
Edward A. Anderson, of Tows0n, are regis
tered at The Traymore, Atlantic City.
Miss Julia Spottswood Lee, of Towson, was
guest this week of Mrs. J. Frank Turner, OF
Easton, Nd. and attended the Talbot county
fair.
Mrs. George Stewart and Miss Marie Scott,
of Woodbourne ave-, Govanstown, are spend
ing several weeks at The Stockton, Cape May,
N. j.
Miss Grace Pearce, of Raspeburg, has re-
turned after having spent two weeks with her
cousin, Mrs. @. Holmes Lennon, of Madon-
ma, Nd.
Miss Agnes Snyder, of Fallston, who has
been seriously i'll, is much improved and has
gone for Northern trip to remain an unlimi-
ted time.
Miss Elsie ]. Justis, of Park avenue. Bal
timore, and Mrs. VIM. I. Miles, of My Lady's
Manor, are spending two weeks at Atlantic
City, NJ.
Miss Janet Bartleson and Mr.. Lee Bartle-
son, of Chester, Pa, are visiting their aunt
and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. II. E. Bartleson, of
Cockeysville.
DIR. George Y. Massenburg, of the Towson
drug firm of MassenbCrg & Son, is camping in
Virginia with party of friends from Mount
Washington.
Miss Elizabeth Longnecker of Towson, is
spending few days with her niece, Mrs. Hugh
W. s. Powers, at the rectory, Highland. How
ard county. Md.
Col. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Taylor, who
went to Salt Lake City to attend the National
Encampment, g. A. r., have returned. They
had delightful trip.
Rev. Thomas E. Copes pastor of Towson
M. e. Church, will preach at the reopening of
Pleasant Grove Church, Carroll county, Sum
day, August 10Th, at I'm:
Rev. William E. Curley. pastor Of Balti-
more Circuit, M. E. Church, who sustained
slight stroke of paralysis short time ago, is
taking rest to recuperate his health.
Mrs. d. A. Conn, after spending some time
at Bon-A ire Cottage, Pen-Mar, has gone to
Ocean Grove, N. j., accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. T. Emory Conn and daughter, Lillian.
Mr.. Thomas c. Bruff, of TOwson, accom-
panied by his son, Mr.. Benjamin Brutf. is
spending this week with his daughter, Mr..
William L. Cauthorn, of Tappahannock. Va.
Rev. Henry Gerstmeyer, pastor of the
Lutheran Church at Marysville Pa, accom-
panied by his wife aud child, is visiting his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Gerstmeyer, of
Towson.
Mrs. F. E. Chick and her daughter, Miss
Mary Chick. who had been spending some
time with relatives and friends in Baltimore
county, have returned to their home at Hope
Mr.. Augustus D. Clemens, of Govanstown.
well known real estate operator, submitted
to an operation at the Johns Hopkins Hos
pital on Tuesday night. He is progressing
favorably.
Mr.. George R. Gather, the we'll known
lawyer, sailed for Europe few days ago and
will spend six weeks abroad Mr.. Gather
was the last Republican nominee for Governor
of Maryland.
Miss Bertha M. Green, of Glenarm. and
Miss Katherine NJ. Bromelsick, ofGovanstown,
accompanied by Messrs. George and Elmer
Green and Mr.. VIM. Bromelsick, have returned
from a visit to Luray, Va.
Rev. and Mrs o. E. Swinehart, of Perry
Hall, and Mr.. and Mrs. William Lyle of
Thornville, Ohio, who have been visiting
them the past two weeks, spent last Monday
sightseeing in Washington.
Mr.. Isaac J. Twining, well known farm
er of the 18th district, who called at THE UNION
office on Friday morning, was on his way to
Wrightstown, Pa, to attend the annual reu-
MON of the Twining family next week.
Mr.. s. W. Kapp has resigned his position
as superintendent of the transportation depart
ment of the Maryland Steel Company at Spar
rows Point and will shortly remove his family
from that place. He is son of Mr.. H. W.
Kapp. of Ruxton.
The following residents of Baltimore
county have been named as members OF the
advisory board of the Frederick County Fair
Messrs. Duane H. Rice, Samuel NJ. Shoemaker,
e. Cuttings Merryman, James s. Nussear and
Dixon G. Walker.
Mr.. T. Scott Offutt, of the Towson bar, is
among the Maryland lawyers who left for
Detroit last Sunday to attend the annual meet
ing of the American Bar Association. Mr.
George Whitelock, of Baltimore, read paper
during the meeting.
Mr.. William McCallister, president of the
Suburban Savings Bank and Hamilton Inn
provement Association, left on Wednesday,
with his wife and daughter Miss Ruth Nc
Callister, for a two-week trip to Cape May,
Wildwood and Atlantic City.
Rev. Benjamin +. Brown, an Episcopalian
clergyman of Orlando, Florida, is visiting bis
brother, Mr.. E. Fell Brown, of Towson. He
conducted services in Trinity P. E. Church last
Sunday night and will preach in the NJ e.
Church on Sunday night, August 18th.
-Messrs. W. Evans Anderson and Richard
H. Wiley. active members of the White Hall
Farmers Club and Improvement Association,
who were in Towson on Tuesday, speak en-
Enthusiastically of this years fair of the associa-
ton, active preparations for which are now IN
progress.
ment of the Pullman Car Company. Chicago,
called on several of his friends in Towson on
Tuesday. Col. Petit and wife, who is daugh-
ter of the venerable Thomas Ward, Of Texas,
always time their annual visit to Bsltimore
county in order to enjoy the Timonium Fair.
Mr.. Isaac H. Moss, the well known Go
vanstown florist, was member OF the bowl
ing team that won the championship from
ten other cities during the recent National
Florists Convention in Cincinnati. In the
several contests Baltimore won eight prizes and
stood at the top Of the list. Some of the prizes
are very handsome.
representative from the Maryland Grand Lodge,
10. .. F., will leave September 9th for Seattle
to attend the annual meeting of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge Of that order. Before returning
Mr.. Grason will visit Yellowstone Park, San
Francisco, Portland and other places of interest
and will return by the Southern route.
Mr.. Charles s. Rampley, of Long. Green
Valley, who lately had an operation performed
for appendicitis, is slowly regaining his health
but being unable to look after his dairy bust
ness he has determined to sell off his carefully
selected herd at his farm, near Unionville, on
Monday, September 9Th; For particulars see
advertising columns of THE Union today.
Mr.. Henry Smith, a trucker OF White
Marsh, 18th district, who renewed his sub
scription to THE UNION on Wednesday, told q
rather doleful story of the outlook for farmers
in his section of the county on account OF the
drouth. While all crops will be short he says.
some will be entire failures and the tiler of the
soil will have expended his money and time
for nothing.
Miss Nellie Carroll Jones, of Govanstown,
has returned from visit to Locust Grove,
her parents country home in Dorchester
county. to assist her sister, Miss Edith Jones,
agent of the Federated Charities in Baltimore
as her stenographer. Miss Ruth Jones is at
Ocean Grove, N. j., the guest OF Miss Edith
Rollison, a former classmate at Columbia
University, N. Y.
Rev. DR.. Henry Branch, for twenty seven
wears pastor of the Presbyterian Church in
Ellicott City, has resigned and will remove to
Baltimore to continue his ministerial work.
For many years DIR. Branch has been secre-
tary of the Maryland Synod. He is chaplain
of the Maryland Grand Lodge OF Masons and
also State and National chaplain OF the Society
of the War of 1872
Mr.. Charles Brockmeyer of Fullerton, and
Mr.. Charles q. Denstbach, Of Towson, are
again engaged at Timonium Fair grounds as
sisting Secretary Nussear in getting the entries
in the books for the coming fair. Mr.. Brock
never has been sort of fixture at the county
fair for many years and what he don't know
about matters concerning stock and poultry
entries is scarcely worth knowing:
Mr.. Lewis NJ. Bacon, Of the Towson law
firm of Grason & Bacon, who spent week at
Ocean Grove N. j.. with Mrs. Bacon and their
daughter, returned few days ago Speaking
on Wednesday of the condition Of the crops in
this section of Maryland, Mr.. Bacon, who is
an active farmer as well as lawyer, SAID ne
did not think that corn would yield more than
half crop and that the outlook generally for