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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-20
Monkton. n. q. R.-The Ladies, Guild

Monkton, N. O. r. R-The Ladies' Guild
will be entertained at the home of Mrs. L.
Melville Pearce, on Thursday afternoon,
March 25lh 1t will be the business meeting
for the year and the election for officers will
take place and other business transacted.
Mr.. I. Melville Pearce entertained the Junior
Gunpowder Agricultural Club at his home,
Manor Farm. on Saturday last. A majority
of the members were present. Mr. Lewis M.
Bacon, ST. represented the Senior Club. The
subject for discussion was: What is the
best fence ?" The consensus of opinion seemed
to favor the wire fence of the improved pattern
as the best and cheapest. Among the visitors
were Messrs Jacob NJ. Pearce, J. Myers Pearce,
Howard Nelson and Walter Hutchins. Mrs.
John 6. Patterson assisted Mrs. Pearce in serv-
ing her guests with sumptuous supper, which
was much enjoyed
subjects of king grip these March days.
Among those on the list are t. Melville Pearce,
0. M Hutchins and son, Stanley Hutchins,
Mrs. James T. Treadway, of Corbett; Mrs.
Sarah Slade, the aged mother of former Com
missioner John V. 5lade, and her daughter,
Miss Mary E. Sade; also Mrs. Margaret Mer-
ryman.
Mr. and Mrs Joshua Kelso Richardson. who
have been enjoying their honeymoon in Wash
ington, Philadelphia, Atlantic City and New
York city, returned to their home on Wednes-
day afternoon.
a rev weeks ago your COTIcspOHucHtl cpOItcu
the changes that farm sales and removals had
made that week in this neighborhood and
among our new corners who recently purchased
farm and supplied himself with everything
but a wife-was Mr.. Sidney Waters. 1t now
gives me pleasure TO report that the omission
will soon be supplied as Mr.. Waters will short
ly take unto himself wife. The engagement
Of Mrs. Estele Hutchins Pearce to Mr. Syden-
ham H. Waters is announced The marriage
will take place after Easter.
The Social and Literary Club, which is held
during Lent in conjunction with a Lenten SER
vice at the Guild Hail. met on Wednesday
evening. 1t was the first club meeting service
since February 17th due to inclement weather.
Rev. Mr.. Plummer, gave a very interesting
talk on the Apostles Creed, after which q
short program was rendered.
Mrs. Edwin L. Pearce entertained few
ladies at dinner on Tuesday of this week As
it was a sewing bee for the Guild it is ques-
ton which flew the fastest needles or the ladies'
tongues. H.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-20

Free Distribution of Nut Trees.-The
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station has
free for distribution this spring, to people es
pecially interested in nut culture. number of
pecan trees and probably will have Persian wal
nut trees also. In order to create an interest
in nut-growng among the school children,
these trees will be sent free to schools for Arbor
Day planting. All schools and interested per
sons who will agree to plant, care for and re-
port on the condition of the trees may receive
them by applying at once to C. P. Close, Col
lege Park, Md. The trees will be distributed
the last Of March or early in April. Requests
will be filled as long as the supply lasts.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-20

Wiseburg, 7th District.-Mr. JAS Tracey,
OF this place, is very sick and confined to his
home. DR.. R. R. Norris is his physician
Mrs. John T. Amos is very sick and attended
by DR.. E. W. Hyde, of Parkton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Lowell have returned
to their home here from visit to friends in
Baltimore.
Mrs Ellen Heffner has been visiting friends
in Baltimore.
Miss Carrie Copenhaver, of New Freedom,
has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles Fred
erick, of this place.
The literary and musical entertainment given
here by the young people February 9th was a
very successful affair.
The Ladies' Aid Society of this place will
hold an oyster supper and baZsr in the hail.
March 25th, 18th and 9th. Public cordially
invited. CT.
Corbett, N. G. r. R.-Mrs. Sallie Slade is
seriously i'll at her home here. She is the
mother of ex-County Commissioner John v.
Slade and lately celebrated her 87th birthday,
when family reunion was held in her honor
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Brooks, of Fawn Grove
Pa, is visiting at the home of Mr.. A. r. Hitch
cock, of this place.
Mr. o. j. Reichard spent several days at
Shrewsbury.
Miss Lucy Hitchcock is visiting friends in
Baltimore
Miss Bessie Matthews, of this place, is spend
ing few weeks in Washington, D. G.
Miss Winnie Potter, after spending few
DAYS here with Miss Marcie Sparks, has left for
her home in Berlin, Md. She is daughter of
Rev. s. A. Potter, formerly rector of st. James
P. E. Church. B.
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TO CREDITORS.

Joshua G.. BOsLey, Attorney at LGU, Piper
Building, TOtcsOn, Md.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-20

Insurance Companies Won the Case
In the Circuit Court on Thursday Judge Duncan
rendered decision in the case ofthe Home In
surance Company, ofNew York, and the Mutu-
al Fire Insurance Company, Of Montgomery
county, Maryland, against Mary A. 5. Owlngs,
awarding the Home company 1886 "a aud the
Montgomery company 1858 l6.
The amounts are to be paid by Mrs. Owings
from money she received in settlement Of her
suit against the United Electric Light and Power
Company and the Consolidated Gas, Electric
Light and Power Company for damages for the
destruction of her house and furniture on De-
cember 20, 1905, by reason of defective wiring.
Mrs. Owings received $1,000 from these com
panies and paid her attorney, Mr.. William Col
ton, 81, 900
The insurance companies had policies on the
house and furniture and paid Mrs. Owings the
amounts of their policies. These policies con-
tanned what is known as the "subrogation
clause" which says that if the insured has
right against any person or corporation for the
destruction Of their property such right shall be
assigned to the companies.
By virtue of this provision the insurance COM
panies claimed the money received by Mrs.
Owings from the electric light companies and
filed o bill for its enforcement. When Mrs.
Owings received the money from the insurance
companies she refused to sign the receipts sent
her, which receipts contained the subrogation
clause. 1t was argued by Mr.. Cotton that in.
asmuch as the insurance companies accepted
altered receipts-withoutt the subrogation clause
that this constituted a waiver on their parts
to any claim for the money received by Mrs.
Owings from the electric companies. Judge
Duncan holds that the waiver is not made out
bv the proof submitted. Messrs. Whitelock u
Fowler represented the Home company and
Mr.. Thomas B. Hull the Mutual company.
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THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the subscri--
Der has obtained from the Orphans Court of
Baltimore county, letters of administration on
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ROBERT HALL.
late of said county, deceased. All persons hay
ing claims against the said estate are hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber,
On or before the 9th day of September. 1909;
They may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate. Those indebted to said
estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment, Given under my hand this 4th day of
March, 1909. HENRIETTA HALL.
Mch 6-4tVl Administrative.
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Interesting Odd Fellows Ceremonies
AT the rally held at the [. Q. 0. +. Temple
the auspices of the Grand Lodge of Maryland
the degree staff of Mt. Zion Lodge, No. 81, OF
Pikesville, under the direction OF Mr.. harry
A. Davis, conferred the first degree OF the order
in an impressive manner. bringing them an
ovation from 500 members present. This is
considered one of the best degree teams IN
Maryland, numbering 40 men, introducing
number of new features in the work, among
them brass music for the marches.
The third degree was conferred by the stat
OF Hampden Lodge, No. 124, of Hampton.
The different lodges in Baltimore county sent
a large number Of candidates for the degrees.
Mr.. William Grason, of Towson, made an
eloquent address in which he commended the
degree stats and congratulated all upon the
good work the order is doing at present.
Hereford Circuit Notes.-Preachng ser.
vices on Hereford Circuit, NJ. E. Church, will
be held on Sunday next as follows: Jessop,
IL A. M, Bosley, P. M, and Epworth, p NJ,
Rev, John s. German Dover, IL. A M, Mt.
Camel, 8. P. NJ. Hereford, 7.30 P. M, Rev. w.
J. Meeks.
persons were received into full membership in
the church Five adults we're given the rite Of
baptism, and communion service was held
following a sermon on Religious Steadfast-
ness" by the Rev. w. J. Meeks.
Got a Verdict Against the Company
On Monday last Mr.. NJ @. Paine and wife Sc
cured verdict for $3.50 in the Circuit Court
here against the United Railways and ELECTRIC
Company for alleged damages to their lawn ana
hedge caused, it was claimed by hre when
was communicated from burning leaves on the
line of the railway. Attorney T.. Lynne ram.
ter represented Mr. and Mrs. Paine aDd the
company was represented by Mr.. Elmer j..
Cook, who filed motion for new trial.
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TO CREDITORS.

W. GIL Smith, Attorney at LGsC, Second No
ttOslGI Bank Building, TOtUsOn, Md.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-20

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
THIS IS To GIVE NOTICE, That the subscri-
Der has obtained from the Orphans Court of
Baltimore county, letters testamentary on the
estate of
JOHN T. B. PARLETT,
late of said county deceased. All persons having
claims against the said estate are hereby warned
to exhibit the same. with the vouchers thereof,
to the subscriber,
On or before the 9th day of September, 1908; ;
They may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit Of said estate. Those indebted to said
estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment Given un1er my hand this 4th day of
March, 1909. w. GILL SMITH,
Mch. 6-4t*l Executor.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-20
TO CREDITORS.

W. Gill Smith, attorney at LGtC, Second Ma
tiOnGL Bank building, TOtcsO1, Md.
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FREDERICK F. PETERS.

THIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the subscri-
Baltimore county letters testamentary on the
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-20

WILLIAM ]. PEACH,
Register of Wills for Baltimore county.
- Il
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late of said county, deceased. All persons having
claims against the said estate are hereby warned
to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof,
to the subscriber,
On or before the 9th day of September, 1905
They may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate. Those indebted to saio
estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment Given under my hand this 4th day of
March, 1909 GERTRUDE H. BORK,
Mch 6-4t*1 Executrix.
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Turnbaugh-Mrs. Emma Mays Turnbaugh,
wife of MIR. Edward G. Turnbaugh, of Here.
ford died Saturday afternoon, after several
months illness, aged SO years. She was daugh-
ter of Mr.. r. Harry Mays and leaves several
children. She is also survived by the follow
ing brothers and siste rs: Messrs Blaine, George,
Irving and Albert Mays, Mrs. Wilmer Thomp-
son, Mrs. VIM. Burns, Mrs. Howard Miller
and Miss Hester MAYS
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-03-20

Lutherville, N. G. R. R.-The Mission
Study Glass met Friday night, 18th inst, at the
home of Mr.. William E. Marshall. After a
study period, games were played and refresh
ments served Mr.. Alfred G. Hatch is the
leader of the class.
Mr.. Edward Markell is having his house
improved with a coat of paint.
We were very sorry to hear of the death of
Mr.. Frank Duering He was sick only short
time. His young wife has the sympathy of
this community.
Mr.. and Mrs. George M. Smith have returned
home after visiting relatives at Arlington. Va.
and in Dulany's Valley.
Miss Dora Stains, after spending some time
with friends in Baltimore has returned to her
home. d.
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to say how much of his work is to be classed with 'the tales of 8 traveller.
 Among historians, telling the truth is mostly a modern invention. very large proportion of the ablest ancient histo- rlans evidently wrote to please, rather than instruct The work of Herodotus was not meant to be read quietly by the critical scholar in his study, but to be recited publicly, like a play or a poem, to listening and applauding thousands, eager for excitement and amusement And it accomplished it's end, for it is one of the most interesting narratives in the world.
 But if a student wishes to learn just what history ought to teach him he will be safer in taking Sir Walter Scott's novels as authorities, than in reposing his faith on Herodotus and Livy.
 Even when we come down to modern times and consult authors who meant to tell the truth our case is not much mend ed. Modern prejudices are often fatal to ancient history. In Mitfords history of Greece, a book which once had a great run, the illustrious Demosthenes is hardly respectable. Your ideas of men and things in English history will depend largely upon which historians you read, or which you believe. Hume with all his skepticism, could be idolatrously devout. Froude, though an extremely entertain ing writer, will not "a round, unvar- nished tale deliver' about anybody or anything. Macaulays history, learned
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had been Henry Clay whigs, both had been Abraham Lincoln republicans, both had been soldiers of the Federal army in the big war. but Campbell turned demo-
 erat on the issue of southern reconstrue- ton. and it was he, and such as he. who retained the word white in the suffrage clause of the ohio constitution by more than 5O0O0 majority at the election of 1867, and it is there yet, the only eonsti
 tuition of all the states that has it. Though a whig and republican, Lewis D. Campbell, as chairman of ways and means of the Thirty-fourth Congress, passed, in 1888, bill containing the low est tariff duties of our whole history. The House had a republican plurality, and Nathaniel P, Banks, republican, was the speaker. The Senate was demo- cratic and the President was a democrat
 After Campbell beat sehenck for Con gress President Grant appointed the lat ter minister to England, and it is true that upon the solicitude of a duchess he
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ance with perfect distinctness That he heard his kinsman, Mir Fry, say that he, as deputy sheriff, went to collect taxes from MT. Monroe, and that he got very mad with him for doing so. l, myself have always understood that Monroe Hill got it's name from the fact that Mir Mon roe owned it and resided there
 Colonel Westenbalzer then went to the clerks office and interviewed Captain Fowler, and the following colloquy en- sued s'Did President Monroe ever live in Albermarle county" Why, yes; he lived out here at the place now occupied by John E. Massey"
 Colonel Westenbaker continues;
 Captain Fowler did not know whether Mir Monroe ever lived on Monroe Hill. Bob Scott S7 years old, hale and hearty, says that MT. Monroe did live on Mon roe Hill, and also at Ash Lawn. Re members seeing Monroe in a carriage with Jefferson on the way to a banquet at the University; and General Lafayette was riding with them. The University buildings were not then finished"
 Prof Frank Smith of the University of Virginia wrote thus:
 ''Unbroken tradition connects MT Mon roe with Monroe Hill. l have always un- derstood that he once lived there. MT. Minor, who came to this place in 1882, has always had the same belief, and the mat ter was too fresh in 1888 to admit of doubt of it's accuracy. It is eertian MT. Monroe did live in this county, viz at Ash Lawn, where Governor Massey now re-
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and able as it must in fairness be called, has been, not without point, stigmatzed as "a whig pamphlet just as James Partons Life of Jefferson has, with some justice, been called "a Unitarian pam phlet." Even when there is no prejudice in the case, and when there is no con ceivable motive for hiding the truth, or for perverting it, still it is not always easy to find out what the truth is. If I do not mistake Edgar A. Poe gives in print two dates for his own birth, and the dates differ by a year or two.
 Andrew Jackson. in his famous "proc- lamation" to the ''nullifiers' of South Carolina, addressed them as "citizens of my native state," when the fact is that he was born in North Carolina. It sounds strange that the President of the United States had never learned which state of the union gave him birth.
 Some years ago, a Baltimore paper published a good-natured controversy between two Virginians on the question whether James Monroe, after retiring from the presidency, ever lived in Alber- marie county, Virginia, and near Monti- cello, the residence of Thomas Jefferson
 For certain reasons which l need not here state the question awakened my in terest, and, supposng that it would be easy to settle the matter, I determined to investigate, and will now give the re- suit of my investigation.
 Col. Charles Westenbaker of Charlottes- vile, Va, wrote as follows
 q cannot get you proof positive that
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THE candid and cautious student who
 gives his mind to historical inves-
 4 tigation is in danger of becoming skeptical. History is, indeed, a very much more difficult study than it is com monly supposed to be. True, there is no lack of text books and the authorities" are abundant and to spare, so that if studying history means reading books that are entitled histories" or if pro- ficiency in the study means filling the mind and burdening the memory with the contents of these multitudinous vol umes then the historical student may have plain sailing. But when the ques- ton arises, How much of this is true?" then comes the tug of war.
 Livy is one of the most elegant and most readable of the Roman historians; but it is perfectly manifest to the dullest apprehension that great deal of his famous work is fabulous and legendary. There Is more truth. in "Aesop's Fables than in some of the earlier chapters of Livys history" Livy doubtless tells much that is true; but it is so mixed with legend and fable as to puzzle even the great genius and profound research of a Niebuhr if he gives his mind to the task of extracting the grains of truth from the masses of grotesque yarns"
 As a story-teller Herodotus enjoys the highest reputation; but it is impossible
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Monroe ever lived here, but the weight of evidence df l may so call iD is very decidedly in favor of the probability of his having done so. I first interviewed Maj. Green Peyton Proctor at the Uni versity of Virginia. He says that he al ways understood and believed that eX- President Monroe lived in the house at the northwest angle on Monroe Hill Cat the university) and that he afterwapd moved to Ash Lawn, the present home of ex-Lent Gov John E. Massey.
 Colonel Yenable University professor says that he always believed the above to be a fact B Mr Jesse Maury had a long talk with me about it. He says substantially. My uncle was con- sul to Liverpool, and died in Paris of some epidemic. MT. Monroe was in Paris at the time and attended to all his fun eral arrangements, and thereby cemented a friendship on the part of the Maury family which lasted as long as MT. Mon roe lived. Mr. Maury is a cousin of the late Commodore Mathew r. Maury. He says that when he can first remember, the land on which Monroe Hill is situat- ed, or rather a part of it, was in the pos session of a MT Perry. whose descendants are with us now in the family of Spoon CTS That Perry bought of Kemp Catlett, and that Catlett bought from President Monroe. That he also lived CMonroe) at Ash Lawn, and that I have often seen Jefferson, Madison and Monroe ol the court green in Charlottesville and that he remembers his features and appear
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sides. Monroe owned that place, and Mir Minor recalls an interview of a strik- ing character which took place between MT. Monroe and Mr Sanders, a promi- nent member of the Charlottesville bar in the early '20s as described 10 him by MT g. W Minor, and is of the impression that MT Monroe resided at AslRLown and Monroe Hill at intervals during his pres idency, which endea in 1925. He had been preparing for himself a mansion at Oak Hill. in Loudon county, Va, which he occupied after 1925.
 I wrote to my old friend and instructor. pr. Schele de Eere then professor of modern languages in the university and here is his reply:
 "rhe answer to your letter has been delayed IS hours, because ] wished to make sure of the negative answer felt at once I would have to send you. l consulted with Mir. Minor, our nestor and highest authority in all matters concern ing the history of the University of Vir- ginia. The result is that it Is not possl- ble to establish connection between President Monroe and Monroe Hill. The prevailing impression upon the mind of nearly every one here is that MT. Monroe did once reside in the house now occupied by ths chairman of the faculty, Mir Thornton and that the eminence was on that account called Monroe Hill. But that is all.
 'The impression is strengthened by the fact that at a subsequent period the eX-
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President certainly resided about four or five miles from Charlottesville, beyond Monticello, at place for some years passed occupied by John F. Massey well known to yoU, and bearing tho name of Ash Lawn.
 eMr. Minor says: MT. Monroe bore a very actual, though not a very active connection with the University of Vir- ginia, from an early period. He was a visitor, if not from the origin of the board in 1873, at least from the time when he retired from the presidency in 1925. He ison, or he would, there seems to be no doubt, have succeeded Mr. Jefferson in the rectorship.'
 To sum up It seems to be settled be- Aond all reasonable doubt that Mir. Mon- roe did live at Ash Lawn in AlbemarIe county. and near Monticello, and the evie dence makes 1t highly probable that for a time he lived on Monroe Hill, at the University of Virginia. There Is on record a letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, urging MT. Madison to buy a place quite near MT. Jefferson, the said place being then for sale and one of the inducements offered for the purchase was that Monroe had bought a place close by' 1. e.. near Monticello.
 Whatever may be thought of the merits of the questions here discussed, I have distinctly proved to my own dissa tisfae- tion that the truth of history is not al- ways easy to discover, even when there are no clouds of prejudice to obscure 1t.