The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-05-08
Parsonal Mention. :

Personal Mention
MIR. G. Herbert Rice, member of the Schoo
| Board has resigned the presidency of the
! Gainesville Country Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles j. Bonaparte this
week reopened Bella Vista, their country place
in lower Long Green Valley.
School Superintendent Albert s. Cook and
| Mrs. Cook of TOwsOn, are spending some time
at the Chalfonie, Atlantic City.
Mr. G. Howard Stirling, of Towson. has
secured position, with the b. q .. Railroad
Company as travelling milk agent.
Rev. DR.. William d. Finney, of Moores'
town, N. j., has declined the call to the pastor
ate of the Presbyterian Church at Govanstown.
Hon. D. Hopper Emory and family and
Mrs. Jackson Piper and family, who spent the
past winter in Baltimore are again occupying
their summer homes in Towson.
Mr.. Robert M. Taylor, Baltimore county's
well known gentleman jockey, has been riding
some winners during the spring meeting of the
Maryland Jockey Club at Pimlico.
Mr.. Elmer J. Cook, of the Towson bar, has
been retained by the White Hall Farmers
Club and Improvement Association to look
after its interests in public road affairs.
Mr.. John l. Anderson, an aged retired
farmer of the Hillen road, mounted on line
charger, headed the cavalcade of Govanstown
fremen in the parade here on Wednesday.
Mr. r. Heber Murphy, Jr., of Baltimore,
and MIR. G. Dubois Murphy, of Fayetteville,
N c.. last week visited their father Rev. R.
Heber Murphy, at st. Johns Rectory, Worth.
ington Valley.
Col Benjamin F. Taylor, superintendent
of the National Cemetery at Loudon Park,
and a former County Commissioner, was
warmly greeted by many friends in Towson
on Wednesday.
Mr.. William D. Merryman, of the Sth dis
trict who has had experience in the Office, is
assisting the County Treasurer in the rush of
those taxpayers who wish to get the benefit of
q nQr
Mr.. Rufus K. Wood, general agent of the
Maryland Steel Company at Sparrow's Point,
had his right leg broken in two places few
days ago while out sailing by being struck by
the boom of his boat.
Mr.. Charles Il. G. Curtis we'll known 10th
district farmer who had been confined to his
home for several months was able to come to
Towson on Wednesday. Mr.. Curtis is always
among the first in the county to pay his taxes.
Mr.. Harry E. Goodwin, who was elected
president of the Volunteer Firemen's AssOcia-
ton of Baltimore county on Wednesday, is
member of the bar and an ex-member of the
House of Delegates. His home is at Glyndon.
Mr.. John Mays Little member of the
Towson bar and also member of the House
of Delegates, has been elected president of the
First National Bank of Parkton, which will
shortly begin business at Parkton, N. @. R. R.
MIR. Eli Tucker well known business
man of Forest Hill, Md. q Pa. Railroad, was
stricken with paralysis few days ago. He is
SO years OF age and has been engaged in bust
ness at that place nearly forty years. His con-
dition is not serious.
Rev. DR.. j. St. Clair Neal who was sent
by the late Annual Conference to Queenstown,
was given reception Friday night oflast week.
DR.. Neal came from Madison Avenue M. E.
Church, where he had been stationed five years.
He is we'll known in Baltimore county.
Mr.. George R. Cairnes, who has been secre-
tary of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company
of Hartford county twenty-seven years, was
among the visitors to Towson OH Wednesday
and was a welcome caller at THE UNION Office
He saw the parade from the reviewing stand
in front of the Offutt Building and was much
pleased with it.
We are glad to learn that Mr. George l..
Potter, vice president of the B. q o. Railroad
Company, who has this week purchased the
fine Alta Vista" estate, on the York road
south of Towson, is to become permanent
resident of Baltimore county. He made no
mistake when he secured this property for it
will make an ideal country home for him.
Mrs. William H. Read, of Hamilton, who
came to Towson on Thursday to pay her taxes,
renewed her subscription to THE UNION at the
same time. Her husband who is nearly "
years of age, is totally blind and helpless in.
valid This esteemed couple have lived on the
same property since they were married, over
fifty years ago, and Mr.. Read, when in health,
was successful truck farmer.
Mrs. E. Frances Ofutt, widow of Judge
W..
taken to the Maryland University Hospital
last Saturday to be treated for gangrene of the
foot, had that member amputated on Monday
and has since been in a critical condition.
Mrs. Offutt is the mother of Messrs. Fred and
Dorsey Offutt and a sister of Mr.. Joshua f.
Cockey, president of the National Bank of
Cockeysville.
Mr.. T. Melville Pearce, a well known
young farmer of Ny Lady's Manor, renewed
his subscription to THE UNION on Wednesday.
While serving on the grandjury here year or
more ago he was attacked by sudden illness
and was confined to the house for some time.
His friends throughout the county will be glad
to learn that his health is much improved.
Mr. Pearce is an active member of the Junior
Gunpowder Agricultural Club.
Mr.. James L. Norwood, the popular 18th
district auctioneer who was in Towson on Tues
day, said be had sale short time ago that
was attended by five men named Fisher. None
of them were related and several of them had
never seen each other before. On the I'D of
February Mr.. Norwood had sale for man
named Fischer and on the 18th of May he will
have one for man named Fisher. Het thinks
these rather singular condolences.
Mr.. John Bond, a we'll known Western
Run Valley farmer, renewed his subscription
to THE UNION on Thursday. Notwithstanding
the fact that he is in his 18th year Mr.. Bond
dropped corn two full days this week. He is
native of that section of the county and spent
prhCtlCally HIS entlIe Hic tneie. MI OOhu 10
an active member of the Senior Gunpowder
Agricultural Club and is regarded as progress
sive and successful farmer. He has been
reader of this paper since he was boy.
Mr.. Joshua Frock, superintendent of the
extensive Hook Il Ford quarries at Dickey.
vile, who came to TOwson on Monday to at
tend to some business matters at the Court
House, renewed his subscription to The UNION
the same day. In the old horsecar days Mr..
Frock was a popular conductor on the York
road line and had a host of friends. Four
wears ago in June he met with a terrible acct
dent by the premature explosion Of a blast in
the quarries, and for a time it was thought be
could not recover. Before this occurrence Mr..
Frock suffered intensely at times from rheu
matism. Since then, however. he has never
felt the slightest twnge of it, but significantly
remark ed that he would not advise any of his