The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-06-16

fERSONAL.-Mlss AGNES uTcchHelu, uhHShtcT
of Mr.. A. II. Greenfield, formerly of Bel Air, has
returned and resumed her old position in Mr..
J. G. Rouse's store
Mr.. W. II. Riddle, ofFork, Baltimore coun-
ty started for Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday, to
engage in the piano and organ business
We regret to have missed seeing Mr.. II. {.
Longnecker, editor of the Baltimore County
who called at our Office last Friday.
Miss Mamie james, daughter of MIR. George
James, of Bel Air, received handsome book as
prize for the best essay written during the ses-
sion Mt Westminster College, Md, of which
institution she is a student
Col. Herman Stump and DR.. r. ID. Lee re-
turned on Wednesday from a trip TO Virginia
Both are looking well. DR.. Lees health appears
much improved by his brief rest from profession
al cares.
-Mcssrs. Joseph $. Hcuisler and Lewis II.
Robinson, of Baltimore, were in Bel Air, on
Thursday.
Mrs. Fife Germon and her daughter, Mrs
Frazier, of Baltimore, both well-known and
popular actresses, are rusticating at Mrs. Ger.
mons farm, near the Hickory, Hartford county.
--Messrs. j. r. Frieze, A. p. McComas and
Robert h. Vandiver, of Havre de Grace, applied
to the County Commissioners, on Tuesday, 10
increase the county appropriation to the city of
Havre de Grace from 81 600 to 81, 200. The sub
ject was deferred for future consideration.
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FINE WHEAT.-Mr. J. r. Massey, of Darling
ton, answers the challenge in last weeks AgiS,
Of E,1t Lnn
field. One measures 5 feet % inches and the
other > feet inches in length. The heads are
large and plump.
Mr. John Daugherty, of Dublin, showed us,
on Monday, some heads of wheat taken from
Judge Waters field, Thomas Run. They were
large, well-flled and the finest we have seen this
season.
Mr.. j. IL. Plowman, County Commissioner
from Abingdon district showed us, on Monday,
some very fine heads of Fult" wheat from his
field. Each head contained from 62 to 6s grains,
some of them having five grains in row or
chest.
Mr.. VIM. II. Jones, who lives Oh Mrs. Mary
Farnandis' Homestead Farm, near Bel Air, eX-
hibits some stalks of wheat nearly as tall as
himself, which is saying great deal, as he is
6 feet and . inches barefooted; his rcd wheat
being 8 feet in height. Stalks of Fultz wheat
which he also left at our Office on Monday were
feet and inches long.
Mr. VIM. Glenn, of the fourth district, sends
us stalks of Fultz wheat measuring ) feet 6
inches in length.
Mr. Parker Magness, of Reckord, Baltimore
county, is entitled to the credit of sending us n
head of rye that lowers above its companions
to the height of : feet inches.
To cap the climax of tall wheat the Big
Woods has been heard from, Nh John Moores
having sent us, on Thursday, stalks measuring
feet 81 inches in length. The heads were
large and full The variety is Red Mediterran-
can
The HARTFORD NATIONAL BANK-The com
mittee of canvassers for subscriptions to the
proposed national bank in this county met at
the Office of Mr.. S. A. Williams, In Bel Air,
on Wednesday. IT appeared that enough has
been subscribed and promised toward the
capital stock, which will be 500, 600, to justify
an application TO the Comptroller OF the Cur
rency for permission to organize. The proper
steps are to be taken at once towards this end
and 1t was determined by the Committee to call
o meeting Of subscribers TO the stock, at Bel
Air, on Monday, July 3lst, at II o'clock, A. NJ
The name suggested for the bank is the Hartford
National Bank. The canvassing committee,
consisting of s. 4. Williams, John Moores
Allen Hoffman, Geo. +. Silver, John G. Rouse,
VIM. b. Baker, Geo. b. Rigdon, }. Polk Street,
and Jesse Hilles are requested to meet at Mr.. s.
A. Williams office, on Wednesday, June 2Sth,
at 3 o'clock, =. NJ
The names of subscribers already reported are