The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-05-09
Focal affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.


LITTLE LOCALS.
An increase of pension has been granted to
David Boyd, of the Rocks.
The p, W. and B. Railroad Company has
put portable fire extinguishers in all of its sta.
tions.
Mr.. Wilton Greenway's horses Harry C. and
Maud again won trotting races at Baltimore,
| on Wednesday.
| MIR. B. F. Richardson and Miss Blanche
Nelson were married by Rev. q. l.. Damaron,
] at the Southern Methodist parsonage, Aber-
deem, last Thursday afternoon.
The old dwelling on the Park Farm, near
Perryman, was burnt last Saturday night, pro-
badly by tramps. 1t was greatly out ofrepair
and had not been occupied for many years.
The work of erecting the new hall for the
Library Association at wilma has begun. The
foundation is partly laid and the lumber is all
on the ground, the frame being hewed and ready
| to be raised.
The dead body of colored infant was
found, on Monday Of last week, in q pond near
the lime quarry of Mr.. P. D. George, Long
Green Valley. The discovery created some ex-
citement.
MIR. Charles R. Scarf lately sold his pair of
twin heifer calves, three weeks old, which
weighed, respectively, 1873 and 100 lbs, at 81
cents per pound. 1t is said they are SO much
alike that it is impossible to identify one from
the other.
The cantata of Esther will be given in the
Town Hall, Darlington, on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday evenings, May 22d, 2Sd and Oath,
under the direction of Prof. Wyatt The best
musical talent of the neighborhood will aid in
the affair.
Notice is given to the creditors of the old
Bel Air Hedge Fence Company, TO file their
claims with the receiver, Mr.. Frank E. Gorrell,
on or before Msy 3lst. This company has no
connection with the present Hartford County
Hedge and Wire Fence Company.
We are indebted to DR.. George W. Archer
for copy Of the Catholic Historical Magazine
containing his History of the old St. Joseph's
Chapel House, near priesthood Bridge, Deer
Creek, Hartford county. The paper is a valua-
BILE contribution to the local history of Hartford
On Thursday of last week ex-County Com
missioner Robert j. Walker and one of his
daughters were caught in a squall in small
boat in the Susquehanna river, near Lapidum,
and were for awhile in a perilous position.
They succeeded, however, in getting safely
ashore.
The Fallston Road League has had switch
run from the Maryland Central Railroad to Mr..
VIM. M. Edein's land, from which they are pro-
curing stones to repair the roads near Falstop.
The League is doing good work and should
receive substantial encouragement and assist
ance from the public.
Mr.. William b. Reckord, having succeeded
to the old Reckord mill property and store of
his father, the late Henry Reckord, at Rockford
postofice, offers for sale full line of flour,
meal, feed lumber, COAL fertilizers, agricultural
machinery, &C., besides the varied contents of a
country store. See his advert isement.
-Messrs. VIM. B Baker, of Aberdeen, John
B. Hanna, of Bel Air, and VIM. 8. Tildop, of the
second district, were chosen among the Vice
Presidents of the State League of Republican
climbs, at the annual convention in Baltimore,
on Wednesday. Mr.. N. N. Mock, of Bel Air.
was elected delegate to the National Conven-
tion of League Clubs.
The spring races at Pimlico Track, Balti-
more, will be held on May Is, IA, Is and 49,
The races will be called at P. NJ. each day.
The purses amount TO $1,000. Among the
horses entered are MIR. Wilton Greenway's chest
nut gelding Harry C., in the tbree-minute trot-
ting race on Tuesday, and his b. M, Maud in
the $50 class the same day. Ex-Postmaster
Frank Brown is President Of the Pimllco Trot-
ting Association.
Mr.. John Beale Watkins, who keeps hotel
| on the west prong of the Hartford turnpike, in
Long Green Valley, renewed his license on
Tuesday. For nearly three hundred years this
| property has been in the Watkins family and
has always been hotel, the present proprietor
having conducted it for twenty-one years. The
new law requires not less than ten signatures
| to an application for license, but Mr.. Watkins
had over forty on his paper, among them many
| of the best people of the neighborhood. Tor
| sontoacn Union.