The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-19
Focal Affairs.
LITTLE LOCALS.


LITTLE LOCALS.
The public school at Frogtown has beer
closed on account OF a case OF scarlet fever il
the neighborhood.
Mr.. NJ. j. Heron, of the Hickory, recently
sold his fine saddle and hunting horse "Buck'
to Mr.. Joshua Horner, of Baltimore.
"A shooting match will be held at Woodslde
near Fountain Green, on Tuesday, February
23d, at o'clock, P. NJ. sharp. All marksmer
are invited.
The Havre de Grace postofIice contest wal
settled, last Friday, by the appointment of Mr.
Edward Hall. Mr.. Hall, we have no doubt, viii
make an obliging and efficient postmaster.
"A little daughter of Mr.. George Archer
near Wilma, few days ago while playing, acct
dentally stepped backwards and sat down in {
pan of hot water. The little one, who wal
only three years old, was severely scalded.
County Clerk Forwood authorizes the state
ment that he has not been in Annapolis in the in
terest ofany one for appointment as Justice ofth'
Peace for Hartford county, the published state
ment to that effect having been, doubtless, in
tended as joke.
Cards are out announcing the marriage o
Miss Effie l.. Harkins, daughter of Mr.. jaime!
H. Harkins, OF Aberdeen, and Mr.. g. ALFRED
Mitchell. The ceremony will take place at thu
M. E. Church, Aberdeen, on Wednesday even
ing, Oath instant, at O'Clock.
Mr.. Thomas A. Shannahan, of FsllsAon
has been using the same two kerosene lampt
every night for thirteen years, and what ii
more remarkable is the fact that the chimneyt
are the same which were bought with the
lamps-neither of them having been broken.
"A citizen Of Towsontown, says the Union
went to Bel Air a few days ago and while there
inspected the towns water supply. He says he
never saw finer water and was enthusiastic ovel
II. He thinks it would be boon to Towson
town If it were blessed in the same manner.
Mr.. Walter P Reckord, of the Reckord
Manufacturing Company, was in Towsontown
on Tuesday to see the County Commissioner:
about supplying crushed stone for the county
roads. His firm owns large steam crusher
with which they propose to do the work.
Union.
Representative Stump last Friday intro
duced in the House Of Representatives bill to
pay the war claim of the legal representatives
of James 8. Powell, of Hartford county; also, 8
bill to remove the charge of desertion from the
military record of William H. Neal, late Of
company B, Maryland light artillery.
A large meeting of citizens of Towson op.
posed to the incorporation of that place was
held on Monday night. Mr.. VIM. H. Ruby, Of
the Maryland Journal, presided. strong del.
egation was appointed to go to Annapolis and
protest against Incorporation as 'ill-advised
expensive and detrimental to the best interests
of the Citizens
1t is said that grip may be prevented by
putting powdered sulphur in the stockings, SO
as to be constantly walking on sulphur. The
theory is that when warm the person is sur
rounded by a perceptible sulphurous atmos-
phere which is believed to be antagonistic to
grip as we'll as other infectious or contagious
diseases.
MIR. Philip 8. Harris, of st. Paul, Minneso-
ia, was in Bel Air, on Monday, with Mr.. VIM.
B. Hopkins, of Garland. MIR. and Mrs. Harris
are visiting Mrs. Harris's brother, Mr.. z. I.
Stephenson, of Port Deposit. Mr.. Harris is
one of the active and influential business men
of st. Paul and is deeply interested in the sue
cess of the Chicago Exposition.
The Maryland Sunday School Union, Of
which Mr.. William A. Baker is the State
Superintendent, makes an appeal for aid for a
suitable representation of the Sunday Schools
of the United States at the Chicago Exposition.
1t is proposed that the Sunday Schools in Mary
land contribute one cent for each scholar, send.
Ing the collections to Mr.. William A. Baker,
Superintendent, ZIG N. Charles street, Balt-
more.
-Aihandsome portrait of Hon. Henry D.
Farnandis has been placed on the walls of the
court room. The picture is striking likeness
of our distinguished and honored fellow-citizen.
A portrait of the late Col. William P. Maulsby
has also been placed in position in the court
room. These portraits are valued additions to
the gallery of "Distinguished Sons of Hartford"
with which our county court room is now be-
ing adorned.