The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-06-03
The EGIS AND INTELLIGENCER.
BEL AIR, Md, JUNE 8, 1892.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

-Messrs Foard Bros. are about to remove
their canning business to Aberdeen, where
they are preparing to build a canning house
and warehouse.
The Towson Union considers the steam
road roller lately bought by Baltimore coun-
ty as one of the best investments the county
has ever made. The machine cost 81, 600
-Chidren's Day services will be held at
Bel Air NJ p. Church on Sunday, June 10Th,
Mt 1890 A. NJ. and P NJ. and at Providence,
June Goth, at 10 \. NJ. and at Union Chapel,
June 26th, at 3 P. NJ.
Mr. George Livezey last week shot and
killed hawk, which was flying over Mr.. S.
A. Williams woods, adjoining the Medical
Hall property. The bird measured 4 feet and
2 inches from tip to tip of its wings.
The public school at Singer postofiice,
which was discontinued for two weeks on ac
count of the teacher, Miss Annie Middendorff,
being transferred temporarily to the Bel Air
Graded School, was reopened on Monday
morning.
"A squad of twenty men are about to be
enlisted at Forest Hill as members of Com
pany d, |. NJ. n. e., of Bel Air, Capt. W. T.
L. Taliaferro. The new contingent will be
drilled by Sergeant Carman, who spent five
years in the regular army of the United States.
The Baltimore county court has given
leave to the Baltimore and Lehigh Railroad
Company to have the testimony of Samuel
Rea, one of their witnesses in the suit brought
by the relatives of Conductor Dodson, taken
before a commissioner to take testimony in
Pennsylvania.
james Fenner is in custody in Philadel-
phia on suspicion of completely in the Rich
ards murder in Cecil county, year ago
John Scott and James jackson, who are serv-
ing sentences in the Eastern Penitentiary,
Philadelphia, are suspected also of having had
a hand in the affair
Invitations have been issued to the mar
rage of Miss Susie Virginia Cooper, of Balti-
more. to Mr.. Clarence Wood Thomas, to take
place at Mount Calvary. Church, Baltimore,
on Wednesday, June Sth, at five O'Clock in
the afternoon. Miss Cooper is a grand
daughter of the late Thomas J. Murphy, of
Perryman.
Among the candidates admitted to the
bar of Baltimore city, on Tuesday, were
Messrs. Richard McKindless, formerly of
Hartford county Edward 2. keech, Jr., a
grandson of the late Revs John X. Keech, of
Fallston, and X. Herbert Martin, son of Mr..
Richard T Martin, of Easton, formerly of
Bel Air.
I Thomas q
pleasant entertainment, at their home near
Jarrettsville, on Wednesday evening, i'll honor
of their daughter, Miss Gertrude Gross, who
graduated, last week, at the State Normal
School large number of guests were
present and the young lady was warmly con-
graduated.
The case of Catharine Fresch, of Hartford
county, against Adam Horn, for breach of
promise of marriage, was concluded last
week at Towson by the jury bringing in YER
dict in favor of the plaintiff for 81 $50. Messrs.
s. A. Williams and ID. &. Mcintosh were
counsel for the plaintiff, and Messrs. X. Il.
Boarman John l. Yellott and Osborne |. Vel
lott for the defendant.
County Commissioner George A. Court
ney calls our attention to the fact that the
wheat in his field near Michaelsville has from
two to four untitled chests at the base of the
head, while the remainder of the head appears
to be well filled Mr.. Courtney says it is I'M
usual to see so many empty chests on heads
of wheat and wants to know whether this in
dicates a short crop or not
DR. Frank T. Shaw and several other pas
sengers were slightly injured, at Finksburg
station, Western Maryland Railroad, on We'd
nesday The accommodation train had been
run on siding, but did not get on far enough.
A fast train came along and struck the rear
end of the last car, throwing it down slight
embankment Mrs Loewenstein of Fred
erick, was the only passenger seriously hurt.
"A load of hay on the wagon of Mr.. James
Treadway, who lives near Madonna, caught
fire at the Five-Mile House on the York turn
pike, on Wednesday of last week, and was de-
stroved The hay carriage was charred and
one wheel burned. The Govanstown fire com
pany arrived in a very short time after the
fire broke out and succeeded in saving other
loads of hay which stood near the burning
wagon.