The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-01-27
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Gathered by Our Correspondents
Our shawsvIlle Letter.

EVANSVILLE. Jan. 24.-Gnc Of the largest
and most successful parties which has been
held for a long time in this ncighborhoOd
took place on Friday. 20th instant, at the resi-
dcuce of Mr.. George y. Wiley. on Deer Creek
Lewis Mitchell furnished the music and the
merry feet of the dancers kept time to the
spirited strains until the wee small hours had
almost passed into daylight. Other amuSc-
ments were provided for the run-danccrS and
the hours of the long winter night sped swift
". Refreshments abouudcd and all voted it
the success of the season Among the many
who participated were Mr.. and Mrs. Ashury
Slade, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs George y. Wiley, Mr..
and Mrs. W. I. Strawbridge, Misses Minnie
and Nettie Gemmill, OF York county Almira
Nelson and Jennie and Mary Minor of Balti-
more county Amanda McClung, Blanche and
Maggie Strawbridge, Salle Hughes, Ida Al
mony, Molie Rutledgc, Minnie Norris, Ida
Robinson, Blanche Wiley. Bette Almony, Ida
Houston, Minnie Wiley, Mary Wiley, Cynthia
Strawbridge and Dora Wiley and Nessrs.
Owen Almony, Nelson McClung, Nelson Nor
ris Harry Yost, Webster Norris. Joseph NJ.
Norris, Edward Smith, Charles Robinson, Ed
ward VI. Norris, Morgan Nelson, Asbury ).
Wiley, James e. Davis, Thomas }. Wiley,
James Anderson, Harry f. Wiley. John &. Is.
Wright, Bradford Wiley Sol. Bartenschlager.
Charles Wiley, Richard Anderson, Robert Lee
| Wiley Benjamin Almony, Columbus 7. Nc
Chung, Frank Norris and Others.
Several other festive gatherings were held in
! the neighborhood during the week. On
| Thursday evening very pleasant one at Mr..
James b. Luckcy's, and on Friday equally
successful ones at Mr.. John Ayres' ard Mr.
Jacob Troyer's. Indeed, ii seemed as If all
of the youth and beauty i'll this vicinity deter
mined To take advantage of the slciching and
| crowd all the enjoyment Of the winter into
! one week
! Speaking of sleighing, the many drifts
] which line both sides Of our roads have been
! productive OF numerous upsetS. both of a
semI-tragic and entirely ludicious nature.
! One of the most pronounced of the latter kind
! occurred, on Friday evening. Two gentlemen
and a young lady We're driving merrily party
| ward, when the sleigh upset and all three
were floundering i'll the snow upon a hill side.
! The young men at once paid attention to the
! horse and neglected the sleigh. The young
| lady. who had been the bearer of Il pre-
! cious article, bounded over the fieecy surface,
eIclsiming in tragic tones, "Oh. Look ut my
| cake and yaliantly pursued dark object
which was speeding on Its way down the hill.
Capturing it, she said well it's nicely frosted
| any how - and they got into the sleigh, went
few yards and upset again.
Rev. j. \. FcrnwOrth, of the Central Penn
sylvania Conference of the Evangelical AssO-
ciation, will hold quarterly meeting and com
muniOn at Salem Evan gelical Church. ON Sat
! urday and Sunday, January 2Sth and 18th
! The meetings will be followed 10y cvangelistic
! services Whlch VIII probably last TWO weeks.
| Rev MIR. Dolly, OF the Southern Methodist
, Church at Jarrettsville, preached at Bethel on
/ Sunday.
| The action OF the Baltimore Comfy School
/ Commissioners asking the decision of the
, State Board in the Mckendrce school matter
! meets with general commeudation here.
Mr.. Robert Duncan, of Illinois. Ia visiting
| his mother, Mrs. Rachel 4. Duncan, near Nor
| risyille.
! The Mite Society connected with McKen-
| dree Church will hold its next meeting al the
residence OF Mr.. Henry G. Wheeler, on Thurs
day, February Cd.
! The oyster supper announced by Home Sc
! crct Lodge, X OF p. has been post poned until
| farther notice.
! The famine In hen fruit has struck Shaws-
! VILE badly. Messrs. I. ii. Mellor & Co. ship
. ped last week 30 dozen eggs as compared with
! a shipment OF ,l40 dozen In one week, On u
| previous occasion.
| The entire family of Justice VIM. b. Wright
| were suddenly taken alarmngly i'll, Monday
/ morning. Nr. Wright was awakened by II
I violent headache. accompanied with dizziness.
. He found H. wife ard children, four in Mum
her. suiTeriu. inter srlv, two Of them being
/ very seriously Affected. DR. McCuFdy WAS
/ summoned, and pronounced them asphyXiat-
! ed with coal gas After lahOrug for several
| hours DR.. McCurly was able to relieve them
| from actual danger CLAY.