The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-08-10
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

granted a government pension
Mrs Swartz, of Abingdon, has improved
her house by fresh coat OF paint.
About two thousand dozen crabs have
been caught this season at Otter Point.
Elk Sheriff Calder has erected new wind
mill and tank on his farm at Federal Hill.
A horse belonging to Mr.. George NJ. Har-
DIV, of EdgewooI, died last Friday from eolc'
The Nonpareils will play the Monumen-
tails, of Baltimore on the Aberdeen GROUNDS,
August IL.
The annual Sunday school reunion was
held yesterday at Cooptown and as usual ure"
large crowd.
The Carsins' Run camp-meeting Will not DC
held this year, on account oil some dispute
over the land.
-Colored camp-meeting began at Bynum
last Sunday and was largely attended by both
white and colored.
William Emmel has been appointed post
master at Lauravile, Baltimore county, vice
Louis Rosenberger, removed.
Miss Carrie Preston will hold her an nuai
Harvest Moon fair and festival, at Trace
Chapel, Hickory, on the evenings OF August
% and "a.
On Friday of last week, MIR. John ID.
Barrow was thrown from mower, which ne
was driving breaking his arm, and otherwise
iniuring him.
Jono Green farmers are cutting off their
tba ctonG the drought
having destroyed the prospect OF crop. Coi'
s. N. HYDE says that sugar corn and tomatoes
are seriously injured.
-Camp-meeting is in progress in Macomo-
er's woods, near Delta. 1t will be In oruer
for large portion the population OF NORTH
ern Hartford to visit it next Sunday.
Rev. c. d. Wilson, of Franklin, ONO,
will preach next Sunday Morning at IL A. NJ.
in the PRESBYTERIAN Church, Churchville, ana
in the afternoon at Calvary, NJ. E. Church.
A Joint pieuic, of the Churchville and Bel
Air Presbyterian Sunday Schools, was held IN
the woods at Mt. Zion Church on Thursday.
1t was in charge of Prof. John d. Worthing-
ton.
MI. NsHdTicS w. iioPhii1, "
has threshed his wheat crop. The Red Claw
son Welded Ill bushels from bushels OF SEED,
or 25 bushels to the acre. The Fultz yielded
20 bushels to the acre.
MIR. Martin Tobin has purchased OF Hon.
I'll. ID. Farnandis young Jersey of his ceie-
brated stock to be presented to the fair to be
held for the benefit of the new St. Mary's
Ten permits were issued during the last
scholastic year for pupils from Baitmore
county to attend the Hartford county schools.
One hundred and seven permits were Issued
to Hartford pupils attending school in Balti-
m ore county.
The new Christian Church at Fork, Baltl-
more county, was dedicated last Sunday. Inc
church is a neat building of Gothic style, Win
vestibule, steeple, recess and extra room IL
was erected at a cost of 81, 700 which has been
mostly provided for.
The Hartford County Medical Society met
at the Court House last Saturday and trans
acted routine business. Papers on medical
subjects were read, after which the doctors
were entertained at dinner by DIR. and Mrs.
w. B. Munnikhuysen.
A party from Stafford consisting of Misses
Minnie A. Mc(iibney, Mamie l.. GALLON, Lii
liam v Gallon and Messrs. John ). osDorh'
Harry Gallon and ii. Medford McG1Dney
visited Otter Point last week. They had a
yerv pleasant time and caught twenty-five
dozen crabs.
The Kings Daughters gave lawn fete
and musical at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert F. Hanna, near Fountain Green, on
Wednesday night. The proceeds which
amounted to over $40, will go toward furnish
ing a room in the Silver Cross Hospital at
Port Deposit.
The Victors and the Nonpareils played a
close and exciting game on the Bel Air
grounds last Wednesday. The score was D to
in favor of the Nonpareils, but it was not
decided until the last half of the ninth inning.
The victors will play the Towson club on the
Bel Air grounds next Saturday.
-Messrs. Shade and Busser, who have re-
opened the Photographic studio on Main
street, Bel Air, in the building partly occu-
pied by Mr. John A. Young, the matchmaker,
are first class artists and are prepared to per-
petuate the features of our good looking citi-
zens to their entire satisfaction.
The thirty-fourth annual catalogue of the
Frederick County Agricultural Society comes
to us attractively bound in blue and gold.
Their fair will be held October oil. The
premiums offered are liberal, as BELTS the
leading agricultural county in the State, the
race purses aggregating 50, 700.
The Catholic Fair at st. lgnatius' Church,
Hickory, began last Tuesday and is now 60
ing on. The attendance is good and the f.
nancial results will probably be as good as
could be expected considering the hard times.
The Quaker City Mandolin Club, Of Philadel-
phia, entertained the crowds with choice Sc
lections on Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Hog cholera prevails near Mechanics
Valley, Cecil county. Several hogs, the
property of James Nelson and James Short,
have recently died. VIM. Mccullough re-
Gently lost IA and only of his pen remain. one
of these in dying condition. s. J. Ward,
another farmer residing in that vicinity, lost
II hogs from the same disease.
-Margaretta Walton, prominent member
of the Soci ETY. of Friends, and the wife of her
nephew, Joseph S. Walton, were thrown from
a carriage while driving near Coatesville,
Chester county, Pa, July 80. The elder lady
was considerably cut about the head, one
shoulder was sprained and the other slightly
dislocated. The younger one was not much
hurt.
The officers and men of Company d, NJ.
N. c., will receive their pay this evening for
their services at Frostburg. Captain For
wood will receive $55; Lieutenant Baden,
S45. 81; Lieutenant Rouse, S35.07; one Ser
geant, 1929; one Corporal $10.64 two pri-
Yates SIS62 and the remaining thirty-one
men Sl4G3 The check received by Captain
Forwood was for s635.96,
AT Monkton, ON Saturday, August 4, the
Taylor Base Ball Club, after very exciting
and well-contested game, defeated the Monk
tons by a score of 10 to 9. Despite the num-
erous errors on either side, the game was very
interesting as the result was uncertain until
the last man crossed the home plate In the
ninth inning, and the spectators were kept at
fever heat until the end of the game.
-Messrs J. NJ STREET. and s. A. Williams
were in York last Friday taking testimony be-
fore notary public concerning judgment
for 81, 800 which the Delta Land and Improve
ment Company obtained in the Court at York
against the Pennsylvania end of the Baltimore
and Lehigh Railroad for rent for the station
on1 land of Delta Mr. Streatt WAS soaking