The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-12-20
THE EGISAND INTELLICENCER
BEL AIR, ND, DEG. 20, 1895.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Efforts are being made to have postoffice
established at Locust Grove.
Mad dogs are reported to be plentiful in
the vicinity of Federal Hill.
The weather bureau states that this is the
coolest December We have had in twenty
three years.
Holy Trinity Church, Churchvile, will
hold their annual Christmas entertainment on
Christmas evening.
The public school at Bilingsleas has been
reopened with eighteen pupils on the roll.
Miss Mary O'Brien is teacher
AS the result of the Boards action on the
subject, the schools of the county will close
on Friday next and reopen January 2.
The resident of Abingdon and vicinity
had a rare treat on last Thurday evening in
the form of lecture by the Rev. W. W.
Barnes.
The next meeting of the Deer Creek
Farmers Club will be held at the residence of
Mr.. John Moores, near Bel Air, on Saturday,
December 2S
The Methodist Protestant Sunday school
of Bel Air, will hold their Christmas anniver-
sary u the church Friday evening, December
27th, at 7.30 O'Clock.
-Messrs John E. Carver and William S.
FrieZe, of Havre de Grace, and Garrett Amos,
of Fallstou, have announced themselves as
candidates for State Fish Commissioner.
We are indebted to Mr.. L. II. Baldwin,
the genial agent of the Washin gton Life In
surance Company of New York for copy of
one of their handsome calenders for 1896.
The annual Sunday school entertainment
of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Bel Air,
will be held on the evening of December 81,
commencing at O'Clock.
The cold weather of the past week has
given us foretaste of " inter, and the ice
harvest has begun. Quite number of per
sons have taken advantage OF the opportunity
to fill their ice houses.
The entire edition of the December num-
Der of Halpey's Magazine, an edition of I'M
usual size, was exhausted Immediately after
publication. A second edition is now coming
from the press.
Mrs James d. Walters whose accident
was reported in last weeks Agis is improv-
ing slowly. She is still at the City hospital
but will be able to be removed home in sholI
time.
The Sunday school of the Presbyterian
Church, Churchville, will hold their annual
Christmas entertainment in the church on
Christmas Eve at O'Clock. The programme
promises to be very interesting.
The Susquehanna and Tide Water Canals
are again offered atpublic sale, as will appear
by an advertisement in this weeks 1AgiS'
The sale will take place on Saturday, January
%, 1896, at York, Pa.
On last Thursday evening the pastor, Rev.
j. w. Fleming, of Abingdon NJ E. Church,
was rendered surprise by the members and
friends of Magnolia appointment, who left
the arder well filed with many good things.
The will of the late DR.. J. Edwin Michael
was filed for probate in the Orphans Court OF
Baltimore, Wednesday. All the property of
the testator Is bequeathed absolutely to his
widow, Mrs. Susanna r. Michael. Mr. |
Charles W. Michael is named as executor.
Mr.. E. Stanley Holland, of near Hickory, |
met with what might have teen serious ac-
cident on last Thursday. He was going into |
the stable to harness a pair of mules, and |
while passing one of them it kicked at him |
with both feet, just grazing his head making |
a slight cut above the left ear.
On Monday night Aberdeen Masonic
Lodge elected the following officers: Wor-
shipful Master, Harry P. Strasbaugh Senior
Warden, Robert A. Mitchell; Junior Warden,
William II. Jacobs; Secretary, j. A. Swingley;
Treasurer, Charles Osborn. These officers
will be installed at the next regular meeting.
A recital will be given in the Town
Hall of Aberdeen by Miss Lois Estelle
Hall. graduate of the Baltimore School of
Oratory on Tuesday evening, December 81,
for the benefit of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Aberdeen. Miss Hall will be as
sisted by local musical talent.
On Tuesday evening Mt. Ararat Masonic
Lodge of Bel Air elected the following Off
GERS for the ensuing year: Worshipful Master,
George L. VanBibber; Senior Warden, George
X. Calrnes, Junior Warden, DIR. j. Camp
Butler: Secretary, Albert 7. Geatty; Treasurer,
John Bauer. The installation services will
take place on st. Johns night, Friday evening
December 81.
Mr. j. w. Bauer, of Havre de Grace, has
docketed suit in the Circuit Court against the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail-
road Company for SIC, 900 damages. Mr.. Bauer
alleges that the company in constructing its
new iron bridge across Union avenue, in
Havre de Grace, damaged his property by ex
tending the bridge on portion Of his pro-
perty, which was not within bounds of its
rights.
Mr. Joseph X. Whitaker, a brother of the
late w. p. e. Whitaker, of this county, died
at his home near Dover, Del, last week. He
was a bachelor, and his estate is valued at
about three quarters of million dollars. His
will has been filed at Dover. After bequeath-
ing the sum of $25. 300 to several grand
nephews, and old servants, the remainder of
the estate is to be divided into five equal parts,
one of which is to go to the children of his
deceased brother, w. P. C. Whitaker, namely,
Misses Ellen r., Grace and Leila Whitaker, OF
Havre de Grace, and Mrs. Mary V. Lee, wife
of James Lee, Esq, OF Thomas Run, ard
Mrs. Charlotte Pennypscker, wife of Mr..
Isaac K. Pennypacker, of Mt. Holly, n. J. |
Mr.. Pennypacker is also a nephew of the de-
ceased, and through his mother receives in |
additional one-third of one-ffth of the estate |
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Lock Your Stable Doors.
Some time during last Sunday night Mrs.
Mary Lees horse and buggy was taken out of
the stable, on Main street, Bel Air, and
driven.