The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-08-23
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

-Dysentery is very prevalent in the neigh
borhood of Dublin.
A large grabbing party from the vicinity
of Chestnut Hill spent Thursday grabbing at
Otter Point.
Over 200 people went on an excursion to
Bay Ridge on Wednesday, over the Baltimore
and Lehigh Railway.
The foundation for the new temperance
hall at Forest Hill is commenced. The build
ing is to be 80 by 60 feet.
The Nonpareils of Aberdeen will play the
Y. NJ G.. A. team of Baltimore at Aberdeen
tomorrow at $780, A good game is expected.
Owing to the bad weather Of last week
the Edgewood Sunday School festival will be
held over this Friday and Saturday evenings.
All present will be presented with souvenir.
The work of numbering the houses in
Havre de Grace has been commenced. Con-
gress street, running east and west, will be
the centre from which the streets will be num-
bered north and south.
The weekly picnic at Mr.. j. P. Leight's,
Otter Point, will be held next Wednesday
evening, August rs. A good time is expected.
Those who were present from town last We'd
nesday night report fine time.
During the races on Monday, at the fair
grounds the sulky of MIR. James Richardson
was run into by Mr.. Nelson James. Mr..
Richardson's sulky was upset and he was
thrown out but sustained no serious injuries.
The second annual tournament of Bur-
goyne's Military Band took place last Tues
day in grove at Towson. Fully 500 people
were present. The winning knights were
Charles E. Howard, Howard Stansbury, Har-
ry C. McComas and S. E. Sheppard.
George L. VanBibber, as trustee, sold at
public sale at the Court House here on Mon
day the Michael Kehoe property, situated
near Dublin in the Fifth district. The farm
contains 100 acres, improved by good frame
dwelling and outbuildings. George B. Rig
don was the purchaser, paying 81, 300 for the
property.
A painter by the name of Hastings, who
has been boarding at Mr.. Lawrence Forwood's
hotel, Churchville, took advantage of Mr..
Forwood's absence last Friday to drive to
Havre de Grace Evidently the cool breezes
of that city were too much for him as he was
arrested for fast driving and fined So In de-
fault of payment he was committed to jail.
DIR. Henry Branch School Commissioner OF
Howard county, will deliver an address during
the day sessions of the Teachers Institute on
the subject, Character in Education" DIR.
Branch is one of the most eloquent speakers
in the State, and his address on this subject
before the State Teachers Association, last
month, was a mastery effort.
The Prohibitionists of Cecil county met at
Elkton last Tuesday and nominated the fol-
lowing county ticket: Legislature-James
Smith, Granville W. Reynolds, Samuel A.
White. Orphans Courts. T. Reynolds,
Caleb Conner, Samuel Gatchell. county
Commissioners-Longt term, W. G. Mercy
short term, Amos R. Brown. Sheriff-Evans
Taylor Treasurer-W. T. B. R. Robinson.
The Teachers Association offer pleasing
entertainments for their evening sessions in
Masonic Hall this year. On Monday evening
there will be social entertainment and re-
union. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day evenings the course will consist Of Il lee
ture; readings, recitations, etc., by the teach
ers, singing by Mr.. John Fisher, Of Washing
ton, d. c., and Master Wallace Broumel and
Miss Fannie Bissell, and an evenings entertain
ment by a noted concert company of New
York.