The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-06-26
The ECIS acknowledgement
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Communion services will be held at North
Bend Presbyterian Church on Sunday.
A government pension has been re-issued
to Mrs. Elizabeth f. Unkle, Of PerrymaE
The TAYLOR base ball club defeated the
Glencoe club on Saturday by score OF 10 TO 3.
William G. Onion, of Cooptown, is in the
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, for treat
ment.
MIR. John Keen, of Spcsutia Island, has
lost large number of hogs from cholera dur
ing the past week.
MIR. w. w. Heuer, has contracted to heat
the new residence being erected for Mr.. VIM.
b. Nelson, Bel Air.
The annual meeting of the Maryland
Democratic Editors Association will be held
on the 27th of June.
-Josep Knell, of Flintville, is the Hartford
county member of the State Central Commit
tee of the Peoples Party.
The board of trustees of the Bel Air
Academy met on Wednesday and reelected
Mr. A. S. Cook principal.
Bishop Paret, will administer the rite of
confirmation at St. Mary's P. E. Church, En-
morton, on Sunday, July 5.
Rev. j. Fred Heisse has rendered his re
signation as editor of the Baltimore Methodist,
aud will return to active pastoral work at the
beginning of the next conference year.
A game Of ball was played at the fair
grounds on Saturday between the Nonpareils
of Aberdeen and the Nictors Of Bel Air,
4 n for ba vic
Company d, LIST Regiment, NJ. N. g., will
attend divine service on Sunday, July 5, at
the First Presbyterian Church, Bel Air, by
special invitation OF the pastor, Rev. Kerby
s. Miller.
Philip johnson, colored, was committed
for court by Justice Richardson on Friday, in
default of bail, charged with burglariously en-
tering the house of Henry Hall, colored, and
robbing the same.
Attention is called to the meeting adver-
tised in this issue OF the American Legion of
Honor. The benevolent principles of the or
der will be fully explained by Past Comman-
der Auerbach and others.
AT the commencement of the Western |
MARYLAND College on Thursday Of last week,
Ernest T. McNutt, OF Darlington, was award |
ed the Sophomore gold medal for having led
his class during the entire year.
"A dog belonging to Mr.. w. II. Hipkins,
OF Webster, was seized with hydrophobia on
Saturday and attacked a little daughter of
Mr.. H., fortunately without injury. He was
killed on Sunday by colored boy.
Arrangements have been perfected by
which messages can hereafter be sent to the
-Egis by telephone on business of any descrip-
tion, free of cost to the sender. See the card |
at the head of correspondence column.
The public schools of Hartford county, |
will close today for the summer holidays |
The annual examination OF white teachers |
will be held at the school house in Bel Air, on |
Thursday and Friday next, July 2 aud 3.
--Chas. Anderson, who had been committed |
to jail in default of IS fine for assaulting Mr.. |
&. EN.Ewing early in June, was taken before |
Judge Waters, on Friday on a writ of haJcas
corpus. The prisoner was discharged from
custody.
1t is hardly necessary to call the attention
OF the public to the fact that the Commence
ment of the Bel Air Academy and Graded
School takes place this friday evening.
The exercises will be bright, sparkling and
full of interest to all.
The county tax rate will be considerably
increased this year by the expense incident to
the assessment and election laws. 1t is stated |
the Commissioners will levy $4,000 to defray
the cost of registration and election and about
So 900 to cover the expense of re-assessment
DIR. o. B. Carcaud Zaccheus DeBow,
John w. Peterson, Albert Kennedy, Miss
Jennie Hood, Miss Annie Middendorf and
Mrs Matte Carcaud have been appointed
delegates to attend the c. Z. Convention in
Washington, ID. c., from Mt. Tabor Y. 2. S.
C..
-George Hawkins, colored was tBken he
fore Justice Earl, on Wednesday charged with
assaulting Mrs Murray Hawkins, his sister-in-
law. He was convicted and sentenced to six |
months confinement In the House OF Cor
rectton. Deputy Forsythe took him to
Jessup'S on Friday.
The Creamery at Shawsville is completed.
The proportions of the different rooms are as
follows: Main building, 50x22, engine and |
boiler room, 2Ox22; chop mill, l6x2l; feeding |
room, 50x6; hog house, 20x50. The trenches |
are laid with terra Gotta pipe. Milk will be
run directly from the churn to the cistern.
The County Commissioners have advised |
the assessors, as an experiment, to direct Mr.. |
William +. Hays to deliver and make out the |
blanks in the third district at once, and in adj |
vance of the general assessors, and to report |
progress in two weeks. This to be done as |
means of saving time. The assessors directed |
Mr.. Hays accordingly.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Edwin Webster returned |
from their bridal tour on Saturday, and are
now domiciled at "Ingleside." Mrs. Caroline
Webster rendered a reception to the bride and
groom on Thursday evening, from to 10
O'Clock, which was attended by host of
fieuds. The rooms were beautifully and
tlstefully decorated, and the menu was perfec-
tion itself.
An addition to the barn OF Mr.. George w.
sweeting, at Sharon, fell down on Tuesday
afternoon and killed two COWS. Mr.. Sweeting
was caught in the entry but escaped uninjur
ed, as also did the horses, which were in the
other end OF the barn. The building had
been blocked up and the blocks slipped.
Several persons had just left the place when
the accident occurred.
An unusually heavy rainfall, accom-
panied by violent wind, swept over lIayre de
Grace on Sunday afternoon, the thunder be-
ing the heaviest known for years. The three
masted schooner Edgar c. Ross, Of Seaford,
Del, which was lying at anchor in the harbor,
dragged her anchor and came In collision with
the yacht Reckless, tearing away her topmast
stay and breaking off her topmast and doing
her considerable other damage.
While on his way to his home on Satur-
day afternoon Mr.. Emmett Duvall, OF Water
vale, met with a painful accident. 1t ap-
pears that the horses attached to wagon, in
which he was seated, became frightened and
ran of; and while decending the hill the front
axle OF the wagon broke. MIR. Duvall was
thrown to the ground, and barrel of
cement rolled after him, striking him on the
breast and badly bruising him. The wagon
was badly broken.
The building committee of the Hayre de
Grace High School met in that city on Satur-
day to open bids and award the contract for
the erection of the building. There were six
bidders as follows. Clinton Smith, Of Bati