The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-01-01
TIE ECIS Acknowledgement.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
lon,t forget to write 1897.

Mr.. Albert \. Gorrell has remover lroL
Castleton to Hulings, West Virginia.
The Clermont Mills Gun Club will hay
target shooting all day Saturday, Jan. ID.
Wheat reached 932 cents on Tuesday,
being the highest point reached this year
Letters testamentary upon the estate O
John A. James have been granted to JOSEPH
K. Ely.
The Wilma ". c. I. l. will meet at th'
the residence of Mrs. }. B. Hoskins on Thurs
day January 18th.
-Coles Cavalry, Maryland Volunteers, viii
hold their annual reunion in Baltimore OF
Monday January II.
Constable Carroll killed dog, supposed
to be mad, on Wednesday in the rear OF Ball
hardware store, Bel Air.
The severe cold snap of Sunday night re-
ioiced the hearts of the ice cutters around Bel
Air, and the teams were busy on Monday.
Bishop Paret will make his annual vista
ton to St. Johns parish, Havre de Grace, on
sunday lie will preach and administer CON
frmaton.
secured Il position as book-keeper with
Messrs Samuel Townsend & Sons, 5. Charles
street, Baltimore.
MIR Horace Boarmsn has been appointed
as assistant postmaster at Bel Air, and COM
msnced the performance OF his duties on
Tuesday morning.
The Susquehanna river was frozen over
at Port Deposit on Sunday sufficiently to en-
able persons to cross between Cecil and Har-
ford counties on the ice.
The annual election of City officers will
be held at Havre de Grace on Monday next,
Jan. 18th 1897. A Mayor and six members of
the city Council will be chosen.
Mr. c. Harry Yost has purchased that
portion of the Ezekiel Slade property, near
Norrisville, which was owned by William Nc
Ginniss, paying therefor the sum of $500.
Mr. VI. Barratt Walker of the Maryland
Law school, who was for some time well
known resident of Bel Air is spending the
holidays with his father Mr.. Jacob P. Walk
Since the freezing up of the flats in the
shooting has been almost at a standstill.
There is too much open water for successful
cunning.
The next meeting of the Hartford County
Medical Association, will be held in Bel Air,
on Saturday, Jan. I'd. Drs. j. c. Butler and
+ Hall Richardson will deliver addresses up
on the occasion.
MIR. ID. ". ShertZer formerly of Church
vile Hartford county, who for the last two
years has been managing a large dairy farm
in Baltimore county, has removed with his
family to Southern Virginia.
Miss Helen Green, Of Havre de Grace,
who went through an operation for appendi-
citis week ago, is convalescing as rapidly as
possible Her improvement has been gradual
without any uufavorable incidents.
MIR. A. Gemmill Almony, formerly Of Nor
rIsville, has been appointed fire marshal of
Baltimore county, and took the oath of office
on Tuesday He will remove with his family
to Govanstown at an early day.
Our thanks are hereby returned to the
Pope Manufacturing Company, of Hartford
county. Messrs. d. L. Pyle II Son. of Pyes-
vile and Mr.. Thomas A. Hays, of Bel Air,
for valuable and artistic calendars for 1867
The Christmas services at Emanuel
church were well attended, the music good
and the exercises interesting. The sermon by
Rev r. Allan Castleman was an able one, bas
ed on St. John 1ch. IA. The church was taste
fully decorated.
A very delightful dancing party was held
in Bateman's Hail, Bel Air, on Tuesday even
ing. 1t was given in honor of the lady visi-
tors in town and was chaperoned by Mes
danes w. Boyd Bell, Willard &. Rouse and
Frank Il. Jacobs.
The marriage of Miss CoraWerner, daugh-
ter of Mr.. John Werner, and Mr.. Louis T.
klair, took place at the home OF the brides
parents in Havre de Grace, on Tuesday even
ing. Rev. William Z. Bird officiating. The
young couple will reside in Philadelphia.
"A Lecture will be delivered at Masonic
Hall on Monday next, Jan. 4th on 1.-The
cause that was lost" by al Ex-Confederate
soldier. An attractive feature of the pro-
gramme will be u violin arrangement of sew
eral OF the War Songs of the Coufederacy,
which will well repay hearing.
-Messrs Gilbert S Hawkins and Thomas
H. Robinson, as solicitors, have filed a bill
for Mary \. Freeburger, of Hartford county,
asking for divore rinculo from George
Freeburger. On the grounds of excessive
cruelty The bill states that they were mar
red March 10Th 1897 aud have no children.
The friends of Rev. A. A. Bichell assem-
bled in large numbers at the residence Of Nj.
John Hardesty near Stockton, (where Mr..
Bichell boards) on Wednesday evening and
passed most enjoy able time. Music and
other amusements were INDUCED in and
bountiful gifts were bestowed upon the
assistant pastor
Sheriff Cooley took to Baltimore on
Thursday, Dec. oath, William E. Bowling and
handed him over to the warden of the Mary
land Peuitentiary to commence his servitude
of twelve years. On the same day John Ken
berger was delivered to the superintendent of
the House OF Refuge, to which he had been
sentenced for three years.
Home Secret Lodge No. 90, X. of P, of
Shawsville, elected the following officers on
Saturday night G. c., John T. Ayres; V. c.,
Harry F. Wiley; Prelate, John F. Wiley; NJ.
&C. c. McClung; X. OF X. and s., A. s.
Wiley; NJ. of E, Thomas H. Mellor; NJ. of F.,
Nelson Gilbert; Trustees, Andrew Kinhart
Samuel NJ. Kirkwood and Alfred W. Curry.
The annual Christmas tree entertainment
for the scholars of Ascension Sunday school
was held Tuesday night, Goth instant. The
scholars were Toasted with candy, etc. A
number of prizes and presents were dstribut-
ed Miss Eta E Scarborough received a
present from the members of the church and
Others in token of their appreciation Of her
services as organist
The Misses Lee, daughters of Col. Ohio s.
Lee, enjoyed an informal reception Of their
friends at their home on Wednesday after
noon. Among the callers were Mrs. e.
Graham Archer, Mrs. John A. Evans, Mrs
Miss Wicks, of Baltimore; Misses Minnie Nell
son, Nora Bouldin, Mary and Mamie Archer,
Bessy and Grace Cover and Rosa Jacobs.
Mr. Robert c. Richardson's store at
Churchvile came very near being burned out
Last Saturday night. Mr.. Alfred Richardson,
one of the clerks went into the store about
midnight and the moment he opened the door
a bright blaze shot up among The shelves on
one side 4 kettle of water was standing on
top Of the stove aud Mr. Richardson promptly
dashed the contents of the kettle on the blaze,
A vary strpnU odnr of 60 uc