The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-02-04
THE ECIS ANDINTELIJGENCER.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

-Protracted services are now being helu Ill
Bel Air Methodist Protestant Church
MIR. Parker Mitchell, has purchased the
store OF Mr.. Willis Michael, at Michaeisville'
The thermometer registered u above
zero on Wednesday morning and . above at
Delta.
Mr.. Albert B. Munnikhuyscn,'o Fuiford,
has been appointed office clerk for the Board
OF School Commissioners
The !aborers on the Philadelphia, VII
mingsnn and Baltimore RAILROAD nave peeh
granted al increase Of fifteen cents Tor each
day OF ten hours work.
TIL, Board of County Commissioners nave
appointed Mr. Wm. T. Clark, Of Chestnut
Hill, as County Surveyor, to succeed henry
Wilson Archer, deceased.
the heaviest snow storm OF the season &C
CURED in Hartford on Monday, and streets
and roads have resounded ever since 10 inc
Naturalization of the bells
MIR. George Reed Hudson, OF NorrlsVile'
and Miss Sallie Wilson, of Parkton, baln
more county, were married at the NJ. =.
parsouage last week by Rev. 2. {. Edwards.
The National Fishery Congress, which
was in session at Tampa, Florida, last week,
strongly urged the stocking of the Susque-
hanna river, with salmon and rainbow trout.
-Hessrs. James D. and W. Joseph STAINS
hurry have purchased the stock and goodwill
of Mr.. ". $. Wheeler at Py!esviie. lhe
new firm will be known as James d. staus-
bury & Co.
Mr.. d. j. Shananan, the contractor, has
completed handsome modern residence Tor
MIR. Robert +. Bovine. on the farm LACEY
purchased by him from Mr. Lemuel Amos, |
at Benson.
The Textile Works at Havre de Grace are |
shipping 81 goo cards Of cloth per week. ana |
when all the looms are in operation, which |
will lee shortly, the output will reach over
25, coo yards per week.
The November term of court for 1897
commenced on the earliest day in the month
upon which it could fall, the Sih., ard the
succeeding February term begins on the latest
possible date, the l4th.
Nj. Elmer W. Harvey and Miss Amanda
Auble, botu of Cardiff, aud Mr.. Luther u.
Henderson aud Miss Fannie /. Whitaker
both of Pleasantvilic, were married on Wed
nesdav at the Bel Air Methodist Protestant
church By Rev. s. b. Tredway.
A slight fire damaged the floor Of Mr.
Edward Il. d. Pue's dining-room to the eX-
tent of aGouI five dollars on Tuesday night
1t is not known how it caught, bat it had
evidently smou!dered for some time. The
absent OF draught preventing it from bursting
into flame.
Mr.. William s. Bowman sold at the
Courthouse door on Monday for William W.
Finner, trustee, the valuable farm near
Churchyille aud belonging to George j.
Finney, containing about 1870 acre of land to
William Il. Harlan, for $50, subject to a
mortgage OF So 800.
"A special meeting of the Board OF Town
was held on Wednesday night,
and there was quite a..number OF persons In at
tendance, both in favor Of and opposed to an
extension Of the electric light contract with
Henry Esckord Il Co. The matter has not
been definitely settled yet
The rectory attached to Trinity church,
st. Mary county, was destroyer W hie oh
Sunday, the rector, Rev. Willard F. Minnick,
who was formerly from Hartford county, los
ing all of his furniture and bis library. Trin-
ity church is said 10 be the oldest Protestant
Episcopal church in the State of Maryland.
An exchange, says,a newspaper publisher
in a neighboring town sarcasticaliy remarks
that be wants to buy sack of floor, pair |
Of shoes and felt hat, ard he is ready to re-
ceive the lowest bids for the same. He says J
that Some Gf his own town people treat him
that way when they want printing done to the
amount Of two or three dollars. =
Governor Lowndes has honOred Bel Air
in the appointment OF Miss Lillian Forwood, =,
daughter Of Mr.. VIM. Smilhson Forwood, as g.,
one of the Com missioaeTs to the TRANSLATES
issippi aud Interstate Exposition, which
meets at Omaha, Neb., between June 18TH
and November lst 1897. Mrs. William Reed,
of Baltimore, will be her colleague.