The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-07-22
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

Hartford county on Saturday.
The long drouth was broken on Tuesday
afternoon by most refreshing shower
Lieut. Shirley c. Morgan, of Co., was
granted Il leave of absence on Thursday.
MIR. IL. &. Brooke, OF Deer Creek, is said
to have the best field OF corn in the county.
summit Grove Campmeeting commenced
yesterday and will continue until August 81
The wheat yield around Py aid
to average not much above five bushels per
acre.
Letters testamentary upon the estate of
Jesse Burbank have been granted to Steven
son \. Williams.
MIR. Charles NJ. Norris and Miss Becky
Lowe have teen chosen as teachers for the
Nurrisyiile school.
The colored congregation at Piney Grove
near Worthwhile laid the corner stone for a
n.w church, on Sunday last.
Mr.. Willard 5. Campbell, formerly, OF
NorIisVile, has been appointed principal of
a grammar school in Norristown, Pa.
The Methodist Episcopal church property
iu Bel Air has been vastly improved by the
removal OF the unsightly trout feLce.
Mrs. Eva Campbell and family,
Chester county, Pa, are visiting at 'Spring-
dale" their old home, near NorriVille. (
The Deer Creek Farmers Club will hold
its next regular meeting at the residence of
Mr.. Vim. b. Hopkins, on saturday, July 30.
The NJ. E. Sundsy School OF Hsvre de
Grace went on an excursion to Colchester, |
on Wednesday, nearly GEO persons participat- |
ing.
The regular meeting of the Hartford |
Historical Society, will be held in the Court |
House on tomorrow, Saturday, July 90 at II |
A NJ. |
Letters testamentary upon the estate of |
Samuel b. Hickey have been granted by the |
Register of Wills to Lille b. Hickey and Will |
liam B. Baker.
William r. Myers, OF Havre de Grace,
has been appointed probationary officer on
the Baltimore police fierce, and assigned to
the Northwestern district.
President Mckinley on Monday, appoint
ed a number officers for the regular army, |
among whom was Prof. Joseph b. Douglas,
of the Bel Air Academy as second Lieutenant
of Artillery.
MIR. William D. Lee, of Wheel, and Miss
Alice Lee, daughter of Mr.. Maltier Standiford,
of wilma, were married at the NJ. K. parson-
age at Bel Air on Wednesday night, by Rev. |
Frank X. Isaac
Edna NJ, an infant daughter OF Mr. and |
If ID i
from the residence Of her uncle, Mr. George |
Lingan, on Saturday. The interment was
made at Rock Spring Cemetery.
"A decree OF divorce a vnculo matrimonii |
has been granted Daniel Robinson against
his wife, Sadie Robinson. Mr. w. w. Preston |
was the attorney in the case.
Mr.. j. S. Richardson sold on Monday at the
Court House door for Messrs. Harlan & Web
stcr, trustees, seven acres of land with the
improvements, the property of the late Thos
Martin, to the James Walsh estate for $3.50.
Mr. Samuel Oliver Thompson, of Mil
Green, aud Miss Emma V. Bagley, daughter
of Mr. Philip &. Bagley, Of Reckord, were |
married at the residence of Mr.. Samuel II.
Montague, near Stockton, on Sunday evening |
by Rev. J. A. Hopkins.
"A large lick of straw upon the farm OF
Mr.. E. II. d. Pue near Bel Air was DESTROYED
by fire on Saturday afternoon. The wheat
had just been threshed out when by some up-
known manner the straw and chaf caught on
fire and was totally consumed
An order has been passed by the County
Commissioners of Baltimore county, author
i2ing the Baltimore and Hartford County Tele-
phone Company to erect wires from Reckord,
west to Fork, on the Joppa road south to
Bradshaw, also on TO the Bel Air and Jerusa-
lem turnpike TO the FranklinVille road.
The contestants for the Scholarships at
Western Maryland College, who have pre-
scented themselves for examination, are Misses
Sue Smith and Mamie Munnikhuysen, of Bel
Air; Miss Sannie Garrison, of TAYLOR: Miss
Edith kimmell, of Aberdeen; Miss Jnlis Ward, |
of Jarrettsville; and Messrs. c. c. Carmau. OF
Taylor, asd Mason, Of Jarrettsville.
"A thunder storm passed over this section |
OF the county on Wednesday evening The |
storm in Bel Air was remark a BILE for the heavy |
peais of thunder which accompanied it. The |
rain fell gently and will be productive OF |
much good During the evening the resi-
dence of Mr.. A. I. JONES' on Alice Ann street |
was struck by lightning. set on fire and slight |
ly damaged. The fire department was on |
hand promptly but their services were not |
needed.