The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-12-09
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

NJ. L. CuuICn, VA
and will continue until further notice.
Letters testamentsry upon the estate OF
Lloyd Tydfugs have been granted by the
Register of Wills to Della Wakeland.
Mr.. John Barton, OF Norrsville precinct,
will shortly remove with his family and take
IN his residence in the Monumental City.
The payment of premiums awarded at
the late Fair OF the Agricultural Association'
will be made on or about December 2Oth.
The Sacrament OF the Lords Supper will
be administered in the Fanston Presbyterian
church on Sunday afternoon at three O'Clock
The Christmas celebration of the Bel Air
Methodist Protestant Sunday school will be
held in the church on Friday evening, Decem-
Der so.
Mr.. W. Scott Whiteford has closed out
his milk business and purchased a lot OF young
mules which he intends raising for the
market.
The rolls of the Bel Air Graded School
shows that one hundred and nineteen boys and
one hundred and thirty-three girls are in at
tendance.
Licenses to sell liquor have been granted
to Mr. John Falls, of Port Deposit; Archie
Barnes, of Conowingo and John B. stryker,
of Perryville.
MIR. John d. Warrington. was In al
tendance at the meeting OF the Maryland
School Commissioners Association in Balu-
more last week.
Mr. William Winemiller, of Gorsuch
Mills, Baltimore county, and Miss George
Seilz, of Norrisvile, were married in York,
Pa, on Thursday, November II.
-Messrs. H. s. Merryman, James Brown and
Samuel Webb of Fawn Grove, and Justice
VIM. NJ Barton, of Norrisville precinct, left
last week for hunting trip through Virginia.
The drama, "a Visit From Mother
Goose" will he given at Calvary schoolhouse,
Friday, December 10th. II the weather
should prove unfavorable, the next clear
evening.
The foundation for the new station Of the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore R. K.
Company, at Aberdeen, has been completed.
The station will be located sixty feet south OF
the old one.
MIR. Wilbert F. Torbert and Miss Clara
" Seitz, eldest daughter OF Mr.. Charles Seitz,
were married at the home OF the BRIDES par
ents, near Norrisville, on Thanksgiving Day,
by Rev. William II. Leib.
Miss Emma Kinhart, daughter Of Mr..
Andrew Kinhart, of Jarrettsvile, was taken
to the Baltimore City Hospital on Monday for
treatment for a disease from which she has
been sufferer for several years.
West Liberty Methodist Episcopal church
will be dedicated on Sunday next, 18th inst.
Rev. DIR. w. L. Mcdowell, of the Broadway
Church, Baltimore, and Rev. w. s. Edwards,
p. E.. will preach on the occasion.
1.-THE weather lore of the old folks" con-
tanned a aging to the effect that the first
three days of December ruled the winter. III
this be so, we are apt to have an open winter,
despite goose bones and corn husks, which
predict long cold season.
There are prospect of large increase in
the canning business in Hartford county next
year. Mr.. August Neumann, the machnist,
reports orders for five 40 horsepower boilers
and one of sixty horse power, ALREADY booked.
They are all for new plants.
"A play entitled "Our Boys" will be given
during the Christmas holidays by the amatuer
talent of Bel Air in the Masonic Hall. This
play is one of the best of the kind, and its
success is assured to the public by the well
earned and known ability of those having it
in charge.
Mr. c. Lee Calder. of Co. d, who has held
the position of Regmental Commissary Ser
geant OF the First Regiment, has secured his
discharge from the service of the United States
and started for his home, in Bel Air, on Satur
day, designing TO stop at Washington, D. G.,
and Baltimore.
Among the notable weddings which took
place in Baltimore city this week WAS the one
of Mr.. Howard X. Smith, and Miss Bessie
Cochran Suppee, which took place on Tues
day at Mount Vernon Place NJ. Z. Church.
The bride is a grandniece OF Mrs. Mary f.
Young, OF Bel Air.
The case of Mrs. Ann E. johnson against
Ell Tucker, was resumed in the Court OF Com
mon Pleas, Baltimore, on Monday. The case
has attracted great deal of attention. The
evidence was concluded and argument COM
menced on Wednesday. 1t will probably be
left to the jury today or Saturday.
Sergeant William II. James, of the 9th
Regiment, United States Artillery, now sta
toned at Fort McHenry, was in Bel Air again
this week after private Lax, member of the
regimental band who has been In town for
several days on the sick list. Sergeant James
describes Lax as being very accomplished
musician.
Mr.. A. T. Geatty, has vastly improved
his premises by the addition OF glass front
which adds the full area of the front porch to
his store and gives a better chance TO inspect
his very superior stock of choice goods.
Bakery, grocery and confectionery combined.
Christmas shoppers can be supplied with any
thing they desire at low rates.
Prof William B. Clark, of the Johns Hop
kins University, delivered the first OF series
OF lectures before the Builders Exchange, of
Baltimore, on Tuesday night, his subject being
"The Rocks Of Maryland and Their Economic
Significance" He showed that the mineral pro-
ducts of Maryland last year Melted Sc, zoe, OPS
and gave employ ment to over 5000 men.
Mr.. w. Harvey Tome, a nephew Of the
late Jacob Tome, met with very peculiar
aid painful accident in his barn near Port
Deposit, a day or two since. He had a vicious
Steer, and upon entering the stable the animal
knocked pitchfork out Of his hand. The
fork struck the floor above and fell hitting
Mr.. Tme upon the nose, breaking that very
useful member.
When Mr.. G. T. Milton, of Darlington
entered his stable few days since, he was very
much surprised to lind one OF his best mule
lying deal in it's stall. Investigation revealed
the fact tlat the animals throat had been Gu
in such manner as to cause its death. Their,
was no evidence as to how it occurred. Mr.
Milton had ost valuable horse short tim
before in mysterious manner.
Missionary Rally.