The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-22
THE ECIS ANDINTELLIGENCER.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.


week.
A beautiful rainbow was visible on Tues
day morning shortly after sunrise. 1t Is
rare sight for December.
Rev. J. D. Smith, pastor Of Slate Ridge
Church, will preach at Highland Presby terlar
Church on Sunday next.
The Christmas festival at Ayrcs' Chapel
Dry Branch, will held on next Thursday even
ing, December %, at 7.s0 o'clock.
The Sunday School attached to Mt. Zor
ME-. Church, Fountain Green, raised the
sum of $40 for missions this year.
-Obed Lowe, Of Norrisvil!e precinct, whose
barn was destroyed By fire short time ago,
has erected a fine new one in its place.
DIR. ]. C. Mckenzie has resigned as
director of the Jacob Tome Institute, but will
remain until the end OF the scholastic year.
Henry Crilley has been appointed Us post
master at Cuttings. NoDg Green statior)
Baltimore county, vice Milton Dance, resigned.
Mrs. X. G. Murray will deliver an illus
trated Christmas talk before the Sunday
School, at Mount Vernon Church on Sunday
afternoon.
Rev. John Fl. Jeffiies, the junior pastor
of West Hartford Circuit, and former pastor
of North Hartford circuit, will preach at Dublin
on Sunday next.
The regular meeting Of the NorrisVi'!e
Farmers Club will be held on this Friday
evening at the residence OF the Secretary,
Mr.. Milton E. Smith.
Letters Of administration upon the estate
Of the late st. Clair Baldwin have been granted
by the Register Of Wills to John s. Baldwin
and John K. Baldwin.
Professor Harry-C. Gardner, the magician
who has given q number of entertainments In
Bel Air, died in the city Of Baltimore on
Wednesday, 18th inst.
Rev. F. W. Brown will preach on Sunday
at7.45P. M in the Aberdeen Town Hall.
The music will be rendered by the choir Oh
Grace NJ. E. Church South:
Letters OF admin stration upon the estate
of the late K. Nelson Rsmpley have been
granted by the Register Of Wills to James q.
Turner and Cornelia Turner.
An unoccupied house, near Clark's
Chapel, belonging to Thomas Collins, was
totally destroyed BY fire on Sunday. Insured
in the Hartford Company for $500.
Revival services are still In progress at
Emory, NJ. E. Church, near Mill Green.
Twenty eight conversions have been reported
mn to date, and the interest is unabated.
Rev. W. H. P. Smith who has been pastor
of the stewartstown Presbyterian Church,
for the past ten years, has resigned his charge
The church is in very prosperous condition
j. G. Garrett, q young man in the en-
ploy of Theodore Wilderson, near Bel Air,
accidentally cut his hand badly with an axe,
while engaged in cutting wood one day last
week.
MIR. Charles N. Cantler and Miss Sadie
Gsryiae, both of Hartford county, were mar
ried at the residence Of Mrs. Margaret White
ford, Cambria, on December IL, by Rev.
Joseph d. Smith.
Mr.. Il. Clayton Merryman, OF Fawn
Grove and Miss Charlotte Elizabeth HARRISON
OF Constitution were married at Fellowship
N. Z. Church, near Fswn Grove, on Wednes-
DAY evening Oy new W. W. bs'ie.
-Messrs. Thomas H. Nelson, Alfred 5.
Tyson and James Scarf Of this county, are
reported BY the Baltimore Ne,rs, as being ap-
plica nts for the position of weigher at the
Eastern Hay Scales on Greenmount avenue
Baltimore.
AT meeting Of the Board OF Trustees of
. North Hartford Circuit Of the Methodist Epfs-
copal Church, which was held at the parson-
age In Dublin on Saturday afternoon, the
mortgage which has been hanging over the
church for the past twelve years, was paid OIL.
Speaking Of the York Southern Railroad
the Delta Herald says ''This Is one OF the very
few railroads of the country that gives It's
employees q rest on Sunday. This may ac-
count in large part for its entire freedom from
bad accidents and for its general healthy con-
dition."
An effort is being made to organize
branch of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion at Goyanstewn. large number OF
Young men have become interested and the
project promises to meet with success. why
can not an effort be made In that direction In
Bel Airi
On Monday of last week while Mr..
Thomas j. Brooks, OF Constitution, was
stabling his steers, one OF them turned upon
him and knocked him down, tramplipg him
and bru.sing him seriously. He fortunately
escaped any serious injury, but is suffering
from lameuess.
Mr.. Edward L. Rigdon, OF Aberdeen, and
Miss Margaret Keniy, of Havre de Grace,
were married IN Bel Air on Thursday, by Rev.
IA. Castleman. The groom is farmer and
has charge Of one Of Mr. Charles w. Bakers
farms near Aberdeen, upon which they will
make their future home.
AT the last meeting Of the Ladies' Aid
Society attached to McKendree NJ. E. Church,
Black Horse, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing term: President. Miss
Maud Mordew; vice president, Mr.. James
Wheeler: secretary, Miss Corinne Henderson;
treasurer, Mics sallie Beatty.
Mr.. A. B. Wood, of Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa. will give an entertainment in
the W. C. T. U. Hall at Forest Hill, on next
Wednesday, December 81. Mr.. Wood has an
established reputation as q "Merry-maker"
and his selections are of high'chsracter.
Mr.. Nicholas N. Norris, who has been
merchandising at Gorsuch Mills, Baltimore
county, has completed his arrangements and
will soon remove to Middletown, Pa, where
be win engage in the same business He Is q
son of George W. Norris, Of Norrisville pre-
cinct and native of Hartford county.
Licenses have been issued by the Circuit
Court for the marriage Of Mr.. Jacob A. Csmb-
ell, Of North East, Cecil county and Miss
Blanche L. Gibson, OF Havre de Grace; Mr..
Clinton Stephenson aud Miss Hattie st. Clair,
both Of Chanceford, Pa, and Mr.. Harry c.
both of Fawn Grove.
MIR. Benjamin F. Darbie, proprietor Of q
restaurant In Baltimore, but formerly OF Har-
ford county, made application through his
attorney, Fred. r. Williams, IN the United
States District Court on Thursday last, for the
benefit of the bankruptcy law. His liabilities
are s2,S59.31 and assets IS ,306, including
$4,000 in Insurance policies
broken into by burglars on Thursday last and
the safe broken open and robbed. The post
Office which is located in the station house
q wss also robbed OF about $500 which was
mostly In stamps. A peculiar feature Of the
affair is, that no tickets were taken which are
not available, all others being left behind.
Professor J. E. Harry, of the Georgetown