The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-09-14
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FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. t4,:reoo.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

There will be no services at ChurehViii'
Presbyterian Church Sunday.
The backbone of the long torrid spe'
seems to be broken at last.
MIR. NJ. Barrett Walker, OF Baltimore, hs
Cur thanks for an excellent engraving Of GU
II President, W;iltsR J Rtyau.
-Mt 4 Kate Gleason, OF Ailihous and Mis-
Kate stoIehrakOri OF Bypum, we're winner
Of prlsea st the Timonium Fair.
--&essings Will be held for the form tion o.
Democratic Clubs 10 Aberdeen on Friday ant
In Harsins precinct on Saturday night
"a meeting will be held at Churchvile or
tRurr0w, Saturday, OF 8 P. NJ, for the pur
poas OF organizing Democratic Club.
Letters testamentary have been granted
by the Register Of Wills to James A. swingley
upon the estate of Mary E. Pennington.
Letters Of administration d. b. n. upor
the estate Of Ohio Scott have been granted
by the Register OF Wills to James 3. Calwell
Mr.. John Bosley, one of the best known
residents of White Hall, Baltimore county
"@S P"iaiJ W SHnuhJ auu Ieuaiub ciiti'
caily Ill.
"A marriage license YVES Issued this week
by Clerk Forwood to James T. Naylor, of
Gold Spring, New York and Miss Anna l.
Judd, Of Cardiff.
The Enterprise Company Of Bel Air are
extremely busy this season and It Ia crafty
lug sign OF progress to see them advertising
Tor additional help.
"A meeting will be held at Level ON satur.
dsy, september 90 at 8 P. NJ, for the purpose
Of organizing Democrat Club. We trust
that the voters of Eopewell precinct will turn
out In force.
There are but few days yet to pass before
the Fair commences 1t IL important that
Hartford sho"ld not be behind her sister
counties in the size, style and attractiveness
Of The exhibition.
General Herman Stump has been ap-
pointed by Governor Smith as one of the
Commission ers upon the part Of Maryland to
the Pan-American Exposition to be held in
Buffalo, New York, in 1901.
The quarterly meeting of the Society OF
Friends, EN- braciDg the societies of Baltimore
city, Harford and Baltimore counties, was
held on Sunday and Monday at the GuDpow-
der Meeting House in Baltimore county.
The marriage of Miss Columbia A,
daughter Of Mr. Wilbur F. Wallis, of Forest
Hill, to Mr.. David E. Thomas, Of Darlington,
is announced to take place in Centre N. e.
Church, Forest Hill, on Saturday, October 20.
Special services will be held at the Falls
ton Presbyterian Church, during the week
CONNIE ncipg Sunday, September 16 The
pastor, Rev. Wesley NJ. Hyde, will be assisted
by Rev. }. Wynne Jones, Rev. Dewitt NJ.
Benham and others. Services will be held
nightly at 8 o'clock.
Announcement has been made Of the ap-
prosching wedding of Mr.. George W. Penn.
of Glyndon, Baltimore county, and Miss Ef1e
May, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Wright, of Bradeubaugh. The ceremony will
take place at Ayres' Chapel, Dry Branch, on
Wednesday, October 10, at Z p. NJ.
Rev. James H Straughn has resigned as
Protestant Church, and returned to college.
He preached his farewell sermon on Sunday.
Mr. straughn gives great promise for the
future. He made many friends while IN
Hartford, who are 10th to lose his services.
The Board OF School Commissioners has
at its disposal one three-y year scholarship to
the st. Mary's Seminary, which entities the
holder to board and tuition; also one three
year scholarship to the Charlotte Hall School
for boys, bearing with it free board and tut
ton. Applications should be forwarded to
the Secretary of the Board.
Mr.. Walter B Young, one Of the grsdu-
ates Of the Bel Air Academy. sent an invita-
ten to attend the commencement exercises
in June to Admiral W. =. Schley, Of whom he
is kinsman, and last week he received in re-
ply an autograph letter, dated at M ontevideo,
Uruguay, August 5, 1900. at which point the
Flagship Chicago was then stationed.
The concert given under the auspices Of
the Teachers Institute on Thursday evening
last, was success in every particular. The
readings by Mics Ulrich were especially en-
joyable. Mrs. Jennie Gaze diner Stewart sang
artistically and the instrumental music by
Miss Coulson and Mr.. Abram Moses was all
that could be desired. There was q large
audience present.
During the heavy storm which swept
through the eastern part Of the county on
August Is, the hail destroyed field OF toma-
toes for Messrs. Thomas Kirby & Son, of Cole
postoffice, which was probably the finest field
in the community, several of the vines each
bearing nearly a half-bushel of tomatoes.
This would have given yield of at least four
hundred bushels per acre.
Tho Baltimore and Lehigh Railway now
have twenty thoSssnd rail braces which are
being distributed and will be put on the
tracks at once. The narrow gauge rails are
being rapidly torn up and shipped away.
This will add materially TO the comfort Of
riding as the bed is now graded to suit their
curvature instead of conforming to the
standard size. A general supervisor Of tracks
was appointed on Wednesday. 1t will be his
duty to have the entire line minutely in
sptcted daily. This will be done under the
same system as now employed on the New
York Central and Hudson River railroad.