The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-03-07
Local AFFAIRS.

of Mrs. Julia E. Forwood, near Baluwli
has been postponed until Monday, March
10th.
A musicale under the auspices of the
Epworth League of Grace M. E. Church
South, Aberdeen, will be held on Tuesday
evening, March 18th.
Mr.. H. D. Hanway has purchased
from the Misses Jacobs about three acres
of land adjoining the town of Bel Air
The price paid was $4,000.
The meeting of the Board of School
Commissioners, which was to have been
held on Wednesday, has been postponed
until next Monday morning.
The engagement of Miss Ethel Emer-
son, of Perryman, a graduate OF The
Jacob Tome Institute, and Mr.. Howard
Grove has been announced.
Communion services at Providence
Mp. Church, Sunday, March 9th, at
1O.3OA. NJ. Preaching at Union Chapel
at3P. NJ, and Grace Church, Bel Air,
at 7.45 p. Nj.
On account of bad weather the sale
of Mr.. Thomas c. Chalk, of Aberdeen,
has been postponed from February 2Sth
until Tuesday, March 18th, when it will
positively take place.
Rev. William G. Herbert, native OF
this county and afrequent contributor to
the .Egis, has been unanimously called
to enter the seventh year ofhis pastorate
with the Caroline NJ. E. Church. Balti-
more
County Commissioner George Archer
Is still i'll and consequently incapacitated
from attending to his public official duties.
His many friends will regret to learn of
his serious sickness and hope for his
speedy recovery.
Mrs. Charles O'Leary has issued
cards announcing the marriage of her
daughter Miss Louise O'Leary and Mr..
Harry Pannell Strasbaugh. The cere-
mony took place on Wednesday of last
week in New York City.
The sale of Mr.. J. w. McAbee, which
was to have taken place on the DIR.
Emory farm near Taylor, on March 9Th,
has been postponed on account OF bad
weather. 1t will take place on Monday
next, March 10th. at 10 o'clock, A. NJ.
The dance succeeding Lent, will be
held in the Masonic Assembly Rooms,
Bel Air, on Tuesday evening, April LIST.
These affairs have always been of a very
pleasant nature and prove recreation
after the forty days of penitential refec-
ton.
On Monday S. A. Williams and John
S. Young trustees, offered public sale at
the Court House door In Bel Air, the
Ferry house and lot adjoining the limits
of Bel Air. 1t was withdrawn at a bid
of $4625. ]. S. Richardson was the
auctioneer.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have placed with several different manu-
featuring companies orders for about
$1O,OOO,OOO worth of freight cars. This
Is being done in order to obviate the car
famine which has caused such inconven-
fence for the past two years.
On Saturday, Stevenson Williams
Jacobs, the seven months old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank H. Jacobs, of near
Churchville, died after sudden illness.
The interment took place Monday at
Rock Spring Cemetery, Rev. R. Allen
Castleman officiating.
On Tuesday, John S. Young trustee,
sold at public sale at the Court House
door in Bel Air the land belonging to the
Marley estate. A portion of it was
purchased by w. ]. Cochran for $3.50
and the rest was bought by w. F. Eek
for S675. ]. S. Richardson was the
auctioneer.
On account of illness, the trip abroad
ofJudge Octavus Norris, DR.. John w. S.
Norris, Mrs. Hannah Lee Archer and
MISS. Cassandra Lee has been indefinite
ly postponed. All of the party have re-
turned to their homes with the exception
of Miss Lee, who Is spending the week
with her sister, Mrs John Scott Parker,
of East Orange, New Jersey.
"A correspondent Is informed that
'Jim Sank" disappeared shortly after
Candlemas Day and we presume that he
has gone back in his den where like the
grounding he will stay in repose until
the end of the six weeks. We hoped that
the heavy thunder storm of last Friday
would awaken him, but it did not and
he is still sweetly slumbering.
On Monday. William L. Cooley and
1T. c. Hopkins, trustees, offered for
sale at the Court House door In Bel Air
the Taylor property, all of which was
withdrawn with the exception ofseventy
eight acres which was sold to w. H.
Hartzell for $1325, and tract of three
acres which was purchased by Thomas
E. Kirby for 5000. ]. S. Richardson was
the auctioneer.
-Messrs. Christian Smith and Edward
A. DIETRICH have returned from pleasant
trip to the Island of Porto Rico. They
encountered rough weather both going
and coming which detracted somewhat
from the pleasures of the voyage. The
climate there is one of perpetual summer,
but these gentlemen came to the conclu-
sion that there Is no place quite so at
tractive as old Hartford.
The fourth meeting of the Authors
Club, of Forest Hill school, was held on
Friday. After appropriate quotations
the question Resolved that it Is not
harmless to teach the existence of Santa
Claus" was debated by Allen Tucker
and Allen Jeffrey, affirmative; Walter
Wilson and Harlan Pyle, negative. An
attractive portion ofthe programme was
several selections rendered by the graph
aphone.
The editors of the Baltimore County
Union seem to possess some sporting
blood if we are to judge by the manner
in which they speak of the recent istic
encounter at Annapolis. Their last issue
says Baltimore county got into little
scrap in the House ofDclegates and while
such exhibitions are not to be commended
it is rather pleasing to know that we did
not come out second best. Too much
choleric Is not a good thing, especially
when exhibited in this manner by our