The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-07-25
Local affairs.


The Highland Telephone Compan,
has filed q certificate decreasing its capl
tai stock from $5O, 900 to SO, 900.
MIR. ]. E. Strawbridge and family o
Baltimore, have been the guests OF Mr.
Strawbridpe's mother Mrs NJ. {. Straw
bridge, OF Norrisville.
The Supervisors of Election met OF
Monday, with Mr.. w. J. Forsythe in the
chair. The associate judges and clerks
were examined and the officers of regis
tration sworn in.
A little child of Mr.. Charles Duff, OF
Hickory, was badly burned one day last
week. 1t was playing with some matches
and set fire to its clothing. DIR. r. +.
Smithson rendered the necessary surgical
attention.
-Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Denbow, OF
Iarrettsville, celebrated the fftieth ami,
versarv of their wedding on Wednesday.
The venerable couple are rs and 16years.
They have living II children and 90
grandchildren.
A game of base ball is being arranged
between the married men of Bel Air and
the Young Sluggers. Aninteresting con-
test may be expected as the Benedicts
have in their list a number of ex-players
of excellent ability.
The Bel Air base ball club defeated
the VanBibber team on Saturday at the
Fair Grounds by a score of + to 3. 1t
was an excellent game and both teams
PLAYED we'll The Bel Air club will play the
Delta boys on Saturday afternoon.
The Churchville Prohibition Alliance
will hold a special meeting in tent at
Smiths Chapel on July 20 at 3 +. Nj.
Rev. Mr.. Graffiin, of Baltimore, is expect
ed to deliver an address. Good music
and other interesting exercises. All well
come.
The Bel Air base ball club is now
putting its new grounds in order. They
are located Just beyond the Railroad
station and are now being scraped.
After next Saturdays game with Delta
all contests will take place at the new
location.
= A little two-vear-old child of Mr.. W.
A. Burkins, of Dublin, was fatally injured
by a horse last Friday. 1t is supposed
that the animal struck the child IN the
stomach and afterwards tramped upon
it. Physicians could do nothing and the
child, how was little girl, died the same
night
On Wednesday, Constable Salix. OF
Havre dc Grace, brought to Bel Air jail
John Boyd and John Spadt, on charges
of being drunk and disorderly. The
former was committed by Justice Fahey
for the action of the Grand Jury and
the latter to serve n thirty-day sentence.
Spadt had his hand shot by pistol he
was unloading.
Hartford Circuit, NJ. E. Church, will
unite in another old fashioned revival
meeting in large tent at Smiths Chapel,
beginning Sunday. July II, and continu-
ing two weeks Services on Sunday at
10 and II A. NJ, and 3. 4.30, I and P.
Nj. Each week day there will be chill
dren's meeting at p. NJ. and revival at
8, preceded by twenty minutes praise ser
vice. Everyone welcome.
On Sunday morning the two-story
barn on the farm of Mr.. Luther S. Osborn,
near Bush Chapel, was destroyed by fire,
together with 10 tons of hay, about 100
bushels of wheat and lot of harness.
The origin of the fire is unknown. The
loss is partially covered by an insurance
of 5000 ON the building and $500 on the
contents i'll the Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Hartford county.
Another cyclone struck Baltimore on
Sunday afternoon and destroyed twelve
lives as we'll as an immense amount of
property. The duration of the storm
was 10 minutes. during which time the
wind reached velocity of "a miles an
hour 1t passed through the lower part
of this county and was particularly severe
in the neighborhood of PERUVIAN. Trees
were uprooted and outbuildings destroy |
ed. The roof was blown from the cattle
shed of Mr. William II. Rawhouser.
On Sunday night, between nine and
ten o'clnck the barn of Mr.. William
Thompson Jr., who recently purchased
the Windolph property near Darlington.
caught fire and was totally destroyed
together with about 500 bushels of
wheat in the straw, several tons of hay,
5000 feet of lumber, a binder, mower and
lot other farming implements. The
origin of the fire is unknown but it is
supposed to have been caused by spon-
taneous combustion. There was no in
surance.
-Messrs. Hunt and Lackie, contrac-
tors, have practically finished the first
section of the Churchville road. We
advise our readers who are interested in
the question of good highways to make
a critical inspection of this work. 1t is
as smooth at barn floor and looks like
it would stand a life time. The Com
missioners have at last found the right
men to do the work and are to be COIL
graduated for the manner in which the
contractors are pushing the improve
ments to a successful completion.
Register of Wills Bay has probated
the will of the late George Anderson. He
bequeaths the farm on which he resided
10 his SON. Samuel w. Anderson. 1t con-
taius about 70 acres. His son is also left
the personal property subject to charges
of $50 to his other children-A'onzo F.
Anderson, Milford L. Anderson, James A.
Anderson, Annie K. McCommons and
Mary P. Carroll. Alonzo F. Anderson is
named executor. The will is witnessed
by Winfield S. Walker, William T. Nc
Commons and Richard II. Moore.
Mr.. George Rogers, who operates the
plant OF the Bel Air Electric Company,
was caught in the machinery on Monday
night and painfully injured. He went
into the basement of the building without
a light, and making a mis-step, fell into
A shaft Mr. Ehrhart, who was at the
mill. stopped the machinery and extri-
Gated the wounded man. His face, side
and hip were so badly lacerated that it
was necessary for the physician to take
number of stitches The injuries are of a