The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-10-24
Local affairs.


]. Archer is the compliments attorney
The Democrats of Hopewell precin'
will hold mass meeting on Friday ever
ing, October 31st. Addresses will be d.
livered by Hon. George Y. Maynadier an
Mr.. Harry S. Carver.
While at work on the steamer cit
Belle" at Port Deposit, one day las
week, Captain Emil H ohm missed his foot
ing and fell from the upper to the lowe
deck. He broke three ribs and sustaine'
other injuries.
Mr.. Breuninger, of Castleton, recent
ly sent to this office by Mr. H. F. Lee
two ears ofyellow corn. which measured
thirteen inches in length. They ar
splendid specimens of this years chic
product of Hartford.
The teachers and pupils of Youths
Benefit School will hold an oyster anc
meat supper on Friday evening Octobe'
31st and Saturday evening November
1st. Proceeds for the benefit of the
school, If stormy the next fair evenings
Peter A. Barnett, an employee in the
slate quarries of R. L. Jones at Delta was
painfully injured on Friday. The top OF
his scalp was almost torn off by a guy
wire which caught him on the head while
he was trying to pull little boy out Of
the way of falling derrick.
-Mcssrs. William Glasgow and Harry
Myer were both painfully injured in the
Proctor Brothers slate quarries one day
last week while tamping blast. The
premature explosion painfully hurt one
of Glasgow's hands and Myers leg was
also hurt about the knee. His eyes were
also badly injured.
The firm of N. Hess and Son, Balti-
more, will send representative to Bel
Air on Monday and Tuesday of next
week. This is one of the largest shoe
firms in Baltimore and their reputation
is we'll established. Anyone desiring to
see the latest styles should not tail to get
one of their catalogues.
Cards have been issued for the mar
riage of Mr.. Harry B. Gorrell, formerly
of Bel Air, but now of Delta, Pa, and
Miss Nora Olivia Mclaughlin, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Mclaughlin of
that place. The wedding will take place
Wednesday afternoon, November 9th, at
Statewide Presbyterian Church, Delta, Pa.
Mr.. George B. Johnson and Miss NJ.
Alice Pyle were married on Wednesday
afternoon of last week at the residence OF
the brides brother, Mr. E. E. Pyle, of
PylesvilIe. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. A. Lewis Hyde. Mr.. E. E.
Pyle acted as best man and Miss Bertha
Duphon, of Pylesville, was best girl.
After the ceremony Mr.. and Mrs Pyleleft
for Midway, Pa. where the groom is en-
gagged in the railroad business.
Duck shooters are getting their out
fits ready for the opening of the season
on the Susquehanna flats. The first day
that the ducks can be legally killed is
Monday, November Sd, and this will be
the time that the dead game" sports
will be on hand in large numbers. As
yet ducks have not yet appeared on the
flats as plentiful as heretofore, and unless
cold weather sets in the chances for the
sport are not considered very bright.
Daniel Kessick, assistant at Nor
wood Stock Farm" near Bel Air, was
one of the exhibitors at the Hagerstown
Fair. He received first and second
premiums on poultry pen, second on
puliet and third on cockeral in the Lang
shan class. The proprietor of the farm,
Mr.. p. II. Mccormick, received second
premium on black Minorca and third on
cockeral. This was one of the largest
poultry shows ever held in the United
States.
The Law Enforcement League will
hold series of meetings throughout Har-
ford county during the coming two
weeks. These meetings will close with
grand mass meeting to be held in Bel Air
on Friday evening. November 18th, which
will be followed by banquet. The pas
tors of the Bel Air churches were appoint
ed a committee to look after this banquet
with authority to name subcommittee
from their respective congregations who
will have charge of the affair.
The Maryland State Fish and Game
Protective Association held its annual
meeting on Thursday of last week. Mr..
]. Olney Norris was elected president.
Some criticism was expressed at the meet
ing because the game warden, John w.
Avirett, had not codifed and published
the game laws of the State. Among
other officers of the association elected
were Mr.. Marion H. Ould, vice president,
and Mr. X. H. Gilbert a member of the
executive committee. Both of these gen.
tlemcn are we'll known in this county.
The Maryland State Sunday School
Convention, which was held in Balti-
more on Thursday and Friday of last
attendance and enthusiasm. The dele
gates were welcomed by Hon. Thomas
G. Hayes, Mayor of Baltimore. The re-
sponsc was by Rev. DR.. Henry Branch.
One of the important results of the con-
vention was the State tour plan which
will be put into operation within the
next few weeks. 1t is proposed to have
five of the most experienced and gifted
Sunday School workers to make a tour
of the State in the interest ofthe organic.
ed work.
Mr. Edward Wheeler Parker, one Of
the members of the arbitration committee
to settle the different points at issue be.
tween the operators and the miners Of
the coal mines, is native of Port Deposit
and is related to number of Hartford
people. He is iorty-two years of age anG
was educated at the schools of his native
town, being also graduate of the Balti
more City College. Mr.. Parker is the
author of the annual reports of the pro
duction of coal in the United States, tn,
production of coke in the United States
the production of good salt in the UniteC
States and other chapters in the annua
volumes of the United States Geological
Survey He is statistician of the United
States Geological Survey and exper
special agent of the Twelfth Census of tn
United States.