The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-07-18
Local oAHairs.

late mail from Bel Air 10 Baltimore.
numerously signed petition has beer
forwarded to the Postoffice Department
MIR. William McComas. a resident o
near Preston's Mill, is afflicted with chlll'
and fever which has broken out after
lapse of 80 years. MIR. McComas isnow
in his 10th year.
A little daughter of MIR. and Mrs
John T. Mooney, of Baltimore, died on
Tuesday. Mrs. Mooney formerly lived
i'll Bel Air, being daughter of the late
Patrick Dunnigan.
Tuesday was ST. Swithin's Day, and
if the legend be correct we may expect
dry weather for the next forty days. AL
though we were surrounded with showers
no rain fell in this vicinity.
Jack a little son of Mr.. William
Gunther, of Forest Hill, run nail through
his foot one day last week. The injury
was quite painful, but he is improving
under the care of DR.. F. P. Smithson.
The School Commissioners give notice
by advertisement that a competitive ex-
animation for scholarship at Charlotte
Hall School will be held on Monday, IN
Bel Air, by Examiner 7. {. Galbreath.
DIR. Frank p. Smithson, health officer,
has filed notice with the officers OF the
Susquehanna Canal Company, notifying
them to abate the nuisance caused by the
foul water which is now lying near Lapi-
dunn.
MIR. Archer H. Jarrett, of Baltimore,
has purchased "Ingleside," the beautiful
home of Mr. John T. W ard, near Jarretts-
vile. 1t contains thirty acres of land
and the buildings have all modern im-
provements.
The Baltimore county primaries to
elect delegates to the Congressional Con-
vention, which will meet in Havre de
Grace on August %, will be held on
August 2. The convention will assemble
on August 5.
A band ofgypsies have been encamped
near Bel Air for the past few days. They
have been gathering in the shekels OF
those whose curiosity prompts them to
try to lift the veil that hides the future
from the present.
Mr.. Augustus Guillott, son of Mr..
Eugene Guillott, of Bel Air, who is a
member of the United States Marine
Corps, was one of the United States SOL
diers who accompanied the body oftormer
Ambassador Pauncefote to England.
The Fourth of July celebration at
Ripkin's Corner, near Stepney, was at
tended by nearly one thousand persons.
Mr.. Harry S. Carver, of the Bel Air bar,
delivered an able address. A dance will
be held at the same place on July %.
On Monday. County Clerk Forwood
recorded the first certificate for woman
physician in Hartford county. The party
was DIR. Mary Cook Willis, resident of
near Chenille. She was enrolled on an
order of the State Board of Examiners.
Terry Wilson, a colored man who was
working in the barn of MIR. John Smith
son, of Forest Hill, fell on Thursday of
last week. His stomach struck across a
wagon wheel. The effects of the fall pro-
duced peritonitis from which he died on
Saturday.
Register of Wills Bay has appointed
George H. Martin administrator c. t. a,
of Samuel H. Martin, deceased Hegave
bond i'll the penal sum of $500, The APP
pointment of Ohio S. Lee as executor of
John Craig was confirmed. He gave bond
i'll the penalty of $4,000.
The Sunday School of Emmanuel
Episcopal Church, Bel Air, will hold its
annual picnic at Gwynn Oak Park, near
Baltimore, on Thursday, July "a. The
children and teachers will go on special
car attached to the sos A. M. train.
They will go from North Avenue station
to the grounds on a special electric car.
Returning will leave Baltimore on the
$50 p NJ. train.
Miss Persus Ruth. of Baltimore, is
in South Dakota, where she had been
called by fatal accident to her father,
Mr. John Ruth, who was kicked by a
horse. Mr.. Ruth was a native of Har-
ford county He is survived by two
daughters. His two brothers are Messrs.
Charles Ruth, of Wisconsin, and William
II. Ruth of this county; his sisters being
T.
Now that the encampment is coming
to Bel Air. the members of Company ID
ought to stir themselves and make a
creditable showing Naturally the event
would have been more pleasant if they
had been sent elsewhere, but local pride
ought to overcome this objection and they
should enter into the affair full of the
spirit of making their fellow members OF
the Guard realize what Bel Air hospitality
means.
A public installation of the newly
elected officers of the Epworth League of
Grace Methodist Church, Aberdeen, will
be held next Sunday evening at O'Clock.
Rev. L. c. Martin will present the officers
and Rev L. Hammond, pastor, will de-
liver the charge. Achorus thirty voices
will render special music for the occasion
and will be under the direction of MIR. o.
c. Michael. Public cordially invited to
attend.
The directors of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad and
those of the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad have agreed upon a merger of
the two corporations to be known as the
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing
ton Railroad. The new companies will
I've capitalized at an amount equal to the
stock of both companies, and the present
securities will be exchanged for all issue
of the stock of the new company. This
has been done in accordance with an en-.
aiding act passed at the last session OF
the Legislature.
Sheriff Fred W. Reasin, on Tuesday
recovered bicycle which had been pur
chased by Person Gibson, colored. The
Sheriff has warrant for the arrest o
the negro, charging him with the Larceny
ofS1OO from Mr.. Charles H. Bisphau
who lives near Havre de Grace. 1t is al
legged that the accused was cleaning Mr.
Bisphau's clothing, in which there wa
$3.50 in money, and $3.50 was left. Thu