The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1902-02-21
Local affairs.

Deer Creek Circuit Nj. L. AhulSh' VI
meet at Deer Creek Church, on Saturday
February 22nd, at 2 p. M.
A marriage license was issued
Baltimore on Monday to John W
Thomas, of Putnam, this county, an
Miss Martha ]. Spies, of York, Pennsy
vania.
Mr. A. E. Geffcrt has rented his farm
near Vale known as the old Edelil
property to Mr.. James Smith. tie ma
removed with his family to Reedsburg
Wisconsin.
The Maryland and Pennsylvania
Railroad Company are having alarm
whistles placed on the rear other trains
which are kept blowing while the tran
is backing.
Rev. W. w. White, will preach at Mt
Tabor. on Sunday, February 23rd, a
1O3OA NJ, and at Deer Creek, at 3 +
NJ. Christian Endeavor services at Deel
Creek, at I 80 P. NJ.
The Darlington Academy and High
School, which was closed for two week:
by order OF the Health board, will re
open again on Monday. The rooms are
being funigated this week
The House bill to authorize the
County Commissioners of Hartford coun
ty to pension George T. Thomas and
William Nelson Norris has been reported
favorably in the House of Delegates.
A lecture on Love, Courtship and
Marriage" at Calvary Nj. E. Church
South, will be delivered by Rev. Linwood
Hammond, on Friday evening, February
2Sth, at eight o'clock. A pleasant time
is promised to all who attend.
The Hartford County Telephone Com,
pany opened its principal exchanges on
Wednesday night with all night service.
This will be much appreciated by its
MANY subscribers. Communication has
lust been established with Perryville and
Port Deposit.
The trustees under the will ofthe late
William and Rebecca Woolsey, are
making arrangements towards placing
the real estate upon the market at
private sale If not sold within a
reasonable period, it will probably be
offered at public auction.
Walter o. Myers, conductor of the
Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad,
on the York Division, recently had his
hand caught between the bumpers oftwo
cars His first two fingers were so badly
smashed that they had to be amputated
and the end of the third finger was also
taken off.
Some anxiety is felt by residents
about a recent bill introduced to enlarge
the privileges of the corporation which
purchased the Cecil County Fair Grounds.
1t is feared that an effort will be made to
t.:rn it into an outlaw race track. Our
members should look into the matter
carefully before recording their votes for
the measure.
Court has been much retarded this
week on account of absent witnesses.
In many parts of the county the roads
have been so badly drifted that it was
almost physical impossibility for many
of them to attend. The term will proba-
bly, not last much longer as many of the
cases have been continued until the May
term of Court.
On Saturday while hauling load of
hav, Mr.. John L. McRoy, of Bel Air, was
thrown off the wagon and painfully hurt.
AS he was being brought to his home in
buggy team passing the opposite
direction ran into the vehicle conveying
him and upset it. From the injuries
Mr.. McRoy is suffering much pain and is
now confined to his bed.
All the smaller ice houses in Havre de
Grace have been filled with excellent ice.
The houses at Frenchtown, Locust Grove
and Perryville are now being filled with a
fine specimen of fifteen inch ice. The
larger ice houses will probably not be
filled owing to the necessity of having to
cut an expensive channel through the
gorge in order to reach clear ice.
Rev. Walter B. Stehl, of Emmanuel
Church, Baltimore, will officiate at the
services at Emmanuel Church, Bel Air,
this Friday night. Special services will
be held in this church every Friday night
during Lent and different foreign clergy
men will be in charge each time. The at
tendance on last Friday evening was very
encouraging to the rector, Rev. r. Allen
Castleman.
Mr.. James w. McAbee, who has
been farming the DR.. Emory farm near
Taylor, has accepted position as sales.
man for the Pollock Fertilizer Company
and will remove with his family to the
property on Hickory Avenue, Bel Air
now owned by Rev. J. A. Frederick. Mr.
McAbee will sell his stock and farming
implements at public sale on "Wednesday
March 9Th.
The Maryland and Pennsylvania
Railroad Company have completed the
steps necessary for the reduction of it:
mortgage of $2,7ooO,oOO, the tota
amount authorized, to 81, 100000, anc
the requisite papers showing the decrease
have been placed on record. At the tint
it was enormously stated that supple
mentary mortgage of $1,500,000 hat
been created instead of a reduction o
that amount.
On Saturday, Deputy Sheriff Cole
man Sheridan, arrested James Lee
colored, charged with cursing and swear
ing on the streets of Bel Air. He wa
taken before Justice Norris who fined hin
So and costs, in default of the paymen
of which he was committed to jail. Or
Tuesday he was brought before Judg
Fowler on a writ of habeas corpus ask
ing to be dismissed on the grounds tina
the commitment was defective. Judg
Fowler decided that the paper wa
regular and remanded him again to til
custody of the Sheriff.
MIR. Benjamin Bissell, who has bee
in the coal business for a number of year
in Baltimore, and is now agent of til
New Central Coal Company has bee
elected general manager of the Centur
Coal Company, which has under contr'
some of the best developed and und
veloped mines in the coal region. TT
company will at once increaseits faciliti'
for a LARGE additional nutnnt and WI