The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-04-03
Local affairs.

month.
Key. A. G. Richards, of Perryman
occupied the pulpit ofEmmanuct Church
Bel Air, on Tuesday afternoon.
-Rev. George W ramc u. D., vii
preach at Emmanuel +. +. Church, BE
Air, this Friday evening, ateight o clock
The Woman's Quill OF Emnanue
Church will hold their regular monthly
meeting OH Monday, April Is, at o clock
Key. l.. f. Dutton, former pastor
will occupy the pulpit at Darlington M
E. Church next Sunday afternoon at 81
o'clock
Mr. John McCunmings, of Bel Air
has gone to Ohio with a gang of men to
do some trestle work for the Wabash
Railroad.
Mr. John S. Young trustee, has sold
the Alexander Berry property situated
near Darlington to John Z. Berry and
others for 81 $50
Mr. Joseph L. Bateman, whose illness
has heretofore been mentioned III these
columns, is still i'll serious condition
There is not much hope for his recovery.
The wedding of Miss Alice Wilson to
Mr.. Ohio Smith has been announced.
The marriage will take place on April
80 at the Methodist Protestant Church,
Lapidum.
We arc indebted to Congressman !.
F. c. Talbot, of the Second Congress.
sional District, for a copy of the Congress
sional Directory Of the special session of
the ffty-eighth Congress.
MIR. Nathaniel W. S. Hays and Miss
Dorothy Y Pyle, daughter Of Mr.. Her
man Pyle, were married at noon on Mon
day at Emmanuel p E. Church, Bel Air.
Rev. R. A. Castleman rector of the church,
performed the ceremony.
To-day, Friday, is Arbor Day and
will be celebrated i'll the public schools
throughout the county. We will be glad
to publish short accounts of the different
schools if they are sent us not later than
next Monday mornings mail.
A live bird shoot was held at Abcr-
deem on Thursday of last week. Five
hundred birds were trapped and Mr.
Lester S. German was the first in the
contest missing but one bird out fifty
two. They were eleven miss and cut
events.
James F. McCabe, who is well known
in this county, sub-contractor on the
New York Underground System, has
brought suit for $3.50, 900 against certain
persons who represented the contractors.
No particulars concerning the action are
known and the greatest secrecy regarding
the litigation is being maintained.
Mr. Richard Gross, of Jarrcttsville,
who has been on anextended trip through
the tar west, returned home last Friday.
He spent some time at San Diego and
Los Angeles He expressed himself as
both delighted with the climate and the
cordially of the people of that part of
the country and may return to make it
his future home.
Miss Louisa Gustinc Taylor, daugh-
ter of the late G. 6. Taylor and Mr..
John Israel Taylor, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Taylor, were married at the
manse of the First Presbyterian Church
of Baltimore City, on Thursday of last
week. The ceremony was performed by
Rev Donald y. Guthrie D. D. Mr.. and
Highland.
MIR H. ]. Patterson. Director Of the
Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station, has made application to the
Board ofDirectors of the Hartford Agricul-
tural Society for space to erect perma-
nent building to place an exhibit at the
coming exhibition. The exhibit will he
of an elaborate nature and will prove
quite an attractive drawing card to the
patrons of the fair.
The case of Henry s. Jean against the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Com
pany was given to the jury on Friday
evening. After remaining out all night,
they came in Court Saturday morning
with a compromise verdict of $3,5O0 in
favor of the plaintiff. Mr.. Jean was
represented by Col. d. 6. Mcintosh and
Mr.. S. A. Williams. The railroad COM
pany had as its attorneys Mcssrs. Charles
H. Garter, of Baltimore City and Thomas
H. Robinson.
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Carter who were
married on March 8, have returned from
their wedding trip to Jamaica. On Fri
day night, a reception was rendered them
by Mr.. Carriers sister, Mrs. E. b. Whist
Ter, at Fountain Green. The young men
of the neighborhood gave them a hearty
serenade the next evening. Mr. Carter,
who recently purchased the Rutledge
property, near the Rocks, is erecting a
new dwelling house in which they will
reside upon its completion.
On Wednesday night of lest week tie
Aberdeen Electric Light Company COM
menced furnishing the town with cleo
tricity. The current was turned on by
the president of the Board of Town Com
missioners, Mr. John Finney Wells. The
contract calls for incandescentli lights at a
cost of$5OO ayear to the town authori-
ties. MID. B. Arthur is the president ofthe
Electric ght Company with J. A. Swing
ley treasurer, Dorsey Rowe secretary, and
L. A. Funck manager. The same COM
pany operates basket factory at Aber-
deem.
The Irving-Lowell Literary Society
of the Bel Air Academy celebrated Mary
land Day with appropriate exercises.
The programme was as follows: The
Event March 25th, 1884" Miss Waters;
"Keynotes ofAmerican Liberty" Charles
Lee; Birth of Maryland Ideas" Miss
Hunter; avalon the first Calvert
Colony Miss Staley; The Church."
Miss Castleman; The Ark and The
Dove" Albert Coc The Landing" Miss
Webb" The Settlement" Stanley Spencer;
Church and State separated" Henry
Munnikhuyscn: History of Maryland
Record of Glory" Robert Ramsay;
"Maryland'S part in t he Nations History
since 1879" Miss Gladden. The pro
gramme was intcrSperscd with music
which included "Mar,land, My Mary
I,r,I'' aud '''Tin S+.r Sna DuIe1 Pouunr -