The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-03-20
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BEL AIR, MD. MICH. 20, 1903
Local affairs.

day night of last week and was buried at
St. Johns Church, Long Green, on Satur-
day morning.
MIR. Albert 7. Cicatty has sold his
grocery store. bakery ard residence on
Main street to Ernest Thunc, of Phita'
dclphia The new purchaser will take
possession at once.
The sale of Mr.. Milton Bull. which is
advertised to take place on March 23th
has been indefinitely postponed, as he
has made business arrangements to re-
main in this county.
Professor s. T. Ford will be at VII
liam Waters Memorial NJ. L. Church,
on Thursday evening, March Goth. Pro-
cceds for the benefit Of the Sunday School
Missionary Society
Rev. w. w. Davis will preach at Nc
Kendree Church next Sunday at 1870
A. NJ, and at Vernon at 3 =. NJ. The
Sunday Schools will be reorganizcd at
both of these appointments.
The County Commissioners of Balti-
more and Hartford counties will meet on
the premises today, Friday, to confer
about building bridge over Little Gun
powder Falls, near TAYLOR. This stream
divides the two counties.
congressman !. Fred {. Talbot,
has appointed Mr.. Walter d. Warner, of
the tenth district, Baltimore county. as
his private secretary. lie is a son of
Rev. George X. Warner, rector of st.
James Parish, My Lady's Manor.
MIR. Daniel Callahan, of Creswcll, re-
Gently left at the mill of Mr.. y. I. Patter-
son, near Emmorton, twenty ears of corn
that weighed twenty eight pounds.
Each of cobs averaged thirty rows of
deep grain and none of them were less
than twelve inches in length.
The members of the congregation of
Memorial Presby terrain Church, High
landtown, Baltimore county, are making
preparations for the celebration of the
twenty-fitth anniversary of the passionate
of Rev. ]. Wynne Jones, D. d. He is one
of the best known members of the Balti-
more Presbytery and has many friends in
this county.
Register Bay has probated the will
of the late. Dorlestea D. Rogers. She
leaves all her property to her husband,
Solomon T. Roocrs, for life, with the
remainder over to her children William
F. Rogers, \. Calvin Rogers, Howell {.
Rogers and Rube c. Rogers. The paper
is dated December Goth, 1900 and is
witnessed by Ambrose Cooley and Susie
F. Wiles.
An interesting debate took place at |
Fork Literary and Debating Society on
Saturday night. The question was ere
solved that women should be entran- |
chised" Those in the affirmative were
Messrs. Joseph Crumlish and Wilbur
Riddle; negative, Messrs. George Fox |
and S NJ. Smith. On divided vote, |
the judges decided the question in favor |
of the latter.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Baker, fAber- !
deem, have issued cards announcing the
marriage of their daughter Miss Margaret |
Littleton Baker and Mr. William J. Bald
win, of Virginia, son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. |
T. Baldwin, Tr.. of Aberdeen. The cere- |
mony will be performed in Aberdeen NJ. |
E. Church by the Rev. Kenneth G. |
Murray on Tuesday evening March 81 ,
at seven o'clock.
On Wednesday morning Deputy
Sheriff r. Coleman Sheridan seized two
slot machines which were at the rcstua-
rant of II. J. Clayman, Aberdeen. The
proprietor was arrested on Il warrant
issued by Justice George w. Richardson.
He was taken before Justice Pritchard |
and gave 500 bail for Court. The
machines were brought to Bel Air and |
deposited in a cell in the Jail.
Judging from the number of school
children who have been seen in the Court
room this week, it would probably be
good thing to have a truant officer such |
as is the case in many other places. The |
taxpayers of Hartford county spend a |
great deal for the purpose of having first
class schools and if parents cannot COM
pei their children to accept the eXcep- |
tional advantages which are being afford |
ed to make them better citizens, the law
should take hand
AT the request of a number of our sub !
scribers, we publish the law relating to |
brook trout, taken from the Code of Gen.
eral Laws, article 80, section 73: at |
shall not be lawful for any person to take, |
catch or kill any speckled brook trout, or |
any speckled. river trout, save only with |
a hook and: line, or to have any such |
trout in his possession, except during the
months of April, May, June, July and the
first fifteen days in the months OF August,
under penalty of five dollars for each |
trout so caught or had in his possession"
Lieutenant General Irvine Walker,
commanding the Department Army of
Northern Virginia, L CIV, has announced
the promotion of Col Winfield Peters, of !
Baltimore, late Assistant Adjutant Cen
eral, to be Quartermaster General, vice
Col Charles Goldsborough, resigned
also the appointment ofComrade William
F. Wheatley to be Assistant Quartermas-
ter General with the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel. The United Confederate Veter-
ans at large now embrace some 1,50O
camps with membership apprOXimating
100000 Colonies Peters and Wheatley
both served during the entire war i'll the
Confederate Army and as privates i'll the
First MARYLAND Infantry during the first
year of the war.
The trial of Sarah Hall, charged with
the murder of her nephew, John Holland,
near Perryman, on the 18th of Novem-
Der last, was concluded in Court on Sat
urday evening by verdict of man.
slaughter. The States officers, Mcssrs
McNabb and Hopkins, did not press Il
verdict of murder in the first degree, as
the evidence did not indicate sufficient
generalization. The testimony was
practically the same as heretofore out
lined in these columns, and at tie time
of the killing no one was present except
the prisoner and Holland, SO, as Il matter
of course, the full facts could not be
brought to light in an unbiased manner.