The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-01-23


10 80 y. NJ. Union Chapel at 3 Z. NJ.
and Grace Church. Bel Air, at ) p. NJ.
The lecture of Prof. Ford, in the NJ
E. Church. Bel Air, on Monday night was
we'll attended and thoroughly enjoyable
evening was spent by all present. His
stvlc is distinctly southern and his dialect
inimtablc.
Elder J. X. Gaff, minister of Mountain
| Christian Church, who has been absent
! for the past two weeks on account of
sickness i'll his family, will.'preach at the
| Mountain next Sunday morning at Ii
o'clock and at Fork Christian Church at
8 p. NJ
Miss Manic Poole, daughter of Mr.
James Poole, Of Chestnut Hill. and Mr..
| James Nathan, were married at St.
| Ignatius Church, Hickory, on Thursday
morning, hy Rev. ]. A. Frederick. The
best man was Mr. Augustus Mahan,
brother of the groom, the bridesmaids
being Miss Dora Poole and Miss Foley.
A State Farmers Institute was held
in the Court House on Thursday. 1t
be continued today, Friday. Mr. William
L. Amoss, State Director. presided. The
attendance showed some of the foremost
farmers of the county, all of whomev inced
the deepest interest in the proceedings.
The programme, which has heretofore
been outlined in these columns, was car
ried out.
MIR S J. Seneca has signed a lease
for 4 term of years for the property on
the northeast corner of Congress avenue
and st. John street. Havre dc Grace, for
the erection of large box manufacturing
plant. The company is the Delmar
Lumber Manufacturing Company which
is capitalized at 100000. Other Har-
ford people interested in the new Com
pany are Messrs H. L. Arthur and W.
A. Wells
The Court Of Appeals has decided
that the responsibility for the condition
of the public roads of Baltimore county
no longer rests with the County Com
missioncrs since the passage o! the special
act putting their control in the hands
of the road Engineer. This will re-
lieve that body from any further suits
and as the blame is not placed anywhere,
it would seem that litigants have no
redress.
The Court of Appeals has rendered
an interesting decision in a recent case
which went up from the Circuit Court |
for Hartford county. The Court below |
was reversed on the ruling that the State
Insolvency Law did not apply to farmers,
on the grounds of it being superseded by |
the National Bankrupt Law. The latter
exempts farmers aud our Appellate
Court has decided that they come within
the provisions of our own Insolvency |
Act, and cannot make preferences in favor
of any individual.
On Tuesday, January 9th, Assistant
Commissioner Bertram n Stump. of the
United States immigration Bureau of
was sent to the southern ports
By the Government to investigate the
of establishing bureaus at
several different places between Baltimore
aud Florida. He sailed directly to Sa-
where he left his wife, child and
maid. proceeding thence further South.
[ Upon his return, the party will stop off
at Old Point Comfort, where they Will be
Joined by Mrs. Russell Murray and son
Spencer-the latter is just recovering
from spell of Sickness.
1t is stated the Old Town Merchants
and Manufacturers Association of Balti-
more, may take up the plan ofpromoting
the electric railroad from Baltimore to
Bel Air 1t is thought that the entire
outlay would not exceed 100000 and
the construction would require about II
miles of track to reach the terminus of
the United Railways and Electric Com
pany. y meeting will be held at Putty
Hill, on Saturday night and another at
Perry Hall, on Tuesday night, to take
action looking towards extending sub
Stantial support to the enterprise. On
Mr.. B. +. Cutler, Civil En-
gineer, arrived in Bel Air and went over
the proposed route the same afternoon.
He will have charge of the surveys and
will at once start a corps of men to
IT,, l. !
and means that the promoters intend to
push the building with commendable
speed.
Hartford Chapter, No. III United
Daughter ofConfederacy, met at "Strath-
more" the beautiful residence of Mrs.
John G. Rouse, in Bel Air, on Monday,
JANUARY 10th, to celebrate the birthday
of General X. E. Lee. The following
officers were elected; President, Mrs. G.
Smith Norris; vice president, Mrs. E. H.
y. Pue; secretary, Mrs. John G. Rouse;
treasurer, Mrs. James D. Waters. A
large photograph of the monument,
shortly to be erected to the memory OF |
the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors of
Maryland, was shown. The Daughters |
Of the Confederacy have raised enough |
money to pay for the monument, and |
have enough in hand to erect it as soon
as the weather permits. The photo
graph had an additionalinterest from the
fact that it was the personal gift from
the sculptor to Mrs. G. Smith Norris,
who is first vice president of the Mary
land Division, L. D. c., and represents
Hartford Chapter on the Monument Com
mittee. After suitable readings, dainty
refreshments were served. i'll which the
color scheme of red, white and red was
most ingcnisusly lrried out.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mr. W. Frost Moore, of Baltimore, was
the guest of the Misses Sawyer, of En-
morton, last week.
Mr. Donald Smith, whose sickness has
been heretofore noted in this paper, is
now dangerously i'll. His brother, Mr..
Julian {. Smith, is with him and his