The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-04-24
Local affairs.


who has been critically i'll, is improving
The Hartford Historical Society wi
meet in the Court House i'll Bel Air o.
Saturday morning, April 25 at clever
O'Clock
MIR. Frank Macatec, of the Unitet
States Immigration Bureau, Ellis Island
New York. has been the guest ofrelativc
at Pylesville.
Bishop Paret will visit St. Mary :
Church, near Emmorton, on Sunday
morning for the purpose of administering
the rite OF confirmation.
Bishop Paret will visit Emmanue
Church, Bel Air. to administer contlrma
ton at 5 o'clock next Sunday afternoon
instead of + O'Clock as previously adver
tised.
Mrs. Harry d. Hanway entertained
the Book Club at her handsome home on
Main street, Bel Air, on Saturday after
noon. Prizes were won by Misses Agnes
Cover and Bessie Smithson.
Mr.. Dennis J. Shanahan, contractor,
is erecting Il residence for Mrs. Mary
Salada on Broadway in Bel Air. 1t will
be a neat cottage and an addition to the
residence portion Of our town.
Bel Air NJ. p. Church, Rev. Dorsey
Blake, pastor: Preaching at IL A. NJ.
and P. NJ; Mt Carmel, 3 P. NJ. First
Quarterly Conference on May End, at
23O P NJ.
On Monday, Harry y. Whitaker,
trustee, sold at public sale at the Court
House door, the Durham property, con-
tanning % acres, to Wilnore Durham,
for $3.50. Joshua W. Mccall was the auc-
tioneer.
-Rev. Thomas G. Pearce, a Baptist
minister of Towson, will preach at the
LOO. F. Hall, Bel Air, next Sunday
afternoon, at 8 o'clock. A cordial i'll
vitation is extended to the public to at
tend this service.
Mr.. Eben n. Baldwin, postmaster
and station agent at Claymont. Della.
ware. made an address before the Della
ware State Sunday School Convention
on Friday evening last. Mr.. Baldwin
is a former resident of this county where
he has many friends.
We are indebted to the management,
for an invitation to attend the celebra-
ton of the one hundredth anniversary OF
the acquisition of the Louisiana Terri
tory, which will be commemoratcd by
the dedication of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition at St Louis on April so and
May l and 2.
DIR. F. P. Smithson, County Health
Officer, reports that there is now only
one case of smallpox in the county, Which
is in the vicinity of Aberdeen. DR.. Smith
son deserves great credit, in conjunction
with his fellow physicians. for the prompt
manner in which this dread disease has
been nearly stamped out.
Many of our older citizens remember
the 10Th of April, 1861. and the stormy
scenes of that day will long be chronicled
in our Nations history. Our country
has since been reunited and traces of the
Civil War are fast being obliteratcd. 4
few of the rank Northerners still continue
to wave the Bloody Shirt, v but happily
their numbers are so insignificant that no
serious notice is taken of them.
Those who appreciate styles i'll at
tractive footwear should not fail to read
the advertisement of n Hess Sons,
Baltimore, which appears elsewhere III
our columns. They are prc-eninently
the leaders in all that pertains to the
latest and most attractive shapes of
shoes. No man is well dressed without
he gives especial attention to his foot
wear and it is this especial class that this
well-knowr firm desires particularly to
interest.
The Town Hall Company of Aber-
deem, has been Incorporated by William
B. Baker. Orion c. Michael. T. Littlcton
Hanway, Oliver N. Cole and c. W.
Baker. The object of the corporation is
for the purpose of operating the public
building in that town. The capital stock
is ST, 800 divided into thirty-six shares
of $50 each. The time limited for the
existence of the corporation is forty
years. The directors named for the first
year are William B. Baker, o. c. Michael,
T. L. Hanway, Q. N. Cole and Joseph A.
Swingley.
The Baltimore Prcsbytery has been
in session this week at Brown Memorial
Church, Baltimore. Rev. Henry A.
Grubbs, of Havre de Grace, was allowed
to dissolve the pastoral relations with
his congregation in order 10 accept the
management ofthe Presbyterian Journal,
the official organ of the church. His
resignation will take effect May 1st, and
Mr.. Grubbs will declare the pulpit vacant
next Sunday. Rev. Jonas Barclay was
received into the Presbytery and at once
assigned to Highland Presbyterian
Church, in this county.
On Friday Mr.. Calvin T. Dawson
filed an answer to bill of complaint Of
number of residents of Baltimore county
for an injunction to enjoin his company
from the manufacture of fertilizers. The
answer was filed by S. A. Williams and
d. G. Mcintosh, attorneys. The point
raised in this suit, which is in the Balti-
more County Court, is of novel nature.
Objection has been raised by certain resi-
dents on the account of the fumes and
gases that would be thrown from the
fertilizer factory when it was i'll opera
ton. The case will go the Court of AP-
peals and the decision is looked forward
to with interest.
We are indebted to the Jacob Tome
Institute for an invitation to attend its
Inaugural Celebration on May Is and
l6 The theme of the first days celebra-
ton will be the founder. The second day
will be given to formal dcdicatory exer.
cises The Jacob Tome Institute was
founded by Jacob Tome, who gave to il
between three and four millions ofdollars
The striking part of such a munificient
gift is the fact that the primary purpose:
of the Institute are Il secondary school
Mr.. Tome doubtless realized the adj
vantagcs of parliamentary education ant
by his liberal gift placed it within reacl
Of many who otherwise would never b.
a.