The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-06-12
Local affairs.

Run, recently suffered slight stroke o
paralysis He is now mrtSh better.
Mr.. Henry Jenkins, ot Norrisville
raised a large barn last week. Mr.. w
T. Strawbridge is the contractor.
General Frank A. Bond. former
resident of this county, VIII" recently
broke one of his legs, is improving
On Sunday next, Rev. Dorsey Blake
will preach at Providence Nj. u. Church
at 1890 A. NJ; Union Chapel $50 p. NJ
and Bel Air at s p. NJ.
-Children's Dav services will be OBJ.
served on Sunday, June 18th at Vernon
NJ. E. Church, at 1890 A. NJ, and Nc,
Kendree NJ. E. Church at S 2. M.
The Woman's Guild of Emmanuel p.
L. Church, Bel Air, will hold its monthly
cake sale at the Rectory on Saturday
afternoon, June 1 3th, at 400 p. M.
-children's Day services will be held
at Jerusalem Christian Church on Sun.
day morning, June 18th, at 1915
O'Clock. Communion services at 1890
A. NJ.
Eugene A. Guillott, son of MIR. E. F.
Guillott, of Bel Air who has recently
been visiting here, left New York on
Friday on the kearsagc for England and
Germany.
President r. ". Sylvester, of the
Maryland Agricultural College, has our
thanks for an invitation to be present at
the exercises of commencement week
June II to II.
The price OF spot and future tomatoes
remains about the same as last week.
The market is firm at from - cents to
so cents. The loss of tomato plants will
undoubtedly cause decreased acreage.
The Right Rev William Paret D. D.,
Bishop of Maryland. will visit St. James
Church, Kingsvillc, on Sunday afternoon
next June 14th. The rite ofconfrmation
will follow. All are cordially invited to
attend.
The ladies of Union Chapel NJ. p.
Church will hold a strawberry and ice
cream festival on the evenings of Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday. June IL, IL
and 13. Proceeds for the benefit of the
church.
MIR. and Mrs. Joseph Arrick Harris,
of Bel Air, have announced the nuptials of
their daughter. Miss Mary Arrick Harris
and Mr.. Thomas White Hall. The cere-
mony will take place on Wednesday
evening, June oath, at Emmanuel =. E.
Church. Bel Air. No invitations to
friends in the county, other than public
notice will be given.
Joseph Collins, n wcll-known colorcd
man of Havre de Grace, was killed on
Thursday afternoon of last week, on the
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington
Railroad at a crossing near that place.
He was attempting to avoid train in
one direction by stepping on the other
track, where he was struck by freight
engine coming the opposite way.
The National Educational Associa-
ton. which will probably bring together
$4,000 school officials and teachers, will
be held i'll Boston the first of July. Ex-
ceedingly low rates have been offered on
all railroads and steamship lines and it
would be a most excellent idea if all of
our teachers could come i'll contact with
this vast asscmblagc of educators.
The cas-. of Charles Gather against
the PHILADELPHIA Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad, which was tried in this
Court in 1901 and afterwards removed
to Chestertown, resulted in Il verdict at
that place on Tuesday for 81 900. The
suit was to recover damages for injuries
sustained by breaking through the floor
of freight car while loading freight
July 1900.
The Twentieth National Saengerfest
will be held in Baltimore the week of
June 14th. The merchants of Baltimore
have raised a large sum of money to aid
in defraying the expenses, and the City
Council has appropriated $4,000 to
illuminate the city during the week of
the festival. At the opening concert on
Sunday Junday II, 1000 public school
children will sing choruses.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph X. Wetherill
of Baltimore, have announced the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss Bessie
Wetherill, to Mr.. Harry Fallnestock
The nuptials will be quietly celebrated
at the brides home early next October.
Miss Wetherill is native of this county,
where she is prominently connected. Mr..
Fahnestock is member Of the banking
firm of d. Fahnestock and Company, of
Baltimore.
AT the recent commencement of the
Shaftesbury School of Expression, of
which Miss Alice MAY Youse, who was
formerly teacher in the Bel Air Academy
and Graded School, is the principal, a
presentation was made to her by the
Count de Sarak of a diploma of honor of
the Ladies International Humane and
and Hygiene Society, which is under the
royal patronage King Edward VII. The
presentation was an utter surprise to the
recipient.
The Bel Air Base Ball Club easily de-
feated the Chesapeake Athletic Club of
Baltimore last Saturday on the home
grounds. The score was IL to3. BOWL
ing. the Bel Air pitcher, had the visiting
team completely at his mercy allowing
but six scattered hits and striking out but
13 men. Our men worked all the fine
points of the game and are showing de-
cided Improvements. Such work as our
boys are now doing will win every time
and we hope to see them continue with
the same snappy strong playing.
-"Maryland as is" has been received
from the publisher 1t is Il neat little
book of nearly 200 pages which gives a
succinct and comprehensive outline
history of our State. The author, Mr.
Norval +. Ford, one of the editors OF the
Baltimore Sun, is one of the best equipped
men in Maryland toprcparc such a work.
1t is issued by the Board ofPublic Works
and designed to he circ@lated among
prospective settlers. This State is badly
in need gilmore residents who will practice
intensive farming in the rural communi-
ties, and it is to he hoped that this mis-.
sionary eulissary may aid i'll bringing
about the desired result.