The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-08-14
TIE Esls and ,IalGl!issqces
BEL AIR MD. AUGUST 1903
Local affairs.

The Sunday School at Joppa will hole
its annual picnic on Saturday afternoon
August 81, followed by q festival a
night
The Woman's Guild of Emmanue
Church Bel Air, will hold a cake sale a
the Rectory tomorrow, Saturday after
noon, at + 80 o'clock.
The Willard w. {. T. U. will meet a
the residence of Mrs. Benjamin Scarbo
rough, near Scarboro, on Tuesday
August Is, at 2 80 p. NJ.
The Jerusalem Christian Sunday
School will hold its annual picnic IN the
grove adjoining the church on the after
noon of Saturday, August Is.
Mr.. James Patterson Kerr, of Balti-
more, will preach at the Fallston Pres
byterian Church on Sunday afternoon
August 16, at $50 O'Clock. All are in
vited.
A rabid dog frightened the residents
of Bel Air on Tuesday afternoon. The
animal attacked all the dogs along the
street with which it came i'll contact,
snarling and swapping as it went.
The Sunday School of the NJ. E.
Church held its annual picnic on Tues
day. The children were conveyed to
Otter Point in buses and carriages and
spent a pleasant day on Bush River.
John Archer, son of Mr.. Stevenson
Archer of John, formerly of Bel Air, made
a narrow escape from drowning in the
Potomac River near Cumberland on
Tuesday. When rescued by acompanion
he was in an exhausted condition.
The first Regatta and Field Day" of
the Hartford Boat Club will be held on
Saturday afternoon. August 22nd, at
Otter Point The boats of the different
members of the club will pass through
assemblage and in the evening a crab
supper will be served.
The MARYLAND and Pennsylvania
Railroad has a gang of men at work at
Pvlesville The station is being moved
back from the track and the warehouse
is being arranged so that it will be more
convenient for unloading grain. a new
switch is also in contemplation.
Abraham Cooper a respected colored
man, aged about seventy years, died
on Tuesday from the effects of a fall from
farm wagon on the property of Miss
Kate Hooker, near Bel Air, one day last
week. The conclusion injured the spinal
cord and his physicians were unable to
render any efficient aid.
The members and friends OF "The
Willard w. c. T. U. will hold a lawn
fete on the grounds of Mr.. John w.
Famous, near Ady, on Thursday, August
20, beginning at 6.3O p. NJ. If stormy
the next fair evening. Ice cream, cakes,
confectionery, water melons and fancy
articles for sale. The public is cordially
invited.
-Finney and Robinson, canned goods
brokers, state that the pack in southern
Maryland has started up generally.
although it will be the latterpar of next
week before the Gamers get we'll under
wav. They offer limited quantity of
new pack standards at seventy-hve
cents. Prices on spot goods remain I'M
changed.
Charles A. Wills, brakeman on the
Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad,
was fatally injured near Sharon on Satur-
day. He was on detached car ofwhich
he lost control. He was thrown and
internally injured. Doctors Richardson
were summoned and the injured man was
taken to the City Hospital, where he
died on Monday.
On Tuesday, horse driven by MIR.
Frank Baker, of Aberdeen, became
frightened at freight train, which was
passing through that place, and ran
away. In front of Slices store the
frightened animal collided with buggy.
Mo. Baker was thrown out but held on
to the reins. His left hand was lacerated
and he was considerably shaken up.
On Sunday afternoon, Mr.. w. Scott
Handy, who lives near Calvary, found
the body of John Sheets, an elderly fisher
man of Bush River Neck, floating in Bush
River. Mr. Handy reported the case to
Justice James T. Pritchard, of Aberdeen.
who after viewing the remains, decided
that an inquest would not be necessary.
It is thought that the man was drowned
on Saturday.
During the thunder storm on Tues
day, lightning struck house owned by
Mr.. Edward l.. Robinson, near Joppa,
and occupied by Mr.. jeremiah Massmore.
The bolt came down the side ofthe Chin
ney, tore through partition and went
out of the building through the weather
boarding. Strange to say that although
Mr.. Massmore and his two sons were in
the house at the time, no one was injured.
The interior of the building was consider
ably splintered and torn up.
-Jervis Maxwell Jewell has been ar
rested at Chestertown on the charge OF
swindling pensioners and pensioners
widows. For more than five months it
is said that he has been successfully
working in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsyl-
vania and Delaware. 1t is claimed that
he has represented himself as a special
medical examiner of the Bureau at WASH
sngton, and his victims have beenlargely
among the coiored people. A man
answering his description has been at
work in some portions of Harford county,
notably in the second district.
"A tournament will be held in the field
ofMr. Edward Oldfe,d. near the Rocks,
on Tuesday, August 18th, for the benefit
st Mary's Church, Clermont Mills.
Addresses will be made by prominent
speakers and an important feature of the
occasion will be the dance i'll Intervening.
The chapcroncs are Mesdames F. b.
Hayward, William Hope, Mamie Bartol,
James Stansbury, ]. w. Street,, Henry
Macatee, Harry Lanius, S. A. Bradley
Edward Oidfeld, ]. ]. GLADDEN., John
Webster, J. 4. Street,, Misses Lottie
Hope and Jennie Macatee. Floor man
.agers.-J. Walter Street,. F. Stillie Hay
ward and Charles R. Bartol.
The religious services at Cooptowr
woods meeting, West Hartford Circuit
will he continued during next week
There N'ill be no services on Sunday
morning except in the churches of thu