The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-05-06
Local affairs.

Church next Sunday Morning
Professor J. Edwin Harry, Dean OF
Cincinnati University, has been named
acting president by the trustees.
-Fallston school will hold a straw
berry and lex cream festival at the school
house on Saturday evening, May IL
List of letters remaining in the Bel
Air postotlice: Mr.. Moses Boone. Miss
Grace Ramsey, Mcssrs. Clayton Packing
Co.
County Treasurer John Finney Wells
lost about eight hundred pointed rails in
a recent forest fire on his farm near Aber-
deem.
Court will convence at noon next
Monday. A large number OF witnesses
have been summoned i'll both civil and
criminal cases.
Mr.. Elwood T. Anderson, of Falls
ton, was taken to Baltimore on Wednes-
dav where he will be operated upon by
Mr. John NJ 7. Finney.
On Monday, J. $. Richardson, auc-
tioneer, offered for Harlan and Webster
a tract of land containing one hundred
acres. 1t was withdrawn at bid OF
$1,000.
On Monday Judge VanBibber had be-
fore him Jerome Russell. charged with
violating his parole. He was sentenced
to the House of Correction for twelve
months.
MIR. T. l.. Hanway has in progress
the repairs to his store building at Aber-
deem, which was partially destroyed by
fire last February. The work will soon
be finished.
-Finney and Robinson, canned goods
brokers, report the tomato market active
at65 cents. Future tomatoes are quoted
at seventy cents Peninsula, and seventy
FIVE cents local.
An important meeting of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy will be held
at the residence of Mrs. John 6. Rouse,
Bel Air, on Tuesday, May 10th, at IL
A. NJ. All members are requested to at
tend.
Mr.. Philip H. Close, trustee, sold at
the Court House door i'll Bel Air on Mon |
day ten acres of land in the second dis |
trict. 1t was purchased by Harry S.
Carver for SAILS. Noble L. Mitchell was
the auctioneer.
Judge VanBibber has excused the fol- |
lowing jurors: Henry B. Hopper, ii. Gill
Pocock, John n. Wallace and Cyrus A.
Courtney In their places were drawn
Hargraves Spalding, George Nj. D. Wiley,
Robert c. Richardson and Joshua E.
Amoss.
Services will be held at Mountain
Christian Church as usual next Sunday.
In the morning, the pastor will speak on
Readiness for His coming" The sing
ing bv the congregation will be specially
good. Song practice at night. Meeting
at Joppa at ?. Nj.
The municipal election in Havre de
Grace resulted in the election of DR.. d. W.
Hopkins, A. B. Coburn and Walter II.
Weber to the City Council to serve two
wears. w II. Weber led the polls. There
were but five candidates in the field.
The $4,000 bond issue, to establish
sewerage system, was carried.
A heavy thunderstorm passed over
Bel Air last Sunday afternoon. During
ITS progress, a cow in the field of Mrs.
Fannie Boarnan was struck by lightning
II eli iaS
near Baldwin, Baltimore county, as well
as in some of the upper portions of this
county.
The Bel Air town election passed of
very quitely on Monday. Only one
ticket, the old board, was i'll the field. 1t
is composed of William T. Billingslea,
Wilmer l.. Barnes, Henry B. Bruins, John
b. Hanna and DR.. Benjamin Smith. The
Judges of election were Joseph p. Wilson,
John w. Anderson and Charles T. Carver.
The first annual meeting of the Sum-
day School Institute of the Diocese OF
MARYLAND will be held at Emmanuel
Church Parish House. Baltimore, on
Wednesday. The meeting will be pre-
sided over by Bishop Paret and interest
ing subjects will be discussed by promi-
nent persons The Protestant Episcopal
Sunday Schools of this county will be
represented.
Mr.. John T. Eek formerly of this
county, and Miss Mary E. Meddinger, of
Baltimore, were married at the home of
the bride, 1915 East North avenue, on
Thursday night of last week. The bride
was gowned in a cream silk trimmed i'll
lace She carried a bunch of bridal roses.
The bridesmaid was Miss Lille Barrenger. |
She was attired in white organdy and |
carried a bouquet of pink carnations. |
Mr. Charles McGregor was best man. |
After the wedding the bridal couple left |
for an extended trip.
On Saturday Judge VanBibber had
before him on writ of habeas corpus
Mabel and Pearl Rigdon, two little
women aged respectively 10 and II
years. These tots about a month ago
ran away from their grandfather, Mr..
William Carr, who lives near Pylesville,
and went as far as York, where they
were captured and returned. Their ia Their,
Mr.. Rigdon, of Cambria, sued out a writ
for the possession of the children. Judge
VanBibber asked them where they wish
ed to go and they both stated that they
wanted to go back to the father. An or
der was passed awarding their custody
to him.
The Old Maids Convention, which
was given at the w. c. T. U. Hall, Foun-
tain Green. on Thursday night of last
week, was a success both financially and
socially. The attendance was very large.
the building being packed to Its utmost
capacity. A unique programme was rem
dered in manner that kept every one
laughing from first to last. BY request,
the entertainment will be repeated at the
Aberdeen Town Hall next Tuesday even
ing, May 10th, beginning at eight o clock.
That there will again be acrowded house
goes without saying, as the first patrons
will not only go again, but will tell all of
their neighbors and friends what an en-
ioyable evening is assured.
On Friday, Edward Rogers, a horse
dealer in Baltimore, was arrested on the
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