The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-07-22
Local affairs.

meet III Tic OpuTI llt'uSt, ''i -N'''
Saturday, July 23, at 4 ~ NJ.
MIR. Stevenson y. Williams has hecl
appointed a director ofSt. Johns GolIeG
in place of the late John S. Writ.
-Lctitia Walters. by II. y. Wintake
attorney, has applied for divorce from
h,.r husband William II. MATTERS.
The Willard W. {. T. L. will meet a
the home of Mrs. Martha Treaklc mex
Tuesday afternoon, July 26, at O'Clock
The City Council of Havrc dc Grace
have agreed to appropriate $4,000 to
ward the Bel Air and Havrc de Grace
road Improvement.
The Bel Air baseball club will go tC
Crsfield next week for several days out
ing They will play the local club Oh that
place on Tuesday and Thursday.
MIR. O. c. Michael, of Aberdeen, has
been elected vice president for the East
Baltimore District of the Sunday School
Workers Of the Southern Methodists.
"A woods meeting under the direction
of Rev. Dorsey Blake and Rev. {. NJ. ii,
derdice is now in progress at CnionChapeI
Nj. =. Church and will continue next
week.
DIR. Jacob Russell Martinez, proml-
nent Baltimore physician, died ut his
home at that place on Monday. llcwas
well-known i'll Hartford where he had n
large circle of friends.
MIR. John James Fisher, son of MIR.
Iohn II. Fisher, of Bel Air, and Miss
Maudella Tyler Shores were married on
Tuesday in New York. Mr.. ard Mrs.
Fisher will reside in New Jersey.
On Monday, Walter w. Preston,
trustee, sold at public sale at the Court
House door in Bel Air the Fleming land
near Benson. 1t WAS purchased by Mary
and Sarah Fleming for $1,2+0. J. W.
Mccall was the auctioneer.
Rev. c. F. Bonn will preach at the
tent meeting at Nit. Zion on next Mon
dav night, Rev. NJ. H. Courtney on Tues
day night, Rev. w. X. Galloway, OF
Wilmington, Delaware, will preach
several times during the meeting.
The wedding of Mr. Ernest T Nc
Mutt, formerly of Darlington but now
supervising principal ofthe public schools
of Millvillc, New Jersey, and Miss kath-
erinc May Gorrell, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joshua S Gorrell, of Darlington,
took place or Tuesday.
The marriage of Miss Martha Eliza
beth Amoss, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. b.
Howard Amoss, of Benson, and Mr.
Iohn Henry Price, IT., of Darlington, is
announced to take place at Friendship
NJ. f. Church, Fallston, on Wednesday
evening. August 3, at 6 o'clock
Our people should remember that the
fair is only two months of. 1t will re-
main for the local sentiment to either
continue or end this time honored annual
gathering. This is the last year unless a
better measure Of success is attained so
all must help to keep thecnterprise going
MIR. James Baird. of near the Rocks,
entertained recent visitor with ripe ap-
plcs from the trees and also some fine
spccimens of last wears harvest. Not
many farmers can boast of two different
wears apple crops at the same time. Mr..
Baird is one of the progressive farmers OF
Upper Hartford.
There will be Il lawn tcte on the
rcctorv grounds of Holy Trinity =. Z.
Church, Churcnvllc, on Wednesday, July
9th, beginning at I =. NJ. Instrument
tai music will be furnished by the Aber-
deem Fire Department band. There will
also be vocal music and Rotations,
fortune tent, "box-table," etc. Ice cream
and other refreshments will be for sale.
"A dramatic and musical recital will
lie held in the assembly rooms OF the Ma
sonic Temple, Bel Air, on Thursday even
ing, Julv %. Miss Margaret Linn Ball
will be assisted bv Mr.. Walter Lanpher
Brown and Miss Ida Buchner, of Balti-
more, and local talent. The entertain
ment will be given for the benefit of the
Helping Hand Society of the Bel Air Pres
byterian Church. Tickets t';r sale at
Evans Brothers drug store.
The State Teachers Association,
which was in session last week at Ocean
City adjourned on Friday. Mr. a. F.
Galbrcath, of Darlington, was elected a
member of the Executive Committee. In
naming the committees thcfollowing llar-
ford appointments were made: School
Legislation, Administration and Super
vision, Charles T. Wright; Geography,
Blanche +. Archer. Physical Training,
Helen A. Bradshaw, Laura b. Tamnany.
Tuesday was the hottest day this
summer In many places the thermome-
ter was close to 100 degrees. The hui,
midity was also high. 1t might be cool
ing for we sufferers to read 4 letter from
Mr.. Frederick ]. Macatcc, which the
-Egis received this week. He says that
he is on top of Pixies Peak. The snow IS
five feet deep and the wind is blowing &c
miles an hour. Contrast this with ouI
torrid temperature and try to be salts
fed.
The Coprt House Commits sion met il
Bel Air on Wednesday to receive bids for
the erection of the proposed addition
But two were received, as follows: Denis
|. Shauahan, So, 500; Henderson Manu-
featuring Company, of Philadelphia
S:33, 497. Both bids are far beyond The
appropriation and were rejected. Add
tioual bids will at once be asked and thu
commissiou will award the contract 4.
soon as it can get Il price within reach o
what can be paid.
Mr. Robert c. Richardson, of Church
vile, has sold his celebrated trottcr Nj
Own Boy to u. NJ. Rice and brother io
81 900. This is one of the fastest youni
horses i'll the state and is ha!fhrothcr t
McDwn Idol the property of Mr.. jaime
Richardson, of Bel Air. These horses ar
descendants of Thorndal Idol one of tn
finest animals ever brought into til
state. His progeny includes more ias
horses than any other stallion eve
owned in Maryland.
-Finney and Robinson, canned good
brokers, report the prospect OF the comm
packing season as being good. TIL" las
sixtydays has cIeancdup the spots eXcef
a few carloads here and there which al
being held for more money. Those sol