The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-01-15

ABERDEEN January IS The past week
has been a gay one, the town having
been enlivcned by many pretty cutters
and good horses, which could be seen
every afternoon i'll the races that have
taken place since the sleigh:Hg began.
A race on Friday afternoon between MIR.
X. {. Richardson's Maryland and Mr..
Charles Drennen's PAGER BLACK Mig,
was pronounced by number Of horse
men, the prCttiest raceever seen onsnow.
Other good horses ON the track Were Mr..
b. ". Herring'S bay trottcr, Mr.. l..
Dicks trotter High Noon" Mr.. Ralph
Mitchelrs "Maude." Mr.. Morgan Nit
chell's bay trotter and William Z. Morgan
who with Gretchen" could "shnw fi'c
boys the way down the road. Mr.. Il. 5.
Mitchell also had fine looking bay
horse with much speed.
The death Of Mr. Donald X Pritchard
was a shock to this community in which
ne had resided nearly all his lie. He
had been sick only one week when his
death resulted from pneumonia, at the
home of his sister. Mrs. ]. L. Aitchcsnnin
baltimore. OIL Sunday. Funeral services
were held at the hoihc OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Aitchcsou on Tuesday. The remains were
brought 20 Aberdcc.! and inferred IN
Grove cemetery Mr.. Henry Earring
had charge of the funeral arrangements
The deceased was thirty years old. lie
had for the past year been i'll the employ of
the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company He was the youngest son of
Justice lanes 7. pritchard, of Aberdeen,
and is also survived nv two sisters. MrS.
Hutchinson, OF Baltimore and Mrs. George
w. Evans, ot Aberdeen, and two brothers,
George O. Pritchard. OF Jacksonville.
and r. Littleton I'ritchard. of Palatka,
Florida. He was a member of the
Masonic Lodge of Aberdeen, and was
buried with the honors of that order.
At the meeting of the stockholders of
the First National Bank of Aberdeen on
Tuesday the old board was reelected rs
follows: William b. Baker, T. l.. Han
way, Septimus Davis. Cyrus a. Courtney,
0 n. Johnson. James b. Baker, John NJ.
Michael, Willard G. Rouse and Morgan
Mitchell The officers will be elected at
the next meeting.
Rev. Walter Rue MURRAY, of lIavre dc
Grace Presbyterian Church. will deliver
a lecture to the Young Mems League in
the meeting room near the Baltimore and
Ohio depot on Thursday evening, 18th
instant. Admission free
Mr.. r. F. Johnson, OF Pcrryman, who
has been indiSposed for some time is
again able to be out, and WAS Il welcome
visitor in Aberdeen On Monday.
AIR. Henderson James spent part of
last week visiting friends in Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan Mitchell and
Mrs. 7. l.. Halfway were among the
visitors in Baltimore on Saturday who
saw Maude Adams play The Pretty
Sister of Jose
Mr.. G. Alfred Mitchell gave a delight
full shedding party on Saturday evening.
About sixteen were in the merry crowd,
and the course taken was from Boothby
Hill around Perrymans and back.
Mr. John S. Mitchell has already made
preparations for building a house on the
site of the one destroyed by fire two
weeks ago, and architect Davis of Brad
shaw has been engaged to lay the plan.
Mr.. Joshua Pritchard willhave the work
in charge.
Mr. Walter ". Preston, of Bel Air.
was in Aberdeen for a few hours last
Wednesday.
Among those from Aberdeen who will
attend the inauguration Of Governor Ed
win Warfeld at Annapolis TODAY are
MeSsrs. I. L. Hanway, Charlcs II.
Jacobs, Clarence Martin, Henry Earring,
Iohn Smith and G. Z. Brock.
The lccture given in Aberdeen NJ. L.
Church on Tuesday evening by the Rev.
NJ F. Bristol of the Metropolitan NJ. L.
Church of Washington, D. c., was we'll
attended. The lecture was on Brains"
from which topic Mr.. Bristol discoursed
for one hour and forty-fve minutes, a
pleasing flow of sound logic sparkling
with iems of humor, and cadeused with
passion One ofthe objective points in this
lecture was the Importance of a public
school education. Mr.. Bristol highly
approves of the system now in use in
these institutions, and spoke culogistic-
ally of the teachers in our public schools
today.
VIRGINIA