The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-03-24

Nearly all the bricks for the addition
to the Court House have been hauled
and the contractor is waiting TOR the
weather to settle before active work will
be commenced. If we are to judge from
the progress made this winter, there can
be no question but what the work will
be finished within the contracted time.
Mr. Nicholas n. Ayres, youngest son
of Mr.. Thomas ]. Ayres, of near Shaws-
vile, was married on Wednesday after
noon to Miss Julia E Turner, at the resi-
dencc of Mr.. Thomas Turner, the brides
father. Rev. W. A. Price, pastor of Bethel
Presbyterian Church, ofhciated. After
the ceremony a handsome collation. was
served. The newly married couple will
reside on the William c. Green property
near by, which Mr.. Ayrcs will farm.
MIR William Shipley Long a resident
of Jarrettsville, committed suicide in
Baltimore on Sunday by shooting HIM
sell in the head. In his pocket was a
note asking that the finder return the
used capun to it's owner, which he had
evidently borrowed for the occasion.
His body was found by some boys in a
back yard near the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad. The revolver was clutched i'll
his right hand. The coroner gave GER
tihcate of suicide deciding that an in
quest was unnecessary. The deceased
man was painter by trade and had been
employed i'll different parts of Hartford |
county. He recently did the work on
the new residence of Mr.. George X. Cair-
mes in Bel Air He had been out of work |
for several months and is supposed to |
have yielded to the promptings of iit OF
dependency. He was born in Kentucky |
where his father had gone from Hartford
many years ago. He was unmarried |
and had 10 close relatives His body was
brought to Jarrettsville on Tuesday and
inferred in Bethel cemetery.
The conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church will be held in Sails
bury on April 5. A number of changes
are anticipated, among them being Rev.
c. P. Nowlin from Susquehanna charge;
Rev. Dorsey Blake from Bel Air; Rev. S.
A. Hoblitzell from Lisbon; Rev. B. w.
kindley from Centreville. An independ-
ent station will be asked for Union
Chapel, and the congregation desires that
an unmarried pastor be sent them. This
is one of the strongest churches in the
Bel Air charge. An important part of the
work will be the selection of delegate
to attend the general council looking for
the unifcation of the Methodist Protes-
tional denominations. There are 289
churches in the district and 104 parson-
ages The value of church property is
ST, 1913, 700, and parsonage property is
S1S5,71O. The number of Sunday schoc Is
is oil, with a membership of %, 500 on
the rolls and g, 457 officers and teachers.
The last statistics show that the church
raised S24, 1866 for general interests and
$210, 800 for local interests.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS TO MARCH 81.
Thomas H. Nelson, trustee, to Elizabeth
S. Nelson and William H. Rutledge, all
property of the late Horatio Nelson, $40,
etc.
Hugh A. Jones and wife to Frederick
c. Jones, farm in Fifth district, fee subject
to annual lien of $3.50 per year.
William Gerting, trustee, to Minnie L. i
Wells, lot in Havre de Grace. $4,1S6.51.
Mary Louisa Cannon to Annie c. {
Nevins, "A acres, Slate Ridge, 5000.
Alonzo Wilson and wife to James Clar-
ence Wilson, S13 acres, fourth and Fifth
districts, 2,75O, etc.
John D. Worthington, trustee, to Ed I
ward J. Mccain. Rigdon property at
Chestnut Hill, 3,2O0. :