The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-06-30
Local affairs.

The regular monthly meeting OF the
Womans Guild of Emmanuel Church
Bel Air, will be held on Monday, July 3
at O'Clock in the church.
The train that leaves New York City
at IL O'Clock each day and arrives at
VanBibber at :. As, will hereafter stop at
the latter place to let off passengers from
New York
The government contract for dredg-
ing channel in the Susquehanna river at
Havre de Grace has been awarded to the
MARYLAND Dredging Company, its bid be-
. ing 500
An interesting game of baseball was
PLAYED on Friday between the Calvary
and Billingslea clubs. The latter won by
a score of Il to 4. A return game will
be played on July 4.
The annual picnic of the Sunday
School of the First Presbyterian Church,
Bel Air, will be held next Friday, July T.,
at Otter Point. An enjoyable day on the
water is anticipated.
The old schoolhouse and lot at Rut-
ledge was sold at public sale last Satur-
Friday afternoon. 1t was purchased by
Jacob Hess for $4O5. The new building
will soon be commenced.
Farmers have commenced cutting
wheat, and the sound OF the binders can
be heard almost everywhere. The crop
INn
the Weld has been interiercd with by rust.
The organization of the proposed
steam bakery in Bel Air is progressing
very nicely. Those i'll charge of the pro-
iect have about settled on location for
the enterprise and hold an option on the
same.
Miss Anne Lloyd Sterling, of near
Wilma, received the degree of master OF
arts at the recent Notre Dame commence
ment. Her part in the programme was
an essay on Dickens, the Apostle of
Childhood
Miss Marguerite Timmons Vanhorn
and Mr.. William Jenkins Hickman, OF
Baltimore, were married on Wednesday
evening, June %, by Rev. James T. Viii
son. Mr. and Mrs. Hickman are visiting
at the home of Mrs Mary Dever, at
Aberdeen.
Mr. lanes N. Ayres, of Jarrettsvile,
has four novel pets. They are young
coons about eight months old-not the
ones however that will be reached by the
proposed constitutional amendment but
genuine four-legged species. They are
healthy youngsters and seem entirely
content with the present domestic sur
roundings.
Rev. S. s. Greenwich, pastor OF the
First Presbyterian Church, Bel Air,
preached a sermon on Sunday morning
appropriate to Masonry. The occasion
was in celebration of St. Johns Day,
which is especially revcred by this order
There was a large attendance OF the
members of Mt Ararat Masonic Lodge,
of Bel Air.
On Monday, Henry w. Archer, trus-
tee. offered the Joshua ". Jones property
at public sale at the Court House door.
1t contains S51a acres of land and is Stu
ated on the road from Mill Green to Dublin
1t was withdrawn for the want of a sutil
Gent bid, and is now in the hands OF the
trustee at private sale. William Pepper
Constable was the auctioneer.
1t is ,rumored with considerable
credence that Herman Hoover, a resi-
dent of Havre de Grace, has fallen heir
to 81 900 900 left by an uncle who had
amassed fortune in the gold fields OF
California. Mr. Hoover is conductor
on a local freight train running between
Perrvville and Port Deposit. He is
quiet, hard working man and seems not
at all f1ustered by his good luck.
Complaint has been made by several
Dsrsons who claim to have been swindleC
by peddlers selling eye glasses. The eye
sight is too valuable to trust in the hands
of strangers, and we advise every one tc
beware of any travelling dealer unless his
Identification and responsibility iscertain.
In one of the cases reported, the party
who was duped into buying the wares
was fortunate enough to get her money
back
The managers of Camp Endeavor ex-
pect to open this summer charity on their
grounds near Bel Air, tomorrow, Satur-
day morning. This is worthy enter
prise that for about six weeks gives
continuous summer outing to Il large
number of Baltimore children. Each one
is allowed to stay about ten days and
while here is surrounded by refining in
huences that may help TO make him
better citizen.
Miss Mary Rogers, Of Leesburg, Viz
giuia, recently disappeared from hotel
at Saranac Lake, New York, where she
had gone for her health. After several
days search her body was found in the
lake, where she probably wandered while
her mind was temporarily unbalanced.
Miss Rogers has been a visitor to Bel Air
and is a sister of Mr.. Julian Rogers, who
was formerly employed in the store of
Mr. John G. Rouse.
The Bel Air base ball club did not
play at Gainesville last Saturday on ac-
count of the rain. A game is scheduled
with the Chesterfield club tomorrow
afternoon at clock. On the Fourth,
two games will be played, the first one
being called at two o'clc OK. The oppos-
ing nine will be the Newark Pleasure
Club. Good games are expected, as both
of these clubs have been making good
scores in all of their contests.
Mr. Charles II. MacNabb who for
number of years has efficiently filed the
position of vice principal of the Bel Air
Academy, has resigned and will give his
entire time to the practice of his profess
sion Mr. MacNabb has been a member
of the bar for the past two years and in
that time has merited an increasing client
age which will in the future receive his
undivided attention. He enters upon
dis ucw career under the most favorable
circumstances.
On Monday night, Captains P. E,
Porter, of Annapolis, c. T. Smith, OF
Westminster, and John Morgan, of Elk
ton, presided over an election to fill the
vacancy in the office of first lieutenant OF
Company d, which was formerly filed by