The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-05-12
Local affairs.

table one to the seine haulerS-
The Bel Air baseball club will play
the Newarks tomorrow, Saturday, after
noon. A good game is expected.
MIR. William F. Shaub aud Miss Daisy
NJ. Tim were married at the Methodist
Episcopal parsonage, Bel Air, on Mon
day by Rev. D. II. Martin.
The Ladies Aid Society of Rock Run
Church will hold a social at the home OF
Mr. w. B. Hopkins, Thursday evening,
May 18th. The public is cordially in
vited.
Mr.. D. Franklin House, of Chester
county and Mrs. Annie E. Grafton, of
near Forest Hill, were married on Tues
day, May 2, in Chester county by Rev
Joshua NJ. Jenkins
Mr.. c. Clyde Spencer is building a
new store on his property at Emmorrcl,
which was formerly the old Anderson
place. Mr.. Spencer intends to lay in
large stock of seasonable goods and will
open for business about the first of July.
1t is said that the pack of tomatoes
in Kent county will be only about one
fourth as large as last year, when 1000
acres were planted. This is largely due
to the unwillingness of farmers to accept
the Sc per ton that the Gamers are offer
ing.
"A large force of bricklayers is now
engaged on the Court House addition
and the work is progressing rapidly.
Steam derricks will be in position in a
few DAYS and the bricks will be carried to
their final resting place in this modern
manner.
The third annual inter-scholastic
Field and Track Meet will be held at the
Jacob Tome Institute tomorrow, Satur-
day. Entries from all over the country
indicate that the affair will be a success.
Hartford will be well represented in the
contests.
On Monday, Walter w. Preston,
assignee, sold at public sale at the Court
House door in Bel Air, the j. Rob RAM
say mill property, situated in South
Delta, to the Peoples National Bank of
Delta, for $1,000. IS. Richardson was
the auctioneer.
AT the recent annual meeting of the
directors of the Maryland House of Cor
rection, Mr.. John o Stearns presided in
the absence of the Governor. The follow
ing re-appointments from Hartford were
made: Bookkeeper, John D. Stearns;
guards, Rudolph Cunningham and S. H.
Mitchell.
On Monday, Robert Archer, trustee,
sold acres of the Tasker land at public
sale at the Court House door Thomas
E. Kirby was the purchaser at S3Oo. The
balance of the land was withdrawn and
is now in the hands OF the trustee at
private sale. William Pepper Constable
was TIE auctioneer.
MIR. George c. Morrison has been
elected superintendent of the Blind
Asylum of Baltimore, succeeding his
father, the late Frederick d. Morrison.
Mr. Morrison was a member of the last
legislature and made creditable record
while at Annapolis. He will take charge
of his new place about June first
Mr.. Amos Silver, of Lapidun, was
painfully kicked by horse on Tuesday
evening. The animal, which was from
one of the Bel Air livery stables, had been
left with him for safe keeping by Mr..
Clifford D. Rosan, of Bel Air, who had
gone across the river to Port Deposit.
Mr. Silver's injuries. are being attended
by DR.. Lee Hopkins.
Mr.. ]. Alexis Shriver, general mana
ger of the Automobile company, has
made arrangements to have a Packard
truck machine shipped on trial. 1t will
probably be here today and experimental
trips will be made between Bel Air and
Carney If the machine will do the work
it is more than probable that an early
purchase will be made.
Among the graduates of the Mary
land University of Medicine are DR.. Rob-
ert Parke Bay, son of Mr.. Daniel NJ. Bay,
and Roscoe Conkling Metzel, son of Mr..
Jacob B. Metzel. Both young men re-
ceived hospital appointments. DR.. Met
eel won the gold medal for leading his
class for four years. DR.. Charles Bagley,
Jr., was reappointed hospital physician.
On Sunday night, Mr.. Carville B. H.
ToIley was painfully but not seriously in
jured by being dragged by frightened
horse, at the home of his father, Judge E.
Carville Tolley. at Upper Cross Roads.
After getting away the horse ran some
distance and finally wound up in n barb
wire fence. The animal was painfully in
iured and the wagon was badly smashed
up.
The Board of Visitors and Governors
of St. Johns College have offered free tut
ton scholarships to the Bel Air and
Havre de Grace High Schools. These
scholarships are to be awarded to the
boy who stands highest in the gradual
ing class, or if he be not willing to ac-
cept it, to the next in order of standing.
The appointment is to be made by the
principal of the schools.
Rev William A. Price, pastor of
Bethel Church, has given notice to his
congregation that he will accept the call
of the Presbyterian Church of the Cove
nant in Baltimore Mr. Price has been
pastor of Bethel Church for the last
thirteen years. He also had charge of
North Bend Church. Heis a young man,
popular with his congregation, all of
whom will keenly regret loosing him.
The Geological Survey has furnished
the Court House Commission with
new mark, showing the height of Bel Air
above tidewater. For some unaccount-
able reason the place seems to have
grown two feet, as the former marking
gave 394 feet, while the new one is 396
feet. The tablet is put into neat cor
nerstone, marking the date of the cree
ton of the first Court House in 1859,
also the present year.
Last Sunday, the Baltimore and Bel
Air Electric Railway Company carried
1851 passengers. This, together with
the concessions from the Baltimore Street
Car Company, made the receipts over
500. An extra car was improYised IN
the afternoon to help move the crowd.
The ordinary capacity of these cars is
from, 40 m 30 naSsenperS vet on one