The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-05-26
Local affairs.


for divorce from her husband, John Hicks
Nv. Chamberlain is the complainant
attorney.
The price of canned tomatoes has ad
vanced little. Spot goods are nov
bringing 6212 cents, which is very clos
to the cost of production.
The state military authorities have
fixed the date Of the eneampment at be
Air, from August 9TH TO the 18th inclu
sive. This time may yet be changed.
The time of the court this week ha:
been largely taken up with the continu
ance and settlement of cases. On We'd
nesday the jury was discharged unit
Monday.
Grace NJ. E. Church South Sunday
School, Aberdeen, will hold Children
day services on Sunday, June +, at s F.
NJ. An interesting programme is being
prepared
The handsome pair of horses that
were sold by Mr.. Harry d. Hanway to
Col. w. A. Boykin last fall, took the sec
oud prize at the recent horse show in
Baltimore.
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee met in Baltimore on Thursday for
for the purpose of fixing the date for the
state convention to nominate a cand1-
date for comptroller
The Hartford graduates ofthe Western
Maryland College, are Miss Della May
field Wright, daughter of MIR. and Mrs.
Charles T. Wright, of Bel Air, and Mr.,
Melvin Reese Harkins.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has removed nearly all OF the lines
from the Pennsylvania railroad company
as required by the recent decision of the
Supreme Court of the United State,
On Sunday morning, May %, Post
40, G. A. R., will attend divine service at
the M. E. Church, Bel Air, when the me-
mortal sermon will be preached by Rev.
ID. H. Martin, pastor of the church.
Judge Hugh T. Bay, Register of Wills,
was at his desk in Bel Air on Monday,
the first time for nearly year. Judge
Bay has undergone several serious opera
tons, but is once more in mending health.
Mr.. T. ]. Brooks, of Constitution,
states that before taking the early train
for Bel Air on Wednesday morning, he
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fence. This is pretty cool for the last OF
Nav.
The cold weather for the past two
weeks has made the cut worms very
troublesome. Many farmers are replant-
ing their fields of corn. Early gardeners
are also having their labors destroyed by
these pests.
An unknown white man was run
over by train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, near Darlington, on Thursday
of last week and instantly killed. He
was stealing ride on one of the cars at
the time of the accident.
Mr.. Alfred P. Close, of Bel Air, lost
very valuable st. Bernard dog on last
Friday evening. 1t was run over and
killed by train on the Maryland and
Pennsylvania railroad. The animal was
a rare specimen of his breed.
The bricklayers have finished the first
story of the front addition to the Court
House and are now working on the rear.
The work so far completed shows great
thoroughness, and when the job is done
Hartford will have a court house that
will be the pride of any county.
On Monday the William 1. Randall
property, containing 10 acres of land,
situated in the 4th district, was sold at
public sale at the Court House door, in
Bel Air, by Noble L. Mitchell attorney.
1t was purchased by Mrs. Frances E.
Boarman, mortgage, for $4,000.
Mr.. John Clarke Finney, of Church
vile, left on Monday for Black Hills,
South Dakota, where he will engage in
missionary work during the summer
months. Mr. Finney is a student of the
Princeton Theological Seminary, and is
taking preparatory course for the minis
try of the Presbyterian church.
The town commissioners of Bel Air
have been asked to enforce the ordinance
that prohibits teams from standing on
crossings The board is loath to begin
crusade, but unless some respect is shown
to the law they will be obliged to have
penalty imposed on those who continue
to violate this police regulation.
The Presbytery of Baltimore held
special meeting on Monday. TWAS pre-
sided over by Rev. Samuel c. WATSON.
Official sanction was given to the call of
Rev. w. A. Price, pastor of Bethel and
North Bend churches, to the Church of
the Covenant in Baltimore. Rev. Mr..
Price will be installed on June %.
The Ladies House Committee of the
Hartford Boat Club met on Wednesday
at the residence of Mrs. Bertram N.
Stump. Mrs. Walter w. Preston was
elected chairman in place of Mrs. Pome-
roy, resigned The first field day will be
tomorrow, Saturday afternoon, at 4
o'clock. Future events of a similar ma
ture will be held every two weeks.
The engagement of Mr.. Elmer J.
Cook, of Towson, and Miss Edith Eliza
beth Lawson, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Forster Lawson, of Galveston,
Texas, has been announced. The we'd
ding will take place in June. Mr.. Cook
was formerly resident of Bel Air, where
he had many friends. He is now one of
the RET gnized young leaders of the Tow
son bar.
Residents of Baltimore are very much
terrified over several recent hold-ups, the
last being the robbing of City Council
man D. NJ. Watts, which occurred on Mt.
ROYAL Avenue, near McMechen street
about midnight This is quiet residence
portion of the city and the streets are
well lighted. A long term in the peniten-
tiary for the guilty parties might have
the effect of deterring other law-breakers
so inclined.
Judge VanBibber has announced that
he will not draw jury for the Septem'
Der term of court. The judge is allowed
to make this a non-jury term whenever
it is deemed advisable. The reason for
this action will be that work on the
court house improvements would gender
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