The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-08-25
Local affairs.


wheat. and reports a yield of Sc bushe
per acre This IS the heaviest yield r,
ported in Hartford up to this date.
On Monday final naturalzatio
papers we granted to lgnatz \. Klein,
native of Hungary. The witnesses wer
Lawrence Fnrwood and Charles Heether
The Forest Hill base ball team wi
play the Lexington Combinations, o
baltimore, on the Bel Air grounds, Wed
nesday next, August 30 Game called
4P. M
The Willing Workers of Trinit,
Church, Churchville. will hold cak'
and ice cream sale on the rectory lawn
Saturday afternoon, August 26, begin
ming ut + O'Clock.
Mr. James F. Snodgrass, of Mil
Green, who has been engaged in genera
merchandise business. has made a deed o
trust to Mr. James w. MacNabb, who
gave bond for So, 500.
Captain John p Leight sold 20 dozen
crabs in Bel Air in little over two hours
last Friday. He now visits Bel Air each
Tuesday and Friday for the purpose OF
supplying the residents with sea food.
Mr.. William w. Heuer, of Bel Air,
who recently broke his arm, has recover
ed, and is now engaged in plumbing the
handsome residence of Mr.. Armour
Jenkins, near Hyde, Baltimore county.
We are in receipt of fine basket of
peaches from Mr. Z. II. d. Pue, near Bel
Air, whose crop is now in its highest
state of perfection. He is one of the few
people in Hartford who succeeds in raising
this delicious fruit.
The tendency of canned goods is
steadily upwards. Finney and Robin
son, brokers, quote three pound tomatoes
at So cents, and shoe peg cornat 55 cents,
with every prospect of only half pack
in Hartford county.
Mr.. Harry c. Merritt. who has been
conducting fruit and grocery store in
Bel Air, on Tuesday last made n deed of
Mr.. Harry S. Carver, who gave bond in
the penal sum of 81, 500.
A musicale and Evolutionary recital
will be given at the Iarrettsville Hall on
Thursday, August 81, at 7. NJ, for the
benefit of Ebenezer Nj. E. Church En-
cellent talent has been secured and
I'D ,po he aSDPCfPI
1t is more than probable that some
of the local members of the G. A. X. will
attend the National encampment which
meets in Denver, Colorado, on Septem-
Der +. The low rates of fare should be
quite an inducement to travellers.
A tournament was ridden at Forest
Hill on Tuesday last, where Mr.. Edgar
Hutchins, of Monkton was the successful
knight, and crowned Miss Margaret
Pennington queen. Mr.. II. A. Whitaker
delivered the coronation address.
MIR John Henry and Miss Margaret
Reddington, both of Havre de Grace,
were married at St. Patrick's church by
Rev. |. p. Fitzgerald, on Wednesday of
last week The ceremony was q quiet
one. only few friends being present.
AT congregational meeting held last
Sabbath morning at Bethel Presbyter
Church, the Rev S. M. Enge of Berkeley
Springs, West Virginia, was unanimous
" elected pastor. Rev. Jonas Barclay,
pastor of the Highland Presbyterian
Church, presided.
The Hartford Medical Association
met in Bel Air on Wednesday evening OF
last week A paper on Some Stomach
Trouble" was read by DR.. Armheld +.
VanBibber. At its next meeting Dr. N
A S. Keyser will read a paper on some
interesting medical topic.
"A cablegram just received from Lon
don, states that Mrs. DeForrest, was
recently injured in an automobile acct
dent, near London. Her husband escaped
injury. She is the only daughter OF the
late George L. Scott, of Darlington,
where she is widely known.
Mary L. Hicks, through her attorney,
Joseph W. Chamberlain, has been
granted a decree of divorce a vinculo
matrimonii, from her husband, John
Hicks, and the decree further directs that
from and after its date, she shall resume
her maiden name of Mary E. Moore.
The tower of the Methodist Protes-
tant Church in Delta was struck by
lightning during an unusually severe
thunderstorm last week. The lightning,
after passing down the tower, tearing
off slate and sheathing, escaped from the
building. The tower was not rodded.
DIR. SiIas Warner, of Fern Cliff, near
the Rocks, while in Delta short time
since, fell on loose paving flag with
such violence as to break his ankle, and
according to our latest reports, was III
such serious condition that 1t had not
been possible to remove him to his home.
-Soire musicale for the benefit of ST.
Margaret's church, Bel Air, Md will be
held on Monday evening. August %,
1905. at s z. NJ, at Tudor Hall, Full
ford, Md, the residence of Mrs. E. Y.
Mahoney Admission 10 cents. In case
of rain, musicale will be held Tuesday
evening at same hour.
There will be total eclipse of the sun
on August 30th. 1t will be partial here,
the sun rising in eclipse. Many of our
residents were disappointed by not see
ing the recent eclipse of the moon, which
was concealed by the cloudy evening and
will look forward to this phenomenon
with additional interest.
Mr. {. w. Baker began to can corn
on a large scale last week. He, as well
as other large packers in the Second
district, report the yield of sugar corn
not up to last years. In one case, a
farmer realized thirty cases per acre on
the same ground which last year yielded
90 cases The shortage is attributed to
excessively cloudy weather.
Mrs. Isabella Hancock has issued
cards for the wedding of her daughter
Mrs. Bobbie Hancock Coweu and Mr.
lanes William Franklin. The ceremony
will take place on Thursday morning
August 31st, at 3 o'clock, at the resi-
dence of Mr. and Mrs. K. E. House, Gal
latin, Tennessee. Mr.. Franklin is ;
brother of Mrs. George l.. NanBibber o
Bel Air