The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1906-07-06
Local affairs.

Havre dc Grace.
There will be preaching service a
Christ Church, Rock Spring on Sunda
evening at S o'clock.
The annual outing of the Emmanut
Sunday School will be held at Gwyn
Oak Park on Thursday. July Goth.
A marriage license was issued /
Baltimore on Monday to Mr., Oscar X
Irgens, of Baltimore, and Miss Marie A
Wenk, of Hartford county.
Mr.. William Marku and Mrs. Ami
Walters, of Reckord, were married a
Emmanuel church, Bel Air, on Tuesda
by Rev r. y. Castleman.
Mr.. Frank Y. Hooper, proprietor @
the machine shops at Glenarm, and Mis-
Florence Wyatt were married in Balti
more on Thursday of last week.
-Children's Day services VIII be ceie
brated at the Bel Air Presbyterian
Church on Sunday next, when an inter
esting programme will be rendered.
Mr.. John B. Wysong, of near Bel Air
had on exhibition at the store of Carver
and Price this week a mammoth hen egg
the largest we have ever seen. 1t weighed
quarter of a pound.
MIR. and Mrs. William T. Cullum, OF
CreswcIl, celebrated their birthday ami
versarv on Sunday, with a family re-
union, which was enjoyed by large
number of their relatives.
Mr.. T. Murray Maynadier recently
harvested II tons of clover hay from e
acres of his farm near Vale. This is the
largest Weld so far reported, and many
other farmers are not so fortunate.
There were about forty applicants
examined for teachers certificates and
scholarships to the State Normal School
at the examination held by Professor
Wright on Monday and Tuesday last.
The quarter ending June 80. 1906, OF
of the Bel Air postoffice, leads the CORE
spending quarter of 1905 by about $500
in pustofiice receipts, being the largest
amount for the same period of any pre-
vious year.
DIR. J. S. Hopkins returned to Bel Air
on Sunday evening. He was called home
by the critical illness of his father, who
died on Tuesday of last week at his nome
near Frederick His funeral took place
the following Thursday.
MIR. Williams S. Noble, of Mobiles Mills,
has i'll his garden a spreading tomato
plant which, by actual count, shows 81
blooms and fruit sets. If all of these come
TO maturity, the yield from this plant
alone would run up into bushels.
The usual roundup of the Fourth
took place in Magistrate Norris Office,
in Bel Air, on Thursday afternoon, when
five negro men and one negro woman
were tried on various minor charges.
They had been arrested by Deputy
Worthington.
Calvin Hughes, a member of the
Cambria base ball team had his leg
broken during the game with the Darling
ton club, which was played on the latter's
grounds on Wednesday. Mr.. Hughes
was on a base and was run into by
another player.
The sacrament of the Lords Supper
will be administered at the Fallston
Presbyterian Church next Sunday after
noon, July s. at O'Clock. Preparatory
services this Friday night July 6, at P.
NJ most cordial invitation is extend
ed to all to attend these services.
The tax rate of the city of Havre de
Grace has been fixed at 60 cents on the
500. This low rate and the many i'm
provements now going on there are
possible on account of the large sum of
money received from liquor licenses, all
of which goes into the city treasury.
On Monday, workmen commenced to
take up the concrete work in the hall of
the Court House The floor has been
laid twice and rejected both times by Ar
chitect Dcmpwolf. 1t is hoped that the
third trial will prove a successful charm,
as this is the only eyesore to the improve
ment.
The collection of state and county
taxes for June, 1906, is considerably
larger than last year. In1905 there was
received during the month of June
$50, 4O3 80, while this year the sum total
runs up to $44, 545 So. The amount re-
ceived on Monday, July 2, was over
$4,000.
On Monday, Thomas II. Robinson,
trustee, sold at public sale at the Court
door, in Bel Air, &c acres of land, situated
between ChurChville and Chenille to Will
liam +. Coale for 81 100. second tract
of 80 acres and improvements was sold
for $3.50. J. S. Richardson was the
auctiuneer.
On Sunday. Mr.. J. Fl. c. Watts. OF
Bel Air, was painfully bruised by falling
from tree on his lawn. He was stand
ing on a dead limb about Is feet from
the ground, and in moving, his weight
broke it off The fall inflicted injuries
which will confne him to his room for
the next week
The Fourth of July was spent very
quietly in Bel Air. 1t was observed as
general holiday and all places OF
business were closed up. In Aberdeen
and Havre de Grace, the citizens had
their residences decorated for the occa-
sion; very pretty observance, and one
that should he more general.
On Friday, George Bailey, a little ten.
year-old boy who makes his home with
Mr.. Joseph Carlisle, near Fulford, fell
from cherry tree on the property of Mr.
W. II. Schuck, at Schuck's Corner, and
broke both of his arms The fractures
were reduced by DR. Armfeld T. VanBib
her, and the little fellow was afterwards
taken to the Baltimore City Hospital fo1
further treatment.
The services at the First Presby teriar
Church in Bel Air on Sunday last wert
Singularly impressive Prior to the ccle
hratIon of the Lords supper, thirty-fou
persons were admitted as members into
the church i'll the presence of congrega
tion that packed the building, indicating
the first fruits ofthe recent popular gospe
meetings held here a few weeks ago. Th
membership of Emmanuel church wa