The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1906-07-27
Local affairs.

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Monday. The larger one measured three
feet in length.
The ladies of Holy Trinity Church
Churchville, will hold lawn tete on
Thursday evening, August 2. 1t stormy
the next fair evening.
Rev. c. X. McCaslin will preach at
Mt. Tabor Methodist Protestant church
next Sunday morning at 1890 O'Clock
and Deer Creek at $50 7. Nj.
The annual tournament for St
Stephens Church, near Bradshaw, will
be held August 18th, and promises to be
as ENJOYABLE as in previous years.
Mary Roberts Dallar, infant daugh
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Dallam,
died at the home of her parents, at Cler-
mont Mills, on Thursday of last week.
The Ladies Aid Society of Bush M. E.
Church, will hold alawnf ete on the even
ing of August 2, at the home of Mr.. Clay
Courtney, near Carsins. All are invited.
AT meeting of the officers of the
First Maryland Regiment, Captain P. E.
Porter, of Annapolis. was appointed
major, succeeding the late Major Wright.
MFR. Thomas W. Hall was admitted
to the Hartford bar on Thursday on mo-
ton of Mr.. Walter w. Preston. Mr..
Hall will Immediately begin active prac-
tice.
An infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Poole was buried in the cemetery OF
St Ignatius Church, Hickory, on We'd
nesday. Dean and Son were the under
takers.
Eliza Nj. Gates has filed bill asking
for a divorce from her husband, Levi 7.
Gates. Harry S. Carver appears for the
complainant and Ohio S. Lee for the de-
PENDANT.
Dime Williams, who was hurt in the
slate quarry accident of the Baltimore
and Peach Bottom Company one day
last week, is improving. His hand was
mashed with slate trimmer.
The choral club has been steadily re-
hearsing Gaurs Holy City" and have
worked so we'll that it is confidently ex-
pected the performance will be given in
Bel Air the last week in August.
Mrs. Mary S Dawson has been grant
ed divorce a vinculo matrimonii, from
her husband, Dr. John l. Dawson, on the
grounds of abandonment. John A. Rob
inson was the compliments attorney.
Mr.. !. Reese w alker, of Level, and Miss
Hannah Hopkins were married in Ches-
ter on Wednesday of last week. The
bride and groom arrived home the same
dav and were given n reception by their
relatives and friends.
MIR. John S. Slade, of Indian Spring
farm, sold to Morris and Company of
Baltimore, through Mr.. Henry B. Bruins,
twenty five head Of good cattle, which
averaged 1928 pounds. They were
shipped last Monday.
Mr.. Wilson d. Wallis, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William r. Wallis, of Forest Hill, a
student of Dickinson College, was oper-
ated on for appendicitis at the Union
Protestant Infrmary on Friday morning.
His condition is favorable.
We are indebted to Mr.. Harry A.
Hughes for one of his souvenir postals,
showing the photograph of 4, 900 squares
of unbroken slate. Hccomments, What
sight orpoliticians." There have been
bigger states than that broken, though.
Mr.. Charles E. Fendall, of Towson,
has discovered a new strawberry, which
he has named "Fendall.' He saws that
during the past season this new variety
Welded at the rate of $1,000 quarts to
the acre, and that the pick extended from
May % to July 4.
On Monday, thirty-ive officers and
men Of Company D left for a weeks stay
at Saunders rifle range. The company
was commanded by First Lieutenant
Silas B. Smith and Second Lieutenant
Walter X. McComas. Captain M. A.
Reckord Joined his men on Tuesday.
On Tuesday evening, July 81 Rev. S.
M. Enele, pastor of Bethel Church, will
illustrate with the stereopticon and
lecture on General Lew Wallace's book,
Ben Hur The combination makes one
of the best and most instructive enter
tainments possible with stereopticon
On Saturday morning, a yachting
party, chaperoned by Messrs. Walter W..
Preston and Edward II. Hail. made a
trip in Lettau's gasoline launch from
Otter Point to Annapolis and return. In
the party were number of young folks
and all had an exceedingly pleasant time.
Miss Alice May Youse, one of the for
mer assistants of the Bel Air graded
school, has recently purchased the prop
erty at IA North Carey street, Balti-
more, where the SALISBURY College OF
Expression is now conducted. Miss
Yuuse is principal of this we'll known
school.
The state of New Jersey during the
last session of its legislature, appropriat.
ed $4,000 to cover experiments for the
determination of mosquitoes; morasses
have been dried where practicable and
others covered with a thin coat of oil
and the effect is said to be already re-
markable. Let Baltimore take courage.
MIR II. c. Keen, of Bel Air, left at his
Office on Monday two peaches which are
fair amples of peck that grew on a
peach tree planted by him less than two
years ago. For prolific bearing and per
feet fruit this beats the record. The va
riety was Mountain Rose, and came from
the nursery of the r. G. Chase Company
Mr. J. Marion Richardson, Of neal
Rock Spring Church, was married il
Baltimore at noon on Thursday, at tht
residence of his sister, Mrs. Yegle, to Mis-
Catherine Baird, cf Sharon. The happ,
couple started on northern trip, ant
upon their return will take up their resi-
dence with his uncle, Mr.. ]. Calvin Davi
son.
Mr.. Clarence E Ramsay, agent of TIL
Maryland and Pennsylvania railroad
station at Bel Air, has nest of young
chimney swallows in the stove of hi
Office. While this bird species seem to de
light in SCOT and smoke, it is the frs
time we have ever heard of them coming
down so close to the civilization that ha
4hair pactinO abode