The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-07-05

argued.
A breezy session of the members q
the Republican county Executive Com
mittee looking to the selection of chair
man to lead them to defeat this fall wa
| held in the office Of Messrs Whitaker ant
d. Robinson on Monday, lasting nearly al
, day After ii series of fruitless ballots
where each side showed six votes, al
{ journment was had until afternoon
r During the recess. good work was done
; on one member, and later i'll the after
noon when motion for secret ballot
prevailed and a vote was taken, Mr.. IL
l.. Arthur, a near friend of ex-senator
Baker received seven votes as against
five cast for Mr.. John A. Robinson.
The removed case CT Darlington and
Darlington, attorneys, against G. b,
Merrill and Brother, of Mississippi, and
John E. Dubois, of Dubois, Pennsy lvania,
and Havre dc Grace, was called for trial
on Monday morning and was finally set
tied outside of court. In this case the
plaintiffs sued for their commissions for
being instrumental in raising 100000
with which to buy IS, 900 acres Of timber
land in Alabama; the defense claiming
that they were not responsible because
the money had not been actually used by
them. Fowler and Whitelock appeared
for the plaintiffs and S A. Williams for
the defendants
AIR. Enos N. Davis, of Singer, left
with US few days ago a box of straw
berries of the Candy variety, which for
size, flavor and general excellence we
have not seen equaled this season. MIR
Davis has fourth of an acre in this de-
| licious fruit and finds a ready market for
the output at Bel Air. He plants the
Star, Green's big berry, Tennessee and
Candy as the best varieties he can fud
with which to secure continuous supply
| from the beginning to the end of the sea-
son. The strawberry crop this season
was seriously injured by continued cold
cloudy weather in May and June, and
was far behind the average in both quail
ity and quantity.
Hartford county has reason to be
proud of many of her sons who have be-
come prominent in the medical profession,
among whom can be mentioned DR..
James Farnandis Mitchell, of Washing
ton, D. c., but formerly of Bel Air, where
Ia. h., 81 A1tI@,,I, 81
quite a young man, he has attained an
eminence in his profession rarely acquired
by older men. Last week, at the conven-
ton held in that city by the surgeons of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, DR..
Mitchell performed two difficult opera
tons at the same time in the presence of
about eighty surgeons, demonstrating
the use of cocaine instead of anesthetics
in an operation for appendicitis.
MIR. l.. Webster Mitchell, son Of Mr.
J. F. Mitchell, of Calvary, has Just sent to
his father from Florida, a curiosity in t he
shape of an ostrich egg, which he recent
ly secured while travelling near St. Angus
longitudinal circumference and is very
positive proof of the size and vigor of
these famous birds. While travelling in
Florida short time age, Mr.. Mitchell and
companion met up with rattlesnake,
which, By the aid of their carriage whip, |
they succeeded in killing and securing. |
The snake measured six and half feet in
length with circumference ofover twelve
inches. Fifteen rattles were secured and
sent home as trophies, indicating that the
reptile was seventeen years of age.
Professor Alexander Chapman super
intcndent of the public schools of Talbot |
county. has resigned his position on &C
count ofhis advanced age, II years. Mr.. |
Chapman began to teach school when
1s years of age, has been superintendent
ever since the organization of the public
school system in 6S, and has been pains
taking and industrious to a fault in his
every day work for the benefit of the
cause of education in Maryland. A man
of bright mind, liberia knowledge and
rich experience he always kept the schools
ofTalbot county to the forefront and de-
serves the gratitude OF the state of Mary
land in general. and Talbot county in
particular, for his answering devotion
to the cause ofeducation, to which he dedi-
Gated his life. His many friends through.
out the State unite in wishing him many
years of we'll earned rest, now that his
life work has been laid aside.
Mr.. William T. Hilditch is now en-.
gagged in the construction of a much
needed stretch of pike about one hundred
yards in length, connecting the Hickory
road with Bynum station, on the Mary
land and Pennsylvania railroad. AL
though carrying an immense amount of
tonnage to an important station, this
road has had clay bottom and at many
times has been totally impossible for
heavy traffic. The county paying 62i2
cents per running yard towards the con-
struction Of the pike and interested pa
| irons are paying the balance, the total
cost being an average of a littleles than
$3.50 per running yard for pike 1 6 feet
wide and from ~ to 20 inches deep. Too
much cannot be said in favor of the pub
! lie spirit shown by these citizens and
taxpayers for their liberal contributions,
and it is greatly to be regretted that in
the construction of the work the county
has not allowed the use of stone crusher
and roller, which have been lying idle
practically ali the time.
-Messrs. c. A. Andrew and Timothy
Redding are making substantial progress
10 building the state aid highway ex-
tending from J. X. Ely's corner. in Oar
lington, to Charles Holloway residence,
some $500 feet south east: The grading
has been nearly completed, reducing the
existing steep hills to a maximum grade
of 8 per cent. and laying macadam will
soon be begun. The work is being done
by the county commissioners, subject to
the plans and specifications furnished by
chief engineer of the State Highway Com
mission, and when completed the road
will be a valuable Improvement in this
; enterprising section. Itcalls for a graded
t bed twenty feet wide, the macadam
; road to be II feet wide with a slope Of
three quarters of an inch to the foot
The estimated amount of earth to be re
t moved is 5000 cubic yards; and owing
to the springy nature of the bed, con
A siderable under draining will have to b,
n done in addition to laying a number 0