The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-05-24

residence of Mr. William B. Hopkins hail
stones lay intact all night. Mrs. Hop
kin's hand was struck on the back ant
seriously injured by falling stone.
Since the d I'm at the mouth of Dee
Creek has gone down with the decay 0
the Tidewater Canal and the Stafford
mill dam a short distance above has beer
washed away, there is left an unobstruct
ed passage up the creek as far as Wilson'S
Mill The result is that fish now go up
the stream to spawn and doubtless
would go much further if fish ladders were
located on the dams. One night last
week Messrs. Andrew and David Single
ton in few hours caught two thousand
herring at the base of the latter dam.
"A joint meeting of the building COM
mittee of the Highland High School
building, Architect Shanahan and the ex-
ecutive officers of the County Board was
held at the latter's office on Monday.
The plans for the building were finally
adopted, and separate bids were asked
| for for the construction of brick or a
frame building, to be opened the last of
May. Stone masons are now at work
on the walls of the basement, which will
constitute alarge room for manual train
ing or general use for popular meetings.
Mr.. George Herbert, of San Jose,
California, has been visiting his aunt,
Mrs. Martha A. Hanna, of Bel Air, and
other Hartford relatives for the past ten
days. Mr.. Herbert has large family
connection in Hartford; his father was a
brother of the late Mis-. Margaret Har-
Ian, and his mother was a daughter of
the late John Barnes, of Churchville. He
is largely engaged in packing fancy
brands of fruits in California and speaks
in a most interesting way of the charms
and business opportunities of his far
western home.
"A letter from Mr.. T. c. Galbreath,
late county superintendent of schools of
Hartford, who for the past three years
has been sojourning in Colorado for his
health, states that his general condition
is improved, and he writes Interestingly
of his intended future movements. He
has especially in view lecture bearing
on the subject of lung troubles, their pre-
vention, treatment and cure, which he
hopes to deliver at a number of points in
Hartford, when he comes East next fall.
He will so arrange his visit as to be here
when the teachers institute meets in Sep
TENDER.
DIR. Sidney STREET., of Kansas City,
but a native of Hartford county, and
brother of the late Charles H. Street,, of
near Taylor, has sent to his nephew Mr.
John Rush STREET., five western horses,
which Mr. Street, is disposing of at fancy
prices. He has sold one colt, three years
old to Mr.. Plunket Stewart, of Green
Spring Valley for 1925 and one we'll
broken thoroughbred to Mr.. Thomas H.
Symington, of the same section for
$1,15O. These two horses will be on ex-
hIbition at the horse show Of the Elk
ridge Hunt Club, to be held in few
days Lear Baltimore.
Mr. Stevenson A Williams, executor
and surviving trustee under the will of
David E. Thomas has reported to the
Court an important sale of real estate in
Baltimore city. The sewer commission
desired a lot near President street station
used as lumber yard, fronting "a feet
on East Falls Avenue, on which to
establish pumping station. 1t was
agreed that its value should be fixed by
arbitration, Colonel d. G. Mcintosh
representing the estate and Mr.. Robert
H. Smith the city, with Mr., Henry B.
Wilcox as umpire. The commission
fixed the value of the lot which has an
area of II, 200 square feet at $50, $40.
Allen Leslie, Baltimore actor, who
fessional stage a few years ago in that
city, and who has played a number
of important roles since has been devot-
ing his time during the past year to a
dramatic training from the SALISBURY
College of Baltimore, and will receive his
diploma this month. On the night of
the commencement Mr. Leslie will give
humorous acting monologue entitled
can Impecunious Actor" In private
life Mr.. Leslie is Edward Roy Leight, son
of James B. Leight, farmer residing
near Abingdon, Hartford county. After
the commencement MIR. Leslie will leave
at once for New York city where he will
fill an engagement for the coming season
The General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church, now in session in Colunl-
bus, Ohio, on Wednesday last took up
and discussed the question of temperance,
and finally unanimously voted that the
The Presbyterian church has always
stood for the separation of church and
state, and the assembly believes that the
church, in its organized capacity, should
not, through any of its agencies. be en-
tangled with the political organizations
of the state, while urging upon its men,
tive interest in political affairs bringing
TO the state conscientious performance
of civic duties" The highest council of
the church has thus unanimously express
ed its judgment that this all important
subject should be handled and disposed of
on its own merits by the state instead of
through church organizations.