The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-20

Edward Deering, of Baltimore, and also
booked an order for 10OOegg tor hatch
ing purposes to Mr.. ]. c. Nelson, of Bal
timore, for next springs delivery.
DIR. William N. Hill, of Baltimore,
who has been making in that city for
some time past a persistent war on
MOSQUITOES, the main field of whose
operations is in stagnant swamps, is
attempting to form a Maryland branch
of the National Drainage Association.
Frequently low ground when properly
drained is the most productive land a
farmer owns; if the Association can show
how the problem can be practically
financed the value of land In Maryland
will be greatly increased as well as
most disagreeable nuisance abated.
The contract for the erection of the
proposed bridge to be erected across the
Little Gunpowder, near Hauck's Mills,
at the joint expense of Baltimore and
Hartford counties was not awarded on
the day fixed for opening the bids, be-
cause the county commissioners OF Balti-
more county found that they had not
previously followed their established
rule of having a committee examine into
the proposed improvement and make a
formal report. All bids were therefore
rejected so that the matter might come
before the two boards later in proper
| form.
| Mr.. Charles L. Vail, wife and son.
who have been visiting in New England |
| for the past two months. reached home |
a few days ago better pleased than ever
with their native heath. After spending |
the bulk of the time near Casco Bay, in |
Maine, they made a detour through |
Canada to visit friends In Toronto, and |
thence moved homeward by way of |
Niagara Falls, where they made an agree
able stop. No one could better take in
the opportunities of country than Mr..
Vail, yet he is positive in his conviction
that no section through which he passed |
equals in its natural attraction and its
cultivated people the state of his birth
DR. w. X Robinson, brother of Mr.
John A. Robinson, of the Bel Air bar,
whose successful "fnd" at Goldfeld,
Nevada was related at length in the
Kgis a few weeks ago, has just pur-
chased of Col. Edward Wilkins for
$27, 500 his farm of 312 acres, located
near Clayton, Delaware, which in addi-
t;C,,, +C &c 1,oI,o h1e "a rr,1 ands hoe fine |
river front. The price paid is the highest
cash price realized for farm of its size
on the peninsula this year and is another
substantial proof of the doctors success
full mining operations in the west 1t
will be remembered that DR.. Robinson
married Miss Vickers, of Chestertown,
who formerly lived In this section.
The Hartford Medical Association
held its regular meeting Wednesday.
September II, at 100 P. M. in the
parlors of Eagle hotel. Bel Air. Members
present, Doctors. Charles Bagley, presi-
dent, in the chair A. F. VanBibber, vice
president; P. F. Sappington and w. S.
Archer, censors; R. S. Page, secretary,
F. Lee Hughes and c.. A. Hollingsworth.
Drs. Woodward, F. Lee Hopkins and J.
H. Stier were elected new members of the
society and DIR. F. l.. Hughes read an
able and instructive paper on consump-
ton. The society then adjourned to
meet the second Wednesday in November.
This society is rapidly increasing in
membership and doing much good in its
way.
AT session of the Board of Visitors
of ST. Johns College held on Monday
last, President Fell announced that the
college had been made a beneficiary under
the will of Miss Francis L. Wilson, of
New York, to the extent Of about
100000. 1t was further announced that
Mr.. James T. Woodward, president of
the Hanover Bank, New York, who is
one of her most loyal alumni, in addition
to the $500 donated by him to doctor"
the old tulip poplar has also offered to
substantially improve the presidents
residence. St. Johns is generally looked
upon as the state collegiate institute of
Maryland, and few counties has so many
alumni to rejoice over her success as there
are in Hartford The institution has
opened with bright prospects for the
coming year.
"A short time since one of the leading
farmers of Gunpowder Neck, who is
largely engaged in farming, while visiting
our office expressed serious doubts about
the crops of corn raised on the highlands
of Hartford and said when crop which
would produce seventeen or eighteen
barrels per acre could be shown ne would
like to be given a chance to view it.
After he has read this notice if he will
ride up into the neighborhood of Forest
Hill and inspect in succession the growing
crops of Messrs. Albert B. Twining,
Elisha Johnson and Abel D. Wilson;
then visit the field of Mr.. Garnet Rade-
baugh, at Bynum then move north east
for a mile or so and take in those of
Messrs. J. Ruff STREET., William Barrow,
William Michael and Joseph T. Hopes
and not be convinced that he has seen
| more than the above yields on each and
every field viewed we believe that any
| one of these gentlemen will be ready to
prove to him on a wager that he has a |
poor eye for measuring a corn crop.
| WALL-LAMB.
A very quiet, but pretty wedding was |
solemnized on Thursday evening of last |
! week at the horne of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. |
| II fheir |