The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-08-23
Local affairs.

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the call to St Georges parish, Spesutia.
Jesse Bruce, the infant son of Morgan
M. and Jessie Bruce Hughes, of lavre de
Grace. died on Thursday of last week,
aged two weeks.
Mr. William c. Anderson, of Bel Air,
and Miss Grace Magic, of Thomas Run,
were quietly married in Wilmington, Del,
by Rev. Mr.. Wolfe, on Tuesday, August
13.
MIR. Conrad f. Lay and Miss Mary
V. Baldwin, of Perryman, were married
on Wednesday of last week at the Pres
bytcrian manse, Bel Air. by Rev. S. S.
Greenwich.
The Ladies Aid Society of Thomas
Run Methodist Episcopal Church Will
hold festival on the church lawn on
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, Aug.
81 and IS.
Mr.. Harry Weber, of Fountain Green,
and Miss Lydia Kennedy, of Bel Air, were
married at the Methodist Episcopal
parsonage on Saturday evening by Rev.
d. II. Martin.
Rev. Thomas c. Eason, of Ridgely
Street Presbyterian church, will preach
at the Fallston Presbyterian church on
.nday afternoon, August 25th, at 3 7.
NJ. All are invited to attend.
A tournament will be held near ST.
Mary's Church, on Amoss Brothers farm
on Wednesday afternoon. August rs.
Fifty dollars has been offered in prizes,
and twenty-five knights have entered tie
contest.
A chicken supper and ice cream festi-
val will be held at Salem Evangelical
Church, Jarrettsville. on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, August IS and 20.
The proceeds will go for the improve
ment of the parsonage.
Miss Mollie Davis, who was taken
seriously i'll at the residence of hercousin,
Mrs. F. W. Reasin, while visiting there
early last spring. died at her home in
Baltimore on Thursday morning, never
having regained her health.
Mr.. c. Bosley Littig has left at this
office a sample of alsyke clover growing
on his farm near VanBibber, which was
quite covered with a parasite known as
"dodder" He fears that the value of the
crop may be thus entirely destroyed.
Hester J. Pinkney and Simeon Fleming,
Il larHr
DAYS ago aud were buried respectively
at the Mountain and Tabernacle coloIed
churches Both of these Young people
were spoken of in high terms by all who
knew them.
Engineers are at work surveying for
the Hartford County Pole Line. 1t is
likely that they will come down the
canal to Peddlar's run and thence by
Castleton to Thomas Run. where they
will strike the Deer Greek and Susque-
hanna railroad.
A watermelon feast will be held on
Whitaker Brothers lot, in Bel Air, on
Wednesday evening, August 2S, by the
members of the Bel Air Methodist Epis-
copal Church. The Bel Air band will
furnish music; watermelon, cake and Ice
cream will be in abundance and the pub
lie is invited to attend.
James Moulton, colored, is awarded
praise on all sides for bis brave work at the
Aberdeen fire. When no one else could
stand the heat in the 8 foot alley, James
held his ground and effectively applied
water to the burning building. The crate
full residents of Aberdeen are now collect
ing a purse in recognition of his services
One of our leading farmers who has
kept record of such matters for the past
seventeen years, states that only once in
that time was he unable to find some
corn in tassel by July 4; this year how
ever he found no tassels until August 4.
This is one more of the many proofs at
hand that the season is just one month
late.
Mr.. E Stanley Patterson has sold
his residence near Emmorton to Mr..
Harry S. Carver, of the Bel Air bar, and
will at once remove to Baltimore, where
he and his little son will reside. Mr.
Patterson desires to express deep graft
tudc for the kindness shown by friends
and neighbors during his recent bereave-
nent.
Miss Winnie v Vickers, Of Highland,
and Mr.. John Hawn, of Aron, N. Y,
LII HotIn1;c ThaInrIal
Charlotte, N. Y, on Wednesday of last
week, by Father Payne. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hawn are now at the Jamestown Ex-
position, and on their return will visit
Mrs. Hawn's mother, Mrs. E. X. Vickers,
and return to Rochester, where Mr..
Mawn is engaged in business.
Miss Elsie NJ. Penning, who for a
number of years past has been member
of the corps of teachers of the Havre de
Grace High School, has rendered her
resignation, to take effect at once, and
Miss Anna NJ. Hyde, of Perryman, has
been elected to succeed her. Miss Hyde is
a graduate of the State Normal School
and has done highly satisfactory work
at Miclaelsville and Perryman schools.
Maria Bond, colored, for thirty years
a servant in the family Of the late Henry
d. Farnandis, died at the home of her
grand, daughter, in Philadelphia, on the
eighteenth, aged ninety-fve. Maria was
one OF the genuine old time mammies,
and as such used her maternal authority
with strict fidelity, and was looked upon
as one of the most important memters
of the family. Her kind are scarce now
a days
We are in receipt of an alfalfa plant
grown near Watervale, this county,
whose root measures over thirty inches,
thus demonstrating the claim OF this
oIant that ii penetrates so far into the
st.Asoil to feed where other vegetation Is
unable to reach nourishment. Encourag-
ing accounts from time to time show
that we are annually learning better
how to secure permanent growth OF this
valuable plant.
"A true snake story comes 10 us which
gives Mr. Appleton and the Big Woods a
back seat. AS Mr.. Albert Beall was
walking, on Sunday, on the property OF
Mr. Everhart Hildt. who lives near
Friendship Church, he discovered snake
about four feet long. He killed the rep
tile and opened it, whereupon thirty