The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-07-12
Local affairs.


Til. Ladies Aid Society of Bush NJ L
Church VIII hold a lawn fetc, at Mrs. {
r. Cputtaey's ON the evening of July %
Ifrainy the next fair evening.
During the heavy thunder storm OF
Wednesday evening, valuable wager
h"rse belonging to Mr.. 0. NJ. Whitaker
If Rtckoid, was killed by lightning.
CLASSES number g and of Calvary
NJ f Sunday School, south, Jarretts
VILE. will bod Japanese tea onthe lawr
Of MIR. c. W Amoss, on Thursday even
ing July 18th.
Services will be held at Friendship N
f Church next Sunday as follows; Sun.
day School at p. M, preaching at 3 P
NJ, hv Rev. Mr. Parks, and Epworth
League al 8 O'Clock.
The Ladies Aid Society of Calvary
NJ E. Church will hold lawn fete on
Mrs. George Gorrelrs lawn on Wednes-
day evening July oath. The Aberdeen
band will be in attendance.
The ladies and friends of Providence
Methodist Protestant Church, at Upper
Cross Roads, will hold anice cream festi-
val at the home of Mr.. Samuel Harrison
on Saturday evening, July 18th. Pro
ceeds for the benefit of the church.
MIR. Wilfred Bateman. ofEastou, Md.
secretary Of state under Governor Smith
died at his residence, on Wednesday, of
Brights disease. Mr.. Bateman was a
cousin of Mrs Qtho S. Lee, of Bel Air, and
and had many warm friends throughout
this county.
The sacrament of the Lords supper
will be administered at the Fallston
Presbyterian Church next Sunday after
noon, July 14th. at 3 p M. Prepara-
tory services at the church this, Friday,
night at z. NJ All are cordially invit
Ell to these services.
Rev. Frank A Tyler, pastor of Grace
NJ. F. Church South, Aberdeen; Mr. and
Mrs. o. c. Michael and Miss Augusta
Nelson, of Aberdeen, are attending the
S Inday School Convention of the Balti-
more Conference NJ. E, Church, South,
at Harrisonburg, Va.
The Proctor Slate Company has
purchased the Henry slate quarry which
is an important tract of slate land lying
directly southwest of their present hold
ing. This is a valuable addition to their
former slate lands, and important results
are expected to follow in the near future.
Strange to say, no clue to the identi-
ty of the assailant of Miss Virginia
Brown who was so brutally assaulted
near Havre de Grace ten days ago has
been discovered. Miss Brown has quite
recovered from her nervous shock. and a
keen vigil is being kept in hopes that the
guilty party may yet be traced.
"A very enjoyable dance was given by
the young ladies of the vicinity of the
Rocks on Tuesday evening, July 2, at the
Rocks hall. The committee having it in
charge were Misses Elizabeth Street,,
Elizabeth Nelson and Elizabeth Wilson.
The chaperores were Mesdames John A.
Street,, Clarence Wilson and John Glad
den.
Mr. II. H Murphy, principal of the
Denton High School, Caroline county,
was unanimously elected principal of
Franklin High School, Reisterstown, TO
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Prof L c. Ebaugh. This is the position
to which Mr.. Albert S. Cook was elected
while acting as principal of the Bel Air
High School.
During the heavy thunderstorm on
Saturday night large locust tree stand
ing Immediately next to the store and
residence of Mr.. Joseph K. Coale, on
Main street, Bel Air, was struck by
bolt of lightning and several panes of
glass in the residence were shattered by
the shock. Their escape from serious dis
aster was quite wonderful.
Samuel Turner and Robert Livezey,
colored, of Graveley Hill, who were COM
mitted to the House ofCorrection short
tim. since, by Justice Richardson, for
carry ing concealed weapons, were releas-
ed on a writ of habeas corpus a few days
ago pending an appeal to the September
term of the grand jury. They were rep
resented by Mr.. H. S. Carver.
Mr.. Sidney S Breese, son of Mr.. and
Mrs James l.. Breese who have sum-
Iner residence on Swan Creek, will on
Iuly 20, be married to Miss Elizabeth A.
Morton, Southampton, Long Island.
The residence of Mr.. Breese's parents is
recognized as one of the most luxurious
and up to date to be found in Marylan
1t has already become the centre of many
gay scenes.
MIR Henry S. Herman, who for the
past year has been member of the
tailoring firm of Roche, Willis and Her
man, of Baltimore, has severed his con-
nection with them, to Renter the cloth
ing house of Likes, Berwanger and Com
pany, with which he had been previously
so long connected and where he hopes
in the future to see again his many Har
ford friends.
Rev. II. J. Magonigal. the blind evan
gelist of Riverton, Md. will preach at
the Deer Creek Methodist Protestant
Church, at Chestnut Hill, on Sunday,
July IA, at 3 80 p NJ, and will begin a
series of evangelistic services in that
church at night of that day, possibly re-
manning for about two weeks. Rev. Mr..
Magonigal is much of a success as an
evangelist and noted as solcist.
MIR. William p. Stedman, principal OF
the Bel Air High School, hardly reached
his summer home in Connecticut before
he received notice that he had been elect
ed TO act as chairman of a committee to
act with State Superintendent Stephens
in re-arranging the Maryland High
School curriculum, made necessary by
the addition ofanother year to the course
Mr. Stedman had arranged for summer
school course at Yale University
The will of Mr. Joseph E. Ashton
dated March 30, 1905, has been filed foi
probate in the Orphans Court. After
making several small requests to his sor
Harry, and his daughter Matte Cath
cart, he leaves all the remainder of hi:
property to his son St. Clair B. Ashton
subject to a small annual charge infavol
of his daughter, Grace Anderson as Ions
as she remains unmarried. The will i!