The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-04-19
Local affairs.

preach at Holy Trinity church, Churcl
Vile, on next Sunday morning.
The teacher and pupils of Magnoli
school will hold an entertainment in I'll
hall on Friday evening, April &c. Pro
ceeds for the benefit of the school.
A marriage license was issued a
Towson on Wednesday to William
York, aged 81, of Benson. and Margare
Dyer, aged %, of Perry Hall. Md.
The Ladies Aid Society of Smith
Chapel, near Churchville, will hold sur
per on the evening of the 9th OF April Ii
the warehouse of Mr.. c. H. James, locat
ed nearby.
Mr.. Ralph D. Kelsey and Miss Ethe
A. Wilson. of Parke, York county. Pa.
were married on Thursday at Grace M
P. parsonage, Bel Air, by the pastor
Rev. c. K. McCaslin.
Miss Jessie Kenly, formerly membe
of the corps of public school teachers o
Hartford, visited friends in Bel Air OF
ouuudD. SuS VIII < eAddehhN 80 - AN-~
garten teacher in June.
Mr. William L. Amos, conductor o
the Farmers Institute, whose serious Ill
ness has been before noted is now in New
York City under special treatment
having already made substantial pro-
gress towards complete restoration to
healthy.
The handsome yacht Decoy, valued
at SIS 900 and belonging TO Mr. James
L. Breese, of Darlington, was burned to
the waters edge while anchored south Of
the railroad bridge at Havre de Grace on
Wednesday and the hull sank in 10 or 20
feet of water.
Mr.. DavidG. Clement, of the Coharie
Lumber Company returned to his home
on last Wednesday for flying visit; be
has since returned to the works in North
Carolina. His mill building is practical
" completed and the installation of ma
chinery will soon begin.
The will of Mrs. Sophia McHenry
Brand, dated June l l, 1870, in which she
conveyed all of her property-real, per-
sonal and mixed-to her husband, Will
liam F. Brand, was probated on Wednes-
dav. Messrs. l. NJ. Proctor, l.. T. Saw
age and A. S. Winchester were the SUBJ
scribing witnesses.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Beale Howard, of
Baltimore, announce the engagement OF
their daughter, Miss Emily Howard, to
Mr.. George Albert Eckhardt. The we'd
ding will take place late in April. Miss
Howard is the granddaughter of Mrs.
Winchester, of Bel Air, and a sister Of
Mr.. Arthur Howard.
Announcement has been made of the
death of Strong Anchor, the famous bull
raised by Mr.. p. H. Mccormick, of near
Bel Air, which he sold two years ago to
Mr.. Gerald Howatt, of White Plains,
New York, for account of Mr.. Clarence
Whitman, of Catona, New York, who
afterwards refused $4,000 for his bar
gain.
-Rebecca Elizabeth, the only child of
Mr.. and Mrs. lanes Ruff, of Thomas
Run, died on Wednesday morning OF
bronchial asthma, aged IL months. Her
funeral will take place today, Friday, at
2 O'Clock. The interment will be in the
cemetery of Waters Meeting House,
Thomas Run Rev. L. J. Sothoron will
oficiate
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lar favor through our advertising
columns. No school teacher ever showed
such versatility and such accuracy in his
knowledge as this one does, and the
closer one follows his lead, the nearer
will he come to using classical English.
Monday last, was trustees day at
Greenwood graded school. The spring
term report showed an enrolment of
twenty-five boys and forty-two girls,
total sixty seven; an average attendance
of fifty. Those present the fifty days of
the term were Bertha Sitter, Dorothy
Harvard, Alice Wallis, William Sitter,
Naomi Dibb, Madeline Boyer and Laura
Sitter.
A number of Bel Air members of the
Towson Lodge of Elks, attended the in
stallation of officers at Towson on Wed
uesday of last week. Messrs. Louis
Dashiell, William S. Forwood, Jr., and A.
o. Richardson were among those present.
The lodge has handsome new club
house and its members are preparing to
attend the National Convention of Elks,
to be held in Philadelphia in July.
Mrs. c. Coleman Smith, Miss L.
Goldie Nd. Smith and Mr.. Charles !.
Smith have returned to their home,
Stafford Terrace" after delightful stay
of two months in Virginia. They visited
many places of interest, one of which was
the Confederate Museum in Richmond,
Va, where they saw the beautiful me-
mortal window in the Maryland room
donated by the Maryland Daughters of
Confederacy.
The case of the American Ice Com
pany against Charles A. Simms and
Company for the destruction by fire OF
their icehouses in Perryville in June,
1905, was given to the jury on Thursday
evening of last week, and on Friday
evening, the jury beng unable to unite in
a verdict, was finally discharged by the
court, the rest of the petit jury having
been finally discharged when this case
was taken up for trial.
Mr.. Joseph T. Hopes proprietor of
st Omer dairy has sold to Mrs. John S.
Gilman near Baltimore, for a fancy
price, Jersey, Pride's Cross, whichis one
of his forty-two cows now undergoing
years test for admission into the "ad-
vanced registry" To insure careful de-
livery Mr.. Hopes boxed Pride up and
hauled her directly to her new home.
She attracted much attention while he
stopped in Bel Air en- route.
DIR. Oliver Gray, of Wilmington. Della
ware, and Miss Alice V. Anderson, of
FalIston, were married at Friendship
Church at $50 o'clock on Wednesday
evening, the father of the groom oficiat-
ing. Miss Catherine Collier was maid of
honor, and Mr. w. Elwood Anderson.
brother of the bride was best man. The
ushers were Messrs. Edward Frazier, w,
Elwood Martin, ]. w. Anderson, Jr., and
Mr.. Bounds. After reception at the