The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-10-25
Local affairs.


We regret to say that for want O
space we are compelled to omit numbe
of valuable correspondents this week.
-Kirkwood school, near Bradenbaugh
has been temporarily closed owing to thu
prevalence of diphtheria in the neighbor
hood
The Woman's Guild of Emmanue
Church will hold cake sale at the
rectorv on Saturday afternoon at foui
O'Clock.
Miss Clara Asherfeld, of Havre de
Grace, has been appointed associate
professor of music at the Peabody Con-
servatory in Baltimore.
Several cases of scarlet fever have ap-
peared in the vicinity of Abingdon, which
have been reported to the county health
officer for his attention.
1t is currently reported and generally
believed that Mr.. William ]. Forsythe
will be our next deputy Sheriff; no better
appointment could be made.
Rev. Howard King, of Baltimore.
will preach at the Mountain Christian
Church on Sunday morning, October p,
at 1 o'clock and at Joppa at $50 T. M
At the public sale of dairy stock held
at the residence of Mr.. J. Lawrence Nc
Cormick on last Friday one fresh COW.
unregistered, sold for SIC and second
for SO.
Mr.. lanes w. Frizzel, Prohibition
candidate for governor, will address a
popular meeting to he held in the
Masonic Temple, Bel Air, on Tuesday
night next.
The regular quarterly meeting OF the
Hartford Historical Society will be held
in the Election Supervisors room in the
Court House at Bel Air on Saturday next
at 10 o'clock.
Mrs. Robert w. Holland started for
Jamestown on Monday, where in addi-
ton to enjoying the sights of the Exposi,
ton she will enter her celebrated Lang
shans in the poultry display.
Mr. and Mrs McLaren Spencer have
returned from the Hagerstown fair where
their pen Of Golden Laced Wyandottes
swept every thing before them. Among
them was tker famous winner, Dallas"
Mr.. CalvinS Scarborough who lives
near Macton has built up from small
beginnings a business in the sale of
horses and mules which shows the sale
of IT, animals since the first of January
last
The immense dairy barn of Mr. W.
d. Curry, situated near Monkton, was
DESTROYED by fire on Sunday evening, loss
about S., 700, with $500 insurance IN
the Hartford Mutual. The cause is I'M
known.
Every indication points to a high
price for corn during the coming season.
We are in receipt of a communication
from the Baltimore market which quotes
small lots of new corn selling at 1925
per barrel.
Mr.. Iohn Norris, of the Mountain,
formerly employed by the Hollingsworth
Wheel Company, has moved with his
family to Hagerstown, where he has
accepted a position with the consoE-
dated firm.
Bishop Paret has appointed Rev. 5.
Hilton Orrick to serve in St. Georges
Parish, Hartford county, Maryland,
There will therefore be services in Spesu-
tia Church hereafter every Sunday morn
ing at IL o'clock.
The barn of Mr.. James w. Whalen,
near Forest Hill, was consumed by fire,
together with one cow and considerable
feed. early on Wednesday morning by
the overturning ola lantern. Loss about
$500. no insurance.
AT the annual fall tournament of the
Delaware State Trap Shooters League
held at Newark few days ago, the
feature of the day was the shooting OF
Mr.. Lester S. German, Of Aberdeen, who
broke 179 out of possible $50.
Mr.. John Smith, carriage builder,
formerly of Bel Air, but for some years
past in business in Aberdeen, now greets
his many friends with his genial smile as
they fiud him at the Bel Air Carriage
Works where he has taken charge as
foreman.
On Monday the County Commls-
sioners awarded the contract for the
erection of a new bridge across Deer
Creek, at the Rocks, to the York Bridge
Company. of York, Pa, for ST, 800, the
bridge to be ready for travel on or before
December 81, 1907.
Mr.. Walter Davis, son of Mr.. Frank
Davis, of Mill Green, has been elected
vice-principal of the Bel Air High School,
and will begin work on Monday. Mr..
Davis graduated last summer at Chester
town College and has been principal OF
graded school in Somerset county since
the first of September.
Mr.. w. W. Bradford has purchased
through Mr.. p II. Mccormick, herd Of
five Aberdeen-Argus cattle of Mr.. Blair,
of Western Pennsylvania, which will be
used on the Homestead farm as the
foundation of a permanent herd. The
Aberdeen-Argus are now rated as the
best beef cattle grown.
Mr.. Thomas w. Hall, of Bel Air, a
few dav since refused fifty dollars for Ar
exceptionally fire setter, only to find he1
living dead in his yard from poisoning {
day or so later. So much did he prizt
her that about this time last year hi
took her to the Johns Hopkins Hospita
for the removal of a small humorous
growth.
The st. Louis, one of the U. SIS. bal
looms in the Aerial race passed over
Macton neighborhood on Wednesda,
morning between six and seven O'Clock
1t was moving rapidly in south easter
" direction. When viewed through /
telescope the colors of the flag, red. whit
and blue were plainly seen and the pilo
and his aid could be easily discerned.
-Ex-County Commissioner J. Ros
Scarborough has sold his mill situate
on Deep Run, near Prospect, to MI
Edward Stubs, who took possession
few days ago Mr.. Stubs was born ant
raised near Delta, but has been for som
years past engaged in business i
Minnesota; his old friends will be glad
gearu of his return to his early home.