The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-05-24
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The lady members of the Harfur
Boat Club entertained at the club-hous
on Saturday afternoon last.
Services will be held at the Rock
Evangelical Church on Sunday afternoo
at O'Clock by the pastor, Rev +. NJ
Esterly, Jr.
MIR. Huff. teacher of Trappe school
which has been closed for sometime be
cause the teacher has been suffering iron
mumps, resumed work on Monday.
Rev. D. IL. Martin, of Bel Air, ha
accepted an invitation to deliver an ad
dress at the Memorial Service to be hslc
by Winona Lodge, L o. O. F.. of East
Prospect. Pa, on June II.
Miss Teresa c. WEIGH, of Whiteford
and Mr.. William A, Culp, of Chester,
Pa, were married at the Methodist
Episcopal parsonage in Bel Air, by Rev
D. II. Martin, on Sunday afternoon. .
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Hartford county has recently of
fered silver medal for the best temper
ance essay The contestants willconsist
of pupils from the five high schools of the
county.
Mr.. E. II. Webster Fugate. aged rs
years, formerly OF Hartford county, but
recently of Baltimore, died at his resi-
dence, No. 162S East Madison street, on
Monday and was buried on Tuesday
afternoon.
At the Democratic county conven-
ton held in Elkton on May 81, Mr..
Albert Constable was nominated State
Attorney Mr.. Constable has many
friends in Hartford who would be graft
fed to see him elected.
The Packers Creditors Committee
has sold the farm near Mill Green, con-
tanning 112 acres, on which Mr.. John W.
Famous has for a number of years con-
Quoted a canning establishment, to Mr..
Frank Webster for S4,650.
Mr.. William w. Wilson will soon COM
plete and move into his new residence on
his farm about two miles east of Church
Vile. The house will be commodious
and commands wide view of the Deer
Creek and Thomas Run valleys.
Governor Warheld invited the gradu-
ating class of the Havre de Grace High
School to come to Annapolis on Friday
morning last as his guests. Other gradu-
ating classes from various parts of the
State were also entertained by Governor
Warfeld on that day.
M. George A. Nag1e, formerly of
Thomas Run, Hartford county, but now
of Union City, Tennessee, writes that
crop prospects with them arc very poor;
tomato plants have the damp rot, wheat
shows very poor stand, and they have
been suffering from cold rains at least
four fIfths of the time for the past five
weeks.
Major NJ Atchison Reckord, of Bel
Air, has received orders from Adjutant
General c. l.. Riggs to command a bata'-
lion of companies of the Maryland
National Guard at the State rife range,
Glenburnie near Annapolis, the latter
part of this month. Company is not
included in this huber, but will go later
in the summer.
Misses Van Bibber and Carman, teach
ers of the fourth and fifth grades of the
Bel Air High School, took their pupils to
Watervale station en- Maying party on
Monday, and Professor Stedman took
the high school department to the same
place on botanizing expedition on Tues
day. The attendance in both cases was
large and enthusiastic.
The first quarterly conference of Bel
Air Circuit, Methodist Protestant
Church, will be held at Grace Church, Bel
Air, tomorrow, Saturday afternoon, at
2 80 O'Clock. Communion services will
be held on Sunday at Providence at
10 80 A. NJ, and Union Chapel at $50
p Nj. Rev. J. NJ Sheridan, President of
the Conference, will officiate at these
services.
Rev. S. S. Greenwell and Rev. W. L.
Mccormick respective pastors of the Bel
Air and the Statewide Presbyterian
churchesexchanged pulpits last Sabbath,
to the mutual edifcation of their con-
gregations. Each congregation was so
highly gratifed with its visiting pastor
it was by common consent agreed that
no people were so fortunate in their
selection of a spiritual guide except their
own.
Mr. Frank Walker, son of the late
George F. Walker, of Hartford county,
who for number Of years past has been
acting as brakeman on the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington railroad,
has been promoted to the position of
conductor 1t means something in the
profession to be a conductor on this
road, and Mr.. Walkers friends will be
highly grati6ed to learn of his well-earned
promotion.
The small boy, and in many cases
the full grown one too, will be glad to
learn that Buffalo Bill is going to delight
the public with his Wild West Show on
May 20 and 80 when he will visit Balti-
more. Buffalo Bills name is always
synonymous with something striking
and strenuous, so it is reasonable to be:
licve that his coming visit will be attend
ed with attractions he has never before
presented to the public.
The Hartford County Farmers Asso-
citation, after several meetings at which
the matter was thoroughly discussed,
has decided that it is wiser to abandon
the project to rejuvenate the county fair.
The gentlemen who have given their time
to this work have met with so little en-
enlargement from the farmers that they
cannot help but feel that the people oil
Hartford do not want a county fair, and
they have therefore decided to drop the
matter and release all those who have
subscribed.
The piano in the Masonic Hall, Be
Air, has recently been thoroughly made
over by Mr.. Howard Brown, of Balti
more, who is an expert workman or
these instruments and who conducts {
piano hospital in the city. At the con
cert given on Saturday evening. May 4
the piano was used for the first time anC