The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1910-01-07
Local affairs.

New Years evening in honor OF Mr. and
Mrs II Ross Barton, Of Baltimore.
Mr.. Frank Cook, Of the Big Woods
ID the misfortune a few days since to
fall on the ice and break his hip. In view
of his advanced age his condition is
serious.
Mr. George Anderson. superintendent
of the county Court House, lies critic
ally III with pneumonia in Baltimore at
the residence of his sister.in.law, Mrs
Guyton.
DIR. Joshua W. Herring, Comptroller,
has made the January distribution of
$250,000 among the public schools of
the state, Harford's share being
$6,127 &c
The Delta Orchestra. which is so
favorably remembered because of their
visit to this town last season, will give
another Concert in our to wn hall on Sat.
urday, January Is
Mr.. William W Bull has purchased
of Mr.. John D. Worthington neat
residence at Harkins' Shop, to which he
will move and make his future home the
FIRST Of February. The price paid was
$500.
y While an army OF sno W shovelers were
clearing the track near Rising Sun Tues.
dLy of last week a freight train bore
down on them and the men barely saved
themselves by burrow wing into the snow
banks.
Between ROwlandsville and Rising Sun
the snowdrifts were fran ten to fifty feet
high on the Port Deposit and Columbia
railroad and it took the work of 500
men to clean the tracks sufficient for
train to pass
v Nj Robert c Richardson. who for
the past twenty five years has been en-.
gagged in the general merchandise bust
ness in Churchville, has retired from bust.
ness, and has been succeeded at the old
stand by his brother. Alfred
Bad roads and bad weather having
prevented the Christmas entertainment
of the Fallston PRESBYTERIAN Sunday
School all hands will meet at the church
at 3 2. M, on next Saturday for the
mutual exchange of presents, etc
The ladies and friends of St. Mary's
church, Pylesville, have arranged to hold
an oyster supper on Friday and Satur.
day evenings January 81 and 20, and
have made arrangements with the Delta
Orchestra to furnish music for the occa
sion.
Mr. Edwin Hopkins, formerly Of bar
lington but for the past two years
resident of Springfield. South Dakota,
where he isengaged in the meat business.
Is now on a visit to his old Hartford
friends. He will return west in about
two weeks.
Mr. S. T. Edel. Of near Forest Ill.,
who was to have entertained the Forest
Hill Farmers Club on Wednesday, the
9th inst, found that for reasons over
which he had no control it was neces
sary to defer their entertainment until
rext month
Joseph, the 16.year.old son of Mr.
Lingan J. Li.ezey, of Red Pump, is grad
ually recovering from serious spell of
typhoid fever, but probably a week ago
bad the misfortune to contract preu.
MONA, and while somewhat Improved
at this writing. is still seriously i'll at his
fathers home,
Mr. Wilson Cary S.ldon. father e.
Miss Bertha Seldom, of Bel Air died at
his home in Washington, d. c., on Tues.
day, and will be buried at his former
home, Ashburn, Loudon county, Va, to-
day friday. Mrs William T. Sawyer
and Miss Seldom left on Thursday to at
tend the funeral.
Mr.. Lester Webster Mitchell, son of
Mr.. and Mrs J. P. Mitchell, of Calvary,
was married on December 30 To Miss
Elizabeth May Kepler, Of Wilkes Barre,
Pa. The ceremony vas quietly sulemnzed
Ia the presence Of near relatives, and
after a wedding luncheon the bridal
party lett for New York and on January
3ist will sail for their new home at
Jacksonville, Fla.
\ Mr.. Charles II. McComas, of the Bel
Air bar. has been offered such an attrac.
tive position in the legal department Of
the American Bonding Company OF Bal.
timore that he has not felt justified in
declining it. His position is in The line
OF his profession and opens a wider field
than is possible in the country. Mr. Nc.
Comas will enter upon his ne " duties the
FIRST Of February but will continue to
reside in Bel Air where he can meet his
clients in the evening.
n Rev. Andrew Mihm, for some time
past he popular pastor Of st Mary's
Catholic church, Pylesyile, has been
transferred to pastorate 10 Washing
ton He will be succeeded by Rev. Fran
els d. McC;raw, who will assist in the
services at st. Mary's next Sunday,
when he will be introduced to his con
gregation. Father McGraw comes from
Frostburg, was recently ordained by His
Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, and comes
to his new field highly recommended.
OF the many genial New Years greet.
ings we have received none came more
delcately but cordially couched than
that from former Judge David Fowler,
Chief Judge of this Circuit. The bar of
the state will long remember the valued
services of Judge Fowler while on the
bench and will unite in their congratula
tions that he has again taken a promi
nent place at the trial table. The late
Chief Judge McSherry several years ago
made the assertion to the writer that
Maryland had at that time no more use.
full man on the bench Of OF Appellate
Court than Judge Fowler.
Our subscribers, before this issue OF the
Egis shall have reached them. will have
received bills to cover their subscriptions
We will appreciate it highly il these
bills are promptly paid. While they are
individually small. in the aggregate they
amount to several thousand dollars, and
become a matter Of serious moment to
the editor. Every item which enters into
the cost of county paper has mater
ally increased in cost during the pas,
Eve years, though the price of the paper