The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1910-02-25

The Joppa Baseball Club will hold
an oyster supper at Joppa on Friday
nd Saturday nights, February 25 ano
&c
The social held IN the lectnre room Of
the Presbyterian Church on Tuesda,
evening under the auspices of the young
peoples society was signal success
Tne room was handsomely decorated
and the audience was large and appre
ciative. The Misses Heuer presided at
the piano, Miss May6eld Wright recited
nd various parties took part in the ex
ercises commemorative CT Washington's
birthday The final attraction of the
evening was an old time spelling bee In
which Mrs. Vim. G. Hoskins and Miss
Loretta Stamford. principal of the
Fallston school, carried of tie honors,
] Those interested in promoting the
reorganization of the Hartford County
agricultural Society met on Monday,
Or p F. Sappington presiding. and the
audience was keen for renewal of this
valuable annual festival After a full
| d sous sion OF the whole situation l. was
decided to capitalize at $40, 000in shares
OF $40 each, and canvassers for the va.
| ripus sections OF the county were ap
| pointed and report very encouraging re-
suits Steps have been carefully taken
| to popularize the Association as much as
| possible and to protect it against all
| dead wood in its practical management-
| second meeting will be held next Mon.
| day afternoon at 2 O'Clock In the moving
picture theater.
MIR p II. Mccormick recently re
turned from trip to Auburn, New York,
where he went to buy a second carload
It dairy cows. All travel, even the ex-
press teams. was "a runners and the
thermometer averaged TO- below zero
during his stay, go his first step was to
secure fur suit to stand the exposure
Under such circumstances it was not
difficult to get surfeit of sleighing dur.
ing his ten days stay. In due time he
secured twenty high grade Guernsey and
Ilolstein cows, which cost on an average
SIS laid down at home, and their per-
furmance at the pail has fully equaled
that of his first carload. From the SO
cows he is now shipping daily from 400
to 400 gallons of milk.
In order to meet the heavy drain on
their treasury resulting from the dam
ages awarded in the Fletcher case, the
City Council of Havre de Grace has
passed an ordinance not yet signed by
the Mayor, which provides for issuing
ST. 900 bonds and dedicates towards
their payment the license not heretofore
pledged to be received from the sale Of
liquor, These bonds would be issued I'M
der an authority previously granted by
the General Assembly. As this would
necessitate an extra election at an eX-
pcnse of several hundred dollars. and for
other good reasons, it is more than
probable that the ordinance will be We
toed by Mayor Carver. and that appli
cation will be made to the General As.
sembly to authorize The issuance OF bonds
on more satisfactory terms.
1t is vitality important that at this
season, when the thaws by day are fol
lowed by frost at night. that travel on
the public roads should not be conducted
in a way calculated to increase the dam.
age that even under the best circum.
stances is apt to be done at this time.
/ We are reliably advised that six horse
team recently dragged a heavy log along
one of our state roads. one end resting
on the axle and the other on the ground
The result was to tear up the surface of
the pike in many places and II has been
raveling badly ever stree Such method
OF hauling logs on the public road is no
longer considered permissible under any
circumstances. and its destructive effect
to the enameled surface of new pike
can scarcely be measured Little less in.
furious is the practice of driving with one
wheel on the pike and one cutting into
the shoulder