The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1916-01-07
MIR. Ernest Rigdon and Miss Edith

Mr.. ErnestJ Rigdon and Miss Edit
lola, daughter of MIR. and Mrs John r
Pyle. were married at the brides home
on New Years day. Rev W. +. Wright
officiating After sumptuous COLLATION.
the bridal party left for the South, and
upon their return they will make their
home near Highland.
! Officers of the Hartford Juvenile
Court came to Havre de Grace on Wed
nesday and took three minor children of
Ross Ward to Bel Air, where they will
be provided homes by the court. On
Wednesday afternoon Ward was arrest
ed and placed under $500 bail for his
appearance before the grand jury,
charged with abandoning the children.
-Havre de Grace Ledger.
Miss Mary + Cloman, of Kings
vile, for number of years supernten-
dent of nurses at the Hebrew Hos
pital. Baltimore. and Rev. John II. JEFF.
fries, of Piedmont, w. Va, were mar
red on Monday at Garrett Park NJ. +.
Church by Rev. J. w. II Beale Mr..
Jeffries has held two appointments in
Hartford the first at Dublin and later
was on West Hartford Circuit
Y-Ogallala Fire. Sioux Indian chief.
~ years old, one of the last survivors
of the battle of Little Big Horn, where
General Custer lost his life and his
troope was wiped out. is in Chicago
hospital expected to die from sIashed
throat, the result of his ownact. Ogal-
lala Fire, Rain in the Face and Spotted
Tail were three chiefs who gave the Gov
yepment much trouble in the seventies.
On Thursday MIR. w. f. Somerville,
VT 10 WAS reelected County Surveyor,
took the oath of office and entered upon
his new term, Messrs. Walter r. Me
Comas and X. S Akin were sworn in
on Monday. States Attorney McComas
has moved to his office in the Court |
House, while former States Attorney |
Stitler has taken office over Rosenfeld's |
hk family to Bel Air.
~ begins to look like American
fathers will have to take a hand IN
bringing to close the great Continent
al war in order that they may be able
to again secure the necessary potash to
grow sufficient crops to feed the world.
We are as thoroughly convinced now
that balanced ration for vegetation is
AS important as it is for animals, yet
there is none available. How grave
this situation has become is best shown
10y the language of leading fertilizer
which just Withdrew its adver-
tisement, saying, please discontinue
our advertisement for the present until
we get matters in normal shape again
"a we find that it would be difficult to
supply the trade that would be normal
without any efforts to increase trade by
1t is II settled fact that
land must go potash hungry next season.
The 1915 report of the u. S. Geolc-
gical survey, which has Just been issued,
shows remarkably successful year
among the mines producing the raw
which il the basis of coun-
try's prosperity. In fact Secretary
Lane predicts that when complete
figures in all lines have been compiled
they will show total valuation of two
and half billion dollars. Copper mines
have broken all records, showing an
eighteen per cent. increase over the
previous year. while iron ore shows an
increase Of thirty-eight per cent the
value of the increased pig iron being
put at the enormous sum of 1920, 600. 900.
Zinc shows an increased output of 25
per cent, and coal and coal oil also
show records in excess of the preceding
year These crude materials enter far
more largely into manufactures than do
any others, and hence are the very best
ndices of the general condition of the
country.