The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1916-12-29
Local oAfarrs.

Thursday evening" January IL, 1917.
The Sunday School Of Mt. Carme
Church, Emmorton, will give its annua
entertainment and treat on New Years
evening.
The regular monthly meeting Of the
Bel Air Civic Club will be held at the
Country Club Inn on next Tuesday after
noon at 3 o'clock.
Harriet Beacher Stoves famous
novel Uncle Toms Cabin will be shown
In five reels at Fallston school Thursday,
January 4, at 8 and P. M.
Rev. John S. Bowers, D. D., Presi-
dent of the MarylandAnnual Conference,
will preach in Grace M. P. Church. Bel
Air, Sunday morning at II O'Clock.
The ladies of the P. of II. and X.
of P. will hold bazaar and supper each
night, January 10th. nth and 18th, in
the new X. of P. hall, Jarrettsville.
Mr.. Frederick A. Norris has been
appointed administrator of the estate
. of the late Alexander p. Norris. and
has given bond in the penal sum Of
$4,000.
Leslie Hopper Ewing, Of Havre de
Grace. was one of the graduates Of the
Beacon Business College at Whining
ton, Del, having completed full
secretarial course.
The annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Darlington Cemetery
Company will be held in the Darlington
Town Hall on Monday. January l, 1917.
from ll.30 to p. M.
As will be noted by their advertise
ment elsewhere the recent contest Of
Kisling's Pharmacy met with marked
success. Or. J. S. Hopkins and Mr.. II.
s Carver acted as judges.
"A humorous lecture entitled "Home
Sweet Home" will be given at Smiths
Chapel by Rev. C. H. Corkran on We'd
nesday evening. January 3rd. 1917, at s
o'clock. Proceeds for benefit of Sunday
School.
The engagement was announced in
. Philadelphia paper few days ago Of
Miss Mary Duane Lee, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. David Lee to MIR. Preston B.
Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. William G.
Hill, of Lansdowne, Pa.
"A. j. Otto, who was being held In
the Bel Air Jail on the charge Of giving
prescriptions without diploma, was re,
leased without hearing on Tuesday by
order of States Attorney McComas,
upon condition that he leave the county.
AT their last meeting for the year
the Boards of Directors of local banks
declared the following dividends: Har-
ford, Is, less taxes for the past half
year; Farmers & Merchants, 10, less
taxes for the year; Second National, 81
for the half year.
Watch night service will be held ut
Center M.se. Church, Forest Hill, on
Sunday evening, when special revival
services will begin and continue for two
weeks. Captain John Logan. Of the
Volunteers of America, Baltimore, will
assist in the services.
The funeral of Rev. T. II. Wright,
who died on Saturday of pneumonia at
his home in Uniontown. Carroll county,
took place on Wednesday at Fawn
Grove M. p. Church. Mr.. Wright was
n years old, and Ia survived by four
daughters and one son.
"A Ford automobile belonging to
Mr.. H. o. Bailey, of Sharon. was de-
stroyed by fire on Saturday as Mr..
Bailey was going from his home to For
est Hill. 1t is not known how the blaze
originated. The loss was covered by
insurance with Mr.. Charles H. Reed.
Mr.. Robert A. Rouse sustained
broken finger and had his car consider
ably damaged as the result of collision
with second machine in Baltimore on
Monday. Mrs George Morrison and
little Miss Elizabeth Rouse, who were
also in the machine when it turned over.
were given bad scare but escaped
serious injury.
The Baltimore County Racing Com
mission on Thursday refused to grant
dates to the East Baltimore Driving
Association for the proposed track at
Benjies. 1t is rumored that an appeal
will be taken to the Circuit Court. The
other racing interests in the state are
opposed to the track on the basis that
Maryland already has enough.
While most residents in Hartford en-
joyed the balmy air surrounding them
Of Lspidum enjoyed skating on the Sus-
quehanna to their hearts content. Skat-
ing on the river had been practicable
during all Of last week, illustrating how
much colder it is on this wind-swept
stream than it is among the hills and
dales of the upland country. The ice on
Christmas Day was five inches thick.
"A Connecticut tourist enroute to
Florida was placed under arrest by
Deputy Sheridan as he entered Bel Air
on Christmas day in response TO a tele-
phone call from Cecil county authorities
who stated that he had run into and
seriously damaged machine at Perry.
vile. The unfortunate party was taken
back to Perryville, where he soon com
promised with the plaintiff by paying
him $25 damages and the sheriff. costs.