The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1916-09-08
Local oAffatrs.

The September term Of Court viii
convene on Monday.
Rev. G. M. Sheridan, Of Chestnut
Hill, will preach at Grace M. p. Church
Bel Air, Sunday evening at s o'clock.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Magnolis
Church will hold basket and water
melon social on Saturday evening, Sep
TENDER 9th.
The next regular meeting Of the
Churchville Grange will be held next
Monday evening. September IL, at the
home of Mr.. p. F. Cosle.
Elder Alexander. Of Wilmington.
Del, will preach at the Old School
Baptist Meeting House. near Jarretts-
willie, next Sunday morning.
The monthly cake sale Of the
Woman's Guild of Emmanuel Church,
will be held at Mrs. Cover Streets on
Saturday afternoon, at o'clock.
The Susquehsnna w. C. 7. u. will
hold ita regular monthly meeting next
Thursday evening. September IA. at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. W. s. Walker
at Webster.
The regular meeting of the Fallston
Community Center for the Country
Church, which was to have been held
Friday. September Sth. has been post
poned until Friday. October 9Th.
NlTomatoes are now coming into the
4 banning houses quite freely, and many
are encouraged to hope that the pack
may be almost an average one. Prices
are good and packers are smiling.
The first regular monthly meeting
OF the Civic Club will be held on Tues
day, September 18th at P. NJ. at the
Country Club. A large attendance is
desired. New members welcomed.
Miss Rosalie Glen, of High Point,
and Mr.. Lucien B. Calwell, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. James Calwell. formerly of
Bel Air, were quietly married on Satur-
day at Christ Church rectory by Rev.
w. J. Wright.
--Mrs. Katherine VOTE. Of near CAL
vary, and MIR. Joshua ]. Scotch,
well-known farmer Of near Bel Air,
were quietly married in Elkton on
Tuesday, August 20. Mr.. and Mrs.
Scotch will reside at Calvary.
This Friday, Saturday and Sunday
40 hours devotion will be held at st.
Psul's Chapel in Cardiff. The Domini-
can Fathers, Of New York City, will
conduct the exercises Of this retreat;
services being every morning andin the
evening at o'clock.
A Capt. Phil. Spencer. Of Lapidum.
reports the presence Of an 11-foot- shark
h the lower Susquehanna which he
states has appeared there annually for
several years. Temporarily bathing
and small boat-parties have been dis
continued below the shoals above Port
Deposit.
4 A number Of Bel Airs enthusiastic
base ball fans, who have been chatting
because we have no base ball team this
season, are making vigorous effort to
organize an impromptu team to play
some Of Baltimore's leading amateur
clubs during September. We wish
them great success.
The pastor Of the Mountain Chris
tian Church will deliver next Sunday
morning the last Of his series Of SER
mons, subject Excepting Saved" No
Sunday night services will be held at
this church during the next two weeks.
rs the pastor will be conductinga series
Of revival meetings at Fork.
Catalogues to cover the Maryland
Week Exhibition" to be held in Balti-
more November l4-18. have been issued,
and this show will probably exceed all
Of its predecessors. A noteworthy
feature in connection with it will be the
to-. Of the "corn club boys" from one
end Of Maryland to the other.
For want of space we are unable
TO review this week the annual state
ment Of receipts and disbursements OF
the County Commissioners for the year
ending April 30. 1916. which we are
publishing elsewhere. but we strongly
urge that every subscriber should pre-
serve the same for future reference.
The statement will be run but once.
The Howard County Court has sus-
tanned the legality of the form of the
ballot to be voted on in November In
wet territory, so far rs 1t concern this
issue, and it 10 not thought that an APP
peal will be taken. Among other things
the law referring to voting requires
that it shall be published in the vet
"unit" In which the vote is to be taken.
Mr.. John b. Peery formerly con-
nected with the real estate firm of
Stone. Mccormick & Peery, has sever
Ell his connection with the firm and form
ed y purtnership with Mr.. j. Royston
Suffer with whom he will engage in the
real estate and loan business Messrs.
Stone g. Mccormick will continue in the
real estate business under the original
firm name Of Stone, Mccormick Land
Co.
The County Commissioners are
rushing the work Of repairing and oil
ing Shoemaker roads In order that they
may be ready to turn them over To the
State Roads Commission before October
Is. Roads not completed before this
date will have to be held over until
spring. After the Shoemaker roads
have been accepted by the commission
IL will assume their maintenance thus
taking = tremendous burden from the
county.
--Eiessrs. G. d. Radebsugh & Sons
are this week harvesting their crops OF
eowpsas and soy beans which are i'm
portant crops on their farm. Anexper'
estimates that the yield of dry hay will
this year be almost If not quite -four
tons per acre. A portion of the crop Il
drilled in rows and cultivated like corr
for the seed product. though considera'
BILE value remains in the plant. Last
year the seed sold at three dollars pei
bushel and yield Of twenty bushels pei
acre 10 not excessive.
Mr.. William II. Sewell. of Abing
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