Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-10-14
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Cut rates-the butchers.
Club member-the wooden leg.
A glove afairi--the prize fight.
The autumnal leaves are falling.
Farmers are busy wheat seeding.
The rabbit crop is nearly ripe.
GuAecss report large fiocks Of blackbirds.
Election day will be four weeks OF from
next Tuesday.
Autumn millinery is described as a sort Of
concentrated Italian sunset.
Long cloth coats, cut like mems frock's,
and lined with fur, are to be one Of the styles
Land values along the Potomac river are
gradually but certainly increasing ia yalGe.
Trsnpers have commenced their fall fishing
10 the Potomac and its tributaries.
Prepare good warm shelter for your stock
during the winter months. 1t pays.
Mrs. Marshall Chapman is visiting friends
in Annapolis.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the well known
Washington, d. c., lawyer, was ia Port To.
bseco on Tuesday last on professional business
Mr.. Maurice, of La Plata, lost valuable
horse duIing the week from some unknown
stomach trouble.
Indian Head, the government proving
grounds on the Potomac, begins to assume
the appearance of a town much alive.
The early weather prophet is getting In his
work forcasting the coming winter weather.
lie says the winter is to be a mild one.
A large lot of late tobacco still standing in
the field. in the fourth district, when the frost
came last week, WAS badly bitten.
Miss Sophie Dent who has beer On a visit
TO her father, Mr., George Dent, nesr Pspc's
Creek, has returned to her home in Virginia.
Miss Susie P. Stone, daughtcr Of Thomas D.
Stone, ESQ.,. is on visit 10 the family Of DR.
Horace Ashton, in kisg George county, Va.
The pisaes Jupiter is now so bright that it
can be seen even before the sun has ceased TO
shine.
We are Indebted to President Palmer for
complimentary ticket TO attend the Worlds
Fair.
Dr.. P. E. Sasscer, of Waldorf, was taken
suddenly i'll on Sunday last. Hts condition is
such that his friends manifest much uneasi-
ness.
The sale Of live stock at Bel Alton, which
had tcen advertised In the INDEPENDENT,
brought together a large number of persons
yesterday, and sales were satisfactory.
Mr.. and Mrs John Matthews are happy over
iae advent ofan heir, "a bouncing baby hoy )"
Judge SIoue is correspondingly eltte over the
fac that he is for the first time grand father.
One Of the ferry hoats, the Alexandria, ply
ing between Washington and Alexandria was
burned at her wharf in the latter city few
nights ago
4 tenant house on the farm of Mr. c. P
Summers, was burned on Monday morning
last. We have not learned how the Ere origi-
mated.
The registration officers will sit in their re-
si,eclive districts on Monday next, the 18th IN
slant, for revision aul bearing application for
reinstatement by thosa whose names have
hren stricken off.
Mr. and Mrs Horace Browning. Of Wash
ingion. D. e., are visiting the family Of Sr.
A. Posey Mrs. Browning WINS pupil bf the
Misses Neale at st. Tho Is Academy, and
all bv resemberei as Miss Mary Clarke
Agricultural Fair Associations have been
organized 10 nearly every county of the Sti'e.
Asricultartl Fairs have proven to be benth-
,.Ilf 10 all OF them Why not farnAu Agrich
tural Association in Charles count!
Mr.. Keith Compton, who is an assistant en-
gineer under the Baltimore ciry government,
spent last Sunday with his parents, DR.. ami
irs. Il. X. Compton.
Gamers should I've very careful so th,t there
te no CANNING accidents 10 publish There is
generally considerable rerklrssnrss inrng tue
cunning season and numerous accidents oc-
Hr there y.
Rev Father OCounell, ut ST. Thomls, his
positively decide! to sink an artrsi,u well -
lie is right. The water there is 100 Impure
for any human being TO drink.
| DO not let bad fruit season worry you
Bulls Head FlavOring Extracts produce the
fruit HAv3r Try them when you bake Cake
ga Free 10 cenis b le
| II have used Salvation Oil for frosted feet
ana hak4che and found il to be the best rem
edy aud pain killer on earth. Mrs. Maggie
Neider, Mt Pleasant, WestmorclAnd co., Pa
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