Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-12-01

E4Rs are quoted ~ - cents per dozen.
Thanksgiving this year fell on St. Andrew.
Dav.
Save up your surplus earnings for Christ
mas, the royal holiday Of the year.
With lent beginning February 7th, the
fashionable season will be short one.
Judge Stone and family spent Thanksgiv-
ing with Mr.. aud Mrs. Grain, Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Wilmer enjoyed Thanks
Me. and Mrs. =. D. Gardiner we're expected
home frUn their bridal trip last eve.
The wyiherville Fire Insurance Company
of W yihersille, Va, has failed.
Ne Theodore ROXY, of Waldorf, killed a
hog few days ago weighing 40 pounds
" no tau heat III
Mr. j. C. Howard entertained a tew of his
pOpulist friends at dinner on Thanksgiving
Day.
Mr. Otis w. Smoot, who has been so long
i'll with spinal trouble is, we are pleased to
state, slowly recovering.
DR.. T S. Owen and family have moved in
their new and pretty little dwelling at La
Plata.
The scheme to construct telephone from
Brandy wine to Mechanicsvile seems to be
progressing.
Contractor Hawkins has completed new
tenement house for Mr. J. h. Hamilton on the
farm upon which he resides.
Mr.. H. J. Sherwood, agent at La Plata,
who has been absent from the county some
days visiting, has returned to his post Of duty
The handsome profile of our Chief Judge
Briscoe, adorned the outside page of the
American of Wednesday
Mr.. Randolph Smoot, son of Captain Lem
Smoot, policeman in Washington city, is Ill
with typhoid fever.
Mr.. ]. NJ. G. Cox has resigned as postmas-
ter at Masons Springs, and Mr.. h. E. Han
non appointed in his place.
A young widower of Pomfret, and sweet
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married on the 10th instant.
1t is said that Landlord Burch of the ST.
Charles Hotel, believing i'll the divine injunc-
ton that it is not well for man TO live alone,
will take unto himself on Wednesday better
half-Miss Roby, OF Waldorf, is his 6ance.
A full dress wedding is announced to take
place at Oakland on the 9Th instant. The
event will be the marriage of hr. Eddie Han
non, popular young man of Pomoukey, and
Miss Mcdaniel of Waldorf.
Mr.. J. NJ. C. Cox has decided to change his
place of business and remove from Mason's
Springs 10 Indian Head. where be has fine
store Mr.. Il. n. Hanncu will he his sue
cessor at Mason's Springs.
The records in tie Mudd and Cox reRistr-
ton cases have been forwarded to the Court
of Appeals, and will he on the docket OF that
court in tine to be heard December 9th, when
the court re-assembles.
Among those who participated in a dramat-
ic entertainment on Monday of last week in
Prince Georges county, for the benefit Of a
helpless widow ane her children, wss Miss Ola
Hunt, Of Mattaw oman.
The new priest stationed at ST. Peters
Church, Waldorf, has no means of getting
about among his parishioners, and they have
set to work to raise money by rattle to yet
hln a buggy aud horse.
Mrs. Amelia D. Lyon FLED her bond as exc
cutrix o. her late husband, John 3. LYON. de-
ceased. with the Register of W ills on Tuesday.
Tee Fidelity aud Trust Cunpany Of Baltf-
more Is Ter surety.
Some enterprisiHg citizens have IN view the
formation OF Fire Insurance Company in
Washington city, with branch Office IL this
raHnty 10 do 'LsIness in Southern Mary land ,
Il is lhe very thing We want. ---...-.