The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-09-10
BREVITIES.

Revival services will begin at Brook
field Church Sunday night at 80 o'clock.
The annual statement of the County
Commissioners will be found on our first
page.
Mr.. Charles Courtney Crandell, of
this town, is visiting relatives in Wash
ington.
Misses Alice and Annie Smith, of
Baltimore, are visiting their aunt, Mrs.
A. NJ. C"ifman.
Miss Hattie Luhn, of Charleston,
South Carolina, visited her aunt. Mrs.
James Harris, last week.
Rev Mr.. Willcs will otliciate at Trinity
Church next Sunday at 1 o'clock and cell
citrate the Holy Communion.
There will be an icc-cream and cake
sale in the Town Hall yard on tomorrow
afternoon, beginning ut $50 p. m.
The Salmagundi Club will hold its
next meeting at the home of Miss Susie
Clagctt on Wednesday, September 18th.
The ladies of the Church of the Atone
mcnt, at Cheltenham, held festival on
the grounds near the station yesterday
afternoon.
The ladies of st. Thomas Church,
Groom, will have 4 festival on the Rectory
grounds, Tuesday next, September l4th,
beginning at / o'clock p. NJ.
Mrs Fred'k Sasscer and Masters Har-
old and Ghisclin SaSscer have returned
from Tennessee, where they spent the
month of August, visiting relatives.
Miss Bowling, eldest daughter of the
late L. Gill Bowling, and Mr. G. NJ. Nc
kabc of Baltimore, were married at tie
Episcol al Church in Woodville on the
Goth ultimo.
The Board of Election Supervisors
met Tuesday and organized by eecting
Mr.. William r. Smith, President. The
| judges and clerks of election were APP
| pointed and the list will be found in an
| other column.
| General Birnevs Kentucky saddle
stallion, The King" advertised in our
columns, took the blue ribbon in his class,
both at Rockville and at the Southern
Maryland Fair.
Mr.. Francis CAN'T, of Prince Freder-
lex, has mailed us copy of his pamphlet
entitled state Inspection of Tobacco, or
Southern Marvland's Humiliation Degre-
dation and Slavery
The next meeting of the PatuXent
Planters Club will be at the home of Mr.
Fred'k Sasscer on Tuesday, 18th inst, al
t p. m. Members will gather at Mr.. Sass
GERS farm, at the above hour, for inspection
States Attorney Roger Bells ant
Walter Payne, of the District of Columbis
commissioners office, are building hand
some residences in EVANSVILLE. Over
thirty new houses have been erected dur
ing the present summer. Land values re
main stationary.
President Frank Thomson, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and {
number of guests are here on a special
for the purpose Of enjoying the otolal
shooting on the PatuXent river The,
are being entertained by Capt. Watmor,
on his beautiful yacht which archorc,
near Hills Bridge.
The plant of the Free QuW has beer
purchased by county Treasurer p F. Cas-
tie, Mcssrs. F. c. Dezcndorf and James
Curley. On Wednesday it was movet
from the Free Quill Building to the Post
Office Building, from where a paper vii
he issued by Mcssrs; Curley and Dozen
,lorf The name of the new paper will bt
tie L'ad,r.-Ldrel Journal
The funeral of Dr.. James A. Buck
who was for so long connected with Rocl
Creek Church and parish as its pastor
was held at that church Tuesday after
noon at > O'Clock. Bishop Satterlee Off
ciated, and large number of friends
and acquaintance, including the member
of the clergy, from Washingt on, Mary
land and more distant points were pres
cnt.
Corn has been very unfavorably af
fcctcd by the weather conditions of tn
past week in the principal corn producin:
States. High temperature and absence o
much needed rain have checked growth
of the late crop and caused prcmatur
: ripcnln@, while the prevalence of no
. winds have caused injury, particularly il
the States of the Lower Missouri valley
In Iowa and Missouri much corn Is pas
help and will be cut for fodder. The con
t ditionS. however, have been more favor
able to corn in the lake region, Uppe
ohio Valley and New England, and il
the middle Atlantic States the crop i
generally doing we'll