Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1899-05-04
Saint Maru's Beacon
COUNTY NEWS.
Localwiss and Otherwise.


Notice the new advertisement Of
Messrs- Frank Libby & Co. on our first
page.
There will be meeting OF the 81. Ma
rvs Magistrates Association Tuesday.
May o, 1892
DIR. L. Ernest Payne viii be absent
from his Office In Leonardtown until
May 18th, instant.
Joseph II. Milburn and Charles !
Clements have formed a co-partnershiu.
See advertisement.
John ii. Buckler, Of Sand Gates, Pa
tuxent district, has applied for the ben.
eft of the Federal bankruptcy law.
IL the Oldest inhabitant remembers a
dustier April than the. one Just ended
he has had very little to say about it.
On our outside pages we print an orr
ginal story from the pen Of our old
friend and correspondent, Uncle Ned. -
Read IL.
Rain is very much needed. Because
of the drought many farmers have been
unable TO condition their land for the
corn crop.
Lewis HOpfenmair, of Washington.
wants wool IN any quantity for factory
purposes. Ship to him and get the
highest market price.
Messrs. Charles Abel, of Beauyue
J. w. Freeman, of Park Hall, and many
other prominent county men, indorse
NJ. ii. G. Chill Tonic. See adv.
Deputy-Sheriff Bernard Love left Mon
day last for Montevue Hospital with
Lucinda Dyson, colored, who was ad-
judged insane April Goth, ultimo.
Mr.. Henry B. Fenwick is having
well sunk on the property in Leonard
town occupied by DIR. Thomas Lynch.
John Shaw, colored, Is doing the work
States Attorney, Daniel C. Hammett,
left per Steamer Potomac, Wednesday
last, on a business trip to Baltimore and
Washington. He will be gone about a
week
Mr.. Philip N. Morgan has bought of
Mr.. J. Clyde Abel a lot on Britton's
Bay near the Society Hill' line and
will soon begin the building of a resi-
dence thereon.
Through the good services of his
friend Mr.. John b. Thompson, Mr.. Will
liam II. Dawson, of this district, has Sc
cured position at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimore.
We invite attention to the new adver-
tiscment in this weeks BEACON of Mr..
Joseph s. Matthews, the pushing Park
Fall merchant. Read what he says and
go look at his goods.
Three of the newly elected Board IF
Town Commissioners took the oath of
Office Tuesday last. The Board was Or
ganized by the election of 10. F. Nor
gan, Esqr., as president.
Notice the new rtisement of nj.
L. Millison, Leonardtown. Mr.. Aillison
wants everybody to know that he is
headquarters for bargains and he uti-
Lies printers ink to tell them so.
Judge Crane states that the piece of
road near the "Glebe." this district, is
in miserable condition. Gravel is con-
venient to the road complained of, and
we trust that it will soon be put on it.
Mr.. Cullen, the photographer who has
been in Leonardtown for some time
past, struck his tent Tuesday and has
moved to Mechanicsville. Mr. Cullen
is a pleasant gentleman and makes a
good picture.
DR.. VIM. II. Stone has received from
the Board of Medical Examiners his GER
tificate as a practicing physician and has
been registered as such by the Clerk of
the Circuit Court. DIR. Stone is now in
Leonardtown.
The Marlboro Gazette states that the
track on the Chesapeake Beach Railway
has been laid to the Patuxent river.
The first regular trip on the new road
to the Bay is expected to be made about
June 10Th, proximo.
Mr.. I'll. G. Dorney voted at the polls
of the Third Precinct, Seventeenth
Ward, of Baltimore, Tuesday last, and
early in the afternoon was in Leonard
town selling goods. Mr.. Dorney was
an ardent Hayes man.
Hilary Brooks, colored, was tried be-
fore Justice w. D. Henry April 9Th, ul-
timo, for an assault and battery upon
Parran Carberry, colored. The Justice
adjudged Brooks guilty and imposed
fine of 81 and costs, which was paid
In this weeks BEACON we begin Sc
ries of articles from Rev. Jas. L. Smiley
who is en- route to join the U. s. army
under Maj. Gen. Otis at Manila. OF ne
csssity the articles win be far between
but they will, we feel sure, be none the
less interesting on that account.
AT the Leonardtown corporation cleo
ton Monday last, Messrs. 10. F. Nor
gan, DR.. F. F. Greenwich, Charles w.
Foxwell, Kemper A. Welt and A. Kings
ley Love were elected Commissioners.
With the exception of Mr.. Morgan the
Commissioners are all new men.
Mr.. Claude Hayden representing the
firm of Edelen Bro, of Baltimore. has
been on visit to his st. Mary's rela-
yves and has made a business trip