The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-04-28
E;ItEVITfES.

here on "Wednesday.
Miss Minnie Vermilion, of Halls, is
visiting relatives here.
-Rev. DR.. T. S. Chlds will otliciatc At
Trinity Church next Sunday.
Miss Kate Hill is spending the sum
mer at her country home near here.
Mr. James Harper is i'll the Lltc In,
surance business with Mr. r. Y. Hall, in
Baltimore
The Ladies' Ass ociation of Trinity
Church will meet on Monday next at ,
o'clock p. m.
Sergeant Theodore Owens, of the
Baltimore Police Force, spent last Mon
day with his relatives here.
Misses Addie and Winifred Barron,
of Charlotte. n. c., are visiting their
cousin, Miss Mary l.. Wilson.
| Ferdinand G. Hall, colored has been
| appointed postmaster at Bladensburg,
vice Nettic Bauman resigned.
Twenty members of the Arlington
Bicycle Club of Washington, spent last
| Sunday at the Farmers Hotel here.
| Masses at ST. Mary's Church, on Sun
| day at 9 and II o'clock 4. m. The new
church will be dedicated on Sunday, May
2Sth
Senator VIM. B. Clasctt returned
home last Sunday, and we are pleased to
| announce that he is much improved III
| health.
We have been requested to announce
that the Medical Association of this
county will meet here on Tuesday next,
May end.
Our usual amount of editorial matter
had to be omitted this week on account
of the crowding of our advertising
columns.
Capt Edward johnson, youngest son
of the late Hon. Rcvcrdy Johnson, and
Mr. E. B. DuVal, of Baltimore, were here
last Monday.
Mrs r. Irving Bowie and her two
children have gone to Spartanshurg, 5.
c., to visit her parents, MIR. and Mrs. An
drew Gwynn.
Mrs NJ p. Stoddcrt and her hand
some daughter, Miss Bessie, of Winches-
ter, Va, have been spending Il few days
with Mrs. l. S. Wilson.
The Rev. c. Ernest Smith, of st.
Michael's and All Angles Church, Balt-
more, is now up and has returned from
the hospital to his home.
Mrs d. F. Ryon and her granddaugh-
ter, Miss Grace Ryon, of Washington
spent Wednesday and Thursday with
Mrs James H. Crandell, of this town.
announcement has been made of the
marriage of Miss Fannie B. Osborn,
formerly of this town and Mr.. hurry G
Metz, of Brightwood, D. c. Miss Osborn
is principal of Manassas Institute.
1t is said that the French Government
will award contracts for sixteen thou
sand hogsheads of Maryland tobacco this
year, and the prospect is for continued
good prices for our staple product.
The next communication of Centen-
NAL Lodge will be in Masonic Hall on
next Tuesday evening at 40 o'clock, and
the regular communications hereafter will
be on the first and third Tuesdays of each
month at the hour above named.
We publish this week on our first
page very interesting letter from a
fromer Prince Georgian who is now serv
ing his country in the Philippine Islands.
The letter was not written for publication,
but is, nevertheless, entertaining.
The services will hereafter be as usual
in each Church of ST. Johns or the old
Broad Creek Parish. Next Sunday, be-
ing the 9Th Sunday, morning service at
Christ Church, Surratts and afternoon
service at the Broad Creek Church.
AT /; meeting of the vestry of Trinity
Church on Tuesday, Mr.. Frederick Sasscer
was elected delegate and r. B. B. Chew,
Jr, alternate, to attend the Annual Con-
vention of the Diocese of Washington,
which will be held at Trinity Church,
Washing ton, commencing May 10th.
A new race track has been built by a
| number of Laurel horseowners and racing
men at Mistletoe Springs. 1t is to be
called Mistletoe Driving Park. The track
| is less than two miles from Laurel, on
| the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, and is likely to be the scene of some
| lively racing this summer.
| The home Of Mr. Arthur Booth at
Bowie, was burned Monday. Mr.. Booth
was at work, and his wife was away on Il
visit to neighbours. When she returned
home she found the house in Il blaze. She
gave an alarm and before anybody could
get there to put out the fire all of their
furniture and money were burned up.
| This house was one of the oldest buildings
in this place. 1t was built in 1919 by Mr..
Beckett. Afterwards it was sold to Mr.
Clay Perkins. The house was insured
for Il small amount.
The Governor has received a tran
script of the record of the Circuit Court
for Prince Georges county in the case of
Thomas Turner, colored, convicted at the
April term, 1899, of murder in the first
degree The condemned man wrote to
the Governor for executive clemency He
says: las this is my only hope, | have
concluded to rite, asking you to please
look into my case. | am condemned to
die for crime that has been charged
against me- His attorneys, George b.
Merrick and Van Clagett, in asking com
mutation of death sentence, state the
prisoner, who is said to be nineteen years
old is of feeble intellect. They believe
confinement il the pententiary will meet
the ends of justice. Judges BriScoe,
Crane and Merrck recommend executive
clemency, which, it is said, will probably
be granted.
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF ToLEDo,l
Lucas COUNTY.
FpASE i ('UE\Ey makes oath that he