Saint Mary's beacon., 1899-11-30
saint Maru's Beacon
COUNTY NEWS.
Localwise and Otherwise.

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Leonardtown, averaged 1924 pounds.
Miss Madge Duke. of this district, left
Monday morning last for Wait to Bal
timore.
The Orphans Court was In session
Tuesday last and transacted routine
business.
Hog-killing is now the order of the
day, and St. MaTy's housewives are busy
Gin pork"
Dir. and Mrs. J. Pike Cough, Of Balti-
more, are visiting their relatives and
friends in st. Mary's.
Attend the sale at the Bean farm.
Wednesday, December Q. proximo. You
viii find bargains there.
But twenty-four days before Christ
mas Think Of your Christmas gift and
90 to some Of our local advertisers and
buy 1t.
Note the advertisements OF our meT-
chants and deal with them. The mer-
chaBt who adyertises is the merchant TO
buy from.
Miss Lillian Harrison, Of Charlotte
Hall, was the guest of Mrs. p. 4. Sasscer,
this town, during the week-La Plata
Independent.
DR.. r. p. Blackstone says that he has
seen Reh s. Hopes show and that lit
can't be beaten" The Doctor says that
it is really an excellent show.
Mr.. Robt II. Cole, of Washington, ID.
c.. Paid his st. Nary's friends a brief
visit last week Bob is looking well
and we were very glad to see him.
Monday last. the Charlotte Hall Acad-
emy Football team defeated the Balti-
more City College eleven by score OF
2s to o. Five touchdowns and three
goals.
Monday night last some of our friends
are reported to have been cleverly taken
in by the "thimble game" We are told
that they were easy marks and a cheap
set "after the ball"
Wednesday, of last week, a horse be-
longing to Mr. John F. Duke, of Leon
ardtown district, jumped over wire
fence and getting entangled in the wire,
fell and broke its neck
Gov. Lowndes has designated Joseph
II. Key, Esqr., of Leonardtown, as Chief
Judge of the st. Mary's county Orphans
Court. Mr.. Key will, we think. make an
excellent presiding judge.
Mr.. D. w. Ryce, of Charles county.
has been appointed commander of the
Oyster Police schooner, Bessie Jones,
vice s. S. Lancaster, resigned to take his
seat in the House of Delegates.
The best appointed and most conven-
lent stable that We have ever seen in st.
Mary's is the one recently erected for
Mr.. @. B. Greenwell at Abell's Wharf.
Mr. J b. Norris was the builder.
Charles III. Connolly and Miss Ida
Thompson, both of Leonardtown dis
trict, were married at st. Aloysius'
Church, this town, Tuesday the 21st, in
slant. Rev. G. S Lancaster, S. j., per-
formed the ceremony.
The dance given at Moore's Hotel,
LeOnardtown, Tuesday evening last,
by the young ladies and gentlemen
of the village in honor of Miss Lottie
May Fenwick, was veil attended and
most enjoyable affair.
We invite attention to the new adver-
tiseEent of William A. Loker, Leonard
town. Mr.. Loker is first-class mer-
chant and. We know whereof we speak.
when we say, he is good man to deal
with and handles good goods.
Monday last Arthur PiIlsbury's horse
was frightened by a cart and the young
man was thrown into Greenwelrs mill
race and narrowly escaped drowning.
He sustained a severe cut over the eye
which DIR. Greenwell sewed up.
Saturday night last John Dean, of
Miiestown district, mail-carrier on the
Leonardtown Faulkner route lost an 8
year-old horse valued at 800 The ami
NAL got tangled in a rope and in its
struggles to extricate itself sustained
fatal injuries.
BY an almost Unanimous vote the st.
Mary's Reading Room and Debating So
ciety at its Mondays meeting determin-
ed that the cenrse of England in the
Transvaal War was not justifiable. Yet
almost every member of the Society Is
of English descent.
Mr.. Daniel E Graves, owing to ILL
health, has resigned as Secretary, Treas
urer and Examiner OF the Prince Geor-
ge's Board Of School Commissioners and
E. 5. Burroughs has been elected in his
stead. Both gentlemen are natives Of
st. Mary's county.
Edna j., nine-year-old daughter of
Capt. Henry F. Smallwood, Of St. Geor-
ge's Island. Tuesday of last week, fell
from q persimmon tree and broke her
left arm at the wrist. DIR. Hooper Lynch
reduced the fracture and the little suff-
erer is doing very well.
Mr.. John House, of Salisbury, Nd, is
in Leonardtown aud Is engaged in re-
touching the signs of the business men
Of the village Mr.. House Is q good
workman, and we hope that the owners
OF our Town Hall will employ him TO
paint new scenery for its stage.