The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-01-26

AT the annual m Getting of the stock
holders of the Washington Jockey Club
it was announced that the spring meeting
of the club will be one of twelve days,
commencing Monday, April end, and
concluding Saturday April 14th.
DIR. Walter H. Wells, formerly of this
county, but for many years past resident
! of Cotfcyvile, kans., was recently elect
ed president of the Southern Medical
| Academy He is brother of DR.. Charles
A. Wells, president of the Prince Georges
| County Medical Association.
A committee of representative men
| from Hvattsville, visited Annapolis We'd
nesday to urge the delegation from this
| county the necessity for dividing the dis
| trict into two smaller ones. 1t is under
stood that their efforts were successful,
and that bill will be introduced having
| this end in view.
George A. Dorr, fifty-tive years of
age, met with tragic death at Hyattsvllle
| Monday morning about SO o'clock. He
| was struck in the head by the steps of a
| car on the Chesapeake Beach Railway,
sustaining fracture of the skull, from
which he died in the afternoon. Coroner
Arthur Carr held an inquest Tuesday and
the jury failed to agree.
The hobeas corpus case of John L.
Barnes was tried on Tuesday of this week
before Judge Merrick, who discharged the
petitioner because of fatal defect in the
commitment The Justice of the Peace
committed Barnes to the April term OF
Court under peace warrant, when the
law required the party to be held to the
preceding term, which met in January.
7. Van Clagett appeared for Barnes and
William NJ Levin for the State.
Mr. Charles B. Calvert, of MacAl pine,
College Park, Md, who has been very
sick for the past two weeks at his resi-
dence, is rapidly recovering. He is one
of the stakeholder trustees of the Mary
land Agricultural College, president of
the National Hotel Company, of Wash
ington: president of the Rivcrdale Road
League, of this county; one of the origi-
nal promoters of the City and Suburban
Electric Railroad, and one of the most
enterprising citizens in that neighbol-
hood.
A dance was given by the members
of the Rossburg Club of the Maryland
Agricultural College in the college hall
last Friday night. A great many people
were present from Baltimore, Washing
ton Laurel and the neighboring suburbs.
The chaperons were Mrs. Henry
Walter Lilly, of Fayetteville, N. c.; Mrs.
Richard W. Sylvester, wife of the presi-
dent of the college; Mrs. L. X. Fitzhugh,
of the college; Mrs. Dent, of Washington;
Mrs. VanLoan, of Hyattsville; Mrs. j. A.
Blundon, of Riverdale, and Mrs. Samuel
S. Buckley, of College Park
The managers and editors of the
Reveille, which will be gotten out this
year by the Senior Glass of the Maryland
A gricultural College have been working
hard, and are confident of having it
ready to go to the printer about the 1st of
April. The board of managers is COM
posed of the following cadets: Lieut.. A.
c. Sudler, Lieut.. William d. Croft and
Capt. Moore Jenifer. The editorin- chief
is Mr. W. H. Wiegan. Mr. H. J. kefau-
yer has charge of the literary department,
Samuel NJ Peach is the class historian
and prophet, A. S. r. Grason has charge
of the athletic department and A. E..
Ewens of the humorous department.