The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-02-16

There will be meeting of the County

| Commissioners on Tuesday and Wednes-
| day of next week for the purpose OF
receiving applications for pension for
| 1900
The banquet of the Maryland Demo-
cratic Editors Association, which was
| illness, will be held in Annapolis on the
night of February Goth.
holland Bros, of Mitchellville, have
| for sale a fine wagon suitable for two or
four horses, with solid axle, patented
swincle trees, and made from seasoned
white oak Write them for price, etc.
The Beltsville Grange met Tuesday
| night in Masonic Hall at Bcltsyille, this
county. Mrs r. w. Sylvester and Mr..
o. F. Doane took the third and fourth
degrees. Mrs w. T. Taliafero rendered
music, which was much enjoyed by al
| present.
The pupils of Forestville school, will
give an entertainment, musical and lit
erary, in Odd Fellows Hall, Forestville,
on Friday evening, February 10th, com
mencing at 80 O'clock. The proceeds will
be used for purchasing a new organ for
the school.
The Cake Walk which was given in
the Town Hall recently was such de-
cided success that those under whose
auspices it was given have decided to re-
- no adj
ed and it will take place rain or shine
Friday February 23rd.
Captain Sylvester, of the Maryland
Agricultural College, presented President
Hubner, of the Senate, and Speaker
Wilkinson, of the House, each with a
gavel made of wood taken from the his
toric mulberry tree of St. Mary's City.
The gavels were made by the students in
the college.
The scarlet fever at the Agricultural
Experiment Station, which caused much
anxiety and inconvenience at the Expert
ment Station, the Maryland Agricultural
College and among the citizens of the
nei ghborhood, has been isolated. Mr.
Weaver, who was seized with the disease,
has been carried home and his classmates,
who were taking short winter course in
dairying, also departed. The station has
been thoroughly disinfected.
The Democratic Central Committee,
of this county, have sent to the Governor
the following names from which to select
Democratic SUPERIOR of Election, John
S. Rawlings, Richard J. Swami, B. d.
Stephens and John Butler. The Republi-
can Central Committee have named the
following gentlemen from which to select
the minority member of the Board, I. I.
Houston, James A. Blundon, John
Wheatley and Beall D. Mullikin.
Concerted action of the farmers re-
siding near Beltsyille, for the improve
ment of the Washington and Baltimore
turnpike, from the top of the Evansville
hill to Evansville, distance of about six
miles, will be taken. A large dele CATION
will visit this town at the next meeting
of the County Commissioners to urge an
appropriation of $1,000 for this purpose.
Several prominent citizens outside of the
movement.
A number of gentlemen representing
the agricultural and racing associations
of this State and Virginia met at the
Eutaw House last Thursday morning and
arranged fall circuit. 1t is known as
the Maryland and Virginia Agricultural
and Trotting Circuit. The racing is to
start August eth and to continue until
the end of October. DR.. r. S. Hill re-
presented the Association of Southern
Maryland. The following dates have
have been assigned to Upper Marlboro,
August 21st 22nd 23rd and 9th.
Mr. Henry W Watson, president,
and Charles B. Collier, secretary, of the
Washn gton and Potomac Railroad, both
of Philadelphia, were before the Com
mittee on Corporations of the House of
Delegates on last Thursday, asking for
an extension of time in which to complete
the road. They claimed that if given two
years they would have the road complet-
ed from Washington to Point Lookout.
1t is running now from Mechanicsville to
Brandywine. Mr.. Watson and Mr.. Col
lier represent capitalists who have re-
Gently purchased the securities of the
road Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania,
is, it is said, largely interested in the road.
Its completion, it is stated, would be a
great boon to ST. Mary's and other coun-
ties through which it would pass.