Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-04-04

1899.
April started in with blow down.
We hope Spring will soon begin in
earnest.
Because Of absence from home We
could not make . full q report of Court
news as usual.
The catch OF herring is well under
way and It lie believed that the fish are
as usual plentiful.
For want Of space we have been com.
PEELED to omit several mortuary tributes
from this weeks issue.
Miss Nettie Mattingly, daughter Of J.
Thomas Mattingly, of Clements, is visit.
ing Mrs. w. G. MattinglY, Leonardtown.
Frank Camalier, Of the. University OF
Georgetown, and Henry Loker, Of the
NJ. A. g., are at home for the Easter
holidays.
Because of q lack OF hands we were
unable to get into type last week our
usual local notes. We hope to do better
In future.
We hope the telephone project IL still
on the highway to success. Don't let
the project fail gentlemen. but push IL
through.
Lead the new schedule of the Weems'
Line, Potomac River Route, and time
your trips to Washington and Baltimore
accordingly.
Miss Nellie Fenwick. formerly Of this
town, is sick at her home, the Hotel VI,
Washington. We hope she will soon
be well again.
Wednesday last, Sheriff Bailey took
to the different penal institutions the
three prisoners sentenced at the recent
Term Of Court.
]. Willie Johnson is the agent of the
Adams Express Company at Leonard.
town, and will attend to anything in
that line for you.
Harry Peacock Is installed in q new
barber shop on Fenwick street. The
shop Is located in front of the residence
Oh LII. InOmas Lyncn.
We are in receipt of letter from Los
Angeles, California, that reached US too
late for insertion in this weeks BEACON.
1t will appear next week.
William V. Waters has begun the
hauling for the B. F. Smith Steel Con-
struction Company and we presume that
work will soon begin on the Court
House.
On and after July LIST, proximo. the
stamps on checks and other documents
will no longer be required. Stamps on
hands of citizens will be redeemed by
the government
We are indebted to Hon. Thomas A
Smith, Chief of the Bureau of Industrial
statistics of Maryland for copy of the
Ninth Annual Report. The book 10 in.
teresting and valuable.
The expenses of the Condiff trial as
rendered to Calvert county by the Clerk
TO the Criminal Court of Baltimore City,
foot up $GO575. This includes $3.50 SO
for the Court stenographer.
The Jubilee will begin in st. Aloysius
Church, Leonardtown, next Sunday
week. We are informed that it is to be
made by the congregation in body
Full instructions will be given.
Those ladies who want to give dainty
Easter luncheon will find help in the
April Delineator. The illustrated cook
cry article for the month 10 devoted to
this one subject, and Is exceedingly
pretty.
Messrs. Thomas Simms Hayden and
Mitchell Hayden, of Washington, were
in Leonardtown Monday and Tuesday
last. They are brothers OFF d. Hayden,
Esqr., Of Piney Point. We were much
pleased to see them.
The Philadelphia Ledger. one of the
most influential Republican Journals In
the Union, says of the new Maryland
Election Law: sit is a good law. no
matter which political party may be
helped or harmed by It."
Next Sunday will be Easter Sunday
and the end Of Lent. On Good Friday
evening at o'clock, the Passion Ser
mon will be preached in Sc. Aloysius'
Church, LeonardtOwn by Rev. Father
Dawson, 8. j., of Woodstock.
In a recent decision Judge Reifsnider,
in the Anne Arundel Circuit Court held
that patent tongs are form Of dredge
and that their use il prohibited after the
expiration of the dredging season. The
case grew Gus of arrests made by Deputy
Commander Martin and is Of great in
terest TO May of our oystermen.
We wish to remind taxpayers that
under the Treasurer Law taxes must be
paid on or before June LIST, otherwise
the Treasurer will advertise delinquents.
Bear this fact in mind and save trouble
and expense. No 80 days notice is now
required to enforce collection of taxes.
The Adams Express Company have
opened agencies at each wharf on the
Patuxent River Route and have appoint.
ed Reyburn Bradshaw their agent. The
different wharfngers will be made sub
agents. We congratulate Mr. Bradshaw
upon his success in securing this accom-
mediation for our people. Il viii prove
q great advantage.