Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-02-14
saint Maru's Beacon
COUNTY NEWS.
LocaIwise and Otherwise.

lut oIuer ulscOntln ulng POINT LOOK
out postotfiee has been rescinded
Read the new advertisement of Frank
Libby & Company printed on cur first
page.
The Orphans Court was in session
Tuesday last. See proceedings in anoth
er column.
Joseph KrachlIag and son, of Wash
ington, are visiting Mrs N. W. Davis,
Brtton's Neck.
Monday next, is the date set for the
Duck Supper at Moore's Hotel. Attend
and enjoy yourself
The ten weeks free course in agricul-
fure is now in progress at the Maryland
Agricultural College.
Mrs John A Dent and Miss Grace
Dent, lately of Fishing Point, are visit
ing relatives in England.
Next Wednesday will be Ash, Wednes-
dzG and the beginning of Lent Easter
Rday, this year, falls on April 9TH.
A have received communication
aG-aa Jobituary which we have been
,ebligedlto postpone for future issue.
The public roads in the upper part of
Cecil county are so badly blocked with
snow that travellers have to go into the
fields.
The design of Baldwin & Pennington,
Baltimore architects, was adopted for
the Court of Appeals Building at An
napolis
b Harris Camalier, of the Leonard
nown bar, attended the banquet at Ho
tel Rennert Baltimore, on John Mar
ohall Day.
Saturday, February 2, instant, Mrs B
j White, of Washington, froze to death
in a snowdrift near Bethesda, Montgom
cry county,
We print in this issue an interesting
letter from w. II Cox, son Of James T
Cox Of Park Hall, descriptive Of the
fighting in China Read l..
Brother Posey, of the Ia1epeadeat, says
be appreciates the invitation to the duck
supper, but that "he doesn't eat duck "
We hope he don't banker after crow
Editor Goldsborough in his issue of
February 8, invites Mrs Nation to come
to Cambridge aud try he. hand on some
Of the "cider joints of his thriving city
The heavy Northwest blow of Tuesday
night and Wednesday morning caused
the lowest tide OF the year and It is
thought that many seeded oysters were
frozen
While Fish Commissioner Dowuey is
distributing rainbow and speckled trout
IN Frederick county streams, he ought
to be asked TO send some of his fish down
y St Mary's.
3ohn o. Latham. who has taken
- Strayer's Business College
has secured a position in Bel
son Of J. W. Latham, of
LIONS 30 be an epidemic Of
ovr the county. Even in
oldrnia, the disease is rife, as
"A ia a letter from friend in
rusno'
To ~ 9 st. Valentine day, We
hope all o1r patrons will receive a nice
one, and that nobody's feelings will be
hurt by perversion of an innocent and
pretty old custom
Thu far shere has been no ice housed
around Leonardtown, and there seems
little prospect of getting any. In the
Hollywood section we are told that some
good ice has been cut
Nathaniel Bell, aged about 20 years,
died at bis residence near Mil creek.
Patuyent di trict February llth, instant
lie Was a kind hearted, hard working
man and good farmer.
Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court
Robert Abel, is confined to his room by
an attack of grippe + A Jordans, sales
man for the Home Comfort Range, has
also been housed by the disease.
The steamer Potomac could not make
LeonardIown wharf Wednesday of last
week on account of low tide and the
chances are that she cannot make it this
Wednesday for the same reason
The Farmers Institute ia to meet at
River Springs February 1928 On the
posters Oakley" is printed as the place
Of meeting but, we are informed that
tIle meeting will be held at River Springs.
A railroad corporation COMPRISED the
defeat of VIM f Chandler, of New
- ampshIe Cor Z $ Senate, me fact
aad'a wonderful effect in opening
Senator Bills eyes to the danger of cor
porations.
In the city papers it is reported that
B F Smith has been indicted for brib.
ing Newport News officials in connec-
tion with the award of contract for
building Jail We hope that he will
be able to dlsprove the charges.
Rev Father Fleming, s j., pastor of
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