Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-11-13
Saint Maru's Beacon
COUNTY NEWS.
Localwise and Otherwise.


Courts were in session Tuesday
See proceedings.
Mrs. A. Mills Heard and daugh.
ter, of Bloomsbury" are visit.
ing friends in Washington.
Misses Bessie and Maggie Red.
man, Of Valley Lee, paid our Office
an appreciated call last Tuesday,
Jos. F. Neal returned Wednesday
last from trip to Baltimore where
he went TO buy wood working ma
chinery.
The street committee is having
some good work done ON the streets
Of Leonardtown. w. +. Greenwell
is experimenting the work.
A new postofiice has been es.ab-
lished at Bushwood wharf with w.
w. Blackstone as postmaster. The
name OF the Office is Blackstone.
The brickwork done on the build
ing for the Bank Of st. Mary's by
James and Thomas McMichael is Al
and all who notice il compliment
their workmanship.
tits a violation of a town ordinance
TO tie horses to tree boxes within
the corporate limits. This ordinance
should be strictly enforced and the
young trees preserved.
On our fourth page we print re-
vised and corrected tabulatiOn Of the
vote of the Fifth Congressional Dis
trict. None of the vote, however.
is official, except that OF st. Mary's
county.
Beginning with Monday next, the
18th, instant, the regular weekly
meetings of the st. Mary's Reading
Room and Debating Society are to
be resumed. It is hoped that the
attendance will be large.
The Forty Hours Devotion In St.
Aloysius Church, LeOnardtOwn, was
well attended. The instructions by
Rev. ii. Semple, S. j., were eminent
ly practical, earnest and impressive.
and the number OF communicates
was large.
Hunter & Burroughs. contractors,
have nearly completed new store
building, 26x40 feet, for Thomas A.
Reederat Mechanicsville. The build
ing is situate on the road leading 10
Chaptico and opposite Quade's Res
taurant.
Albert Edward Stone, Of Clements,
is to be married at St. Aloysius'
church, Washington, d. c., Wed
hesday, the 18th, instant, to Miss
Margery K. Bealle, OF Charles coun-
ty. We wish the young couple
much happiness.
David S. BriscOe, attorney, will
sell i'm front of the store building OF
Ballenger & Dyson, Mechanicsville,
next Monday, November 18th, the
desirable farm known as Cart
wright's, located in the Trent Hall
section of Charlotte Hall district.
Our old friend and schoolmate, Z.
+. Shaw, formerly, of Charlotte
Hall, was Tuesday, the 4th, instant,
elected Probate Judge Of Morrison
County, Minnesota. receiving 2,O4l
votes to 1898 cast for Richardson,
his republican opponent. Our con-
gratulations.
Saturday last was Friday 8" day
on the Leonardtown race course,
and Vallandingham's mare won the
money, beating Mattingly's Garri'
son three straight heats. Mckay q
Garrison bested Waters Fredrica
winning End, Bird and 4th heats
Fredrica won first heat.
The will of the late William A
Loker, after taking out his wife's
thirds, divides his property equal
ly between his eight children: An
ME 4. Loker. Lucie p. Spalding
George p. Loker, Robt. G. LOker
Mary deWaal, Rosa Loker. William
Meverell Loker and Henry LOker.
Asa Needham, q member OF the
firm of A. Needham & Sons, dice
early Monday morning last at hi:
home in Baltimore. He was 81 year:
old. Mr.. Needham, for many years
was agent for the old Potomac Trans
portation Company, and was well
known to St. Mary's county people
Tuesday last, the Supervisors o
Election met aud audited the expen
ses of the late election but did no
complete their work until after TIT
adjournment of the Commissioner.
Court, and in consequence no scrip
will be issued in payment OF election
accounts until the Commissioner,
meet again, December 8, 1902.
The viii of the late John G. Gu,
gives the personal property on tn,
farm known as Bachelors Rest
TO his son James Thomas Guy; b
his dan0htar.iu.l aw Alioa Gan,