Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-07-16
Saint Maru's Beacon
COUNTY NEWS.
LOCalWiSe and Otherwise,

j Cornelius Alvey, OF Baltimore,
is visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
]. ]. Alvey, MOrganEa.
Miss Mabel Ford, Of Baltimore. is
visiting the family OF +. Oscar Mar
gan, Leonardtown.
Miss Edna Edelen, of Baltimore
is visiting the family of George T.
Hutchins. Patuxent district.
Caroline Emeline, infant daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Z. Holtz, OF
Medley's Neck, died July 18th, in
slant.
On the 22nd, instant, the Sanitary
Committee will make a tour of Leon
ardtOwn. Citizens should have their
premises in proper condition.
Mrs. Annie ID. Riggles and dauuh-
ter Miss Amy Riggles of Washing
ton. are visiting Mrs. Gladys Dill
low, LeOnardtown.
County Commissioner John GRAY
Lilburn had one of his best draft
horses killed by lightning during
Saturday S storm.
In washout on the road between
Great Mills and White Plains"
Messrs. Ed. Tennison and Clarence
Taylor discovered the trunk of q
very large petrified oak tree.
Rev Father O'Connell, S. j., is
having the cellar underSt. Aloysius'
church, Leonardtown, deepened so
as TO permit a furnace being put in
TO heat the church.
Henry Carberry, colored, of this
district, is quite sick He is about
~ years Of age and at one time was
the most prominent colored Repub-
lican leader in st. Mary's.
Walter Jarboe, of California, has
moved TO Leonardtown, and opened
"a barber shop at "Moore's Hotel.
Walter is q good boy and we have
no doubt but that he will succeed.
The Orphans and the Commission
crs courts aud the Election Supervi-
sors were in session last Thursday
and in consequence there was quite
a crowd in town.
Joseph Cole, colored, an aged out
pensioner of st. Mary S county, who
had been paralyzed and could barely
drag himself along, died Monday
morning last.
Miss Mary A. French, of Balti-
more, and Miss Helen NJ. Admas,
of Drayden, are visiting their cou-
sins, Misses Bessie and Maggie
Redman OF BENEFITS Delight,
near Valley Lee.
Miss Eleanor Garner, of Marlboro,
who is spending the Summer at her
home in ChapticO, was in Leonard
town for "a brief visit last week. She
was accompanied by her sister, Miss
Mary Garner.
j. A. Dent, formerly Of this coun-
ty, who has been taking a medical
course in Baltimore for the past
three years, is spending q few days
with his sister, Mrs. j. Il. Herbert.
Clements.
The Clay Hill road has been
thrown up and graded, but unless
it is gravelled its condition next
Winter will be worse than it was
last Ii gravelled now it ought to
make good road.
Mersrs. 7. X. Harrison and Will
liam +. Chesley, jr., popular young
gentlemen OF Charlotte Hall, are NJ
Beaumont (Texas) oil fields, where
they have secured positions.
Bernard NJ. Guy has brought OF
Zachariah Johnson the Locust Run
MIL site and expects soon TO begin
the building of an improved roller
mill thereon. a few months ago,
Johnson s. Mill was burned.
George Rodgers principal of the
graded school on st. Georges Island
this county, has been appointed q
substitute clerk in the Baltimore
postofiice. Mr.. Rogers stood No.
in the Civil Service examination.
The store building of M. L. Mil
lison? Leonardtown, is fast near
ing completion. When finished it
will be one of the neatest and most
convenient stores in the town. Jo-
seph Ii. Milburn is the contractor.
Charlotte Hall Happenings.