Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-04-14
LocalVise and Otherwise.

Courts were in session Tuesday.
Fabian Cough OF Washington, ha.
been visiting friends and relatives
in St. Mary's.
Captain Lawrence 10 painting his
hotel property. Leonardtown, and
intends renting IL.
William +. Greenwell has bought
the Clements property on Lawrence
Avenue, Leonardtown.
We invite attention to the adver.
tisement OF sale OF personal property
near Hermanville on Monday, April
Is, instant.
William G. Mattingly has secured
the services Of Washington black.
smitE and has opened a blacksmith
shop on his lot on Fenwick street.
Senator Greenwell aud the Sc.
Mary's Delegates secured liberal
appropriations for county institu-
tions. We give the iten,s in another
column.
Captain Ben Fox well, OF this Town,
left Wednesday for trip to the Ba-
hamas. Captain Ben will go with
his son, Captain Webster Foxwell
on the ship Venus.
The Spring improvement in Leon
ardtown have began with the erec-
ton OF new fence in front OF the
Ching lot. Messrs. Clements and
Abel did the work.
L. J. Sterling, cashier OF the
Bank of st. Mary's, left Monday last
for his vacation. His brother, Chas.
Sterling, of Gloucester, Va, has
taken his place in the bank.
The May Delineator is strictly up
TO date fashion magazine and daintily
pictures the new styles. Every lady
should haveit. Write the Butterick
Publishing Co., Z, 18th ST., New
York.
At Tuesdays meeting of the
COunsy Commissioners il was de-
termined TO defer the appointmentof
Road Supervisors until the Board
could familiarize itself with the new
road law.
III. B. deWaal and family have re-
moved from Mrs. Hammett's house
to the dwelling adjoining Loker's
Store and Il. NJ. Garner and family
have moved to G. ]. Clements house
on Lawrence Avenue.
Messrs. +. r. Reid, A. III. Snyder
and G. L. Cook OF the Bureau OF Soils,
nanapfmont Of Anp;o,Ifn.a Uoeh
ington, are at Hotel Lawrence, Leon
ardtowr. They are investigating
the soils OF st. Mary's county.
Last Tuesday Sheriff ]. w. Free
man bought at private sale the home
farm of Mrs. j. Frank Ford known
as Nuns Oak" and situate on Brit
tons Bay in Medley Neck for 81
IT'S. Mr.. Joseph T. Cough negoti-
ated the sale.
John Fl. Drury, of Calvert county,
is making tour OF the tobacco
growing counties to secure tobacco
from farmers to be exhibited at St.
Louis. Mr.. Drury will be in Me-
Gainesville and Leonardtown to-
day, Thursday.
Henry Wheeler, youngest son of
Captain John Wheeler, Of this dis
trict, is at home for a visit. 1t is
his first trip to st. Mary's for
twenty years. Mr.. Wheeler says
he notices great Improvements in the
county, particularly in Leonardtown.
Miss Minnie Rocker, OF Armstrong
Il Gators, Baltimore, has taken
charge of the Millinery Department
OF Trice Il Hayden's store, Valley
Lee. Miss Rocker is noted for her
excellent taste and for her skill in
creating hats that charmingly set off
pretty faces.
The Republican Congressional
primaries in St. Mary's county, are
TO be held on Saturday, April 23rd.
The County Convention will meet at
Leonardtown, Monday, April 18th !;
the Congressional Convention at
Hyattsville, May 3rd, proximo, and
the State Convention in Baltimore
on May IL, 1904.
Our Fifth District friends have
planted the poles for their telephone
line between Charlotte Hall and Me-
chanicsville. They are anxious for
Leonardtown to start up line TO
connect with them. Ii is up to our
progressive citizens to call the Me
EVANSVILLE Charlotte Hall combina-
ton OF to lay down.
The st. Mary's appointees in the
State Tobacco Warehouses are as
follows: w. Francis Dent, Note
Clerk; Thomas A. Reeder, Harry
Raley, James T. Blair, Clerks; j.
Benjamin Norris, Sample Tier; w.
A. Loker, Harry Tubman and Joseph
Ridgell, screwmen; Claude Abel
and Julian Parsons, solicitors.
Charles. Cleveland, and Rufus
Chesser and Edward Brown, all of
st. Georges Island, were before
Justice Geo. b. Dent last Friday
charged with scraping in st. Mary 3
River. The parties were adjudged
guilty and line OF $50 and costs inn
posed in each case. The arrests
were made on information of Captain
Cullison.
FIR. Fullerton friends will be
very glad toknow of this extract from
FIR. Pr6vincial's letter to FIR. O'Con-
nell, received Tuesday: ''Fr. Full
ierton had some attack in his arm
and went to Georgetown University
Hospital for treatment. Ifreport be
true, he will be able to return in 10
l. L.