Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-06-16
LOCalWise and Otherwise.
The Orphans and Commissioners

Inc OrpnanS ana commissioner
Courts and the Election Supervisors
were in session last Tuesday.
L. S. Herbert is adding a new
grocery and barroOm TO his Store at
Clements. FIJI. Guy is the builder.
We return thanks for a copy OF
the Report of the Maryland State
horticultural Society, Sixth Meet
ing.
J. Frank Key is visiting his father,
Judge Joseph III. Key at Tudor Hall.
His many LeonardtOwn friends are
pleased TO see him.
Mrs. +. T. ID. Darling and Miss
Mary Darling. of Washington, ID. c.,
are registered at Moore's Hotel,
Leonardtown.
There is to be q Festival for the
benefit OF st. Aloysius' Church,
Leonardtown on Wednesday, the
18th OF July, proximo.
G. j. Clements and Capt. James
Bullock, of Leonardtown, recently
caught with hook and line a 6ne lot
OF rock and perch.
Mrs. ]. Ethelbert Raley is visiting
her mother, Mrs. Susie LOker, Leon
ardtown. Mrs. Raley S many friends
L.-o .n Inl;nwLtnI sn ena hos
A high Mass Of Requiem will be
sung on next Saturday, June 18th,
at 9 o'clock, the anniversary of the
death of Rev. Chas. X. Jenkins, S. ].
w. +. Henry, of this town, was
one of the graduates at Charlotte
Hall on the 9Th, instant. His grad
uating Grafton appears in this issue.
Messrs. Kennedy, Aubrey and
BERTHE Abel, of Leonardtown, are
at home for the holidays. The
Messrs. Abel attend Georgetown
College.
The June Term of the st. Mary s
Circuit Court met Monday last, AS
sociate Judge J. Parran Crane on
the bench. There were no cases of
Importance before the Court.
.One night of last week, a mink
visited the hen house of Mrs. Mar
tin Combs, Valley Lee district, and
killed % young chickens weighing
from pound to II pounds each.
The Commencement Exercises of
st. Mary's Academy at Leonard
town, will be at A. NJ, June 20,
1904. The public invited. Child
rem under twelve years of age will
not admitted.
Mr.. George B. Norris and Miss
Lena Hammett, ofSt. Mary s County,
were married on Sunday in ST.
Mary's County. Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
ris will reside at Rock Point. Nary
land independent.
E1Information is wanted of James T..
BransOn, who enlisted in the Navy
in 1868, giving his residence as St.
Mary's county. IfBranson bedead,
the address is desired of his widow
or any of his heirs.
1t is reported on good authority
that James Wood, of Charlotte Hall
has received from his fiancee, who
recently died in Washington city, q
legacy amounting to from 50 900 to
$4,000. The bequest is in cash and
realty.
Russell Dawson, son of John B.
Dawson, of this district, won the
gold medal for Mathematics ut Char.
lotte Hall Academy. 1t is an honor
of which Mr.. Dawson may well fee
proud. He also won the medal In
Bird Form Grammar.
Joseph Morgan, son of 10. F. Nor
gan, Esq, of Leonardtown, carried
off the honors ofhis class, the Fourth
Academic. at Holy Cross College
Worcester, Mass. Master Joe re
ceived gold medal. He is expect
ed home Wednesday.
A squadron OF the u. S. Navy un
der command of Admiral Sands is a
Milestone Landing, Patuxent River
The ships of the squadron are: Bat
tleship Massachusetts, Cruiser
Texas Scholarships Hartford ane
Chesapeake; Monitors, Florida, Ne
vada and Arkansas Torpedo Boats
Worden, Hopkins, Hull, Truxtou
Stewart and Whipple.
The Insurance Precs, of June ], re
ports the following life INSURANCE
payments in st. Mary's for the yea
1893:
Charlotte Hall .................... 81. 20
Mechanicsviile .-.......... a.. 20
Park Hall ............ ............. 4. so
Total payments in the State were
1858, 300 of which amount "a, 1908,
2se was paid in Baltimore.
Mr.. James w. Thomas, of Cumber
land, has presented to the State