Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-02-23
LOCalWise and Otherwise.

Inc camera oOnateo Dy mayhem q
Bullock to their customers was won
by Mrs. Bernard Guy, OF Clements.
The net receipts of the dramatic
entertainment at the Town Hall,
Leonardtown, last Friday night, were
1881.
The bond of G. o. Adams as con-
stable for the Island district has
been filed in the Commissioners
Court.
Wednesday, Washington's birth
day, was legal holiday and the
Bank of st. Mary's was closed for
the day.
The rain Of Monday last almost
cleared the fields of snow. Travel
ing is, however, slushy, sleety and
slippery.
Don't forget the "Minstrels" at
the Town Ball, LeOnardtown, Friday
night, the oath. instant. Attend and
enjoy yourself.
The United States Supreme Court
has sustained the constitutionality
of the Massachusetts, compulsory
vacinatioa law.
The funeral OF Jay Cooke, the
noted fnancier took place Monday
last at Ogontz, Pa, where he has
lived for the past Al years.
A. G. WEIGH, of Chaptico, is spend
ing the week in Baltimore attending
a series of lectures and demonstra-
tons on sanitary science, anatomy
and embalming.
J. Seba stan Thompson is now
running the store at Stones Wharf.
Despite the ice blockade Sable" is
doing a good business and winning
new customers.
J. II. Parsons, Associate Judge Of
the St. Mary's County Orphans
Court, is confined to his room by
sickness. We wish him a speedy
restoration to health.
Mrs. Susie Loker and Miss Lucille
Camalier, Of Leonsrdtown, and Mrs.
George T. Hutchins, Of "Patuxent, :"
are on the sick list. We hope they
will soon Do convalescent.
Steamers being unable to come up
10 the wharves in the Patuxent and
Potomac, are said to have landed
freight on to carts and wagons that
came out on tho ice to them.
Judge W. S. Coppage was in
Leonardtown last Tuesday, but be-
cause of the sickness OF Judges Key
and Parsons there was no regular
meeting of the Orphans Court.
We have had no steamer since
January 9th, rltimo, and are anxi-
ously awaiting the arrival Of one.
Shipments from the city have now
TO be hauled from Mechanicsville, a
distance OF 10 miles.
Sunday last. while crossing from
Rose Bank to Newtown church,
Miss Genevieve Johnson broke
through the ice, but fortunately
caught up by her arms Her father,
John T. Johnson, rescued her.
F. o. Morgan, Of Leonardtown, is
confined to his house by an attack
Of grippe, in consequence of which
he was unable to take his part in
the drama given at the Town Hall
last Friday night. May he soon re-
gain his healthl
Sunday last, Fred. McWilliams
and Miss Claudia Grason, of Miles
town district, drove in q top buggy.
on the ice OF st. Clements bay, from
she woodlandiug on the George Her.
bert property to Stones Wharf, and
back over the same route.
Two Licenses to Marry were is
sued in Baltimore, February 10th,
instant, 10 residents of St. Mary s:
Frederick v. Dunbar and Margaret
n. Guthrie, and to Parran B. Ford
and Mary e. Fl. Wise. We wish the
youthful couples prosperity and
happiness.
Mrs. Polly Wilkinson, widow Of
che late John P. Wilkinson, died sud.
denly last Monday night aged about
so years. Mrs. Wilkinson was q
model Christian woman whose whole
life was spent in doing good. Many
friends and relatives mourn her loss.
May she rest in peacel
Mrs. L. 4. Ford. OF Callet:sburg,
KY, sister Of Messrs. Jno. B. and
W. Fl. Dawson, Of this district,
while returning from the postofice,
in that town, slipped on the ice and
falling sustained two fractures o.
her arm. Mrs. Ford Is the fashion
able milliner Of her section.
Hog cholera is still raging in sec
tons Of our county. The disease
would be abated and restricted I
the Law, requiring hogs dying Of il
20 be buried or burned before sun