Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-06-15
COUNTY NEWS.
LOCalViSe and Otherwise.

ne OTpuauS anu commissioners
Courts were in session last Tuesday.
See proceedings elsewhere.
States Attorney B. Harris Cana.
lier sent the first telephone message
TO Baltimore from Leonardtown.
Miss Helen Joy, of Leonardtown
is at home from the Academy of the
Visitation, Georgetown, for the Sum
mer holidays.
Messrs. Daniel and Roger Combs
spent Sunday with their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert G. Combs,
Leonardtown.
Register of Wills J. p. GreenweII
has bought the home farm OF the
late Judge Lewis II. Leigh, located
in the Branch section.
We regret TO hear OF the sickness
of Aloysius +. Bowling. of Mechan-
icsville. Mr.. Bowling S many friends
wish him q speedy restoration to
health.
Joseph A. Hayden, of Green
Hills, near Leonardtown. has gone
to Nazareth, KY, to witness the grad
nation Of his daughter, Mise Rose A.
Hayden.
Messrs. c. ]. Clements and Solo
mon Abel, contractors, are building
a dwelling on one Of Capt. A. A.
Lawrence's lots. Lawrence avenue,
Leonardtown.
]. Richard Edwards, of "Lans-
dale" has bought of Mrs. Z. r.
Bell, OF Washington, the farm near
the Plank Bridge and adjoining the
farm OF Charles V. Hayden,
Misses Marie Corcoran. and Rose
A. Hayden, both OF this county, are
members of the graduating class OF
Nazareth Academy. Weare ;ndebt-
ed to them for an invitation to the
commencement.
John r. T. Reeves, of this county.
is one of the graduates of the Law
Department OF the University OF
Georgetown. Mr.. Reeves received
the degree Of Bachelor of Laws.
We wish him success in his chosen
profession.
Tuesday last, Derby A. Lynch,
Trustee, sold ut public auction the
home farm of the late ohm +. Combs,
known as Hickerson Hill. The prop
erty was sold subject to the widow s
dover. Mrs. Cora Combs was the
purchaser for $6l5.
Invitations have been issued Ia
the marriage Of Miss Mary Blanche,
daughter OF Mrs. Katherine NJ. Hay
den, to Mr.. James William Nelson.
The marriage will be celebrated at
Christ Church, Chaptico on Wednes-
day morning, June 18th, instant.
Because OF an accident TO her
machinery the Steamer Northumber-
land did not leave Washington until
Ga. NJ. Wednesday. 1t was a great
disappointment to many who had
planned to attend the commence.
ment at the st. Mary's Seminary.
Rev. Francis J. Lenehan, S. J., OF
LeOnardtown, who has been on re.
treat at st. Inigo's Manor, said Mass
and preached at St. Inigo's Church
on Sunday, June 18th, the Feast oil
the Penticost. He will return tC
LeonardtOwn before Trinity Sunday.
We return thanks to DR.. G. Wilson
Jones, for an invitation 10 the CON-
mencement OF the School OF Medicine,
Georgetown University. DIR. Jones
is native OF this county and is a
young man of talent and promise.
We wish him great success in his
profession.
Monday last, Eugene Carter, col
ored. was brought to Jail by Consta-
BILE W. b. LoHg in default of &c. 96
tine imposed by Justice r. ]. Cotton
for assault and battery on Thos. S.
Nelson, colored. Later Thomas
Thomas, colored. paid the fine and
Carter was released.
The closing exercises ut the St.
Mary's Academy, Leonardtown, will
take place, Friday, June Is, 1905, at
8, p. N. Doors will open at 100.
Tickets Of admission, 25 cents, will
be on sale at the stores of Messrs.
+. o. Morgan, Drury s. Saunders
and Tippett, Johnson & Foxwell.
There IS q building boom on in
Milestown district: Capt. Conrad
Faunce has had a handsome dwell
ing built on Colton's Point; Charles
Yates is having dwelling built on
land purchased of Mrs. Biscoe Ches,
eldine, and DIR. r. Pinkney Blakis-
tone is having his hotel enlarged
and improved.
Rachel Ruby, wife of Eusebius
Robrecht. died at the City Hospital,
Baltimore, on Thursday morning,
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