Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-12-14
LOCalWiSe and Otherwise.


Judge Crane has appointed VIM
Meverell Loker, Examiner in Equity
vice VIM. d. Henry, removed from
the county.
VIM. Meverell Loker, Esq, o
Leonardtown, left Wednesday for Z
trip TO Baltimore and will not return
until Monday, the 18th instant.
Subsequent developments seem tc
prove conclusively that the small.
pox scare on the steamer Northum.
berland was mistaken diagnosis.
Lewis L. Welt, of Leonardtown
has been appointed by Capt. g. w.
Maddox to q position on the oyster
police schooner, Bessie Jones, .
Our congratulations.
Monday next, December 18th, in
slant, the Charlotte Hall cadets will
give a grand Minstrel Entertain
ment. Admission, % cents; reserv-
ed seats 10 cents extra.
Last week the Bessie Jones made
four arrests for violations OF the Pc.
tomac oyster law. Three fines were
imposed by Charles county ]. p.
and one by Virginia magistrate.
Ralph Morgan, of Montana, is Wis.
iting friends and relatives in St.
Mary's. He left the county thirty
six years ago and this is his first
visit TO his old home. Mr.. Morgan
is a son of the late James Morgan,
of st. Clements.
Monday, Hanson Countiss, color-
ed, in Jail for robbing Bohanan s
store, was brought before Judge
Crane on hdbeas corpus. The Judge
sustained The commitment of Justice
Roach, fixed bail at $3.50 and re-
handed the prisoner 70 Jail TO await
action OF Grand Jury.
Hicks predicted the storm of De-
cember 10th, instant, and said il
would continue until the 18th. He
further predicts general rain and
snow on and touching the 10Th and
18th, and says we are to have pro-
longed winter storms from the 18th
TO the 26th. This ought to be strenu-
Gus enough weather for anyone.
Judge Crane was in Lcona I'd town
Monday, aud decided that Inos. ].
Combs was, under the exemption
law, entitled to his distributive share
in the real estate of his father, Jon. +.
Combs as against N. NJ. Matthe VS.
judgment creditor, said share being
less than 500. X. G. Combs for
Combs, and w. NJ. Loker for Mat.
thews.
Now is the time to make your
Christmas purchases and the BEA.
con advertisers are the people to buy
of, for they invite you To come and
see them, and you know il is bad
form to 60 where you are not asked.
II you will call on our advertisers,
note the price and quality of their
goods and take into consideration
the expense OF dealing in the city
you will find you can save money by
buying here at home.
James Mason Saunders and Miss
Dora Alice Nash, both of Richmond
county, Va, were married by Rev
II. F. Miller last Tuesday evening
1t is reported that the happy couple
fed across the Potomac to escape
oojecting parents. They reached
LeOnardtown about 4 p. NJ. and al
once secured a license were married
After the ceremony they returned
10 Virginia, where we hope oil was
forgiven and that they will live hap
Ply ever afterwards.
The County Commissioners a
their last Tuesdays meeting elected
Walter B. Dorsey Esq, clerk, vic,
WIN. Meverell Loker Esq, the pre-
sent incumbent. Both young gen
tlemen are brsiny, competent mer
and possess all the Jeffersonian quail
fications for Office. We congratulate
the successful aspirant. aud car
truthfully say of the retiring clerl
that better qualified and more at
tentive official has never in our re
collection, filled the place.
Friday last, the school house a
Sandy Bottom, Patuxent district
caught fire from the stove pipe
The chimney was hanging one anC
the fire caught around the jar burn
ing the ceiling and two joists
When the ioists burned through tn,
chimney and parts of the joists anC
ceiling dropped on the stove com
pletely demolishingit. Mrs. Rober
Abel, who lives near, discovered
the FIRE, rang the bell and sen
for the neighbors, the first man Il
reach the scene being Mr.. GwinI
joy. The fire was speedily extin
guished. The loss is about $50.