Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1907-05-23
LOCalWiSe and Otherwise,

team by score of 10 tO3
Mrs. John p. Towsou. OF Balti-
more. is visiting her daughter. Mrs
Clarke Abel. Leonardtowu.
C. Gwinn Burroughs. of Mechau-
icsville, has been appointed by Gov.
Warfeld Notary Public.
Thursday. May 80. will be Memo
rial Day aud a legal holiday. The
bank viii be closed on that day.
Tuesday last the Leonardtown
Minstrel Troupe left for La Plata TO
play in the Hall ip that Town.
The Charlotte Hall second team
were beaten at La Plata by the Nc
D)nough nine by a score OF 26 to o.
Mr. and Mrs. Dent Freeman are
visiting Mrs. Freeman's brother,
Mr.. Jos. A. Smoot. near Charlotte
Hall
The basement walls OF the front
building of the new Hotel St. Mary's
are up and soon the main building
will DO under way.
Last Monday. Mrs. II. F. Abel,
accompanied by her brother. Mr.. F..
Il Crane, paid the Beacon Office a
much appreciated visit.
The continued cold weather is
very disheartening to our farmers,
but we hope that good growing
weather will soon be the rule, not
the exception.
Hon. ]. Fred. G. Talbot, OF Bal
timOre county, and Hon. Joshua
Miles, Of Somerset county, have
announced their candidacy for the
United States Senate.
There will be a baseball game at
Charlotte Hall. on Monday next be-
tween the Academy and Mechanics.
vile teams for the benefit OF the
Mechanicsville Church.
Nettie Counts, colored, has been
committed to Jail for the action OF
the Grand Jury on a charge OF petit
larceny. Justice Birch, of st. mi
COS was the committing magistrate.
The article on our fourth page en-
ti.led Food and Feeding" is taken
from the Horse Rerieto and credit
should have been given thereto,
but was inadvertently Omitted. Read
the piece.
There will be a meeting of the st.
Mary's Race Association Saturday
next at 4, p. NJ, at r. G. Combs
law office, LeonardtowB. Business
OF Importance will be before the
Association.
In his address at the recent con
vention Of the Catholic Benevolent
Legion. Cardinal Gibbons compli-
mented Gov. Warfield and gave the
Governors Vice Presidential boom
4 decided Endorsement
We commend 10 the attention of
oar farmers the article on our first
page eatstird Why You Should
Raise Mules. 1t is from u circular
soon to be issued by MesSrs. Bell s.
Dawson, PeArSons, Md.
There will be u dramatic entertain
ment, The Fruit of His Folly" at
Mechanicsville. MAY 30, for the
benefit of the Catholic church in
that town. Doors will open at Z, p.
NJ, and curtain rise at g. a dance
will follow.
TheOrphans' Court met in special
session last Tuesday-all the Judges
present. Jas. w. Dent was appoint
ed administrator of Geo. B. Dent,
deceased. Messrs. C. o. Adams
and Walter ii. Hebb were appointed
to appraise the deceased 5 personal
estate.
The Chapel Dramatic Club will
repeat by request their last play:
Donation Party at the Parsonage, at
Holy Angels Hall on Thursday
evening May 80. An opportunity
will then be given the little folks to
enjoy this play that has made the
hit of the season.
The schooner Kate, of Baltimore,
Capt. r. q. Wilson, from Baltimore
to Leonardtown with a cargo of
building material and fixtures for
Hotel st. Mary's arrived in harbor,
Tuesday at 4, P NJ. After discharg-
ing her cargo. she will load with
lumber for Washington.
The Great Mills-Valley Lee ex-
tension of the Southern Maryland
Telephone system is making rapid
strides to connect with the Leonard
town end of the line. When this
extension is completed there will be
connection with every district in
the county except the Island.
Last Friday the barn on Oakland,
Valley Lee district, caught fire and
was burned with its contents. 1t
is thouyht the fra ORIGINATED from