Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1907-05-16
LOCalWiSe and Otherwise.


Baltimore.
Miss Matte Martin. of Washing
ton. is visiting Miss Lucy NJ ilburn.
at MI Olive. near Valley Lee.
The Commissioners and Orphans
courts were in session Tuesday.
See proceedings in another column.
St. Mary's viii have good right
to feel proud Of its delegation to the
Maryland State Teachers Associa.
ton at Jamestown.
Walter Jarboe, of Leonardtown.
has purchased of Mrs. Eliza FL.
Bealmear, of Baltimore. the L. ].
Wise property at California.
]. W. Freeman has succeeded J.
J. Norris in the mercantile business
at Great Mills. Mr.. Norris con-
templates removing to anotherstand.
Rev. c. S. Lancaster. S. J. informs
US that he buried the remains of the
late II. G. Green well at Medley s
Neck and not at st. Aloysius as was
reported.
w. NJ. Loker, Esq, of Leonard
town, left last Wednesday for
short visit TO Washington and Bal
timore. He will return Monday
morning next.
Miss Lulu Russell. of Clements.
who has been visiting Miss Dilla
hay, of Compton, has returned home
and is accompanied by her friend.
Miss LOttie Dillahay.
Mrs. K. c. Combs and daughter,
Mss Ellen, of "Eldon," near Leon
ardtOwn, who have been on a visit
to friends in Washington and Balti-
more, have returned.
DIR. Chas. V. Hayden, Jr., will
attend the commencement OF his
alma mater, the Dental Department
Of the Baltimore Medical College
next week, and will not be in his
Office next Monday and Tuesday,
the 90 and Il instants.
Commissioner ]. T. Abell, last
Tuesday, notified road-supervisor
Stone, of Patuxent district, TO re-
pair the hole on the Macintosh hill
in the road leading from Leonard
town TO Hillville. This place has
been almost impossible.
There will be two games OF base
ball at Charlotte Hall on Saturday
next. A morning game between
the Academy nine and the Washing
ton Business College and an after
noon game between the McDonugh
Institute and the cadets.
A comparison of bricks made in
st. Mary and those shipped here
from Alexandria. Va, show she
local product to be superior in every
respect. Bricks from both places
are being used on the new hotel
building, Leonardtown.
DIR. James Duke died at his resi-
dcncu Ia Prince George county
last Thursday, aged about 33 years
DIR. Duke was "a native Of ST Mary :
aud was we'll known here. lie was
u iirst-class Dentist. He married
Miss Davis, who survives him.
In our report Of the meeting OF
the ST. Mary's Telephone company,
the name of Mr.. w. II. Gardiner, of
ChapticO, was inadvertently omit
ted from the list of directors elect.
The report was sent in by phone
and the omission was made in TAX
ing it down.
On our first page we print the ST.
lnigo's Items, received too late for
our last issue. On the same page
is printed q sketch from the New
York San, of the life and death of
Gen. McIver, who was in st. Mary's
in the Fall of 1897 and made several
speeches for the Democratic ticket.
We are in receipt of a letter from
Mr.. I. II. Gill, of Avalon, Va, in
forming US that he has been notified
by a merchant and shipper of st.
Mary's of his willingness to sub
scribe $500 to the stock of the pro-
posed new steamboat lime. Mr..
Gill is meeting with encouragement
all along the river and wishes time
and place designated to meet and
discuss the project.
Saturday last, the St. Mary's Lum-
Der Company was incorporated in
Baltimore. The officers are: Presi-
dent, Saul Levinson; treasurer
Derby A. Lynch; secretary and local
manager, DIR. A. Fl. Trainer. The
purpose Of the company is to buy
st. Mary's timber and TO manufac-
tuer il for the local market and for
shipping. The company is compos-
ed of active business men. 1t has
now two mills running and has Sc
cured Eve tracts of timber. In the