Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1908-06-04
LOCalWiSe and Otherwise,

There was oratory on tap at Mon.
day S Democratic convention.
Miss Katie Maddox, of Wasbino.
TOMS visiting her aunt. Mrs Carrie
Spalding, P4tuxent.
Miss Di. Harris is visiting her
niece, Mrs. Joseph II. Kay, at "Tu
dor Hall" Leonardtown.
We invite especial attention IN
the General Insurance Law pub.
lished in this issue. Read il.
On Thursday last the Leonard
town baseball team defeated the
Holly wood nine oy a score OF IL 10 3.
Resolutions Of the Charles county
Bar, are published on our first page.
The resolutions highly com pllmeu,
Judge Cranes services on the bench.
Mr.. Nee Davidson, OF Hanover
who is superintending the work on
the county Jail. is, We regret 10 learn.
quite sick al his room in Hotel ST.
Mary's. We wish him a speed "
restoration TO health.
On the face of the proceedings.
seven ninthS of the convention
were one way, and two nintbs
another. PAradoxical though it ma y
seem, however, there was quite a
contingent neither way.
The Democratic Convention In
LeonardtowR last Monday, was q
tine body OF representative men and
the Hall was comfortably filed with
delegates and interested onlookers.
there being about 200 in the Hall.
Next Monday. Associate Judge
Crane will hear petition tosuppress
the license of Israel Millison. of
California, charged with violating
the Liquor License law by selling
intoxicating liquors on Sunday.
Tho colntnoncements ofSt. Mary's
schools will soon be on. Toe Semi.
nary will commence on Wednesday,
The lOGh; ST. Mary's Academy,
Lccnardtown, on Wednesday, the
-. =, ....d CIAr Hail, Thursday,
the 18Th.
Monday last, while on his way
from LrOnaTdtown to his home, A.
&. Sanner's team ran away and Mr..
and Mrs. A. q. Sanner and Mrs. c..
w. Sanner were thrown from the
carriage and painfully bruised. The
carriage was demolished.
Work has been begun on the
county Jail, putting the building in
good sanitary condition. The David.
sou Construction Company. OF Hano-
yer, Pa, has the contract, and Mr..
Riser, who is we'll known 70 many
here, has charge OF the job.
We invite attention TO the state
ment OF the National Bank of St.
Mary's published in this issue.
This statement shows just how the
bank stands, and an expert Govern
ment Bank Examiner has just given
the bank rigid examination. You
can bank on the Bank OF ST. Mary's
being all right.
William Yeatman, one OF the old.
est men in the county and for near
ly fifty years keeper Of Point Look
out Lighthouse, died recently At
his residence at Point Lookout.
Mr.. Yeatman was q good man and a
good citizen and many friends re-
greet his death. He was nearly
ninety years old.
Misses Flora r. Ford and Jennie
Russell, Of Baltimore, are visiting
the family Of w. b. Floyd, Medley s
Neck, and will later visit Miss
Ford $ grandfather. W. Frank For d,
near Milestone. Miss Russell Is q
niece of Rev. DIR. VIM. T. Russell,
pastor OF St. Patrick s church, Wash
iugton, formerly of the Cathedral.
Baltimore.
A Washington correspondent of
the San reports, June l, that T. Z.
Russell was murderously assaulted
by two negroes and is dying at the
Emergency Hospital With fractur-
ed skull. The police claim that
Russell and a negro named johnson
got into quarrel. and another ne
gro named Veney sneaksd up be-
hind Russell and struck him on the
head with a heavy dirt shovel. Rus