Saint Mary's beacon., 1908-03-05
LOcalViSe and Otherwise,

1VVUl nAov Uuu VtuVl y lG1s
Wednesday was the beginning OF
Lent and for forty days amuss.
ments Of all kinds are tabu.
Mrs. Nettie 4 Greenwell, OF Leon.
srdtovn. has moved into her new
dwelling lasely purchased OF Mp. Z.
B. Abell.
The Virginia Legislature has pass.
cd the Potomac river Oyster Law
agreed upon by the Maryland and
Virginia committee.
According to the Almanac, Spring
begins 1925. p. N, March 10th, In.
stant. According to the ground. bog
IL will begin Sunday, March Is, al
any old lipe.
March Court will convene next
Monday week. the 18th, instant.
We hope by that date the roads will
have settled and travelling over them
be improved.
The hill on the Leonard town. Mack.
intosh road, just beyond the run. Ia
almost impossible. Il ought to be
fixed at once so as to make travelling
over it ssfe.
A committee of citizens OF Sc.
Mary's visited Annapolis, this week.
In the interest Of good roads Law
and in advocacy of law 10 restrict
the Liquor trafhc.
The many Sd. Mary's friends OF
Mr.. Rhodes Shepard will be pleased
to learn that his health is very much
improved and that he is rapidly re
gaining bis strength.
Cards are out announcing the mar.
riage OF Miss Amelia Agnes Adams,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John s.
Adams, TO Mr.. Harry H. Rhodes.
We wish the young couple happiness
and prosperity.
The attendance at the Duck Sup
per at Hotel st. Msry's was one of
the largest ever assembled in Leon.
srdtown at such q function. The
supper was an excellent one was
thoroughly enjoyed.
"A Primer or Wood Preser vation. >
telling how certain preservatives
and processes will retard the decay
OF fence posts. piling and other Tim.
Der may be had free upon spplica-
tion 70 the Forester, Forest Service,
Washington, d. @.
Gen. Z Allison Wilmer, of Charles
BEEN appointed q
special assistant TO Attorney Gener.
al Charles J. Bonapartein Washing.
ton. 10 have charge Of cases under
the commodities clause OF the Hep
burn law. Our congratulations.
Il. Lee Manning, the new State
Tobacco Inspector. has announced
the appointmentofJ. Samuel Turner.
former clerk of the Charles county
Circuit Court, as his chief clerk.
The Sun states that the deputies and
other clerks under the Inspector
will bs announced this week.
We are indebted to Mr.. John Gus.
sons, Of Glen Allen, Va. for Q copy
OF his interesting sketch. TACK
Sterry. the Jessie Scout" an Incl.
dent OF Second Manassas. on which
turned the course of the campaign
and the fate Of the Southern army.
Mr.. Cussons was q Confederate
Scout, and an eye witness of the
stirring scenes he describes.
Friday Of last week. Ricard's mill
In the st. Jerome's section of So.
lniRo's district, blew up and two
colored men who were working
around 10 were killed. Another
colorsd man was knock ked under q
pile Of slabs but was not seriously
injured. Englebert Beale, who had
visited the mill on business, left q
few minutes before the accident.
Chief Of Police Shippy. OF Chicago,
last Monday, killed sn anarchist who
had stabbed him and shot his son
and driver. The would-be assassin
was identified as Lazarus Ausrbach.
Russian Jew, born in Kishinev.
The Chicago police claim tha. this
crime is linked with the recent bur.
tal murder Of Father Leo Heinrichs
st Denver, and is the direct outcome
Of the anarchist propaganda having
headquarters iu their city.
Senator Green well has introduced
bill to repeal Section 4. Article II,
OF the Code Of Public General Laws
requiring one half OF the fines and
recogniZances. forfeited TO be paid TO
Court Clerks for the augmentation
Of Law Libraries. The principle Of
Senator Green wells bill is certainly
correct, for there Is no justice in