Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-04-09
FRIDAY. April 8. 1909.
LOCAL AND personal
Local BrevIues.


Lent almost over. Are you hungry ?
Vegetation is rapidly taking on new
life.
Your old friend, the mosquito, will soon
be with you.
Palm Sunday was wen observed in the
churches.
The little folks are busy with the
Easter egg.
Looking for a place to board Try
the New Wills.
Mrs. W. H. wenk has been indisp osed
during the week.
The public schools are closed until
Tuesday morning next.
Miss Frances Button leads as the re-
cipient Of Easter cards.
Now for Easter bonnets and costumes.
Fathers purse is getting fat.
The Railroad Company is repairing
the car switch at Pope's Greek.
Mr.. W. NJ. Digges returned on Sat
urday from few days sojourn in Balti-
more City.
Mrs. Henrietta Martin is a guest of
her daughter, Mrs. Conrad Possy, at
Hotel La Plata.
Hotel La Plata has amusements to
help entertain its guests. A good place
IN call vvhan In foxvp
The removal of the old shack adds
much to the beauty of the western sec
tion of our town.
Mr.. Sullivan, of Cambridge, is new
addition to the clerical force Of Messrs.
2. NJ. Fowler & Co.
The regular monthly meeting of the
National Bank directors was held on
Monday last at the Bank.
Mr.. Thomas J.. Farr is the first in the
field as candidate for the Republican
nomination for Sheriff.
The merry laughter of the school "un"
at home for the Easter holidays is heard
in every happy home.
The School Commissioners held reg
ular meeting on Tuesday and passed on
teachers reports for the past quarter.
Mr.. Vernon Padgett has rented a
house in our town and will soon add his
family's presence to our citizenship.
Rev. c. NJ. Sarver the newly appointed
pastor of the Methodist Churches in the
Comfy, has rriyed to take up his work.
The large engine and saw mill of Mr..
Malcolm Berry was sold on Tuesday and
purchased by the Geiser Manufacturing
Company.
Mr.. Harry Stonestreet had pair of
fine wild ducks in his possession on
Wednesday. Another job for the Game
Warden.
The primrose path often leads to Jail.
So ". F. Downs, the Baltimore City
Registers Office thief is, doubtless, con-
WINGED.
Our fat and jolly friend, Edgar Boarman,
Bryautown, was among our city visitors
on Tuesday. He always wears regular
Taft smile.
A corn house on the farm of Mr..
W. II. Moore, of Baltimore City, was
destroyed by fire during the high wind
of Wednesday night.
The boys say that Messrs. James NJ.
Bowling & Co., HughesviIle, have some
hing in their millinery department far
.ore attractive than pretty hats.
The white public school teachers held
their regular Institute meeting at Nc
Donough school yesterday. Roud table
talk was the order of the meeting.
Mr.. j. Neale Hamilton returned on
Monday from a visit to Kent County.
Mr.. Hamilton speaks in glowing terms
of the Eastern Shore mode of farming.
All the usual features of a great Sun
day newspaper and some distinctively
its own are combined in the Washington
Sunday Star. At your newsdealer's. .
Miss C. S. Monroe, of Howard & Berry,
Waldorf, has returned from Baltimore
with full line of spring millinery-pat
tern hats, flowers etc., and will be pleas.
ed to see her many friends.
See adj. Of entertainment to be given
at Indian Head on April22, for the bene
fit of the Catholic Church at that place
1t will, no doubt, be as enjoyable as the
other affairs held there for the same pur
pose.
The entertainment to be held in the
Town Hall on Monday for the benefit Of
Sacred Heart Church promises to be ar
unusually entertaining affair. Don't
miss it. The program appears in anoth-
err column.
The annual dinner of the Alumni Asso
citation OF Charlotte Hall School will
take place at the Beividere Hotel, in Bal
timore City, at 7.30 O'Clock, May stt
next. The presence of all graduates i,
requested.
Among the young ladies' notable in tn,
Palm Sunday evening parade on Charlie.
Street, Baltimore City, were Misses
Mayo and Lucille Turner, daughters Of
the Clerk, Mr.. J. $. Turner, formerly
Of this County.
We are indebted to Mr.. Harry Stone
street for pair Notwithstanding
We are afraid TO say what, as the MADAM
had them in possession to cook, and sh'
might DO arrested BY 4 brave and daapt
less game warden