Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1911-02-16
LOCalWiSe and Otherwise,


J. Camilus Howard, OF Leonard
town, is the guest Of Commissioners
Samuel Hayden. of Chapt'c1.
Don't overlook the auction sales
advertised in the BEACON. Attend
them and get soma OF the bargains
they offer.
The many friends of Prof. J..
Felix Fenwick. of Charlotte Hall.
were delighted to see him In Leon.
ardtown last Monday.
A musical and mechanical genius
OF Leonardtovn has fashioned from
a tin pan and sunday ether things
q perfectly good banjo.
The County Commissioners sit
ting as Board Of Control and Re-
view have nearly completed the re-
vision of the assessment.
Miss Agnes Adams, OF WsshinR-
ton, d. G, is visiting at the home
Of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Syl-
vester Adams, Mechanicsville.
The Matthews. Howard Company
is taking time by the fore-lock and
and preparing a foe display of
goods in their line for March
Court.
We are pleased to note the recov-
cry OF Judge Jos Fl. Key, Messrs.
Jos. +. Neale, B. +. Knight and
other residents Of the Town, who
have been victims of la grippe.
Mrs. Fannie Herbert, wife Of
Frank Herbert, died OF apoplexy at
her home in Washington last Fri
day. Mr.. Herbert is brother Of
the late John G. Herbert and OF Mrs.
Mary Jane Moore.
John F. Arms worthy, of Great
Mills, has been appointed Forest
Warden. Mr. Armsworthy is one
of our best citizens and 10 a good
man for that position or any other
position he would accept.
A collie. answering to the name
OF Teddy" left his home in Leon
ardtown about two weeks ago. It
is thought the dog followed some
vehicle Information leading to his
recovery will be rewarded by Mas
ter Ned Sterling, Leonardtown.
Nearly all the tickets for the
washington Birthday Banquet"
have been disposed Of and the ban,
quet will be held At Hotel St. Mary's
on the night of February % A
Baltimore caterer will have. charge
of the spread aud big night" is
anticipated.
District Deputy John Lac Muel.
Ter. assisted by Messrs. John G.
Nagengast and John FL Fisher.
came to Leonardtown last Sunday
aud installed the officers Of St.
Mary's Council of the Knights OF
Columbus. There was a good at
tendance at the meeting.
From the Towson Union we learn
that w. Bernard Duke, formerly
OF Leonsrdtown. hes been elected q
member OF the Board Of Managers Of
Baltimore county Agricultural So
ciety 10 succeed Frederick Won
Kapff. Mr.. Duke will make an en-
ergetic and useful member OF the
Board.
Up to January I, 1911, there have
been eleven cases of pallagar in
Marvlsnd-10 white and one color
ed. or these causes, rine died, and
two improved. Two cases. treated
at Johns Hopkins in the Spring and
Summer OF 1910. we're imported ones
and are not included in the Mary
land statistics.
Ten Hill" is the fashionable and
growing suburb OF Baltimore on
Edmondson Ave, extended. From
the Evening Sun, of last Monday,
we learn that q handsome, modern
$40, 900 cottage is TO be erected there
at once for J. E. NJ. Rsley, formerly
Of Leouardtown. Glidden & Friz
are the architects and the building
is to be two and q half stories high,
OF ornamental frame and stucco; the
the roofing will os slate. and the
foundation corcrete. Broad veran-
das are to be built on thrt g sides.
During a recent visit to Colonial
Beach, Va, Capt. G. VIM. Maddox
was told by Lawyer Mason. # that
Town. that one Of the men arrested
for the murder of Capt. Dorsey, OF
the skipjack Irene Ruth, had made
a confession, The man stated that
he struck Captain Dorsey with an
iron bar and broke his neck; that he
also struck Mate Adams and thought
he had killed him; he knocked down
the negro cook and then made one OF
the crew help to throw him over
board and "chuck him away" from
the rudder-rope which he grasped.
The man declared that the 17-year
old bow Who was a mamhar of fha