Saint Mary's beacon., 1911-07-06
LOCalViSe and Otherwise,

Miss Nora Duke. OF Baltimore in
visiting her relatives in Lconard
town.
Mrs. T. B. Buckler, OF Washing
ton. is visiting her parents in Leon
or1town.
Miss Lillian Mitchell, OF Sails.
bury, Md. is visiting Miss Ethel
Joy. Leonsrdtown.
Willie Clements, OF Washing ton,
is spending his vacation with his
parents in Leonardtown.
Frank Duke, OF LeonardtOwn, left
for Baltimore. last Tuesday TO take
a position in the National Bank of
Baltimore.
T. Frank Yates. formerly fihe
Bacon is on a visit To the old coun-
". Everybody here is delighted
10 see him again,
Mess's George p. Cough aud
Edward l. Sanders spent Sunday
last in Chap,ico. St Mary's Coun-
ty. independent.
Don't forget 10 attend the dance
at Hotel st Mary's. tonight Thurs
day, June 6. for benefit of the Leon.
ardtown Baseball Club.
As q result OF too much Fourth OF
July enthusiasm Six patriots land, d
10 Jail Tuesday night last-fve col.
ured aud one white.
The Lawn Festival fJr the bane-
tit OF ST. Alloy sius Church, Leon
ardtown. will 10 held on Tuesday,
August 8ih. prOximI.
Mary, infant daughter OF Jackson
B. and Eliza Abel, OF Leonsrdtown.
died at her parents residence SUI
day morning of last week.
There will be q meeting OF the ST.
Mary's Race Association at Hotel
St. Mary's. Leonardtown, on Satur-
day next. the 8th, instant.
The McKendree NJ. <. Sunday
School will hold it's annual Picnic
on Wednesday afternoon. July 18th,
on the church grounds near Sand
gates.
The Court Of Appe us has declar-
ed the tax Of two cents q bushel on
oysters in tha shell. imposed under
the Act of 1910, Chap. 735, 10 be un.
constitutional.
The TOwsOn Union says that while
the potato vines in Baltimore county
look well that lhore is an uuusual
shortage in both the number and
size Of the tubers that ought TO be
forming.
Commissioner John F. Duke. Miss
Maize Dent aud Miss Leo.a Graves
were the ST. Marv's representatives
at the recert m' citing of the State
Teach, rs Association al Braddock
Heights, Md.
Our leading horsemen estimate
that tho St lte Rad between Mechan.
icsvIhe aud Leonardtown has re-
duced tho tine between the two
places by irom half TO three quar-
sers OF an hour.
Saturday last, Kenneth Duke, OF
LeOnardtown, fell from q bicycle,
and sustained fracture Of the small
bone Of his right forearm. DIR.
Lynch attended him and he is out
and about again.
A County Tax Rate OF 6s cents on
the $l00--the second lowest in the
State-is not bad record for St.
Mary's county. The Commission
ers Court deserve great credit for
their good work.
w. V. Waters, our local mail con-
tarctor completed his tenth year ol
service last Friday. During the
ten years his mail has never missed
and Postmaster Foxwell says he is
"a most satisfactory carrier.
J. b. Bond, of Sandgates. has just
returned from u visit to New York
City. MIR. Bond says there has been
agreAt change in New York since bis
visit there three years ago. and the
city is more wonderful thar ever.
10 our last issue, in publishing
the Grafton delivered before the
w. Il S. Society Of Charlotte Hall
We Inadvertently omitted the name
OF tie orator-John II Thorn rs
Briscoe. OF st Cuthb,rt's on the
Pat.xent.
Miss Emma Catherine Myers was
married to Alphonsus NJ. Nelson a
ST Aloysius' Church. Leonardtown
last Sunday, Rev. Jos. V. Schmidt
S. j., officiating. We wish the
young couple great happiness and
prosperity.
An extra steamer for tomatoe:
will be run on the Potomac Route
beginning July 4th. She will leav'
Baltimore Tuesday. )" Thursday anG
SATURDAY. for Virginia landings