Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1912-08-30

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Next Monday will be Labor Day.
The base ball season is drawing to a
close.
The crops are very much in need Of
rain.
Miss Jessie Daig is visiting tie
Misses Jarbve, Chapel Point.
All kinds Of ID work done at the
Maryland Independent Office.
Miss Emma Queen is visiting Miss
Sophia Hamilton, Hawthorne.
Mr.. Peter Bowling, of Washington is
visiting relatives in the county.
DR., Llewellyn Eliot, of Washington.
is on visit to Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Lam
caster.
Mrs. Arthur Middleton is visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. {. Lloyd.
of Harris Lot.
Mr.. james FERGUSON is spending
sometime with relatives and friends in
the county.
Mr.. Thomas Gaifney, OF Baltimore.
visited the family of Miss Alice Bailey
during the week
Miss Mary Merrick, Of Upper MARI
boro, is visiting. Mrs. Reich at Me-
Donough.
FOR SALE.-Most all kinds Of cattle
at reasonable prices. Posey,
La Plata, Md.
Misses Anna and Nettie Curtis, Of
Warrenton Va, are guests of Miss
Dorothy Mitchell
Our town was quite deserted on We'd
nesday. Nearly everybody went to one
or the other of the tournaments.
MIR. VIM. c Ferguson, of Baltimore,
is in the county and as usual Sly Rem.
nard is on the run.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marbury M. Lyon and
son, Reginald, Of Washington are visit
ing relatives in the county,
Miss Cornella Bowie, of PrinceG eorge's
county, is visiting the Misses Brown,
this city.
Messrs. Ralph and Edward Murdoch,
OF Washington are spending their va
cation with relatives in this county.
j. Frank Thompson, has returned to
his home from visit to his mother,
Mrs. NJ. A, Thompson.
MIR. and Mrs, George w. Thompson,
have returned home from visit to
Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs, Frank Simpson, have
been spending sometime with Mrs. NJ.
A. Thompson.
Mrs. Katie Thompson and Mr.. G W.
Thompson are visiting at the hone Of
MIR. Langley, of Bryantown.
The Sunday School OF Christ Church
is to have picnic at Chapel Point, next
week Wednesday.
Miss Rebecca Wilmer is spending
some sime in Washington, with her
sister, Mrs. Ernest Mechlin.
Mr.. William Perry who has been on
visit to his father near Cross Roads
has returned to his home In Washing
ton.
Mr.. Edward Burke and sisters Misses
Margaret and Collie of Baltimore Coun-
ty are visiting the family of Mr.. F. d.
Mudd.
Mrs. Rudolf de Roode accompanied
by her little daughter, Polly, spent the
week end with Mr.. and Mrs Frank Hill,
at Marlboro.
Mrs. Barnes, of Philadelphia Miss
Knight, Of Annapolis, and Miss Ann
Hopper, of Baltimore, are guests of
Mrs. +. W. Hopper.
Mr.. John Lancaster who has been in
New York for some time is spending
his vacation with his parents Mr. and
Mrs. Spearman Lancaster.
Our thanks are extended to the Mo
dern Woodmen camp of this city for an
invitation to attend their annual fish
dinner at Chapel Point on Monday next.
Miss Myrtle Swami, daughter of Mr..
Randolph Swami, is quite i'll with ty-
yhoid fever. Her friends join the Md.
independent in wishing her speedy
recovery.
We are glad to note that Mr.. James
B. Murphy who is still in Providence
Hospital, has sufficiently recovered
as to be able to sit up and get about
little.
Tie Mattnews-Howard Implement
Co, represent the largest and most re-
liable fertilizer concerns in the country
and can furnish the best goods on the
market at close prices.
One more league game. Indian Head
VS.. Mechanicsville. IL dian Head will
tie La Plata for the championship Of
Southern Maryland if she wins this
game then some hot games are looked
for to determine the supremacy Of the
two teams.